Veli Ndaba`s Story

Veli Ndaba was born in Soweto, Emdeni Township. He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree (BSc) in Management Science. National Diploma in Mechanical Engineering. National Diploma in Project Management. Life Coaching and Neuro Linguistic Programming Certificates.

He is a Leadership Thought Leader and a Pioneer of a Leadership High-Performance Tool called the ‘Veli Ndaba NeuroEngineering Leadership Effect’ #VNNLE which is based on the fundamental principles of Neuroscience and Engineering. He applies this tool to Help Leaders Transform from Mental Darkness to Leadership Light and to changing Leadership and Organisational Cultures for Peak Performance.

In 2011 he started his own business, specialising in corporate training, life and business coaching. He joined the international communication and leadership organisation, Toastmasters International.

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In three years since joining, he became president of his local club and now gives motivational talks around the country. Losing parents at a very young age taught him that life is too short to be spent complaining and blaming everything instead of appreciating the taking advantage of the available opportunities.


He has dedicated his life to inspire and empower people to discover to unleash their greatness. Veli Ndaba lives in Alberton, a town situated about 20 km from Johannesburg. He is a family man; he is married to Mpumi and has two sons, Ntokozo and Sanele.

Veli Ndaba - 'The NeuroEngineer'

Thomas Edison said, “Thinking is the hardest work of all that’s why most people rather die than think.” The quality of your thinking determines the quality of your decisions; the quality of your decisions determine the quality of your actions and the quality of your actions determine the quality of your results and of course the quality of your results determine the quality of your life.

Quality thoughts can only be influenced by few things; listening to positive and quality messages or talks; by reading good books that share life changing experiences; personal coaching and mentoring as well as personal development interventions like time-management, goal-setting, etc.

Veli Ndaba dedicated his life in helping people gain self-awareness and identifying gaps through his well delivered and thought-provoking NeuroLeadership and Brain-Based motivational talks, well -written and insightful books as well as one-on-one empowering life-coaching sessions.