Season 2 Episode 1: From Adversity to Achievement: Thembeka Maseko on Resilience, Education, and Leadership.
Join us for an inspiring episode featuring Thembeka Maseko, Non-Executive Director of Standard Trust Limited. Raised by her grandparents in Cape Town’s informal settlements, Thembeka’s story is a powerful testament to resilience and the transformative power of education. She shares how her grandfather’s belief in her potential shaped her success and leadership style, where storytelling plays a vital role in connecting and motivating her team. Thembeka also reflects on the importance of auditing relationships, embracing empathy, and the impact of mentorship on personal growth.
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Aisling McCaffrey is clear that the seventeen year old choosing a university course could not have described where she is now. She works at the Impact Investing Institute in London on the question of why capital does not flow to the places that need it. Recent months have taken her to the Ethiopian border with Somalia alongside UNHCR and UNDP, and to India to look at the textile and apparel sector.
Difference Makers Discuss, season 5, episode 1. Sinead Donovan talks to Kingsley Aikins, founder of Diaspora Matters. This is the second of a two part conversation, the first of which closed season 4.
Season 4 of Difference Makers Discuss covered a lot of ground. Six guests, six very different lives, and on the face of it not much in common beyond a professional qualification and a willingness to talk honestly. Watch them back to back, and something else emerges. Every one of these stories turns on the same thing: the decision to connect with another human being when it would have been easier not to.
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