{"id":13939,"date":"2026-08-21T08:59:49","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T06:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smartprocurementworld.com\/indaba\/?post_type=speaker&#038;p=13939"},"modified":"2026-08-21T08:59:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T06:59:50","slug":"lerato-sebata-2","status":"publish","type":"speaker","link":"https:\/\/smartprocurementworld.com\/indaba\/speaker\/lerato-sebata-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Lerato Sebata"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lerato Sebata is the Group CEO of ROI Group (Pty) Ltd, a procurement, supplier development and market access advisory firm focused on closing the gap between SMEs and the supply chains that drive economic growth.<\/p>    <p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With nearly two decades of experience across South Africa and the African continent, Lerato is recognised as a strategic authority on procurement transformation. Her work operates at the intersection of commercial strategy, institutional reform and policy. This includes advisory assignments, procurement policy and terms of reference reviews, and capability-building initiatives across African markets.<\/p>    <p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As founder and convenor of the Tender Success Summit and the Supplier Readiness Leadership Roundtable, she brings together government, corporate buyers, development institutions, funders and entrepreneurs to advance credible, competitive and sustainable supplier ecosystems.<\/p>    <p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her contribution extends into policy and industry dialogue through procurement reform roundtables, ministerial conferences and SADC engagements. These platforms enable her to represent a practitioner and industry perspective on the regulatory and structural barriers affecting SME participation in formal supply chains.<\/p>    <p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A BCom Honours in Strategic Management underpins a career that includes advisory and delivery work for leading corporates like; Telkom, GEMS, SAMRC, SANLAM, SEDFA, Nedbank, Broadband Infraco, POLMED, Makro, Africa International Advisors and IDF Capital. Her wider African experience includes procurement and supply-chain assignments in South Africa, Ghana, Benin and Cameroon.<\/p>    <p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Recognition includes the 2023 Pan African Award for Best Contribution to the Industry, selection among the Top 18 Female Supply Chain Practitioners in Africa in 2021, and nomination as a Top Three finalist in the Best-Performing Women in ICT Awards in 2017.<\/p>    <p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A respected speaker, moderator and industry commentator, her insights have been featured on SABC News, eNCA, 702 and multiple radio, podcast and media platforms.<\/p>    <p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lerato is the author of the Tender Success Blueprint and founder and host of Procurement Dialogues, a platform for high-level conversations with procurement leaders, policymakers, funders and entrepreneurs.<\/p>    <p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Through advisory work, industry platforms and intellectual property, she continues to shape procurement as a strategic lever for institutional performance, enterprise growth and economic inclusion, while creating visible, women-led inspiration across Africa.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":13252,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"speaker_year":[293],"speakers_category":[299],"class_list":["post-13939","speaker","type-speaker","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","speaker_year-293","speakers_category-smme-conference"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - 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