Dene Rossouw - bio
Speaker | facilitator | coach

Dene Rossouw will engage you in content rich seminars and keynotes designed to inspire and challenge you to communicate more authentically. His keynote, The rules of engagement - earning the right to speak, is drawn from his experience in working with diverse groups of people, including bikers, judges and bureaucrats. Dene specialises in improving leadership and employee engagement through effective communication and sensemaking. As an innovative communicator, Dene coaches leaders on how to have more relevant conversations in the workplace and how you can use your personal power, rather than positional power to inspire action and to develop strategic alliances and partnerships.

Dene has 18 years of facilitation and consulting experience in the field of communications. He is the Communications Chair for the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers and is a certified emotional intelligence facilitator using the BarOn Emotional Intelligence Quotient Inventory - EQ-i™. He has the Associate Certificate in Workplace Conflict from the Justice Institute of British Columbia and a Bachelor of Theology from the University of South Africa.

His communication programs are designed for self-discovery—his most recent assignments are with Kwela Leadership and Talent Management, Corporate Accounting Services – BC Government, VanCity, Vancouver Coastal Health, University of British Columbia and representing Mica Consulting for BC Safety Authority, Ballard, BC Hydro, Healthcare Benefit Trust and Industrial Alliance Pacific.

Dene has held positions in various organizations, most recently as Communications Director for the Chief Justices and Judges in the Chief’s Office, Nova Scotia Law Courts, Canada and Assistant Divisional Manager and Senior Communications Consultant and Production Manager in the Public Relations Division of Old Mutual International in South Africa.

Dene is married to Deborah, a personal development specialist, coach and facilitator. In his spare time, Dene plays classical guitar instrumentals and is an avid photographer. Go to >> Fotomoods.com.

Since completing school in 1969, he has been a paratrooper, a priest working with biker groups, a farm manager, a business owner, a communications specialist and trainer, and more recently, a facilitator and speaker to organizations.

What people are saying:
- What I enjoyed about your presentation is that it went much more than skin deep.
- Excellent presentation style – very engaging. Helpful anecdotes, analogies & figures.
- I enjoyed the safe, supportive atmosphere in allowing me to let down my guard to practise being my authentic self!
- This is an excellent, very practical, hands-on workshop
- This was an excellent course! I highly recommend it!
- Dene is a very good facilitator - uses humour and has lots of interaction between participants.
- The message and lessons were taught in a very supportive and to-the-point manner.

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