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Interview with Nicki Hallé: Executive search leader, founder & Managing partner

August 21, 2025October 14, 2025 Vera Ng'oma

”I believe a quality search process must go far beyond matching CVs to specs. It’s about getting under the skin of both the organization and the leader, going deep into how results are achieved, not just what’s on the resume and this is why I believe my placed leaders stay longer than 18 months in […]

Pumza Fihlani: Global journalist & Communications specialist

July 22, 2025September 10, 2025 Vera Ng'oma

‘’I firmly believe that in order to maintain the audiences’ trust, we need to make sure that we get it right. That has served me well personally and has opened numerous doors’’ From cutting her media teeth as a teenage newsreader on a campus radio station while studying her Journalism undergraduate degree in South Africa […]

Interview with Iris Irumva: Leadership strategist & Founder, Lead Access Ltd

June 25, 2025September 10, 2025 Vera Ng'oma

‘’Many leaders are still managing for output, not engagement. We chase KPIs without understanding the emotional contract people have with their work. We need to stop seeing leadership as directional and start seeing it as relational, a shared space where power is not held, but circulated.’’ Iris Irumva is a leadership strategist, coach, and founder […]

Interview with Liz Ryan: Career adviser & Publisher

January 8, 2017January 9, 2017 Vera Ng'oma

“Sometimes our dreams tell us that we’re stuck in our career and we need to make a shift. The only way we learn and grow our muscles is by trying new things. You have to wake up and smell the reinvention coffee!”

Interview with Comfort Ocran: Author & Personal Development expert

February 14, 2016August 24, 2016 Vera Ng'oma

“See the odds you face as opportunities and add value in whatever you do. Publicize your abilities because no one will know your abilities if you don’t communicate them.’’

Interview with Tshidi Gule: Medical Doctor and Entrepreneur

December 4, 2015December 17, 2015 Vera Ng'oma

“Mentorship is a privilege. Be open-minded about who can impart the lessons you seek. You are in a privileged seat if you are exposed to some of the world’s best minds and experience.”

Interview with Zanelle Thabede: Youth leader & Young Women’s advocate

November 16, 2015November 17, 2015 Vera Ng'oma

‘’I’ll say to young people, be inquisitive, ask questions, increase your self-awareness and do not hold back from advocating for your age group.’’

Interview with Gayle Lantz: Leadership & Working smarter expert

November 13, 2015November 13, 2015 Vera Ng'oma

“Waiting for “someone else” to provide opportunities is futile. You can take charge of your life and work. Life is too short to be settling for anything less than what you want and deserve.”

Interview with Justice Fiona Mwale: High Court Judge

September 1, 2015November 13, 2015 Vera Ng'oma

“Success is an attitude. Circumstances are there to challenge us, not bring us down. Whilst I can’t do it all, I do my best at what I can”

Interview with Harriet Minter: Journalist, Writer, Speaker

August 22, 2015November 13, 2015 Vera Ng'oma

“The most limiting thing you can do is to wait for everything to be completely lined up before you act. Stop focusing on perfect”

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