Principle Consultant – Adele Theron

Adele Theron [BBusSci (Honours in Information Systems and Industrial Psychology), PGDip in Traumatic Studies and a Masters in Psychology] is the principle consultant behind Luminous. She is a passionate change management professional, with 21 years experience in the change management corporate and private practice arena, with a background in business and systems analysis, management consulting, project management, psychology and PTSD/Trauma/Transition/Change management.

During this time, Adele gained extensive experience implementing and training users of bespoke financial/ CRM/ eCRM/ accounting/ collection/ statistical analysis/ engineering IT systems within the communicationation, financial, engineering, retail, utilities and steel industries. She also has extensive experience as a programme and project manager, including the creation and establishment of a global training academy. She has worked with over 18 different global organisations across 53 countries, worked with over 5600 people and personally coaching 147 executives in assertiveness, confidence, presentation skills and change management processes. She has developed over 56 training programmes which are run in organisations today. She specialises in change management, including situations where companies had experienced mergers, acquisitions or redundancies as she realised she had a knack with bringing people on board during a big change.

Adele is a deep systems thinker and enjoys developing systems and processes to solve complex issues and discovering a need for demystifiying the mystery of trauma, in 2008, Adele expanded her business into private practice with a team of psychologists and therapists who deliver her trauma recovery programs internationally across 12 countries through her other company Naked Recovery.

Adele has several qualifications including:

• BBusSci Hons (Bachelor of Business Science with an honours in Information Systems and Industrial Psychology)
• PGDip in Change and Traumatic studies
• Masters of Science in Psychology and Clinical Neuroscience
• Certified Clinical Trauma Professional (CCTP) registered with Institute of Trauma Professionals #845165/285-20100
• GMBPsS Member of the division of coaching psychologists with the British Psychological Society #678323
• Member of the New Zealand Psychological Society #15699
• Level 2 Hakomi sensorimotor psychotherapy practitioner
• Alternative Dispute Resolution Practitioner
• Mediator registered with the Law Society of the United Kingdom
• Joint Application and Design (JAD) Professional
• Project Management Professional
• Accelerated Learning Professional
• Neurolinguistic Programming Practitioner
• TimeLine Therapy Practitioner

Adele has created ways to apply these techniques within corporate environments to persuade and influence people to come on board during a big change. Getting people on board sooner rather than later improves retention and decreases support and maintenance costs after the implementation of a change.

Adele consults from Auckland, New Zealand where she resides but does most of her work with clients in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States.