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How Fear Stopped Me from Betting on Myself

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April 07, 2022
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  • Niven Postma is the Managing Director of Niven Postma Inc and works as a leadership, culture and strategy facilitator. She’s had a wide and varied career across multiple organisations and sectors, in South Africa and internationally, including CEO of the Businesswomen’s Association, CEO of NOAH (Nurturing Orphans of AIDS for Humanity), Head of External Strategy and then Head of the SARB Academy at the South African Reserve Bank and Head of Leadership and Culture for the Standard Bank Group. She also lectures at Henley Business School and on various global leadership development programmes and is the author of the book “If You Don’t Do Politics, Politics Will Do You.”  
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