Josh Hayman

Director at Legitimate Leadership International

Josh Hayman is a currently a Director at Legitimate Leadership, and has been part of the business for 11 years. In that time he has consulted to a wide range of industries both locally and internationally on the issue of establishing and sustaining organisational cultures characterised by ownership, trust and accountability with the Legitimate Leadership Model as the foundation. His current responsibility in the organisation is for the South African business.

After completing an Honours degree in Psychology at Rhodes University in 1998, Josh started what would be a long career in the Project Management Consulting Industry. Working with Deloitte’s, The X-Pert Group, Business Connexion as well as for himself over a period of 12 years he spent time leading large, complex business transformation programmes as well as implementing project management best practice in the public and private sector. As a facilitator during that time also amassed a wealth of experience in group process, helping more than 40 organisations in the areas of employee and stakeholder engagement, strategy development and translation as well as personal development. This work eventually led to an introduction to the Legitimate Leadership Model in 2012.

Josh grew up with one foot in Gauteng and the other in the Eastern Cape, which is where he now resides. He lives in a small coastal village on the east coast outside of East London with his wife Sally and two children, Neve and Jack. The whole family enjoy an active outdoor life, spending lots of time in the bush on running and mountain biking trails.