Sivaan is a Professionally Certified Coach (PCC) registered with the International Coaching Federation (ICF). He is a member of the Institute of Directors (IOD) SA, and an SABPP CHRP, as well as certified Lead HR Auditor, with substantial experience in HR Standards Auditing; (having previously won the SABPP HR Auditor of the Year award).

Having previously chaired the SABPP’s HR Citizenship Committee, he presently serves as Vice-Chair of its Governance Committee, as well as Vice-Chair of its HR Audit Committee. He also presently serves on the Management Operating Committee (MOC) of the Wholesale and Retail Leadership Chair at the University of Johannesburg and presently chairs the W&RSETA’s Retail Management Development Programme Committee.

He is a skilled negotiator, and accomplished business coach, adept at nurturing optimum people performance.

He has twenty-five years of management and leadership experience, with fifteen served at Executive and Board levels. His experience spans General Business Management, Human Capital Management, Transformation Management, and Executive Coaching. Sivaan has achieved management and leadership success (and management and leadership development success) across multiple industries, in diverse businesses, from entrepreneurial start-ups, and NPO’s, to multi-company JSE-listed groups, across multi-country geographies.

Since 2014, Sivaan serves as Human Capital & Transformation Director within a Global Business, (listed in the JSE Top 40), and operating in the Wholesale and Retail sector.
He has previously headed Group HR, at a JSE Listed, Engineering and Construction Group; and has also managed highly unionized workforces in the Heavy Manufacturing, and Security Industries.

Sivaan’s education spans the fields of Law, Management & Leadership, Transformation, and Business Executive Coaching. He has previously received certificates and qualifications from the University of Natal, University of Pretoria, WITS, GIBS, Henley Business School, Pennsylvania State University and UNISA, (with an MBA from Johannesburg Business School and an LLM from UNISA as yet incomplete).