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Juliet Newton is a businesswoman, entrepreneur and passionate South African.
She founded learning and development company, Avocado Vision, in 1996 and built it up to a 29-strong team with an impressive list of corporate clients, before handing over the managing director reins to Steve Gaydon and taking up the position of CEO. Juliet is also the founder of Footprint, which delivers training and skills development to the bottom-of-the-pyramid market, and TR-ED which focuses on training blue-collar workers.

Juliet's passion and expertise lie in people development, interaction and communication. A former teacher, her fresh approach to learning and her unique philosophy on human engagement have helped many companies to improve their 'people game' both internally and externally. Avocado Vision's many courses and interventions provide clients with a range of tool necessary to become powerful communicators across all spheres of business.

Never one to let grass grow under her feet, Juliet is also founder and CEO of consumer education company Footprint, which recently launched an innovative field marketing model to reach bottom-of-the-pyramid consumers, and acts as director of Ngikwazi Field Marketing, a company established to manage the retailer network of the National Lottery. Juliet also established and guides AMP, one of the newer divisions of Avocado Vision, which delivers targeted financial literacy and pension fund member education (blue collar worker to CEO) using two products: money fo sho and pension fo sho. Having recognised that key failures within the South African education and social environment have resulted in income generating adults not being equipped to make rational - rather than emotive - decisions around dealing with their incomes, AMP is working to bridge this critical knowledge gap.

As a seasoned public speaker Juliet is a regular face on the business speaking circuit, and a prolific business writer for a range of publications. She's known for her engaging style, and while she's deadly serious about helping businesses up their game, her slightly playful approach warms up audiences and adds a relaxed working atmosphere to the dynamic training sessions she delivers.

Juliet's business success, the role she has played in empowerment, and her advocacy of women and passionate involvement in community upliftment have led to recognition and numerous prestigious awards. She was profiled in the book Inspirational Women at Work and received the Unisa School of Business Management's Emerging Leader of the Year Award in 2006. More recently, Avocado Vision was named Top Gender Empowered Company of 2010 by Topco Media in association with The Top Women in Business and Government, and was a finalist in the Shoprite Checkers Woman of the Year award 2011.