South Africa and Africa
Home, and ready.
Founded by a South African coming home, not a brand flying in for the work.
South African Standard Time
Who is here
Dr Lenny Modisane
Managing Partner, Ignite Purpose Africa
Ignite Purpose Africa is a registered South African company led by its Managing Partners, Christina Foxwell and Dr Lenny Modisane. We work with trusted local strategic partners across the country, and with global delivery hubs behind us.
On the ground in South Africa
A homecoming
Christina was born in South Africa and built her early career here before moving to Australia in 2008. Ignite Purpose Africa is her coming home: bringing fourteen years of transformation work back to the country that shaped her, and building it with South Africans for South Africans.
The local context
Culture, talent and transformation, carried by one partner.
You carry culture, talent, transformation and B-BBEE, leadership and wellbeing, often with different partners for each. We bring both arms of Ignite Purpose: Ignite Purpose Africa for culture, leadership and psychosocial safety, and Ignite Purpose People for culture-fit hiring, graduate and youth development, and insourced teams. Together, we turn compelled skills and transformation spend into real capability, a youth pipeline and a stronger scorecard.
Who we have worked with
Names we are proud to say out loud.
- Maizey Plastics
- Genoa
- Zebra Medical
- Sanari
- Woodbender
across manufacturing, medical, financial services and design.
Community
The part of this that is not billable.
BRAVE Women in Leadership gatherings in Cape Town and Johannesburg. Imbokodo Rising, our International Women's Day flagship in Johannesburg on 8 March 2027, where men are in the room and accountable. Sustaining the Healers, South Africa's first dedicated physician wellness conference, Johannesburg 2027. And the BRAVE Rising Foundation, our not-for-profit lane for the people-centred work corporate cannot reach.
More on our community workWhat we bring here
How we work in South Africa.
Both arms, in one conversation. Ignite Purpose Africa for culture, leadership and psychosocial safety. Ignite Purpose People for the pipeline that carries it.
Graduate and youth development sits alongside this, and is where the scorecard and the pipeline meet.
Talk to us here
Who you will be talking to.
- The people
- Christina Foxwell, Dr Lenny Modisane and the Ignite Purpose Africa team
- Our hours
- South African Standard Time
- By email
- info@ignitepurpose.com.au
We also keep a dedicated South Africa and Africa site. If you found us there first, you are in the right place. Visit ignitepurposeafrica.com
Let us introduce ourselves properly.
If any of this resonates, we would value a short conversation to understand your people priorities and show you where we could help. No pitch, and no obligation.
In Australia you will hear from Christina Foxwell and the Sydney team.