50 Faces

Nicky Hambleton-Jones

ByWBSComms November 21, 2018January 10, 2020

Nicky Hambleton-Jones

Current title
TV Presenter; Stylist

Course at Wits Business School
Postgraduate Diploma in Business Administration, 1995

A defining moment in my career
The most defining moment in my career so far was the opportunity to present and be a style expert for the global hit makeover show 10 Years Younger which was broadcast at primetime on Channel 4 in the UK. The premise of the show was to make people look at least ten years younger than the age the public guessed they were at the start of the show.

My role was to give each candidate a complete makeover from head to toe as well as support them through their transformation journey. The show was hugely successful and was broadcast around the world, including South Africa.

It was an opportunity that came out of the blue when I set up my style consultancy in 2001, a testament to the fact that when you follow your dream and do something you love, good things happen.

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Late one Thursday night, as I walked past my library, an epiphany struck me. I realised, just then, in that moment, what the purpose of my life was.

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Kenny Fihla

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My experience in the City of Johannesburg (COJ) in the late 1990s involved the restructuring of the institution to avert a financial meltdown.

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Maurice Radebe

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My appointment as managing director, Sasol Oil, in December 2006 was a defining moment in my career. Prior to this appointment, we had spent close to four years managing merger processes.

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Gail Kelly

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Connecting the dots of a career with the benefit of hindsight, the pivotal elements quickly become apparent. One of these was my Wits Business School MBA

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Lauren Jankelowitz

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I was a really good social worker. I loved working in a community, doing long-term development work with individuals and groups. However, because I was a good social worker, I quickly became a manager of peers, then teams and projects, and ultimately organisations.

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Lauren Liebenberg

ByWBSComms November 22, 2018May 18, 2019

I used to try candy-coat things, but no longer: giving birth is less painful, less bloody and infinitely quicker than getting your first novel published. If you haven’t been smothered under the avalanche of “Dear Author, Thank you for your submission, but …” slips by the time you find a publisher, you and your manuscript will still have to face the pitiless glint of your editor’s scythe.

Nicky Hambleton-Jones

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