Project Description
Despite the work from home trend, the office is still an important space for collaboration and creativity, where business performance and personal career development can be bolstered.
Join the Business Day Dialogues LIVE as our panel of experts discuss the benefits of a hybrid working solution: where an office that provides mentorship, coaching, technology, resources and a sense of community, can seamlessly integrate with working-from-home requirements during the pandemic.

Joanne Joseph
Anchor and Radio personality
Joanne Joseph
Prior to this she was the main anchor and a bulletin writer on SABC 3’s “News at 7’. She began her career at YFM radio as a news presenter radio in 1998. Following that, she worked at Classic FM, Network Radio News and Business Day as a producer/presenter. In 1998, she moved into television, taking up the position of producer/presenter at SABC Africa.
Joanne has scripted several corporate videos for clients like Afrox and produced documentaries for the United Nations Development Programme among others. She has done several high-profile live broadcasts including the live coverage of Nelson Mandela’s passing broadcast internationally, Thabo Mbeki’s presidential inauguration, the Walter Sisulu and Beyers Naudé funerals.
Joanne regularly MCs corporate functions in English and French and has presented corporate videos for Life Healthcare, SAPPI, First National Bank, Standard Bank, MTN and PG Glass among others

Professor François Viruly
Associate Professor
University of Cape Town
Professor François Viruly

Linda Trim
Director
Giant Leap
Linda Trim
Linda Trim holds a degree in psychology.
For the past 27 years she has been involved in workspace design and making sure companies get the best out of their people by creating award winning workspaces
Giant Leap believe you need to welcome people to a better place

Rob Kane
Chief Executive Officer
Boxwood Property Fund
Rob Kane
Rob retired as CEO of JSE listed Texton Property Fund Limited (formerly VPIF) in mid-2015 which he started in 2006 and then listed on the JSE on 2011. Since inception, Rob grew the fund to an asset value of R5.5bn comprising 350,000m2 of commercial, retail and industrial buildings throughout South Africa. In 2014, Rob diversified the business offshore and the fund had 25% of its asset base in the UK. In the same year, he concluded a BEE transaction placing 26% of the listed shares in black hands. Rob is non-executive chair of the Cape Town City Improvement District (CCID), a Public -Private Partnership which is responsible for public safety, urban management, social development, and PR/Communications. The CCID is accepted as the organisation primarily responsible for the turnaround of the Cape Town CBD. Rob sits on the South African Property Owners Association Board for the Western Cape Committee and is an occasional lecturer at UCT.

Dr Colinda Linde
Psychologist and SADAG Chair