Phici Mbatha is the Head of Leadership Development at Leaders Unlimited.

Prior to that , she was CEO of the Institute of Authentic Leadership, an organisation that aims to assist in grooming, dynamic, values driven globally fluent leaders in both the public and private sector.

Phici has extensive experience in the Business education sector having worked with numerous organisations in both the public and private sector, to institute organisational change, through values based business education. She has also done an extensive amount of public speaking both locally and abroad, addressing the topic of Invitational Leadership, with specific emphasis on Emotional and Spiritual Intelligence, including the Fortune Most Powerful Summit held in the US in October 2008.

Mbatha has an MPhil in Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management from the University of Pretoria. She has lectured at the University of Pretoria, Unisa and Midrand Graduate Institute, and Regenesys School of Public Management as well as Regenesys Business School.

She has strong business experience, having worked in both the corporate training and publishing arena. She was the youngest person to head up a Business School in South Africa and is a published author having made a contribution to an Entrepreneurship text entitled Entrepreneurship – a South African perspective and has presented papers at both local and international conferences.

She was also nominated as one Cosmopolitan Magazine’s FUN FEARLESS FEMALES in 2008, an award that is given to young women making pioneering strides in their field of expertise.