A niche strategy consultancy, with particular focus on providing strategic and operational advice, coaching and mentoring to small and medium sized enterprises. Projects worked on include Business Process Improvement, New Business Process development, Strategy Development, Human Resources Management (Organisational Design, Remuneration Strategy), Business Planning and Project Management. In my capacity as a consultant, I have provided advisory services to the Owners/CEO's of various start-up and small companies. Career Highlights are:- Yalu, a R40m start-up fin-tech company providing Credit Life Insurance in the South African consumer market. I was appointed by the CEO to provide consulting services to improve their current systems and processes to enable sales growth and build capacity for the company to scale up. My contribution involved new channel and product integration into their systems, developing their project prioritisation process, resource mapping and capacity planning and embedding effective project management practices in their business. In June 2019, the organisation reached readiness for scalability and successfully raised funds to expand their business.- Bigen Africa, an infrastructure development and civil engineering company with operations in 7 African countries and a staff complement of 500. The company had immature Human Resources practices with respect to their grading system and talent management process. I designed a tool that allowed them to evaluate, identify and record their key Talent across multiple disciplines and, together with their HR team, successfully graded all employees through a new grading methodology and process designed by my partner and I.Other companies worked for:- The Kena Group (Media and IT)- Cube Interactive (Multi-media services)- Straight Up Bar Services (Hospitality, Food and Beverage)- The Cocoa Group (Restaurants and Catering)

My role focused on the Project Management of the final negotiations and launch of a joint partnership SME Business Insurance product with Vodacom. Key elements of the project were: Stakeholder Relationship Management; Business Case Development; Legal and Regulatory Compliance; and Project Management of cross functional teams internally and across Companies.Also within my role, I managed the relationship between Wonga and iWYZE, looking for improvements in the delivery of the services to the partnership. I successfully introduced improved reporting on a daily and monthly basis and facilitated product development opportunities.

Kwande is a management and strategy consulting company that specialises in the Petrochemical and Mining industries. Key responsibilities (on a fixed term contract) included research and analysis of business opportunities, financial analysis, design of strategy plans for clients, and project management.

Contracted on roles and projects, including:- Manager: Special Projects at Flexicell, a then R100m turnover telecommunications company in a growth stage. I reviewed business strategy, business processes, operating model and company structure. I also developed a Strategic Business Growth Strategy, addressing the shortcomings identified in the review and recommended key levers to success. From this, the company agreed organisational structure changes and process improvements and, once implemented, achieved a 9% increase in sales performance and improved debt collection by 25% in the first year.- Research and analysis for Euromonitor- Project Management at Thabo Mokwena Consulting- Developing a Stakeholder Relationship Plan for UCT Graduate School of Business- Developing role profiles based on the Balanced Scorecard methodology for Sentech and PetroSA

The Club Company own and operate 11 Country Clubs across the UK. Responsible for overall business performance of The Club at Meyrick Park, including the four key areas of: Sales Performance, Customer Service Delivery, People Management and Financial Management. Member of company EXCO.As General Manager of The Club at Meyrick Park, I developed the Club from an 18-hole golf course to a full-service Country Club with a state-of-the art health and fitness club, a 17-bedroomed boutique hotel, an upgraded food and beverage offering and upgraded golf course. I oversaw the following: construction of the new facilities; development of the strategic growth plan and budgets; growth in the staff complement from 6 to 40; sales and marketing functions of the new health and fitness club; and service quality standards across all divisions in the Club. In our first full year of operation, The Club at Meyrick Park was runner-up in the "Club of the Year" category at the annual Club Company Group awards. I also designed and rolled out a financial performance management dashboard for the departments in my club, which was eventually adopted by all eleven clubs across the group.

A Health and Fitness chain that owned and operated 10 clubs in the City of London. Started as a Fitness Consultant and was promoted to Club Manager within 3 months. Managed between 6 and 15 full-time employees and was member of company MANCO.

Provider of specialised premium rate telephone services, for whom I worked in the following roles:- Sports Commentator- Head of Sports Department- Account Executive

Sabbatical position during undergraduate studies, voted for by students at the University.