Post Graduate Diploma (Masters Level) in Business Administration
Bachelor of Arts
ILO Certificate - Making Microfinance Work
Diploma - Computer Studies
I get inspired by social impact. Individuals who not only have a purpose for being profitable but also intentionally seek to make a social contribution in a way that improves another persons livelihood.
In my quiet time i enjoy pencil drawing and reading. Taking walks in flower gardens or just enjoying the calm outdoors is also a favorite thing of mine.
I have two adult daughters and im looking forward to living my best life.
Leadership and Communication
Problem Solving and Decision Making
Organization and Delegation
Crisis Management
Successfully led consulting teams in the entrepreneurial assessment and business management performance audit of over 100 SMEs under the Private Sector Development Program and Botswana Exporter Development Programme
Being first CMC-GI certified consultant in Botswana, currently advocating the development of the profession of management consulting.
Subsequent Member of Board of Directors of the CMC-GI
Negotiated a state level technology transfer agreement between FUNCRAF/CEFAC (Brazil) and the Trust (Botswana) which resulted in the establishment of SolarAid Brazil.
Co-Developed Market Entry Strategies training modules used in the Botswana Exporter Development Programme – Export Marketing, now used as part of the curriculum at the University of Botswana
A member of the reference group to the Sign Language research team for the development of a national Sign Language resource book for Botswana, under the Department of Curriculum Development and Evaluation.
Worked with BOCODOL (Botswana College of Distance and Open Learning) to develop and deliver a pilot business management course, tailored for people with hearing impairment.
Facilitated the first electronics formal course for hearing impaired individuals with the Madirelo Training and Testing Centre, Gaborone, Botswana.
Successfully hosted Ms Sheryl Lee Ralph, well known Hollywood actress and HIV AIDS activist, in Botswana 2008.
I have experience . Unable to load any experience on the application portal. My experience summary below:
Key Competencies:
• Business Development, Organisational and Strategic Planning (SME, SMME, Start-Ups)
• Business and Trade Facilitation (SME, SMME, Start-Ups)
• Business Performance and Management Support
• Capacity Building, Coaching, Mentoring and Training
• Project Planning and Management
• Management and administrative expert
Highlighted Experience
Leadership and management - self-motivated, initiator and enthusiastic, with experience in non-profit organizations, social enterprise and private companies
Strategy, organisational development, and management – strategic development planning and review at SME level and institutional level. Supported organisations in strategic review processes and development of goals and objectives, and supporting activities, including activity costing.
Management and Business Consulting - Lead consultant, team member and as a senior consultant on private sector development projects, export development projects and SMME development projects.
Collaboration and Coordination – facilitation of public private partnerships, notably between the Ministry of Education (Special Education Department), the Botswana Association of the Deaf, the Botswana Society of the Deaf; also initiated and led partnership with Botswana Open University to develop and deliver a pilot business management course. Most currently playing a role in facilitating the Ministry of Entrepreneurship and Business Botswana in collaborative development and implementation of the national private sector development plan.
Communication and Negotiation skills – through the participation of institutional negotiations, with local authorities, particularly involving partnerships such as the negotiated state level S-S technology transfer agreement between FUNCRAF/CEFAC (Brazil) and the Godisa Technologies Trust (Botswana)
Entrepreneurship and SMME Development - Successfully led consulting teams in the entrepreneurial assessment and business management performance audit of SMEs under the Private Sector Development Program and Botswana Exporter Development Programme run through the Botswana Investment and Trade Centre in partnership with the Centre for Development Enterprise (EU), the Botswana Digital and Innovation Hub and Botswana National Productivity Centre. The reports provided recommendations for interventions for the improvement of the individual businesses, business sectors and fed into national level intervention recommendations under the PSDP I and II.
Success is also seen in the coordination and implementation of the recommendations by local and international sector experts, engaging several stakeholders in capacity building, training and technical skills transfer. Co-founder and manager starting up Godisa Technologies Trust; establishing and implementing a manufacturing enterprise (Solaraid technology), guiding product development to market readiness; developing the organization from a local non-governmental organization to a social enterprise internationally; international product design and business model accolades.
Other significant assignments include co-developing the BITC Market Entry Strategies training modules used in the Botswana Exporter Development Programme – Export Marketing, which is currently part of the University of Botswana short-course offering, engaged to deliver the Capacity Building of Exporters Participation in Botswana Exporter Development Programme – Export Marketing - 2016/2017 and provision of Export Marketing Capacity Building Services for Companies Participating in the BEDP Programme 2017/2018, Private Sector Development Botswana; “Training on the EU-SADC Economic Partnership Agreement and International Trade Opportunities” implemented by the BB PSDP, EU, MITI and SADC Secretariate, ran workshops to facilitate a dialogue between the public and private sector entities; and to train the business community about the benefits of the SADC Trade Protocol, the EU SADC EPA, the EU Export Help Desk and the Rules of Origin (2017), provided financial, non-financial and business training support to the ICT business sector; 2015/16.
SMME Coaching and Mentorship – Coaching and mentoring SMMEs in the innovation and technology space (Zambia), provided business coaching and mentoring services for Botswana’s Citizenship Empowerment and Development Agency (CEDA); from stages of business planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation. Assignments include financial due diligence and project performance auditing (2015 to 2019). Under the Business Place Botswana, I supervised the business coaching and mentorship team supporting clients by providing specialist advice and expertise; solving issues, creating value, maximizing growth and improving business performance. Through Bongo Hive (Zambia), business coach and mentor, providing custom training to SMEs in areas such as business planning, e-Commerce and digital platforms, marketing and market development.
Market Development (International) - Through market research launching a non-traditional product onto the international market; evaluating appropriate market channels for product, finding distributors and negotiating agreements with strategic social and commercial partners, participating in international and local exhibits and trade missions and driving social marketing efforts. Designed and led field testing and implementing a market assessment program focused in Kenya and Mali; establishing strategy with partners in Africa like AMASOURD collaboration with WUSC (Mali); and initiating working partnership with US and European based organizations to coordinate regional market research in southern continents; most notable a regional hearing aid donation program in collaboration with Siemens, Switzerland.
