Team

Linda de Waal

Founder | Managing Director

Entrepreneurial marketing & business manager in the Molecular Life Science arena with a passion for knowledge transfer and skills development. Skillsets include stakeholder management, conceptualizing, implementation and management of marketing and training strategies. Technical training was utilized as a marketing tool and in this capacity numerous workshops were hosted across Africa. Conceptualized a hybrid Foundation in Omics (Genomics, Proteomics & Bioinformatics) program, with a flexible, tailormade wet-lab component. A portable “Lab in a Bag” option was designed to make wet-lab training accessible to under-resourced tertiary institutes in SA (Africa), launched Accra, Ghana 2019. Knowledge gained from numerous interpersonal skills courses culminated in 2 Service SETA accredited programs. The best way to achieve organizational goals is to network and collaborate; to identify, develop and nurture strengths of others – always strive to train the trainer. Honorary Golden Key International Society member – leadership in the science communication space.

Athenkosi Swartz-Gosani

Stakeholder Engagement Manager | Facilitator

High performing strategic professional with 10-13 years’ experience in development, employment services, project and programme management and training in non-profit, private sector and higher education sectors. Extensive experience in managing large‐scale skills projects (Internationally, Continentally and Locally) bringing interests in learning and incorporating new technologies and fundamental growth of campaigns/projects and programme. A great thinker who is passionate about innovation and innovative ways of putting forward the notion of change management, development and seeing a charismatic and goal driven nation through learning and development.