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Meet Katzav Consulting — where leadership development meets real-world execution. Katzav Consulting delivers practical, impact-driven training led by an experienced trainer who brings real-world insight across sectors. We translate complex concepts into repeatable, measurable improvements in leadership, change, and performance. 

Value pillars: 

  • Real-world relevance: content grounded in day-to-day work and outcomes. 
  • Flexible delivery: in-person, live online, and hybrid with micro-learning options. 
  • Measurable impact: clear outcomes, post training coaching, and ROI signals. 
  • Credibility: extensive industry exposure and robust expert credentials. 

Our Values: 

  • Connectedness​- “Living with purpose, embracing intentional growth, and honoring freedom of choice.” 
  • Flow– “Flow is to surrender to a higher purpose, guided by intuition, truth, and effortless synchronicity.” 
  • Speaking my truth– “The courage to speak your truth, honor your words, and serve with resilience and dignity.” 
  • Family– “Family is a chosen connection, built on loyalty, trust, tough love, and shared growth.” 

Our Vision:  

  • Katzav Consulting ignites lifelong learning and transformative leadership, empowering every individual to embrace change and thrive. 
Katzav Consulting helps organisations build stronger leaders, healthier teams, and more resilient workplaces. Through leadership development, team effectiveness interventions, and coaching, we equip people with practical tools they can apply immediately to improve communication, navigate change, strengthen performance, and lead with greater confidence and authenticity. Grounded in deep experience across sectors and supported by globally recognised partnerships with Blanchard and the John Maxwell Team, our work goes beyond training delivery. We create tailored learning experiences that translate insight into action—embedding lasting behavioural change, measurable growth, and meaningful impact for individuals and organisations alike.

Service Offerings

1. Strategic Management Support 

Provision of Executive workshops to provide outcomes such as: 

  • The design of vision and mission statements 
  • Stakeholder mapping 
  • SWOT analysis 
  • Holistic analysis of organisation design  
  • Goal Setting 
  • Talent Management Strategy which provides for: 
  • Recruitment and Hiring 
  • Talent Retention 
  • Performance Improvement 
  • Succession Planning 
  • Restructuring 

 2. Leadership & People Development 

Collaboratively create frameworks and provide facilitated workshops that provide a variety of soft and hard skills that will drive organisational growth and performance, creating outputs such as: 

  • Job Descriptions and Job Specs and Competency Models 
  • Onboarding and Offboarding programs, tools and processes 
  • Talent Management throughout the employee life cycle 
  • Change Management 
  • Curriculum Maps and Development Plans for: 
  • Individual Contributors 
  • Hi-potential Emerging Leaders 
  • Executives 

3. Sales Effectiveness Training 

Our Sales Effectiveness Training equips sales professionals with the mindset, structure, and practical tools to sell with confidence, credibility, and consistency.  

  • This programme build the capabilities sales professionals need to perform consistently in competitive, complex, and relationship-driven markets.  
  • Each module is stand alone but builds towards developing the mindset and skillset across the sales process while developing the personal disciplines and commercial judgement that differentiate average performers from top achievers. 
  • Grounded in consultative selling, ethical influence, emotional intelligence, and territory discipline, the training helps sales teams improve conversion, deepen customer trust, and drive sustainable results. 

 4. Sales Management Effectiveness Training 

Katzav Consulting’s Sales Management Effectiveness Training develops the capabilities sales managers need to lead both performance and people. This programme combines commercial management, leadership practice, coaching discipline, and operational effectiveness to help managers deliver results through others — not just as individual contributors, but as leaders of sustainable sales performance. 

  • The programme strengthens managers’ ability to assess the business landscape, set goals, recruit and hire effectively, lead strategically, coach for performance, manage results, navigate complexity, develop trusted stakeholder relationships and deliver on results. 

