Lerato Lehabe is an award-winning risk professional who values excellence and is passionate about people and risk management as enabler for business strategy and sustainability. She is driven by her personal values of love, excellence, integrity, accountability, and empowerment. Her newfound interests are floristry and golf.

She is an associate member of the Institute of Risk Management South Africa (IRMSA) – in the process of finalising her new designation as an IRMSA Certified Risk Management Professional.

She is currently heading up the Legal, Compliance and Operational Risk Department of a Business Unit that fulfils the Collections Function and Debt Rehabilitation for banking clients.

From a competency perspective, she has been a risk professional for over 8 years predominantly in the financial services industry and holds an honours degree in Financial Management Sciences from the University of Pretoria and NQF 8 certification in Advanced Risk Management from the University of South Africa.