GIBS Spokespeople Abdullah Verachia

Abdullah serves as the CEO of The has relevance and application to companies Area of expertise Strategists where he plays an active role and organisations around the world. Strategy and in assisting companies and organisations innovation craft competitive future strategies. He He holds a Bachelors in Law and a Masters has significant expertise in strategy, in Management (cum laude). He has Emerging markets; dynamic competitiveness and sector trends and also completed executive programmes on strategy and shared value and also capabilities, facilitates a number of high level strategy adapting in sessions and breakaways for companies on Competitiveness, with Professor changing context and governments and also speaks globally Michael Porter’s Institute of Strategy and Compettiveness, at Harvard Business Strategic foresight in this area. He led the team that crafted and scenario the 2017 - 2030 Gauteng Economic School. He also completed an executive planning Development Strategy with the Premier programme at University of Oxford’s Said Business School as well as an executive Youth development and Executive Council. He also led the and engagement 2017 Mauritius Competitiveness foresight programme on broadcast technology at strategy, He also plays a lead role on the Columbia Business School. Oxford University and Gates Foundation He has presented around the world programme on South Africa in a Digital Age. to leading listed firms, international Having presented and consulted in organisations and governments including over 60 cities globally Abdullah has in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzen, Mumbai, been recognised as a leading speaker, Bangalore, Delhi, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, disruptor, strategist and thought leader on Hong Kong, Accra, Dar Es Salaam, Nairobi, competitiveness and the interplay between Frankfurt, Munich, Copenhagen, Madrid, strategy and disruptive innovation. His Paris.London and New York. He has been experience make him a sought after global asked to present at some of the world’s speaker in these areas. In December 2017 leading institutions including the School of Abdullah received a standing ovation at Public and International Affairs at Colombia the acclaimed TEDx Euston in London. University in New York, Tedx Euston, the Abdullah was also asked to be the keynote OECD in Paris and Casa Asia in Madrid speaker at the 2018 World Speech Day. amongst others.

Abdullah has built a number of disruptive and truly innovative companies. He is thus able to fuse experience, insight, strategy and expertise into a beautiful tapestry that Prof Adrian Saville

Adrian Saville’s qualifications include a School of Business, Kelley School of Area of expertise Bachelor of Arts (Honours) (cum laude), Business, Rotterdam School of Management Economics M.Com (cum laude) and PhD (Economics), and the Estonian Business School. He has which he completed at the University of held a Professorship of Economics, Finance Finance Natal in 1997 and for which he was awarded & Strategy at the Gordon Institute of Strategy the Economics Society of South Africa’s Business Science (GIBS) since 2003, where Founders Medal. He is a UNESCO laureate he teaches in the fields of macroeconomics, and a matriculant of Linacre College investment finance and strategy. Adrian (Oxford). He has completed programmes has received the Excellence in Teaching in value investing and competitive strategy Award at GIBS one ten occasions since at New York’s Columbia University and 2007. Harvard Business School in Boston. In 2012, he was nominated for the In 1994, while completing his doctorate in Economist Intelligence Unit’s Business economics, Adrian formed an investment Professor of the Year Award and in 2014 vehicle which became the forerunner to he received the Central and East European Cannon Asset Managers which he founded Management Development Association in 1998. In 2017 Bidvest Financial Services award in teaching excellence. Adrian’s acquired Cannon Asset Managers. Today successful career has encompassed Adrian serves as Chief Executive at Cannon consulting widely to government and the Asset Managers. corporate world, including serving as an economic consultant to Visa South Africa. Adrian has experience in managing all the He has presented to global audiences in major asset classes and has successfully many destinations, including Botswana, combined teaching and business, Brazil, Chile, Estonia, France, India, Japan, having lectured at the University of the Germany, Ghana, Kenya, Netherlands, Witwatersrand, the University of KwaZulu- Nigeria, Singapore, United Kington, United Natal, the University of Pretoria, London States, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Marius Oosthuizen

​Marius Oosthuizen is a member of faculty using his expertise in stakeholder dialogue, Area of expertise at the Gordon Institute of Business scenario planning, strategic foresight Senior leadership Science, University of Pretoria, South and systems thinking to create future- development Africa. He teaches leadership, strategy orientated strategy. He is a member of and ethics, and heads up the Future the Advisory Council of the Association Integration of ethics and strategy of Business Project that uses strategic of Professional Futurists and recent foresight methods to explore the future of participant in the London-based School of Socio-political South Africa, Africa and BRICS. International Futures, as well as a recent and socio- contributor to the European Strategy and economic context, Marius is a previous participant of the environment of Policy System, the foresight think tank of business Oxford Scenarios Programme at Saïd the European Parliament. Business School, University of Oxford, Long-term national, UK. He holds a Masters in Strategic In his capacity as a consultant, Marius has regional and global futures Foresight from Regent University, Virginia worked within the following sectors; IT, Beach, USA. He is currently writing a PhD financial services, insurance, agriculture, proposal on Integrative Public Leadership manufacturing (chemicals), warehousing and completing a Masters in Applied Social and logistics, oil and gas, international and Political Ethics. relations, social development, tourism, city and regional planning and mining Marius has worked with business leaders, engineering. policy makers and civil society activists Prof Nick Binedell

