About Pat Roper, CEO of Thrive and Shine

Pat is a highly resilient, energetic and diligent leader and an accomplished Human Resources professional leader and a life coach. She is goal driven and a self-starter who subscribes to high corporate governance and ethical principles and standards. Pat takes pride and derives joy in adding value to people and companies through her diverse skills set.

Pat has over 20 years’ experience in Strategic Human Resources Management, Talent Acquisition, Talent Management and Succession Planning, Performance Management and Evaluation, Training and Development for management and staff, as well as Learnership Programs, Compensation and Benefits by benchmarking against industry standards. Transformation initiatives such as Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment, Change Management, Culture and Diversity, Employment Equity.

Organizational Design and Job Evaluation, Designing and implementation of Human Resources Policies, Procedures and Benefits, Employee Relations and participation in Wellness Programs and Counselling, Climate Surveys, as well as Industrial Relations and negotiations with Unions. She is also an Assessor, Facilitator, Mentor and Moderator.

In her spare time, she serves her less privileged community by offering her coaching and mentoring skills to those in need, especially single mothers.
Her experience includes developing and motivating people and departments for multinationals and various industry verticals like medical, retail and wholesale, telecommunications, financial service and motor industry, as well as government departments.

In Pat’s own words...

“I am passionate about people development and helping people to unleash their hidden potential. People are the soul of a business. I am a people person, motivated and goal driven. I started my career as typist and progressed to an executive management level. I am proud to have reared two upstanding men as a single mother who are pioneers in their own industries and hold 5 degrees between themselves. I want to impart some of these life lessons, with a focus on education, to members of society. Most importantly, I want to make a positive difference to society by imparting my knowledge, experience and skills.”

Pat holds a Master of Business Leadership, Bachelor of Commerce and Certificate of Public Finance Management Act with UNISA, as well as Coaching Certification with Result Coaching