Pie-Pacifique Kabalira-Uwase is the Head of the Business School of the Foundation for Professional Development, a private institution of higher learning based in Pretoria. He is also an Associate Consultant with IDG South Africa, and a Consulting Partner with Whitten and Roy Partnership, both companies with global reach, where he focuses on people-related business solutions. For much of the year, Pie-Pacifique travels the lengths and breadth of the planet inspiring, coaching and training leaders and followers to create
the best results they desire.
Pie-Pacifique’s journey includes growing up in Rwanda in tumultuous times that claimed members of his family. His father, a political prisoner in the eighties, died in 1989 when Pie-Pacifique was only 8 years old. Due to his father’s political history, Pie-Pacifique’s family were among those who were supposed to be killed in the 1994 Genocide, narrowly surviving several attempts. Post 1994, Pie-Pacifique became his family’s breadwinner at 14, before finding his way back to school, which, against all odds, he completed with distinction. In 2001, he embarked on a challenging and uncertain journey which would lead him to South Africa, beginning his life as a refugee car guard in Durban where, among other things, he inspired refugee women to organize themselves into what eventually
became the Union of Refugee Women which he subsequently served a Chief Strategy
Advisor at a tender age of 21. In 2002, against all odds, he enrolled at the then University
of Natal, where he was awarded the MR Scholarship upon completion of his degree in
Physics, before starting his professional career with Barclays Africa as a Business and
Systems Analyst in 2008.
In 2011, he was appointed Account Executive at Avocado Vision, a company that specializes in large scale community and workplace training programs, including Enterprise Development, where he initiated and managed projects that touched thousands of people in marginalized communities in South Africa, and empowered hundreds of community based micro-enterprises. Since 2013, through his work with IDG and WRP, he delivered Business Leadership Development programs and worked on Business Development projects in numerous countries in all four corners of Africa, as well as in
South East Asia.
Besides his Leadership and Business Development activities, Pie-Pacifique is currently a
Council Member of the Jesuit Refugee Service-Southern Africa, as well as an international
Key-Note and Motivational Speaker.
the best results they desire.
Pie-Pacifique’s journey includes growing up in Rwanda in tumultuous times that claimed members of his family. His father, a political prisoner in the eighties, died in 1989 when Pie-Pacifique was only 8 years old. Due to his father’s political history, Pie-Pacifique’s family were among those who were supposed to be killed in the 1994 Genocide, narrowly surviving several attempts. Post 1994, Pie-Pacifique became his family’s breadwinner at 14, before finding his way back to school, which, against all odds, he completed with distinction. In 2001, he embarked on a challenging and uncertain journey which would lead him to South Africa, beginning his life as a refugee car guard in Durban where, among other things, he inspired refugee women to organize themselves into what eventually
became the Union of Refugee Women which he subsequently served a Chief Strategy
Advisor at a tender age of 21. In 2002, against all odds, he enrolled at the then University
of Natal, where he was awarded the MR Scholarship upon completion of his degree in
Physics, before starting his professional career with Barclays Africa as a Business and
Systems Analyst in 2008.
In 2011, he was appointed Account Executive at Avocado Vision, a company that specializes in large scale community and workplace training programs, including Enterprise Development, where he initiated and managed projects that touched thousands of people in marginalized communities in South Africa, and empowered hundreds of community based micro-enterprises. Since 2013, through his work with IDG and WRP, he delivered Business Leadership Development programs and worked on Business Development projects in numerous countries in all four corners of Africa, as well as inSouth East Asia.
Besides his Leadership and Business Development activities, Pie-Pacifique is currently a
Council Member of the Jesuit Refugee Service-Southern Africa, as well as an international
Key-Note and Motivational Speaker.