Nick Binedell is the Founding Director and with leading South African corporates Area of expertise Sasol Chair of Strategic Management of and providing a high level of local and Strategy the Gordon Institute of Business Science, international business education. It was a Business School situated in Illovo, recently ranked as one of the top 40 global Strategic leadership Johannesburg and established in January executive education providers by the Globalisation 2000, by the University of Pretoria. London Financial Times. Emerging markets After an initial career in the industry in the Nick is a determined traveller and explorer. Mining and Manufacturing sectors in sales His earlier roots included extensive travel Socio political and economic and general management in the Barlow and by the time he was ten he had lived in forces shaping Rand Group, Nick has focused his career for Zimbabwe, Germany, Yemen, Kenya, South the business the past 20 years in the area of business Africa and Britain. He has spent five years environment education. in the United States and in the past three years has travelled to Sydney, Shanghai, In 1998 he was invited to establish a new Dubai, Prague, Budapest, Lagos as well as business school focused on meeting the European and American cities. individual and corporate needs of business in South Africa. His area of expertise is in the field of business strategy formulation and his The school has rapidly established itself academic and consulting work, although as a leading business school in South dominantly in South Africa, includes work in Africa with a strong focus on partnering the United States, Europe and Australia. Rabbi Gideon Pogrund

Rabbi Gideon Pogrund founded and to corporations, helping them to improve Area of expertise directs the GIBS Ethics and Governance their ethics management, and his clients Ethics and Think Tank. Working with senior business, include the Johannesburg Stock Exchange sustainability government and civil society leaders, (JSE), Sanlam, Liberty, Discovery, the South the Think Tank’s purpose is to influence African Institute of Chartered Accountants Governance and encourage South African business (SAICA) and Google. to follow a more ethical approach and thereby help secure a more successful, He has contributed articles and been sustainable future for the business interviewed in various media outlets, community and the country. including Business Day, the Financial Mail, the South African Broadcasting Corporation He established the Ethics Barometer for (SABC), Finweek, Carte Blanche, CNBC South African business, applying a Harvard Africa and Thomson Reuters. He is a Business School (HBS) research instrument member of the Council of Elders of the and engaging with over 8.000 employees Institute of Stakeholder Relations Southern from 15 of SA’s leading companies. Africa (ISRSA).

He has spoken at international business He holds a MA from Trinity College, schools such as HEC Paris, Baruch College Cambridge University. in New York and Nottingham Business School and participated in international The Association to Advance Collegiate leadership forums including the World Schools of Business (AACSB), a network of Economic Forum (WEF) Partnering Against over 800 business schools from across the Corruption Initiative (PACI). He consults globe, has named the Think Tank as one of its Innovations that Inspire. Prof Gavin Price

Prof Price is an admitted attorney and has knowledge through his work in the property Area of expertise also worked as a corporate legal advisor development, retail and motor industries. Persuasion and in the property development industry Prof Price has travelled extensively (over Influence before joining the banking and finance 60 countries) and, as such, has developed a industry. In the banking industry, he was broad understanding of cultural diversity as Decision-making​ the legal manager and chief mediator for it applies to a multitude of business facets. Leadership the industry’s ombudsman before joining Stannic (Standard Bank) as their head of Gavin is the Chairman of the GIBS Research Ethics legal, compliance and operational risk. Ethics Committee and GIBS Evaluations and He was also a member of their executive Assessments Committee, a member of the committee. In addition to his expertise UP Senate Committee for Research Ethics in the banking and finance industry, Prof and Integrity and the GIBS Admissions Price has considerable experience and Panel. He is also Lead faculty for the Leadership Course on the GIBS MBA. Dr Jonathan Marks

Jonathan Marks holds a Master’s in He has taught entrepreneurship, business Area of expertise Business Administration (MBA) degree planning, new venture planning, innovation, Entrepreneurship​ from the University of Cape Town’s corporate innovation and entrepreneurship Graduate School of Business, as well as and entrepreneurial thinking at the Entrepreneurial a Doctorate in Philosophy, focused on University of Cape Town for the past twelve thinking entrepreneurship, from the University of years. His teaching and research have small business Cape Town’s faculty of engineering and the crossed a range of disciplines including development built environment. Dr Marks was founding commerce, science, engineering and Entrepreneurship director of the Raymond Ackerman humanities, and has included over 1 000 education Academy of Entrepreneurial Development student projects and business plan projects. (located at UCT) and was responsible for Corporate entrepreneurial knowledge management at entrepreneurship the Allan Gray Orbis Foundation. Family business Steven Zwane

Steven Zwane’s work experience has been and business on numerous youth Area of expertise in the areas of Technology; Operations; development programmes including Entrepreneurship​ Sales & Marketing; Human Resources; life skills and mentorship (Accenture Strategy Planning, Formulation and South Africa, First National Bank), Junior Strategy planning Execution; Performance Management & Achievement’s MEP, Youth Leadership & execution Reporting; and Channel Management across and Entrepreneurship Development Operations industries such as Education & Training, programmes and Wits Business School’s management Financial Services and Management New Venture Creation Programmes Consulting. He has held Leadership, aimed at various school going youth. He Management and Directorship positions transitioned into mainstream lecturing in in the mentioned industries, more recently 2012 with a stint in the Milpark Business with Barclays Africa Group before assuming School Certificate in Management the CEO role at the National Student Development (2012, 2013); Wits Business Financial Aid Scheme. His over fifteen years School/BANKSETA’s International Financial Services experience has cut across Development Programme (2014, 2015); Retail Banking, Private Banking, Business and Wits Business Schools’ Management Banking & Insurance and Development Accelerated Programme (2014). Financing. He is currently a full-time executive that takes up consulting, training Steven Zwane serves in the Canon and teaching assignments. Additionally, Collins Trust Alumni as one of the as the Founder and Chairperson of the founding members and at YLED non- award-winning Youth Leadership & profit organisation as the Chairperson. Entrepreneurship Development (YLED) He previously served in the Board of non-profit organisation he guides and the Institute of Bankers, and he is also provides oversight on the running of the a member of the Sector Skills Plan sub- organisation’s programmes. committee at Bankseta. Mr. Zwane has also acted as a judge for South Africa’s premier Since 2004, he has been a resident Travel and Tourism Awards, the Lilizela facilitator / lecturer on a part time basis in Awards, for three years (2013 to 2015). the field of leadership, entrepreneurship Silas Matlala

