Lester Davids started his academic career with a PhD in molecular and cellular biology in the department of Medicine at UCT He formed and managed a successful research laboratory for 10 years.

Currently he is working as a facilitator, lecturer and consultant to the entire Executive MBA course at the UCT Graduate School of Business. He is, and remains passionate about enabling people from any contextual background to emerge as the best version of themselves through a process of self discovery and transformation. He remains fully committed to this purpose through advisory, mentoring, training, facilitation and coaching services. He consults on business principles, systemic thinking and leadership as practice with National companies Davids holds a Masters in Biology from UCT, has worked with and graduated numerous postgraduate students, has more than 40 research publications and completed his executive MBA at UCT with a dissertation focussing on Change Leadership in a Post COVID era.