CAREER LEADERSHIP CENTRE
Building future ready talent
Career Development
Facilitated through expert advice from our Global Network of Associate Coaches, a purpose-driven career development curriculum, mentorship engagement, industry networking opportunities and practical interventions around the job search process.
We work with talent management experts and an expansive industry partner network, to help graduates access opportunities across consulting, main stream business, social innovation and entrepreneurship.
Quick Facts
CAREER LEADERSHIP FOR STUDENTS AND ALUMNI
UCT GSB students and alumni have access to our unique careers tools, resources and services in order to make continuous, conscious and informed decisions about their careers. Assertive career leadership values allow students to take initiative, action and active measures to realise or achieve their current and future career goals.
The UCT GSB Career Leadership Centre supports students and alumni by providing the following:
- Career leadership coaching
- Professional leadership brand development
- Digital online profiling and CV writing critique
- Career purpose workshops that will provide the skills to identify and re-write your narrative for a successful and fulfilling lifelong career
- Mock interview programme that will offer you the ideal opportunity to improve your interviewing skills and interview techniques that are specific to a particular industry such as case interviewing
- On-campus and virtual recruitment programme focusing on placement opportunities with employers
- Access to UCT GSB’s Global Network of Associate Coaches
- Interview coaching
- Networking opportunities such as industry panel discussions inviting industry and alumni to inform you on how to direct your application for employment
- Access to the career resources that are available in the UCT GSB library, VAULT online careers library and the UCT GSB career portal
- Links to local and international headhunter’s as well as links to MBA Exchange, MBA Direct and Global Workplace.
- Access to Job Posting and industry recruitment events
- Career mentorship made possible by our international alumni network
PLACEMENT INDUSTRIES AND SECTORS
Many UCT GSB students embark on a significant shift in career direction after completing their studies.
View examples of the most popular industries and sectors in which UCT GSB alumni find employment in their year of graduation.
ENGAGE WITH UCT GSB TALENT
The UCT GSB Career Leadership Centre builds talent that is capable of mastering change and able to adapt to the future world of work whilst instilling an attitude of lifelong learning.
While each career journey is unique, certain core characteristics are sought by many respected talent advisors today. The World Economic Forum lists top 10 skills needed to thrive in the future of work.The UCT GSB invests considerable time to define and develop these qualities in our students:
- Analytical thinking and innovation
- Creative originality and initiative
- Leadership Agility & Social Influence
- Emotional Intelligence
- Critical thinking and analysis
- Complex problem solving
- Technology Design & Programming
- Reasoning, problem solving and ideation
- Active Learning and learning strategies
- Systems analysis and evaluation
Email us to access this unique pool of talent at Africa's top ranked business school.
MEET THE TEAM
Adjunct Associate Professor
François Bonnici is physician, professor and currently the Director of the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, and Head of Social Innovation at the World Economic Forum.
Adjunct Senior Lecturer
Wayne is the Founder and Chief Executive of The Decision Advisory Group, which focuses on helping companies create more value by making better strategic decisions.
Adjunct Senior Lecturer
Dr Linda Kantor is an adjunct senior lecturer at the UCT GSB where she teaches a compulsory mindfulness leadership programme to the EMBA students.
Adjunct Senior Lecturer
Steven Kuo is an adjunct senior lecturer at the UCT GSB and Key Account Manager at Barloworld Equipment, responsible for Chinese customers in both resource and construction industries across Southern Africa.
Adjunct Lecturer
Sean Lewis is a Guest Lecturer on the Executive MBA programme.
Adjunct Lecturer
Phathizwe Malinga is the Managing Director of SqwidNet, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Dark Fibre Africa.
Adjunct Lecturer
Jennifer McDonogh has almost completed her PhD at the GSB.
Adjunct Senior Lecturer
Sharron McPherson is an adjunct senior lecturer at the UCT GSB where she lectures project finance on the MBA programme.
Adjunct Lecturer
Dr Makgathi Mokwena is an adjunct professor at the UCT GSB and co-convenes the school’s executive education programme, Developing Women in Leadership.
Adjunct Lecturer
Gayle Northrop is Adjunct Faculty at the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business (UCT GSB), faculty at UCLA Anderson School of Management in Los Angeles, and President of Northrop Nonprofit Consulting, a firm specialising in strategic planning, organisational development and leadership development for nonprofits and social enterprises worldwide.
Adjunct Lecturer
Marlon Parker is an adjunct professor at the UCT GSB and the founder the Reconstructed Living Lab (RLabs), a global movement that has inspired replication of the model in 23 countries and impacted more than 10 million people since its inception.
Adjunct Faculty
Aunnie Patton Power is the founder of Intelligent Impact, a technology for social impact advisory firm, and a university lecturer on Innovative Finance, Impact Investing and Technology for Impact.
Adjunct Lecturer
Cynthia Rayner works with social purpose organizations and funders as a consultant, researcher, and co-learner.
Adjunct Senior Lecturer
Elaine Rumboll is an adjunct senior lecturer at the UCT GSB.
Adjunct Associate Professor
Professor Rickard Sandberg is the head of Center for Data Analytics at the Stockholm School of Economics (Sweden).
Adjunct Lecturer
Reshaad Sha is the CEO of BriteGaze and BriteGaze FUND ONE.
Adjunct Associate Professor
Grant Sieff is an adjunct associate professor at the UCT GSB, a visiting professor at Rhodes Business School and teaches at business schools in South Africa and Europe.
Adjunct Professor
Professor Herman Singh is an adjunct professor at the UCT GSB and the CEO of Future Advisory, an international firm specialising in digital transformation projects in corporates, and startup acceleration.
Adjunct Senior Lecturer
Cordi is an experienced executive in the Financial Services Industry.
Adjunct Associate Professor
Dr Gary van Vuuren is an adjunct associate professor at the UCT GSB.
Adjunct Associate Professor
Mohan is a member of the Development Bank of Southern Africa’s (DBSA) Group Executive Committee, with accountability for pan-African deal origination/client management.
Adjunct Associate Professor
Dr Allistair Witten is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the UCT GSB’s Bertha Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship.