Sonys announcement of 10,000 job cuts and record losses was not accompanied by much talk of the Sony customer or of its business ecosystem. Why is this, I found myself asking as I trawled through the reports and interviews with Kazuo Hirai.

Sonys Asian competitors are eating its lunch in the TV sector, Sony is going to dispense with some non-core businesses, and they are going to focus on innovation. The news, and plans, are all so conventional you feel it could have come right out of the 1980s. No wonder it disappointed the markets with Sony shares losing 5% early Friday in Tokyo.

Sonys new CEO needs to kick back the stool and think differently. Here are three suggestions.

1. Sonys Customers and its business ecosystem

It’s a sure sign of a commodity business when you hear more about the innovative features of products than about customers. I am the sad owner of a Sony digital Walkman, a slender MP3 that lies at the bottom of my travel bag. It doesn’t work, lasted about six weeks. Cheap, disposable. That is my relationship with Sony.

And its one of the reasons I don’t connect with Sony. I have an emotional connection with the music on there but not with the device, which does nothing to help me, nothing to extend a relationship with me, nothing to draw me into the Sony world.

The tens of millions of people playing online games through PSP, are part of the Sony world too. You have ambitions to develop a medical imaging business. You still want to sell TVs and you are in mobile.

But what is your ecosystem?

We’ve reached a stage where a company’s coherence or core competency actually resides in its ecosystem rather than its management of a production process. Sure companies need to excel at supply chain management, and they are lost without good design, but these are standard parts in the value chain whereas the ecosystem is the novelty, the flux, the indeterminate part.

I don’t see any single platform that manages a Sony ecosystem, like iTunes helps Apple manage an ecosystem, from developers to network partners to customers.

If you know your ecosystem and manage it well, through exceptional business platform design, you can do the types of radical adjacencies Sony hankers after, like moving into medical imaging.

Or you can make a more rational decision about adjacencies. You might say: actually by going into medical imaging we extend beyond our ecosystem and create unacceptable management overheads.

The core competency is a set of relationships, a dynamic, that you don’t reproduce easily. It used to be that your core competency was design or supply or miniaturization but now it is the dynamics of human relationships. Get this right and you have access to new forms of scale – for a discussion of that go here.

A group of senior art students will showcase their survival skills as they present their work in a series of art exhibitions this semester.

The exhibitions represent the students’ senior thesis projects as a part of the Survival Tools for the Artist: Professional Practices course.

In the class, students learn about tools and skills needed in their field after they graduate such as writing resumès, artist statements as well as technical skills like installing their artwork and setting up galleries.

As part of the project, students had to work in pairs to present a collaborative concept.

The exhibitions are unique to campus because students had complete creative control from creating their art to publicizing their work as opposed to other exhibits where the faculty handles installation and publicity.

[The students] are going to need these skills when they leave here, said Becky Finely, associate professor of photography, who teaches the class. Getting their names out there and putting the show together is a great learning experience for them.

The latest exhibition opened on Monday in the Lowman Student Center Gallery and will be shown through March 24.

It features the work of Stephen Lee and Geoffrey Rascher who explore identity and memory through layering of art media and photography.

Next week from March 26 to 31, Daniel Bertalot and Kimberly Turman will use photography, painting, drawing, sculpture and found objects to explore memory, personal history and relationships in the Student of Fine Arts Gallery.

From April 2 to 7, a collection of photography work by AmandaGiogaia and Megan Laurie will be shown in the SOFA Gallery with a reception scheduled from 7 to 9 p.m. on April 2.

Next, the work of Cheryl Meade and Sandra Zavala will feature sculpture, painting and mixed media that will be used to show personal experiences and different perspectives of personal space. Their exhibition will be held in the SOFA Gallery from April 9 to 14.

Lastly, from April 16-21 in the SOFA Gallery, Cynthia Conner will use illustration to explore the human connection to nature and fantasy while Jamie Kinosian’s work will offer a perspective on human relationships and interactions.

According to Finely, the series will also present an opportunity for students to see the array of work by Sam Houston State University art students.

A lot of students don’t realize what we’re doing in the part department, she said. It’s a chance to see what their fellow students are doing. We have some really great artists here.

For more information on the Survival Art Class exhibitions, contact Finely at 936-294-3418.

Lyn Lusi (right) with some of the women who received help from HEAL Africa. Photo by Nicole See for the NewsHour.

