Dr Roze Phillips is a distinguished African Futurist, business leader, medical doctor and thought leader specialising in the Future of Work, Leadership, Innovation, Human Capital and Digital Transformation. With a career spanning healthcare, management consulting, financial services and technology, she brings a unique perspective on how human ingenuity and intelligent technologies can transform businesses and society.
Dr Phillips is an Adjunct Faculty member and Associate of the Centre for Business Ethics at GIBS Business School, with a focus on the Future of Work. She also serves as a Non-Executive Director of Netcare Limited and Spear REIT Limited, a trustee of the Accenture Education Trust and a judge for the prestigious CHRO Awards in South Africa.
Her impressive corporate career includes serving as Group Executive: People and Culture at Absa Group and spending over 18 years at Accenture Africa, where she held several senior leadership positions spanning Consumer Industries, Management Consulting, Human Capital, Innovation and Board leadership across sub-Saharan Africa.
Originally trained as a medical doctor, Dr Phillips also worked as a Public Health Scientist at the South African Medical Research Council. Her passion for innovation has taken her to Silicon Valley, where she mentored start-ups working with the Peter Diamandis XPRIZE Foundation Visioneers.
Through her consultancy, Abundance at Work, she advises organisations and leaders on navigating the changing world of work, embracing emerging technologies and unlocking the potential of human-machine collaboration.
An accomplished keynote speaker, panellist, lecturer and writer, Dr Phillips challenges conventional thinking and inspires leaders to build future-ready organisations that combine technological advancement with human potential.
She is also a contributing author of The Book Every Leader Needs to Read, sharing insights and lessons alongside prominent South African business leaders.
Key Speaking Topics
- The Future of Work: Preparing organisations for a rapidly changing world.
- Leadership for the Future: Building adaptable, innovative and resilient leaders.
- AI, Technology & Human Ingenuity: Unlocking the power of human-machine collaboration.
- The Workforce of the Future: Talent transformation, emerging skills and new ways of working.
- Psychological Safety: Creating high-performing, inclusive workplace cultures.
- Innovation & Digital Transformation: Harnessing disruption to drive business growth.
- New Skills Now: Reskilling and developing talent for the future economy.
Dr Roze Phillips combines corporate leadership experience, scientific thinking and an African futurist perspective to deliver compelling insights into the future of business, people and technology
