South Africa faces a mass skills exodus, with many graduates wanting to leave.
Crime and corruption, a lack of job opportunities, failing infrastructure, and the rising cost of living in South Africa have driven 90% of university students to seek employment opportunities abroad.
The Future Leader Forum, a proudly South African 2010 Leadership Legacy Project, hosted its inaugural Future of Leadership Summit on October 24 and brought together 100 plus top leadership voices from across South Africa to examine the key dimensions of co-creating the future of leadership.
Dr Nik Eberl, the founder of the Future Leader Forum, said they intend to support the growth and development of leaders across all sectors to enable South Africa to be a leading nation in the 21st century.
“The outcome of the Future of Leadership Summit will be ongoing time-lined working groups that focus on specific topics and are aligned with the CEO initiative to jointly design solutions at one of South Africa’s leading design thinking institutions.”
Speaking at the event, Hon. Pinky Kekana, the Deputy Minister in the Presidency, said, “This is a great forum that speaks about the future of the youth, where the private and public sectors come together to say what the future of South Africa and the African continent is.”
“This is an interesting forum for business-minded people; the conversations are powerful and educational; definitely, all the young people in this forum are yet to be great and will be leaders for sure.”
Zaic Sivaungum, the FNB commercial regional director, added that it has been a very insightful morning as the FNB team has been enjoying the sessions.
“I think this is super important; it’s about the future leadership and empowerment of the youth, and today we were inspired by the young future leaders in the industry.”
He commended Dr. Vik for doing a great job by putting this platform together and connecting the dots of all the leaders in SA to take ownership of the challenges that the youth face.
“We, as the FNB, are glad to participate and make a contribution to making changes in the challenges that the youth face.”
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