SIOPSA Presidency

Society for Industrial and Organisational Psychology of South Africa

The SIOPSA Presidency consists of the President, President-Elect and Past-President.

The Role of the President is to take accountability for the strategic leadership of the society and to coordinate with the Executive Committee the implementation of the mandate given by our members at the Annual General Meeting. Furthermore, the president should actively engage with all stakeholders of the society to ensure continuous improvement and sustainability as well as the associated availability of resources.

The Role of the President-Elect is to ensure that all communication processes are conducted with the aim of understanding the society, its members and office administration in the context of the presidency. Furthermore, the role is to support the performance of each Executive Committee through planned feedback conversations.

The Role of Past-President is to ensure continuity and completion of the important strategic focus areas either taken over or started during their presidency. The past president offers ongoing guidance and knowledge transfer to the incoming president and administration office as required or alternatively planned. The Past-President is also responsible for heading external affairs for the Society. They act as an ambassador for the profession of IOP by establishing SIOPSA as the leading professional body on people matters in the workplace, establish positive, mutually beneficial relationships with key stakeholders and create sustainable partnerships with industries & business communities to forge symbiotic relationships of mutual benefit.

The Role of the Elders is to act as an advisory body and to share their insights of the profession, their institutional memory and the stories that will serve to the benefit of Exco and the SIOPSA members.

Dr Sane Ngidi

President

Dr. Sane Ngidi holds the position of senior Human Capital leader and is a qualified Industrial psychologist registered with the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA).

She has extensive generalist Human Capital experience within the Broadcasting and Financial Services industries. Sane has experience as a Management Consultant providing leadership advisory to corporates across Sub-Saharan Africa, as well as on global projects in the Middle East and Europe.

Currently, Dr. Sane is working at a foundation that focuses on tackling the world’s toughest challenges, including improving the world’s health and decreasing poverty.

Dr. Sane is an outgoing and dynamic professional with 18 years of experience in Human Capital. She has a proven track record in managing portfolios, leading teams, and stakeholder management.

Dr. Sane served in SIOPSA as the Executive for Transformation and Brand, Communications, and Marketing Executive.

Dr Nicola Taylor

President Elect

Prof Nicola Taylor is an Associate Professor in the department of Industrial Psychology and People Management at the University of Johannesburg. She is registered as a psychometrist and specialises in psychological test development and adaptation. She has over 15 years’ experience serving in senior leadership roles.

Nicola’s research area is cross-cultural psychological assessment, particularly within the field of personality and cognitive assessment, test construction, and the validation of psychological assessments in the South African context. She passionate about reducing bias in assessments and exploring modern methods of test development.

In addition to her work with SIOPSA, Nicola serves on a number of executive committees, where she volunteers her time in the service of the profession. She is a steering committee member for the Association of Test Publishers of South Africa (ATP SA), subject matter expert for Assessment Standards South Africa (ASSA), and serves as a member of the Conference committee for the International Test Commission (ITC).

Nicola has been formally involved in SIOPSA since 2006, starting in the Joburg branch and later serving in the CPD portfolio until 2012. She was awarded honorary membership in 2020 for her service to the profession. She joined the Executive Committee again in 2024 as chair of Professional Practice and then interim Treasurer.

Prof Nasima Carrim

Past-President

Prof Nasima M.H. Carrim is an Associate Professor at the University of Pretoria. Before she joined the University of Pretoria, she was an HR manager. She is the Chair for the Diversity and Inclusion Committee at the Economic and Management Sciences Faculty. She also served SIOPSA as the Chair of the Diversity and Inclusion Interest Group at the Society for Industrial and Organisational Psychology in South Africa (SIOPSA). Her research focuses on diversity and inclusion from an intersectionality and identity perspective.

She has authored many articles in international journals such as in Gender, Work and Organisation, The Journal of Men’s studies among others. She has also published several book chapters in international publications such as in the Handbook on Diversity and Inclusion Indices: A Research Compendium, Research handbook on new frontiers of Equality and Diversity at work and others, including encyclopaedia entries in The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism, and Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Business and Management.

Prof Carrim together with Dr. Moolman has published the first prescribed book entitled Managing Diversity in the South African workplace for university students in 2014. The second edition of the book will be available in 2025. Prof. Carrim sits on the Editorial Review Board for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal. In 2014, she also received the Certificate of merit for teaching excellence and innovation at the University of Pretoria for her undergraduate course in diversity management.

In 2017, Prof Carrim received the 2016 Best Junior Researcher in Management Sciences in the Economic and Management Sciences Faculty at the University of Pretoria. During 2017 she received the Best paper award for her article Attraction and retention of Information Technology graduates in IT organisations: a racial identity perspective at the Eighth Academic Research Conference on Global Business, Economics, Finance and Social Sciences in Greece. She is also a Visiting Professor at Chandigarh University in India.