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About Vuyo

Vuyo is a registered Clinical Psychologist, owner and founder of KTM Consulting. She has more than 20 years’ work experience in the fields of Psychology, Human Resources, Operations, Management and Consulting gained from the financial, public, academic and health sectors.

Competencies

•Consulting
•Counseling
•Employee Wellness
•Project and stakeholder management
•Leadership development (assessment and executive coaching)
•Facilitation (diversity, team effectiveness workshops, team building sessions, etc.) 
•General management (including people management, financial management, strategy development and implementation)
•Human resources and organizational development and design domains (ranging from recruitment and selection, strategic human resource management, performance management, change management, talent management)

Networks

•In the last few years she has also served on the panel of experts as a Consulting Psychologist in the selection, profiling and debriefing of candidates taking part in The Big Secret, Raw Silk, the Big Brother Africa, Kabelo’s Bootcamp, Survivor, Rivals in Romance and Dineo's Diaries series. She has also been featured as a guest on SABC's 3 Talk with Noeleen and Ekse Lets Talk with Masechaba and a regular contributor to Kaya FM (Home with Mapaseka) and Metro FM (Fresh Breakfast Show). She has also given input on a number of various topics on a number of publications (Destiny Magazine, Sunday Times, and City Press). She has also spoken on various platforms on issues of mental health, the workplace and behavioural ethics.

•The combination of her clinical skills, HR and understanding of the corporate environment, places her in a position where she has a broader view and understating of people and the needs and challenges faced by leaders, employees and teams in their pursuit of operational excellence.

Operating Model

•Even though Vuyo’s interventions are tailor made and take into account the unique circumstances of each person or organisation, they (interventions) are underpinned in her “systems” way of thinking and operating. Systems theory is an interdisciplinary theory about the nature of complex systems in nature, society, and science, and is a framework by which one can investigate and/or describe any group of objects that work together to produce some result. This could be a single organism, any organization or society, or any electro-mechanical or informational artefact.


•Systems thinking is a holistic approach to analysis that focuses on the way that a system's constituent parts interrelate and how systems work over time and within the context of larger systems. People who adhere to systems thinking, or the systemic perspective, believe that in order to fully understand the entire phenomenon, it is necessary to take a global perspective, rather than only breaking it up into its basic components. 

Development of systems theory

•Systems theory finds some of its roots within the biological sciences, as some of the founders of its core concepts, including Ludwig Bertalanffy and Humberto Maturana, were biologists.
•One of the main perspectives of systems theory is viewing an individual or group as its own ecosystem with many moving parts that affect each other.
•Principles of systems theory have been applied to the field of psychology to explore and explain behavioral patterns.
•This approach was spearheaded by several individuals, including Gregory Bateson, Murray Bowen, Anatol Rapoport, W. Ross Ashby, and Margaret Mead.

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