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SOUTH AFRICA 67 www.ceotodaymagazine.com CEO Today Africa Awards 2017 furthermore a fully accredited professional training provider with the Services SETA, TETA. SABPP; extension of scope with the W&R, INSETA - and more recently extending scope with the MICTSETA, FOODBEV SETA AND CATHSSETA, now serving a large and diverse portfolio of industry sectors. KLM Empowered has developed both generic and customised accredited SAQA registered qualifications, as well as offering international portfolios. The Knowledge X-Change Senior High School with the Department of Basic Education is a key project that Lyn is collaborating on, in view of bringing 21st Century virtual schooling into South Africa’s schooling system. Service excellence and tailored client requirements are only a couple of attributes that keep KLM Empowered driving strong in the field of skills development. The company is unique in both its rural and urban development for unemployed and employed persons, as well as persons living with disability. Lyn has proudly built her business on honesty and integrity, and holds the award for the SABPP Top Accredited Training Provider in the category of Monitoring and Site Evaluation 2015. Her company’s previous accolades include: Direct Marketing Association of SA Award for the Training provider of the year, for the unprecedented success in the field of Marketing -a project that resulted in a 100% competency success rate for 500 unemployed learners, in the rural Northern Cape region of South Africa. Establishing a company built on equality: On the topic of having the learners best interests at heart, KLM Empowered strives to constantly adopt principles and accreditations that assist in bridging the divide between the business world and the world of social outreach, as well as developing employed teams on their journey of continuous professional growth on behalf of organisations and the government. “ KLM Empowered is proud of the work we do in which we integrate persons living with disability into the workplace,” says Lyn. “We create exclusive environments and qualifications that are tailored to the individual’s needs; we employ facilitators that are trained to manage an individual learner’s disability and to assist them in moving forward and gaining a fully accredited qualification .” It’s for this reason that KLM Empowered has been awarded contracts from the government, SETAs and corporate clients on a variety of national projects across the various disciplines for Learnerships, Skills Programmes and Internship projects. Lyn and her team remain inspired by progressive learning and choose to implement smart technology and off-site learning into the KLM Empowered business model. Whilst fully accredited qualifications through KLM Empowered are offered nationally, there are still individuals that are unable to attend physical classes due to transport, work or any other factors that may affect them. KLM Empowered therefore provides a platform for 21st Century learning at its best, with 24/7/365 access to on site and off site e-learning, skills development, mentorship and transformation processes. Empowering Her Tribe KLM Empowered is an accredited Level 1 Broad Based Black Empowerment enterprise. Equality and justice are important to THE KLM EMPOWERED UBUNTU TRUST FUND: The Ubuntu Trust Fund is a fund committed to purpose driven education, upon which Lyn is on the Board of Trustees. The primary aim of the KLM Empowered Ubuntu Trust is to secure corporate sponsorship of bursaries for further education that will help integrate business and life studies into less fortunate communities. With the help of esteemed organisations, KLM Empowered continues to harvest a sustainable future for our up and coming socially and environmentally conscious entrepreneurs. The funds areas of focus include: • Preservation of life, national heritage and national resources • Cultural diversity, national and international • Gender equality and human respect • Entrepreneurial opportunities with local and global business • Integrates first world capabilities and technology with localised content • Socio-economic and environmental studies, in line with practical experience The KLM Empowered Ubuntu Trust is also responsible for driving annual social initiatives in support of abused women and children, youth and adults living with HIV/AIDS as well as elderly citizens and orphaned children. the enterprise and to Lyn. She is further committed to Enterprise Development initiatives for Black Woman Entrepreneurs, currently developing KLM Empowered Enterprise Development opportunities. A bright, purpose-driven future: For Lyn, it begins and ends with the love for her country and its people. She considers all those surrounding her and their needs within every sphere of KLM Empowered. Lyn finds her purpose in her team, in transformative education and in her growing enterprise. She is a CEO, with a big heart and successful track record to be revered. Her immense gratitude and passion for every milestone achieved gives this CEO of Africa a welcomed humanitarian edge to the hardcore world of Business. “ I believe in the power of education to transform a nation, to widen political perspective and to nurture a culture that leverages strength from its past; this is why I’m in it – to witness the inevitable greatness of a developing country - and to know that somehow in my small corner of it all, I contributed to this ,” she ends. “I believe in the power of education to transform a nation” For more information please contact us: Lyn Mansour Tel: +27 11 856 4700 Email: lyn.mansour@klmempowered.com Website: www.klmempowered.com