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Anchored in 20 years' experience in financial services and  technology, I help organisations mentor, develop and keep their early-career talent.

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Mentorship that follows up.

Finance executive. Author. Mentor to the next generation.

I'm a finance executive specialising in fintech and mobile apps, and currently serving as a board member at GoTyme Bank SA. Before that, I spent 12 years at J.P. Morgan - Executive Director for Sub-Saharan Africa Debt Capital Markets, helping raise over US$35 billion for corporates and governments across the continent.

But high finance left me with a harder question: who is preparing the next generation to take the baton? Searching for that answer led me to write two books, a journal and a deck of conversation cards, and to build the mentorship work I do today. The thread through all of it is strategy: where are we going?

If you're reading this on your child's behalf, that's exactly who this page is for too. Good mentorship isn't a vague pep talk: it's a structured process with clear steps, real accountability, and a track record you can check. Below, you'll see exactly how I think and work, so you can decide if it's the right fit before your child ever sits down with me.

Growing up means facing choices, setbacks, and uncertainty in every part of your life: school, career, relationships, money. A mentor doesn't remove those challenges, but having someone experienced consistently in your corner cuts the time it takes to work through them, and lowers the chance of an expensive mistake. As the saying goes, "a problem shared is a problem halved."

You usually don't have to pick a side: the strongest plans blend your parents' concern for security with your own passion, sequenced over time rather than forced into a single either/or decision.

Artists usually struggle with getting paid fairly, getting noticed by dealmakers, and financing their own projects. This path solves all three before you need them. "Having it all" is often about sequencing, not choosing. John Legend worked as a business consultant before becoming a musician, and that commercial grounding shaped his career and earning power ever since.

It's rarely about effort: most stuck graduates are applying broadly without a strategy, and no one has told them their real strengths yet. That's exactly the gap my Graduate to Employed mentorship package is built to close, through three steps:

From there, the full Graduate to Employed program walks through the remaining steps to landing the right role. Stay encouraged, and watch the skills in demand rather than the job titles; titles can be misleading about what a role actually needs.

Be bold and persistent enough to live the life of your dreams!

Networking simply means meeting people who think differently than you do, and it pays off in better decisions, opportunities you'd never have heard of otherwise, and a bigger picture than your immediate environment. Getting comfortable with it comes down to a few building blocks:

Psychologists call this your "locus of control," and it's one of the most common feelings young adults bring to mentorship. The good news: it's a skill you build through small, deliberate choices, not a fixed personality trait. Here's where I'd start:

This shift doesn't happen in one conversation: it's built one decision at a time, which is exactly the kind of steady accountability a mentor provides.

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Whether you're building a mentorship program, planning an event, or ordering books for your team, tell me a little about it and I'll come back to you personally.