Jan van der Walt
Chief Executive Officer
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Jan van der Walt's areas of effectiveness
Jan van der Walt is a turnaround management, business rescue, business transformation and general management consulting specialist.
In turnarounds and business rescue, his key competency is turnaround viability assessment, and project managing emergency management, crisis stabilisation, restructuring in strategic, financial, organisational and operational terms, and recovery.
Instead of or in addition to project managing turnarounds, Jan specialises in acting as interim manager of turnaround situations in the capacity of managing director or chief executive officer, or as deputy to these positions.
In business transformation, Jan's key competency is designing business transformation projects and implementing these as project manager and change management agent.
In management consulting Jan's key competencies lie in strategy, leadership, financial and organisational issues, supply chain management, and sales and marketing. These all form important components of turnarounds and business transformation projects.
Jan also focuses on strategy consulting as an area of specialisation, especially strategy workshops.
Jan van der Walt's background
As CEO of Corporate Renewal, Jan van der Walt has 26 years' experience in corporate renewal, ranging from management consulting to business transformation to turnaround management to business rescue.
In his career he served as both senior accountable executive and in advisory positions in numerous turnaround and crisis management situations in a variety of industries.
He has wide experience in devising and implementing leadership, strategy, financial, organisational and operational solutions.
His interest in turnaround management started during his early consulting days when he conducted assignments at distressed companies.
After subsequently cutting his teeth for many years as interim turnaround manager in various companies, he returned to the consulting world by joining an international consulting firm to manage business transformation projects.
This experience as a principal consultant allowed him to combine turnaround line management expertise with multidisciplinary project management and transformational change management, resulting in the establishment of a turnaround management consulting firm in 1999.
The turnaround consultancy went independent in 2002 as Corporate Renewal Partners. In 2006 Corporate Renewal Partners name was changed to Corporate Renewal Solutions.
Jan van der Walt's qualifications
- MBA (Stanford Business School), where he studied with a Fulbright Scholarship and specialised in strategy.
- Honours B.Sc. in Operations Research (University of South Africa).
- B.Sc. Industrial Engineering degree (cum laude) (University of Pretoria).
Jan van der Walt's turnaround industry activities
Papers and presentations
Date |
Topic |
| 07-05-15 | Turnaround situations (Wits Business School turnaround management conference) |
| 07-05-03 | Business rescue process - Business rescue panel discussion, Turnaround Management Association - Southern Africa - 3 May 2007 |
| 07-03-30 | Business rescue legislation comments which constitutes TMA-SA's submission to dti on the business rescue provisions of Chapter 6 of the Companies Act 2007 |
06-11-04 |
Improving turnaround and business rescue in South Africa - how government can contribute, and how TMA-SA can assist - presentation to National Treasury and Department of Trade and Industry |
06-11-04 |
Overview of the Turnaround Management Association - Southern Africa |
06-09-06 |
Implications of new business rescue legislation for private equity in South Africa (Private Equity Africa 2006 conference) |
06-05-15 |
Contrasting informal turnaround with turnaround during insolvency 2006 (Wits Business School turnaround management conference) |
06-05-15 |
Developments in the South African turnaround industry 2006 (Wits Business School turnaround management conference) |
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(545k).King III Committee on Corporate Governance
Jan van der Walt is a member of the Business Rescue Subcommittee of the King III Commission on Corporate Governance.
Educational and networking
Jan is an active participant in turnaround industry conferences, publishing turnaround articles and guest lecturing in turnaround management at business schools.
Industry associations
In 2004 he initiated what was eventually named the Task Group for Organising the Turnaround and Business Rescue Industries, which included 100 representatives from various stakeholder groups in industry in its Work Group and Advisory Group.
The Task Group spawned:
- ABASA - Association of Business Administrators of South Africa - a proposed business rescue regulatory body in terms of future new business rescue legislation.
Jan serves on the Interim Executive of ABASA as Treasurer.
- Turnaround Management Association - Southern Africa , the establishment of which Jan initiated and concluded as a founder member after having been a member of the Chicago Chapter of the TMA before.
- He was voted onto the initial board of TMA-SA as director on 29 April 2005.
- On 6 May 2005 the initial board appointed Jan as Chief Executive Officer.
- On 22 September 2005 he was elected Chief Operating Officer for 2006
- On 29 March 2007 he was elected Chief Operating Officer, as well as Informatics Director, for 2007.
- He also serves on the International Committee of TMA.
Turnaround industry web sites
Jan maintains the following turnaround-related web sites, blogs and forums:
- Business Rescue Legislation Forums - forum for debate and discussion of new business rescue legislation as contained in Chapter 6 of the Companies Bill, 2007.
- Turnaround Management Association - Southern Africa Blog with news from the forum for turnaround, business rescue and corporate renewal professionals - established for purposes of information exchange, knowledge capturing, networking, education and raising the standards of turnaround in Southern Africa.
- CRS Turnaround.
- Corporate Renewal Solutions.
- Corporate Renewal Solutions Blog with news and views about the topics and industries of turnaround, corporate renewal, business transformation and business rescue in South Africa.
- Turnaround Management Association - Southern Africa.