One of Shout’s treasures is it’s staff. We have a team of dedicated, young and proud South Africans who respect our client’s dignity and really want them to have healthy today and tomorrow. We blend talent from the private sector with the public health sector which allows us to be more agile, innovative and solutions based, while providing a solid foundation which our staff can operate in.
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
Dr Ntombifikile Mtshali is a medical doctor who obtained her MBChB at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in 2007.
She holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from the Wits Business School, and a Postgraduate Certificate in Healthcare Leadership from CETAD, University of Lancaster, UK.
She has completed several short courses, amongst them a Value Based Healthcare Intensive Seminar with the Harvard University. She also recently participated in a Leadership Development Programme with the Centre for Creative Leadership in the United States of America.
She has over 10 years’ experience in the health sector as a clinician in both the private and public sector.
Dr Mtshali has been a champion for the right to accessible and cost-effective quality health care for all.
She is a strong advocate for women and reproductive health rights – she ensured that Bertha Gxowa Hospital was able to provide Choice of Termination of Pregnancy (CTOP) for first trimester pregnancies, the first hospital to do so in Ekurhuleni during her tenure as the hospital CEO
Under her leadership, the hospital established youth friendly services for young people and outreach programmes to neighbouring schools for sex and reproductive health education as well as sanitary pads distribution.
She has spearheaded patient centred innovations tailored to reduce waiting times and improve overall patient experience of care, and led innovations aimed at efficient utilisation of scarce resources such as blood and blood products.
She boasts several awards in recognition of her work, and notably in 2017, the Mail and Guardian named Dr Mtshali as one of the Top 200 young South Africans.
Dr Mtshali previously oversaw and managed a multi-million dollar grant for The Aurum Institute which is aimed at providing technical assistance, health systems strengthening and direct service delivery in the HIV/TB response in South Africa. She led a multidisciplinary team of operational, support and technical experts in line with the requirements and mandate from the development partners and the Department of Health.
As the Chief Executive Officer of Shout-It-Now, Dr Mtshali leads the organisation to continue its modern delivery of HIV and GBV prevention services.
Shout-It-Now focuses on the youth, especially vulnerable young woman within Gauteng and the North-West provinces, addressing stigma and empowering the normalisation of the conversation around sexual reproductive health. This is done through providing a relatable, easily accessible and youthful, professional service delivery.
As an advocate for community development, she serves as a Chairperson of the CHABAHIVA (Church and Business against HIV and AIDS) Trust Board and a hospital member at the Edenvale Hospital.
Despite her demanding schedule, Dr Mtshali continues to interface with patients, her first passion, as a sessional medical officer/general practitioner. When she is not at work, she is honing her piano skills or perfecting her golf swing.
She is a mother to two boys – one a full teen and the other pre-teen with teenager tendencies.
John has more than 30 years’ international experience with extensive expertise in the areas of finance, management, strategy, and corporate governance. John has been employed in various types of companies, mostly for-profit companies in the private sector, including a global development finance institution, a large multi-national corporation, small private companies and a family office in Africa. He has acquired his experience while working in developed markets (United Kingdom, Europe, Canada, USA, South Korea), as well as in emerging markets (Africa, Latin America, Central Asia, Asia, Middle East). John holds an MBA from INSEAD, France, and is a member of the Institute of Directors in Southern Africa. He is committed to assisting fellow Africans to thrive and prosper and to reach our full potential.
Takudzwa Mabande has a background in Computer Science, with a BSC in Business Computing at UCT (minor in Gaming Development) and an Honors Degree focused on Machine Learning. He has worked for Shout-It-Now for 10 years, starting off as a developer/IT support staff member. Supported by a dynamic management team, Takudzwa heads up three IT divisions including IT Operations, IT development and Cyber Security.
Takudzwa has been instrumental in leading the development and implementation teams for several key applications supporting HIV & GBV prevention services including; SMART, an application enhancing client service delivery for Health Care Advisors, Nurses and Social Workers in mobile vehicle clinics; SNowI, a digital contact center focused on treatment adherence; iSHOUT!, a mobile based application with a membership interface rewarding young woman for healthy behaviour, CHOMI, the GBV information & services WhatsApp Chatbot and Shoutlink, an integrated service monitoring application, linking and tracking client service uptake across partners.
A Multi-disciplined Marketing Executive with 18 years proven experience in South Africa, Southern Africa, UK, Holland and Spain. Zonja has developed her capabilities through passion as the cornerstone to each of her endeavours, entrepreneurship as her core approach and perseverance, the essence through which she deliver consistently. She has extensive strategic and operational experience within various sectors, including FMCG – Tobacco & Liquor, Advertising and Retail. Zonja has built and lead high performing teams within multi layered organisational structures and driven success across various categories and price points. Zonja brings a dynamic private sector approach to public health and applies highly impactful commercial-brand thinking to the conversation around sexual and reproductive health. She delivers communication with a human centric design driven by the various audiences in order to gain acceptance and advocacy to deliver demand as a strategy.
