Expo speakers

Blaise has 10 years of experience in public practice. During this time he has worked at Grant Thornton as an audit manager, Gobodo Incorporated as a senior manager in their technical standards division, Protect a Partner International as Head of Accounting and Technical Excellence and most recently as a technical director at W.Consulting. His areas of expertise include, International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), IFRS for SMEs, Generally Recognised Accounting Practice (GRAP) and ISA (International Auditing Standards).

Tracy, qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Deloitte (JHB, SA) and later joined their Global, SA & UK Learning Teams.  In Deloitte Learning she worked on Trainee competency training, IFRS e-learning development & global implementation of IFRS learning initiatives. On her return from the UK she continued her work with SAICA trainees in small & medium-sized firms & is currently, still, involved in Audit & Ethics Training for trainees.  She also obtained a Meta-Coaching qualification (ACMC).

She has worked in learning & development for over 15 years, Nationally & Internationally developing & delivering workshops to delegates from various sectors including Government, Private Sector, Business Schools & NPOs.  Her passion is to share simplified key concepts with people to make them more fulfilled and effective in the workplace. 

Tracy’s broad experience across industries including the retail, banking, financial, medical, FMCG and transport sectors.  Her other areas of expertise are finance-for-non-financial managers, management and communication skills business coaching and insights discovery (personality profiling).