Nellie Cabane is a Registered Facilitator with ETDP and SETA as a Constituent Assessor and SDF, Coach and Mentor, that specializes in facilitation of learning, Job coaching, assessment of learning, training and development, project management, team and business change processes, Coaching and Mentoring Entrepreneurs. Nellie has been involved in learnership programmes for over 10 years as a coach and assessor. She has developed young graduates, supervisors, team leaders in all aspects of the industry. Nellie offers experiential learning that makes her learners or candidates want to learn more when they are in the class. Nellie facilitated in many different industries and very big organizations like a Arcelor Mittal, Clover, Mtn, Absa, Std Bank, Fnb, Anglo American, Dept of Justice, Wesbank, Nedbank and Blake International and many more. In all these industries Nellie has excelled! As a result Nellie in 2007 & 2008 she was awarded Trainer of the year in 2 Provinces KZN & Eastern Cape. In 2008 she was nominated as a finalist External trainer/Facilitator of the year in South Africa.
Duke Corporate Education nominated her as one of the BEST top 5 facilitators out of 21 facilitators in South Africa. Nellie has a lot of experience in the Call center field where she developed young graduates that have never worked before to be successful employees that ended up to be leaders in their field. Nellie has done a lot of customer service training and leadership development programmes. She has empowered employees that have been working as managers for many years without qualification. Nellie was able to coach them to cover the gaps up to a stage where they can get a management certificate; she does that through a programme called RPL (Recognition of Prior Learning). This programme has helped many managers to bring up to speed and help them to have a qualification so that when they leave the organization they can be employable as managers because of their experience. Nellie was nominated by Anglo Platinum as one of the top 5 Educators for the Leadership Academy programme she ran for Duke Corporate Education. Nellie had very good feedback from the participants and received very high scores. Nellie is a member of Dukece Global Learning Resource Network. The experience she gained during the years has helped Nellie to get results from her training.
Nellie has contributed her skills to the South African market by making the young graduates to be more marketable and be successful leaders. When training leaders, Nellie makes sure that leaders transfer skills to their employees and the organization benefits by getting ROI. Nellie always makes sure that after training clients call her back and participants -and they do! Nellie Cabane is very passionate about skills development and working with Duke has helped her to gain more experience and sharpen her skills as a result Duke Clients are happy and learners achieve results. Nellie has done work for different organizations and that has made Nellie always up-skill herself all the time. Nellie is a Diversity specialist, call center, leadership and is more passionate in empowering women in Leadership. Nellie assisted many organizations in assessing their employees in what they do and excel. The knowledge that Nellie has gained through the years has opened many doors in her career. She has worked for various community based youth organizations, facilitating life skills and has mentored a number of youth in terms of life skills in general and youth in business. Nellie has pioneered skills development participation to more than 120 companies in various sector Education and Training Authorities as a skills development consultant . Nellie has facilitated generic courses and ensured compliance with skills development processes as laid by the Ministry of Labour in the National Skills Development Strategy. Nellie has assisted a number of organization with skills development facilitation process, ensuring effective skills development planning and implementation, management of learnerships, skills programme, bursaries, ABET, Artisan and internship programmes, advising management of skills development legislation compliance, designing training quality management systems and policies and procedure in the SDA, SAQA, SDLA.
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Alexandra (Alex) Gaspar Martins Teixeira (she/her) is a collective intelligence enthusiast, master facilitator and technical strategist with over 25 years of experience designing and facilitating participatory meetings and convenings for high-performing teams and organizational collaboratives including FHI 360, Ipas, MSI Reproductive Choices, the Urgent Action Fund, the World Health Organization and UNFPA among others.
Prior to consulting, Alex spent 11 years advancing access to safe abortion at Ipas where she partnered with global teams and led organization-wide initiatives as a Senior Advisor for Technical Innovation and Excellence, the Associate Director for Community
Engagement and Policy Advocacy and as the Senior Advisor for Organizational Learning. Alex has also served as the Philanthropic Partnerships Officer for the Astraea Foundation, as a Global Research & Policy Advisor for the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (now OutRight Action International) and as a Program Fellow with the Global Fund for Women. She has served on the board of directors of the Safe Abortion Action Fund (UK), The Stone House (NC), the Third Wave Foundation (NY) and Resource Generation (NY).
