Prof H H Conradie MBChB, FCFP, Diploma in Practitioner Coaching 
After I qualified as a medical doctor in 1973 at Stellenbosch university, I pursued my passion for living and working in rural under resourced areas in the Eastern Cape. I worked for 20 years both in state and private health services. In that time, I specialised in family medicine at the then Medical University of SA (MEDUNSA) and joined their postgraduate family medicine training as a part time lecturer.
 
In 2003, I joined Stellenbosch University (SU) as a specialist family physician in Worcester hospital to further pursue my passion for health sciences education while continuing my practical work as a Family Physician. In 20007 I was appointed as associate professor in the Division of Family Medicine and Primary Care at Stellenbosch University and the Director of the Ukwanda Centre for Rural Health.  In this role I was part of a team that established   the first Rural Clinical School in South Africa for undergraduate health sciences students.
 
 I reached retirement age in 2016. Since then, I have been facilitating distributed medical education programmes of SU, UKZN and WSU to build clinical and teaching capacity in district hospitals in the WC, EC and KZN provinces in South Africa.
 
 I obtained the Diploma in Practitioner Coaching with the Integral Coaching Centre, South Africa (2016) with accreditation from the International Coaching Federation (ICF) and since then has been involved in individual and group coaching mainly for health workers to support wellbeing of students and qualified health care professionals. Since 2020 I am part of the Taking Care initiative that runs online courses for health care workers in management of stress and prevention of burnout using a mindfulness approach.
 
My coaching approach is grounded in more than 40 years of experience as a medical practitioner, family physician and health sciences educator.  In coaching I work with an integral approach to build a trusting relationship, to create a safe space for clients to think, feel and be. I value integrity, honesty, and respect for diversity to facilitate each client towards realizing his/her unique potential through transformational coaching. I use a variety of tools and methods to help clients negotiate through uncertainty within the context of complex systems.