About us
Darren Coetsee is an owner/member of DLC CONSULTING which was launched in 1999. He has a Bachelor of Social Sciences degree and Honours in Industrial Relations and has studied towards his Bachelor of Laws (LLB) degree. After his studies he worked for Unilever SA for 7 years as a generalist in both the Training and Human Resources Departments and by the end of his career he was a senior HR Manager looking after both the Simonsberg Cheese (400 employees) and the Lipton Tea and Royco Soup factories (500 employees)
He has also trained/lectured management and leadership development, corporate communications, professional and presentation skills, business manager development programmes, labour law and HR Strategy at both tertiary institutions like Damelin Business School and on the MBA programme at Technikon Natal as well as within corporates such as Tetra Pak, Virgin Group, Unilever SA, Unitrans – Sugar and Agriculture, MWEB, Robertson’s Foods, Nampak, Sapref (BP and Shell), Hudson and Knight, South African Police Services and Netcare Hospitals to name a few. He is also a trained assessor and a member of the South African Chamber of Business. In 2007/2008, whilst still running his company, he was contracted to the role of HR Director for Virgin Mobile and in 2009/2010 as HR Director of Blake Holdings (part of the JSE listed JD Group).
In short he has over 15 years experience in the Human Resources education, training and development arena. In addition to the Training Division of his business, he also consults extensively with SMMEs on employment law, recruitment and selection, performance development programmes encompassing target setting, coaching and counselling, work/life balance and stress management issues.