MavenS leadership

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In his career, he has been involved in strategic discussions at partner and leadership levels ranging from day-to-day operational meetings through to broader Africa-wide strategic decisions. After a firm wide selection process, Dale was elected to oversee the selection and then to mentor an inaugural ‘junior board’ for a top 100 international law firm. Responsibilities included regular one on one engagement at board and senior leadership/executive level. 

Dale has worked in specialised recruitment for more than five years, including establishing and then managing the South African office for an international search firm.

Within the legal sector, few in South Africa can claim to have completed the full suite of recruitment that Dale can. This includes: 

• Assisting an international law firm to launch a new office in South Africa (more than 20 lawyers at launch) 
• Moving teams of lawyers from one firm to another 
• International offshore placements 
• Enticing all levels of lawyers from partners, directors, and general counsel through to associates, legal counsel, and knowledge lawyers to take up new career opportunities 
• Placing support and operational roles in law firms such as IT support, human resources, business development managers, paralegals and secretaries 

Lebo has over 20 years experience working within banking and professional services, with the majority of that time spent working in law firms. This time has included in-house human capital functions, including talent acquisition at boutique law firms, large corporate and international law firms with offices in South Africa. She has worked in the Africa desk in a human capital capacity and was responsible for overseeing talent acquisition and human capital functions for Kenya, Uganda, Botswana, Madagascar and Tanzania. 

Over the years, Lebo has engaged with entities on a variety of people-based projects to assist businesses to empower and develop existing talent, identify future opportunities, plan and implement processes, procedures and initiatives to reach their goals.

With Lebo’s understanding of various law firm cultures and the inner psyche from a human capital point of view, she perfectly complements the existing skill sets within Mavens and gives an alternative view on what talent is needed by our clients.