Professor Ronnie Lessem

Professor Ronnie “Samanyanga” Lessem is a Professor of Management at DaVinci Business School, and co-founder of, initially, Trans4m, with Alexander Schieffer, based in Geneva, an initiative dedicated to community activation and societal transformation, worlds-wide, and subsequently Re-GENE-Africa, with Anselm Adodo and Sandile Ndlungwane, based in South Africa, Nigeria and Zimbabwe, dedicated to integral research and societal regeneration of Africa in the wider worlds and those wider worlds in Africa. His work focuses on releasing the personal, institutional, and societal genius of individuals and communities, especially in the Global South. Born in Zimbabwe and resident in the UK, with a diverse background in economics, industrial psychology, and business, Lessem become a public intellectual across Africa, MENA, Europe, and America, co-founding catalytic organizations and authoring over 30 books on self, enterprise, and societal regeneration. His lifelong mission, together with individual and institutional others, worldswide, is to awaken individual and communal consciousness, to regenerate a particular societal context, and thereby catalyse social innovation through Communiversity based transformative education and enterprises.