About us

Founded in 2012 as a two person, human resource consulting company, Liyema Consulting has grown to be a formidable force in the industry. Boasting a number of local and international clients, including medium-sized companies and parastatals.

At our foundation is the belief in the cyclical effect of growing businesses and changing lives. Our business is people and our solutions are people centered.

We value our candidates and take every opportunity to help them gain knowledge and experience.

Our people are our company’s greatest asset and we pride ourselves on our culture of learning, growth and inspiration. We provide quality service with the utmost integrity, reliability and honesty in all spheres of our business.

As a solutions provider, Liyema goes beyond a service offering to gain an understanding of our client’s strategies, the markets in which they operate in and the skills they need to achieve their business objectives.

All our consultants have specialist knowledge within their own areas of expertise and are APSO certified.

We offer innovative, technologically advanced and bespoke staffing solutions, keeping people at the core of our ethos.

Our service pillars are:

• Talent Demand Management
• Contingent Workforce Management
• Talent Community Mapping

Our complementary services benefit both our clients and our candidates.

Liyema Consulting is a 100% black female owned company. (Level 1 BEE contributor)

After 8 years in the human resources industry, Ayanda and her late business partner, founded Liyema Consulting with a mission to provide solutions that are people centered and impactful.

Having enrolled at the University of the Witwatersrand in 2000 to study towards a Bachelor of Commerce degree, Ayanda eventually joined the industry in 2004 as a recruiter.

She soon realised that this was her passion and over the years that followed; she grew her knowledge, experience and drive to create a business that would cater to what she believed was missing and could be improved upon.

Having unfortunately lost her business partner in its infancy, Ayanda has led her team in growing Liyema into a company that implements innovative solutions that advantage people while embracing new technologies and systems.

A mother of two, Ayanda believes in lifelong learning, mentorships- seeking and providing support to other women in business.

She graduated from the Goldman Sachs-GIBS 10 000 Women Certification Programme in 2014, and is an alumni of the EY Winning Women 2016. She is a member of BWASA (Business Women’s Association of South Africa) and WPO (Women Presidents Organisation).