HEAL Africa co-founder Lyn Lusi, who died Saturday from cancer at age 62, spent most of her recent years at the center of one of the worlds most protracted civil wars. She was able to distill the complexity of all that has happened in the Democratic Republic of Congo down to one basic human failing.

Human beings are basically very, very selfish creatures and if it goes unchecked it turns into evil, she said. The source of all evil is putting your own interests above the interest of others. It will transform and destroy all human relationships, it will destroy a husband and wife relationship, it will destroy community relationships.

Methodically, Lusi worked to counter that urge with one she believed was equally innate in all of us: a communitys call to care. Out of the rubble of war and even a volcanic eruption (Mount Kivu in 2002) that consumed the city of Goma, she and her husband Jo set about building that caring community.

Although medical expertise was the foundation (Jo Lusi remains the only orthopedic surgeon in the entire eastern Democratic Republic of Congo), HEAL Africa has gone beyond its modest but critical health care center in Goma. It has established legal clinics and so-called Nehemiah committees, trying to restore respect for elders and the rule of law in a land where child soldiers have grown up in militias that patrol with impunity.

That their enterprise was no more than a bucket in an ocean did not concern the Lusis, who felt compelled by their deep faith to do what they could. Nor did the question of succession. The Lusis have trained dozens of health care professionals and leaders that they are confident will carry on their work in future decades.

The bigger challenge, Lyn Lusi said, was to get the global community to care about what is happening in Congo.

Any time you shut out the concern (about) others suffering, you diminish your own humanity, she said.

There is plenty, she added, that connects rich countries to the conflict in Congo, starting with the minerals procured from here like copper and coltan with which this land is richly endowed — and cursed. Rival militias have staked their claim and control over these riches in a state where government control, for what its worth, is precarious. There have been moves to stem such trade, including the Dodd-Frank Reform Act, which requires companies to track the use of conflict minerals in their production of certain consumer products. In Lyn Lusis mind they are a tepid, half-baked response.

The conflict minerals are exchanged for what? she asked. Theyre exchanged for arms. Why do they stop here at the conflict minerals and not deal with the arms coming in? Theres a sort of double-talk there and a sort of hypocrisy. If you can say track a golf ball, on a golf course from outer space, can we really not track containers of arms coming in?

At no point during our visit to Goma in mid-January did Lusi betray any appearance of illness, or even fatigue, despite lengthy treatments she had undergone in recent months for her cancer. Nor did she want to dwell on herself. I only learned of her illness after hearing a veiled reference to it during our interview with her husband.

Doctors say I dont have long to live, she told me. But Im not listening to them.

She quickly deflected the conversation toward the women we were visiting at a HEAL center for victims of sexual violence.

Funeral arrangements are pending for an event that is likely to draw thousands of admirers of a woman known here as Mama Lyn, who came to this country in 1971 to teach in a missionary school and never really left (aside from short stints abroad).

The following is from a post on HEAL Africas website:

Lyn Lusi was 62 years old. She passed away from terminal cancer. She leaves behind her loving husband Jo, son Paluku and his wife and son, daughter Nadine, her sisters and thousands of friends and colleagues who loved her. She will find her resting place and last home in Butembo, North Kivu in DR Congo where the Lusi family is from. One of her last words before her death were: Tell them not to cry. Her love and her full heart will carry on — forever.

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One of South Koreas most respected directors, Hong Sang-soo makes low key, finely-observed films that turn a cynical, antiseptic eye on modern relationships, typically focusing on the self-inflicted tribulations of befuddled and immature men. Although he often gets compared to the likes of Eric Rohmer, Woody Allen, or Albert Brooks, Hongs uncomfortably clinical examinations of male narcissism and arrested development seem closer to how Stanely Kubrick might have observed one of Judd Apatows man-child protagonists.

Hongs dry visual style and sparse, largely improvised dialogue make for films that are sometimes lethargic and meandering, and other times surprising in their unexpected emotional insight. His 2008 effort Night and Day, now available in the west on Region 1 DVD for the first time, is mostly the latter.

