Dave Pinchuck is an educational psychologist working in private practice. He started his working career as a teacher-counsellor and history teacher at SA College High School (SACS) in Cape Town, where he spent 7 years. During this time, he took off a year to study for an M.Sc. degree in educational psychology in the UK. After SACS, he spent 4 years as a lecturer in educational psychology at Barkly House Teachers’ College in Cape Town, which trained preschool teachers. This was followed by an internship in educational psychology at the University of the Western Cape. After the internship, he spent 8 years as a school psychologist at the Mitchells Plain School Clinic, which served over 50 schools in the Mitchells Plain area, working in a team under the Western Cape Education Department, which provided psychological and educational support to students attending all the schools in the area (primary, high and special needs schools). After this, he spent 7 years as principal at the Athlone School Clinic, which offered similar services to over 95 schools, in what is now part of the Central District of Western Cape Education Department. At both school clinics, he was part of a team which offered six-month courses titled “Basic Counselling Skills for Teachers” to primary, high school teachers as well as school secretaries in these areas. Since numbers for each course were limited in order to maximise the learning experience for each individual, there were always waiting lists. Dave Pinchuck took early retirement in 2004 and has been working in private practice since that time. Later, he offered a similar, but abbreviated course in basic counselling skills as part of a series of workshops on teacher wellbeing offered by a colleague at UWC between 2009 and 2011.

Kevin Johnston is currently an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Information Systems at the University of Cape Town. His main areas of research are IT strategy and management, IT educational issues, social and networking systems, emerging technology, and entrepreneurship. Before becoming an academic, Kevin gained extensive experience in IT and management over 24 years, working for companies such as De Beers, Liberty Life, Legal & General and BoE. Kevin is also a visiting professor at the University of Pforzheim in Germany, and head of the Yellow Boabob Institute of Leadership.