Bertina Engelbrecht: Leading From The Inside Out

<p>Bertina Engelbrecht grew up on the Cape Flats, trained as an attorney, and became CEO of a Top 40 JSE-listed company via human resources (HR). Not the obvious route and not one she designed.</p><p><br></p><p>She joined Clicks in 2006 as HR director, spent 16 years understanding every nerve ending in the business, and in 2022 became the first black woman to lead a listed retail group in South Africa. Clicks is the dominant health and beauty retailer in southern Africa with one of the most envied pharmacy networks on the continent. </p><p>This is a conversation about the slow, deliberate accumulation of influence and why the person who knows the most about the people in a business sometimes turns out to be the best person to run it.</p><p><br></p><p>This series is sponsored by Discovery Bank.</p><p>Follow all the episodes here.</p><p>Editions drop on Tuesdays at 07:00.</p>