Pinoak Consulting cc
Pinoak Consulting consults on the design and implementation of:
- Corporate Business Schools or Corporate Universities
- World Class Customised Knowledge Management Strategies
- Leveraging your Education and Training to international best practice to be cost effective, streamlined and in partnership with business
Pinoak Consulting has provided consulting services on Corporate Business School Design and Implementation, Group Learning Strategies, and Knowledge Management solutions to leading Fortune 500 and other companies in the United Kingdom, the U.S.A., Europe and Southern Africa. We have assisted in setting up corporate business schools, or providing strategy for business schools for the Toyota Academy (a Division of Toyota South Africa Manufacturing) where we assisted in creating a strategy for 2005 to 2007; Anglo Platinum, The Old Mutual Business School a division of Old Mutual Plc., as well as to the Gauteng Provincial Government (previously known as the "Transvaal Provincial Government") and Lonmin Platinum. One of our most recent contracts has been to assist in designing and implementing a corporate academy for Hollard Insurance. We have also provided consulting services on strategic learning to The Standard Bank, British Airways, Nedcor,Chevron Texaco and NGO’s in the Western Cape.
Pinoak Consulting was founded in 1998 in Cape Town by Antonia (Toni) Gillham and Zak Van Straaten and is based in Cape Town, South Africa. We work in a strategic partnership with the black empowerment company Mayikana Consulting (based in Johannesburg), which is headed by the well known South African consultant Mbulelo Mayikana. Although we are based in Cape Town we are able to design and implement corporate business schools in North America, Europe and Asia.
Pinoak Consulting has produced work for its clients which has resulted in international awards. The work we did in designing a Group Learning Strategy for the Old Mutual Business School and for consulting on the implementation of the Business School received an award for Best Corporate Business School from the United States based Corporate University Xchange (C.U.X.) in Paris, September 2003. The Old Mutual Business School won two further awards in 2004 from the Corporate University Xchange (C.U.X.): Best Strategic Alignment and Best Leadership Development.
The Old Mutual Business School has subsequently received two more international awards. An A.S.T.D. (American Society for Training & Development) BEST Award for 2004 and an Honorable Mention for Best Overall Corporate University from CUBIC (Corporate University Best in Class) in 2003.
Pinoak has provided fully customised learning interventions on Strategy, Business Administration or Knowledge Management to The Old Mutual Business School, the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business, Executive Education and other leading corporations in Southern Africa.
Pinoak Consulting has also collaborated with the London Business School, University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business and Pace University in New York.Pinoak Consulting has recently been involved in a number of initiatives with NGO's in the Western Cape, as well as a community development project. As a result of our work there was an overall improvement in service and efficiency, which in turn ensured increased sustainability with regard to the provision of funding by donors.
Our mission is to empower our clients by sharing our knowledge and thinking, so that they can maintain competitive advantage.
Consultants:
- Ms. Antonia (Toni) Gillham
- C.E.O. (Corporate Business School Design and Implementation; Learning Strategies; Business Strategy, Knowledge Management Strategies & Solutions)
- Mr. Mbulelo Mayikana
- (C.E.O. of Mayikana Consulting which consults in the field of Human Capital // Human Resources)
- Professor Zak Van Straaten
- Consultant (Knowledge Management Strategies & Solutions; Corporate Business School Design and Implementation)
(in a previous academic life:- The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes, Model Theory, Provability Logic & ZF Set Theory)
- Mr Almur Killian
- (Corporate Business School Design and Implementation; previously Head, Group Learning and Knowledge Management, Old Mutual Business School, Cape Town)
- Ms. Thobeka Base
- Project Officer (Community Projects)
Advisers:
- Professor Nigel Nicholson
- (Professor of Organisational Behaviour, London Business School and author of Managing the Human Animal, (Texere, London, New York, 2000.))
- Mr. Rolf Dienst
- Business Strategy (Rolf Dienst is a founding partner of Wellington Partners, a leading German venture capital company)
- Mr. Anton van Straaten
- (Software Consultant, Decision Support Systems, Functional Languages Expert (e.g. SCHEME, HASKELL, LAMBDA & ML). http://www.appsolutions.com/)
- Dr. Abner Nyamende
- (African Languages; Communications & Cultural Affairs)
Knowledge & Thinking Partners
- Professor Mark Leon
- (Foundations of Psychology; professor of philosophy in the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.)
- Mr. Onno Huyser
- (Manager, Table Mountain Fund; Environmental Strategies)
- Mr. Cory Voigt
- (General Manager, Palgrave MacMillan (Southern Africa) Academic, professional and reference book publishing and marketing in developing countries, Johannesburg.)
- Mr. John Thompson
- (Leadership Development using the business driven action learning (BDAL) approach. Has run major programmes for top talent in the Standard Bank and in the Packaging, Chemical and Pharmaceutical industries using the BDAL methodology. Johannesburg.)
- Dr. Susan Van Zyl
- (Psychology & Evolutionary Psychology, Deputy Dean (Postgraduate), Faculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.)
- Mr. David Suzman
- (Demography of Africa & Private Wealth Management, Johannesburg.)
- Ms. Henrietta van Greuning
- (Merchant Bank Credit Scoring, Origination & Account Management, & Private Wealth Management)
- Ms. Alison Garlick
- ( Information Specialist, Capetown.)
- Ms. Janet McFarlan
- (Education & Training Specialist, Glascow, Scotland.)
- Ms. Laura de Wet
- (Education & Training Specialist, Johannesburg.)
- Dr. Colleen Seymour
- (Researcher at the South African National BioDiversity Institute, Cape Town. Environmental matters & terrestrial ecology)
- Mr. Anthony Holland
- (Information Technology; London.)
- Mr. Ryan Hill
- (Copyright and Publishing; Cape Town.)
- Ms. Caroline Suzman
- (Photography, Johannesburg. Official photographer for the World Bank. homepage: http://www.carolinesuzman.co.za/)
- Ms. Alice Gillham
- (Composer; the Music Industry, Cape Town)
