{"id":14786,"date":"2026-09-02T14:13:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T12:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smartprocurementworld.com\/indaba\/?post_type=speaker&#038;p=14786"},"modified":"2026-09-11T16:43:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T14:43:10","slug":"nicol-lind","status":"publish","type":"speaker","link":"https:\/\/smartprocurementworld.com\/indaba\/speaker\/nicol-lind\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicol Lind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nicol Lind is Practice Lead for Gender &amp; Job Quality Advisory within SLR Consulting\u2019s Sustainable Finance team, with over 20 years\u2019 experience across transformation, diversity and inclusion, gender equality, labour and human rights, job quality and responsible business.<\/p>    <p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her career has included extensive work within the South African transformation context, including B-BBEE, employment equity, skills development and broader approaches to creating more inclusive workplaces and economic participation. This provides an important foundation for her work today with investors, development finance institutions, fund managers and companies across Africa and other emerging markets.<\/p>    <p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nicol\u2019s work increasingly looks at transformation through a broader international and African lens \u2014 considering not only regulatory compliance, but how businesses can use their employment, procurement and supply-chain practices to expand economic participation. This includes gender and 2X alignment, women\u2019s economic empowerment, diversity and inclusion, decent work and job quality, and addressing barriers that may prevent women and other underrepresented groups from participating meaningfully in economic opportunities.<\/p>    <p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She brings a practical perspective on how organisations can move beyond compliance-driven approaches to transformation and supplier diversity, while recognising that inclusion must remain commercially viable and contribute to sustainable business performance.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":15236,"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":[300,301],"class_list":["post-14786","speaker","type-speaker","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","speaker_year-293","speakers_category-sustainability-summit","speakers_category-workshop"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nicol Lind - Indaba<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Nicol Lind is Practice Lead for Gender &amp; 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