About

JOHAN KOORNHOF

Johan Koornhof is a renowned Public Speaker, Author and Change Catalyst. As MD of BE REAL Consulting & Mentoring his core focus is Performance Management and Organization Design. He has extensive and varied business experience in many industries including medical, finance, government, construction, IT, retail and manufacturing. Johan has successfully worked with leading organizations in South Africa, UK and Europe. He has built relationships and empowered people at all levels to include CEO’s,
government ministers, management and labourers.

Following 16 years of international business experience working with 8 different nationalities and 11 cultures (excluding those in South Africa) Johan realized the amount of time, money and energy that is being spent on relationships internally and externally towards achieving success. He spent years creating a practical awareness program to cross all these challenges and help create unity in relationships at all levels.  

Johan Koornhof holds a BA Psychology degree from the University of Stellenbosch and numerous accreditation's within Human Resources which he achieved in Europe. Following 9 years of life in the corporate world he studied Life Coaching through CCI. Johan was also involved with the Investors in People accreditation program in the United Kingdom. He completed his Post Graduate qualification in Advanced HR Management at the University of Cape Town (UCT) with distinction (Cum Laude).

Johan's life has been one of diversity. Born to a Christian home in 1975, reality hit home when his parents divorced at the age of 9. Both parents remarried and overnight his siblings increased from 3 children to 6 children in the house. After achieving several qualifications he had great success working overseas in Edinburgh, UK during the early 2000's. He married in the UK and worked his way back to South Africa seven years later. But things began to spiral out of control after he got retrenched and divorced. To him he had lost everything! This time was severely challenging to him and he considered taking his own life. By grace, that evening took a bizarre turn for the better and within Johan a character change journey started. Pulling through this adversity, Johan successfully redirected his career in just 18 months. And then, his near fatal day arrived one Sunday morning when the horrific mountain biking accident occurred. He miraculously survived and having received another chance to be alive, was a true awakening to him.

Johan rebranded his approach to business and in 2011 this gave birth to the BE REAL Company. Today he supports people in their daily roles, be it at work or at home, to become real in order to restore the power, joy and success in their lives and relationships.

Johan does this through workshops, consulting, talks and then building sound relationships through mentoring and coaching. You can also purchase his book called "Healing your heart by making good choices" on Amazon in e-book format.