Meet the Purple Talent Solutions Team

Paul Leibowitz is an Organisational Psychologist and Managing Director of Purple Talent Solutions, with more than two decades of experience helping organisations translate strategy into sustained performance.

Drawing on his work through Bioss Southern Africa and EDAC, Paul has partnered with executive teams across industries to align strategy, structure, and people in ways that drive measurable impact. His approach blends rigorous behavioural science with practical, commercially grounded solutions.

A trusted advisor to boards and senior leaders, Paul is known for his ability to navigate complexity, guide organisations through change, and strengthen leadership capability in times of growth and uncertainty. He brings clarity where others see ambiguity, enabling leaders to make better decisions and build resilient, high-performing cultures.

Through Purple Talent Solutions, Paul continues to shape contemporary leadership and organisational effectiveness thinking ensuring that insight translates into action, and ambition into sustainable results.

Peter is a director of Purple Talent Solutions and has over twenty-five years’ consultancy experience working internationally with a variety of client organisations across the private, public and third sectors. Prior to his current position he held the Managing Director role of Bioss Europe for over ten years.

The core of Peter’s work continues to be the alignment of strategy, structure and people leading to the effective development of people and work. Prior to consultancy he worked in leadership roles within Human Resources, the last of which was Director of Human Resources & Quality for a major financial services organisation in the UK. He has experience of using the EFQM Excellence Model as one method of delivering organisational transformation and led a team that won the British Quality Foundation’s annual quality award, the first Financial Services organisation to do so in the UK.

Jacques Haworth is an experienced organisational specialist with deep expertise in assessment, assessment centres, training, coaching, competency design, organisational design, talent management, career development, and succession planning.

With more than 20 years of experience in the organisational field, Jacques has worked both locally and internationally across a wide range of industries, including mining, financial services, pharmaceuticals, transportation, FMCG, and government. Throughout his career, he has led large-scale organisational design and development initiatives, helping organisations align their structures, people, and capabilities with strategic goals.

Jacques has extensive experience partnering with clients to design and implement assessment centres, competency frameworks, and talent management models and processes. He has also developed robust assessment practices and delivered a variety of bespoke strategies and development interventions aimed at building internal capability and empowering organisations to grow and sustain their talent.

He is passionate about designing organisations that are both requisite and adaptable, enabling the optimal utilisation of people as a true competitive advantage.

Lisa Ashton is Managing Director of BIOSS Southern Africa and an Industrial Psychologist with over 30 years of experience helping organisations translate strategy into sustained people performance. Drawing on her M.Com in Human Resources Management, Lisa specialises in executive assessment, leadership development, and building people strategies that deliver real organisational results.

Known for her intuitive, no-nonsense approach to complex problems, Lisa combines psychological insight with executive capability and deep business acumen. She has worked extensively across Africa, South America, Europe, India, the UAE, and the US, and has been responsible for training the majority of CPA and BIOSS practitioners worldwide. Her current focus includes AI and Human working relationships and decision-making under complexity, grounded in her firm belief that “without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.”

Sonia Jardim is the Head of Operations at Purple Talent Solutions and a Registered Psychometrist with an Honours Degree in Industrial Psychology. With over nine years of experience in senior management roles, she plays a key role in driving operational excellence while ensuring the strategic integration of psychometric insights into business decision-making.

Sonia specializes in the application of psychometric assessments to support talent identification, leadership development, and organizational effectiveness. She works closely with organizations to align business objectives with scientifically validated assessment solutions, enabling data-informed people decisions that strengthen workforce capability and performance.

As a trained Neuro Coach, Sonia brings an additional dimension to her work by supporting individuals and teams in unlocking potential, strengthening communication, and facilitating meaningful professional growth.