Entrepreneur with 20 years in small business leadership in hospitality, retail, manufacturing, and wholesale. Experienced in all aspects of business operation, finance, marketing, and management. Performance driven, effective communicator and motivator who identifies and leverages assets in teammates & businesses to reach organisation goals. Relentless optimist who believes there is no failure, only feedback to guide target course correction.Years of experience in being a small company CEO and when employed, attending to the CEO’s support functions. Honest, very reliable, results-driven, capable, diligent, discreet, and transparent. Efficient in all task functions, process- and time management. Great people skills and team management skills. Intuitive, always ready to make the next move and take initiative, owning responsibility of tasks, delegating as permitted, enabling the CEO or Director to increase their productivity and focus on driving the business to goals. Experienced with MS Office and Google Suite. I do not deem myself to be a Micro-manager but rather a Leader, accepting responsibility for tasks and projects assigned to me, taking ownership thereof, planning and delegating to my team as needed, developing and leading my team, working together to achieve the greatest outcomes for the company.I believe the people are an organisation's greatest asset and treating and managing every employee with respect and dignity will in turn result in a happier working environment, foster a cohesive team with inspired common outcome goals, and result in successful projects and happy customers. Oh, and I GET a business exists first to make money, so producing output, building value, metrics which propel a company forward secures its ability to do more for the community, for altruistic needs, but first, its numbers, profits, responsibly. In South Africa we quickly learn that you are paid for value, not entitlements for your time.