Coach
Author
Advocacy
“There is so much to do, so little time. Go slowly”
- Lao Tzu
Dr . Helena Dolny
Author, Coach, Consultant, Facilitator
R.D. Laing. "The range of what we think and do,
is limited by what we fail to notice."
Coaching is my joy. It is exciting to watch clients’ minds on-the-move: reflecting, reconsidering and arriving at their preferred course of action. I am fortunate to have studied several coaching courses and have a range of tools available. The challenge, the skill, is to tune into what the client most wants from the coaching session and respond accordingly.
My life has two business tracks, different but interrelated.
Firstly, I founded Grey Matters (GM) Leadership Development Coaching & Consulting in 2009 and am now one of five women coach-shareholders.
I work internationally, through Grey Matters as a leadership and resilience coach, including grief and loss work.
Secondly, in 2019 I co-founded the NPO, the LoveLegacyDignity Institute together with Mapi (Ngiphiwe) Mhlangu. Our quest is to nomalise daily conversation about living and dying. We’re part of advocacy campaigns. We run online programs. We publish a regular blog. We are readily available as commentators for radio and TV.
How did my duo of businesses emerge?…
COACH
Dr. Helena Dolny
Helena holds a Masters in Coaching (cum laude) as well as having undertaken a wide range of coaching courses (resilience, ontological, enneagram, and timetothink, ) She also trained as a hospice counsellor, an end-of-life guide, and is a certified grief educator.
Individual Leadership & Life Coaching
Team, Group, Board Coaching
Enneagram Trainer & Coach
Love, Loss & Resilience
MASTERCLASS
Resilience 101
a four-month intervention
Facing Loss:
5 sessions
TIME TO THINK
Foundation Course
A two-day introductory program
TIME TO THINK
Transforming Meetings
A one-day group workshop
Grey Matters Agency
Customised interventions
Companies Helena has worked for
AUTHOR
Dr. Helena Dolny
Helena Dolny is a multifaceted author, coach, and guide with a deep understanding of personal and professional transformation. Her work as an author is a testament to her diverse expertise, encompassing topics from organizational change to the profound journeys of grief and end-of-life.
Books
Banking on Change
Banking on Change is Helena’s first person account of leading transformation at South Africa’s Land Bank. It brings to life the challenge of product development for new clientele. It is an engaging and candid account of her tumultuous experience as Managng Director. With hindsight there are external challenges to governance, political interference, that foreshadow the later period of state capture.
Team Coaching
Team Coaching is an art. Each team intervention requires consideration of the canvas of people what outcomes are desired. Ten South African coaches pooled their theory and practice, commonality, and divergence, their shared learning and debate. The team coaches are: Maryse Barak, Lloyd Chapman, Michael Cooper, Helena Dolny, Tim Goodenough, Marti Janse Van Rensburg, Grommick Thulani Ndlovu, Khatija Saley, and Ray Sher.
Before Forever After
Before Forever After all invites the reader to consider important questions and encourages open discussion in order to prompt compelling and empowering conversations about life. Through the short real-life stories readers are prompted to ask themselves: How do you want to live your life? Do you have secrets best shred before youdie? What end-of-life medical interventions will you accept? What rituals matter to you? Do you have peace of mind that your affairs are in order?
Advocacy
Helena began her advocacy journey through her writing. Her 2011 Mail & Guardian article on Mandela was commended as "thought-leadership". She then wrote a series of articles for the South African Sunday Newspaper "City Press".
Advocating for life-enhancing conversations that engage with our inevitable mortality
-Henley School of business