Silas Matlala’s career started off in the out Nairobi Kenya. This has further given Area of expertise Customer Insights area with Nielsen SA, him exposure to markets and businesses Marketing and then morphed into classical Marketing. in Telecommunications, Financial Services, He was a Customer Insights Manager at Retail and Manufacturing. Customer Centricity Colgate-Palmolive, Head of Research and Sales Planning at Kellogg’s, and Group Research Silas co-founded, and continues to Head for Tiger Brands. He was a brand run, a township-based hospitality and Business manager for the Kellogg’s kids’ portfolio, entertainment establishment – DKN. Development Category Marketing manager for the Tastic Silas joined GIBS in 2013 as Adjunct faculty. Research and Rice division of Tiger Brands, and then later He teaches and facilitates across multiple Customer Insights Head of Marketing for the multi-category disciplines; covering Strategic Marketing, Tiger Brand’s Home Care portfolio. His Customer Centricity, Entrepreneurship, last corporate gig was being a Marketing Business Development and Sales, within Executive, for Nedbank Insurance. both the Academic and Executive As the founder of The Khanyisile Center, Education areas. He has also been a coach, a strategic marketing consultancy service mentor, and adjudicator on the GIBS’ organisation – Silas continues to consult Entrepreneurship Development Academy. for a clientele that spans across Research With 22 years of multi-categories, multiple agencies, Marketing & Communication countries, corporate and entrepreneurial agencies, FinTech, FMCG, and Resources. experience, Silas brings in a rich and diverse He is currently involved with BrandQuad, a wealth of practical experience, which he marketing and training company operating uses to enhance his teaching, facilitation and coaching. Dr Dorothy Ndletyana

Dr Dorothy Ndletyana, a Fulbright Scholar, professional services, financial and not- Area of expertise is a Lecturer at GIBS. Her teaching for-profit sectors. She is an ICF accredited Organisation interests are broadly in Organisational Associate Certified Coach and a New development Development, Leadership, Coaching and Ventures West Certified Integral Coach. & transformation Talent Management. Dorothy led Standard Chartered Bank’s Leadership Dorothy is the Director of Ndletyana Learning function across 15 African (self & others) Learning, an Integral Learning & countries. Prior to this she was responsible Employee Development company, that offers the for Learning & Talent Management engagement following services: Integral Coaching; at FirstRand’s Corporate Centre and & wellbeing Design, Development, & Facilitation of Leadership Development for the FirstRand Diversity deeply transformative interventions Group. She served Deloitte for nine years, & inclusion and Talent Management Advisory. Their both as Head of Learning in South Africa Developing learning clients include: Fraser Alexander, Tarsus and Global Learning Manager at Deloitte organisations Technology Group, Discovery Invest, Touche Tohmatsu in New York. While Oxfam South Africa, City of Tswane, there, she worked across 16 European Learning strategy development UNISA, UCT GSB. countries. She is excellent at creating interventions that enable people and Learning Dorothy has 18 years’ local and organisations to thrive. programme design, international experience in the development & facilitation Strategic talent management Integral coaching (individual, in-tact teams & groups) and mentoring Enneagram coaching Prof Louise Whittaker

Prof Whittaker is an expert on strategy, She has managed a multi-disciplinary Area of expertise governance and ethics, particularly in team of academics and administrators in Critical relation to organisations and information the delivery of an academic programme interpretations systems. Governance cannot be meaningful comprising multiple postgraduate degrees of information without ethics, and both are essential to and diplomas, delivered to hundreds of systems and successful strategies and projects. students working directly with Deans and management issues Directors at senior levels at GIBS. She Qualitative research She has extensive experience and interest in has extensive experience with curriculum methodolgy qualitative and phenomenological research. design and international accreditation Phenomenology processes for business schools. As such, she has supervised 3 completed Applied ethics PhDs and over 100 MBA research reports, In summary, her specialties are information many of them in these areas, as well as systems strategy, governance, ethics and conducting her own published research, organisational effects; research supervision; and strategic consultancy work. She is an qualitative research; phenomenology; associate editor for the Information Systems applied ethics. Journal, a major international journal. Prof Helena Barnard

Prof Helena Barnard is a full professor University in Boston (August 2012), the Areas of expertise at GIBS and responsible for the GIBS COST Action Group at the European Research doctoral programme. She was on the International Business Academy in organising committee for the Academy Sussex, UK (December 2012) and at NYU Organisational of Management Africa conference at at a conference organised by Phankaj Practices GIBS in 2013, and is the Academy of Ghemawat (September 2016). Innovation International Business (AIB) Vice President for Administration for 2017 to 2020. She is From 2008 to 2010 she, together with the a 2018-2019 Dunning Fellow at the John H University of Lund (Sweden) conducted a Dunning Centre for International Business cross-national project on innovation in the at Henley Business School. automotive and ICT industries in South Africa, India and China. Helena served on She is an area editor for the newly the executive and scientific committee launched Journal of International Business of an EU-funded FP7 project on global Policy, the sister journal of the well- innovation networks (2009 – 2011). She regarded Journal of International Business also developed the proposal leading to Studies, and the deputy editor in charge Academy of Management, the leading of Africa for the journal Management professional organisation for management and Organizational Review. She is on scholars, conducting its first-ever the editorial review board of Global conference outside of North America at Strategy Journal, IEEE Transactions in GIBS in Johannesburg in January 2013. Engineering Management and Academy of Management Perspectives. She is involved with ongoing projects with the University of Strasbourg (France) and Before she started her academic career, Maastricht University (Netherlands) on she worked at Home Depot in the USA global academic collaborations and with from 1999 to 2004, first in Instructional the Oxford Internet Institute on how online Design and then in Logistics. Her first markets are changing business across career was in the field of Adult Basic borders. She is a fellow at the CEIBS Center Education and Training (ABET). for Emerging Market Studies and the DIODE network (Development Impacts of Digital Helena has been an invited speaker Economies) at Manchester University. on emerging market multinationals She has been rated as an internationally at inter alia Aalborg University in recognised scholar by the South African Denmark (February 2006), Northeastern National Research Foundation. Thomas Kgokolo

