About Shibz
From Running Errands to the Executive Table
My career did not begin with a plan. It began with desperation. As a student on internship, I was the one sent to run errands, cover the phones when the receptionist was busy, and make myself useful wherever I was needed. When I graduated, I spent years on consecutive temporary contracts — eight in a row — with no stability, no coach, no framework, but only raw hope and prayer.
What changed was not luck. It was a decision. I stopped waiting for a career to happen to me and started architecting one deliberately — through rigorous learning, strategic pivots, and the hard lessons that only come from navigating five industries across three continents. That journey took me from temporary worker to acting executive, from running errands to training board members on Corporate Governance.
I founded Pivot with Shibz because I know what it costs to build a career without guidance — and I know what becomes possible when you finally understand that you have the power to choose. Not just to get a job. To choose work that aligns with who you are, that you walk into with confidence, and that you own completely.
Pivot with Shibz is growing. What begins as individual career transformation coaching is expanding into organisational leadership development and talent strategy consulting — bringing this work to teams, HR functions, and institutions across Africa and beyond.
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Why Pivot with Shibz Exists
"A world where every African professional chooses their career — not out of desperation, but out of clarity, confidence, and the knowledge that they have the power to decide."
Pivot with Shibz exists to restore career agency to mid-career African professionals — equipping them with the clarity, strategy, and tools to stop settling and start choosing, built from 25 years of lived cross-continental experience and peer-reviewed research.
"I help mid-career African professionals intentionally reposition their careers and start owning every room they walk into — because when you choose your career deliberately, you don't just show up, you stand out."
— Sethembile Shiba, Founder
Choose clarity. Choose action. Choose to pivot.
Your career transformation does not happen by accident. It happens by design — when you choose clarity, commit to a strategy, and act with intention.
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