Learning and Leadership to Enhance and Perform
About Brian Chinsamy
Brian is an experienced leadership and performance coach passionate about unlocking individual and team potential. With a calm, empathetic presence and a sharp strategic mindset, he creates safe yet challenging spaces for meaningful transformation.
Brian Chinsamy is an executive coach, a leadership and organizational learning specialist, who works with teams and individuals who want to realise their potential by co-creating solutions that meet their business needs.
Brian’s experience in the public, para-statal and corporate worlds across South Africa, Africa and internationally, combined with his skills in performance consulting and team effectiveness brings a fresh look at organisations wanting to improve their business results through their people. His coaching services are designed to help leaders get the outcomes they want in their work by recognising and utilising their individual strengths and accepting and constantly working on their development areas. Awareness through self-observations, expanding the coachees capacity to learn and self-correct and change of behaviour through practices are key components of the coaching approach.
Brian’s accreditation on the Enneagram, 5 Lenses, Pers Profile, Insights Discovery, Workplace Big 5 and most recently, on the Leadership Circle, provides him with the personality assessments that are useful as he works with individuals and teams as part of their journey in their self-development.
The methodology I use moves from understanding self (greater self-awareness) to understanding others and teams, understanding work, and finally understanding the world in which the individual exists and relates to. Leaders are often so caught up in the business of their work lives that they need time for self-reflection and coaching offers them that space. I use personality profiles (Enneagram, Insights Discovery, Ennea 5 Lenses, Workplace Big 5, Firo B and the Leadership Circle) to assist participants become self-aware of their strengths, weaknesses and blind spots) and the coaching journey is used to get them to shift to higher levels of integration both as leaders and as people.
Effective teams owe their success to the level of trust amongst members of the team, and TRUST is intrinsically linked to how team members relate to each other, their levels of emotional intelligence, how they communicate with each other, including having difficult conversations around performance and behavior. I believe in positive development psychology (Martin Seligman and Csizskentmihalyi). The work of Viktor Frankly (“Mans search for Meaning”) is also an important point of departure for the leadership journeys that I facilitate for individuals and teams.
I bring in an understanding of the VUCA world (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity) as well as the implications for leaders of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR). I use Dave Snowden’s Cynefin model to assist leaders in decision making. I aim to empower clients to develop coaching as a leadership style, as I believe that is the most appropriate way for leaders to lead their teams of different generations in the workplace.
I believe in coaching and developing individuals wholistically, and hence the integral model of coaching that looks at the coachee from a physical, mental (cognitive), emotional, relational and spiritual perspective. The coaching impacts on the leaders professional AND personal life.
“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”
Viktor E. Frankl.