CSR Africa Consulting

CSR Africa Consulting is an independent management consulting practice specializing in stakeholder relations. We provide strategic counsel and implementation support to business leaders assisting them to optimise strategy execution and manage execution risks by leveraging enabling decisions and supportive actions from stakeholders. In recent years "Stakeholder Management" has been written into the job description of every position in most organisations. From finance to procurement to operations and commercial, every manager or professional is expected to manage stakeholders that enable them to deliver on their specific mandate. Project managers or engineers are often frustrated when textbook approaches fail on real world projects, which can be brought to their knees by unplanned stakeholder triggered interruptions, decisions, and actions, often leading to delays or complete stoppages that escalate project costs. For the corporate affairs/communications/stakeholder relations/public affairs professionals the challenge is to step up/enhance their role as strategic counsel and implementation support to the businesses that they work for. The business requires advocacy and stakeholder mobilisation plans that are driven by strategic imperatives and therefore aligned, and contributing directly to, strategy execution. Further, in South Africa, King IV places the responsibility on executives to give assurance to their Boards on the strength of the company’s relationships with key stakeholders, as these stakeholders are integral to the company’s political, social and economic licence to trade. CSR Africa offers a stakeholder relations perspective, based on risk management, that will give business leaders practical tools for identifying critical stakeholders, developing integrated engagement plans, reporting systematically to enable early decision making, thus minimizing costly disruptions and damage to brand.