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Department: Institutional Planning, Polytechnic of NamibiaTel: +264 61 207 2015 • E-mail: [email protected] • www.polytechnic.edu.na

Department: Institutional PlanningSecretaries Forum

Secretaries’ ConventionTheme: Pathway to Success

Date: Friday, 25 August 2017Time: 07:30 - 16:00Venue: Mining Auditorium 1

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Secretaries’ Convention 2017

PROGRAMME Director of Ceremonies: Ms Vivette Rittmann

Manager: NUST FM Radio Station

Time Activity Presenter(s)

07:30 -08:30 REGISTRATION

08:30Welcome and Opening Remarks

Dr Tjama TjivikuaVice-Chancellor, NUST

09:00 Keynote Address

Dr Helena NdumeHead of National Eye Department: WHK Central Hospital

10:00Demonstration: Healthy Eating

Mr Lloyd DienVenus Health and Fitness Centre

10:10 TEA BREAK

10:30 Confidence: The Key to Success

Ms Afra Schimming-ChaseFinancial Planner and Consultant: Chase and Associates CC

11:00 Transitioning into your Leadership Role

Dr Christina Swart-Opperman Senior Lecturer: HP-GSB

11:30 Demonstration: Active Living

Mr Dien

11:40

Managing your Time with Precision, Pursueing Happiness and developing inner Peace

Ms Antoinette de Chavonnes VrugtWriter and Entrepreneur

12:30 LUNCH

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PROGRAMMEDirector of Ceremonies: Ms Emma Jario Secretary: Office of the Legal Advisor

Time Activity Presenter(s)

14:15 Panel Discussion Integrating Sustainable Practices into Daily Office Operations

Moderator Ms Carol Millward Industry Liaison Officer: Cooperative Education Unit, NUST

PanelistsMs Gisela Schroeder-Nependa First NUST Sustainability Champion - May 2017Ms Marissa Hurter Personal Assistant to the Executive Officer: Marketing and Communications Specialist, Bank Windhoek

14:45 Personal Branding Ms Michelle Opel-SchmidtOrganisational Development Practitioner, MTC

15:15 The Modern Office Administrator

Ms Deoni Olivier and Ms Lindie Beukes Lecturers: Business Information Administration, Faculty of Management Sciences, NUST

15:45 Handing over: Certificates of Attendance

16:00 Concluding Remarks Ms Muriel MoutonSecretary: Faculty of Health and Applied Sciences, NUST

18:00 - 23:00

Networking Dinner Nyama Restaurant (Jan Jonker Road, WHK Showgrounds)

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Keynote Speaker Dr Helena NdumeOpthamologist

Dr Helena Ndume was born in Tsumeb on 02 August 1960 and is one of six siblings - four sisters and two brothers. She obtained her primary education at Opawa Primary School in Tsumeb from 1967 to 1975. In 1975 she went into exile through Angola to Zamiba from where she was sent to The Gambia to further her education.

She obtained her secondary education at Armitage High School in George Town, The Gambia from 1975 to 1980. Dr Ndume then studied medicine at Leipziger University in the then East Germany from 1981 to 1989. In 1989 she returned to Namibia and completed her internship at the Katutura and Windhoek Central Hospitals.

In 1992, she went to specialise in Ophthalmology at the University of Saarland in Germany (1992 - 1996), where she graduated in 1996.

After a six-month stint ( January - June 1996) at the Joseph Eye Hospital in India, she returned to Namibia and started working at the Windhoek Central Hospital’s Ophthalmology Department, of which she became the Head in 1999. She started a country-wide campaign to fight preventable blindness in 1997.

Dr Ndume has received the following awards in recognition of her work to prevent blindness:• Lions International Award by Lions Operation Bright-Sight Project (1999);• Humanitarian Award for the prevention of blindness by Surgical Eye Expedition (Santa

Barbara, California, U.S.A.) (2001)• Grand Commander of the First Order of Namibia (1st Class), bestowed on her by former

President Sam Nujoma on Namibia’s Independence Day (2004);• Namibia National Science Award, in recognition of her contribution to Science in Namibia

(2006)• Rotary International Humanitarian Award (2008)• Red Cross International Humanitarian Award (2009)• Namibia Breweries Limited Ambassador Award (2010)• Windhoek Observer Newsmaker Award, Health Category (2015)• United Nations Nelson Rolihahla Mandela Prize: New York, U.S.A (2015)• PPS Insurance Professional Woman of the Year(2016)• New Africa Woman Award, Category Science and Technology: Dakar, Senegal (2017)

Her hobbies are cooking, mountain climbing and enjoying music, especially jazz and rhythm and blues.

