Dawie and Chrisna Fourie - founders
Dawie is a Chartered Accountant who managed PricewaterhouseCoopers (“PwC”) for many years. At 
PwC he had more than 200 professional staff members and was a member of the Southern African governing board representing more than 4500 staff members. Under his leadership, by God’s grace, PwC went through a period of tremendous growth, influence and impact in Namibia.
He subsequently established the African Leadership Institute (“ALI”) and acted as general overseer of the Transformation process in Namibia: a process that aims to unite government, business and church leaders to join hands to address the real needs in the country and continent. Dawie has a passion for leadership and the Namibian dream which, through God’s grace, will result in Namibia being a place where God’s glory will shine from North to South and from East to West – Where Namibia will be a blessing for the rest of Africa.
Chrisna Fourie (von Gericke) is a medical doctor and managing director of Turn the Tide (“TTT”) in Namibia. TTT is an interdenominational ministry which serves the church by supplying tools and training materials that aid the process of making disciples and developing leaders. TTT is also instrumental in various HIV/Aids projects like the roll out of “God’s answer to Aids” and “In Your Face”. Chrisna has a passion to see people develop to their full potential and to see the local church prosper.
Chrisna and Dawie are the co-owners of The Rock Lodge (www.rock.lodge.na) – a Christian seminar centre on a game farm outside Okahandja. They have organized more than 250 seminars in the last 15 years and presented discipleship, leadership, financial freedom, parenting and marriage seminars all over Namibia as well as in South Africa.
They have been happily married for twenty-one years and have three godly sons. Together they are instrumental in breaking the passivity and in bringing reconciliation in many areas of society. They are committed to finish the work for which God had called them.
In the process of establishing the Rock Lodge and being directly involved in more than 250 Christian seminars since 1996, they were also able to build wonderful relationships with government, business and church leaders from different cultural backgrounds. Many of these highly influential leaders now form part of the ALI Board and Faculty members. Besides the Board and more than 40 faculty members, the Institute is run by a small but highly skilled and committed group of people.