A mother, a blogger, business coach, motivational speaker, a future author. I love helping people and I love seeing small businesses grow. I spent 24 years in corporate as a senior marketing executive and decided to start my own business in coaching. I live in Johannesburg, South Africa with my daughter. I love family, reading and blogging.
Don’t forget to register for the webinar I am hosting on the 2nd of September 2020. Following my own story of rejection in corporate, I got so many women who wrote to me about their experiences. I have 2 guests Brenda Khumalo Head of Client Success at Demographica and a very dear old friend Mechell […]
It was with shock that I heard of your passing away. Lauren I met your fabulous beautiful you when I worked at Unilever +- 28 years ago. I did not know you well then but we both joined SABMiller in April 2005. We bonded because we felt lost in this new world of men and beer. We could not […]
I was rejected. They told me I was not wanted anymore. I did not understand what I had done wrong. They told me my team was complaining about me. They told me I was not performing. But I said my performance appraisal did not indicate that I was not performing. In fact, I was delivering. […]
What is your take on this Nike campaign? This is what great marketing does. This is what I am saying. It’s creative. It’s goosebumps. It’s got a great narrative. Marketing is for the brave! #brandsuccess #brandstories #bravebrand #courage
This is a caricature of me given as a gift when I left Unilever I was a Marketing Manager of Deodorants. I had been there for 12 years at Unilever and felt I had reached my career ceiling with little prospects of a promotion. I decided to go for adventures outside of my comfort zone and outside of Durban. […]
This is one of the first ads I worked on at Vodacom called Vodacom Baby. Before coming to Vodacom I had been on extended maternity. I had left my previous job to have a baby & had not been working for almost a year. Having a baby changed me so much. I had lost some […]
One of the activities I miss from my corporate days is leading marketing campaigns. There was just adrenaline that would pump into my body, the thrill and the excitement of delivering great work. Sometimes it would be average work, and once in a while really bad. Having worked for over 24 years and over a […]
I did not get the promotion. I was so angry. And disappointed. A colleague got the promotion. I wanted to resign. I did not. My boss was nice though. I wanted to be angry with her. But instead, she called me in her office and told me why I did not get the promotion. She […]
This was one of the highlights of my career! One of the best moments of my life. I never ever been overseas and when a position came to work @UnileverArabia Dubai came I was like yeah baby I am going. I had never set foot outside South Africa. I am from a small town called […]
I suffer from such huge “self-doubt” and I hear people go but you have accomplished so much. And I am like yeah yeah. Do you have that self-doubt? What do you do with that voice? I call my self doubting voice Martha. She likes telling me I am not good enough but here I have […]
