Fazela Haniff
Influence ● Impact ● Integrity
I am a gifted HR People and Culture leader who leads through a people development and inclusive lens. My 30-year career experience with people development projects in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America has given me a deep understanding of working effectively with different cultures, which has allowed me to identify unique talent. In me, you will find an ethical HR leader who can maneuver gracefully in any work environment, challenge the norm and find innovative solutions.
My passion for the internationalization of higher education and identifying solutions to remove institutional barriers stem from my experience heading up the Urban Alliance on Race relations in 1990. It afforded me the skills and insight to champion Inclusivity and Equity throughout my career when organizations were resistant to change.
Services
Providing leadership solutions for organisations interested in culture change addressing accountability and equity in Africa, the Caribbean, North and South America.
Human Resources Services
Higher Education Internationalization
Community Engagement Services
HR Strategy – adapt or be left behind
Change Management
Upskilling HR Management
Policy Development
Language Training for managers and workers
Conflict Resolution
Conflict of Interest
Partnership and Collaboration
Policy Development
International HEI network
Humanitarian Lens
Next Generation of Leaders
HIV & AIDS Education Programming
Indigenous Community Engagement
Board Training & Management
About Fazela.
I am a gifted HR People and Culture leader who leads through a people development and inclusive lens. My 30-year career experience with people development projects in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America has given me a deep understanding of working effectively with different cultures, which has allowed me to identify unique talent. In me, you will find an ethical HR leader who can maneuver gracefully in any work environment, challenge the norm and find innovative solutions.
My passion for the internationalization of higher education and identifying solutions to remove institutional barriers stem from my experience heading up the Urban Alliance on Race relations in 1990. It afforded me the skills and insight to champion Inclusivity and Equity throughout my career when organizations were resistant to change.
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Fazela joins Life Re-envisioned for a fascinating conversation about navigating women and leadership opportunities and challenges, her perspectives on addressing structural racism in the workplace as a woman of color and her experiences with the ways in which major life transitions, both those unanticipated and those deliberately sought, can be often turn out to be profoundly transformative turning points in our lives.
School of Becoming: Activating Leadership - Lessons from Post-Apartheid South Africa featuring Fazela Hanif.
What people are saying
Durban University of Technology
Professor Thandwa Mthembu,
Vice-Chancellor and Principal
The best kept secret about Fazela is that she has a prolific mind. With her emotional intelligence and management experience in the private and public sector, in particular in universities, she interacted with academics and researchers as Wits and partner institutions effortlessly as if she were a seasoned academic. {...] Fazela has a very strong and respectable personality that permeates any space she is in. She is a very principled, logical and systematic thinker and doer. She follows her convictions in a guarded but steadfast manner. She is always able to win over even the most virulent critics and naysayers in the organisation, with a complex mixture of conviction, tenacity, reason, debate and persuasion.
Tertiary Education Linkages Project II, UNCF
Gloria J Braxton, Chief of Party/Project
Specifically, Ms. Haniff was hired because of her strengths as a Strategic Human Resources Expert, specializing in administrative and human resource development, to assist TELP institutions to build human resources capacity. She focused on interventions to promote
increased operational effectiveness through improved relations and enhanced systems, creating long-term and sustainable improvements in structures and the unique culture of the working environment. As such, she developed a four-phased programme in order to ensure optimum increased efficiency and effectiveness at the selected institutions.
Achēv
Tonie Chaltas, Chief Executive Officer
During her time with Achēv, Fazela exhibited a high degree of collaboration, commitment and worked tremendously hard to advance the HR projects and needs of the business. Her dedication to her team, her colleagues and Achēv was impressive and matched that of her colleagues,