The Managing Partner of "Extraordinary Hospitals of Africa" a boutique consultancy, Augusta is a self motivated dynamic leader and influencer with over 40 years proven success in senior leadership and management roles in the public, private, consultancy and non-governmental healthcare sectors. She has travelled to 100 countries and is a brand ambassador with exceptional project implementation, relationship building and inter-personal skills.

Augusta was the Hospital General Manager of the largest private hospital in South Africa for 9 years from 2007 to 2016, the first woman to lead the Hospital in its 120 years of existence. She joined the private healthcare sector having worked in public and not for profit healthcare prior. Prior to her career in the private healthcare sector, she was the first woman to be appointed as Director of Labour Relations in the public service. Augusta was also the first woman to chair the Education Labour Relations Council of South Africa, and the first woman to lead a bargaining team at the Health Sector Bargaining Council in South Africa. Augusta has received numerous awards during her career and is recognized as one of South Africa’s most influential women in healthcare. She is part of the Quote This Woman+ database of experts.

Augusta's approach to her work is project based, client and outcomes focused. She is a skilled business person having inter alia transformed the Netcare St Augustine's Hospital into a highly successful multi-award winning flagship facility, secured foreign funding for resource challenged SDG projects at St Mary's Hospital as well as profitably run her own consultancy for 10 years. She has managed teams ranging in size from five (5) professionals to 1200 professionals.

Augusta is also a practicing academic and has presented more than 20 conference papers in the last 10 years, represented her organisation on 9 panels, and has had 4 peer reviewed papers published in the last 5 years. Her doctoral thesis was published internationally as a book in 2012 and is titled “The Case for Executive Coaching in Private Healthcare in South Africa”.

As an advocate of social justice, Augusta has initiated and directed more than 46 corporate social responsibility projects as well as numerous requests for medical assistance from persons without financial means or access to medical treatment.

Augusta provides pro bono advice to non-profit healthcare organisations in South Africa. Augusta also mentors and coaches talented healthcare workers who wish to advance their careers, pro bono.