When people meet Magriet Mouton, they quickly realize she isn’t your typical business leader. As Director and co-founder of the Being Human Group™ (BHG), Magriet’s influence reaches far beyond boardrooms and balance sheets. Her real work is deeply human: guiding women across Africa to rediscover their confidence, their strengths, and—most importantly—their true sense of self.
A Journey Shaped by Real Life, Not Textbooks
Magriet’s path to leadership wasn’t paved with academic titles or corporate ladders. Instead, it was shaped by real life challenges, her background in HR and L&D, and a calling to help others. Having faced her own battles with self-doubt and feeling unseen, Magriet brings a rare empathy to her work. Her greatest qualifications aren’t found on paper—they’re in her story, her values, and the countless women she’s helped to step into leadership with clarity and courage.
Building the Being Human Group™ on Heart and Honesty
From day one, Magriet has focused on building an organization that feels more like a community than a company. At BHG, she’s created a culture where every person’s uniqueness is not only acknowledged, but celebrated. Whether she’s coaching a manager, facilitating a workshop, or simply listening, Magriet’s approach is always the same: deeply human, strengths-focused, and practical.
Her signature program, Elevate Your Leadership Confidence, is designed especially for women who feel stuck or overlooked—women who want to stop playing small and start leading from a place of authenticity. Through workshops and coaching, Magriet helps women break free from self-judgment and claim their space as leaders.
Leading with Empathy and Purpose
Magriet’s leadership style is anything but top-down. She believes in meeting people where they are, listening before leading, and creating a space where vulnerability and ambition can exist side by side. Colleagues and clients describe her as a catalyst for growth—a mentor who doesn’t just teach leadership, but lives it through her actions and relationships.
Turning Struggle into Strength
Magriet knows firsthand how hard it is to overcome self-doubt. That’s why she’s made it her mission to walk alongside other women as they do the same. She doesn’t shy away from the tough conversations—whether about burnout, boundaries, or the cost of always putting others first. Instead, she uses her own journey to show others that real leadership isn’t about pretending to have it all together. It’s about being willing to do the inner work and then bringing your whole self to the table.
A Legacy of Empowered Women
If you ask Magriet what she’s most proud of, she won’t list awards or revenue targets. Instead, she’ll talk about the moments when a client sets a new boundary, finds her voice in a meeting, or finally believes she’s worthy of her role. These are the victories that matter—and they’re happening every day, all over Africa, because of Magriet’s unwavering belief in the power of women.
Her vision for BHG is simple: a future where women lead with confidence and heart, shaping organizations, communities, and families for the better.
Magriet was recently named a finalist for the Woman of Stature Awards in South Africa.
The Turning Point: From Self-Doubt to Self-Respect
Magriet’s own awakening was the trigger for her profound commitment to empowering others. Even after years working in HR, recruitment, project management, and business development—careers where she expertly checked all the professional boxes—she felt a profound sense of being judged and unseen by herself. Magriet knows that for so many, particularly women, this internal voice of self-doubt can be stifling and paralyzing.
It was the breakthrough moment when she tried coaching for the first time, a moment that gave her permission to stop being so self-critical. This change gave her an epiphany: leadership isn’t just about performance—it’s about identity. This awareness became the launching pad for the Being Women™ program within BHG, which focuses on assisting women to move from self-doubt to self-respect in order to lead from a sense of inner freedom.
A Future Grounded in Humanity and Strengths-Based Development
By the use of the Being Women™ program, Magriet and her team are deeply committed to building a future based on leadership in humanity. Strengths-based development is emphasized as they unleash human potential in Africa—a continent where innovation typically greets complexity.
Magriet is convinced that when leaders know who they are, what they contribute, and how to create successful teams, the effect transcends merely making companies better. It elevates entire systems, from families through communities to bigger systems. She is convinced that the future of Africa will be determined by leaders who are empowered and empowering, people who not only change their organizations but make lasting positive difference in society.
At BHG, innovation isn’t merely a matter of embracing the newest technologies or tools; it’s about blending science-based resources such as Gallup’s CliftonStrengths© with human-focused coaching. With digital assessments and tailored leadership programs, BHG provides scalable solutions that drive change across teams and organizations. Their solution blends data with a human touch—leveraging actual conversations to support clients on their transformative learning journeys. This dedication to genuine, substantive conversations has enabled BHG to develop long-term partnerships with corporate partners and thought leaders throughout Africa and the world.
Conquering Internal Obstacles: A Path to Individual Liberty
Magriet’s path to empowerment wasn’t easy. Her greatest challenge was within: silencing the voice of self-criticism that relentlessly reminded her she wasn’t good enough, regardless of effort. Ironically, this inner conflict coincided with the timing of her career success. She defeated it by doing the inner work that she now teaches others to do—discovering how to rewrite the narrative she told herself and creating an identity based in truth and kindness.
This change didn’t only make Magriet a more effective leader; it freed her to step into her full potential. This inner change also gave her the wisdom to co-create the models employed at BHG to assist others in rewriting their own inner stories. Through leadership development and coaching, BHG assists people in stepping into their power, creating ripples that spread beyond personal achievement. When a woman is a confident leader, she does not only lift herself up—she mentors and inspires others to follow suit.
Developing Human Capacity and Empowering Women to Lead
At the center of all BHG does is an emphasis on developing human capacity. Through their leadership and coaching programs, the staff empowers individuals to see their strengths and assume leadership with confidence. This, in turn, results in improved engagement, improved decision making, and greater productivity, ultimately stimulating economic growth.
BHG works with teams, too, to construct purpose-centric cultures that drive real care and connection, combat burnout, and create cultures where people wish to remain, develop, and flourish. Such systemic changes do more than create improved business performance—these make whole ecosystems better, driving permanent transformation in communities and societies worldwide.
Magriet’s Legacy: Empowering Women to Lead Authentically
Magriet’s legacy is founded on assisting women in stepping back into themselves and leading from a place of genuineness. She wishes to be known as a person who made it safe for women to cease apologizing for who they are and begin creating their own definitions of success. Her contribution is all about making waves that will go on to ripple across boardrooms, classrooms, and living rooms, where other women will believe, “I am enough. I belong here. I lead in my own way.”
Magriet urges women to own their stories and boldly take action when they don’t feel “ready.” She speaks to them remembering that clarity will come through acknowledging the reality and then taking action, that it’s so important to maintain connection to what one is for while being with people who like the best things about them. She implores women to not downplay the power of their own singular voices, fire, and path to leading. Africa, she feels, requires those voices to lead resoundingly, and women must never think they have to lead like everyone else in order to have an effect.
Redefining Leadership: A Call for Change
Changing leadership as it is meant and rewarded is one of Magriet’s principal objectives. She feels leadership must not merely be regarded as a role of power or authority but as a style of being. At BHG, they’ve labored to flip this script—growing leaders who lead with clarity, compassion, and conviction, not just authority. By instilling this type of leadership mentality across sectors, she believes she can foster more inclusive growth, decrease burnout, and tap new heights of innovation.
Her personal mantra, “Don’t outsource your worth,” revolutionized her life, and it is now at the core of the work at BHG. Real leadership starts when people no longer need permission to be of worth—because they already are.
Magriet’s work is all about enabling individuals and organizations to lead with authenticity and purpose, and her vision for the future is one of inclusive, empowered leadership that elevates all those it touches.