Didi Sekoko-Biorn

Franklin Covey Assessment & Training Specialist

Didi is a BOTA accredited facilitator for Professional and Personal Development, including Crisis Intervention, Change Management, Emotional Intelligence, Conflict Resolution, Customer Relations, Trauma and Psychological First Aid. In conjunction with this, Didi is now in her forth year facilitating the annual Strategic Leadership Program (SLP) run through the Botswana Police College. This is a 10-week training initiated for Senior Police and Military Officers from various African countries. Her role in the 4 years has been on “up-skilling” senior officers on issues of self-care and healthy coping mechanisms for the stressful environments they work in.

Didi is also a Franklin Covey Facilitator for 7 Habits of Highly Effective People and 5 Choices to Extraordinary Productivity. She has enjoyed the immense growth and awareness that emanated from facilitating these programs.

Didi is a licensed Clinical Psychologist in private practice and the Managing Director of Psychological Wellness Clinic Pty (Ltd), a local company whose mission is to extend psychological services to individuals at their workplace to enable organizations to thrive.  Didi holds a Masters in Clinical Psychology degree from the University of South Dakota (U.S.A.) and is currently expecting to graduate with her PhD from the same institution in December 2013. Didi completed a doctoral internship at the New Mexico VA Hospital serving combat veterans (WWII, Desert Storm, Iraq, and Afghanistan Wars) providing psychotherapy, neuropsychology assessments, and conducted groups for relaxation, DBT skills training, relapse prevention and interpersonal skills training. While at the University of New Mexico Hospital she was part of the team attending to all trauma patients. These included responding to suicide & homicidal attempts, over dose on substances (drugs & medications) and mentalstate assessments for releasing inpatients diagnosed with psychological issues. 

She also has extensive experience in providing psychosocial support to first responders (Fire fighters, Humanitarian volunteers, Police Officers, Military Personnel, and MRI) and those in crisis or affected by disasters, and as such, was among the humanitarian workers responding to the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks in New York among other disasters. Her areas of expertise include psychological first aid and disaster response, family and youth counseling, as well as crisis intervention and trauma response.