Founder’s Note

Often misunderstood, usually disliked, and rarely appreciated - if you work in Human Resources (HR), you know that the field doesn’t exactly have the best reputation and is certainly not the most popular among most employees.

HR has come a long way from being dubbed a glorified administrator to finally getting a ‘seat at the table’. In recent years, organisations have recognised HR’s important role in achieving business success. As HR practitioners, we have, for the most part, embraced our role as strategic business partners and enablers of organisational transformation and change. The next natural step is for us to contribute to development goals and to re-imagine our identity and role in the digital economy.

Curated by the HR community for the HR community, the Pulse HR magazine is your source of insight into what’s next for the field of people management. We are the official voice of HR in Namibia.

Our mission is to rebrand the HR profession from the inside-out. We believe that by connecting HR professionals and creating platforms where we can share insights, explore trends, and discuss common challenges, solutions, and opportunities, we can build a dynamic and progressive community of practice and ultimately advance the field in Namibia and beyond.

Pulse HR is a culmination of about 10 years of practice, research, and reflection. I am thrilled to see this idea, born during my last year of university, finally come to life. The time is now.

In the famous words of management consultant, educator, and author Peter Drucker “The best way to predict the future is to create it”.

Join us in shaping the new world of work.

The name ‘Pulse HR’ is an inversion of ‘HR Pulse’, which was the name of the internal HR newsletter of the Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST), developed by the NUST HR department around 2017. The Newsletter was run by a committee headed by Mr Shiwana Ndeunyema, of which our founder was a member and contributor.