Professional History: Niven Postma is the Programme Director of the African Leadership Institute's Tutu Fellowship Programme, and is also the MD of Niven Postma Inc. In her role at AFLI, she steers the Tutu Fellowship Leadership Programme, ensuring it remains the foremost leadership programme designed specifically for Africa’s highest potential future leaders.

Niven has held executive positions since she was 29, in a career that has spanned multiple sectors and roles, including: CEO of the Businesswomen’s Association, Head of the South African Reserve Bank Academy, and Head of Leadership and Culture for the Standard Bank Group (the largest bank by assets in Africa).

Niven is the author of "If you don’t do Politics, Politics will do you" and a contributor to Harvard Business Review. She is also a tutor at Cambridge University’s Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) and a guest lecturer at Stanford University and London Business School.

Having started her career as a strategy consultant, she now works with global executive teams to build what she calls “Whole System Leadership” and so doing, fundamentally transform how they are able to work together and what they are able to achieve.

She is an expert facilitator on women’s leadership development programmes around the world and is currently enrolled for her PhD in Organisational Behaviour, seeking to understand how organisational politics are different for women.

Academic and professional credentials: Bachelor of Arts - Political Science. Cum Laude from the University of Stellenbosch
Executive MBA - Cum Laude from the Graduate School of Business from the University of Cape Town
Post Graduate Diploma - Future Studies, Cum Laude from the University of Stellenbosch Business School

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