Heads-up Life

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CAREER TRANSITION

I want to change my career.
I want to feel inspired to go to work and feel fulfilled at the end of the day.

CAREER RECOVERY

I lost my job.
I want to get back into it - this time I want to become an indispensable and
valued contributor.

CAREER SUCCESS

I want to be successful.
I want to be recognised as a valuable contributor and feel fulfilled by both
my work and life.

CAREER STARTER

I am ready to start my career.
I want to embark on a successful career or start my own successful business.

LIFE COACHING

I can be better and more successful.
I want to develop myself and become more effective, more efficient, more successful and feel fulfilled.

EXECUTIVE COACHING

I am lonely as a business leader.
I want someone my equal (or more experienced) to talk to about my business challenges.

About Geordie

I am inspired to help people achieve personal, career and business success. It is most fulfilling to help people on their journey to Personal Mastery and achieve their personal goals; to help them find meaning in their lives and to transform to live a life of purpose and contribution.

I coach, mentor and advise from both experience and having a strong academic foundation. I have an Executive MBA from Henley Business School of the University of Reading, UK (2018) and I am currently studying towards my Honours in Psychology.

As a Business Executive I have won several International Business Performance Awards and also both failed and succeeded in starting my own businesses.

As Employee I have received several accolades during my career and was also retrenched a few times.

I changed my career from Technical Specialist to Business Leader, to Management Consultant and Executive Coach to Executive, Career and Life Coach. I received my Executive MBA at the age of 58 and am now qualifying myself as a Psychologist.

I am qualified to give 'Practical Advice that works' underscored by proven, research-based methodologies and frameworks.

Geordie holds the following Life Coaching Certifications:

• Certified Professional Life Coach
• Certified Master Coach
• Certified Career Coach

Geordie wants to see a world where people are inspired to go to work in the morning and feel fulfilled at the end of the day.
A world where people have found meaning, and live lives of purpose by contributing their particular values to their communities.
A world where people feel fulfilled, happy and enjoy life.

Geordie is a Member of the Psychological Society of South Africa (PsySSA) with divisional membership of The South African Association for Counselling Psychology (SAACP).

Geordie van der Nest is an experienced Business Executive with 15 years experience as an Executive Coach and Mentor, Business Advisor and Management Consultant.

He is an Accredited Executive Associate of the Institute for Independent Business (IIB), a Certified Management Consultant and Certified Master Coach by the Institute for Management Consultants and Master Coaches of South Africa (IMCSA) and a Certified 7 Stage Business Advisor (C7C).

Geordie has 12 years' experience as an Executive. He worked in several types of businesses, in various industries, from start-ups to global corporations.

He holds an Executive MBA from Henley Business School of the University of Reading, UK (2018) and is currently studying towards his Honours in Psychology.

He is the Registrar at the Institute for Management Consultants and Master Coaches of South Africa, Program Director at OpenCircle (for Real Business Achievement) and Managing Director and Principal Life Coach at Heads-up Life.

About Heads-up Life

Our Mission is to help people achieve career fulfilment and personal success.

We help:
•  People who want to start a second career transition to the right one or to start the right business for themselves.
•  People who lost their jobs, recover and become valued contributors, who are cared for, or to start their own business, where they can create their own success and fulfilment.
•  People starting their first careers, make the right career choices; ones that will energise them and where their contributions will be exceptional.
•  People who want to accelerate their career success, with self-mastery, increasing their contributions and personal growth.

We also help people transform, self-actualise and transcend from a life of self-interest to a life of purpose and contribution to the common good.

How healthy are you?

How would you rate yourself physiologically on a scale of 1 to 10? On a scale where 1 would indicate that you are terminally ill, and 10 that you are in top physical condition (healthy, fit and having an amazing physique), most people will recognise that they are average, and will rate themselves accordingly.

Yet, when asked to rate their mental health, emotional stability and being a fully functioning person, most people rate themselves quite high. Why is it, that we accept that physiologically we are average, but psychologically we believe we are in prime condition?

The fact is, that similar to most of us being physiologically average, most of us are also psychologically average. We rarely will admit it to others, probably due to the unfounded stigma associated with it, but more importantly, we often don't even admit it to ourselves.

Why choose us?

At Heads-up Life we help people on all levels of personal development. Our holistic approach to your mental wellness includes:

Career Coaching

Youwant a career that inspires you to go to work in the morning and make you feel fulfilled at the end of the day.

Career Transition

The Career Transition Programme is for you if you want to change careers – you want to start your 2nd or next career.