Previously Ndali worked at Netcare Hospital Groups as HR Manager. She also worked at MMI Group as well as First Rand Group. Ndali is passionate about Human Resources especially when it comes to employee engagements, culture of inclusivity, creating a learning environment that allows employees to learn, grow and have fun whilst at work. She loves coaching and mentoring employees as well. Ndali has 15 years’ experience as an HR Generalist that enjoys making a positive impact on people through listening to others and by showing empathy. She has a BA degree with UWC and an MBA with Regenesys Business School. On a lighter note, Ndali enjoys spending quality time with her loved ones, hiking and traveling the world.
Cristianne has over 20 years of development experience, with an emphasis on health, particularly HIV/AIDS. For the last seven years, she’s served in PEPFAR as the Community Grants Country Director in South Africa. Prior to that, she’s worked on projects in other parts of Southern Africa, Southeast Asia and North America. Her development experience spans from the front lines as a humanitarian relief worker in Haiti, a public health educator in a Burmese refugee camp, to an HIV and AIDS curriculum developer in the US to a founding director for an NGO in South Africa. She has spent time in roles ranging from direct service delivery, program development and project evaluation through to roles in management, on boards and as a trustee. She has a Master’s degree in Public Health, Bachelor’s degrees in International Relations and Political Science, a Bachelor’s certificate in African Studies and a professional qualification in Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution.
William Taylor joined Shout-It- Now in 2011 as IT & Operations Manager. He is an expert in tech support and design for biometrics services for tracking of clients, counselling using online systems, and audio recordings of client sessions for audit purposes. Having spent over 25 years in the IT field, he has served as IT Manager and Senior Technical Manager for a number of companies, and has extensive experience in managing development and support teams.
For more than 25 years, Stephen has led prevention programs, social marketing campaigns and continuing medical education initiatives focused on improving HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment in the US and South Africa. Stephen has served as a health care aide to a US Congressman, directed the continuing medical education department of the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association, led the communications and special projects departments of the Adolescent AIDS Program at Montefiore Medical Center, and since 2007 has worked in South Africa leading HIV/AIDS projects that promote the prevention of mother to child infection of HIV, routine HIV testing among adolescents and young adults in clinic and community settings, retention in care for newly diagnosed HIV+ patients, behavioral interventions aimed at preventing HIV infection among youth, and most recently in scaling up PrEP and SRH services for adolescent girls and young women.
After completing her BCom Accounting degree at the University of Stellenbosch Carine managed finance and accounting for several small to medium enterprises. Before she joined the organization in 2015, she was employed by a multi-national listed corporation, adding corporate financial accounting, forecasting and reporting to her extensive experience spanning 20 years. Carine supports the Finance & Accounting Team to ensure payroll, asset management, transaction processing, reconciliations, supplier payments and the submission/payment of tax returns are accurate and executed within deadlines. She is responsible for all internal and CDC/PEPFAR financial reporting and also manages the external audit of the annual financial statements and the auditing of CDC resources managed by Shout-It-Now.
Kaylin is the Head of Compliance at Shout-It-Now (Shout). She is responsible for ensuring Shout’s compliance with funder requirements, as well as legislative and regulatory compliance. She is a qualified chartered accountant registered with the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA). Kaylin has more than 4 years’ experience in the NGO sector and in compliance at PEPFAR funded organisations. She completed her SAICA articles at BDO South Africa Incorporated where she received exposure to auditing a vast array of clients from various sectors ranging from for-profit companies, government entities and non-profits. She has a Bachelor of Commerce degree in Financial Accounting and a Postgraduate Diploma in Accounting from the University of Cape Town.
Paul has over 9 years’ experience in developing organizational workplans, strategies, operational plans, and research projects to achieve UNAIDS 90-90-90 and the Department of Health Strategic Objective (NSP) for HIV and TB programs. His expertise lies in coordinating diverse teams and resources to achieve organizational objectives within the triple constraints of time, cost, and scope.
He holds a BCUR degree, an MBA (Health Management) degree, and an MPH degree and he is currently a Ph.D. student at the University of Johannesburg School of Health Sciences. Currently, he serves on the boards of the Muslim Aids Programme, the Johannesburg Council for People with Disabilities, and the Gauteng Nurses Leadership Forum. He received the Mail and Guardian’s top 200 young South Africans award in 2018 and the Gauteng Premier’s Award in 2019.
The core of his passion is developing digital health strategies for expanding healthcare to key populations and achieving sustainable development goals 1, 2, 3, 5, 10 and 16.
Nellisiwe has over 9 years of monitoring and evaluation experience in the public health and disaster relief and recovery sector both in Africa and North America. She has worked in the HIV prevention space with key populations for 4 years, where she participated in the development high frequency reporting. This strategy assisted the program unit and implementing partners to be able to make decisions based on the data they are producing to scale-up strategies that were working. She has been involved in developing a blended training for nurses managing rural health facilities to acquire leadership skills and this was adopted by the General Nursing Council of Zambia as part of continuous professional development. She is passionate about sharing her love for the using data for decision-making with anyone. Because of this, she has mentored and coached individuals in Zambia, who are starting in the M&E space with how they can help their organization use the data they are producing to make decisions that will give the desired results. Also helped them in their professional and academic plans to grow in the M&E space.
Nellisiwe holds an MPH in Health Policy and Management and a BSc in Microbiology from the University of Zambia. She also holds a certificate in Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation, and certification in Data to Policy