By Savious Madanhire & Tanaka Chare
A distinguished business leader, Dr. Victor Wasara was honored with the prestigious Top 10 Business Leader Award by Finking during the Outstanding Business Leader Awards hosted in Gweru recently.
The Award was organized by Finking a Harare-based organization, which recognizes outstanding business leaders and so far it is the only organization that has come up with such a great initiative where they recognize business leaders per city.
In an exclusive interview with the reporter, Dr. Wasara expressed his feeling about the Award, “It’s quite a great honour because it was a ceremony of its kind, where the focus was on top ten corporate Business leaders. So to be recognized as a top ten business leader is quite exciting.”
His journey to success is a remarkable one, from humble beginnings working under the Ministry of Education as a teacher, he progressed to become a salesperson at Edgars where his exceptional skills and dedication led to him being headhunted by OK Zimbabwe acquiring senior positions at various branches.
However, in 2000, Dr. Wasara joined Trevor Dollar Real Estate, marking a significant turning point in his career. Despite initial uncertainty, he quickly adapted to the world of Real Estate, leveraging his exceptional marketing skills to excel in the high-value property market.
“I then joined Trevor Dollar Real Estate in the year 2000, I started training courses in the Real Estate sector as a mere salesperson. However, it was quite interesting because selling houses or property was something quite new to me as I was used to small value items such as groceries and clothes.”
“I was now dealing with Real Estate with high-value property but I found it so lucrative in the sector and at some point I ended up earning a salary that was higher than the company owner himself.
So it was quite exciting because in marketing there’s no limit there are so many opportunities.
So I found it very interesting and I rose to the position of principal-agent, who oversees the operations of the organization.
Our industry is highly regulated and we are guided by so many laws hence my role is to make sure that we don’t have any potential pitfalls,“ Dr. Wasara explained.
Beyond his professional achievements, Dr. Wasara is a devoted humanitarian. As a member of several esteemed organizations, including the Real Estate Institute of Zimbabwe, the Institute of Directors, and the Marketers Association of Zimbabwe, He has demonstrated his commitment to excellence and his passion for driving economic growth and development.
A member of the Rent Board Midlands, Dr. Wasara’s impressive resume also includes past chairmanship of the Zimbabwe National Chamber of Commerce (ZNCC) Midlands, former board membership of the NBSZ and past board membership of the Real Estate Institute of Zimbabwe.
He has also served as a board member of the Advisory Council of the Mkoba Teachers College and is the current council chairperson for the Kwekwe Polytechnic College.
In addition to his numerous achievements, Dr. Wasara was nominated twice for the Zimbabwe Business Iconic Leader Award in 2021 and 2022.
His voluntary work with esteemed organizations such as MASO, Jairos Jiri and being a Prison Chaplin amongst other humanitarian works and leadership positions made him the perfect candidate for the Award.
“My being in Gweru has seen me assume so many leadership roles in the community in different institutions and that alone has made me stick out to be an outstanding leader.
Talk about in the social life I stick out and in the corporate world, that’s where I even shine. Because my involvement and my participation are very high.
This is evidenced by what I have achieved in terms of educational qualifications. People know me and it’s not about that only they’ve done research about my contribution to the community and they realized that I was the most appropriate candidate for the Award,” Dr. Wasara added.
In his dedication to the Award, he did not hesitate to give it to the Trevor Dollar team, “Well I think in all fairness the Trevor Dollar team has been so supportive to me and most of them I found them here and they’ve been supportive.
When I came here I didn’t know what selling property and I didn’t know what to do when a client approached me inquiring about a property.
So all these guys who are in these offices have contributed so much to what I am today. So their support to me has been has been very important to me.
The Trevor Dollar team occupies more space in my heart because they’ve helped me from the start to where I am now. They’ve come all the way and they’ve been so supportive.”
