PROFILE: Nene Molefi, CEO of Mandate Molefi HR Consultants
Part of Nene Molefi’s strategy for change, diversity and inclusion is to help people get over unconscious biases
Driving transformation in SA is an uphill task which few understand better than Nene Molefi. As CEO of Mandate Molefi HR Consultants, she designs strategies for large-scale change which dig deep below the surface of ingrained beliefs on both sides of the racial divide. Her passion for the process has been a wake-up call for top executives at many of SA’s leading companies, and has gained her a reputation locally and internationally as a thought leader in diversity, inclusion, leadership and transformation. In addition to private sector companies, state-owned entities and regulatory bodies, the country’s highest courts have booked training with her company to speed up transformation in the workplace. It is clear that SA is still making woefully slow progress more than two decades after the end of apartheid. Molefi believes one of the main stumbling blocks is unconscious bias. It is a concept that has taken on increasing importance in corporate culture across the world as managers rea...
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