About Paref

Professor (Prof.) Doctor (Dr) Madzivire is the Founder and Inspirational Thought Leader of MaCoTra (Pvt) Ltd, a well-established company with a track record spanning over 20 years. As holder of diverse accreditations, academic, and professional qualifications, Prof (Dr) Madzivire represents the corporate world on the Pathways to Reintegration Foundation (PAREF) Interim Board. Prof. (Dr) Madzivire, as the MaCoTra (Pvt) Ltd lead transformational leadership consultant, is in the process of establishing model MaCoTra educational institutions. Prof. (Dr) Madzivire, an Associate Professor of Business Leadership, was the Women’s University in Africa (WUA) inaugural Pro-Vice Chancellor (PVC) (Finance and Planning, Business Development and Operations) in November 2020 before his portfolio was reconfigured to PVC (Business, Infrastructure, and Enterprise Development) in May 2023. In the later role, Prof. (Dr) Madzivire also provided oversight to the WUA’s Marketing, Communications, and Public Relations Department. He served in the reconfigured PVC role up to February 2025. Prof. (Dr) Madzivire was admitted to the degree of Doctor of Business Leadership with the University of South Africa’s Graduate School of Business Leadership in 2004 and to the degree of Master of Business Leadership in 2000. He became an honoured member of the International WHO’s WHO of Professionals for its 2012 – 2013 Edition. As from 2004, Prof. (Dr) Madzivire transitioned from applying theories of organizational change driven by Western approaches by deploying his own distinctive African transformation methodology – the MaCoTra (Madzivire Collaborative Transformation) Model, a product of his doctoral studies. The MaCoTra Model – a CHORUS-based model – is the platform for all his transformational consultancies cutting across the private sector, public sector, civic sector, and informal sector. The MaCoTra model also informs all his other works. Prof. (Dr) Madzivire’s major accomplishment is cited by his clients and associates as contributing directly towards incisive transformational business leadership at the individual, team, family, and institutional levels. Prof. (Dr) Madzivire was the Megafest Leadership Awards Platinum Winner, in the category of Outstanding Human Capital Development Leader of the Year in November 2022. A month earlier, in October 2022, under the MEGAFEST TOP 20 BUSINESS AWARDS IN ZIMBABWE 2022, he had received an award in the category OUTSTANDING MEN IN BUSINESS OF THE YEAR. In 2011, Prof. (Dr) Madzivire authored and self-published four (4) books from his Doctoral thesis. In 2012, he proceeded to author and self-publish seven (7) books, providing further insights on each one of the 7 MaCoTra Model Choruses. He deposited twenty-five (25) articles on the University of Zimbabwe (UZ) institutional repository in 2013. During the COVID-19 era in 2020, Prof. (Dr) Madzivire authored and self-published five (5) additional books, bringing his total book publications to sixteen (16). Prof. (Dr) Madzivire proceeded to author and self-publish his 17th book relating each of the MaCoTra Model 7 Choruses to the Holy Bible. In the process of self-publishing books and articles, Prof. (Dr) Madzivire has developed more than 14 conceptual strategy and leadership tools to guide people’s strategic thinking, innovation, and solutions seeking processes from multiple contemporary perspectives. He is currently authoring his 18th transformational business leadership book for self-publishing. Prof. (Dr) Madzivire has garnered a reputation for lecturing, supervising and mentoring University students at various Universities at under graduate, post-graduate and doctoral levels covering fields such as Change Management, Strategic Management, Strategic Quality Management, Strategic Leadership, Corporate Governance, as well as Leadership and Corporate Performance. Prof. (Dr) Madzivire started off his career as a teacher for High School mathematics students in 1982. He then got promoted to leadership positions of Deputy Headmaster, Headmaster, and Education Officer (in the Zimbabwe Ministry of Education) before joining the private sector in 1993.