2016 Faculty Pioneer Award Recipients
Multiple Faculty are being Recognized for this Award
Winning Course: Human Behavior and Performance in South Africa
Anthony Wilson-Prangley
Faculty
Gordon Institute of Business Science, University of Pretoria
Dr. Ngao Motsei
Faculty
Gordon Institute of Business Science, University of Pretoria
Jonathan Cook
Adjunct Faculty
Gordon Institute of Business Science, University of Pretoria
Prof Margie Sutherland
Faculty
Gordon Institute of Business Science, University of Pretoria
Morris Mthombeni
Faculty
Gordon Institute of Business Science, University of Pretoria
“One grand challenge of our time is to overcome intractable group conflict. South Africa has transitioned to a democracy but many of the entrenched inequalities remain. In response, the faculty team developed a course that helps students understand and respond to the human complexity of the world around them. It combines theory from sociology, social-psychology and organizational behaviour with visits to places of symbolic importance, dialogue, theatre and story sharing.” -Teaching Team
Anthony Wilson-Prangley’s Biography
Before joining the GIBS faculty Anthony helped to build the Centre for Leadership and Dialogue at GIBS – a series of programmes that build the next generation of SA leadership. The centre focuses on the context and capacities required for leading complex societies. His professional interests include the study of democracy in countries in transition, social change in the contemporary era and active citizenship. He runs many of the experiential learning aspects of GIBS especially those focused on the broader socio-economic and political environment of the country. Before this he founded an NGO, the Gumboots Foundation, and was intimately involved with a global non-profit youth leadership network – Pioneers of Change. He lectures in the area of leading change with emphasis on the social context, human behaviour and boundary-spanning. He is completing his doctorate in Sociology.
Dr. Ngao Motsei’s Biography
Dr Ngao Motsei is a member of the GIBS faculty, a Partner at Heidrick and Struggles’ Johannesburg office and a member of the global Leadership Consulting Practice. Ngao focuses mainly on leadership consulting and advisory work, servicing all industry sectors. She joined Heidrick and Struggles from Leadership Emporium, a boutique leadership consultancy she founded. Prior to founding Leadership Emporium, Ngao served in various executive and senior management positions in both the public and private sector in South Africa. She has designed and implemented long-term organisational development, change and leadership interventions for the public and private sector, both locally and internationally. International career highlights include being part of the organisational restructuring of Deloitte & Touche in Toronto, Canada; assisting in a business unit re-engineering for Phillips in Budapest, Hungary, and being part of a Team Development and Effectiveness intervention at the University Hospital in Singapore. Part of her Organisational Development training was through the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland’s International Organisations & Systems Development Programme. Ngao holds a PhD (Organisational Behaviour) from the University of Pretoria.
Jonathan Cook’s Biography
Jonathan Cook is chairman of the Nairobi-based African Management Initiative (AMI), a social enterprise focused on developing scalable approaches to support African managers in excellent performance, and adjunct faculty member and professional associate of the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) of the University of Pretoria. After qualifying as a counselling psychologist he spent ten years with the National Institute for Personnel Research in Johannesburg, finally as head of assessment and counselling. His next fifteen years were spent as a faculty member at the Graduate School of Business Administration of the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits Business School), where he founded the Management Development Unit and later became director of academic programmes. In 2004 he joined GIBS as senior lecturer and in 2011 was appointed as director, a position he held until December 2013.
Professor Margie Sutherland’s Biography
Margie Sutherland is a full time professor at the Gordon Institute of Business Science, University of Pretoria. She completed her Doctorate in Commerce on the retention of knowledge workers at RAU and attended Harvard Business School’s programme on case based teaching. She has worked in the human resource field in a wide range of industries, including mining, manufacturing, hotels, agriculture and retail as well as in the Holding Company of S.A. Breweries. She was appointed an associate professor in 2006 and a full professor in 2009 at GIBS where she lectures on all aspects of performance management, organizational behaviour, sustainable leadership and social relevance of business on both academic, executive and company specific programmes. She has supervised more than 150 MBA student research reports. She consults to a number of companies and works with a number of NGOs. She has won 9 teaching excellence awards. She has taught for Unicef in Cambodia, Bangladesh, Nepal, Hong Kong, Philippines and at the Rotterdam School of Management to their full time MBA programme. She has published 25 peer reviewed articles in a range of academic journals, has published a number of case studies with Ivey and has three chapters in books. She also serves on a number of journal editorial committees and acts as an external examiner for 7 universities.
Morris Mthombeni’s Biography
Morris joined the GIBS faculty in January 2014 as a lecturer in the leadership cluster. Morris has been reading for his doctorate at GIBS since January 2013, focusing on corporate governance and sustainability. Prior to 2013, Morris was a chief executive of a large investment management business, and executive director of a large insurance based financial service company. Morris is also a non-executive director of a listed banking group and other not-for-gain organisations. With more than 21 years of corporate experience, more than 15 at executive level, Morris aims to contribute to bridging the gap between theory and practice. He is the lead faculty on the Global Executive Development Programme. His specific teaching focus is on the Macro Environment of Business.
