AREAS OF COMPETENCE

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Strategic and management consulting

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Managing Partner of GSA Campbell Consulting since 2011, assisting companies and organisations in the areas of strategy, corporate sustainability, and carbon. 

Business acquisition and lead consultant, project manager and team member providing either content or process consulting solutions to multinational corporates, medium-sized enterprises, government departments and NGOs.​

• Strategy development

• Business model design and innovation

• Customer value proposition

• Systems analysis and design

• Org design and business process re-engineering

• Management approach, accountability and performance

• Marketing and sales leadership

• Project design and management

• M & A, integration and change management

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Business development, sales, and marketing

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Excellent skills and experience in value proposition, business development and sales at JV/partnership level and product or service level. Strong sales leadership capabilities. Diplomatic, professional and results focused.
Strong networking and marketing skills across various platforms.

Corporate sustainability

Working with great brands to establish resilience and competitiveness, using best practice models and methodologies in an integrated approach.​

• ESG strategy development

• ESG Compliance

• Corporate governance

• Value chain impact analysis

• Supply chain sustainability

• Business model analysis and innovation

• Management approach and accountability frameworks

• Sustainability value proposition​

• Sustainability and integrated reporting

• GHG Inventory / Carbon footprint reporting

• Report assurance

Carbon and Climate

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Involvement in carbon climate change related projects since 2009.

Background in GHG Protocol Corporate Standard with experience in IPCC methodologies, particularly in the context of national GHG reporting, carbon tax and carbon offsets.

• Carbon and climate change strategy

• GHG emissions mapping

• Carbon footprint reporting and training

• Carbon tax readiness programmes, including audits and verification, assessments, and training

• Carbon offsets

• CDP

• TCFD

• Report assurance: GHG emissions

• Designing GHG software systems

Developed the Veriport Carbon Footprint reporting software platform

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Reporting and assurance

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Extensive skills and experience with directing and drafting sustainability and integrated reports.

Founder and Editor of sustainability and integrated reporting industry handbooks.

Facilitator and presenter at reporting industry conferences and panel discussions, including with GRI.  

• Global Reporting Initiative (GRI Standards)

• International Integrated Reporting Council (<IR> Framework)

• FTSE Russell ESG

• World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)

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ESG and impact investing

Work with companies and state-owned enterprises for whom ESG/SRI is an increasingly important requirement.

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• Principles, standards and trends: Sustainable, Responsible and Impact Investing (SRI)

• Approaches to the development of ESG, SRI portfolio design and shareholder advocacy

• The communication of SRI and the development of Investment Value Propositions (CVP)

• ESG and SRI strategies

• Companies Act | King IV | FTSE Russell ESG

• Corporate sustainability and Integrated Reporting

• Carbon, Sustainability and Integrated Reporting, auditing and assurance

• Principles for Responsible Investment (UN-PRI) & Principles for Responsible Banking (UN-PRB)

• Code for Responsible Investing in South Africa (CRISA)

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Energy, Circular Economy and Cleaner Production

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Energy Efficiency & Renewables

49M Ambassador (Eskom) for four years, campaigning around energy efficiency. Speaker at various events, panel discussions and TV & radio interviews during this time. Editor of the Energy Efficiency Handbook
Director of Business Development at Altum.Energy – Microgrid and renewable energy storage systems

Cleaner Production and circularity

Consulting in Resource Efficiency and Cleaner Production (RECP) - energy, water, waste, materials and CO2e efficiency targets. 
Consulting on circular design and circular economy principles in oil and plastics industries. Designed and facilitated circular economy workshops.  Scope 3 emissions strategies for industrial and manufacturing customers. GBCSA Convention Committee Chair (Value Chain and Circularity tracks) in 2020.

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Presentations, facilitation, and design thinking

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Extensive experience in business facilitation, master of ceremonies and presentations. Worked with global brands, government and NGOs in panel discussions, meetings, executive workshops, and strategy development.

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Trained in the Design Thinking approach, having used this approach effectively with global brands. Preferred facilitator for the global chemical group BASF, having worked with the continental executive leadership team on various occasions to facilitate the development of new strategies, business models and product offerings.

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Media and events

Extensive, international experience in media, publishing and events, having worked on media projects in South Africa, the United Kingdom, the United States and Mauritius.

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• Launched and managed media companies and media projects, including print and digital, web, events, conferences, and exhibitions.

• Published author for magazines, industry handbooks and journals

• Sales, sponsorship, and self-funding business models.

Technology and systems development

Good knowledge experience with systems and web technology development.
Worked on projects with database and web stack development applications as architect and business case analysist, liaising with developers.