About.Connect EQ is a consultancy focused on developing high quality connections, conversations that matter and positive workplace cultures where people and performance thrive.
Whether @work, @home or @school, creating high quality, connected teams, and navigating emerging change in an always on, digital world, requires positive leadership, mindful practice, emotional intelligence and other relevant tools that Connect EQ can help you integrate. Interventions are delivered virtually and tailor-made to suit your requirements. |
Our MissionTo humanise the digital workplace through facilitating increased self-awareness that fosters healthy, high-quality connected, congruent, creative and sustainably high-performing workplace cultures where human beings thrive through achieving collective results.
Our WhyConnect EQ exists to enable change in the conversation leaders and team members are having with themselves, and each other, to cultivate healthy relationships, enable sustainable high performance in teams and to build positive workplace cultures while striving to build a better world.
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Our StoryIn our work with leaders and teams in global organizations across all major industries and what we have experienced and observed through spending more than 20 years' in global corporate is a consistent move away from what it means to be truly human. Barely surviving at times, let alone thriving, in a complex, ever-changing world, the lack of congruence while striving to integrate domains of work and life, stress is ever-present which negatively impacts organizational bottom line, not to mention negative impact this has on lives. A basic human need is to feel seen, heard and respected and enabling leaders and teams to practice this enables psychological safety and an environment where true potential can be unleashed both individually and collectively.
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Founder and Managing Director - Connect EQ
Colleen Leclercq
Culture & Change Consultant | Leadership &
Relationship Systems Coach | Online Facilitation Trainer
Colleen works with leaders, teams, groups and individuals, globally, online. She has been a virtual worker for over 15 years and is passionate about helping people and organisations work well together, especially in a digital, ever changing, increasingly complex world. Her main area of focus is on enabling healthy relationships with self, others and work, with a purpose to help people alleviate stressors, strains and stress associated with change and work/life integration.
With 20 years’ corporate experience across major business sectors, her insights into how individuals and teams successfully deal with change come from a variety of complex projects and strategic business initiatives, many of which were global and managed remotely.
This experience, together with a passion for people development, relationship systems, positive leadership, culture and change, means she is able to help organizations, large or small, deal with an environment characterized by ongoing complex change thereby helping them to create a healthy, positive, thriving culture.
Colleen is a credentialed member of the International Coach Federation and served on the Board as Regional Lead for Gauteng, South Africa. She is a positive agent for Leadership & Change and is also a member of the Society for Industrial and Organisational Psychology and International Enneagram Association. She is an accredited team and individual Enneagram facilitator and trained ORSC™ Organization and Relationship Systems Coach. Colleen holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Management and a Bachelor of Arts Honours in Organisational Psychology from the University of the Witwatersrand. Colleen is passionate about and actively involved in women's leadership and empowerment initiatives.
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With 20 years’ corporate experience across major business sectors, her insights into how individuals and teams successfully deal with change come from a variety of complex projects and strategic business initiatives, many of which were global and managed remotely.
This experience, together with a passion for people development, relationship systems, positive leadership, culture and change, means she is able to help organizations, large or small, deal with an environment characterized by ongoing complex change thereby helping them to create a healthy, positive, thriving culture.
Colleen is a credentialed member of the International Coach Federation and served on the Board as Regional Lead for Gauteng, South Africa. She is a positive agent for Leadership & Change and is also a member of the Society for Industrial and Organisational Psychology and International Enneagram Association. She is an accredited team and individual Enneagram facilitator and trained ORSC™ Organization and Relationship Systems Coach. Colleen holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Management and a Bachelor of Arts Honours in Organisational Psychology from the University of the Witwatersrand. Colleen is passionate about and actively involved in women's leadership and empowerment initiatives.
@connecteq