Roze Phillips

Dr Roze Phillips is Adjunct Faculty, Associate of the Centre for Business Ethics focused on the Future of Work and Non Executive Director at GIBS Business School. Roze serves as non-executive director for Netcare Limited and Spear REIT Limited and as trustee for Accenture Education Trust in South Africa. Roze is also a judge for the CHRO Awards held by CHRO South Africa, honouring the top CHROs in the country.

Roze has worked as a medical doctor as well as Public Health scientist at the SA Medical Research Council and most recently as the Group Executive of People and Culture for The Absa Group. Over 18 years of Roze’s professional career was spent at Accenture Africa where she held various leadership positions from Consumer Industry lead, Management (including Human Capital) Consulting lead, Innovation lead and Board member working across Sub Saharan Africa. She has also been a start-up mentor in Silicon Valley working with Peter Diamandis XPrize Foundation Visioneers.

Roze is a passionate African Futurist and in addition to her work at GIBS, she practices as an African Futurist and Advisor on the Future of Work through her company Abundance at Work (Pty) Ltd. Working at the intersection of business, technology and innovation, Roze works with leaders to unleash the business and societal value that can be unlocked when human ingenuity combine with intelligent machines to create abundance at work. Roze is a frequent public speaker, expert panel member, guest lecturer and writer on the topics of Leadership for the Future, The Future of Work, The Workforce of the Future, Human Capital Management Trends, Psychological Safety and New Skills Now.

Recently, Roze joined other South African business leaders to publish a book about lessons in Leadership titled ‘The Book Every Leader Needs to Read’.

Core Discipline

Business management

Work Experience

• Faculty (Gordon Institute of Business Science )
• Board Member (Netcare Limited)
• Executive Director: Value Creation (Gordon Institute of Business Science )
• Chief Executive Officer (ABUNDANCE AT WORK (PTY) LTD)
• Executive Director (ABSA)
• Board Member (Spear REIT)
• Managing Director (Accenture South Africa)
• Executive manager (Accenture South Africa)
• Consultant (Accenture South Africa)
• Researcher (SA Medical Research Council)
• Medical Doctor (Groote Schuur Hospital)

Education

• University of Cape Town - MBChB, Medicine and Surgery 1989 - 1995
• Stellenbosch University - Postgraduate Diploma in Futures Studies, Business/Managerial Economics 2016 - 2017
• Graduate School of Business - University of Cape Town - Master of Business Administration (MBA), Business Administration and Management, General 1997 - 1999