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Dr. Marlet Tromp is an experienced and professionally trained life and business coach who facilitates a coaching process for her clients to get to know themselves, make future directed decisions and take the required actions that will constitute significant and powerful change in their lives and businesses.
Marlet’s coaching is practical and action based. She works towards solutions that can be measured and that produce lasting results. Her success rate with clients is exceptionally high, owing to the good foundations her coaching practice is built on.
Marlet’s academic training, professional therapeutic and coaching experience and proven business success underpin her credibility and efficiency as a coach.
- Academic training & vocational experience
Marlet holds a D Litt et Phil degree from the University of Johannesburg with a doctoral thesis on Employee Empowerment in an Organisation. This is backed by a Master’s degree (cum laude) and a Bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences, both from Rand Afrikaans University. She has also done a Security Vetting Course through SA Military Intelligence College in Pretoria and completed her coach training through Success Factory, Johannesburg.
She is affiliated to the following professional associations: SA Council of Social Work (SACSSP), South African Association of Social Workers in Private Practice (SAASWIPP), and Coaches and Mentors of South Africa (Comensa).
As a former social worker she has extensive experience in therapy sessions with people in extreme life situations.
She has also done in-depth research and interviews for the Gauteng Department of Social Development on the topic of Youth in Conflict with the Law, as well as comprehensive security clearance interviews for Armscor from 1996 to 1998. Her research and experience, coupled with training programs she presented in her field, have equipped her for her structured and insightful work as a coach.
Marlet is the owner of a successful small business of twenty four years. She has competently managed the business through tough economic periods and knows what is required to grow a healthy, productive business.
- Articles, papers and other achievements
Several articles by Marlet on employee empowerment have been published in academic journals, while Destiny Magazine has requested her input on articles connected to small business management. She also took part in a live discussion on the SABC3 program 3Talk with Noeleen around the theme Are we still living in a man’s world?
Marlet has presented various papers at conferences, among which Indicators of Female Empowerment at an international conference in Amsterdam in 2007. She has refereed three articles for The International Journal of Diversity in Organisations, Communities and Nations and has adjudicated five research projects for the Department of Social Development.
Marlet doesn’t make empty promises to her clients. She is a realistic but empathic coach who helps you set achievable goals and gives you tools to use for many years to come. The criterion for her personal success is your growth and the progressive changes in your life or business.
“Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future – Marilyn Ferguson”