Night and Day covers three months in the life of Seong-nam (Kim Yeong-ho), a middle-aged painter from Seoul who gets busted for smoking pot and flees in fear to Paris. Away from his wife and ensconced in a cramped boarding house filled with strangers, Seong-nam spends his days drifting around the streets of Paris and his nights making teary, self-pitying phone calls to his wife back in Seoul. Although ostensibly Seong-nam is waiting for the heat to blow over back at home, it soon becomes clear that our meek, boyish protagonist is simply caught in the inertia of an aimless life.

When speaking to his wife he bemoans his situation, but before long we see that the lifestyle of responsibility-free limbo that hes found for himself while on the lam is the perfect manifestation of his adolescent mindset. Allergic to decision-making or consequences of any kind, Seong-nam is content to sleep late and wander lazily from caf to caf, smoking endless cigarettes and eyeing pretty girls.

Inevitably, as his boredom gives way to restlessness and frustrated lust, he begins to haltingly chase after a series of women who cross his path. The first is an ex-lover living in Paris (Kim You-jin) whom he meets by happenstance, and the second is a flighty young art student named Yu-jeong (Park Eun-hye) whose stunted narcissism mirrors Seong-nams, although hers is slightly more defensible, being almost 20 years his junior. He pursues each woman with the halting awkwardness of a confused teenage boy, with only the dimmest understanding of the mystifying emotions and desires roiling inside him.

As a result Seong-nam is pulled from one extreme to another, sometimes charming those around him with brash overconfidence, sometimes breaking down in regular bouts of weepy self-flagellation, guiltily chastising himself for failing to temper his fleshly desires. Invariably, though, even the most basic insights elude Seong-nam, and time and again he obliviously pushes onward with one bad decision after another as soon as the sun rises on a new day.

Hong Sang-soos storytelling style marks him as something like Asias answer to Jim Jarmusch or Aki Kaurismaki, eschewing anything resembling a traditional three-act narrative structure for stories that instead move at the fitful, unpredictable pace of real human relationships, often without obvious resolutions or morals. Night and Day emphasizes this even further with an episodic diary structure where each day is carefully noted by its own title card and usually represented by one or two scenes at the most.

Although the scenes get more dramatic as Seong-nams muddled relationships drag him increasingly out of his depth, early on these visual diary entries are mostly calm, quotidian moments from his listless routinegetting soaked in a rainstorm, or sharing a cigarette with a housemate. Hongs light directorial touch combined with Kims gentle performance allow these scenes to serve as tiny, revealing little illustrations of character, and place Hong in the category of directors who are unafraid to back away and run the camera with no other aim than to simply observe characters being themselves.

Typically, Hong favors an immobile camera and eschews any visual flourishes whatsoever in favor of unbroken takes captured in simple, spartan medium-shots. This can sometimes give the feeling of a director observing his characters behavior in the same way a microbiologist might observe bacteria under a microscope. However, perhaps echoing his protagonists wandering eye and attention span, Hongs detached gaze is occasionally broken in order to bookend scenes with quiet, poetic moments that often go unobserved by the onscreen charactersa wistful shot of passing clouds, or water carrying a leaf down into the gutter.

Still, as seen through Hongs lens, Paris has never looked less glamorous or more anonymousthis isnt Woody Allens bohemian dreamland or Scorceses clockwork snowglobe. Hongs camera conspicuously avoids any quaint Gallic charm (or any landmarks at all, for that matter), and save for the occasional line of dialogue its remarkably easy to forget that 90 percent of the film takes place in one of the worlds great cities.

In the lead role, Kim Yeong-hos performance captures the perfect mix of boyish befuddlement and childish self-absorption. The combination of his trusting, open face perched atop his bulky frame gives the impression of an overgrown kid trapped in an adults body, and his immaturity is almost charming until his weak-willed manipulations begin to pile up on top of one another. It cant be denied that at an unnecessarily-hefty 145 minutes the film inevitably loses steam and runs out of new things to show ustheres a palpable point three-quarters of the way through when time spent with Seong-nam ceases to be rewarding and becomes something more like watching an exhausting friend repeat old patterns and mistakes without learning anything new.

Nevertheless, as a whole its a keen portrait of arrested development thats almost painful in its sharpness, and emphasized by Hongs unwavering refusal to look away or provide any relief. Together as actor and director, Hong and Kim create a character who embodies obtuse masculinity at its most clueless and self-absorbed, and the result is a slightly flawed but deeply personal film from a director with intriguingly original vision.

