Professor Mike van Oudtshoorn EdD. PhD. CPsychol.

The founder of i-coach academy, Prof. Mike van Oudtshoorn is a South African born organisational psychologist who has extensive international experience in consulting, academic teaching and executive coaching. Mike's background in business, adult learning and development, assessment of potential and performance, existential counselling is firmly underpinned by a master's qualification in counselling, two doctorate qualifications and a breadth of experience with organisation client projects internationally, which is difficult to capture in a few lines. He was the HR director of the Edgars Group before starting his own consultancy in 1973.

Mike has held academic posts at The Californian School of Professional Psychology, The Fielding Institute and Napier Business School. Apart from his current role as academic dean for i-coach academy, Mike currently holds visiting professorships at Middlesex University. Mike splits his time between consulting to deliver organisational change through coaching, executive coaching, academic teaching and supervision, and research into the professional mastery and adult learning and development.