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Presenter Profile:Ms Afra Schimming-ChaseFinancial Planner and ConsultantChase and Associates

Afra Schimming-Chase was born on 04 March 1973, in West Berlin, Germany to a Namibian mother and a Saint Lucian father. Educated in Namibia, Switzerland and France, she is a true global citizen and settled back in her home country, Namibia, in 1998.

She is a Certified Financial Planner Professional and a professional member of the Financial Planning Institute of Southern Africa. She holds a LLB, LLM and Postgraduate Diploma in Law, obtained from the University of Mont Saint Aignan, Rouen, France.

Afra started her career as a legal advisor with Old Mutual Namibia in 1998 and held numerous other senior positions during her tenure there, most notably as Executive Manager Client Service; before moving on in 2006 to establish her own business CHASE and Associates CC.

CHASE and Associates CC empowers individuals and businesses to achieve infinite financial abundance through simple and effective solutions, simply put, “how you do money is how you do life” and CHASE and Associates abides by the mission: effective solutions, empowered lives. Afra is passionate about financial empowerment and supports her clients in creating and maintaining a positive relationship with money, helping them get and stay out of debt whilst building powerful financial futures which reflect their highest aspirations and wildest dreams. In addition to financial planning and coaching services, Afra also trains and facilitates Financial Wellness Workshops; Customer Service Workshops and Consulting Services complete the offering.

Afra is also one of three partners who hold the executive license for FranklinCovey Namibia, founded in July 2013. As one of the world’s leading Performance Improvement organizations, FranklinCovey is an international franchise offering products and solutions in the areas of Trust, Leadership, Execution, Sales Performance, Productivity, Customer Loyalty and Education. Afra is a certified facilitator in a number of these solutions, all of which propose training and consulting in areas where a change in human behavour is required.

Afra currently serves as Independent Director on the Board of Nedbank Namibia Limited and NedNamibia Holdings Limited. She is an Independent Trustee of the Benchmark Retirement Fund as well as current Chairperson of the Death Claims Subcommittee.

She served as External Investment Advisor, Member of the Investment Committee of Namibia Post and Telecom Holdings Limited (from 2013 to May 2016).

Afra is passionate about making a positively impactful difference in all she does and believes that you, “Do what you love, love what you do, no matter which occurs first”. In her free time, Afra enjoys cooking, entertaining, pilates and HIITcamp as well as reading and engaging on social media.

Afra is the mother of one son, Neo.

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Presenter ProfileDr Christina Swart-OppermanSenior LecturerHP-GSB

Dr Christina Swart-Opperman is a senior Lecturer of Strategic Human Resources and Managing Self and Others, for the Master of Business Administration and the Master of Leadership and Change Management, respectively. She holds a DPhil from Northwest University (1987) and a PhD from the University of Cape Town (UCT, 2016). She is also a registered Industrial Psychologist. She serves as a UNAM Councillor and on certain private sector committees.

Dr Swart-Opperman’s research focusses on the role of emotive outlook in innovation implementation teams and the factors impacting innovation execution in organisations. Other areas of interest include futuristic studies, the intra psychological empowerment of people and specifically of women, as well as research methodology. She previously worked in the private sector, owned a consultancy practice and served as a partner/director for an international audit firm.

She was nominated as Business Woman of the Year (2002), received the Most Distinguished Order of Namibia: Fourth Class: Business Person – conferment of National Honours (2014) and the Standard Bank: Women of Excellence Award (2016). She founded the Christina Swart-Opperman Aids Orphan Foundation Trust (2003-2014) focusing on the social upliftment of children orphaned by HIV/Aids.

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Presenter ProfileMs Michelle Opel-SchmidtOrganisational Development PractitionerMTC

Michelle was born in 1978 and started modeling at the age of 14 with Mieke’s Charm and Modeling School. The move was an attempt by her mother to tame the emerging rebel within her.

