Alex Van den Heever, Author at Tracking Success

About Alex Van den Heever

Alex worked and lived at Londolozi Game Reserve for 27 years as the head guide and environmental manager. He became the youngest person ever to qualify as a Senior Wildlife Tracker in South Africa and is a director and shareholder of EcoTraining, South Africa’s largest environmental training company, as well as the co-founder of Tracker Academy – an international award-winning NGO that trains indigenous wildlife trackers.

A Tracker’s Approach to Risk

A Tracker’s Approach to Risk

By Alex Van den Heever|2025-02-26T11:14:18+00:00February 26, 2025|Decision making, Leadership, Mastery|

Risk is real. It’s immediate. It decides in an instant who makes it home and who doesn’t. Risk must be mastered, or it will master you.

Focus and Diffuse Thinking

Focus and Diffuse Thinking

By Alex Van den Heever|2024-10-02T08:40:18+00:00October 2, 2024|Decision making, Leadership, Mastery, Trust|

Leaders who balance focused and diffuse thinking can effectively address two significant priorities: it improves their understanding of the technical details and connects those details to the bigger picture. Both are critical for making better decisions.

What is Tracking?

What is Tracking?

By Alex Van den Heever|2024-09-26T10:02:02+00:00September 26, 2024|Decision making, Leadership, Mastery, Trust|

African animal tracking is an ancient skill rooted in the survival strategies of early hunter-gatherer societies. These skills, refined over millennia, enabled early humans to thrive in challenging environments.