Lance Bloch
DIrector
"Yesterday, you were my enemies, but today, after this workshop, I know I can put my full faith in the managers in this room"
–AngloPlatinum Strike Committee 'Big 5' Committee Member
Clinical Psychologist Lance Bloch, named JCI 1996 "Outstanding Young Person of the World" for helping reconcile previously warring armies, is recognised as one of the foremost consultants in South Africa in the areas of Management/Union Relationship Building, Employee Engagement, Team-Building, Diversity, Leadership Development, Personal Development and Coaching, Change Management and Transformation, and the originator of the cutting-edge "4th Wave": Culture-Based Behavioural Safety. In addition, both corporates and government, from shop floor to top management, rate him highly for his innovative experiential training and assessment methodology. He has been a keynote speaker at Servant Leadership and other HR ,Safety and Mining conferences in the USA, UK and South Africa.
Active especially but not exclusively in the mining and manufacturing sectors, Lance is one of the few people in South Africa who was highly successfully facilitating workshops for unions AMCU, NUM and UASA and management at operational level when they were refusing to meet face to face, creating a common approach to build safe production and bring peace to conflict-ridden mines. The big turnaround (from 40% production to the longest face advance in 3 years within 2 months) due to his "Healing/New Beginnings" process at Blyvoor Gold Mine was featured recently in a Sunday Times article.
In addition, he is proud of his team's achievements in Safety, such as: brought in 2 years before to help change the safety culture at RB Platinum after 7 fatals in 14 months, in the end they went fatality-free for 26 months.
At Sibanye Gold, his Safety Culture Transformation Process workshops facilitated for around 25,000 employees of all levels, helped propel the group from 20 fatalities in the first 6 months of 2018, to 13.4 million Fatality Free Shifts by August, 2020 (fatality free for almost 24 months!)- unheard of in deep level gold mining history worldwide!
"Lance Bloch must be one of the leading facilitators of change around" – Colin Oxley, MD Lafarge Aluminates
Justice Kgwedi
Director
Justice Juice Kgoedi, Director & Chief Operations Officer, is a postgraduate in social sciences, psychology, HR and management from UCT, RAU (now UJ) and University of Stellenbosch respectively. His responsibilities include, amongst others: overall operational management of Zinakelkele Consulting/LBA including the company's business strategy, overall projects management and execution, quality assurance of programmes and HR.
He has over 25 years managerial experience in both private and public sectors in the fields of management, employee wellness, labour relations, governance, stakeholder management and parliamentary matters, amongst others. He has been involved with safety culture and behavioural safety projects since 2000 across various mining companies like BHP, Bafokeng Rasimoni Platinum Mine, Sibanye Stillwater Gold & PGM, Harmony Gold, Aquarius Platinum just to mention a few. He has also served as the Secretariat of the Association of Public Services Commissions (AAPSComs), within the African Union system for 10 years
Banzi Giyose
Director
Banzi is a South African businessman, an author and mining entrepreneur with world-class competencies. His expertise span widely in respect of resources finance, contract mining, commodity marketing and resource exploration of projects in Coal, Copper, Chrome, Magnetite, Vanadium, Tin, Tantalum, Lithium & Base Metals. In addition, he has expertise in corporate finance/ mergers & acquisitions in Energy, Property, Mining, Fin-tech, Agri & Foods, and the Finance sector.
Giyose is co-founder and VP of BG Global (Pty) Ltd, a Chairman of BG Global (LLC) New York, USA, a diversified international investment firm across several jurisdictions.
He's a director of several unlisted firms in SA, DRC, Zimbabwe, Uganda, USA, and London. He's lead several resource development projects in various mining firms, namely, Lephalale Coal & Power, Dedicoal, BG Coal, BG Metal Alloys.
He's a director of BG Mines, which mines, sources and processes coal, manganese, iron ore, chrome for various markets. He's a director of BG Sharon Commodities which sources & markets Tin, Tantalum, Lithium, Copper, Iron ore & Manganese from several African countries for offshore markets.
He's a director at Lance Bloch & Associates/Zinakekele Consulting, a safety culture transformation firm that's active in the South African mining sector.
He's a director of Strata Worldwide SA, a USA headquartered multi-national with operations across USA, Australia, Canada, RSA and Asia. He's a member of Ergo's Global Network of Experts situated in New York, USA and a member of the Minerals Council of South Africa.
Previously, he served on the board and investment committee of Masimong Group, a diversified investment firm with interests in Mining, Energy, Agri, Financial Services and Industrial sector across multi-jurisdictions in United Kingdom, Europe and RSA.
He was MD of Masimong Minerals between 2013-2016, a minerals processing and beneficiation firm in SA. Between 2015 to 2017, he also served as a director, responsible for capital raising and mining at Liviero Group.
Giyose was also CEO at Good Earth Power, a Middle-East-Orman based conglomerate, responsible for establishing power generation projects in SA, worked at Ipreo as an analyst, a Canadian based capital markets firm covering US Financials in 2008.
Giyose holds a Master of Technologiae degree in Marketing & Economics (M.Tech) (2014) from Tshwane University of Technology and further enrolled to pursue a PhD focusing on structural impediments hampering growth within the coal sector, "a case on the Waterberg, Limpopo coalfield " at UNISA.