
Creator of Nicanto.com, the Consulting | Tools | Community
Cape Town Area, South Africa

Creator of Nicanto.com, the Consulting | Tools | Community
Cape Town Area, South Africa
Nicolai (39) is an experienced high perfpormance business coach. Since 1999, he has been involved in coaching, management training, large business transformation projects, classic management consulting and IT projects.
Nicolai draws on a wide varitety of coaching tools and models to best respond to the individuals needs. He is flexible and resourceful which enables a variety of transactional or transformational goals and personal development activities to be achieved. He does not believe that one-size fits all. Nicolai is not ‘fluffy’and has an ability to create an environment that encourages clients to focus on their goals rather than get caught up in the noise around a person or situation.
Nicolai is equipped with a combined Masters in Chemical Engineering/ Masters in Commerce and a French MBA.
He is the author of a bestselling book on management tools – www.consulting-handbook.com and is currently writing a book on leadership, coaching and EQ tools.
Originally a management and IT consultant, Nicolai is able to see both strategic and operational issues quickly and clearly, thereby avoiding unnecessary time wastage on getting him up to speed.
Nicolai has founded the Ignite Group and runs his own coaching practice (the Life Coaching Centre) in Cape Town since 2004.
He was involved in leadership development programs and organisational coaching including executive coaching, Peer Learning Groups, personal development and Emotional Intelligence.
Leadership development training, Peer coaching, Business & Executive coaching, Life coaching
(Professional Training & Coaching industry)
August 2008 — Present (1 year 4 months)
I do coaching on behalf of Coach Matching as an associate.
(Professional Training & Coaching industry)
2003 — Present (6 years )
Various contracts/projects on management training, leadership development, business coaching, partnering with EAC coaching agency.
Ignite Group offers Coaching, Consulting and Training services.
(Professional Training & Coaching industry)
2007 — 2007 (less than a year)
(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2001 — February 2003 (2 years 2 months)
Nicolai's primary responsibilities included business analysis and design as part of the System Development Life Cycle and the provision of consultancy services in the CRM area. In several projects, he played the role as a Senior Lead Analyst and Engagement Manager
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Management Consulting industry)
February 1999 — December 2001 (2 years 11 months)
Consultant for Supply Chain (SCM)- /Business Process Re-engineering (BPR)-/ Business Transformation projects in South Africa.
Accredited Consciousness Coach (ACC) , Consciousness Coaching , 2007 — 2007
Coach training with a coach training service provider accedited by the ICF (International Coaching Federation)
Post. Grad certificate , Certificate Practitioner Coach , 2005 — 2006
Post. Grad certificate , Life Coaching , 2005 — 2006
equiv. to M.B.A , Masters of Management , 1997 — 1998
Dipl.-Wirt.Ing , Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen (Techn. Chemie) - Combined studies of M.Com and MSc. (Chem.) , 1992 — 1997
Professional interests: offers for coaching and development work, consulting offers, management training, executive coaching, expertise requests, alliance requests, For details on my consulting activities - in particular on the consulting toolbox e-learning platform go to: http://www.xing.com/profile/Nicolai_Andler or for the book: www.consulting-handbook.com
Winner of DFHK Scholarship (a scholarship by the German French Committee for Higher Education which allows students to earn dual degrees at both French and German universities)