Thomas Kgokolo is the Deputy Board Committees at the National Consumer Area of expertise Chairperson at the Mineworkers Provident Tribunal and as a member of the Audit Strategic finance Fund (MWPF), a position that requires and Risk Committee at Financial Intelligent and value creation him to oversee R28 billion assets under Centre. In 2018, he joined the Air Traffic management. He is also the Chairperson Navigation Systems SOC Ltd as a Non- Corporate finance of the Audit and Risk Committee (ARC) Executive Director and was further Corporate of the fund. The two roles requires him to seconded to serve on the Audit Committee, governance oversee both internal and external audit Procurement, Research & Development Strategy and processes including the preparation and committees at the same entity. organisational submission of the provident fund’s annual improvement financial statements. Thomas is a Chartered Accountant and holds an MBA from the Gordon Institute As a Chairperson he oversees the of Business Science (GIBS). Moreover, governance, risk management and control he lectures corporate finance for MBA environment of the funds’ investments. at the same institution. Through various Moreover, he continuously work with positions as a board and audit committee external actuaries to ensure adequate member, he has oversight of private and financial risk for the fund. He serves as public entities with a combined net asset the Chairperson of the Audit and Risk value of +-R30 billion. Dr Manoj Chiba

Dr Manoj Dayal Chiba is a management to over 60 companies locally and globally, Area of expertise professional & has held senior positions with hands-on experience in over 10 African Organisational in different sectors, with a deep technical countries and serves as a non-executive structure (strategy) expertise in data and technology, director for two organisations. He also has with over 12 years of experience. This a deep passion and spends a considerable Analytics experience has allowed him to draw on time working with youth, education, and Evidenced-based the relevant understanding to exploit developing the youth in South Africa. decision-making opportunities & align strategies. His Research training, qualifications & passion for data At GIBS Manoj is a Senior Lecturer and & the intersection with technology drive Faculty member, lecturing research, Statistics his underlying philosophy for evidence- statistics, predictive analytics, digitisation, Predictive analytics based decision-making, the impact on the intersection of business, society and future of business and society. technology, artificial intelligence and lead Digitisation faculty for innovation and design. He also Some of his work includes: Data Science, supervises MBA and PhD theses in the Intersection of serving as a data scientist; building data fields of: International business strategy business, society and technology science capabilities and operationalising and structure; Data and strategy; Digital this capability sustainably within Business models; and innovation. He is Artificial organisations of different sizes; strategy also a reviewer for: European Business intelligence and structure consulting work; price- Reviewer; and South African Journal of setting strategies for organisations; market Business Management. Furthermore, he is share analysis; SME for legal cases and an external examiner for the University of innovation consulting. He has consulted Witwatersrand’s School of Governance. Dr Kerry Chipp

Dr Kerry Chipp has been a senior lecturer at GIBS for 12 years. She holds a doctorate Area of expertise from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. She has published locally and internationally, developed and taught Research Methodology for MBAs, delved into Marketing, particularly Base of Consumer Behaviour in Emerging Markets and developed and managed the MBA research the Pyramid (BoP) process. Dr Chipp has taught previously at Luleå Tekniska Universitet (LTU), Sweden (2 years), and the University of the Witwatersrand (8 years). Social marketing Concurrently Kerry runs a market research consultancy, with clients across the spectrum, Marketing metrics from private banking to the public sector. She has been heavily involved in media Consumer behavior measurement with the not for profit South African Advertising and Research Foundation (SAARF) and its successor, MRF (Market Research Foundation). One of the strengths of Marketing research her research to bring business relevance into academic research and academic rigour and insight into business problems.

Dr Chipp’s core discipline is consumer Dr Chipp is a reviewer for many journals, such as Business behaviour. South Africa, being an emerging Horizons, European Business Review, Journal of Product and Brand market has enabled her to contribute to the Management, Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing, Journal field in two main ways: first, alter narrative of Wine Research, South African Journal of Business Management, on low income consumers (termed Bottom Journal of Public Affairs; Management Dynamics, South African of the Pyramid) and emerging middle class Journal of Business Sciences, African Growth Agenda. She also consumers to view both groups holistically reviews regularly for a number of international conferences: Hawaii and deal with their challenges in marketing International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-50) 2018, one of environments. In doing so, she has lead the most reputable and influential conferences in the field of system a discussion on inequality and power sciences (http://www.hicss.org), Academy of Marketing Science (San imbalances in marketing, wherever they Diego, Canterbury, Edinburgh and Brisbane), Emerging Markets be found, which could be online, offline Conference Board (Dubai) and IIMA, Islamabad, India, (2013, 2015 and or challenging the notion of customer 2017). Dr Chipp is also a member of the Academy of Marketing Science centricity in oligopolistic markets. She (USA), and Marketing Association of South Africa MA(SA). has published on these topics in notable international journals, such as the Journal She has published two books, been interviewed as an expert on both of Business Research, European Journal of TV and radio, been active in the business press. She is called on Marketing and European Business Review. as an expert witness in court cases involving the use of marketing research data. She has supervised at three institutions: University of the Witwatersrand (2 masters degrees, 27 honours degrees), GIBS, University of Pretoria (over 100 MBA theses), Luleå Tekniska Universitet, Sweden (4 Bachelors and 16 Masters). Dr Jeff – Chen