 Communication & Influence 

  • Persuasive communication, stakeholder engagement, and negotiation skills. 
  • Who should attend: Everyone who communicates with stakeholders 
  • Delivery options: In-person, live online 
  • Outcomes: Clear messages, better influence, stronger relationships 

 5. Team Effectiveness 

When teams stop working together, performance suffers. We help you fix it. 

Katzav Consulting helps organisations address the eco-system necessary that supports psychological safety and sustainable performance. 

Regardless of where the issue sits, from the executive leaders, directors, senior leadership, cross-functional or individual contributors, we create a process that is practical, respectful, and results-focused. 

If your organisation is experiencing any of the following issues, we help uncover what is really getting in the way of performance — and guide teams toward workable, measurable solutions. 

  • Increase incidences of disciplinary and grievances issues 
  • employees feeling unheard, undermined, unfairly treated 
  • compliance issues 
  • team conflict 
  • communication breakdowns 
  • silo thinking,  
  • victim mentality 
  • high turnover 
  • absenteeism due to health issues (stress, mental health, physical health) 
  • lack of accountability 
  • lack of self-care 
  • poor employee engagement 
  • unclear roles 
  • control and command leadership  
  • blaming and complaining 
  • lack of results 

When these issues are left unresolved, they begin to affect productivity, decision-making, customer service, culture, and ultimately business results. 

At Katzav Consulting, we work with organisations to address these challenges at the root — not just the symptoms. 

We do not believe in one-size-fits-all interventions. Every engagement is tailored to the team, the business context, and the outcomes required. 

6. CORPORATE WELLNESS

Six Programs that support and improve employee productivity. Each program is stand alone but can be linked as a series.

  1. BURNOUT PREVENTION: THE SUSTAINABLE PERFORMANCE WORKSHOP

Burnout is no longer a fringe conversation in corporate spaces — it is one of the top three reasons that impacts employee performance. This workshop helps teams understand where they actually sit on the burnout spectrum, assess their five personal depletion areas, and build a Sustainable Performance Plan they can act on immediately. It is grounded in cortisol and recovery science, delivered in language that works in a boardroom.

  1. BOUNDARIES AT WORK: PROTECTING YOUR ENERGY WITHOUT LOSING YOUR EDGE

Most professionals know they need better limits. What they do not have is the language. This workshop gives them the Boundary Blueprint — a self-assessment across five areas — and then walks them through how to actually say no in the specific situations they face: to a senior colleague, to a demanding client, to a manager who expects them to always be available. Participants leave with phrases they will use the next day.

  1. DIFFICULT CONVERSATIONS DONE WELL: SAY WHAT NEEDS TO BE SAID

Every team has conversations it is avoiding. Performance issues that haven’t been named. Tensions that have calcified into silence. Feedback that has been softened into uselessness. This workshop gives participants a five-step framework to prepare and deliver the conversations they have been putting off — with a live scenario demonstration and a structured paired practice session. It is a must for leadership teams across every industry.

  1. PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY AT WORK: CREATING THE CONDITIONS WHERE PEOPLE CAN DO THEIR BEST WORK

Since Amy Edmondson’s research went mainstream, every progressive organisation has psychological safety on their agenda. Few know how to actually build it. This workshop walks teams through the four stages of psychological safety, the specific behaviors that build and erode it, and how to create team agreements that outlast the session. It includes a team diagnostic, speaking-up language tools, and a team agreements activity.

  1. EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE FOR TEAMS: UNDERSTANDING EMOTIONS AS INFORMATION

EQ training has a reputation for being soft. This workshop is not soft — it is specific, practical, and immediately applicable. Participants complete an individual EQ profile across five domains, identify their primary growth edge, learn three types of empathy and how each one shows up in a team context, and co-create team EQ agreements. This workshop works hand-in-hand with the Psychological Safety workshop content.

