MEET Sthembiso Phakathi

With a distinguished career spanning over two decades, Sthembiso specializes in guiding organizations through the complexities of business performance, organizational transformation, and strategic leadership. His mission is to empower clients from diverse sectors to bolster their organizational capabilities and achieve unprecedented effectiveness.

Career Overview:

Sthembiso has a proven track record of delivering enterprise-wide organizational design projects that optimize people processes, structures, measures, and accountabilities. His deep passion for behavioural change management and employee engagement drives him to achieve tangible business outcomes. Leveraging his academic background in engineering, marketing, and business science, he approaches complex organizational challenges with a holistic and analytical perspective. He is a trusted partner and a leading practitioner in his field, making a positive and lasting impact on the organizations and communities he serves.

Sthembiso is a renowned keynote speaker. He speaks on key topics, such as Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Leadership and Culture, Workforce Transformation, and Business Renewal. He has presented papers and moderated panels at large conferences, particularly in the Mining and Financial sectors.

Professional Background:

Sthembiso has led many large-scale corporate transitions and has built strong business relationships over many years. He works with his clients to harness culture and build competitive advantage through strategic focus, business connection and execution excellence. He has deep passion for organisation design and behavioural change management. He has worked with C-suite executives to navigate their challenges and help them better understand the impact of technological, social, and economic change. His work also involves helping business executives harness new capabilities such as leading through ambiguity, managing increasing complexity, being tech-savvy, managing changing customer and talent demographics, and handling organizational cultures. He has co-authored and published articles on the Future of Work and Workforce Transformation.

Sthembiso holds an MBA from the University of South Africa and an MSc in Strategic Marketing from Cardiff University, UK. He also holds other engineering qualifications and has completed Management and Leadership programmes at the University of South Africa.

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