The emerging of new business models to combine their core-competencies Area of expertise coupled with the rapid evolution of cyber- smartly and translate a few ideas into Design thinking physical technologies have drastically exponential growth. Furthermore, the reshaped the behaviours of both consumers notion of corporate innovation itself is Collective ideation and employees. The future of a business somehow slightly misleading. Considering Digital enabled environment is becoming more complex that each division within any particular workforce and fiercer. Companies of today will be organisation is given specific mandates compelled to scrutinize its corporate that typically differ from other divisions, Innovation strategy innovation capability to ensure that they and each division is led by managers with Co-opetition, can thrive in the current landscape and different leadership quality with team socio-dynamics concurrently harness a greater future members of different attributes, how can shifts, new competitiveness. However, initiating any there be a standard way of promoting business landscape, disruptions. successful corporate innovation movement corporate innovation? In addition, the within an organisation or launching a start- legacy of an organisation and the unique up is sometimes easier said than done. forces affecting the dynamics of industry within which an organisation operates, also Over the years, innovation has become impose additional challenges. a buzz word. Many managers and consultants have advocated that there is a Successful organisation must actively set of organisational practices to enhance cultivate corporate foresights, discern corporate innovation output; such as the potential gratifying concepts from creating social interaction online platforms, supposition and uphold the innovation purchasing trendy furniture, profiling a proclivity. Leaders of these organisations company into a 4x4 quadrant of a rigid may further attempt to ascertain visible theoretical model, account for obvious value return from promoting viable self- organisational practices and/or adopting disruption and embracing necessary approaches that lack holistic thinking. radical changes by getting closer to their The truth is that there is NO blueprint for customers as well as their customers’ corporate innovation. Many organisations customers. Creating purposeful vertical also confuse the notion of ideation as alignment, horizontal partnership, external strategic corporate innovation. The ventures, formal organisational practices competitiveness of an organisation does and informal organisational dynamics not rely on its ability to create influx of are just some of the crucial elements of ideas. Instead, it relies on their proclivity corporate innovation. Dr Ngao Motsei

Dr Ngao Motsei is a Pracademic, with On the academic front, Ngao serves as Area of expertise years of experience in both corporate Lecturer and Lead Faculty for the MBA Strategy and consulting. She began her corporate in Management Consulting track and the Formulation and career as Manager and assumed positions Global Executive Development Programme Implementation of greater leadership and responsibility in at the University of Pretoria’s Gordon Human Resource the Organisation and People Management Institute of Business Science (GIBS). She Management functions, culminating in being appointed was part of a team that received The Executive Director responsible for Aspen Institute’s 2016 Faculty Pioneer Team and Human Resources and Transformation Award Recipients for the course “Human Leadership Development with responsibilities to report on talent Behaviour and Performance in South Facilitation management, leadership development, Africa”. Her journey into academia was succession and culture to Exco and the influenced by two goals, (i) to bridge the Executive Coaching Board of Directors in a Johannesburg chasm between theory and practice, and Board and Stock Exchange (JSE)-listed Financial (ii) to bring humanity back to organisations, Governance Services company. She founded Leadership this after discovering countless bullying Emporium, a Leadership Development during her PhD research, where people Consultancy where she continues her work did not even know that they were being as a practitioner in the areas of leadership bullied, and/or were bullying others, development and human resources because bullying is not something much management, as well as team and strategy talked about in South African workplaces. development facilitation. She also serves This shaped her aim to champion healthy on several boards as Independent Non- workplaces by raising awareness about Executive Director. bullying in South African workplaces. Dr Michael Goldman

Michael Goldman is an award-winning internationally. His peer-reviewed research Area of expertise marketing & sales teacher, researcher and has been published in, among others, Marketing & advisor to organizations in a number of the California Management Review, customer strategy countries. He is based in California as an Management Decision, European Sport Associate Professor in the University of San Management Quarterly, and International Sports & Arts marketing and Francisco’s Sport Management Master’s Journal of Sports Marketing & Sponsorship. sponsorship Program, and also holds an Adjunct Faculty He has also published a number of case role with the Gordon Institute of Business studies with the Case Research Journal, Ivey Branding strategy Science in Johannesburg. Michael’s areas Publishing and Emerald Publishing. He is of expertise include marketing strategy the Editor-in-Chief of Emerald Publishing’s across a range of industries. He is also Emerging Markets Case Studies, and is on comfortable providing media commentary the Executive Board of the North American on any aspects of sport management and Case Research Association. the business of sport, including athlete, team or event sponsorship, domestic or Michael has assisted organisations as international events, sport revenue models, diverse as Nedbank, PepsiCo, SABMiller, social media, sport media rights and Murray & Roberts, World Rugby, Sasol, distribution, and fan or consumer behaviour. Cricket South Africa, Business & Arts South Africa, and the United Nations Development Michael has facilitated online and physical Program. He regularly facilitates the learning programs in a number of countries BrandQuad series of brand workshops for by focusing on high levels of interaction, public and private sector organizations in personalized learning, and relevant and Kenya, has received a Visiting Professorship immediate application of new tools and from the Universidad Peruana de content. As a management scholar, he has Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC) in Peru, and is published a range of academic research an instructor for the Indian Institute of articles, case studies, and book chapters Management in Rohtak, India. Hayley Pearson

