Jiva Chokkappan

Jiva is a Chartered Accountant and qualified Professional Integral Coach, which was completed in February 2010.He has extensive business experiences and does facilitation work with leaders and enhancing team performance.

Jiva spent 17 years in the Retail corporate world with Truworths and Woolworths. He has held a number of senior roles .His emphasis has been in the financial and strategic aspects of the business. His role also included strategically growing the International Franchise business for Woolworths in Africa and the Middle East. The last seven years he has managed his own Woolworths Franchise business in Witbank. Much of his time is spent on strategic development of the business and developing his staff and management. He has used coaching as a means of achieving excellence in his people.

Jiva has been coaching managers for years. He has been doing business coaching with Franchisees within Woolworths. Jiva has also been a mentor on their Associate coaching course at the Cape Town Business School from July to December 2010 and also Mentor on the PCC course 2012.

Jiva believes that people need to be nurtured to achieve their true potential and this takes time and a huge sense of commitment. He has been in business for a long time and understands the expectation.

Jiva completed the Coaching to Excellence,Associate(ACC)and Professional Coaching(PCC) through the University of Cape Town, Graduate School of Business and New Ventures West (USA). These courses are accredited by the International Coaching Federation (ICF) in the USA.