Bryan Hattingh
Unlocking the Potential Within Leaders
Years of experience in executive search and career coaching
Years in executive coaching, leadership development and organisational transformation
Organisations Bryan Has Worked With
About Bryan Hattingh
Bryan Hattingh is the Founder and CEO of Cycan. His career spans more than three decades across executive search, career coaching and leadership work, including executive coaching, leadership development and organisational transformation. He has worked with leaders and organisations across multiple sectors and international markets, helping organisations make critical leadership decisions and helping leaders strengthen the way they think, decide and lead.
Across this work, he has partnered with CEOs, Boards, senior executives and leadership teams navigating critical appointments, succession, mergers and acquisitions, career transition, growth and organisational change.
That breadth of experience has shaped his perspective on leadership:
Leadership is never only about what a person knows or the position they hold. It is about who they are, how they influence others and what becomes possible because of the way they lead.
Today, Bryan continues to work alongside leaders and organisations seeking to strengthen executive capability, build more effective leadership teams and prepare for what comes next.
Experience & Expertise
As an internationally accredited Meta Coach, Bryan works with executives and senior leaders to strengthen self-awareness, decision-making, leadership effectiveness and organisational impact.
His executive search work takes a similarly broad view of leadership, considering not only experience and credentials, but leadership capability, organisational context, culture and what an executive needs to accomplish in the future.
This ability to connect who organisations appoint with how leaders develop and how leadership influences the wider organisation has helped shape Cycan’s integrated approach.
Bryan’s leadership perspective is grounded in decades of business, executive and organisational experience.
His work spans:
Bryan Hattingh as a Leadership Speaker
Speaking is another expression of Bryan’s broader leadership work.
For more than three decades, he has shared his thinking with conference audiences, executive teams and organisations internationally. His speaking draws on the same experience that informs his executive search, coaching, leadership transformation and thought leadership work.
Risky Business
Bryan is the host of Risky Business, a long-running business programme where he engages CEOs, entrepreneurs, executives and change-makers in conversations about leadership, business, risk, growth and reinvention.
Rather than focusing only on polished success stories, Risky Business explores the decisions, uncertainty, setbacks and lessons that shape leaders and organisations.
The programme reflects Bryan’s curiosity about people and his belief that better leadership often begins with better questions.
Media & Leadership Conversations
Bryan regularly contributes to business and leadership conversations through television, radio, podcasts and interviews.
Start a Leadership Conversation
Leadership challenges rarely exist in isolation.
An executive appointment can reveal a succession challenge. Coaching can uncover wider team dynamics. Organisational transformation can require leaders themselves to change before the organisation can move forward.
If you would like to explore how Bryan and Cycan can strengthen the leadership capability your organisation needs next, start with a conversation.
Frequently Asked Questions
Bryan Hattingh is the Founder and CEO of Cycan, a South African leadership company. He is an executive search specialist, internationally accredited Meta Coach, leadership transformation practitioner, thought leader and host of Risky Business.
Bryan is known for his work across executive search, executive coaching, leadership development and leadership transformation, together with his thought leadership, media work and keynote speaking.
Bryan is the Founder and CEO of Cycan. His experience across executive search, coaching, leadership development and organisational transformation has helped shape Cycan’s integrated approach to leadership.
Yes. Bryan has extensive executive search experience, working with organisations on strategically important senior leadership appointments and considering leadership capability, organisational culture and long-term fit alongside professional experience.
Yes. Bryan is an internationally accredited Meta Coach and works with CEOs, executives and senior leaders on self-awareness, leadership effectiveness, decision-making and transformation.
Yes. Bryan is an experienced leadership keynote speaker in South Africa and has presented internationally. His speaking topics, testimonials and booking information are available on his dedicated keynote speaker page.
Yes. Where appropriate, a keynote can be combined with a facilitated workshop or become the starting point for deeper leadership work. Cycan can shape the format around the organisation’s objectives.
Contact Cycan with information about your event, audience, preferred date, location and the leadership themes you would like the session to address. The team can then discuss the appropriate keynote format and next steps.