Gill is a designer of learning development journeys for people-first organizations that improve the world of work and help unlock abundance. She’s driven learning innovation and design portfolios for much of her career, heading a digital studio for The Guardian newspaper’s school-education channel, designing ambient, ‘curated-in’ learning spaces for world class business schools and heading design functions that ‘push the envelope’ in the executive education space for Henley Business School (Africa) and The University of Pretoria’s Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS).

She’s ‘living her best life’ when co-creating bespoke learning with clients and colleagues and has designed in-person, hybrid, and digital journeys for leaders at Google, Anglo American, Unilever, Bidvest, Swissport, Roche and many others including industry level solutions in financial services, wholesale and retail, and sports management.

Corporate learning accolades include driving the design process, ‘pitch to pilot to rollout’ for a blue- chip financial services client, partnering two business schools to achieve the European Foundation for Management Development’s (EFMD) Gold Award in Executive Education in 2020 and being invited to sit on the judges’ panel for subsequent awarding years.

Gill heads the Change Science content channel for BrightRock’s Change Exchange, an active community of some 200 000 people from all walks of life, who are committed to making change an ally and friend.

Dr Kirti Ranchod is based in Johannesburg, South Africa and graduated with a degree in medicine from the University of Witwatersrand in 1998 (MBBCh). She obtained her specialist neurology qualification from the College Of Medicine SA in 2007. Kirti has extensive clinical experience in medicine and neurology.

Her professional focus is on memory and more comprehensively on brain health. Interests include the role of traditional practices in promoting health, neuroaesthetics, and understanding the different perceptions of memory.

She is the founder of Memorability, a consultancy that helps individuals and organisations optimise brain performance by investing in brain skills training. Memorability emerged from Kirti’s efforts in exploring ways to prevent dementia and protect memory. In doing this, she began to appreciate that a narrow focus on memory was not sufficient to protect memory, as healthy memory requires a healthy brain. Memorability is a reliable, practical, effective, and comprehensive approach to improving brain health and memory, offering courses to individuals, organisations, and health-care professionals alike.

She has completed a project with REMI East Africa in Uganda to support healthcare workers. She has also conducted numerous workshops and talks to support brain health including with EYAfrica, Hollard, the Atlantic Institute, the Origins Centre (Wits), Standard Bank Art Gallery, and TEDxJohannesburg.

Her work has been featured on the Brain and Brand show with Timothy Maurice (BrainBoosting Tips from a Neurologist; A Neurologist’s Tips for an Elite Brain), the Daily Maverick and Business Day. Publications include Sleep and Brain Health, Chronic stress: Neuroscience and Practical Coping Strategies, Dementia in Africa, and 7 Steps for Igniting the Brain Capital Industrial Strategy.

In addition to being a founder, neurologist, and brain health consultant, Kirti is a Global Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health. She was a Co-Founder & Chair for Africa Brain Health Network (2018 – 2023) and a Board Member of Alzheimer’s South Africa (2019 – 2022).

Jenny Lorenzo is an experienced organisational development (OD) practitioner, team and executive coach, and a process and learning facilitator.

Organisations aiming to thrive in an increasingly volatile and complex environment require teams with collective leadership strength. Jenny supports organisations in building empowered leaders and teams as key enablers of organisational change and effectiveness – teams with common purpose that value learning, relationship, authenticity and collaboration.

Jenny’s background is in learning and development and her training is in OD, facilitation, coaching and teaching. Since 2012 she has worked part-time for the University of Pretoria’s Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) as a facilitator, executive and group coach and action learning coach (with considerable experience in Process Redesign) while building her own OD and coaching practice.

In facilitating, Jenny emphasizes creativity, reflection and courageous dialogue. Jenny’s teaching interests include Personal Mastery and Team Effectiveness (with an emphasis on psychological safety), Adaptive and Innovative Mindsets and Leadership Development in a constantly and rapidly changing world.

Over the years Jenny has supported the development of leaders and organisations across a range of sectors including Standard Bank, Ithuba Lottery, Cell C, Multotec, Komatsu, Nampak, MultiChoice, Bloomberg, Aspen, AIG, SARS, FNB, SAB Miller, BP, The Airports Company, Kodak, Bytes and HP.

Jenny has worked in South Africa, Nigeria and Kenya and has a passion to support the people of this continent in effective learning, collaborating and leading.

In 1992, Frank Magwegwe was homeless and unemployed. In 1993, through selling fruit and vegetables in downtown Johannesburg, he “beat the odds” and “escaped” homelessness.

Frank has travelled an incredible journey, becoming a lecturer at the University of Pretoria’s Gordon Institutes of Business Science (GIBS), proving the power of education and the human spirit to overcome obstacles and adversity in life.

Prior to joining GIBS in 2021, Dr Frank held several leadership positions, including Head of Institutional Business at Investment Solutions, CEO of Momentum Administration Services, COO of Momentum Wealth, and CEO and Head of Financial Planning of Momentum’s middle market segment business.

Dr Frank studies people’s resilience and well-being, viewing resilience not as a trait but as a teachable skill, and well-being not as a destination, but a never-ending process, incorporating changes over time and contexts. His research focuses on how those facing adversity attain favourable long-term outcomes such as improved well-being through the influence of resilience, the process and outcome of positively adapting to adversity. In studying resilience, informed by his own experience of overcoming homelessness, he seeks to understand why some individuals can withstand adversity or even thrive despite experiencing adversity in their lives. His work emphasizes how to use theories of resilience to increase individual, team, and organisational functioning during difficult and challenging times.

He was seminal in researching and developing BrightRock’s Change Programme, designed specifically to help individuals adapt to change and make change stick.