About Us

Who are We?

KZN Business Training Centre  is a SETA accredited training provider that has specialised in training business owners, leaders, managers and corporate staff for over 30 years. We offer a broad range of different one, two and three‑day courses.

KZN Business Training Centre is owned by Nikki Pears and managed by Nikki and her husband, Ian.

Nikki has a background in Management in the Personnel Recruitment industry whilst Ian has a legal and very diverse business background, most recently as Managing Director of Yamaha Distributors, Southern Africa and an Executive Director of McCarthy Limited.

All lecturers and facilitators are successful business owners and experienced professionals in their specific fields. They are passionate about sharing their expertise and developing relevant business skills in today's dynamic environ­ment.

Our Values

• Accountability — we accept responsibility for our actions and our mistakes

• Honesty — we honour our commitments
• Integrity — we are always consistent and single‑minded in living our values

• Passion — we are dedicated to, and enthusiastic about, everything we do
• Respect — we demonstrate positive esteem towards our customers, stake­holders and environ­ment
• Transparency — what you see is what you get


• Humour — we work hard, enjoy what we do, and laugh a lot

Our Vision

• To provide unrivalled Service Excellence
• To be innovative, efficient, approachable and professional
• To be the service provider of first resort in the markets we serve
• To be respected by our staff and suppliers as fair, reasonable and honourable
• To contribute positively to the performance and success of the people and organisations we serve

Our Mission

To provide employers and aspirant individuals with high‑quality business and related skills develop­ment training, through scheduled public courses and exclusive, in‑house inter­ventions.

Our Services

KZN Business Training Centre  offers public courses at select locations in Kwa-Zulu Natal according to a pre‑determined schedule. This allows companies with specific, small volume training requirements to train their staff cost‑effectively.

In addition to these “Public Courses”, we offer all our courses on an “exclusive basis”, either at our facility or “in‑house” at client premises anywhere in South Africa, or even beyond our borders. This type of inter­vention is increasingly cost‑effective in relation to the number of dele­gates trained. When training an exclusive group, we try to gather as much relevant information from the client as possible in order to focus on those modules of the programme most pertinent to their needs.

The Covid-19 pandemic has allowed us to broaden our offering to include live “e-Training” over a range of platforms which we also do in combination with face-to-face classes.

We can and often do “realign and develop” material to specific needs by combining elements and modules from a range of courses.

Our courses are practical and highly interactive, with an emphasis on application rather than purely theoretical knowledge. Case studies are extensively used to convey the learning content and delegates are encouraged to partici­pate in group discussions.

SETA Accreditation

KZN Business Training Centre is accredited by the Services Seta (Decision Number 0351) as a training provider.

We offer a range of courses that are:-
·        Accredited, or
·        Non-Credit bearing although aligned to unit standards, or
·        Non-Credit bearing, designed to cater for specific needs but do not not lend themselves to accreditation