SECP Faculty  

Colleen Magner

Colleen is a Partner of Reos Partners (www.reospartners.com), an international organisation dedicated to supporting and building capacity for innovative collective action in complex social situations. In this capacity she has worked on multi-stakeholder projects in primarily the areas of food security, mining safety and orphans and vulnerable children.

She is an adjunct faculty member at the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS), and previously managed the Policy, Leadership and Gender Studies Unit (PL&G) at GIBS. PL&G builds broader awareness and involvement in socio-economic issues in South Africa.

Colleen teaches an MBA elective on Social Entrepreneurship, amongst other teaching assignments. In addition, her fields of teaching include: Systems Thinking for Organisations, Participative Practices for Social Change, and Using Dialogue for Tough Problems. She has supervised a number of teaching cases on social entrepreneurship, and edited the book: “Dust to Diamonds: Stories of South African Social Entrepreneurs.” She is co-author of the book: “Mapping Dialogue: Essential Tools for Social Change.” Colleen has presented at a number of academic conferences and her work is published in two international journals.
 

Previous to GIBS, Colleen co-founded an international learning network of social change agents called Pioneers of Change (www.pioneersofchange.net). Pioneers of Change now involve people from over 70 countries in its programmes and activities.

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Troy Dyer

Troy Dyer is the CEO of Audax Ideas. He has extensive professional experience in the areas of strategy, innovation and finance. He has consulted to clients in a diverse range of industries in South Africa, Europe and the UK. Prior to starting his own firm he gained experience as a management consultant at two global consulting firms, where he specialised in business transformation and business strategy.

In addition to his consulting experience, Troy has held various full-time positions in commerce and industry, including the roles of investment analyst, finance manager and chief financial officer. He has served as a visiting lecturer on MBA and executive courses at top-ranking South African business schools, lecturing in the areas of strategy, innovation and finance.

Troy's educational and professional qualifications include:

• Bachelor of Commerce, 1984, Wits University, Johannesburg, South Africa
• Bachelor of Accountancy, 1985, Wits University, Johannesburg, South Africa
• Chartered Accountant, 1988, SAICA, South Africa
• Master of Business Administration, 1991, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
• Chartered Financial Analyst, 2008, CFA Institute, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.

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Doug Reeler 

Doug was born in Zambia, raised in Malawi and schooled in Zimbabwe. In the latter half of the 1970s and early 1980s he studied at the University of Cape Town to a Masters level. His thesis involving primary research focused on the impact of the migrant labour system on indigenous social organisation and culture in Northern Malawi. 

After this he found my way into high school teaching for several years on the Cape Flats.  From there he pioneered and led, for 7 years, an NGO called CECS involved in bringing information technology to township schools, and the education and development sector in appropriate and developmental ways, particularly in support of teacher subject groups as part of the “People’s Education” movement to find alternatives to Bantu Education under apartheid.  This included training and support to student media committees in producing and disseminating progressive literature.  After 1990 the focus shifted from a more political focus to supporting various revitalisation efforts in the education system and to helping the NGO sector to adapt itself to a new environment.

In 1994 he was employed as the National Coordinator for Staff Development for Sached Trust, a large national adult education NGO involved in a variety of trade union, adult and bridging education and development initiatives.

Since 1997 he has been employed as a full-time practitioner in the Community Development Resource Association (CDRA). The CDRA is a South African-based NGO providing certain developmental services to African NGOs (local and international), CBOs, some European funding agencies and some government structures – mostly in South Africa but also beyond into Southern and East Africa and occasionally on other continents. He has been employed at CDRA for thirteen years.

Dean Hand is the CEO of the GreaterGood SA group. With an academic background in Organisational Psychology and Industrial Sociology, Dean has twenty years of experience at senior management level in the corporate and social development sectors. Working with executive management teams at Deloitte, Old Mutual and Woolworths and was a key part of due diligence and negotiation teams on specific mergers and acquisitions. Between 2003 and 2008, she worked as the Executive Director of national non profit, Foodbank South Africa (previously known as Feedback Food Redistribution). Dean grew the Feedback operation into a national organisation with an annual operating budget of R8m and led them through a major transformation to consolidate most of the food redistribution organisations in South Africa into one national FoodBank network. Dean’s achievements at Feedback were recognised with an Impumulelo Platinum Award in 2008. She joined GreaterGood South Africa in early 2009, playing a key role in the development and implementation of a ground-breaking joint venture offering socially responsible and impact investment products.


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Lesley Rider

Lesley consults and lectures, around the world, on Project and Programme Management practices and techniques.  As well as writing courses, providing training and mentoring services she also facilitates workshops and consults on strategy, leadership, team development, programme and project management, planning, career development, capacity building and talent management. 

Some of the Organisations that she has worked with are ABSA Bank Ltd, Anglo American, Departments of Labour and Public Service Administration (SA),  UK Department of Health, Edgars, First National Bank, Kenya Commercial Bank, Kengen, Sandvik, Sasol, Several Universities, Services SETA and other Training Authorities in SA, Spar, Millennium Challenge Corporation, and Social Impact.

