Paradigm Shift’s Master Trainers support and train churches, community organizations and volunteers in implementing the Paradigm Shift entrepreneurship development program. Master Trainers are strategically located around South Africa and conduct up to 60 hours of training with each church or community organization as they sign up to bring to the Paradigm Shift program to communities across South Africa.
Interested in becoming a Paradigm Shift Master Trainer?
Contact us at hr@shiftingparadigms.org
Kate Amm
Master Trainer for City Bowl and Southern Suburbs of Cape Town
For Kate’s Master’s degree dissertation, she explored the social value created by ‘social enterprises’ in the Cape Town area in regards to them being sustainable models of development. She discovered the impact which employment has on people: how it enables them to meet their own subsistence needs which in-turn empowers them to make good decisions for themselves and their families, thus diminishing the need for many other social support services.
Kate was previously a high school teacher at an under-developed community. Also, she was instrumental in coordinating a response to the xenophobic attacks in Cape Town in 2008.
Kate has recently returned from Asia where she taught English in South Korea and worked at a church in Malaysia.
Since then, she has been doing contract work for Relativ Enterprise Development (RED), preparing a model to illustrate services offered by RED through corporates and small enterprises, emphasizing the power of BBBEE.
Kate holds a Certificate in Education, a B.Sc. in Ecology & Environment and an M.A. in Development Studies.
Cate Carroll
Master Trainer for the southern suburbs of Cape Town
Cate was previously an Associate Director at UBS for the Prime Brokerage Collateral Management Business Development Project in London. She has also worked as a consultant for IBM’s Business Consulting Services at the European Investment Bank.
Before that, Cate served at Morgan Stanley as a Project Associate for Collateral Management. Last year, Cate served as the Cape Town Regional Manager for Paradigm Shift, where she was a Master Trainer and oversaw all marketing and recruitment of partner churches.
Cate holds a B.A. Honors in Industrial Engineering and an Investment Admin Qualification. She is also a Chartered Financial Accountant.
Anne Gray
Master Trainer for Johannesburg
Anne Gray is a Lead Consultant for a Telecommunications Cost Management Consultancy, responsible for cultivating good customer relationships with South African Corporations and telecommunications service providers. Anne was previously a high school science teacher in Johannesburg, South Africa and London, England.
Anne holds an Honors degree in Marine Ecology from the University of Port Elizabeth, a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Johannesburg, South Africa, and obtained her teaching qualification from Roehampton Unversity, England.
Abiodun “Ola” Oladipupo
Master Trainer for the northern suburbs of Johannesburg
Ola has a background in accounting and in theology, and is currently a freelance trainer and conference producer, doing strategic planning, sponsorship, negotiations, etc.
In the past, he worked with the Ithemba Project, focusing on sustainable development projects for young people in squatter camps, teaching skills such as entrepreneurship, character development, literacy and life skills. Earlier in his career, Ola coordinated a project called Operation Farewell to Poverty, a microfinance initiative in Lagos, Nigeria. He has also been an accountant and teacher.
Ola has B.A.’s in both Accounting and Theology, and an M.A. in Ethics and Theology. His Master’s research centered around the implications and challenges of post-modernism and post-colonialism on Africa’s church movement. He has a passion for the community development of Africa and feels it is time for an “African Renaissance”.
Bongiwe Dumezweni
Master Trainer for Pretoria
Bongiwe has significant community development experience from her work as community development manager at Unsung Heroes, as provisional HIV/AIDS coordinator at the KZN Christian Council (a network of churches), as HIV/AIDS Program Coordinator for Student’s Christian Organization and as a social worker at both Durban Child Welfare and the Epilepsy Foundation in Durban.
Bongiwe was a research fellow at Yale University in the United States, where she developed research at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS, focusing on rape survivors in South Africa.
Most recently, she has been serving as the Deputy-Director of the National Department of Social Development doing population and development research.
Bongiwe hols a B.A. in Social Work and 3 M.A.’s in Social Work, Theology & Development and Policy & Development Studies.
Wambui Gititu
Master Trainer for Central and South Pretoria
Wambui studied group dynamics, including conducting a two-year research on team effectiveness. Her work as a PR consultant has given her experience in planning and coordinating projects.
She has worked most recently at the International Organization for Migration in the Southern Africa Counter Trafficking Awareness Program where she made presentations, conducted workshops and served as the media liaison. Wambui has also been a freelance communication consultant for a metro newspaper.
Wambui holds a B.A. in Communications and an M.A. in Sociology, Group Dynamics.
Janet Michel
Master Trainer for Richard’s Bay, Empangeni and Mtuba
Janet has significant experience in nursing and nursing education from her work as an Operational Manager in Zimbabwe and Switzerland, as lecturer at Hlabisa Nursing school, as Clinical Facilitator at Netcare the bay hospital and as a volunteer assistant M and E Manager at Noah orphans.
She has a Diploma in General Nursing, a BA in Health Services Management and Nursing Education and she is currently completing a Masters Degree in Public Health.
Janet has just been offered a Research Internship position at Africa Centre. Her areas of special interest and expertise include HIV/AIDS, Nursing Education, Health Services Management, Monitoring and Evaluation.
