Fatima Hamdulay

Fatima Hamdulay serves as an Assistant Teaching Professor of Leadership and Character in Entrepreneurship at Wake Forest University's Centre for Entrepreneurship. Her academic journey spans engineering, social sciences, and business, with a focus on enhancing workplace humanity through systemic thinking and mastery development.

Education

• PhD in Islamically indigenous construction of personal excellence from Brunei Darussalam, based on case studies of award-winning public-school educators
• MBA from the University of Cape Town, South Africa
• Degrees in Chemical Engineering and Social Science from the University of Cape Town

Research Focus
Her scholarly work centers on unlocking functional, purpose, personal, and interpersonal mastery within enterprise contexts. She integrates systemic thinking to cultivate environments where individuals thrive while contributing meaningfully to societal betterment, bridging operational excellence frameworks with character-driven leadership principles to make work more humane.

Professional Impact
With over a decade as a Senior Lecturer in Operations Management at the University of Cape Town's Graduate School of Business, she combines industrial experience as a Chemical Engineer and Operational Excellence consultant across South African hospitality, finance, and manufacturing sectors. Her teaching philosophy emphasizes expanding understanding of professional impact to improve both individual growth and global work environments.