Mieke Erasmus and Tracy Gellman taught her the good old fashion basics of grooming and etiquette for ladies; getting into and out of a car, which cutlery and crockery to use, how to sit, stand, talk – an incredible way of empowering a young girl and teaching her overall confidence.

After many years of doing ramp and various photographic certificate courses, Michelle entered the Miss Dawid Bezuidenhout Beauty Pageant, where she was crowned 2nd princess.

Thereafter, she entered the Miss Teen Namibia Contest for two consecutive years, finishing in the top 10 each time. At the age of 18, she entered the Miss 1997 Wernhil Park Pageant in Windhoek, won the title and became an automatic semi-finalist for the next year’s Miss Namibia. She did not win, but one of the lessons her mother taught her as a child took on a new meaning that day - to always be polite to everyone she meets. During the experience, she made it her mission to make a good impression; with both her personal grooming and in her interaction with people - to good effect. People she met at the Miss Namibia Pageant back then still call her by her first name, setting the stage for her present career.

In addition to teaching personal grooming, her short-term goals include completing her certificate: “The Principles of Public Relations” at the Public Relations Institute of Southern Africa (PRISA), with the end goal of attaining her APR status.

Michelle completed her Chatta Romano certification as a colour consultant. The emphasis of this certification rests heavily on personal branding as a crucial element in business, success and personal growth. She has completed the theoretical section as an Image Consultant and completed the practical course in 2012.

She regards herself as trustworthy, friendly and a highly motivated individual. An extremely sociable person, she adapts to different situations easily and works well within a team.

Michelle previously worked in the financial services industry since 1997 where she held the position as the Corporate Wear and Personal Branding Consultant for the Capricorn Investment Holdings Group. In 2014, she fused her wings again to work in the ICT and Telecom sector, with Mobile Telecommunications Limited as the lead blue chip company’s Internal Organisation Development Practitioner, responsible for the organisation’s growth and talent nurturing in order to meet its demands.

Michelle is married to Egon Schmidt and is mother to Michaela age 17, Zurika age 14, and twins Keathan and Tristan, age 7.

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Presenter ProfileMs Antoinette de Chavonnes VrugtWriter and Entrepreneur

Antoinette was born in Pretoria but grew up in Namibia. She is a passionate Namibian.

She matriculated at Windhoek High School and studied education with commercial subjects at the University of Pretoria. In 1983 she married Chris and will be married 34 years this year. After she graduated in 1985 they moved to Oshakati where she was a teacher at the Ongwediva Training Centre. They moved to Windhoek in 1987 and she started working as a lecturer in the Secretarial Training Department, at the then Polytechnic of Namibia, for about 10 years.

She always loved cooking and as a hobby started to attend all courses and demonstrations that she could put her hands on. She started making food for friends, and so her catering business started. Later, it became so big, that she had to choose between the teaching and cooking. She completed her Professional Catering diploma and Chef diploma during that time.

In 2009 she published the first Namibian Cookbook (in English), “My Hungry Heart, notes from a Namibian kitchen” and it took the world by storm, totally not what she expected. She thought if she could just have a few copies for her kids it will be great, but this book took on its own personality. She won the prize in Paris for Best in the World, African Cuisine from the Gourmand Cooking Book Awards where they judged over 6 000 books per year.

In 2015 she published her second book, “Life on a table, my stories from a Namibian kitchen”. She won the Gourmand Cooking Book Awards again in China for Best in the World, African Cuisine.

She has two children, Christoph (27) and Marietjie (26). Christoph is a sesasoned musician (drummer) and busy with his Masters in Social Anthropology at the University of Cape Town (UCT), and Marietjie is a qualified nurse, working in The Netherlands.

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Presenter ProfileMs Deoni OlivierLecturer/Programme CoordinatorBusiness Information Administration NUST

Deoni Olivier is a lecturer and programme coordinator of Business Information Systems and Business Applications in the department of Management at the Namibia University of Science and Technology. She is a graduate of the Office Management and Technology programme, which she passed with cum laude.

