With more than three decades in Executive Leadership with multinational Equipment Manufacturing and Commercial Retail, Precious Metals and Investment Group firms, Dr Francois Joubert is an accomplished business leader and development expert, who retains sterling academic and commercial performance records. With close-on two decades in executive management of a diversified Retail, Manufacturing, Property Development and International Trading company, Francois directs strategic and operational growth with agility and fearless focus on continuous development. As initiator and driver of aggressive business expansion into new African territories, Francois possesses recognised competence in identifying, developing and fortifying novel partnerships and sales distribution channels that boost market access and profitability. Skilled in international governance alignment, he holds a consistent record of initiating organisational improvement and of managing change in consultative and sensitive ways. Francois is deeply practised in navigating and overcoming multicultural issues across African business units, where he applies a comprehensive case study history to resolve complex operational challenges. A highly engaged leader, with active involvement in organisation-wide talent development and retention, Francois expertly transfers company vision and strategy into daily operations. His success in incentivising shared revenue growth responsibility, acknowledging and rewarding performance, has fostered an organisational culture of collaborative innovation and above-average staff performance.