[Standard Bank Top Women Conference] Standing together for liberation

[Danette Breitenbach] “The power of women is that if you empower one, others will follow. If we work together, we will rise and lift others with us. This is the responsibility that the 20,000 women who marched to the Union Buildings on 9 August 1956 gave us...”

#Newsmaker: Tanja Lategan leads the way for women in digital leadership

[Jessica Tennant] Thursday, 17 August marked Tanja Lategan's first day on the job as new MD of Creative Spark. As it so happens to be Women's Month, we interviewed her to find out what it took to crack the so-called glass ceiling as a woman in leadership in the digital space and how she'd encourage other women to do the same...

#OnTheBigScreen: Hitmen, Head hunters and Angels in America

[Daniel Dercksen] Finders Keepers, Annabelle: Creation, The Hitman's Bodyguard, Detroit, A Family Man and Angels in America open at local cinemas this weekend.

#WomensMonth: Women need to stand together in driving the gender equality agenda

[Sindy Peters] Meet Nana Madikane, a qualified chartered accountant with over 15 years' experience and a partner at PwC South Africa...

#WomensMonth: How DDB's #PhyllisProject empowers female creative leaders

[Leigh Andrews] Here's why Nicola Wielopolski, creative director at DDB, is obsessed with turning great creatives into great creative leaders...

#WomensMonth: How WomEng is displacing the glass ceiling to make room for more women in engineering

[Sindy Peters] Why sit back and complain about life's challenges when you can actually do something about it?

Loeries2017: Building the new creative economy at the speed of thought

[Jessica Tennant] An interview with Fort CEO Shukri Toefy, where he shares insights into the changing value chain of the new creative economy...

#CEMAfrica2017: "Be an experience business or be out of business" - Adobe

[Leigh Andrews] CEM Africa attendees were presented with a choice of workshops to attend throughout the two-day summit. Here's why I'm glad I went with the session by James McDonald, solution consultant at Adobe, on how to be an experience-driven business...

Sweet treats and creative eats - Tessa's Bakery opens in Cape Town

[Angie Lawrence] On an ordinary Tuesday afternoon, the very extraordinary Tessa's Bakery opened the doors of its brand new store. The ‘Made like Mom's' bakery chose a unique location in Milnerton, Cape Town, opting to stay near to the loyal client base they've built up...

#CEMAfrica2017: Your employees are always on - now TRUST THEM

[Leigh Andrews] Chantel Botha of BrandLove shares why you need to trust your employees to run with their own ideas of the best possible customer experience they can offer at the first day of CEM Africa 2017.

#Loeries2017: Why small agencies fail (masterclass)

[Jessica Tennant] An interview with Allon Raiz, founder and CEO of Raizcorp to find out what one could expect to learn from his masterclass on ‘Why small agencies fail'...

#CEMAfrica2017: CX predictions for the future, action to take TODAY

[Leigh Andrews] If all you do is talk about customer experience or CX in your silos, chances are your brand will be left in the dust. Here's why you need to cut the red tape and take the plunge, straight from the opening panel of CEM Africa 2017...

#Loeries2017: A deep dive into YouTube and video advertising (masterclass)

[Jessica Tennant] An interview with Lorraine Landon, head of agencies at Google South Africa to find out what one could expect to learn from the Google masterclasses on ‘YouTube: all you need to know for campaign success' and ‘video advertising: what works best when'...

#WomensMonth: Women in marketing: The new specialist generalists?

[Sheila McGillivray] It's not enough for young women to focus on a specialised marketing career; we now need to be “specialist generalists,” and know an awful lot about a lot, writes Sheila McGillivray...

Artificial intelligence is cool, market intelligence is cooler

[Mike Saunders] Mike Saunders writes that using the right market intelligence platforms will drive the successful implementation of your future artificial intelligence programmes...

#WomensMonth: #MBFWJ17 profile on Leigh Shubert

[Ruth Cooper] Local fashion designer Leigh Shubert will be showcasing her latest Spring/Summer collection at the upcoming Mercedes-Benz Joburg Fashion Week. We got in touch with her to find out more.

Long live the King

[Nicci Botha] Despite the King code, many firms are having their ethics questioned as the Gupta email saga unfolds...