Annelise's career started as a social worker. After finishing her honors degree in Communication, she shifted her attention to promoting a welfare organization. With these skills, she became a fundraising and marketing expert raising more than R200 million through national fundraising campaigns.

For the past 15 years, she has also been involved in training, coaching and empowering people in both the corporate and non-profit sectors.

In the corporate world, she specializes in self-management courses: managing your thoughts, emotions, energy, time, relationships and much more.

In the non-profit sector, she serves hundreds of organizations through her NPO Fundraising Forum: a practical 12-month online course covering all aspects of marketing and fundraising for a welfare organization.

She says she is in the fortunate position that the work she does every day, directly impacts the lives of others - and it is a responsibility that she takes very seriously.