BY Nkosazana Ngwadla
Tebogo Moatshe is the founder and managing partner of Masego Consulting, a 100% black female-owned management consulting firm founded in October 2017. They consider themselves Human Capital Transformation specialists who help their clients transform in their way of work.
They’ve integrated seamlessly, and work collaboratively, with their client teams to co-create a customised solution for seemingly generic business challenges.
Tebogo believes gender empowerment has allowed her business to unlock client opportunities that they didn’t feel strongly about but their company credentials and those of their senior management team spoke for themselves. It has also catalysed their access to clients with female executives in leadership as they can easily identify with their core delivery teams since they are pro-women.
According to the entrepreneur, these are the current and future trends in her sector:
Strategic Alliances: Firms are forming strategic alliances and partnerships to more effectively service clients and their needs. This is allowing firms to focus on their high-touch client engagement model
- Purpose-driven consulting: Clients are increasingly asking us to help them integrate purpose into their
business strategies, as they recognise that having a clear sense of purpose can lead to improved employee engagement, customer loyalty and financial performance
- Digitisation: Migration from manual and basic tools of trade to conducting work and delivering value to clients using digital tools for visualisations, tracking, story-telling etc.
- AI Automation: Use of tools to drive productivity and collaboration; e.g. the use of ChatGPT to better
support the employee lifecycle (from recruiting, to onboarding, to training, to performance management and employee engagement)
“I am inspired by many female leaders such as Michelle Obama and Oprah Winfrey, however, my biggest inspiration is my late grandmother. Not only was she a successful business woman her entire life, until she retired at 80 years old, she was a woman of stature, poise and strength who always encouraged me to go after what I wanted and to always stay true to myself. She constantly reminded me that no-one owes me anything in this world and that I need to wake up every day and work for my dreams,” she concluded.
Image and source: Standard Bank Top Women
