Sean Young

Empowering women is an imperative, says Sindi Koyana, senior executive partner at Ernst & Young. It unleashes value through capacity and capabilities that would otherwise be lying dormant, she adds. “Our government has been a trailblazer for a while — not just now with the gender balance that we see in government leadership but starting in 1994 with the accelerated growth and development it gave woman executives in state-owned organisations