Hayley is a full-time faculty member of the school’s Sixth Form Centre. Through Area of expertise at GIBS and lectures in the areas of this role, Hayley gained experience in Accountability Leadership, Organisation Behaviour and performance management, innovation, Human Resources with a specific focus organisational behaviour, leadership, Leadership on individual level accountability. Prior team development curriculum design and Organisational to joining academia full time, Hayley was development, course design, assessment Behaviour a Specialist Project Manager, the AACSB design, tracking and monitoring of student Accreditation Manager and the Assurance performance, assurance for learning Human Resources of Learning Manager at GIBS. practices, personalised interventions, student progress, people management and Hayley has extensive experience in school- pastoral care. based education and her career started in 2005 in the UK, where she lived and worked Hayley’s passion for learning, education, for almost 10 years. Hayley initially held a and management and leadership position as a specialist Biology and Science development led her to GIBS where she teacher but quickly progressed into more has the opportunity to share her education managerial focused roles, specialising in and learning expertise. Hayley graduated student pastoral care and later teaching Top Student of the 2014/15 MBA and sits and learning practices focusing specifically on the Advisory Board for the Human on student performance and progress. Edge and is conducting her doctoral research in the subject of accountability. Before returning to South Africa to enrol Hayley is a qualified Restorative Justice on the MBA Programme, Hayley held the Practitioner and holds a certificate in position of Assistant Head Teacher in a Solution Focused Therapy. large secondary school and was also head Dr Kerrin Myers

Kerrin Myres has founded two social providing research, consulting and Area of expertise enterprises and two for-profit enterprises, advisory services to businesses at all Entrepreneurship as well as mentoring countless stages of development in a wide range of entrepreneurs during the start-up and industries. Her doctoral thesis focussed Impact growth phases of their businesses. on the unconventional start-up processes entrepreneurship (social and green) In addition to her entrepreneurial of entrepreneurs in South Africa. She experience, Kerrin has worked for a lectures in entrepreneurship, strategy, High growth variety of private, public and non-profit personal mastery and qualitative research entrepreneurship enterprises across sub-Saharan Africa. methodology and supervises research at Entrepreneurial She has over 35 years of experience Master’s and Doctoral level. psychology and mindset Coaching and mentoring Entrepreneurial strategy Strategic thinking Corporate entrepreneurship Prof Marianne Mathee

​Marianne Matthee is a full-time faculty regional exports. These elements included, Area of expertise member at GIBS and lectures in economics. among others, the determinants of exports Economics Prior to joining GIBS, she lectured at the and the importance of domestic transport (Micro & Macro) North-West University for 12 years in both costs, location and export composition. economics and international trade where Throughout this work, it became evident International trade she also served as the programme leader that a deeper understanding of exports for international trade. Marianne’s research is necessary. Therefore, Marianne’s focus is on the field of international subsequent research outputs focused trade, particularly exports. Her focus is on firm-level analyses under the broad on exporting as an economic activity topic of internationalisation. Marianne of South African regions and firms. Her has collaborated on research papers with initial work centred on the investigation of numerous international academics and the different elements of sub-national or holds a Y2 rating from the NRF. Dr Tshidi Mathibe

Dr Tshidi Mathibe teaches on the Post As part of the programme Mentors, Tshidi Area of expertise Diploma in Business Management in supports the team of young innovators Social​ the area of Entrepreneurship. She also in their efforts to frame a challenge, Entrepreneurship teaches Entrepreneurship and Strategic applying sustainable business and Marketing on the Corporate programme innovation concepts to create prototypes Informal Sector Economy, and Entrepreneurship Development and tangible business solutions with Academy space. Her research interests real market potential. She plays a vital Base of the Pyramid are in the field of Social Entrepreneurship, role from ideation to development to Markets, Women Entrepreneurship, Informal Sector a presentation of these young minds’ Economy, Base of the Pyramid Markets, solutions to the company’s senior and Strategic Marketing. In addition to management teaching and research responsibilities, Tshidi is involved in The United Nation’s Global Impact Young SDG Innovators Programme. Dr Michele Ruiters

Dr Michele Ruiters joined the University programme for middle management Area of expertise of Pretoria’s Gordon Institute of Business women in corporates and teaches on Leadership​ Science (GIBS) in 2019 as fulltime faculty. the Masterstart Strategic Women’s She has a PhD in Political Science and Leadership programme. In Academic Strategy a Certificate in Women’s Studies from Education, she teaches Human Diversity and Rutgers, The State University of New Behaviour on the PGDip and MBA inclusion Jersey, USA, a Masters in Commerce in programmes and provides supervision Development Finance from the Graduate services to students in her areas of Gender in the workplace School of Business at the University of expertise. Cape Town, a Masters in International Human and Relations from Rhodes University and Michele has engaged in conferences, organisational an International Executive Development teaching and research in South Africa, behaviour (culture and identity) Programme at GIBS. She has worked in the USA, Japan, UAE, China, Russia and development finance for 12 years and 15 the southern African region. Development years in research and tertiary education. (social and economic) Prior to joining GIBS in 2019, Michele Development was a Senior Researcher and Gender Finance Specialist at the Development Bank of Southern Africa and a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Global Dialogue. She has held a board position as the DBSA representative on the Development Bank of Zambia where she is Chair of the Audit Committee. She also has held non-executive board positions in NGOs in the past.

