Chandu Bickford is a wholistic business mentor, educator, group leader and coach who has been teaching, mentoring and running Businesses for almost two decades.
A passionate and inspiring speaker, poet, writer and facilitator, Chandu’s areas of expertise include courageous communication, customer service, self-enquiry and how to harness our intuition and creativity to help us thrive. She assists groups and individuals to find clarity; develop courage and to create sustainable change in their work and life.
Chandu spent over a decade in East Africa. It was while living in a remote village in a mud hut, without running water, electricity or phone, she began to understand how business can provide opportunities for anyone willing to try. Chandu’s first foray into business was creating a fair-trade enterprise to support local African families who had limited access to good education, health care or income generating opportunities.
Chandu is pragmatic, passionate and purposeful. Her love of entrepreneurship led her into the education sector where she trained others in business and leadership for almost two decades. In her diverse business life, she has also been a professional storyteller, performer and cultural educator, as well as a project manager of inspirational Leadership Programs for high school students and the disability sector.
Chandu is s sought after mentor, speaker and facilitator and designs, develops and delivers specialist training programs to assist professional men and women, NGO’s and SME’s through times of personal and professional transition and change.