Born and brought up in Soweto-Johannesburg. Barbara started her career as a Nursing Sister and then proceeded to study Industrial Relations-Wits Business School, Telecommunications Network Engineering- Matthew Bolton (UK) and Executive Development Programme –New York.


She has been an HR Practitioner for the last 20 years, having had the opportunity to work as an Industrial Relations Officer, Resourcing Specialist, HR Development Specialist, Talent Management and HR Generalist. In 2001 Barbara moved out of HR, to manage a division of Technical/Engineering Specialists looking after some of the top 100 Companies Network Services.

Barbara has had a good exposure working for global companies, within SA and outside of SA, including Alexander Forbes, JP Morgan, Telkom SA, British Telkom, De Beers Consolidated Mines, Barclays Bank and Standard Chartered Bank. She is also a Non-Executive director for the Johannesburg Theatre.