Julia Seal
Since 2009, Julia Seal – engagement strategies has been developing engagement strategies across Africa. Based in Cape Town, South Africa, the business is focused on the development and implementation of integrated employee engagement strategies. This focus establishes employee engagement as a core corporate strategy driven by business leaders as a key driver of growth and success. In addition, Julia runs Self-Leadership development programmes for young leaders and coaches retiring executives within these organisations.
Prior to this, Julia was with Brandhouse Beverages, initially as Communications Manager and then heading up the newly created Employee Engagement division. Brandhouse was voted by its employees as South Africa’s Best Company To Work For in 2007 and 2008 (Deloitte). She also worked with shareholders Diageo Plc in London, Diageo South Africa and Heineken International on matters pertaining to best practice in employee engagement strategies – South Africa being one of their key success markets.
Julia is a Professional Coach, accredited by the International Coach Federation and has trained under the umbrellas of: Integral Coach: UCT Graduate School of Business’ Centre for Coaching – Systems Coaching: Organisational & Relationship Systems Coaching – Life Coaching: The Life Coach School, USA . Her CCEUs come from work done with the Ontological Coaching Institute, Transactional Analysis the Greater Good Science Centre and The Happiness Academy. More recently, Julia has gained her Masters Degree in Happiness Studies under the guidance of Dr Tal Ben-Shahar.
She has worked with clients in a wide range of industries across southern Africa and globally with the USA, UK and Japan, including Namibia Breweries, Heineken International, University of Cape Town, DirectAxis, UNICEF, BoE, USAID, Motorola, KPMG, SADC, Malawi Government, Build It, Mitsui & Co, Diageo, Parliamentary Monitoring Group and the Zambian Department of Communications.
Born in Zambia and raised in Swaziland and Zimbabwe, Julia has an undergraduate degree in Journalism & Media Studies and Industrial Psychology, an Honours degree in Communications and now the MA in Happiness Studies (USA), along with various marketing, coaching and leadership credentials.
Julia is part of an international network of employee engagement thought-leaders and practitioners in order to combine international best practice with local African expertise. She has also mentored for the South Africa Institute of Marketing Management and the Rhodes University School of Journalism and Media Studies.