Ipleleng Mohlahla is the CEO of Early Care Foundation. With experience in leading large-scale early childhood development (ECD) programmes focused on governance, compliance, and institutional sustainability, her work is grounded in community-driven, on-the-ground implementation that centres ECD practitioners and site heads as leaders within their local contexts. She brings a practitioner-informed perspective to stakeholder engagement, social investment, and strengthening community-based ECD institutions.