MEET OUR MENTORS

The Social Impact Founders Club brings together experts leading in their respective fields and who have exceptional experience supporting entrepreneurs, individuals and teams, to share their insights to help you start and grow a social enterprise that reflects your passion and purpose.

ALTERNATIVE BUSINESS DR MICAELA MAZZEI

Senior Lecturer, Glasgow Caledonian University Micaela is a Programme Leader for the MSc Social Innovation at GCU and leads the module on Social Innovation and Alternative Economic Forms. Her interest is social innovation and the social economy is: Understanding the contextual determinants of social innovation and social enterprise development and performance; understanding the dynamics of local (and regional) economics; and the involvement of voluntary and community organisations in delivery of public services.

SELLING TO CORPORATE KAT LUCKOCK

The Social Entrepreneur Coach Kat has a background of growing a successful social enterprise herself inspiring the next generation around business for good, through her unique education programme. She grew this successfully by mastering her own aligned method of selling to corporates, so she didn’t have to be dependent on grant funding or sponsorship. Kat now helps social entrepreneurs achieve their vision for social and environmental change. She specialises in helping you attract more clients and customers through confident, aligned sales, mindset and visibility strategy.

MD & PRINCIPAL TRAINER, POSITIVE-PERFORMANCE WENDY CHALMERS-MILL

Wendy began her career in the medical profession working in Occupational Health addressing the associated costs of not addressing wellbeing at work. She holds qualifications in Corporate Coaching and Neuro Linguistic Programming. For the last 20 years she has specialised in corporate management particularly in this field of resilience, wellbeing and human communication. Wendy has a published book, articles and papers. She’s lectured widely throughout the UK and has regularly been interviewed on television and radio.

Social Entrepreneur & Lecturer, JBS ADELAIDE SHEIK

Adelaide is a social entrepreneur and co-founder of the Dr Kenneth Kaunda Resource Centre and serves on the board for BigFish Film School. She holds a MBA and is currently completing her PHD in Organisational Effectiveness in Social Enterprises. Adelaide has been exposed to the corporate and non-profit sector in managerial positions for over 21 years. She recently joined the Business Management team lecturing Entrepreneurship and is involved in the academic coordination for the continuous education programmes. on new business growth, corporate sales and client management.

MENTORS

MANAGING FINANCES PRECIOUS MVULANE

GAD Consulting Services Inc., CEO

Precious is an award winning business woman, author and content developer. Her expertise lie in finance, compliance and governance. Precious has 20 years’ experience in multiple finance roles and has been involved with governance structures for the past 14 years. She is the owner of GAD Consulting Services Inc. a Training, Publishing and Development organization that aims to educate, empower and enable leaders to achieve organisation objectives academic coordination for the continuous education programmes.

MARKETING | BRANDING MODIEGI MULAUDZI

Lefa Communications, MD & Founder

Modiegi is an experienced professional within the Digital Communication and Media space. She founded Lefa Communications; a Digital marketing and corporate communications agency. Modiegi is currently completing her Masters of Science in Digital Marketing Communication with the University of Salford. She also holds a B.Com in Accounting from the University of Johannesburg, among other things.

CREATING AN EXIT STRATEGY REALENE CLARKE

Indica Founder

A mother of four daughers, she recently founded Indica - a girls’ active wear brand, using charcoal bamboo and meaningful prints to remind girls of the key values of confidence, bravery and siterly love. Raele cofounded Springage, a youth-led innovation consultancy which was acquired by Deloitte in 2016. She is a South African, living in Hong Kong. She holds a B.Com degree in Industrial and Organisational Psychology. She is a former Miss South Africa Teen 2004 and a Wold Economic Forum Global Shaper, having attended Davos three times.

BUSINESS STRATEGY LOUISE STEYL

U Rise, Founder and Owner

Louise is a Gallup Global Strengths Coach passionate about helping women find ultimate career fulfilment. In addition to individual coaching, she consults to organisations on building strengths-based teams, and also facilitate corporate learning programs. Louise has a strong academic record in Political Science, and continued her studies in mainly leadership, personal development and corporate sales programs. She’s had a successful corporate career in leadership roles focusing on new business growth, corporate sales and client management.

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MENTORSHIP | LIVING ON PURPOSE NTSIKI MKHIZE

Chief Social Entrepreneur MentHer, Founder

Ntsiki is a certified Five Lens Practitioner with a Masters in Social Innovation. An international speaker and facilitator, some of her topics include resilience, mentorship, social entrepreneurship and social marketing. Ntsiki gave her first TedTalk at TEDx Cumbernauld Women, Scotland in 2019 and was featured as the youngest speaker at the International Speakers Summit 2019 and the Epic Entrepreneur Conference 2020. She is the self-published author of My Hall of Mentors – lessons learned along a journey of success.

BUSINESS & PERSONAL LEADERSHIP VANESSA BLUEN

The Consultant Powerhouse, MD & Founder

Vanessa has integrated what she loves doing with her business focus – working with individuals in organisations at all levels to realise their potential, challenge their work and personal paradigms, build critical skills and play to their strengths. She supports youth development organisations in building leadership, entrepreneurial capability and business confidence. The Consultant Powerhouse supports JSE listed companies, corporates and SMEs with customised learning and development and coaching initiatives across the full range of economic sectors, building high performing, resilient and competitive organisations.

MANAGING YOUR BUSINESS MATHAPELO MONTSHO

Why Cook, Co-Founder & Co-Owner

An advocate for SMMEs, especially women in business. Mathapelo through her entrepreneurship journey has managed to find ways to be innovative in business, finding different ways of adding value to clients, and winning new clients who have grown with Why Cook over the years. Why Cook is a 100% female black owned, level 1 BEE catering company. In addition to her role at Why Cook, Mathapelo is a mentor at Focused Network, she holds an MBA from Regent Business School, and is currently doing her Doctorate of Management in Technology and Innovation with Da Vinci institute.

CREATING A MEANINGFUL STRATEGY DR. SANTIE VON BELOW

Fundtech Consulting CC, Founder | Author | Management and Leadership Lecturer and Consultant.

Owner of Fundtech Consulting CC, which serves SMME’s in their start-up and growth phases, as well as larger organizations that are in need of strategic market alignment and leadership development.A part-time lecturer at the Nelson Mandela University, George Campus, RSA. She lectures business management subjects to students in the fields of marketing management, management, tourism, sports management, game ranch management as well as forestry management.