Margaret Fourie

The Revd Margaret Fourie is a retired priest in the Anglican church, now serving the chapelry of St Patrick-on-the-Hill in Hogsback, a mountain retreat in the Eastern Cape of South Africa.  She is also qualified as a Coactive Coach, affiliated to the International Coaching Federation and has clients in various parts of the country.

Before her ordination in 1994, she ran a consultancy offering training in communications, assertiveness, creative thinking, motivation and management for companies and individuals throughout South Africa after some years as a teacher and 25 years in management positions in business and industry   She is also in demand as a speaker at various seminars and meetings on business, professional and social occasions.

She has a degree in theology from the University of South Africa, a teaching diploma from the University of Cape Town and is a Certificated Associate of the Institute of Bankers in South Africa.  She served as Chairperson of the Board of Trustees of the Trauma Centre for Survivors of Violence and Torture, is Chairperson of the Board of Directors of H.O.P.E Africa and as a trustee of various charitable Trusts.  She was also Chaplain of St John Ambulance in Cape Town.