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Anton Roodt

Anton Roodt (BA, Honours, MA) is visiting professor at Wits Business School (WBS). He.is a lecturer, executive coach, consultant, writer and conference speaker in leadership, strategy, governance and social entrepreneurship. He lectures at the Rotterdam School of Management (RSM), Erasmus University in the Netherlands; Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS), University of Pretoria; The Pakistan Institute of Management (PIM), and DCDM Business School, Mauritius.

During 2003 he was the Director of DCDM Business School in Mauritius. He was contributor and editor of the Report on Corporate Governance for Mauritius, which was produced in 2003 by a ministerial committee of business and public sector leaders. He has presented executive workshops to leading corporations in South Africa, the Netherlands, Pakistan and Mauritius.

He did his initial academic studies in Linguistics and Philosophy. Post graduate studies followed at the University of Texas, USA as recipient of the Rotary Foundation Fellowship. He was subsequently appointed tenured professor at North-West University, South Africa. He left the academic world for the corporate business sector, holding executive positions at prominent South African companies including Sasol and Gencor. He attended business school executive programmes at London Business School, IMD Lausanne Switzerland, and Wharton Pennsylvania USA.

He is an associate of SPESA (Social Private Equity South Africa), a business initiative that promotes social entrepreneurship in partnership with corporate funders and investors. He is passionate about strategic leadership and good governance in a living systems context and is a wilderness enthusiast. 


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Margie Sutherland

Margie Sutherland has a B. Sc majoring in Psychology and Archaeology, a B. Sc (Hons) in Psychology and a Masters in Management in the field of Human Resources from the University of the Witwatersrand. She has a post graduate diploma in Social and Economic Statistics from the University of Manchester and a Doctorate in Commerce from Rand Afrikaans University. The topic of her doctorate dealt with the factors influencing the retention of knowledge workers.

She has worked in the Human Resource field in the mining, retail, beverage and hotel industries. She has been a business school academic for the last 15 years. Margie is an Associate Professor at GIBS and a full-time member of staff at GIBS where she lectures in the area of performance management. She is also head of MBA research and coordinator of the faculty.

She has published in a wide range of academic journals. Her current fields of interest are HIV/AIDS in the workplace, paradox in management and other Human Resource related issues. 


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Paul Tyler

Paul is a partner in C Masters Development Services (CMDS), a consultancy that provides support and training in financial management and related topics, exclusively to the non-profit sector. CMDS works with individual non-profit organisations and with a number of international funding agencies.

Prior to joining CMDS in 1997, Paul qualified as a chartered accountant with KPMG in London and, after a number of commercial positions, worked for eight years as Finance and Human Resources Director of Christian Aid, a major UK relief and development agency. He was one of six directors that formed the senior management team overseeing an annual budget of more than £40 million. In this role Paul had regular contact with NPO's and funders in many parts of the world; he was a regular speaker on finance and advocacy topics and chaired working groups on issues of developing country debt and fair trade. Paul is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and continues to write and speak, when time permits, on social justice issues. 


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Matt Nash

Matt Nash is the Managing Director of the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship.  In addition to his development and administrative responsibilities, Matt leads the Fuqua On Board program, founded and directs the Global Consulting Practicum, advises student consulting projects and independent studies, and advises the student run chapter of Net Impact. Matt is also a visiting lecturer at Duke’s Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, where he co-teaches an undergraduate course in entrepreneurial leadership and social innovation.   Matt brings to Fuqua extensive domestic and international social and public sector experience in governance, strategic planning, organization development, performance measurement, business process transformation, and leadership development. 

Prior to joining the CASE team, he was a senior consultant in strategy and change management with the public sector practice at IBM Business Consulting Services (formerly PriceWaterhouseCoopers Consulting).  In this position and previous consulting capacities, Matt served a diverse set of clients ranging from community-based organizations, including a nonprofit resource center, a community housing board, and a disabilities rights coalition, to large agencies such as World Vision, UNICEF and the U.S. Agency for International Development.

Previously, Matt led the Leadership Institute at Yale's Center for Public Service and volunteered with the U.S. Peace Corps in Romania. Matt is a graduate of the Yale School of Management (MBA) and Yale College (BA), where he received the graduation prize for public service.  A recipient of Vice President Al Gore’s “Hammer Award” for reinventing government, Matt was recently awarded the inaugural "Member Achievement Award" by Net Impact, the global network of business professionals seeking to use their skills for social, environmental, and economic impact.

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Albert Wöcke

Albert has been on the GIBS faculty since 2000, which he joined after a career as a trade union official. As the Assistant General Secretary of a Health and Professionals union he managed the finance and administrative functions of the union and its subsidiaries. Prior to that he headed up the Collective Bargaining function of the union and as such was a founding member of the Public Service Bargaining Council and represented the labour movement in the Public Finance and Monetary Policy Chamber of Nedlac.

