# On Change with Petro du Pisani

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## Episodes

- [#048 The Accidental Entrepreneur | Carmel Peinke](https://context.onchange.co.za/episodes/048-the-accidental-entrepreneur/): 2026-06-02; guest Carmel Peinke (founder and CEO, eRoute2Market); themes: Accidental path into FMCG, Founding E-Route to Market, Self-doubt and confidence, Networking through curiosity, Authentic leadership, Women in male-dominated tech, Integrity and ethics, Empowering future leaders; 6 long passages. Petro du Pisani talks with Carmel Peinke about how she came into FMCG by chance, launched Lipton Iced Tea at Smollan, and saw a sales-data gap that led her to found E-Route to Market in 2009, a platform she built without writing code.
- [#047 Owning Your Financial Future | Ann Wilson](https://context.onchange.co.za/episodes/047-owning-your-financial-future/): 2026-03-05; guest Ann Wilson (best-selling author, speaker, and financial empowerment activist); themes: Rich versus wealthy, Women and financial power, Investing simply and consistently, Paying yourself first, Enough number and worthiness, Making the career leap, Financial freedom and legacy; 6 long passages. Petro du Pisani talks with Ann Wilson, known as The Wealth Chef, a former civil engineer who says she has been financially free for nearly 20 years.
- [#044 We need a new future | Carmen Murray](https://context.onchange.co.za/episodes/044-we-need-a-new-future/): 2025-10-31; guest Carmen Murray (CEO, Carmen Murray Communications); themes: Authentic Intelligence Framework, Conscious Leaders movement, Futurism and shaping the future, Women in leadership, AI as a mirror, Masking and authenticity, Fear versus hope, Redefining success; 6 long passages. In this episode of On Change's Powerful Women series, the host speaks with Carmen Murray, who describes herself as a marketer, technographer and numerologist moving into futurism.
- [#041 Special Focus on Burnout | Shannon Royden-Turner](https://context.onchange.co.za/episodes/041-special-focus-on-burnout/): 2025-02-17; guest Shannon Royden-Turner (burnout coach); themes: Defining burnout, Warning signs of burnout, Root causes of burnout, Purpose and values alignment, Stress and adaptation, Returning to work, Guest's personal backstory; 6 long passages. Host Petro du Pisani talks with burnout coach Shannon Royden-Turner, who works with CEOs and executive teams in mining, energy and development.
- [#039 The Sabbatical Mindset | Omri van Zyl](https://context.onchange.co.za/episodes/039-the-sabbatical-mindset/): 2025-01-30; guest Omri van Zyl (CEO, RussellStone Capital); themes: Career breaks and adventure, Leaving corporate life, Ambition versus freedom, Meditation and visualization, Energy and mentorship, Healthy habits and continuous improvement; 6 long passages. Host Petro du Pisani, herself on a sabbatical after 25 years in corporate, talks to Omri van Zyl, CEO of RussellStone Capital.
- [#037 Pausing to Pivot | Pamela Naidoo-Ameglio](https://context.onchange.co.za/episodes/037-pausing-to-pivot/): 2025-01-25; guest Pamela Naidoo-Ameglio (executive leader and geoscientist, ANSTO); themes: Burnout and sabbatical, Career pivot from mining, Self-reflection during a break, Sabbatical mindset and mini breaks, Mentoring and empathy; 6 long passages. Host Petro du Pisani talks to Pamela Naidoo-Ameglio about the sabbatical she took in 2015.
- [#034 The Transformative Break | Zaheera Soomar](https://context.onchange.co.za/episodes/034-the-transformative-break/): 2024-10-24; guest Zaheera Soomar (business leader, independent consultant, and academic scholar); themes: Taking a sabbatical, Identity and self-worth, Corporate restructuring, Reflection and introspection, Re-entering the workplace, Privilege and choice, Solo adventures; 6 long passages. Petro du Pisani talks with Zaheera Soomar, who took her first sabbatical after twenty years of work, following a corporate restructure.
- [#032 The Thoughtful Time-Out | Gargi Mishra](https://context.onchange.co.za/episodes/032-the-thoughtful-time-out/): 2024-09-23; guest Gargi Mishra (foresight practitioner); themes: Intentional career breaks, Burnout and overwork, Career pivots and reinvention, Foresight and futurism, Self-care habits, Women returning to work, Financial planning for breaks; 6 long passages. Host Petro du Pisani, who is on his own sabbatical after 25 years in corporate, talks with Gargi Mishra about career breaks.
