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Sandiso Sibisi is an intrapreneur at Accenture who is leading Open Innovation for Africa, where she finds herself pushing the boundaries for start-ups, by affording them market access opportunities to accelerate their growth.
She is passionate about development and founded the Born to Succeed programme that is curbing the steep youth unemployment rate in South Africa through education, mentorship and forming private sector alliances. Sandiso is also the former Deputy Chairman of Advancement of Black Accountants South Africa Bursary Fund, which addresses the challenges faced by previously disadvantaged learners in accessing institutions of higher learning due to funding constraints. In 2016, she was selected from a pool of 4000 applicants from South Africa to participate in the Mandela Washington Fellowship in the U. S. She also represented South Africa at the World Bank Youth Summit 2016, Washington DC by sharing her EdTech platform called ‘Khwela’, which has completed its pilot phase. Amongst other accolades she is a Sustainable Development Goals ambassador inaugurated by Ambassador Dessima Williams in Canada, a Play Your Part Ambassador with Brand South Africa and Mzansi’s top 100 inspiring and aspiring leaders of 2017
