Female Bridgestone Sales Boss Is Changing the Tyre Industry, Says Young Women Must Lead to Make Lasting Impact

• Meet the brilliant Thandeka Ngoma, consumer sales director at Bridgestone Southern Africa, who is leading from the front and continuously seek opportunities to encourage young women to be brave and put themselves forward to lead and make a lasting impact on future generations
• In April 2021, Bridgestone Southern Africa became the first company in the tyre industry to achieve a Level 3 broad-based black economic empowerment accreditation
• From 2019 to now, highly skilled female professionals have become an integral part of the company’s future, paving the way for future generations of women

Thandeka Ngoma became the first female Consumer Sales Director at Bridgestone Southern Africa in 2020, after serving as Head of Marketing since she joined the company in 2017.

Having now served about two years as Consumer Sales Director at Bridgestone Southern Africa (BSAF), Thandeka Ngoma is well on her way to not just growing the company’s salesforce but helping the entire entity to evolve in how it serves customers through effective team building.

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Ngoma is making big strides at Bridgestone Southern Africa, and has worked for large companies such as Brandtone, Procter & Gamble, Ernst and Young and Investec, MotorPress reports.

However, it's at the tyre company in an industry that's largely male-dominated where she is making a concerted effort to focus and dedication to people development.

In August 2021, Thandeka walked away with top honours in the ‘Positive Role Model in a Multinational Pan-African Company’ category at the 9th Annual 2021 Gender Mainstreaming Awards Southern Africa, reports Polity.

Thandeka is part of a growing contingent of new executives at Bridgestone, bringing a wealth of experience from diverse backgrounds and experience and now oversees 80 people in her sales director role that she has been in since April 2020.

Thandeka says:

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“Through platforms such as the Bridgestone Women’s Forum and our Lean-In Circles, we continuously seek opportunities to encourage young women to be brave and put themselves forward to lead and make a lasting impact on future generations."

Playful dog chases Google Maps StreetView car for 15 seconds of fame

If you search for directions in the district of Kumage in Japan’s Kagoshima Prefecture, you may notice a playful-looking white and brown dog in the Google StreetView images, Briefly News reports.

The playful pooch found an unlikely playmate in the Google Maps car, which has a 360-degree camera located on its roof. Images on Google Maps show the white and brown-coloured dog near a quiet road close to a marina. The car then moves along the road, but the dog doesn't give up and clearly wants to make the most of his time on camera.

It's likely that the dog thought this interaction with the car was a game as it playfully ran and then came to a halt before charging ahead of the vehicle, all in the hopes of landing the perfect pose. Well, it clearly worked; the dog is a natural on camera.

Source: Briefly News