This week, Mass Effect 3 joins the ranks of video games striving to offer a realistic portrayal of human relationships. BioWares decision to allow both male and female homosexual partnerships inside the Mass Effect universe is a telling move. While games like Rockstars Bully, Microsofts Fable series, Atluss Persona 4, Jordan Mechners The Last Express, Bethesdas The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, and the Dragon Age series have all dealt with themes of homosexuality, the critical and commercial success of the Mass Effect series represents a significant step forward in the mainstream representation of realistic human behavior.

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Mad March Hare Theatre begin their 2012 season with an intimate production of Still.

Written by award-winning playwright, Still is an unsettling, personal look at the complexities of human relationships.

A series of eight monologues exploring failed intimacy, sexual tension, anxiety and desire, this collaborative project is brought to the stage through the eyes of five established and versatile directors in a gritty, urban environment.

Still won the Green Room award for Best Writing in 2002.

Directed by: Fiona Hallenan-Barker, Cathy Hunt, Lara Kerestes, Scarlet McGlynn and Jessica Tuckwell.

Cast: Ben Gerrard, Kimberley Hews, Matt Hyde, Beccy Iland, Kellie Jones, Luke McKenzie, (Rescue Special Ops) Amelia Ryan, and Ben Wood (Bell Shakespeare)

Playing for 6 consecutive shows. Bookings are a must.

Performance Times:
March 20, 21, 22, 23, 24 at 8pm
March 25 at 7pm
Tix $22/$15

Bookings through Moshtix

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I also have a unique and important background. After obtaining my Master’s in Human Development Counseling in 1986, I worked for many years with disadvantaged people from all walks of life, including teen mothers, people with HIV and the elderly living in poverty.

Finally, of all the attorneys in Illinois, the Illinois State Bar Association asked me to author a book chapter on legal issues facing same-sex couples for their Family Law Handbook. The Handbook will be used by practitioners all over the state to advise their gay and lesbian clients.

DG: Previously you were a social worker for various populations and communities, how do you feel that this experience would help you on the bench? 

BT: I am running for judge specifically because of that experience. We need judges who understand the complexities of life and human relationships. I have not spent my career holed-up in a large law firm. I’ve seen how people really live and the difficulties they experience. I did home visits in places like Cabrini-Green and the Lathrop Homes. I’ve also seen that not all people are treated fairly or with respect in the judicial system.  

DG: You’ve cited domestic violence as an area for judicial concern on your campaign website, noting that only 17% of the offenders receive a conviction. Why do you think that is so, and what influence could you have on improving these statistics?

BT:Three years ago the Chicago Tribune conducted an investigation of the Cook County domestic violence court. They concluded that our “courts are failing battered women.” I have helped over 500 victims of domestic violence get legal protection from their abusers. I can tell you the situation is bad for victims. Judges just don’t get it. For example, recently a judge asked my client whose husband had beaten her, “If it’s that bad, why don’t you leave him?” This was to a woman with three small children who spoke little English and had no family in Chicago. She had nowhere to go. I understand what those victims go through.    

DG: As an out gay man, what do you think this would bring to the bench? 

BT:It is shocking that in 2012 only 4 of the 420 judges in Cook County are openly gay men. That’s less than 1%. We need qualified people from all walks of life on the bench, including gay people. With same-sex couples having children and with the passage of the Civil Union Act, more gay people will be coming to court. They will dispute custody of children and get divorced the same way straight people do. We need judges to hear those cases who will not let homophobia or ignorance affect the outcome of the case. Currently, there are no openly gay male judges who hear those cases.  

DG: Ellis Levin has presented many qualifications similar to yours especially in the area of domestic violence, LGBT concerns, and the like; why should voters choose you and not him? 

BT: Mr. Levin was found “not qualified” by 11 of the 12 bar associations. That’s troubling. He also has been a legislator, not a practicing attorney. The skills involved are not interchangeable. He’s passed laws, but to the best of my knowledge he’s never represented one individual who was a victim of domestic violence. I’ve represented over 500 against some very high profile abusers, including politicians, police officers, and other lawyers.  

DG: What other areas of expertise besides family law, domestic violence and LGBT issues should voters know about you?

BT: I am highly rated by many bar associations, including the Illinois State Bar Association, the Women’s Bar Association of Illinois, the Lesbian and Gay Bar Association of Chicago, the Cook County Bar Association, the Black Women Lawyers’ Association, the Asian American Bar Association and the Hispanic Bar Association of Illinois. I’m also endorsed by IVI-IPO and Personal PAC.

