Dr. Magdeline Ramaboea is a Founding Director of Triumphant Eagle International (Pty) Ltd., a business consulting company. She is also working for one of the state-owned companies in South Africa (Armscor). She has held various leadership and management roles within both public and private sector organisations, possesses great insight into managing business corporations effectively and efficiently. She has spent more than eighteen years in corporate business environments, both in the public and private sectors. Her area of interest within the business environments has always been about exploring ways in which corporations can be enabled to operate in a sustainable manner that considers the need to preserve the natural environment and enhance societal well-being.
She took a specific interest to research about international best business practices that enable corporations to operate sustainably, indicating a manner that does not compromise the ability of the future generation to exist and meet their needs. Her interest was encouraged by various corporate failures, issues of global warming and financial crises. During her doctoral studies Dr. Ramaboea finds that these above-mentioned unfortunate events led to the formation of the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) and the development of integrated reporting practices. The IIRC practices are broadly known to have the ability to enable an integrated business thinking that considers all factors that influence a corporation’s ability to create sustainable value. This insight led Dr. Ramaboea to extensively pursue academic research on these practices. Her research included principles of sound business sustainability through PhD in Accounting Sciences with the University of South Africa (Unisa). Her study developed an integrated conceptual model titled “Integrated Model for Internal Change and Value Creation for the Defence Evaluation and Research Institutions (DERIs)”. The model was based on the IIRC integrated reporting practices.
Additionally, Dr. Ramaboea wrote a book titled “Integrated Model for Sound Internal Functioning and Sustainable Value Creation: A Solution for Corporate Environments Post Covid-19”. The purpose of her book is to advocate, explain and demonstrate the strategic use of the IIRC’s practices as agents of internal change and sustainable value creator within business environments. The book comprehensively covers factors that influence corporation’s ability to create sustainable value. These includes ethical leadership, the process of enacting sound internal functioning and good governance practices within business practices. Dr. Ramaboea is extremely qualified and skilled, and her credentials are globally recognised and are regarded in high esteem. She is also a registered member of several highly regarded professional institutions. These include the Chartered Institute of Business Management (CIBM), Southern African Institute for Business Accountants (SAIBA), South African Institute for Professional Accountants (SAIPA), Centre of Tax Excellence (CoTE), Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators (CSSA) Southern Africa.
Her various credentials including professional and executive designations are outlined below.