Dr Dumi Magadlela is an internationally accredited executive coach, team coach, coach trainer, leadership
development facilitator, and organizational ‘people whisperer’. He currently works for the Development
Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) designing and delivering leadership, coaching and other people
development skills courses across the African continent. Dumi is a regularly featured speaker and panellist
on coaching, leadership, and people development. In 2021 he featured as one of the speakers in a
TEDxUniversityOfSouthAfrica TEDx event.

Dumi serves on the Global Board of the International Coaching Federation (ICF) as Vice Chair. He co-
founded the Ubuntu Coaching Foundation (UCF) at The Coaching Centre (TCC) with one of the leading

coaches in Africa, Dr Paddy Pampallis. He has been part of Senior Faculty at The Coaching Centre: Integral
Africa, for over fourteen (14) years, where he regularly delivers a module on “Coaching in the African
Context”. An Integral approach which is inclusive of our African wisdom is the work of Integral Africa.
Dumi is part-time faculty at the University of Stellenbosch Business School’s MPhil in Management
Coaching, where he teaches “Ubuntu Team Coaching”.
He is part of the international faculty at the WBECS’ Global Team Coaching Institute (GTCI), where he
co-designs and co-facilitates Team Coaching training as part of an international faculty. He is accredited
by the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC) as a Senior Practitioner in Team Coaching.
Dumi is currently working towards his ICF PCC credential.
Dumi currently lives in Johannesburg, South Africa, and works globally.