Performance coach · Operations executive · Keynote speaker
Lead well when it gets hard.
Performance coaching grounded in real operational leadership. For schools, sports teams and athletes, business teams, and the individuals who lead them.
Cape Epic, Adventure Race Worlds, the Drakensberg Grand Traverse. Resilience is not a theory here.
Mindset, mental toughness, and the decisions that hold up under pressure.
More than a decade leading operations in one of the world's most complex industrial environments.
In his own words
My everyday determines my one day. Master consistency and everything becomes achievable.
Beginning to understand our relationship with failure is the single biggest amplifier of future success.
80% of all success can be achieved without talent, full sets of resources or ample support, but by simply doing the basics right. The challenge is to determine what the basics are and how “right” looks for you.
Keynotes and masterclasses
The lessons of strategy, grit, and resilience that move from island to business.
Talks and working sessions for conferences, corporate teams, schools, and sports clubs. Every session can be tailored to the room.
Flagship talk
Purpose & Profit.
Renier’s most requested talk, and the one he chooses when asked for one. Why the people and organisations that get clear on their “why” outperform the ones chasing only the number, and how to hold purpose and profit in the same hand without dropping either.
Keynote
30 to 60 minutes. Five talks for businesses and teams, and two built for schools and young people.
Masterclass
Half-day to full-day. A working session for a leadership team or squad, with tools to use the day after.
MC and hosting
Gala dinners, sports functions, corporate gatherings, weddings, reunions.
Sports coaching
The mental game, coached by someone who still plays it.
Most of the enquiries I get are about this. Mental performance coaching for athletes and squads: mental toughness, your relationship with failure, consistency, and clear decisions when the body is tired.
- Individual athletes and endurance events
- School first teams and club squads
- Young athletes, and the coaches and parents around them
Who I work with
Four arenas. The same principles.
Clarity of vision. Alignment on what matters. Cultures that hold up under pressure. Mental toughness when conditions get hard.
Schools and youth leaders
Leadership teams, head students, and emerging young leaders. A multi-year track record.
Sports teams and athletes
Team coherence for squads. Mental toughness for individuals preparing for competition or endurance events.
Business teams
Vision casting, team alignment, and culture building for businesses ready to lift performance.
Individuals
One-on-one performance and mental toughness coaching, for leaders and high performers in any context.
10+
years leading large-scale operations at Sasol
R80m
revenue uplift in four months by shifting a 40-year operating mindset
5
extreme endurance events, including Survivor SA and the Cape Epic
Chair
of the Young Engineers Forum
Beyond the coaching
An operations leader, first.
If you arrived looking for an experienced operations executive rather than a coach, you are also in the right place. More than a decade of large-scale industrial leadership, including initiatives that delivered an R80 million revenue uplift in four months and sustained annual savings of R18 million and R13 million from long-overlooked constraints.
Available for advisory and board-level engagements alongside my current role.
Next step
What's next?
Whether you are looking for coaching, a speaker, or an operations advisor, the next step is a conversation. No pricing surprises, no hard sell. We figure out together whether what I do is what you need.