Mkabayi Advisory is a 100% Black woman owned niche Leadership and Talent Advisory firm.
About the Founder: Buhle Masithela
Buhle Masithela is originally from Botha’s Hill, in the Valley of a Thousand Hills, Kwa-Zulu Natal.
Buhle is the founder of Mkabayi Advisory and has more than 25 years’ multi-industry corporate working experience, earned in local and global companies. Her career spans Fast Market Consumer Goods (FMCG) where she worked for Robertsons Spices, Unilever and Nabisco (now Mondelez International); Financial Services at South Africa’s leading investment bank, Rand Merchant Bank (RMB), a division of FirstRand; and Professional Services, where she worked for the global executive search firm, Spencer Stuart.
Buhle has a unique combination of experience and skills gained in the following functional areas;
- Marketing – Business to Consumer and Business to Business;
- Banking (Retail and Corporate), Investments and Finance; and
- Human Capital with a specialist focus in Talent Acquisition, Talent Management, Diversity and Inclusion.
Buhle has held various executive roles and was a member of various executive committees during her employ in Financial Services. She was also an Executive member of The Association of Black Securities and Investment Professionals (ABSIP) and participated as ABSIP’s representative in sector committees that negotiated and drafted South Africa’s Financial Sector Charter.
In executive search, Buhle has successfully partnered with local and international organisations to recruit African diaspora and local talent for Non-Executive Board, Executive and Senior Management roles in South Africa and sub-Saharan Africa. This has contributed to her exceptional broad stakeholder management skills and ability to work with different organizational cultures.
Her skills and experience have provided her with an appreciation of how organizations can best and effectively achieve growth in a commercially sustainable manner, while being inclusive and culturally sensitive in the communities/countries they operate. Buhle has a track record of attracting highly skilled talent for innovative, competitive and highly legislated environments.
As a Fulbright Scholar, she had the opportunity to spend two years in Boston, MA where she studied for an MBA at Simmons School of Management and worked as a Student Intern. This afforded her the opportunity to work in very diverse multicultural teams. Buhle also holds a Bachelor of Social Science in Economics and Marketing from the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal (Pietermaritzburg).
Buhle is a member of the St Mary’s School (Waverley) diversity parent committee known as HOPE; Hearing Other People’s Experiences. HOPE is a sub-committee of the Parent Teacher Association (PTA).
What’s in a name … Mkabayi?
Our firm draws inspiration from its namesake Zulu Princess Mkabayi KaJama a courageous, influential strategist, and fearless woman. An unsung heroine of the mighty Zulu nation who is credited with being Kingmaker and the force behind the Zulu monarchy and the nation as a whole. Mkabayi Advisory celebrates and lives these values in our engagements and partnerships with clients and candidates.
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