Joy-Marie Lawrence is a Chartered Director, and the Founder of Boardvisory, with extensive experience as a lawyer and business woman, her purpose as a Board Coach is to cultivate courageous conversations that enable effective boardroom decision-making. 

Joy-Marie also designs and delivers boardroom courses relevant to Board Director Development.

Her qualifications include an Executive MBA (cum laude) (UCT Graduate School of Business), a Masters of Law (LLM) in Outer Space, Broadcasting, Telecommunications (WITS), a Professional Certified Coach accredited by International Coaching Federation, an Advanced Programme for Private Equity (GIBS), Diploma in Integral Practitioner Coaching,
a Bachelors of Law (LLB) (UCT) and BA (UCT). Joy-Marie is also an accredited integrative Enneagram practitioner and Five Lens Practitioner Joy-Marie has been a fellow of the Institute of Directors of South Africa since 2009 and is an accredited Chartered Director since 2017.

With more than 24 years’ experience, she completed her legal articles at Webber Wentzel in Johannesburg. Her corporate work experience includes the Telecommunications sector, Media & Broadcasting and the IT sector. Joy-Marie also currently serves as a mentor, facilitator and keynote speaker.
Joy-Marie’s experience as a Non-Executive Director and Chairperson of boards spans the investment, science and technology, legal, education and health sectors. Her current directorships include:
• non-executive director of WDB Investment Holdings;
• non-executive director of Old Mutual (South Africa) Nominees (RF) (Pty) Ltd;
• non-executive director of TEKANO;
• Non-Executive Director of Assore South Africa (Pty) Ltd
Joy-Marie has also previously served on the UCT GSB Advisory Board and as a nonexecutive director of Diageo South Africa (Pty) Ltd. She was previously a founding Board
member and subsequently the Chair of the South African National Space Agency (SANSA)
a (section 3A) statutory entity reporting to the South African Department of Science and
Technology.