- [#030 The Healing Pause | Ntseiseng Lephole](https://context.onchange.co.za/episodes/030-the-healing-pause/): 2024-09-01; guest Ntseiseng Lephole; themes: Career break for health, Stress and thyroid health, Reflection and self-care, Returning to work, Journaling and meditation routine, Preventive health checks; 6 long passages. In the fourth episode of a series on conscious breaks from work, host Petro du Pisani talks to Ntseiseng Lephole, who works with international NGOs.
- [#027 Purposeful Pauses | Fatima Collins](https://context.onchange.co.za/episodes/027-purposeful-pauses/): 2024-08-02; guest Fatima Collins (Women in Mining Project Manager, Sibanye-Stillwater); themes: Taking conscious career breaks, Introspection and self-discovery, Finding meaningful work, Identity separate from job, Re-entering the workforce, Keeping a sabbatical mindset, Grief and recovery; 5 long passages. The first episode of an On Change series in which host Petro du Pisani, herself on a conscious break, talks with Fatima Collins about her four career breaks.
- [#025 Unleashing my superpowers | Patience Mpofu](https://context.onchange.co.za/episodes/025-unleashing-my-superpowers/): 2022-08-29; guest Patience Mpofu (CEO, Peak Performance with Patience and Insights Mining Experts); themes: Women in mining, Career journey in mining, Leadership and self-knowledge, Sponsorship and male champions, ESG and impact, Unleashing my Superpowers book; 6 long passages. Petro du Pisani interviews Dr Patience Mpofu, a former vice president corporate affairs at South32, about her path from applied chemistry in Zimbabwe and South Africa to a PhD in Australia and senior roles at Anglo American, Lonmin and South32.
- [#023 Harnessing shared leadership to improve strategic coherence | Jordan Ludlow](https://context.onchange.co.za/episodes/023-harnessing-shared-leadership-to-improve-strategic/): 2022-07-18; guest Jordan Ludlow (managing director, Tradereach); themes: Shared leadership, Strategic coherence, Social constructs and culture, Human agency and autonomy, Complexity and uncertainty, EMBA research methodology, Strategy practice; 6 long passages. Host Petro interviews fellow UCT EMBA graduate Jordan Ludlow, MD of a specialist retail asset management business in FMCG logistics, about his research on improving strategic coherence.
- [#021 The impact of remote work on organisational design | Desereé van den Berg](https://context.onchange.co.za/episodes/021-the-impact-of-remote-work-on/): 2022-06-21; guest Desereé van den Berg (HR Executive, RBS); themes: Remote work and organisational design, Strategy and organisational design, Hybrid work models, Executive MBA learning journey, Research methodology, Personal leadership transformation; 6 long passages. The host, a fellow UCT GSB Executive MBA graduate, talks with Desereé van den Berg, an HR executive, about her EMBA research into how remote work affects organisational design.
- [#019 Gordon Wilson | Purpose as a driver for human behaviour](https://context.onchange.co.za/episodes/019-purpose-as-a-driver-for-human/): 2022-04-04; guest Gordon Wilson (Achievement Awards Group); themes: Purpose as a driver of behaviour, Executive MBA experience, Research methodology, Profit and purpose balance, Leadership and purpose, Putting purpose into practice, Personal transformation; 6 long passages. Host Petro talks with fellow UCT EMBA student Gordon Wilson, who works in the human performance improvement industry at Achievement Awards Group, about his research project on purpose as a driver of human behaviour from a leadership perspective.
- [#017 Chris Breen | Finding what matters most](https://context.onchange.co.za/episodes/017-finding-what-matters-most/): 2020-07-19; guest Chris Breen (Emeritus Professor, UCT GSB); themes: Personal leadership, Teaching for transformation, Learning from failure, Three marriages, Living an examined life, Say yes to everything, Leading during COVID-19; 6 long passages. Host Petro du Pisani talks with Chris Breen, a former maths educator who now teaches personal leadership in complex times, as part of her EMBA learning-journey series.
- [#015 Tracey Swanepoel, Lisa Shippey and Bernard Swanepoel | The power of storytelling to inspire change](https://context.onchange.co.za/episodes/015-the-power-of-storytelling-to-inspire/): 2020-01-07; guest Tracey Swanepoel (Thinkspiration), Bernard Swanepoel (Thinkspiration), Lisa Shippey (director, Thinkspiration); themes: Storytelling for leaders, Communicating business strategy, Listening to employees, Mining industry leadership, Human connection at work, Authenticity and vulnerability; 6 long passages. The host speaks with three people from Thinkspiration about using storytelling to make business strategy understandable at every level of an organisation.
