ALU School of Business is delighted to announce our newest Chairman’s Scholars, two remarkable African professionals who are joining the October 2019 EMBA programme.
Our two new Chairman’s Scholars were chosen on the basis of their outstanding professional achievements, their pan-African vision and their demonstrated leadership in uplifting their communities. Join us in congratulating Tafadzwa Bete Sasa and Brian Kudzaishe Mataruka!
Tafadzwa Bete Sasa
Tafadzwa Bete Sasa is a high-performance trainer, consultant and coach in Lusaka, Zambia, specialising in designing and facilitating the knowledge, tools, systems and processes that equip individuals and teams for higher productivity.
The founder of GoalGetter Consultancy, Tafadzwa coaches high potential professionals on personal mastery and goal setting for accelerated career and personal growth. She trains and consults for entrepreneurs and SMEs on team building, organisational design and staff engagement for higher efficiency. She’s also a founding partner of the Training Leaders Consortium, a partnership of Learning and Development professionals who are helping corporates across five sectors to optimize their organisational cultures and processes to drive productivity and growth.
Tafadzwa took her first steps into the world of HR at BancABC ZiEMBAbwe and later worked as a team-building facilitator at Kutting Edge Solutions, where she discovered and fell in love with experiential learning facilitation. As the Training and Resource Centre Manager at Alchemy Women in Leadership Zambia, she refined her facilitation, team leadership and project management skills on a leadership development project that connected three generations of women and girls into mentorship villages.
Tafadzwa is the this year’s National President of JCI Zambia, a global network providing development opportunities that empower young people to create positive change. She is also a Global Shaper under an initiative of the World Economic Forum for Hubs developed and led by young people driving dialogue, action and change in their communities. For her outstanding work and leadership, Tafadzwa has received leadership awards including being recognised by Moremi Initiative as one of Africa’s most outstanding Emerging Women Leaders.
Brian Kudzaishe Mataruka
Brian Kudzaishe Mataruka is a practising lawyer based in Harare, ZiEMBAbwe and a partner with a leading Harare law firm, Gill Godlonton & Gerrans, where he also heads the Insolvency and Mining departments. His key areas of speciality are in matters of insolvency, mining, infrastructure and deal structuring. He is also a non-executive Director of Willdale Bricks Limited, the only brick manufacturing company listed on the ZiEMBAbwe stock exchange and sits on boards of various leading private limited companies such as Aviation Ground Services (Private) Limited.
A leading entrepreneur in his own right, Brian is one of the founding directors of an agricultural export company called Umhlaba Green Fields (Private) Limited which exports horticultural agricultural produce to Europe. He is also the founding Director of a construction company called Umuzi Properties which specialises in low to medium scale housing in ZiEMBAbwe and has built over a hundred homes since its inception in July 2017.
Through these companies, Brian is directly involved in the employment of more than one hundred employees fending for more than 300 dependants. Brian has previously been voted as personality of the month by a leading ZiEMBAbwean lifestyle magazine and is regarded as a proponent of social change in ZiEMBAbwe and as one of the leading development entrepreneurs in the Sub-Saharan region.