Ruiters is passionate about diversity, inclusivity and equity in the work place, particularly as these issues relate to women in the workplace and in the economy. In Corporate Education, she is the Lead Faculty on Leading Women and Women as Leaders, a sought-after Prof Caren Scheepers

Prof Caren Scheepers started her career in restructuring projects. Caren joined the Area of expertise public service as a registered Counselling Gordon Institute of Business Science in Organisational​ Psychologist at Department of Labour 2007 as a part-time lecturer and since 2014 development and and then went on to join Sanlam Insurance she has been a full-time member of faculty, transformation Company as a management consultant lecturing in organisational development Leadership and for eight years, after which she gained and contextual leadership. Caren is an team effectiveness international exposure through her role accredited professional coach with the as a leadership consultant at Gemini International Coaching Federation (ICF). Emotional Consulting for four years. She then She authored two books on leadership intelligence founded an independent consulting firm coaching and co-edited the Women Personal master called Irodo Consulting that specialises leadership in emerging markets book. She in team interventions, executive publishes in both local and international Change management coaching, psychometric assessments, academic journals in these domains, as well and organisational development and as case studies. Diversity management People management Coaching skills Anthony Wilson-Prangley

Anthony teaches and consults in strategy context and capacities required for leading Area of expertise implementation, social entrepreneurship, complex societies. He runs many of the Business​ innovation impact investing, change leadership, experiential learning aspects of GIBS diversity and inclusion. He is an Aspen especially those focused on the broader Business Institute award-winning lecturer and North socio-economic and political environment of complexities American Case Research Association South Africa. Organisational and award-winning case writer. personal business He founded and is now Chairman of the capacities He works directly with social impact Gumboots Foundation and was intimately businesses in South Africa and increasingly involved at a senior lever with a global Change management across the broader continent. He leads non-profit youth leadership network – the MBA Global Module to Seattle, Pioneers of Change. In his early career he San Francisco and Silicon Valley. He is consulted to the public sector in Swaziland, committed to linking South African and Mozambique and South Africa around rural African start-ups and with start-ups and development. He is the current Chairman investors in the US. He is working to of Dahlak Exchange, a dynamic social leverage the business school community to enterprise that gives voice, improves build an Angel Investing network. livelihoods and works for the rights of South African domestic workers. Before joining the faculty Anthony helped to build the Centre for Leadership and He regularly coaches entrepreneurs on how Dialogue at GIBS – a series of programmes to pitch and was a judge on the Chivas Social that build the next generation of SA Venture Challenge and continues as a judge leadership. The centre focuses on the on the Trialogue Strategic CSI Awards. Prof Albert Wöcke

Albert is a professor and permanent Management. He regularly reviews Area of expertise faculty member at the Gordon Institute for international and local academic International of Business Science. He has been on the journals. business strategy GIBS faculty since 2000, where he joined after a career as a trade union official. As Since joining GIBS, Albert has taught Human resources in the areas of international business the assistant general secretary: collective Strategy bargaining, he headed up the collective strategy and human resources, strategy bargaining functions of the union and was and organisational behaviour. His current Organisational behaviour a founding member of the Public Service research interests include the process Bargaining Council and represented the and strategies of emerging market firms labour movement in the public finance going global, the design and impact of HR and Monetary Policy Chamber of Nedlac strategy in multi-national corporations (the National Economic Development and and talent management in emerging Labour Advisory Council). markets. He has had papers presented at the American Academy of Management Albert is a recognised researcher with and the Royal Geographic Society and he a National Research Foundation (NRF has taught in Botswana, Kenya, Ghana, rating of C3) and has published academic the UAE, Hong Kong and Namibia. He and other articles in South Africa and consults widely and clients have included internationally. He is a member of the MTN, UTI, South African Revenue Services, American Academy of Management and Zurich Reinsurance, PPC and government the Academy of International Business departments including Foreign Affairs and and the South African Institute of People Forestry and Water. Dr Tracey Toffe

Before joining GIBS, Tracey completed Tracey is currently the lead faculty on the Area of expertise doctoral and post-doctoral studies in the PGDip BA (Business Studies), a preparatory Social​ innovation field of Sociolinguistics at the University coursework programme for pre-doctoral of Cape Town. She has taught Academic students at GIBS. Her current research Academic literacy Literacy modules to students across several interests include social entrepreneurship faculties and offers specialist knowledge and innovation, as well as the role of relating to the development of academic language in the expression of social identity skills and discourse practices within a in the workplace. higher education setting. Lerato Mahlasela

Lerato Mahlasela is currently the Director Over the last 20 years, Lerato has worked Area of expertise of Custom Programmes at the Gordon in Recruitment, Talent Development and Leadership​ and Institute of Business Science (GIBS). She Learning for organisations in Financial talent development works with and leads a talented team that Services, Engineering and Construction, partners with organisations to design and Consulting as well as Education. Programme and project deliver relevant learning solutions aimed management at improving responsible individual and Lerato firmly believes that successful and organisational performance. sustainable organisations and communities Facilitation are built by individuals, young and old, She holds a Masters degree in Consulting who recognise that they have agency. Coaching and Coaching for Change from HEC Individuals who are aware of themselves, Paris and is registered as a Chartered HR their networks, their contexts and are Practitioner with the South African Board of committed to continually learning, formally People Practices. and informally in order to create the futures they envision. Adrian Van Eeden

