Dr. Bridget Johnson has spent over 27 years as a professional in higher education. She received her qualifications from the universities of Cape Town (B.A.; HDE) and Western Cape (B.Ed Psych. M.Psch and PhD). She is an outstanding academic and registered Senior Psychologist. Her experience includes posts as High School Teacher, Researcher, Senior Lecturer and Health Professionals Council of South Africa registered Senior Psychologist at Western Cape, Stellenbosch and Nelson Mandela universities respectively. She is a founding Trustee and Director of the JEDA Foundation.

Dr. Ingrid Willenberg is a Senior Lecturer at the Australian Catholic University. She was a Fullbright Scholar and Spencer Fellow at Harvard University. She graduated with a PhD in the field of human development and psychology, with a concentration in language and literacy. She has taught at the University of the Western Cape and Maquarie University. Over more than two decades her teaching, publishing and supervision has been underpinned by a strong academic background in developmental psychology, linguistics, language and literacy as well as speech-language pathology.

VP Bongani Sayidini is Vice-President of PetroSA. He has graduated with an Engineering M.Sc (University of London), LLM with distinction (University Dundee), MBA (UCT) and is finishing his PhD (UCT). Over the last 20 years he has worked in the energy industry and rose through the ranks of the sector from Petroleum Engineer to Principal Reservoir Engineer. He subsequently worked as a Strategist in Corporate Strategy and Planning as well as Head of Business Intelligence. He was then appointed as Vice-President for exploration and production. During an interim period, he has also steered PetroSA as Acting Group CEO, overseeing the entire company with its several thousand employees for better success.