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 turnaround practitioner career he served as both senior accountable executive and in advisory positions in numerous turnaround situations in a variety of industries ranging from the public sector, to private sector clients as large as R5bn turnover.
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
- Presently busy completing a Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA) (University of Pretoria's Gordon Institute of Management Science) where his research thesis will deal with business rescue.
- Master degree in Business Administration (MBA) (Stanford Business School), where he studied with a Fulbright Scholarship and specialised in strategy.
- Honours B.Sc. degree 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 |
09-09-29 |
King III: The requirements and implications for public, private and non-profit organisations " |
09-08-18 to 09-08-20 |
Business rescue: Demystified and Operationalised |
09-07-30 |
Corporate Governance Forum 2009: "Analysing the importance of business rescue legislation and its implications for your company" |
09-03-07 |
A corporate conversation on business rescue |
08-08-07 |
Business rescue legislation comments which constitutes TMA-SA's submission to dti on the business rescue provisions of Chapter 6 of the Companies Act (B61 - 2008) |
08-07-30 |
Business rescue legislation - a turnaround practitioner’s perspective on changes in B61-2008 compared to the 2007 draft - Business rescue panel discussion, Turnaround Management Association - Southern Africa. |
08-07-29 |
Business rescue legislation - implications for companies and directors - Corporate Governance conference. |
08-05-12 |
Turnaround situations (Wits Business School turnaround management conference) |
| 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 |
| 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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Industry associations
Jan is a member of the Business Rescue Task Force of the King III Commission on Corporate Governance, and a member of the Institute of Directors (IoD).
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 led to the formation of:
- ABASA - Association of Business Administrators of South Africa - a proposed business rescue regulatory body in terms of future new business rescue legislation.
Jan is a director and 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 in 2005.
- 2005: Director and Chief Executive Officer.
- 2006: Director and Chief Operating Officer.
- 2007 - 08: Director and Chief Operating Officer; Informatics Director.
- 2009: Director and Chief Operating Officer.
- He also serves on the International Committee of TMA.
- 2009: CEO of the Certification Governance Board
- 2009: Chair of the Standards Subcommittee of the Certification Governance Board.
- 2009: Member of the Academic Subcommittee of the Certification Governance Board.
Jan has a keen interest in new business rescue legislation, which are analysed in depth on the CRS Turnaround web site of Corporate Renewal Solutions. Additionally, he is the author of the comments of TMA-SA on Chapter 6 (Business Rescue) of the 2007 and 2008 versions of the Companies Bill.
Turnaround industry on the internet
Jan serves as webmaster and moderator of 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.
- Turnaround Management Association - 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.
Educational
Jan regularly writes articles, presents at conferences, participate in panel discussions and do guest lecturing at business school on the topics of corporate renewal, business transformation, turnaround and business rescue.
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