Phindile Yende – Entrepreneurship

Women’s Empowerment, Youth Development & Entrepreneurship

Speaker on Women’s Empowerment, Entrepreneurship & Social Impact. Empowering women and young people through skills development, mentorship, entrepreneurship, and meaningful socio-economic opportunity across Africa.

Book Guest Speaker Phindile Yende as your conference speaker on 067 843 2362 or email directly to info@guestspeaker.co.za

Guest Speaker Phindile Yende is an entrepreneur, speaker, three-time published author, philanthropist, and passionate advocate for women and youth empowerment. She has spoken on varied international platforms across the USA, East Africa, West Africa, and South Africa, including on radio and television, addressing important issues such as gender-based violence (GBV) and women’s empowerment.

Phindile was a 2018 Mandela Washington Fellow under the Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI), founded in 2014 by former United States President Barack Obama. As part of the programme, she spent time at Clark Atlanta University in the USA, where she further developed her skills in business entrepreneurship.

She holds qualifications in Business Entrepreneurship and Sales and Marketing and is the Founder and CEO of RUO&RUI GROUP, also known as RRM, a project management, healthcare, and textile manufacturing company. Through her entrepreneurial work, Phindile combines business development with her commitment to creating meaningful opportunities for others.

Phindile is also an accomplished author, with three published books. Two of her titles, Yet, You Married Him and A Marriage Built on Lies, reached bestseller status. Through her writing and speaking, she explores issues around women, relationships, empowerment, personal development, and the challenges facing communities.

A significant part of Phindile’s work focuses on practical empowerment. She has run learnership programmes in pharmacy assistance, clothing, and textile manufacturing, successfully empowering more than 400 women and young people who qualified in their respective fields. Sixty percent of these participants were subsequently placed in employment across various healthcare facilities in South Africa.

As a philanthropist, Phindile established the Phindile Yende Foundation, through which she supports initiatives focused on women, girls, dignity, and opportunity. Her work has included providing sanitary dignity support to girls across South Africa and Malawi, as well as investing in an initiative in Malawi that provided sewing machines to young women to enable them to manufacture reusable sanitary towels and create sustainable opportunities for themselves.

Phindile is passionate about advancing women and youth through upskilling, motivation, and mentorship. Her work encourages individuals to aspire to greatness in their chosen career paths and contribute positively to the socio-economic development of Africa.

Her speaking style combines personal experience, practical insight, and a strong commitment to social impact, making her a compelling speaker for audiences seeking meaningful conversations around empowerment, entrepreneurship, leadership, youth development, and creating opportunities for women.

Phindile Yende’s speaking engagements are particularly well suited to:

• Corporate conferences and leadership events
• Women’s empowerment and gender-focused events
• Youth development and empowerment programmes
• Entrepreneurship and business events
• Social impact and community development forums
• Healthcare, skills development, and employment initiatives
• Events addressing GBV and women’s issues
• African development and socio-economic empowerment forums