She is a member of the BIA programme’s Advisory Board and the NUST Secretaries Forum. Deoni has designed and administered secretarial assessments/tests on behalf of industry. Currently Deoni’s research interests are centred around the study of e-commerce adoption in Namibia.

Beyond her lecturing duties, Deoni is passionate about empowering the less privileged, and has thus initiated an outreach programme called “Shine Women”. The aim of the programme is to empower women, particularly young women with essential life skills thereby helping them discover their worth, strength and purpose.

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Presenter ProfileMs Gisela Schroeder-NependaNUST Sustainability Champion - May 2017

Gisela Schroeder-Nependa was born in October 1961 in Windhoek. She has been the Secretary and acting Project Coordinator at the Teaching and Learning Unit (TLU), at the Namibia University of Science and Technology since 2011.

Her higher education started in 1981 when she obtained her Secretarial Certificate at Cape Town School of Commerce. In 2002, she obtained her National Diploma in Marketing at the then Polytechnic of Namibia. In 2015, she graduated with a Bachelors in Communication at NUST.

Gisela has more than 26 years administrative experience. Her professional activities started in 1991 when she joined CALTEX OIL Namibia as a secretary. She joined the Windhoek Vocational Training Centre in 2009 as Secretary to the Principal. She established her own business focusing on events management in 2010.

She is the recipient of several awards: “General Caltex Value Award” (1992) and “Caltex Gold Value Award” (1993) and the “Silver Award for Human Dignity” (1994). In May 2017, she received NUST’s first Sustainability Champion Award, in recognition for her contributions towards creating a sustainable University.

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Presenter ProfileMs Lindie Beukes Lecturer Business Information Administration NUST

Lindie Beukes is a lecturer in the unit of Business and Information Administration at the Namibia University of Science and Technology. Her primary interests are centred around the field of Information Administration. She has lectured Information Administration at various levels for 8 years.

She has been involved in several projects with international Institutions such as Tshwane University of Technology, Cape Peninsula University of Technology and a number of universities in Texas, U.S.A.. More recently, Lindie has coordinated the revision of the Office Management and Technology programme. This led to the successful introduction of the new Business and Information Administration programme. Her role as an Advisory Board member has broadened her perspective on this field of study and also added value to the profession.

Lindie has worked with the Namibia Qualification Authority as a subject matter expert on Office Administration and related subjects; evaluating conformance to standards among numerous colleges. She has frequently worked with the University Central Consultancy Bureau (UCCB) to provide training to different entities. She recently joined the Secretaries Forum at NUST.

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Presenter ProfileMs Marissa HurterPersonal Assistant to the Executive OfficerMarketing and Communications SpecialistBank Windhoek

Marissa Hurter was born in Mariental and moved to Windhoek in 1981, and is the youngest of three siblings.

In 1994 she matriculated from Jan Mohr Secondary school and got married in 1998 to John. They have two beautiful daughters aged 17 and 15.

She started her first job just a few months after completing high school and after six months she received an employment offer from TransNamib. She worked for TransNamib for almost eights years in several positions. In April 2003 she started her career with Bank Windhoek as an Accounts Assistant in the Finance department. In August 2003 she became the Secretary of the Chief Financial Officer, a position she held for two years. In November 2005 she was promoted to her current position of Personal Assistant to Executive Officer: Marketing and Corporate Communication Services.

In 2006, she was a finalist in the Namibia Professional Assistant Association (NPAA)’s competition “Professional Assistant of the Year”. In 2014, she received the Managing Director’s Award for Personal Assistant: Support Services at Bank Windhoek’s Executive Awards.

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Sponsors

1. Avani Wellness Centre

2. Bank Windhoek 3. Barnard Mutuaa Architects

4. CN Business Furniture

5. Performance Development Centre

6. EMCON Consulting Group

7. Dr Harmony Musiyarira

8. Kopplinger Boltman

9. Huester Machinetool Company (Pty) Ltd

10. Jenny’s Place

11. Ms Antionette de Chavonnes Vrugt

12. NASHUA (Namibia)

13. Officeconomix

14. Shadonai Beauty Consultancies

15. Sanlam Namibia

16. Tom van Wyk Quantity Suveyors

17. Virtua Technologies

18. Venus Health and Fitness Centre

19. WHK Flora

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Secretaries Convention 2017

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