A mastermind for life coaches · 6 places
The Coach's Path Mastermind
With Nomveliso Mbanga, Indigenous Identity Strategist™
Before you plan 2027, find out where your coaching business really stands, and build a practice with a solid structure, rooted in who you are.
A small mastermind for six life coaches who want a completely different 2027. Six weeks to ground your practice before the holidays, then a January push to put your plan into action.
Turn the pages to read about the programme. The application is on the last page. Applications close on Saturday 24 October 2026.
Is this for you?
This room is for you if:
- You've been coaching for a while and have worked with clients, but you're not sure where your business really stands.
- You sound generic, "just a coach", and you want to be known for something that is yours.
- You coach many topics and suspect you need a niche, or you have one but still sell single sessions.
- You've read The Business of Coaching in Africa and want to apply it to your own business.
- You want a completely different 2027 in your coaching practice, with a solid structure for how you work.
- You're willing to read, reflect, be questioned, and learn from five other coaches.
This isn't for you if
- You want quick tips or a business plan template.
- You're not open to personal questions about why you coach the way you do.
- You're not ready to learn from other people in the room.
- You haven't started working with clients yet.
The approach
Three elements, one practice
Every session works across the three parts of a coaching practice that lasts.
You, the person
Your roots, your story, your identity and what you bring into the room. Your practice starts here.
Your coaching
Your methodology and philosophy: how you work with clients, what you believe about change, and the signature programme that comes from it.
Your business
Your niche, pricing, offers, visibility and plan, so your work can sustain you.
Each session combines teaching and reflection with hot seats, where one coach brings their practice to the group to be questioned, challenged and helped.
How it runs
Two parts, nine live sessions
Part 1: GroundWednesdays, 28 Oct to 2 Dec 2026
- Roots: who you are as a coach, and what your family taught you about work, money and being seen
- Where you really are: the six stages of the Coach's Path
- Your niche
- Your method
- Your signature programme in outline, and a pricing methodology to price it with confidence
- Your 2027 plan
Every coach gets a full hot seat.
DecemberRest and reflect
No sessions. Live with your plan over the holidays and notice what surfaces.
Part 2: PushTask opens Fri 8 Jan; Tuesdays 12, 19 and 26 Jan 2027
- Return: what the holidays revealed, and your first-quarter offers, priced and ready to sell
- Your visibility and enrolment plan
- Your first 90-day test, accountability partners and your next step
What you leave with
Your 2027 Coach's Path Plan
- Your stage, niche statement, and your method and signature programme in outline.
- A clear way to price your work, your offers and income targets, and a quarter-by-quarter plan.
- Your first 90-day test underway, with an accountability partner.
- Templates, tools and insights throughout: worksheets, planning templates and pricing tools, yours to keep.
Your investment
R8,500
| Once-off, on acceptance | R8,500 |
| Or three payments: October (on acceptance) | R2,850 |
| By 30 November | R2,850 |
| By 15 December | R2,800 |
Fully paid before the January sessions. If you continue into my 2027 mastermind, Signature Coaching Programme by Design™, your R8,500 is credited toward it.
About me
Nomveliso Mbanga
Everything I do is rooted in an indigenous framework. My methodology and philosophy start from cultural identity: who you are, where you come from, and what your family and community taught you. That's why I call myself an Indigenous Identity Strategist™.
I used almost thirty years of experience with young people, families and communities to create my own niche, and since 2015 I've worked in it formally through Mayine Development Institute. I turned my way of working into the Nomveliso Mbanga Teencoaching™ methodology, had it ICF-accredited, and built a certification programme from it. Today it's a full business ecosystem: certification programmes, licensed associate coaches, trademarks in four countries, more than twenty camps and retreats, the Indigenously Rising podcast and my handbook, The Business of Coaching in Africa.
The gifts I bring into the room
How things link: childhood patterns that shape business decisions, or a niche hiding in your stories all along.
The fear or old wound beneath a behaviour, named with compassion and good timing.
I don't run away from the core questions.
Intuition guides where I look, and I test it against structure and evidence.
I arrive just as people are about to grow.
I help you birth what you've been carrying, so it can grow beyond you.
"I'm not teaching you theory. I'm showing you a map I've walked."
Apply for one of six places
- Complete the online application. It takes about 15 minutes.
- If we're a good fit, I'll invite you to a brief readiness conversation.
- Once accepted, choose your payment option, and your place is confirmed.
Applications close on Saturday 24 October 2026.
Start my applicationThe application opens in a new tab. Questions? Email nomve@nomvelisombanga.com

