Amanda Dambuza is the Chief Executive Officer of Uyandiswa – a Project Management Services Company which she started in 2014 after an illustrious career in the financial services industry. She has earned respect as an outstanding businesswoman who left a flourishing corporate career to be at the coalface of job creation.

Inspired by her own journey of seeking opportunities and meaningful work, she founded her business to shift the needle in South Africa’s unemployment challenge, but to also re-imagine the world of work by creating a working environment that stimulates creativity.

She's also a published author of a compelling and deeply moving autobiography, titled “baked in pain”.

Drawing from her own experiences of neglect, rejection and abuse, she has carved a path for herself that demonstrates that we are not the cards we have been dealt with and that at any moment, we can decided to change the script of our life stories and create the lives we imagine for ourselves.

In this episode of the #987Woman Leadership Conversations Podcast Series, she takes us on a journey of her story, laced with so many ebb’s and flows, a true story of hope, resilience, forgiveness and healing. She brings us to the powerful realisation that life’s greatest joys is leading from a deep place of healing.

Amanda Dambuza is the Chief Executive Officer of Uyandiswa &ndash; a Project Management Services Company which she started in 2014 after an illustrious career in the financial services industry. She has earned respect as an outstanding businesswoman who left a flourishing corporate career to be at the coalface of job creation.
Inspired by her own journey of seeking opportunities and meaningful work, she founded her business to shift the needle in South Africa&rsquo;s unemployment challenge, but to also re-imagine the world of work by creating a working environment that stimulates creativity.
She's also a published author of a compelling and deeply moving autobiography, titled &ldquo;baked in pain&rdquo;.
Drawing from her own experiences of neglect, rejection and abuse, she has carved a path for herself that demonstrates that we are not the cards we have been dealt with and that at any moment, we can decided to change the script of our life stories and create the lives we imagine for ourselves.
In this episode of the #987Woman Leadership Conversations Podcast Series, she takes us on a journey of her story, laced with so many ebb&rsquo;s and flows, a true story of hope, resilience, forgiveness and healing. She brings us to the powerful realisation that life&rsquo;s greatest joys is leading from a deep place of healing.

2020 and its share of abnormality has forced all of us to rethink life, from what we knew it to be, into new imagined ways of being, of doing business, of creating, of connecting people and ideas, of expression, in its totality. As such, the much anticipated and impactful #987Woman property is no exception – it too has found itself with the challenge of how it reimagines itself in the Women’s Month memorialisation and commemoration content space.

In response to this, #987Woman seeks to expand itself as a property and observe the entire month of August to women’s leadership conversations. In a much more focused and intimate format, 20 of South Africa’s finest women, to reflect on their personal anecdotal and epiphanic moments of becoming through a one-hour long podcast of candid conversations with their various guests.

2020 and its share of abnormality has forced all of us to rethink life, from what we knew it to be, into new imagined ways of being, of doing business, of creating, of connecting people and ideas, of expression, in its totality. As such, the much anticipated and impactful #987Woman property is no exception &ndash; it too has found itself with the challenge of how it reimagines itself in the Women&rsquo;s Month memorialisation and commemoration content space.
In response to this, #987Woman seeks to expand itself as a property and observe the entire month of August to women&rsquo;s leadership conversations. In a much more focused and intimate format, 20 of South Africa&rsquo;s finest women, to reflect on their personal anecdotal and epiphanic moments of becoming through a one-hour long podcast of candid conversations with their various guests.