About Us
People, lineage, and a community of practice that grows from the inside out.
Integral Africa has become a community and a movement. For 25 years (and decades before) The Learning Centre was born. This birthed the Integral Coaching Centre now t/a The Coaching Centre.
The work belongs to more than any one of us: as we say, I am because we are.
Our biggest gift is our community of practice: a founder with a long lineage, a leadership team that runs the school, an advisory board of global standing, a faculty that has been grown from within, and an alumni network that keeps showing up in the work they do and who they are.
Beyond this we have formed links across the world, slowly, nurturing the soil of learning and landing integral thinking and practice into the southern areas of Africa: Not only as a western/eastern approach but significantly expanding its impact through the inclusion of our African wisdom and a universal truth that has almost been lost: I am because we are.
Dr Paddy Pampallis – Academic Lead & Founder
Integral psychologist, developmentalist, and social activist.
Paddy has worked with Integral Theory since 1992, following a Master’s in Psychology and a two-year postgraduate programme in Transpersonal Psychology.
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A social activist and developmentalist, she has accompanied the human journey from infancy through adulthood – with couples, families, teams, and whole organisations.
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Across South Africa, she has:
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Set up healing centres and adult learning programmes
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Led leadership and coaching initiatives in mining towns, Alexander Township, and beyond
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Contributed to Race Awareness and Leadership programmes at the dawn of democracy
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Founded The Child and Family Therapy and Assessment Centre (Johannesburg)
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Co-created The Ubuntu Coaching Foundation
Her work spans major corporates, higher education, health, industry, cities, government, and NGOs.
Today, she is the Academic Lead on the strategic management team of the Global Mayors Academy – responding to the question: “How do we human well together?” through strategic, regenerative, and relational practice.
Meet The Leadership Team
David Smith
Managing Director
A seasoned business leader; holds a Masters in Coaching.
Dr Dumi Magadlela
Vice Principal
Former ICF Foundation President, and a one-time student of TCC.
Strategic Management Team
Hugh Harrison
Ferial Puren
Dolores Mashishi
Angela da Sa
Zann Hoad
Amy Wolfe
Deliberate, conscious growth is how we shift the inner place from which we operate.
Advisory Board
Dr Susanne Cook Greuter
Harvard researcher and developer of the Leadership Maturity Profile
Paul van Schaik
Integral Mentors / Urban Hub
Prof. Pamela Dube
Vice-Chancellor
Our Services
Faculty and Community of Practice
Our faculty grow from within. Nearly all were once students, later becoming Developmentors©, and some rising to faculty. This creates diversity within a shared language for learning, leadership, and culture change. Our support faculty — alumni who show talent, integrity, and deep willingness — are our greatest gems. Across the years, they always show up.
There is something magical about this group.
Leadership Challenge
Leadership development is urgent because too many leaders operate from outdated inner places. We tailor every intervention to the unique human being — individual, team, or organisation. True leadership means right relationships, moral behaviour, expanded intelligence, and systemic awareness. Not sentimental care, but care that holds vision, compassion, humility, and courage.
What does mature leadership actually look like?
Choose a Coach - Your Accountability Partner
A coach as Developmentor© multiplies learning ROI. While an IU coach coaches into the organisation, a Developmentor coaches learning into the organisation — until new ways of being become embodied. Our highly specialised practitioners see patterns and energy no AI can detect. Trained in Integral U, they match your field, stage, and life context.
Find the coach who fits your unique weather.
Get in Touch
For your individual or organisational coaching, leadership development or short course needs, please do contact us and we will get back to you .