Biography
Joy-Marie Lawrence is the founding director of Boardvisory, a niche board consultancy and coaching firm. Since 2017 she has been an accredited Chartered Director, a fellow of the Institute of Directors of South Africa, since 2009, a lawyer, and a Professional Certified Coach with the International Coaching Federation. Joy-Marie has more than 20 years of Board experience and is currently active as a board chair and non-executive director on several boards in the public, private and NGO sectors. Joy-Marie is a governance specialist with the Institute of Directors of South Africa (IODSA). She is a guest lecturer at business schools specializing in governance and board performance programmes for boards of listed and unlisted enterprises, including UCT Graduate School of Business, Duke University (Corporate Education Africa), Stellenbosch University and Strathmore University (Uganda). Joy-Marie’s academic qualifications include an Executive MBA (cum laude), Master of Law, LLB, and BA.