FUTURELEAD - Key Persons
Botha is an experienced strategy consultant, project manager and researcher. He specialises in strategy development and organisational design and is an experienced facilitator of work groups, brainstorming and planning sessions. His background in political science and professional exposure to business and information technology start-ups combine to give him a unique perspective on individual and organisational issues within a broader societal context. He has led and project managed complex projects involving co-located and virtual teams, spanning geographical boundaries and time zones. Botha's industry exposure includes ICT; FMCG; telecommunications; banking; retail; media and publishing; fisheries; agriculture, agro-processing and agribusiness; local, provincial and national government; tertiary education, not-for-profit, food processing; public finance; roads and transport. Follow Botha on Twitter: @ConsultBrain
Job Titles:
- Programme Director of Apolitical Academy Southern Africa
Dr Sithembile Mbete is the Programme Director of Apolitical Academy Southern Africa, the non-profit and non-partisan political training programme for emerging public leaders in Southern Africa. She is a tenured Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Sciences at the University of Pretoria (UP) where she teaches international relations and South African politics, a visiting researcher at the African Leadership Centre at King's College London (KCL) and a member of the Joint Academic Committee of the KCL/UP Joint PhD in Leadership and Security Studies.
Eric is an Associate of FutureLead and has over 25 years of experience as a project manager and management consultant. He was previously a partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers in its consulting practice. He is experienced in Strategic Interventions, having facilitated the strategic planning processes, developed business plans and implemented marketing strategies for several clients. He assisted major Private and Public Sector clients with Organizational Renewal/Restructuring, Business Improvement, Business Process Management, major Change Initiatives and Capacity Building. He has conducted major ERP Strategies, Assessments, System Selection, System Design, Development and Implementation.
Francois Pienaar is an industrial engineer by background with further qualifications in business administration. His area of specialization is operations management with emphasis on business process design and implementation. He has successfully managed consulting and implementation assignments in sectors such as financial services, healthcare, heavy engineering, vehicle manufacturing, packaging and retail. Francois works regularly in conjunction with multi-disciplinary teams integrating inputs from strategy, marketing, finance, human resources and information systems with operational and business process considerations.
Peter has over 30 years of professional management consulting experience, is a Director of FutureLead, and a former Associate Director of Deloitte Consulting. His 10-year career in industry prior to management consulting includes project management of large multi-disciplinary capital projects, operational efficiency improvements, and broad general management experience as the factory manager of an industrial manufacturing operation. His primary consulting focus areas are corporate strategy, organisational transformation and turnaround, business process re-engineering, information technology application, integrated transport planning, manufacturing and operations management, facilities management, preventative maintenance, project management, commercialisation, feasibility studies, financial modelling, and outsourcing. Industry sector experience, both local and international, includes financial services, public transport, public utilities, chemical, pharmaceutical, petrochemical, food, higher education, tableware, health, agriculture, packaging, utilities, gaming, environmental conservation and the public sector at all levels.
Rian, has over twenty-five years experience in a range of organisational and business development consultancy, senior management and clinical roles. His expertise is in strategic planning and market assessment, project management in the integration of organisations, and service and product design. A further area of interest is in the impact of commercial and public sector activity on health of communities. In the UK he has held several corporate roles with the national health services, Durham University Business School, and Salomons; and completed consultancy assignments for government offices, regional development agencies, the Scottish health executive, the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities, and as an expert reviewer for the European Commission' Peer Review for European Sustainable Urban Development.