Yolande Toohey
South Africa
Yolande Toohey is a seasoned Neuro-Transformation Facilitator, leadership coach, and skills development specialist with over 20 years of experience supporting entrepreneurs, leaders, and organisations across South Africa and the African continent. Based in Durban, she focuses on building resilient entrepreneurs, high-performing leaders, and sustainable communities, particularly within underserved and marginalised contexts.
Her coaching approach is neuroscience-based, trauma-informed, and holistic, integrating mindset shifts, emotional resilience, somatic awareness, and adaptive leadership. She works with individuals, executive teams, CSOs, SMEs, and institutions to navigate change, strengthen governance, enhance collaboration, and improve strategic execution.
Yolande has a strong track record in entrepreneurship development, capacity building, leadership transformation, and workforce readiness, designing and facilitating accredited and non-accredited programmes across sectors. She is also deeply committed to bridging academia and industry, ensuring curriculum relevance and practical employability.
Beyond coaching, she is an active board member, chairperson, and pan-African advocate, contributing to national and continental skills development, global knowledge exchange, and inclusive economic growth. Her work spans South Africa, East Africa, and the MENA/SWANA region, where she has facilitated, evaluated, and advised on large-scale development programmes.
At her core, Yolande’s coaching is about empowerment, resilience, and transformation—helping people reclaim their voice, lead with purpose, and thrive in complex, changing environments.