- [#014 Riaan Wolmarans | Travel books: Memories and aspirations](https://context.onchange.co.za/episodes/014-travel-books-memories-and-aspirations/): 2019-12-03; guest Riaan Wolmarans; themes: Books and travel, Memories of places, Fantasy and fictional worlds, Post-apocalyptic fiction, Travel guides and writing, Reading habits, Holiday reading lists; 6 long passages. An end-of-year book discussion in which host Petro and her friend Riaan Wolmarans talk about books tied to places: cities they have visited, places they want to visit, fantasy and post-apocalyptic worlds, and travel guides.
- [#013 Jo Rust | How motorcycling around Africa changes you](https://context.onchange.co.za/episodes/013-how-motorcycling-around-africa-changes-you/): 2019-05-24; guest Jo Rust (Personal Life Coach); themes: Motorcycling around Africa, Overcoming fear and depression, Mindset and taking action, Calculated risk, Trusting strangers while travelling, Transition to coaching and psychology; 6 long passages. The host talks to Jo Rust about how riding solo around Africa changed her.
- [#011 Riaan Wolmarans | Dusting off the bookshelf](https://context.onchange.co.za/episodes/011-dusting-off-the-bookshelf/): 2018-12-14; guest Riaan Wolmarans (journalist, editor); themes: Books that changed lives, Genre and speculative fiction, Abandoning books guilt-free, Reading habits and tracking, Why people should read, Journalism and reading, Books as gifts; 6 long passages. Host Petro du Pisani and his best friend, journalist Riaan Wolmarans, work through the categories of a Grant Snider cartoon: books they couldn't put down, couldn't pick up, gave each other, took on holiday, and that changed their lives.
- [#009 Gail Cameron | Coaching and African Leadership](https://context.onchange.co.za/episodes/009-coaching-and-african-leadership/): 2018-10-25; guest Gail Cameron (founder and managing director, Image Excellence Group); themes: Coaching career evolution, Emotional intelligence, Social intelligence, Mindfulness and balance, Quantum physics of leadership, Resonant leadership, African leadership qualities, Intentional change process; 6 long passages. Host Petro du Pisani talks with Gail Cameron, founder of the Image Excellence Group, about how her coaching practice grew from voice and speech work into leadership and life coaching.
- [#007 Dr. Clifford Saunders | Reprogramming your brain](https://context.onchange.co.za/episodes/007-reprogramming-your-brain/): 2018-09-21; guest Clifford Saunders (managing director, Center for Applied Neuroscience); themes: Neuroplasticity, Talking to your brain, Sleep and problem solving, Simulations and emulations, Applied neuroscience in business, Artificial intelligence and feelings, Guest career background; 6 long passages. Host Petro du Pisani talks with Dr Clifford Saunders, who calls himself the Brain Reprogramming Doctor, about neuroplasticity.
- [#005 WiMSA | Gender diversity in the mining industry](https://context.onchange.co.za/episodes/005-gender-diversity-in-the-mining-industry/): 2018-06-14; guest Noleen Pauls (Women in Mining South Africa (WiMSA)), Lindi Nakedi (Women in Mining South Africa (WiMSA)); themes: Gender diversity in mining, Women's early careers, Quotas and mindset change, Business case for diversity, Mentoring and networking, Socialisation and equal caregiving, Women in Mining South Africa; 6 long passages. Host Petro du Pisani talks with Noleen Pauls, a geologist in mining since 1992, and Lindi Nakedi, a former recruiter who has run a mining-related business since 2010.
- [#003 Dr. Barbra Trautline | Change Intelligence (CQ)](https://context.onchange.co.za/episodes/003-change-intelligence-cq/): 2018-03-25; guest Barbra Trautline (change consultant, author, speaker, and researcher, Change Catalysts); themes: Change Intelligence (CQ), Head, heart, hands styles, Resistance to change, Change leadership vs management, Women in male-dominated industries, Client case studies, Future of change profession; 7 long passages. Petro du Pisani interviews Barbra Trautline, an organizational psychologist and the author of Change Intelligence.
- [#001 Tom Marsicano | Change in a production environment](https://context.onchange.co.za/episodes/001-change-in-a-production-environment/): 2017-11-18; guest Tom Marsicano (co-founder and director, AndChange); themes: Defining change management, Change in production environments, Culture and change, Resistance to change, Supervisors as change leaders, Training shift workers, Technology to embed change, Change and project management; 6 long passages. Host Petro du Pisani interviews Tom Marsicano, co-founder and director of AndChange, about applying change management in production settings such as mining.

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