Lindie Malan Actioncoach

24/10/2026

23/10/2026

Sixty-nine people. One graduation day. Twenty-eight finishing, forty-one just starting.

These are the photos that didn’t make the first post. A room full of people in their own uniforms. Some of them have been showing up every week for a year now, which still gets me a bit.

161 people from this business have sat across from me in a coaching room since we started. I didn’t plan on putting that number out there today. It looked bigger written down than it did in my head.

If you want to talk about your own business, book a call with me.

15/10/2026

Fix it. Grow it. Scale it. Sell it? That was the question in the room at Boshoff & Moore’s business breakfast this month.

Plenty of the owners I sit with want to scale a business that isn’t fixed yet. Or they want to sell one that still doesn’t run without them. Some know it. A few really don’t, and honestly that’s the harder conversation, though it’s usually the more useful one.

Thank you to Boshoff & Moore for the room and the introduction. If you’re not sure which stage you’re in, that’s fine, it’s normally the first thing we work out. Book a call.

23/09/2026

Ten senior managers walked into a room, and it was clear from the start that they hadn't chosen to be there.

"We have been in management positions for many years. Surely this training cannot add anything to what we already know?"

That was a hard first session to coach.

They finish today.

Six months later, in their final session, they talked about gratitude. About being woken up. About how much is still possible for someone who was absolutely certain they had already arrived.

That shift doesn't happen by accident. It happens when someone stops performing confidence and starts doing the actual work.

Those ten are part of 28 managers and leaders at Tiger Wheel & Tyre completing their programme today. In the same month, 41 new ones started theirs.

69 people. One company. One decision to invest in their people properly.

To the 28 finishing today: you lead differently now than you did when you walked in. Go and use it.

To the 41 just starting: the discomfort you feel in month one is not a sign this isn't working. It is a sign that it is.

Here's a real question, and I'd genuinely like to hear the answer:

Have you ever been sent to something you were completely sure you didn't need, only to realise you were wrong?

Tell me what it was. Those stories matter more than people admit.

And if your management team would have said exactly what those ten said when they walked in, that's usually the team worth starting with. Send me a message.

Lead with courage. Coach with impact. Live with joy.

18/09/2026

A coach from Poland described a client conversation almost word for word like one I had in Stellenbosch last month.

Same avoidance. Same excuse. Same silence after the hard question.

I sat across from coaches from six continents at one dinner table, and we kept finishing each other's sentences.

That told me something most business owners don't want to hear:

The reason your business is stuck isn't because of the economy, your industry, or bad luck. It's a human problem. And human problems look identical whether you're running a business in Warsaw or the Western Cape.

Business owners who are stuck tend to do the same three things:

They stay busy so they don't have to look at what isn't working.

They call it "just a rough patch" long after the data says otherwise.

They wait for more certainty before making the decision they already know they need to make.

The ones who grow do the opposite. They look at the hard thing first. They name what's actually broken. And they make the call before they feel ready.

That's not a personality type. It's a practice. And it's learnable.

If you recognise yourself in the first group, that awareness is the starting point, not the end point.

What's the one decision you've been sitting on longer than you should?

10/09/2026

Ten years ago I had no guarantees. Just decisions that kept pointing in the same direction.

ActionCOACH just ranked my practice 6th in the world for growth as a premium coaching business.

Not 6th in South Africa. Sixth. Globally.

I heard it read out loud in a room in Goa. 76.2% growth. A decade of compounding the right choices.

Most business owners are working harder than ever and still feel like they are falling behind. That feeling is not laziness. It is a structure problem. The effort is there. The leverage is not.

That is what the last ten years taught me. Growth does not come from doing more. It comes from making decisions that build on each other, and refusing to stop when it gets uncomfortable.

If you are putting in the work and not seeing the result, the question is not how much harder you can push. The question is whether your decisions are stacking or cancelling each other out.

That is a solvable problem. I have watched owners fix it.

04/09/2026

I don't think she expected to cry in front of a room full of strangers.

This week I was on a panel at BusinessPartners' "She Builds. She Balances." event. 45 years of backing entrepreneurs in South Africa. It's a big deal, I didn't fully register that until I was already up there.

We talked business, life, the stuff that sits between the two. At some point a woman stood up and said it. Running a company, two kids, her mother just moved in. She's tired. She said that last part quietly, like she wasn't sure she was allowed to.

I didn't have an answer. The room went quiet in a way that wasn't uncomfortable, which was strange. A few women started talking over each other a bit. I don't think anyone minded.

Grateful to BusinessPartners for the invite.

And to that woman. I hope she drove home feeling slightly less alone in it.

If you're in that place right now, comment "COACH" or send me a message. We'll find time to talk.

28/08/2026

Tuesday was one for the books.

Lindie joined two other incredible women on the panel at "She Builds. She Balances.," and the room brought it, real questions, real honesty, and conversations that kept going long after the panel wrapped.

One of the loveliest parts? Hearing afterward that her line, "be rooted in your calling," actually stuck with someone in that room.

Thank you to Business Partners for having her, and to everyone who came up to chat.

Presented by Business Partners, in partnership with ActionCOACH.

28/08/2026

Ten years. One photo. And I genuinely don't know if it captures any of it.

ActionCOACH marked a decade with me last week, and I keep landing on the same moment. The room, not the stage. Coaches flying in from different countries, different kinds of businesses, and within the first five minutes they're asking how your clients are doing. Sharing something that worked for them, unprompted, in case it's useful to you.

Ten years of this, and that bit still surprises me a little.

27/08/2026

We paid this man to drive us around for one afternoon in India.

By the end of it, none of us wanted to say goodbye.

I don't even remember his name now, which feels wrong to admit. We talked about his kids, his city, where he thought we should eat. He had opinions about everything. By the time he dropped us off I think we hugged him.

"The family unit is the rope on which the whole world swings." - Arundhati Roy

Ten years of building something and I still can't tell you exactly what makes people stay. But I think it's got something to do with afternoons like that one.