Leadership & Culture

The diversity of our global team is one of our strongest business assets. To maintain and strengthen this asset, we consistently invest in a structured approach to the challenges of modern leadership. Through trainings and coachings relevant to leadership level and personal skillset, our leaders hone their abilities for their crucial role of providing the work context our highly talented people need to best apply their unique talents. Onboardings like our "Leadership Essentials" make sure our next-generation leaders are equipped and confident from the start.

In a truly global envionment, corporate culture becomes an important point of orientation. At Sasol, we lead and work according to our five core values: be safe, be resilient, be inclusive, be accountable and be caring. Our culture is a living, breathing organism that constantly develops according to the many influences we each contribute. People stay at Sasol far longer than the industry average, meaning that we each grow with our culture and it grows with us. What is today described as "Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging" has been part of the way we do business for a long time. We have the same challenges as any other truly global organisation - but we face them together and always at eye level, as employees, as leaders, as a team.

Our Leadership Approach

Self-development

Our leaders actively develop their own self-awareness and seek feedback to identify improvement and development opportunities that enhance their capabilities.

Talent-building

Knowing their people's individual capabilities and personalities is the basis on which our leaders aid in the personal development of their team members, constantly aligning the team's progression and providing feedback along the way.

Inspiration

As the first point of contact to their teams, our leaders role-model ways of working suited to our various challenges while empowering their people with the knowledge, confidence and trust they require to make their best contribution.

Collaboration

Through open engagement with their teams and other stakeholders, our leaders initiate, maintain and develop constructive and effective working relationships across hierarchical and geographical boundaries, removing barriers as they encounter them.

Licence to Lead

The demands on leadership constantly change as cultural, societal and industrial trends emerge, develop and transform. Our "Licence to Lead" programme establishes a sustainable leadership culture of continuous learning through presence and virtual training. Through this approach, we ensure our leadership is on top of these developments and remains connected to the workplace needs of our people.