EMAIL:
mIKE@MIKEBATLEY.CO.Za
MIKE BATLEY
Mike is a good natured, people-oriented professional who enjoys applying theoretical concepts in practice.
He is comfortable with difference and enjoy engaging complexity, seeking to understand an issue in historical and cultural perspective, and to celebrate diversity.
He has a strong sense of feeling called to affirm the human dignity of all people and to work for the common good.
Experience
- 2014 - present
Independent consultant, trainer, coach, mediator, counsellor - 2001 - present
Co-founder + CEO of Restorative Justice Centre, an NPO in the conflict transformation and crime prevention field - 1982 - 2001
Various capacities for the Gauteng Department of Social Development
Education
- 2019
Certified Ethics Officer – The Ethics Institute
- 2014
Management Accelerated Progression Programme 2014 (with distinction) –Henley Business School - 2014
MPhil (Applied Ethics, social and political) (with distinction) St Augustine College - 1998
Post-graduate certificate in people-centred community development UNISA - 1986
BA (social work) UNISA
Skills
- Assessment of ethics risk and development of ethics management plans
- Coaching
- Mediation of conflict
- Facilitation of reflection, planning and difficult conversations, including allegations of sexual harassment and discrimination
- Training
- Counselling
Areas of interest
- Workplace ethics: doing business ethically, ethical decision making, supporting social and ethics committees and ethics offices
- Restorative justice and conflict transformation: early, informal intervention
- Personal wellness and mastery:
- Healing+ wholeness
- Self-care
- Personal purpose, growth + development
Achievements
- Elected as an Ashoka Fellow, an international fellowship of social entrepreneurs for my work in restorative justice (2007)
- Published book chapters, academic and public articles
- Quoted in superior court judgements
- Part of the group of experts that reviewed the UN Basic Guidelines for Restorative Justice in November 2017
- Developed a strategy for strengthening child justice in Eswatini in 2019