Alicia S Pieterse
South Africa
Alicia is an executive, team, somatic, and depth coach with more than 20 years of experience helping leaders, teams, and organisations navigate complexity, strengthen resilience, and cultivate thriving workplace cultures. As Founder and Managing Director of Nurturing Growth Trading, she has worked extensively across the public, private, non-profit, and international development sectors, partnering with senior leaders to enhance emotional intelligence, self-awareness, performance, and organisational effectiveness. Her work is grounded in the belief that sustainable leadership begins with a deeper awareness of both the self and the system.
Alicia brings a distinctive approach that integrates somatic coaching, depth psychology, advanced Enneagram practice, and trauma-informed methodologies. Her expertise spans organisational change management, leadership development, resilience, psychological safety, conflict management, team coaching, and workshop facilitation. She is particularly skilled at helping leaders remain grounded and effective in high-pressure environments while fostering trust, inclusion, and meaningful dialogue within teams and organisations.
Her qualifications include a BA in Social Work, an MA in Theology, certification as a Mind-Body (Somatic) Coach, Executive Coach, and Deep Coach Professional, and accreditation as a Narrative Enneagram Teacher. She is a member of the International Coach Federation and has coached senior executives, leadership teams, medical professionals, and public sector leaders across Africa and internationally.
In her coaching work, Alicia creates reflective and psychologically safe spaces where leaders can explore challenges, deepen self-understanding, and develop new ways of leading. She combines compassion with honest inquiry, helping clients navigate change, manage conflict, build resilience, and unlock greater personal and organisational impact. Her team coaching experience spans more than 30 teams, including executive and senior leadership teams within organisations such as the South African Reserve Bank, WHO Foundation, Medtronic, and the African Women’s Development Fund.
Beyond her coaching practice, Alicia is an accomplished facilitator, relationship coach, and author of Patches: Coaching Stories of Overcoming and Possibility. She is widely recognised for her ability to integrate head, heart, and body in the coaching process, enabling leaders and teams to move beyond insight toward meaningful, lasting transformation.
