March 29, 2024

#1 Podcast with Brenda Niehaus

Brenda Niehaus

In this podcast, we interview Brenda Niehaus, the Chief Information Officer of Standard Bank Group. In this episode she talks about her time at Standard Bank, her plans for phase 2 of her life and the skills she had to develop over the years. She is one of the few women in Tech.

Women in Tech

Women in Tech is a major theme here at Langerman Panta Rhei. Women are vastly under-represented and access to their skills is a loss for our industry.

See Prof. Judy Backhouse's view on this. Where are the women in Tech?

Other women in IT we interviewed are:

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Show notes

00:00 - Intro - we’re nervous!

00:30 - Your taste in wine?

01:00 - What do you want your legacy to be?

03:30 - “In our time…”

04:35 - The Accelerate Journey

05:30 - Learning to ‘extract’ opinions from everyone

07:30 - Your plans for retirement (Your Phase 2)?

09:01 - What framed you as an individual?

10:58 - Two fundamental decisions

12:08 - The Jungle Gym of Life

13:05 - Key skills you developed?

14:40 -  ‘Attitude over aptitude’

15:23 - If you could only work 2 hours a week…

16:15 - What book would you gift?

17:28 - Who should we ‘podcast’ next?

18:00 - Open questions to Brenda

20:14 - Strategy…? Restructuring…?

22:35 - Wrap-up & Challenging the OHS