Courses and Disciplines taught at WBS:
I’m the Course Lead for the Leadership Quest module of the newly launched MBA in Healthcare Leadership Programme. I co-lecture the Leadership Quest module on the general MBA with the Programme Director, Dr Gobind.
Executive Education Division: I have designed and delivered the following training interventions:
- Automotive client: “Self-development & Team Effectiveness” Future Leaders’ Development Programme.
- Insurance client: “Leading & Managing People” New Managers’ Programme.
- Mining client: “Personal & Team Effectiveness” Senior Leaders’ Development Programme.
- FMCG client: “Personal & Team Effectiveness” Future Leaders’ Programme.
Executive Coaching: Emerging Leader Development Program, with a focus on Gender inclusivity training (group and individual interventions).
Coaching areas of expertise:
- Leadership development (Self-and-contextual mastery)
- Executive communication optimization
- Wellbeing: Self-management and Self-care for leadership effectiveness
- Personal and team effectiveness
Other Teaching Experience:
- Leading Doctoral seminars.
- Postgraduate workshop design and facilitation: I designed and delivered a research proposal writing workshop, based on the Methodology Chapter. This workshop targeted MCom Human Resource Management and Industrial Psychology students. I designed and delivered a research proposal writing workshop, based on the Literature Review Chapter. This workshop targeted Postgraduate Diploma in Energy Leadership students.
- I lectured experienced nursing professionals and inexperienced undergraduate students. Students were introduced to case studies on workplace health issues that practitioners face and the management thereof.
Research Interests:
Leadership Development; Executive Communication, Artificial Intelligence, Organisational Psychology, Organisational Behaviour
Industry and Professional Experience:
I’m a practitioner-scholar interested in the interface between business education (management & leadership development) and Organisational psychology. I’m a registered Industrial/Organisational Psychologist and hold a PhD in the discipline. I'm the Course Lead for the Leadership Quest module of the newly launched MBA in Healthcare Leadership Programme. I co-lecture the Leadership Quest module on the general MBA with the Programme Director, Dr Gobind. I held the Programme Director (PG-Dip in Energy Leadership) role within the AELC and was a Programme Director in the Wits Business School Executive Education Division for leading corporate clients in the Automotive and Insurance sectors. I've trained delegates across management levels within the following sectors: Automotive, Insurance, Mining, FMCG, Management consulting, Telecommunications, Agriculture and Banking. My scope of practice includes Psycho-legal assessment for employability.
My approach as a consultant and subject-matter expert is to empower employees (leaders, directors, managers) by enabling them to understand what happens to and around them in the organisational context. Armed with such insight, my clients are better positioned to intervene when required and effectively cope with/absorb any shocks within their professional context. I pair clients’ self-awareness with mechanisms to combat workplace stressors that subvert performance.
My approach is embedded in psychological science for maximum impact. I use a Rogerian therapeutic approach to centre my clients’ needs and experiences, whilst facilitating understanding, directing learning, interpreting their workplace experiences and clarifying misperceptions.
Psycho-legal assessment for employability: I have collaborated with medical experts and lawyers, towards the assessment and compensation of clients who have been injured in motor-vehicle accidents or have suffered medical negligence. Psychometric testing and assessment applied for the following purposes: personality assessment and interest measurement for career guidance and counselling; when selecting candidates into the MBA, MM & PDM programmes; as well as vocational assessment at the school level (grade 8 – grade 12 learners)
I am a Full Member of SIOPSA (Society for Industrial & Organisational Psychology).
Recent Publications and Scholarly Contributions:
Tabane, L. M. (2025). The Cure for Talking: Transactional Analysis and AI to Optimize Executive Communication. Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/23294906251336720
Tabane, L. M., & Ledimo, O. (2024). Assessing the Effect of Management Education on Vocational Behaviour. African Journal of Governance and Development, 13(1), 83-109.
Other Scholarly Contributions:
- Acceptance into the Wharton Global Faculty Development Program 2025
- February 2017: I was awarded the NRF Scarce Skills Doctoral Scholarship, valued at R120 000 per annum for the duration of her research project.
- 2017 Academy of Management (AOM) Research Methods Division Consortium: I was selected as part of a group of over 140 participants representing 26 countries internationally. The consortium is a virtual, real-time, multi-day event. Selected candidates are given the opportunity to interact with leading scholars and methodologists across three perspectives: macro-quantitative, micro-quantitative, and qualitative.