Roger Hitchcock
Roger joined Sirdar full-time in April 2019 bringing with him 12 years of experience in training directors across Africa and more than 30 years of business experience including family business, corporate, non-profit and entrepreneurial endeavours.
He has also been involved in providing ongoing team and strategic business training and facilitation, and running multi-day experiential learning events. His speciality is in making complexity understandable and facilitating resilient and agile solutions to some of the biggest challenges that organisations face. He is passionate about assisting companies and individuals to find their clear strategic direction and purpose, and helping them to take steps to implement this purpose effectively. Roger finds great fulfilment in imparting value and seeing ‘the lights go on’ when facilitating Sirdar’s workshops and Applied Directorship Programme – the latter which he co-developed. He enjoys witnessing people grow as they apply what they have learnt and making a difference by doing what he does well.
This takes learning constantly and applying what he learns from his target of reading 40-60 books per year, following social media, providing answers to many questions, as well as participating in relevant conversations, events and associations. Having personally held a number of directorships, Roger speaks from lived boardroom experience. His directorship experience ranges from serving as executive director in the consulting and education sector to holding non-executive positions in the mining, retail and non-profit sectors. He is also an accredited Sirdar independent director. Roger holds Bachelor of Social Science and Bachelor of Theology degrees, as well as a diploma in small business management.
Beverley Hancock
Beverley joined Sirdar full time in 2018 bringing with her 25 years of recruitment of recruitment and executive search experience, gained across multiple industries and for clients based in Africa, the United Kingdom and the United Arab Emirates. Having held operational, management and executive positions in South Africa and abroad, Beverley is an experienced executive director, independent chairman and business owner.
She offers a solid understanding of organisational dynamics and corporate politics, as well as the challenges that organisations face in the acquisition, retention and further development of key talent. As Partner and Head of Appoint, Beverley facilitates the appointment of non-executive directors by working to understand clients’ unique and exact requirements, their board structures as well as natural energies within the team. She also focuses on the continued growth and success of the Sirdar Director Network: Africa’s largest member network of active and aspiring non-executive directors. Beverley is regularly invited to contribute on panel discussions and webinars, and was even a finalist in the Businesswomen’s Association of South Africa’s (BWASA) Regional Business Achiever Awards (Corporate). Business-minded, forward-thinking and strategic, Beverley has qualifications in HR management, small business management and executive coaching.
She is busy completing a Bachelor of Arts (Health Sciences and Social Services) – Applied Psychology for Professional Contexts. She is an intrepid adventurer with a real love for travel, and an advocate for continuous learning. A quote she lives by is “As ye sow, so shall ye reap”.
Roger Coetzer
Roger joined Sirdar in January 2023, taking the opportunity to actively expand the business into the Australian market.
Roger’s career to date – spanning more than 20 years – has included work within the hospitality, manufacturing and financial services sectors. Prior to joining Sirdar, he held a senior leadership position in one of Australia’s largest banks.
He has great depth of experience in the practical implementation of governance principles as well as in change management within teams that he has both led and advised. He has excelled at building high-performance cultures within the teams that he has managed and in strategic planning within organisations of various sizes. This skill set has enabled him to effectively overcome challenges and navigate the constantly changing regulatory environment.
Having served as a director of a family business, Roger has a deep understanding of the obstacles and opportunities that businesses face. He is therefore well placed to translate his wealth of experience into practically applying the governance principles and methodology that Sirdar leverages in Guiding Boards and Growing Business.
Roger holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree in Accounting and an Advanced Diploma in Financial Planning. He is also a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.