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Angela Magashula is a dynamic Marketing Lead with a diverse background spanning media, logistics, and the events sector. With a strong focus on driving marketing and sales efforts in new and emerging markets, Angela plays a key role in supporting the organisation’s growth and regional expansion.

Empathetic and highly dependable, Angela brings a thoughtful, client-centred approach to every interaction. She’s known for her collaborative spirit, organisational strength, and entrepreneurial mindset—qualities that make her an invaluable part of the team.

With experience across multiple industries, Angela is passionate about connecting people, building strong brand presence, and leading with integrity. Her work is grounded in purpose and focused on delivering lasting impact for both clients and the communities the organisation serves.

Outside her professional life Angela enjoys spending time with her family and friends, travelling and the great outdoors.

Karien’s grounded theoretical knowledge in Organisation Psychology, Positive Psychology and Organisational Neuroscience combined with her practical experience and approach helps organisations, teams and individuals thrive in the workplace - inevitably leading to HighPerformance.

As behavioural specialist, she uses her knowledge, skills and experience to evaluate and assess current reality on 3 levels - self, team and organisation. The outcome of which she uses to facilitate the creation of an inclusive and holistic approach to develop custom made interventions for the Organisation / Team that will enable High Performance on all three levels. She assists the organisation, team and individual to understand and navigate team dynamics, diversity, inclusion, conflict resolutions, courageous conversations and developing empowering personal and leadership practices.

She Teaches Human Behaviour in Organisational Context as well as Personal and LeadershipDevelopment at the University of the Free State and the University of Johannesburg. Karien enjoys spending time with her family and friends, hiking, baking and doing needlework. She values investing in her own learning by reading far and wide and she stays fit and healthy with a regular swimming routine.

Karien van der Merwe is a Principal Organisational Psychologist supporting Organisations and Teams with “the relationships you need to get the job done”. She has more than 20 years’ cross industry experience with particular emphasis in mining and major projects developingHigh Performing Teams . Karien holds a Masters Degree in Organisational Psychology; is aRegistered Organisational Psychologist and a Certified Organisational Neuroscience,Executive and Wellness Coach.

Sibulele is a Chartered Surveyor (MRICS) and a professional member with the Association of South African Quantity Surveyors, holding a comprehensive educational background in quantity surveying and project management. She holds a BSc Hons in Construction Economics from Nelson Mandela University, a Postgraduate Diploma in General Management from the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS). She is currently pursuing her MBA at GIBS, furthering her commitment to continuous professional development.

With extensive experience in both the public and private sectors, Sibulele has worked on large scale infrastructure projects. Her roles have included cost control, project preplanning, deal making/ work winning strategies and project management, ensuring the successful delivery of high-value projects from inception to completion. She has extensive experience monitoring operational performance of both internal and external service providers to ensure project team accountability in relation to project outcomes and objectives.

As a strategic construction consultant Sibuele supports clients in delivering value and driven by the support and challenge she provides teams to focus on the project goals nurtured by her result-oriented approach. Her leadership style is inclusive and collaborative, she is committed to innovation and learning, striving to stay at the forefront of industry advancements and leading with excellence.

Living by the belief that "Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world," Sibulele continues to seek opportunities to enhance her expertise and drive success in all her endeavours.

Olivia Carter is an Executive Leadership Coach and Consultant with a diverse background working across various sectors both Nationally and Internationally. She has a strong track record of driving transformational leadership and collaborative change across teams. Previously, she excelled as a senior leader in the FMCG sector, where she was instrumental in leading change across a number of client portfolios.

Olivia brings a supportive and challenging approach to consultancy enabling her to quickly establish connection, trust and rapport with individuals and teams. She is an Accredited Executive Coach with The Coaching Academy, Leader Factor and Certified Everything DiSC practitioner - personal Leadership and TeamDynamics profiling.

Olivia is an Associate Consultant at Carus Advisory Services and also the founder of Mosaic-Lds, a coaching and training consultancy where she works with clients to develop tailored solutions specialising in enabling leaders and their teams unlock their potential, enhance performance, and foster a collaborative organisational culture.

Olivia is passionate about leadership and human behaviour because she’s seen first-hand how this impacts growth, engagement, inclusion and innovation. She firmly believes that “Culture eats strategy for breakfast” and whilst we’re all responsible for culture leaders are instrumental in embedding it. Her work impacts organisations nationally and internationally.

Olivia’s approach is practical and action-oriented, ensuring that leaders and teams gain the tools they need to make sustainable change. Outside of her professional life, Olivia enjoys walking, pilates and traveling as well as spending time with family and friends.

Precious Zumbika-Lwanga is the Founder of Carus Advisory Services, a proud mom of two, an award-winning Construction Professional, businesswoman and entrepreneur.

She is an experienced Executive, Cost & Commercial Expert, Strategic Advisor, Leadership Consultant and Non-Executive Director to several boards. She holds a BSc Hons in Quantity Surveying (University of Cape Town) and an Executive MBA from Lancaster University Management School.

She commands over 22 years’ experience at the helm of cost and resource leadership operations and transformational change across a portfolio of high-value projects and programmes. She is a focused leader with an impressive track record in collaborative, cross-functional teamwork within high-pressure environments in the public and private sector.

She advises her clients on how to drive value and improve their organisational & project performance through collaborative procurement, contracting and behaviours with a throughlife project approach. Her passion for a more collaborative, transparent industry sees itself in the work she undertakes and drawing from the breadth of her experience she supports clients to not only look at the tactical objectives but approach projects and programmes strategically from leadership behaviours through to how to develop high performing project teams from project and asset delivery through to handover.

Precious has experience working with various clients from infrastructure clients in the UK to major mining clients in South Africa. She is a Cranfield University Executive Development Associate lecturer where she curates and delivers leadership and team development modules to various FTSE 250 organisations.

Precious enjoys art and culture, travelling, the gym and spending time with family and friends.