MEET Dudu Msomi

Dudu Msomi is the Founder and CEO of Busara Leadership Partners, aresearch-orientated strategic advisory and consulting company whoseexpertise is to facilitate the development and effectiveness of leaders toachieve their desired goals.

Msomi labels herself an expert generalist which affords her the ability to strike the right balance between depth and breadth of knowledge to bean effective strategist and facilitator for clients to see the possibilities ,have the courage and the knowledge to do the right things, the first time.She has trans-disciplinary qualifications and multi-sectoral experiencemaking her a sought-after and powerful Strategy Facilitator, Corporate Governance Expert, Leadership Coach, Diversity & Inclusion Strategist, Business Advisor, Keynote & Guest Speaker and Writer. She designs anddelivers bespoke leadership, board, and entrepreneurs development programmes. Msomi was awarded the 2013 Laureate Award by theUniversity of Pretoria as a GIBS Alumna to honour her outstanding contribution to her chosen field and recognised by Entrepreneur Magazine as one of the Top 29 Influential South African BusinessLeaders in 2019. Dudu also presents a series called Wisdom Personified Conversations with Dudu Msomi on the YouTube channel ‘Wisdom Personified.’ Have contributed chapters in the following books: Conversations in Leadership: South African Perspectives, Edited by Terry Meyer, and Italia Boninelli (Published 2004) and Write To Speak: A Collection of Stories Written by African Women Leaders (Published2021).

Dudu Msomi has a B.A. Hons. (University of Natal, Durban); Postgraduate Diploma in Advertising and Marketing (AAASchool of Advertising); Postgraduate Diploma in Corporate Governance (RAU/University of Johannesburg); Programme for Management Development (Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) and a Master’s in BusinessAdministration (GIBS).

Dudu Msomi is an Institute of Director’s (IOD) Fellow and is an independent non -executive on boards, one being theSouth African Reserve Bank (SARB). She is the Chairperson of SARB Retirement Fund, the Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA), Office of the Pension Fund Adjudicator (OPFA) and Financial Advisory & Intermediary Services(FAIS) Ombud HR Committees and sits on their respective Remuneration Committees. Msomi is on the VodacomFoundation Advisory Board and a Trustee on the Humulani Trust (of the listed company, Invicta Holdings).

She is a part-time Commissioner on the KwaZulu Natal Provincial Planning Commission, an advisory body to thePremier and the Provincial Executive Council to achieve an inclusive growing economy, a sustainable environment, anda prosperous, healthy, and educated society in KwaZulu-Natal.

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