About Pinoak Consulting
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 deliver knowledge management solutions, customised learning strategies and assist you in implementing corporate business schools or academies 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.
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The Old Mutual Business School won four further awards;
- from the Corporate University Xchange (C.U.X.): Best Strategic Alignment and Best Leadership Development.(2004)
- An A.S.T.D. (American Society for Training & Development) BEST Award for 2004
- An Honorable Mention for Best Overall Corporate University from Corporate University Best in Class (CUBIC) in 2003.
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)
- Ms. Sham Ahmed
- (Learning and Development)
- Professor Zak Van Straaten
- (Knowledge Management Strategies, Solutions and Education and Training; 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 European venture capital company; and past chairman of the German Private Equity Association)
- 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)