Adrian joined GIBS as Chief Information the IT integration aspects for the numerous Area of expertise Officer in 2010, at a point when the school mergers and acquisitions being undertaken IT & Digital strategy was intent on accelerating the adoption of on the sub-continent. He later went onto technology across the institution. He has to work at SA Taxi Finance as the Head of Business been instrumental in establishing the core Technology, with a focus on digitising and Transformation, Innovation and technical capabilities of the school, setting transforming the I.T. function of a then small Change up the IT department, Project Office, and but rapidly growing business to be able to establishing the Digital Learning service support a book which was valued more than Business innovation capability. During his watch the school, many large businesses. He then moved to and change including the people running the institution, GIBS in 2010 and has been the CIO for the Operational has transformed from an analogue, paper- last 12 years. strategy based business, to one which is completely He has numerous technical certificates IT Governance and enabled by technology, such that, under Management COVID lockdown, the pivot to online was a and diplomas, the GIBS PMD which he relatively seamless transition. passed with distinction and received the Change top of class award, the Wits Professional management for leadership Adrian’s undergrad is in Civil Engineering, Certificate in CIO Practice, passed with which he dropped out of in fourth year, but distinction, also top of class. He holds a IT Governance and he says that this foundation has formed GIBS MBA, cum laude and dean’s list, and a Leadership his world-view. He subsequently majored post graduate diploma in Digital Marketing in Mathematics and Computer Science through the University of California Irvine while holding a support job at Deloitte and Extension, also cum laude. To continually Touche. He left Deloitte in 1995 to form enhance his learning, he has also completed his own eCommerce business in eTourism hundreds of online courses ranging from at a time. He later re-joined corporate at MOOCs on EdX, Coursera and Udacity, Glenrand MIB, a leading South African to technical, courses on Lynda.com, insurance brokerage. He later became head LinkedIn Learning, and Udemy, originally of technical strategy (Chief to understand the format for GIBS digital learning, but he says it has become an Technology Officer). During this period addiction. He is a member of the SA CIO he spend a significant time wearing both Council, the education sector’s Association the CIO and CTO hats. Some of his most for South African IT Directors, and more exciting work included Glenrand’s Africa recently was awarded the Professional expansion strategy, to which he was CIO accreditation by the highly regarded seconded in order to assist the director with Institute for IT Professionals in South Africa. Miranda Hosking

Miranda Hosking was appointed as Entrepreneurship Monitor report for South Area of expertise Director of the Entrepreneurship Africa. She has spent time as an independent Entrepreneurship Development Academy (EDA) at the consultant and as a senior consultant in University of Pretoria’s Gordon Institute a large firm. She holds an MBA from the Leadership of Business Science (GIBS) in 2018. She University of Cape Town’s Graduate School Small Business has been involved in entrepreneurship of Business, as well as an undergraduate and Development promotion and development for almost 20 Honours degree from UCT. years. She is passionate about facilitating Social Entrepreneurship the participation of young people in At the EDA, her primary focus has been economic opportunities and contributing on building partnerships with both private Business Planning to sustainable economic development. and public sector clients to develop entrepreneurs and assist clients with Enterprise and Miranda is enthusiastic about all things Supplier entrepreneurship and has been an meeting their Enterprise & Supplier entrepreneur herself through setting up Development objectives. Through this work, Development Miranda hopes to ultimately contribute to the first equity crowdfunding platform in Strategy South Africa. job creation and economic growth. To date, the EDA has run over 50 programmes with Economic Before joining GIBS, Miranda held more than 2,500 programme participants, development senior positions in both the private and resulting in the retention or creation of public sector and was also a principal almost 17,000 jobs through the businesses researcher and lead author of the Global that have benefited from EDA interventions. Alison Reid

Alison is an internationally accredited In addition to facilitating and coaching, Area of expertise professional coach and the Director Alison researches and writes for academia Coaching of Coaching and Facilitation at GIBS. and media, having published in local and She has a Master’s degree in Executive internal academic journals. She has spoken Facilitating Business Coaching, an Honours Degree in at conferences, locally and internationally, Mentoring Sports and Counselling Psychology and her favourite being in Reykjavik, Iceland is accredited with the ICF (International and at Harvard in Boston. She served Leadership Coaching Federation), IMCSA (Institute as a board member of the international Learning of Management Consultants), AoEC Graduate School Association of Executive (Academy of Executive Coaching) and Coaching (GSAEC). Personal mastery/ ISPSO (International Society for the capacities Psychoanalytic study of organizations). Alison is passionate about human- She has coached executives and senior potential. She believes that human-centric managers for a large range of corporate skills like creativity, emotional & social clients, holding 15 years and over 2000 agility, critical thinking and capacity hours of coaching experience. She teaches for complexity will increasingly become and facilitates in the areas of personal the differentiators in our new world of mastery, coaching and leadership. work. They are also the core enabler for healthier, more connected and responsible Prior to joining GIBS, Alison started her societies. With the right motivation and own business, coaching and consulting to capacities, human beings are capable of broad range of corporate clients, which connecting, collaborating and solving the she continues to run today. She has largest problems facing us as a species for travelled extensively, working in places like a future where all can thrive. Of the places Bangladesh, Dominican Republic, Iceland, Alison has travelled, she feels Saudi Arabia Miami, Croatia, Nepal and others. and Israel taught her the most, Bangladesh and Nepal were the most humbling, and In her earlier career, she worked in clinical Iceland was the most timeless. and academic environments (both dealing with aspects of Brain Function), in the Middle East and in South Africa. Mahlatse Kabi

Mahlatse Kabi is an experienced Finance holding company responsible for deal Area of expertise and Investment professional with over 28 sourcing, execution and monitoring of Corporate years’ experience in the field. She joined commercially- orientated private equity governance GIBS as the Chief Financial Officer in 2017 investment opportunities. She also and is currently studying towards a DBA previously held senior finance positions Financial management qualification at the same institution. She is at Standard Bank, SAB Breweries and a qualified Chartered Global Management Multichoice SA. Public sector Accountant, an MBA from GIBS, CTA and financial B. Compt (Honours) from the University She served on various MIC portfolio management company boards and sub-committees of South Africa and a B. Com from the Market and University if the Witwatersrand. and is currently a board member and investment audit chairperson of both Rand Water opportunity Prior to joining GIBS, Mahlatse spent over and Stangen. She is also a member of the analysis 10 years at the Mineworkers Investment investment committee of Vuna Capital. Internal controls Company, a broad-based investment Risk Management