Who is France Kazan

My career over the past twenty years has evolved in a natural progression from teaching, to executive coaching.  I have worked my way from teaching Matric accounting, to becoming an entrepreneur offering motivation and sales training, to recruitment, to speaking, to writing, to consulting and since completing an international MBA, I moved into business coaching.  My passion for aligning career aspirations to company expectations led me to become the resident expert on the Careers Hotline Show on Radio 702 for almost a year.  I then went on to develop a holistic employee retention formula aimed particularly at attracting and retaining the Gold Collar Worker. 

The majority of my work has been in the services industry with a particular focus on the financial services and ICT sectors:

• Recruitment / hiring services middle management to executive level,
• Training / retraining in functional, transactional, developmental, management and leadership areas,
• Consulting  for retention culture change management, introducing rewards and recognition, challenging environment and job design, diversity management and environmental improvements
• Counselling the exiting employees through the separation process to retire or replace graciously and  protect employer brand   

I am adequately qualified and experienced to coach your company to success however, more importantly my passion is to get ordinary people to achieve extra-ordinary result 

My Recent Accomplishments

• Implemented an Employee Retention Strategy in turnaround assignment for a financial services company  - reduce turnover from 56% to 7% within one year and increased turnover from R300m – R450m
• Developed a team into building teams and moving on to become the senior management team of highly successful company.
• Developed a diverse team of artisans into competent communicators and presenters
• Successfully searched and placed CEO and FD in listed company
• Career coached a number of top ranking executives
• Successfully sourced highly specialised telecoms engineers in international company
• Developed leadership team from managers to team leaders, to executive leadership
• Researched and wrote business plan for R40 TV channel to be presented to Oprah
• Researched and produced a career talk show on Radio 702 for one year