His academic qualifications include an MA in Political Science from the University of Pretoria and an MBA and PhD from the University of the Witwatersrand. Albert has published academic and other articles in South Africa and internationally and is a member of the American Academy of Management and the Academy of International Business.

Since joining GIBS, Albert has taught in the areas of HR, Strategy, International Business and Organisational Behaviour. His current research interests include the process and strategies of South African firms going global, the design and impact of HR strategy and cross-cultural management in multinational enterprises. He has had papers presented at the American Academy of Management and the Royal Geographic Society in London and he consults widely to large businesses, government, NGOs and small businesses. 

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Michael Goldman

Michael is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Pretoria’s Gordon Institute of Business Science in Johannesburg, South Africa. He lectures, researches and consults in the area of Marketing, including topics such as Marketing Strategy & Management, Customer Centricity and Strategy, Sports Marketing and Sponsorship, and Base of the Pyramid business strategies.

Since his appointment to the academic staff of the business school in 2005, Michael has designed, delivered and assessed post-graduate courses on a number of academic and executive programmes. In open public academic programmes, Michael has taught junior and middle-level managers on everything from short one-day programmes to longer multi-year MBA programmes. In closed customised executive programmes, Michael has worked with junior, middle and senior-level managers from a wide range of companies, including PepsiCo, British American Tobacco, Standard Bank, Sasol and Barclays.

Since 2009, Michael has also held the appointment as Adjunct Faculty with the Strathmore Business School in Kenya.

Michael is a regular commentator on marketing-related issues in the popular press and media, including CNBC Africa, Business Report, 702 Talk Radio, Strategic Marketing magazine and Sportbusiness International. He co-authored a chapter in Sponsorship South Africa – An Investor's Guide and another in Strategic Marketing, a post-graduate text book published in 2009. As part of this role at the business school, Michael hosts a fortnightly Business of Sport podcast series with Moneyweb, analysing the sport sponsorship and marketing strategies of leading local and international sport businesses. Michael has also published academically in South Africa, through Acta Commercii, and internationally, through Management Decision. Michael has been invited to present at a number of practitioner and academic conferences and programmes in South Africa, Australia, Kenya, Denmark and the USA.

His multi-media and interactive presentations have explored questions of world-class customer centricity, building winning brands, recession-proofing your business, profitability doing business with and for the poor, FIFA World Cup impacts, and sport branding innovations. In addition to playing the role of speaker, Michael also regularly facilitates and MCs a wide-range of events and conferences.

In his consulting role, Michael has assisted a wide range of organisations with strategy, marketing, sponsorship and research work, including SAB Ltd, Entyce Beverages, First National Bank, the MTN Group and the United Nations Development Programme. He is a member of the Marketing Association of South Africa, the American Marketing Association and the US-based Sport Marketing Association. Michael studied for his B.PrimEd degree from the University of Port Elizabeth before completing his MBA from GIBS. He is currently completing a doctorate with the University of Pretoria. He joined the Gordon Institute of Business Science in early 2000 to launch the GIBS Forum, an executive business network that hosts weekly business and social events. Prior to joining GIBS, Michael served as President of AIESEC in South Africa.

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John Ford

John was educated at Boys High in Mutare Zimbabwe and thereafter received his B Com (Hons) at Rhodes University in Grahamstown. In 1988 he received his M Com from RAU. John qualified as a CA (SA) with Arthur Young & Co (now Ernst & Young) where he worked for some 12 years. His final position there was that of partner responsible for Computer Audit Education.

In 1983 he joined the Wits Business School where he attained the position of Associate Professor in Business Administration (in the areas of Accounting, Control and Management Information Systems) which he held till his departure in December 2004. From 1995 to June 2004, John also held the position of Executive Education Director at the WBS.

He is the founder and convenor of the 2 year H Dip Computer Auditing Course run by Wits University (previously the NACCA course). His consulting interests are in the following areas: Product/Customer Costing and Profitability; Key Ratio and Performance Measures; Management Accounting reporting as well as bridging the gap between users and the finance department.

His research interests include: Corporate Governance, Management Control (via costing systems) and the problems encountered by external auditors in their quest to effectively audit increasingly complex systems. A practical interest area is why some firms do well despite all odds and why some do badly despite everything going for them!

Currently John is an Associate Professor at GIBS (where he convenes the Finance for Non-financial Managers and Board Leadership programs and developed the Mastering Finance program). He is also the Programme Director of the GIBS Senior Leadership Programme at the Standard Bank Group, a part-time lecturer at various other Business Schools, a Non-executive Director and Audit Committee member of Teba Ltd, and the Honorary Treasurer of the Johannesburg Parent and Child Guidance Clinic. Previously held the position of Chairman of the Audit Committees of Transtel and Datavia (both divisions of Transnet Ltd). 


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Verity Hawarden

Verity Hawarden has an MBA from GIBS, a Post Graduate Diploma in Management in the field of Business Administration from Wits Business School and a Bachelor of Arts degree, majoring in English and French Studies, from the University of Kwazulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg campus.