South Africa, Aug. 6 -- Across functions as different as programmatic advertising and warehousing, airport media and human capital, a striking consistency emerges; these are women who did not wait for permission, did not wait to feel qualified and did not wait for the industry to make space for them.

They made the space. And many of them will tell you, without hesitation, that the making of it is what made them.

Confidence usually follows action

Few people in the business have a broader view of what Provantage is and where it is going than Tanya Van Tonder, group head of marketing.

She will tell you that confidence usually follows action rather than preceding it.

This is something she has lived through: leadership roles she accepted ...