Owen, Adendorff Staff

Les Owen

LES OWEN is a Director of Owen, Adendorff & Associates (Pty) Ltd, Isiqwayi People Management (Pty) Ltd.  He is an arbitrator with the Association for Dispute Resolution and Tokiso. He is one of 10 part-time Senior Commissioners with the CCMA in Durban.

He practices as a professional Negotiator, Mediator and Arbitrator.  He facilitates joint ventures between Black Economic Empowerment organizations and established white owned businesses.

He is an accredited trainer of International mediators with the Centre for Conflict Resolution at the University of Cape Town.

Les has a degree from the University of Natal and is a part time lecturer for the University of KwaZulu-Natal’sGraduate School of Business.

As a result of research undertaken for the European Union, he contributed to the books “SA  The Good News”, and “Miracles that are Changing a Nation”. Les is a registered Assessor through the ETDP ETQA.

In the past 15 years over 2000 individuals have attended his training courses, half of whom have participated in his Negotiating skills courses.  He has recently been commissioned to write a book on Negotiations.

Norman Adendorff

NORMAN ADENDORFF is a graduate of Cape Town and Natal Universities. He is a Director of Owen, Adendorff & Associates (Pty) Ltd and Isiqwayi People Management (Pty) Ltd.

He operated in the Human Resources field in the Corporate Sector for some seventeen years, holding senior group positions. Over the past nineteen years he has specialised in Industrial Relations providing both consulting and training services. He has extensive experience in all aspects of management consulting and HR development. He has direct experience in African countries outside South Africa, having worked in both Swaziland and Malawi.

He lectures on a part time basis to the MBA students at the Graduate School of Business at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Norman was an ‘A’ level part time Commissioner at the CCMA for a period of four years.

Winston Owen

WINSTON OWEN has a BA Honours degree in from University of Natal, Durban. He also has a diploma in Industrial Relations. He has been a member of the Owen, Adendorff team since 1997.

Winston is currently specialising in the strategic implementation of Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment. He is an active member of the BEE Verification Agency forum of KZN.

Winston is a part time lecturer at Unischool in Human Resources and in the Fundamentals of Business Management. He also facilitates various Training courses in the area of people skills and management. He is a registered Skills Development Facilitator, assisting companies from various SETA’s in the development and submission of Workplace Skills Plans (WSPs). His other areas of focus include Team Development, Team Working and Employment Equity compliance.

Siphiwe Nkabinde

SIPHIWE NKABINDE was employed by Unilever from 1979 to 2001. He commenced his employment in the Quality Assurance stream. In 1993 he moved from Quality Assurance into Human Resources. He developed as a Human Resources Officer and Practitioner in Unilever until June 2001. Thereafter, he continued as a Human Resources practitioner with Quality Products (Pty) Ltd. from 2001 to 2010. In this position, he was responsible for the HR and IR Management of over 300 employees plus outsourced labourers.  In this time he gained much experience in dealing with conflict at shop floor level, negotiating with shop stewards and union officials and representing the employer at the CCMA and the NBCCI.

Bronwyn Owen

BRONWYN OWEN is the most recent addition to our team. Bronwyn specialises in sales and customer service. Bronwyn previously built up and ran a dance studio and a health food service company. More recently she worked on a short term project in telesales for a start-up company, generating the first wave of clients for that company, after which she moved into a full time sales position with a plastic packaging company, generating new business and servicing blue chip customers. Her skill and diligence was such that she was offered the role of Sales Manager, which she turned down in favour of moving into Owen, Adendorff & Associates.

Paulos Ngcobo

PAULOS NGCOBO is a Non-Executive Director of the Company. He was formerly a Regional Secretary of COSATU and now served as a member of parliament for the KZN legislature.  He is now a Business man and sits on the Board of several organizations.