DR MAGDA STRYDOM: HEAD OF BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
Dr Strydom has spent a substansial amount of years of her working career in the corporate environment. Her experience includes Chief Operating Officer, Head of Global operations, Head of Academy, project manager and Regional manager roles with a total of 20 years management experience. She has personally managed her own businesses with up to fifty (50) staff members, 5 branches and multi-million Rand budgets.
She regularly reviews Business Development Services, e-learning strategies, business models for SMME’s and reviews within the banking environment.
She is an author of many articles in business magazines as well as guest speaker/lecturer at various tertiary institutions, with the focus on strategic management approaches and turnaround strategies in the new millennium, and specific focus on Business Development Services and change management.
She is a competent manager and leader with vast general business experience in corporate as well as small business.
She is operational but strategically focussed.
- Qualifications: B.Comm, Bachelors in Management and leadership (BML), BSc Psychology, BS (Sexology), M.Ed, MBA and a PhD (De Paul University USA)
- Accredited assessor and moderator having written various business courses on higher education level
- Lecturer at undergraduate and post graduate level
- Author of training modules – handbooks (both unit standard and non-unit standard bases)