Zola Brunner, MSc

Digital Marketing | Applied Ethics & Governance | Responsible Technology [email protected] | LinkedIn Profile

🚀 About Me

I am a media, marketing and media professional with 10+ years of experience in planning, customer engagement, and digital campaign execution. I bring a hybrid background spanning media, communication, digital marketing, and public-sector ethics. This allows me to engage confidently with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, particularly in environments where technology, public accountability, and human impact intersect. I am a Chevening Scholar and Certified Ethics Officer committed to building a long-term career in ethics, governance, and responsible institutional practice.

🛠 Core Ethics Skills

• Ethics Risk Assessment: Identifying and documenting institutional risks within high-stakes, regulated environments.
• Ethics Management Strategy: Developing comprehensive ethics strategies that align organisational values with fiduciary responsibilities and public trust, as demonstrated during my tenure at the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA).
• Ethics Training Plan: Designing targeted ethics education modules based on organisation-wide risk assessments (e.g., EOCP Module 6: Ethics management interventions)
• Framework Design: Supporting organisation-wide governance initiatives and the consistent adoption of ethics processes across business units.
• Stakeholder Reporting: Translating complex technical topics into clearer narratives and producing insight-driven reports for senior leadership.

📖 Flagship Case Study: Institutional Ethics Risk Assessment

Organisation: Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA)

Role: Ethics Officer (Placement)

• Context: DBSA operates in a high-risk public finance environment where ethical governance and fiduciary responsibility are critical.
• Task: The organisation required a structured ethics risk assessment and an organisation-wide ethics strategy aligned with governance best practice.