Oelzah Puckree

About Oelzah Puckree

Oelzah is the CEO of Figure Eight Network Solutions and a highly experienced organisational advisor, executive coach, and leadership strategist with nearly two decades of practice across some of South Africa's most complex people and business environments. She brings a systems-thinking lens to the work - identifying the real challenges beneath the presenting ones, and co-creating solutions that are both rigorous and human. Her career spans Leadership Development, Organisational Development, Talent and Performance Management, Culture, Learning and Development, Corporate Wellbeing, Employee Engagement, and Retention Strategies, with deep sector experience across Insurance, Financial Services, Retail, Telecommunications, Hospitality, Government, and Non-Profit Organisations. Oelzah holds a Master's degree in Leadership, Performance and Change from the University of Johannesburg. She is a certified Integral Life Practitioner, a certified Enneagram Facilitator, and a Leadership Coach with more than 500 hours of executive coaching experience across graduate to board level. She currently serves as Chairperson of the Alumni Advisory Board for Bio-Mastery for Business and as a Trustee of the Adansonia Foundation — both roles reflect her enduring commitment to wellbeing and resilience as core organisational strategies. In her coaching work, Oelzah partners with leaders and teams to navigate complexity, deepen self-awareness, and build the relational mastery required to lead well in demanding environments. Her approach integrates the personal and professional, creating internal alignment for the coachee. She brings the same depth to her culture and HR advisory work — moving organisations from diagnostic insight to meaningful, sustained activation. She is widely recognised for her ability to hold difficult conversations and translate that honesty into forward momentum, toward transformational and sustainable shifts. Beyond the boardroom, Oelzah is a sought-after speaker, panel moderator and Master of Ceremonies at executive and leadership events, and has summited Mount Kilimanjaro - a fitting metaphor for how she approaches every challenge she takes on.

Key message

Building interconnected organizational capacities and cultures that enable leaders and business performance through the ability to handle increasing complexity, ambiguity and change through systems thinking applications in HR and resilience building.

Speaking topics and expertise

• 1. Wherefor art thou HR? What's in a name that which we call a rose
• 2. The organizational nervous system as the baseline for your company culture
• 3. Workplace Wellbeing Theatre - Why workplace wellbeing fails
• 4. ROI on Leadership Development - do you feel the change?
• 5. Change Management - so many models
• so little transformation...why.
• 6. Toxic Leadership eats HR Strategy for breakfast
• lunch and supper!