Alex has designed and led over 70 high-stakes participatory workshops, retreats and convenings for over 2000 stakeholders across Africa, Asia and North America. She is among the most seasoned facilitators, globally, of Abortion Values Clarification for Action & Transformation (VCAT) Workshops where she has led community members, activists, health care providers, ministry officials, multilateral donors and embassies—all with wide ranging positions on abortion—through a process that shifts their orientation from one of contentious debate to an opportunity for empathy and principled collaboration to advance bodily autonomy. She has trained and mentored over 150 emerging facilitators
and team leaders globally on designing and facilitating inclusive, liberatory and participatory meetings.
With two decades of experience advancing equity and justice through philanthropy and global health programming, Alex approaches facilitation as a strategic opportunity to practice high-impact, equity-based collaboration skills that live on beyond our convenings. Alex brings skillful attention to transforming personal, interpersonal and systemic barriers to meaningful participation. She is passionate about helping groups connect, navigate principled disagreement, prioritize, focus, and align towards powerful actions that advance justice, joy and wellbeing in the world.
Alex is a recipient of the Wildacres Leadership Initiative William C. Friday Fellowship (2014-2016), holds a bachelor’s degree in Psychology and French Literature from Connecticut College and a master’s degree in International Affairs with a focus on gender, sexuality and international human rights from Columbia University. As the first member of her family to attend university, she is humbled to stand on the shoulders of self-taught entrepreneurs, savvy dissidents, survivors of Portuguese dictatorship and lovers of learning. She currently lives in Durham, North Carolina, in the Southeastern United States, in a beloved cross-class, multi-racial intentional community of gorgeously imperfect humans trying to build deep interdependence.
DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION, CHANGE MANAGEMENT, CULTURE CHANGE TEAMBUILDING
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Systems change, Change management, Culture change
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion; Change management; Culture change; Strategy; Teambuilding
DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION, STRATEGY SYSTEMS CHANGE, PRODUCT OR SERVICE DESIGN
Ángel Zambrano Cobo is Communications Specialist at UFacilitate. As a communicator and cultural manager based in Caracas, Venezuela, he collaborates with groups and organizations that seek to build community and generate change through projects of social innovation, cultural action and human rights.
He is also a founding member of Ciudad Laboratorio (@ciudlab), a civil association that seeks to influence urban experience and transformation through observation, art and pedagogy. In 2017 he was part of the founding team of Labo Ciudadano, a social innovation lab focused on human rights, social fabric and nonviolent mobilization. Until mid-2022 he was co-general coordinator of this organization, and today he is part of its advisory board.
Leigh’s expertise in business process management has been shaped by her diverse professional journey. Starting as a customer care representative while still in college, she steadily progressed.
After earning her bachelor’s degree in business management from Central Philippine University, Leigh transitioned into roles with increasing responsibility. She began as a virtual assistant for US professionals, where she efficiently supported top-tier management with various tasks including managing company materials, workflows, training, and finance.
Leigh’s career path led her to management roles overseeing teams across industries like real estate, medical, construction, and cleaning. Her hands-on experience in these sectors provided her with a solid understanding of business operations and management practices.
Additionally, Leigh demonstrated her skills in sales and marketing as a successful sales executive, closing service deals. Her role as an events support generalist at a KPO company further broadened her skill set, contributing to delivering services to clients worldwide.
Leigh’s diverse background and proactive approach make her an asset in optimizing business processes and driving success.
Aparna is Chief Facilitator Builder at UFacilitate, helping to select and onboard high-quality facilitators to the UFacilitate family. For the last 7 years, she has been working with early growth stage impact startups across India, South Africa, and Latin America, helping them identify the business models and value propositions, create a growth strategy, raise funds and measure their impact. During her time working with education nonprofits in India, she learned about the critical role that good facilitation plays in ensuring meaningful engagements and also got trained by the Facilitators Network Singapore. While working with an accelerator in Latin America, she created a facilitator’s handbook for online and offline engagements, equipping the reader with the basic tools and thinking steps.
Aparna’s aim through UFacilitate is to take the simple handbook many steps ahead and help leaders in the impact space innovate effectively, make decisions, and build projects that involve multiple stakeholders and have large-scale impact.