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Reyhana Jano has worked within the people management field for over 20 years and partners with business leaders to assist them in growing their business through leveraging the capabilities of their employees by ensuring they have the correct HR solutions in place. Reyhana has covered roles at senior levels across various industries from oil and gas, nuclear, finance to investment banking with experience in working within SMEs as well as large international corporate organisations from private to semi government owned. During this period, Reyhana has specialised across various roles including global recruitment and selection, global mobility, restructuring and HR business partner roles. She has been involved in setting up a recruitment function for a start-up and assisted in developing policies and procedures for their HR function. Reyhana is qualified to M.Comm level in Organisational Psychology and is a registered Organisational Psychologist. She is also a qualified NLP Coach as well as a Master NLP Practitioner.
RJ: I believe people are the heart of any business and any business owner is only as good as the team around them. Given the right opportunity to shine, your people become your biggest supporters and will want to help you succeed. I experienced that first hand. I grew up in South Africa during apartheid and my passion in working with businesses to find the right talent and develop them, stemmed from there. Having gone through the experience of having people believe in me and give me the opportunity to grow, develop and shine; made me realise that businesses are filled with roles that need to be done and its is finding the right talent to fill those roles and creating a culture of retaining them that will help businesses grow.
RB: What major challenges did you face when setting up your business and how did you overcome them?
RJ: The biggest challenge was myself. I had to get out of my own way and believe that I could do this – I had to get over the imposter syndrome. As females we grow up with certain stereotypes being forced upon us, but I have been lucky in that my dad never put any hurdles in my way and always believed that a girl needed an education and should be encouraged to do whatever they wanted. I had to remind myself about that each time I felt I could not do this. I also looked at the small wins I achieved and I surrounded myself with like-minded people who wanted to achieve and also chose good mentors along the way who I still go back to for guidance and advice. The best thing I did was to get myself a business coach as the world of entrepreneurship can become lonely. I had to change my mindset of that being an employee to that of being a business owner. I now not only have the HR Consulting Practice, but have also in the last 6 months added on Business Coaching and have become an associate of another business to deliver this as well.
RJ: The biggest challenge was myself. I had to get out of my own way and believe that I could do this – I had to get over the imposter syndrome. As females we grow up with certain stereotypes being forced upon us, but I have been lucky in that my dad never put any hurdles in my way and always believed that a girl needed an education and should be encouraged to do whatever they wanted. I had to remind myself about that each time I felt I could not do this. I also looked at the small wins I achieved and I surrounded myself with like-minded people who wanted to achieve and also chose good mentors along the way who I still go back to for guidance and advice. The best thing I did was to get myself a business coach as the world of entrepreneurship can become lonely. I had to change my mindset of that being an employee to that of being a business owner. I now not only have the HR Consulting Practice, but have also in the last 6 months added on Business Coaching and have become an associate of another business to deliver this as well.
RB: Who has been the greatest influence on you since starting your business and why?
RJ: My parents, especially my dad. He always felt that the sky was the limit and if you don’t try you will never know if it could have been achieved. And now that I have set out on this journey, I have discovered I have a number of cheerleaders in the background who are always there to encourage me on the days when it is tough.
RJ: My parents, especially my dad. He always felt that the sky was the limit and if you don’t try you will never know if it could have been achieved. And now that I have set out on this journey, I have discovered I have a number of cheerleaders in the background who are always there to encourage me on the days when it is tough.
RB: What is the vision for your business and where do you see it five years from now?
RJ: To be known as the go to person who helps businesses grow through their people. Ultimately my dream is to go back to grass roots and coach children as I am also NLP qualified and believe that if we can help children overcome their limiting beliefs and get them to believe that they can really do and become what they want to, they will have so many more opportunities in life, especially as the world of work is changing. I really believe in the saying “Give a man a fish, and you feed for him a day, teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.”