  1. BIOLOGICAL OPTIMISATION & LONGEVITY AT WORK: ALIGNING WORK HABITS WITH HUMAN BIOLOGY

This workshop delves into the specific of circadian rhythms and cognitive performance, the sleep science that explains why your afternoon is harder than your morning, the nutritional choices that prevent the post-lunch crash, the minimum effective dose of movement for sustained brain function. Participants leave with a personalised Bio-Harmony Blueprint. Participants leave with practical things they can start doing immediately.


Approach

Our consulting approach is informed by the discipline of structured problem-solving : identify the real problem, understand the causes, engage the people affected, co-create solutions, and embed better ways of working. 

 How we work

We use Six Sigma methodologies and frameworks (DMAIC: Define, Measure, Analyse, Improve and Control) to co-create an improved way forward 

This is a highly participative process. We do not impose solutions from the outside — we guide teams to build solutions they understand, support, and can implement. 

 What Makes Our Work Different

We combine human insight with structured improvement. Many team interventions focus only on relationships. Others focus only on process. We address both. Katzav Consulting brings together: 

  • human-centred facilitation 
  • leadership insight 
  • practical team development 
  • structured root-cause thinking 
  • measurable performance focus 

 What Clients Can Expect

Outcomes of our consulting engagements 

Clients typically engage us to improve: 

  • Setting goals  
  • Cultural Intelligence 
  • Psychological Safety 
  • Communication 
  • Giving Feedback 
  • Career discussions 
  • Coaching for Performance 
  • Chairing meetings, setting agendas, minute taking 
  • Governance and risk management 
  • Performance Management 
  • Creating team and individual rules of engagement 

Our goal is to help teams function better. 

 Engagement Options

How we can support your organisation 

We can structure support in a way that suits your needs, including: 

Diagnostic engagement 

A focused intervention to identify key team breakdowns, root causes, and priority actions. 

Facilitated team workshop series 

A set of structured sessions designed to help teams work through conflict, rebuild communication, and align around practical solutions. 

Leadership alignment intervention 

Support for managers, directors, or executives who need to improve cohesion, decision-making, and collective leadership effectiveness. 

Team reset and performance improvement programme 

A broader engagement combining diagnosis, facilitated workshops, action planning, and follow-through support. 

Coaching support 

Individual or group coaching for leaders who need help strengthening communication, influence, self-awareness, and leadership effectiveness

About Us

Katzav Consulting (Pty) Ltd is a proudly 100% black-owned South African company committed to unlocking growth and empowering individuals and leaders at every level.​ 

  • We deliver HR solutions that are precise, practical, and results-driven—ranging from Talent Management, Coaching and mentoring to dynamic workshop facilitation.​ 
  • Our mission is clear and compelling: to equip people with knowledge and transferable skills that create immediate impact in the workplace. 
  • Katzav Consulting helps organizations develop leaders, accelerate transformation, and build capable teams through hands-on training, coaching, and capability development. Our approach blends practical application with solid learning science to deliver measurable results. 

Our Founder / Lead Trainer 

  • Vivien Katzav — Lead Trainer and Partner 
  • Vivien brings deep experience across industries, guiding leaders and teams through practical learning that translates into performance. She specializes in leadership development, change management, stakeholder engagement, and capability-building.  
  • Connect with Vivien on LinkedIn. 
  • Section: Our Approach 
  • A Practical, ResultsDriven Approach 
  • We design immersive learning experiences that combine realworld scenarios, action planning, and posttraining support. Our programs emphasize accountability, transfer of learning, and measurable improvements. 

Sectors & Capabilities 

  • Industries & Capabilities 
  • Our programs are tailored for finance, manufacturing, healthcare, public sector, technology, and services. We equip leaders with the skills to navigate complexity, lead change, and drive sustainable performance. 

Why Us  

Why Katzav Consulting :

  • Experienced trainer with broad sector exposure 
  • Content designed for immediate application 
  • Flexible delivery options (on-site, virtual, hybrid) 
  • Clear success metrics and client-driven customization 
  • Get in touch 
  • Let’s discuss your goals 
  • Book a discovery call or email us to explore tailored training programs.