Christine Taphel Announced As The Incoming CEO And Director Of RLabs South Africa
Christine Taphel Announced As The Incoming CEO And Director Of RLabs South Africa. RLabs South Africa has officially appointed, Miss Christine Taphel, as the incoming CEO and Director of the company. Christine has been with the organisation since the early years and has been instrumental in shaping the culture of RLabs as it is known it today.
The company’s founding CEO and Managing Director, Rene Parker, will be stepping down as the head of RLabs in South Africa. She will now be assuming a more zoomed out role, supporting the organisation by building critical relationships.
Taphel not only embodies the culture of RLabs in everything she is, does and stands for, but she is a leader of extraordinary compassion, vision and drive. The company believes that if anyone can build on its existing impact within South Africa, and push for the rapid expansion across the country, Christine can. The company says Taphel just has this way of believing in people, trusting them to deliver and riling them up to deliver exponentially.
Being the first CEO appointed after Rene Parker, Christine will also serve as the benchmark for all future CEO appointments. She will be a lighthouse to all who take on the adventurous seas of leadership as the company continues on its journey of making HOPE contagious.
The company saw the need to appoint a highly effective leadership team, dedicated to equipping the organisation and all its hubs to do what they do, uninterrupted by a lack of resources, capacity or operational efficiency. It believes it now needs to operate like a top tier, corporate organisation.
RLabs is a South African award-winning non-profit company, established in 2009 in Bridgetown, Cape Town. The company has since expanded the RLabs model to 23 countries across 5 continents impacting more than 20 million people through its work. The main aim of RLabs is to create environments and systems where people are impacted, empowered and transformed through HOPE, Innovation, Technology, Training and Economic Opportunities. To date, more than 200,000 people have accessed RLabs skills, training and economic empowerment programmes.
