A trusted advisor with 20 plus years of high-impact experience addressing people and business strategy, Vannie is a well respected Transformation, Leadership and Human Capital expert. She’s an accomplished consultant with knowledge and understanding of corporate and SME business sectors, legislative & regulatory environments in Retail, Manufacturing, Financial Services, IT, Energy, Logistics, Security, Health care, and Insurance Industries, including relevant regulatory, company & labor laws in SA and African territories. Background in providing leadership and strategic direction to CEO, and C-suite executives to help build themselves, their people, and their businesses, through scale-up, turnaround, and development and coaching programs. She has a history of leading People and Business strategies, corporate affairs, and communications portfolios, directing multicultural teams, and implementing strategic resets, change leadership, and transformative projects for growth – mergers and acquisitions, organizational and capital restructuring, business rescue, and foreign expansion. Through, Oaktree People Solutions, where she is CEO and MD, Vannie has sharpened her craft to serve leaders and SMEs - through an integrated eco-system, leadership, and entrepreneur development programs and business solutions and services SMEs need to start and scale up their business. Her purpose is to ignite growth, helping entrepreneurs and SMEs thrive. Vannie has her Honours in Industrial Psychology, an MBA, completed a certified directors program, and serves on boards in various roles - as a board member, advisor, and remuneration committee member, NPC director. She is also a certified executive coach and has completed various certificate programs in leadership, organizational development, facilitation, directorship, and coaching. Vannie is also a mentor on the JSE SME programs for Entrepreneurs, Gibs postgraduate program coach, mentor for MBA graduates through SIOPSA, and an independent volunteer coach, helping to build entrepreneurs and young leaders for success.