Lisle coordinates the Small Business Clinic at the University of the Western Cape. The clinic is an experiential learning hub that brings role-players together to facilitate students’ interest in entrepreneurship, provide opportunities for work-integrated learning, and allow for micro and small business owners to make use of the services that the Clinic provides with respect to advice on planning to start a small business and sustaining and growing their business. Lisle is a lecturer in the Management & Entrepreneurship Department at UWC’s Economic & Management Sciences Faculty, and has 12 years’ experience in Business and Management Consulting, having worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers, IBM Business Consulting and Ngubane & Co. and Developmentnomics Pty Ltd, which she co-founded. Her research interests include Entrepreneurship, Small Business Development, Social Entrepreneurship with a focus on inclusive and sustainable development. She is a member of the SU20 Township & Rural Task Force, and trustee of the Makwande Development Trust and of the Footsteps Foundation.
