Magnify Your Impact with Yolan Friedmann

Determination and clarity personified, a leader living
with the highest of standards


Yolan Friedmann is currently the CEO of the Endangered Wildlife
Trust, she has an academic background in Veterinary Nursing, a BA
in English and Communications, an MSc in Environmental Studies
(WITS) and an MDP from the Gordon Institute for Business Science
(University of Pretoria). She was the first female recipient of
the SAB Nick Steele Environmentalist of the Year award, which she
won in 2011. She was also the winner of the CEO Most Influential
Woman in Business and Environment award in 2012 in the
Environmental category; the recipient of the 2012 Green Globe
award.


A key focus of Yolan’s career has been leadership development and
strategy facilitation, Yolan was invited to participate in the
Crans Montana Forum in 2015 and was selected as a GreenMatter
Senior Fellow in 2014.


My Key takeaways


Something Yolan and I discussed much in different ways throughout
our time together was leadership - the definition of a leader,
through to what a leader demonstrates. I feel that Yolan is
qualified to speak with the clarity she does and I believe that
you would agree with that statement if you too were to listen to
this great interview. 


Her whole career has revolved around passion, purpose and impact.
She knew from a young age that this would need to be the case In
order for her to feel satisfied. Yolan shares some great wisdom
around having an open and flexible direction and how this pays
off. There are many different causes we can feel compelled to
create real impact within but the way in which we can impact is
vast. This is where Yolan feels we need the greatest flexibility.


Whilst joining or building a team for a not for profit, we must
always keep in mind that this is the most vital part of the
process for success; the right team of people is paramount as we
grow something that inspires us - alongside the initial cause,
it's these people that will give us the inspiration to carry on
when it all appears to be too much to handle and these times will
arise!


I could talk much about the individual that Yolan is from
successfully competing in 15 double marathons through to
‘leading’ many charity focused causes but ultimately taking the
time to listen to this truly valuable interview will teach you
massively as it did me!


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Connect with Yolan


Website: www.ewt.org.za