advisor
I work with senior decision-makers of private and public organisations to develop or improve their strategies, develop and review business ethics policies and behaviour, and I provide input to public policy. I offer values-based executive coaching with strong strategic, ethical and inspirational elements.
Current Roles
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Senior Lecturer, Allan Gray Centre for Values-Based Leadership, UCT GSB, Cape Town
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Research Fellow, Centre for Applied Ethics, University of Stellenbosch
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Executive Advisor, Taurus Associates, Cape Town
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Director, Inkunzi Capital, Cape Town
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Director, Theart Multimedia, Cape Town
Experience & Qualifications
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Worked in business for over 20 years in the USA, UK and South Africa mainly in strategy or finance roles
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Held senior executive roles at Old Mutual, Rio Tinto, RMB Corvest and Taurus Associates, the company I founded in 2003.
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Advised CEOs across multiple industries including financial services, energy, telecoms and manufacturing
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Hold 6 degrees in ethics, policy, business and engineering from Oxford, LSE, Harvard, London Business School, MIT and University of the Witwatersrand
Publications
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Leaders needed to ‘step into this chaos’ UCT News, 29 April 2020
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'Jump into the fray to remedy corporate wrongs' Business Day, 27 June 2019
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'Criminal justice after corporate corruption is just the beginning' Business Day, 19 February 2019
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'Six Steps for Company Reparations' UCT News, 1 February 2019
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'What Do We Want From Bain?' Daily Maverick, 16 October 2018
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'Cash-rich companies go hunting for acquisitions,' Business Day, 19 August 2010
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‘Strategy Implementation Requires Bold Leadership,’ Management Today, Vol 23, No 2, March 2007
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‘Lower Financial Results: Market Slowdown or Poor Management,’ Management Today, Vol 25, No 5, June 2009
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Review of 'Hearing Grasshoppers Jump' by Raymond Ackerman, Business Day, 2006
Media
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'Athol Williams rejoins Bain & Company to oversee the implementation of the firm's remedy plan' Bain Press Release, 25 June 2019
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'Athol Williams, author of SARS Bain report' CapeTalk, December 2018
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'SA born Athol Williams awarded Oxford University distinction,' Radio 702, 18 July 2017
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'Black empowerment expected to drive mergers, acquisitions this year' Business Day, 10 March 2010
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'Banks find potential in mobile phone growth,' Financial Times, 3 June 2010
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'Campaign to recruit those excluded from the formal financial system,' Financial Times, 19 April 2010
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'Private Equity Outlook' CNBC Africa, 4 March 2010
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'Profile of Taurus Associates and Athol Williams,' Entrepreneurship, 11 November 2009