
Associate at CoachMatching.com
Cape Town Area, South Africa

Associate at CoachMatching.com
Cape Town Area, South Africa
Nicolai (37) has a particular interest in career/life and business coaching. He is highly skilled at identifying the bigger picture or system and facilitating the alignment and integration of the individual employee within the system.
Originally a management and IT consultant, Nicolai brings in the strategic view, including business sense and customer perspectives. He is familiar with the ‘loneliness at the top’ symptom of senior managers that require a competent and credible sounding board.
Since 1999, he has been involved in management training, large business transformation projects, CRM initiatives, classic management consulting and IT consulting projects.
Equipped with a Masters in Chemical Engineering, a Masters in Commerce and a French MBA, management consulting projects in various industries in South Africa and many internships in Germany, Nicolai is well positioned to be able to relate to the organisational and business challenges of the employees and managers.
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.
He is also the author of a book on management tools: http://www.consulting-handbook.com
and the creator of www.Nicanto.com - the online Consultant | Tools | Community resource.
Leadership development training, Peer coaching, Business & Executive coaching, Life coaching
(Professional Training & Coaching industry)
August 2008 — Present (1 year)
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)