Ask Simonetta Giuricich the most useful quality a leader can have and her answer may surprise you: empathy. While empathy may traditionally have been thought of as a soft skill, Simonetta insists it is her ability to understand the qualities of each of her team members, and her respect for their individual viewpoints, that has…
It’s is not an easy task to juggle being a professional musician with her executive role, but Lize Lübbe does it and it fills her life with a great deal of joy. And she has great ambitions of heading her own impact investing fund one day. With her adventurous, go-getter personality, Lize Lübbe, principal at…
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The biggest challenge Meghan Shields had to overcome as a woman in a leadership role has been the limiting belief that women put on themselves − the subconscious feeling of being inherently incapable of achieving success in a leadership role. Meghan Shields, head of operations at VAT IT, says two major points greatly impacted the…
Itu Barnard flaunts many hats. She is a director and founder of Browned Skyn (Pty), a company that imports raw materials from Ghana for use in cosmetics and pharmaceuticals. However, since the lockdown came into effect, this has changed to procuring PPE for humanitarian purposes in collaboration with other black-owned businesses. But she hopes to…
Health and wellbeing have always been an immense passion for Belinda Carreira, and after years of dreaming of owning a business in this field, it finally became a reality two and a half years ago when she launched WELL. Her work with WELL revolves around the promoting and improving employee health and wellbeing − fully…
South Africa’s uncertain future is motivating private and public sector managers to take a closer look at costs. An old idea from the 1970s has re-emerged right on cue. Zero-based budgeting (ZBB) asks managers to question each line-item in their budgets, and the related activity, from scratch. ZBB supporters dispute the merits of traditional budgeting,…
Nompendulo Pearl More was born and raised in Volksrust in Mpumalanga. She had no commercial background from high school and no clue what a CA(SA) was or did. She can still remember the day she received a call from the Thuthuka Bursary Fund to tell her she had met the criteria to study at the…
One way to describe what kind of person Mandy Muchnick is would be to tell what drives her. Mandy loves investing in people. This is at the centre of her investment philosophy at her work as a transactor in the private equity industry as well as in her role as the Africa Chair for One…
In this article, we analyse the results of the IRBA’s Public Inspections Report 2019 against those reported in previous years, as well as against the International Forum of Independent Audit Regulators’ (IFIAR) Survey of Inspections Findings 2019. We also highlight success factors or recommended practices to be applied by firms in order to ensure the…