DG: What could the LGBT communities of Andersonville, Lakeview, Boystown, and Lincoln Park expect from you on issues that specifically concern them? 

BT:I would treat everyone the same. It is not my job as a judge to advocate for a person or a group. However, living as a gay man has made me more sensitive to those who are not in the majority, whether that is because of their race, religion, ethnicity or sexual orientation. 

DG: Briefly, what’s the legislative history of the 8th Judicial Subcircuit and its effects on the residents of the above communities? 

BT: Prior to 1994, the only way one could be elected judge was to run county-wide. That meant usually only people with Irish-sounding surnames won. The legislature created 15 different Subcircuits in the county to give an equal opportunity for minorities to win and be represented on the bench. The 8th Subcircuit, which encompasses the Loop, Lincoln Park, Lakeview and Andersonville, is suppose to be the Subcircuit that allows gay candidates a legitimate chance to be elected. That hasn’t happened in awhile though, as evidenced by the lack of openly gay men on the bench today. 

For more information on Brad Trowbridge, please visit his campaign website at http://www.bradforjudge.com/, and for a list of Frequently Asked Questions on judges in Illinois, and why your vote counts, go to http://voteforjudges.org/faq.html, and remember Tuesday March 20th is Election Day.

Mr Peter Amos Tweneboa-Kodua, President of the Ghana Association of Social Workers (GASOW) on Monday called on members to effectively and efficiently utilise their knowledge, experience and networks to have a major impact on society.

“We must integrate the social, economic and environmental factors, which are a core part of sustainable development. This interrelationship will help to inform what we do, why we do it and what we expect to achieve.”

Mr Tweneboa-Kodua made the call in a statement issued in Accra to commemorate World Social Work Day celebration on Tuesday, March 20.

The Day is an annual event, which offers the opportunity for all social work organisations to promote the significant role of social workers and the Social Work profession.

The statement said unlike the previous early celebrations, this year was with a difference, because the Social Work Day on March 20 will also be celebrated on United Nations Social Work Day six days later on March 26.

It said the International Federation of Social Work (IFSW) had invited both local and national organisations, members and partners to celebrate the Week-Long World Social Work Day from March 20-26 on the theme: “Global Agenda for Social Work and Social Development”.

“On March 26, IFSW and our partners will present the objectives of the Global Agenda for Social Work and Social Development to the United Nations Secretary General,” the statement added.

It said the theme would address the need for a united platform to strengthen, the ‘dignity and worth of the person’, to reduce ‘social and economic inequalities’ and emphasised the importance of ‘human relationships’ in a ‘sustainable environment’.

The statement explained that the dignity of the human person is the foundation of a moral and ethical vision for every society and therefore must be maintained in all matters of socio-cultural, economic, educational and political dispensation.

These include human rights issues in relation to social, economic, cultural and political situations, respect for diversity and different belief systems, especially indigenous and first people’s voices, political instabilities, violence, dominations, and the erosion of peace building processes.

The rest are, terrorism and modes of response by States and the modalities of handling global conflicts, migration, refugees, trafficking, immigrants, immigration and ways of handling these issues, and the role for social work practice, education and social development.

The statement said environmental sustainability addressed areas like, disasters of natural and human origin, management and prevention, involvement of local communities in developing responses, implications for sustainable social development, protecting the physical environment, and proactive engagement with social, human and ecological development.

On the importance of human relationships, the statement said family and relationship issues and challenges across the lifespan emerge as a major concern in relation to the transformation of the country and the world.

Some examples are the needs of; children and families, people with disabilities, people needing health and mental health services, people who are ageing, people with drugs and substance abuse problems and people suffering from violence within domestic and intimate relationships.

“In our society, human life, especially, is under direct attack from domestic violence, child abuse, chieftaincy disputes, cheating on the poor, unfair justice to the poor and the needy and inequality. Therefore we are being called upon to protect the right to life by addressing and seeking effective ways to prevent poverty, starvation and marginalisation to improve the lives of the vulnerable in our society.”

The statement said to address the new global challenges and to achieve the global agenda, social workers believed that new strategies had to be employed.

