Leadership secrets with Ricardo Coetzee

Leadership is not just about CEOs and MDs, every single person has a leadership role to play that helps to grow and make the industry sustainable.

We caught up with Ricardo Coetzee, Head of Auto & General Insurance to find out his secret to being a successful leader of a large company in the insurance industry.

"My main responsibility is to see how I can inspire and empower my team, how I can help them unlock all those great ideas and initiatives that they have and turn those into customer solutions."

"It is also important as a leader to recognize those for the effort that they are putting in, because my experience has shown me that recognition is important. It gives teams new energy, it drives them with new ideas and new concepts."

"As Business leaders in this environment, we're going to have to step in and step up to build a prosperous South Africa. All our futures are dependent on all businesses and on a successful, prosperous, productive South Africa. It's in our own interest to step in and step up and assist and help."

Watch our discussion with Ricardo to find out more about his leadership secrets