SBL appoints Prof Tumo Kele

Prof. Tumo Kele

Tumo Kele is the Associate Professor – Management Services at the University of South Africa’s Graduate School of Business Leadership (SBL). Before joining SBL, Prof. Kele was the Director – Centre for Business Analysis and Research at the University of Pretoria’s Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) where he was tasked with management and fund raising for corporate research projects. He is a co-author of a Statistics textbook that is currently used in four universities in the country. Prof. Kele is widely published in news media, academic journals and a book and he often feature on radio stations and television news media. He has a vast experience in ‘on-the-ground’ research on business in the townships and small towns and also diaspora business. To this end, in his previous role, he has designed and delivered an immersion module for the MBA students. The module that won an international prize in 2015 at the AACSB. Prof. Kele has taught, as visiting faculty, at Strathmore Business School, Kenya and Vlerick Business School in Belgium and he is a seasoned presenter in international conferences. Through his teaching and professional consulting, Prof. Kele is committed to understanding how business schools can better develop immersion modules to better prepare responsible graduates to deliver on the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.