“We commit ourselves to employ the following strategies, extending partnerships, building capacity and assets, developing a unified professional voice, engaging with local, national, regional and global bodies and strengthening analysis and consolidating evidence to support collective advocacy and action.”

The association, on the occasion of the celebration, reiterated their previously engaged collective action and developed a vision at local, national and global levels in response to the many issues and challenges.

These include poverty, social protection, disaster prevention and intervention, peace-building processes, human rights, challenges across the life cycle, disabilities, community development, partnership with service users and consumers; interdisciplinary practice and policy development.

“Many but not all of these are encompassed in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The MDG’s are global, time-bound and quantified targets for addressing extreme poverty in its many dimensions – income, hunger, disease, lack of adequate shelter, and exclusion – while promoting gender equality, education and environmental sustainability. They also reflect basic human rights – the rights of each person on the planet to health, education, shelter and security, as pledged in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and the UN Millennium Declaration.”

“I wish every gallant Social Worker a Happy Social Work Day, may we all articulate the issues from our professional perspectives in a strong and persuasive manner to contribute our knowledge, experience and networks to have a major impact,” the statement said.**

Researcher Dorothy Espelage is passionate about addressing school bullying, but frustrated with what she sees as peddling of simple solutions to a complex problem.

In a lecture at Lynchburg College Thursday evening, Espelage expressed dismay at the idea that bullying is an epidemic or recent trend, rather than an intractable problem prevalent in human relationships across society.

She has researched bullying for 18 years, she said, to discover now she and her colleagues finally are in demand as the nation shifts its focus toward the topic.

We would never fill up a room like this one until a couple years ago, she told the education students and guests who nearly packed the Memorial Ballroom at Lynchburg Colleges Hall Campus Center. We have had something to say hellip; we just werent listened to.

Espelage is a professor of child development and associate chair in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Shes a graduate of Staunton River High School in Moneta, but spent part of her childhood in Virginia Beach.

Her high school experience demonstrates the way bullying is grounded in relationships and social structures who are the bullies and who are the victims can be fluid.

I was something of a bully in Virginia Beach, she said, but as the new girl from the city she quickly became a bullying victim at Staunton River.

I wasnt afforded the opportunity to bully anyone in this school, she explained.

She told the audience the United States is behind other countries when it comes to studying and addressing the topic. Translating programs and studies from a country like Norway, where more work has been done, to the US is problematic.

The United States has racial diversity and economic disparities not present there, she said. Other cultural and societal differences mean presuming similarities makes no sense.

Studies of anti-bullying programs in the United States have yet to prove any are effective in preventing bullying, she said even the popular Olweus Bullying Prevention Program, which garnered Department-of-Education endorsements.

Its not that Espelage thinks its impossible to design a program effective against bullying, its just she feels realism is in order without that proof.

She called on teachers and future teachers to step up to interfere with bullying behavior in their classrooms even though it can be difficult and potentially dangerous.

Its unreasonable, she pointed out, to expect students to be able to stand up to their peers about bullying, when it can be hard for a teacher to address.

We have to recognize that classrooms in school are families, she said. Classrooms are little societies.

WESTERN CAPE, SOUTH AFRICA, March 20, 2012 /Stanford Who’s Who/ — Funeka Plaatjie-Njobeni has been accepted into the distinguished ranks of Stanford Who’s Who as a result of her magnificent work inmanagement consulting. As Owner of Mila Coaching Development Consultants, as well as throughout her brilliant professional career, Funeka has consistently demonstrated the passion, vision and dedication necessary to be successful in the business world.

Mila Coaching Development Consultants is a company which works together with highly competent associate partners to offer coaching and development services to industry leaders. The company’s services are particularly focused on bringing about personal and organizational transformation, providing clients with greater clarity, direction, and a call to action.

Funeka is a seasoned and experienced Human Resource practitioner, coach, and facilitator with over 16 years of experience in practice. She has worked in various industry sectors, encountered challenges, and overcame many obstacles in the workplace. Funeka believes in the inter-connectedness of people, the complexity of human relationships and the amazing capacity of humans to unify in the face challenge and opportunity.

During her collegiate career, Funeka earned a Bachelor of Social Science degree in Social Work from Rhodes University and an Associate’s degree in Management from the University of Cape Town. She is a member of the Coaches and Mentors of South Africa and the Businesswomens Association of South Africa.

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