Panel PROFILEs

Gerrit Cloete Panel Chairperson

MD & Consultant

After teaching science and maths at Paul Roos in Stellenbosch, then doing project management at Somchem, Gerrit started his business in 1991. Since then, he has met with and facilitated the work of Stephen Covey (author of 7 Habits of Highly Effective People), David Allen (author of Getting Things Done) and others. He is a hardworking, lazy person: namely, he works very hard at finding new and innovative ways of getting the right things done with as little effort as possible! And when he finds something that helps achieve this, he shares it with as many people as possible. Through his business, Productivity Pit Stop, he works with teams in leading corporate brands, SME companies and entrepreneurs, with individual professionals, and anyone who wants to be more productive and effective in their life.

Andrea FouchePanel Participant

National L&D Manager

Andrea, is a trained industrial psychologist with an educational background in man-agement, psychology, and organisational psychology. After starting out her career at Sotheby’s International Realtys SA The Learning Institute, she continued her career progression at CTP Book Printers as a Department Manager, before joining Mazars as their Industrial & Organisational Psychologist over five and a half years ago. After many successful years with Mazars, she’s currently the National L&D Manager for Mazars in SA.

Elmori BesterPanel Participant

Service Operations & HR Director

Elmori has extensive human capital experi-ence and expertise at a management and executive level both locally and interna-tionally, across the BPO and retail sectors at top South African and multinational corporate brands. These include Mind-pearl where she was the HR Manager, Fusion Outsourcing Services (now known as WNS SA) where she was the HR Executive, and her current role at HomeChoice as the Human Resource Director. She has also previously held the title of Service Operations Director at HomeChoice, giving her indepth knowledge of business and human resource environments. During her time at Fusion Outsourcing Services, she and her team won numerous industry (BPESA) awards for organisational human capital best practice and innovation in the BPO and contact-centre sector.

Panel PROFILEs

Linda Roos Panel Participant

Head: HR

Linda Roos currently serves as Head: Human Resources for the ooba Group of companies. Prior to joining ooba, Linda headed Organisational Development, Human Resources and Social Investment for the Petousis Hotel Group and served as Chairman of the group’s social investment initiative, Our Kids of The Cape. During her tenure in the hospitality industry, Linda also served as Chairman for the Western Cape Hospitality Industry HR Forum - a closed network comprising of HR professionals in tourism and hospitality in the Western Cape. In addition to hospitality, Linda has also worked in the advertising, marketing, financial services and office automation industries. Most recently, Linda served as a director of the South African Organisational Development Network’s board as custodian of the Communications portfolio. Presently, she chairs the board of the Lansdowne-based youth organisation

– Salesian Life Choices.

Jennifer DuttonPanel Participant

Head: Organisational Development

Jennifer is a seasoned HR professional and business consultant with over 20 years’ experience in learning and development, talent acquisition, culture and employee engagement. She has been at Direct Axis for seven years. In her current role, as Head of Organisational Development, she is responsible for maintaining the group’s culture, internal corporate social initiatives, internal communication, talent, L&D, and leadership. Jennifer’s most recent focus has been a project exploring and assessing talent management technology solutions for the organisation, which includes: employee engagement and development for Direct Axis’ 1,700 employees, as well as organ-isational communication systems. Jennifer is a qualified coach, and prior to joining Direct Axis, she owned her own consultancy focused on L&D, leadership and team development.

Clelland KrugerPanel Participant

Global HRM

Clelland has over 20 years of specialist hu-man capital, leadership development and talent management experience in a variety of corporates and industries. She is a spe-cialist at establishing company culture and creating high levels of staff engagement. Recently, Clelland joined Let’s Sell Lobsters, part of the Lobster Ink group, as their Global: HRM and is based in their Cape Town offices. Before that, she was Head: L&D at Virgin Active. Outside of work, you will probably find Clelland

enjoying the outdoors with her Dalmatian at her side.