DCT Staff & Consultants

Marius Pretorius

Marius is the MD of DCT Consulting, and has more than 15 years experience in the field of Development, Consulting and Training. Marius obtained a Bachelors Degree & Honors Degree in Psychology from the University of Pretoria as well as an Honors Degree and a Masters Degree in Industrial Psychology from the University of South Africa. Apart from a variety of other training programs he is qualified as a systems-psychodynamic consultant, a NLP practitioner & a hypnotherapist.
His has extensive experience in the fields of organizational development, leadership, diversity, transformation, and personal development. He has done extensive research in the field of diversity and has written several articles on South African Diversity Dynamics. He has been a driving force behind the creation of various National & International events such as “The Power of Adventure”, “The Diversity Indaba”, “The Adventure Experiential Learning Conference”, and ‘The Robben Island Diversity Experience”.

Thabo Mafomme (Senior Consultant)

Thabo holds a Teachers Diploma, a BA degree in Police Science from Unisa, a Master degree in Public Administration (MPA) from the University of Pretoria, and is currently completing a D Phil in Leadership Performance and Change at the University of Johannesburg. He specializes in the following areas: Organization Development, Change & Transformation, Management & Leadership development, Diversity-related interventions and Team building.

Vuvu Ncokazi (Senior Consultant)

Vuvu is a Registered Clinical Psychologist and Social Worker. She attained a BA degree in Social Work & B SocSci. HONS degree in Psychology from the University of Fort Hare and a MSC Clinical Psychology from MEDUNSA.
She specialises in the following areas: Employee Assistance Services, Diversity Training and consultation, Advanced group consultation and facilitation, Organisational diagnosis & Team development, HIV Management and Training, Trauma debriefing, Life Skills Training & other Soft skills training.

Lerato Mabenge (Senior Consultant)

Learato is a registered Clinical Psychologist. She attained a BA degree from the University of the North, and a BSc Hons Psychology & MSc Clinical Psychology degree from Medunsa. She also has various organizational related diplomas and certificates such as a Human Resource Diploma, Labour Relations Certificate, and a Certificate in Group Process Consulting. She specializes in the following fields: Leadership development, Organizational Development, Diversity & HIV/Aids interventions.

Michelle May (Senior Consultant)

Michelle is a Registered clinical psychologist and is completing her PhD in Industrial Psychology. Michelle is a senior lecturer at the Department of Industrial and Organizational Psychology at the University of South Africa. Michelle was one of the starting members of the Robben Island Diversity Experience. She has been involved in consultancy through the systems-psychodynamic frame since 1995 and is an active part of the management and development of the Institute for the Study of Leadership and Authority (ISLA) in South Africa. Michelle has received extensive training in the field of group relations consultation, under which from the Tavistock Institute (UK), and has also consulted in various programmes of this nature. Organizational development, Management & leadership development, Employment Equity & Diversity. She has chaired, consulted in and designed various workshops in these fields.

Meiring le Roux

Meiring has a Hons degree (Psychology) from UNISA. He has more than 15 years experience in the field of management development (Junior, Middle & Senior) and was also in charge of a management development college for several years. He specializes in individual and group related training and development interventions, team building, Tavistock Interventions, management development and sports consultation.

Eddie Machethe

Eddie holds a B.A. Degree, a Higher Education Diploma (H.E.D.) as well as a B.Ed (Honours in Psychology) from the University Of the North. He has extensive experience in the following areas: Employee Assistance Services, Trauma debriefing, Suicide Prevention and counseling, Organizational development, Team building interventions & diversity training.

Prof. Frans Cilliers - MA, Ph.D (PU CHE)

Frans is a Professor at the Department of Industrial and Organizational Psychology at the University of South Africa. Frans is arguably the leading figure in terms of systems-psychodynamic group relations work in South Africa. He has more than 14 years of experience in consulting from this stance and has been a staff member of the Tavistock Institute (UK) between 1993 and 1998. Frans has furthermore been to several advanced programs in this field in the United States, the United Kingdom, Scotland and Europe. He has extensive experience in the field of group behaviour and processes and regularly present scientific papers and publishes articles in various scientific journals. Frans was one of the starting members of the Robben Island Diversity Experience and has been involved in the roles of Director and Assistant-Director.

Vijay Naidoo

Vijay is currently one of the South Africa’s top consultants in the fields of diversity and employment equity. Formally she attained a Hons Degree in Psychology from Unisa. She has attended and has also being part of consultancy staff on various national and international group relations events. She specializes in the fields of Diversity Management, Leadership, Transformation and organizational behaviour (psychodynamic stance).