What to Watch Topic: Diversity

Jesudamilare Adesegun-David, CEO and Co-founder of Ennovate Labs, explores how monocropping in agriculture can reflect our narrow approach to the investment landscape, especially in Africa. Drawing parallels to God's creation in the Garden of Eden, he advocates for diversified investments that promote holistic flourishing and thriving ecosystems.

When we reflect on God's original design, we can actually receive insights into business and investment strategy.

Highlighting some of the challenges caused by cultural complexity in the workplace, Afrika Mhlophe also suggests a few practical strategies for successfully navigating these. He encourages business leaders to intentionally focus on creating cultural alignment across the business – preventing diversity from becoming a divisive force and instead leveraging it as a strength.

Afrika, Rudi, Champ and Neil discuss how we can build strong cross-cultural relationships and identify ourselves as children of God before we identify ourselves by our cultures. This panel discussion took place at the launch of Ziwani.

Mergon's Keri-Leigh Paschal, Ofhentse Piet and Pieter Faure discuss why Ziwani was launched and what the dream is for this new initiative.

In this webinar to celebrate RecruitMyMom's 10th birthday, Phillipa Geard chats to Nicole Sykes, Head of Women in Business Niche at FNB Business, about the trends she sees in female-led businesses as well as some of the challenges that female entrepreneurs face. Nicole shares some advice for women entrepreneurs and encourages investors that there are many benefits to economically empowering women.

In this insightful At the Lake virtual discussion, Dr. Irene Banda, Sylvia Kithinji, and Anthony Farr share their perspectives on the benefits of empowering women in the African marketplace with Susannah Farr. They shed light on the challenges faced by women in their different contexts and explore practical to support and enable women to thrive in the workplace.

As a South African working in Iceland, Di Timberlake realised how challenging it can be to negotiate life as an 'outsider'. So she made it her mission to open doors for others through training and mentorship programmes.

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