Strategy Coach Partners

Strategy Coach Partners - working with entrepreneurial teams and organisations to improve business performance. 

Strategy Coach Partners is a licensed partner network designed for business professionals and strategy practitioners, trained in facilitation of the SCP methodology. 

A complementary initiative is the development of Strategy Coach Network, a group on LinkedIn for meeting and networking with fellow strategy oriented business practitioners:
 https://www.linkedin.com/groups/2340340

founding partner

Audax Ideas Management Consulting (Pty) Ltd

Business owner, director, and management consultant, at Audax Ideas Management Consulting
- Specialist in business and strategic management
- Consulting experience across diverse industry sectors, including financial services, investment management, private equity, information technology, infrastructure, engineering and manufacturing, energy management, and education management
- Consultant to boards of directors, CEOs and executive teams, and middle-senior management
- Extensive experience as a facilitator of strategy workshops at the level of executive team and board of directors

management consultant

Various Companies and Organisations

Board member / non-executive director at various companies and organisations, and in different industry sectors, including 
- Property / real estate 
- Education and training 
- Healthcare services 
- Technology / IT
- Financial services 

Areas of contribution as a board member have included:
- improved strategic management
- enhanced corporate governance, and
- increased effectiveness of the audit and risk committee

board member / non-executive director

University of Pretoria/Universiteit van Pretoria

Member of adjunct faculty at Gordon Institute of Business Science (Gibs business school), University of Pretoria. 

Roles have included:

- Research supervisor on MPhil programs (providing guidance to MPhil students in the design and completion of their research projects)

- Visiting lecturer in strategy, entrepreneurship, finance, and private equity, on MBA and executive education programmes

adjunct faculty

Strategy Coach Systems (Pty) Ltd

Business developer at Strategy Coach Systems (SCS)
- Business training and coaching systems to improve business performance 
- Strategy coach workshops and support services for enterprise development and supplier development (ED / SD) programmes
- Improving business and organisational performance
- Workshop series on Strategy Coaching for the Professional Entrepreneur (SCPE)
- Developer and facilitator of the 5D framework in strategic management: dialogue, direction, design, delivery, and diagnostics. 
- Strategy Coach Partners, an initiative of SCS, is a collaborative licensed partner network of independent strategy practitioners, using a shared methodology in strategic management, and working with entrepreneurial teams and organisations to improve business performance

business developer

Denel Dynamics

Finance team leader for an engineering and electronics company

chief financial officer

Southern African Venture Capital & Private Equity Association (SAVCA)

Served as CEO of SAVCA, on a part-time contract basis, during the early years in the development of the venture capital and private equity industry in South Africa. 
Contribution to SAVCA included:
- Developing and executing strategies for the promotion of private equity as an asset class for institutional investors
- Coordinating a project aimed at improving the national tax treatment of capital gains earned by private equity firms on disposal of shares in their portfolio companies  
- Designing and delivering the first national training programme for private equity practitioners in South Africa

chief executive officer

University of the Witwatersrand

Lecturer / visiting lecturer in strategy and entrepreneurship, on MBA and executive education programmes at Wits Business School (WBS), University of the Witwatersrand. 

Responsibilities included:
- Serving as founding director of the Centre for Entrepreneurship at Wits Business School (1998);
- Developing executive education programmes in entrepreneurship: Developing the Professional Entrepreneur, Developing the Entrepreneurial Organisation, and Franchise Development Strategy

faculty / adjunct faculty

Monitor Deloitte

Worked at Monitor Company (now Monitor Deloitte) as leader on strategic management projects for national and multinational corporate clients based in South Africa

case team leader

Capgemini

Worked at Gemini Consulting (CapGemini Group) on business transformation projects for national and multinational corporate clients based in South Africa, Europe and the UK

senior consultant

Business consulting, coaching, governance 

Specialist in business and corporate strategy. Services include strategy consulting, facilitation, training, and coaching for entrepreneurial individuals, groups, and organisations. 

Client portfolio includes entrepreneurial organisations, ranging from privately-owned, small and medium enterprises (SMEs), to private equity portfolio companies, to listed corporate groups. 

Facilitator of strategy workshops and corporate training programmes, for boards of directors and executive teams. 

Developer of workshop series on Strategy Coaching for the Professional Entrepreneur (SCPE), providing training and coaching in strategy and strategic management, to improve performance of entrepreneurial individuals, groups, and organisations.

Professional and educational qualifications include CA(SA), CFA, MBA(finance), and PhD(strategic management). 

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