Speakers - Saimas 15th Annual International Conference

Prof Brynard is professor at the School of Public Management and Administration at the University of Pretoria. He obtained the BA, MA, D Phil and the Diploma in Tertiary Education at the same university. He has published articles in the field of public management and administration and also contributed to several books in the subject field. Prof Brynard was previously employed in the national government for eight years and six months. He received the Mellon Foundation Excellence Award in 2001 and the best Online Course Award in 2003. He was also a member of a number of commissions of inquiry into government matters, specialising in decision-making, policy-making and implementation, urbanisation studies, commercialization, privatisation, e-governance and online education.  He taught in the Doctoral Programme in Leadership Studies at Gonzaga University in the United States in 2001 and done research in policy implementation at Erasmus University in the Netherlands in 1997. He delivered several papers at international conferences and is currently the Research Coordinator of the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences.

B.A: HONS: (Administration)…(1994), University of the North Many Diplomas on Organisational Design and Work Study with different institutions.

Worked as the Right-Sizing Project Manager-1997 to 1999 ( To develop a policy for the Public Service that would determine the size of the Public Service, it resulted in the policy on the application for the severance package and the creation of supernumerary personnel database)
Project Manager in developing the South African Alternative Service Delivery policy- 199 to 2001
Made numerous presentations regarding the right-sizing and transformation of the Public Service in South Africa and abroad.
Served in numerous panels during provincial and national Good Governance Awards

Co-ordination of Departments and Provinces to implement Service Delivery Policies ( Programme Manager for the Service Delivery Policy Batho Pele) by:
• Facilitating delivery through multi-donor co-ordination (British, Swedish, German, Australian and Canadian donor countries) to contribute to the implementation of service delivery at delivery level (schools, prisons, hospitals, etc)
• Facilitate Departments and Provinces with technical project design and work plans to comply with donor framework of expectation.
• Coordinating the Restructuring process
• Rendering high level strategic advice about Government policy links, implications and interpretation for effective implementation by client departments.
• Advise the Minister for Public Service and Administration on matters relating to service delivery, restructuring and transformation.
• Rendering government internal consultancy work to Departments and Provinces.
• Rolling out service delivery policy for the public service Batho Pele)
 

B Mil (BA) from the University of Stellenbosch (Military Academy) and an MBL from UNISA’s School of Business Leadership. Other tertiary qualifications include a Management Specialisation Programme (Human Resource management) from the School of Business Leadership (UNISA) and a Certificate in Organisation and Work Study from the then Pretoria Technikon. Militarily, he qualified at Senior Command and Staff Duties in the SA Army as well as Joint Staff at the SA National Defence Force level.  He left the SA National Defence Force in 1995 and holds the rank of Brigadier General in the Reserve Forces.

Upon leaving the SA National Defence Force, he established a management consultancy Key Issues, cc and acquired a small business in Pretoria.  He specialises in Organisational effectiveness emphasising the integration of the human process, human resource and techno-structural entities into a systematic unit in the management of change. He is active in adult advanced education and is still lecturing and moderator on a part time basis  at the University of Johannesburg (Advanced Strategic Management, Management and Organisational Effectiveness) Tshwane University of Technology (Organisational Development, Consultancy Skills as well as Procedure and Functional studies).

He is an experienced Human Resource Manager having handled the full spectrum of personnel utilization functions. Has extensive experience in the management and control of the Management Services function (covering the full spectrum of the function) at corporate National Defence Force level. He has to his credit, several publications in the field of decision support and general management.

He is chairperson of a Board of Trustees, and until recently served as a National Council member of the Southern Africa Institute of Management Services and as Editor of its professional journal (The SAIMAS).

Foreign travels include visits to the USA, Germany the United Kingdom and several African States.
 

Louis Eloff served as a member of the South African Police Service from January 1972 until June 2005 when he retired at the rank of Deputy National Commissioner responsible for Management Services, Strategic Management,  Information and Systems Management, and Financial,  Administration and Communication Services. 

His main duties in the Police Service since 1994/95 evolved around the amalgamation of the 11 police agencies and the non-statutory forces into a single national police service,  and from 1996 to 2004/5, the transformation of the police service into a democratic police service focused on service delivery.
 

Dr Dorian Haarhoff is a story-teller, a published poet and writer and a personal and professional development speaker, who runs story-telling and creative writing workshops. He also acts as a writing coach. He is a former Professor of English at the University of Namibia. Since 1998 he has run his own business, Creative Workshops.

His talks/workshops are meant for corporations, organisations or individuals who wish to explore their creativity, improve their skills and understand their relationships. He uses story-telling, writing, images and symbolic work as a means of discovering hidden potential and assessing new ways of being and seeing. He is passionate about developing innate creativity and imagination. He believes in the ability of people to revitalise their workplace and create new realities.

His clients include business people, teachers, donor agencies, medical doctors, researchers, street teenagers, Embassies, therapists, hospice workers, Aids counsellors and development organisations. Dorian Haarhoff tailors topics to suit specific needs or themes. Motivational talks/workshop themes include working creatively with stress, team building, work ethics.

Ray Johnson is the Managing Director of Competitive Advantage Management (CAM) a management consultancy he established seventeen years ago.

He is also a director of Tekanetso Management Consultants, a newly established Black Empowered organization which consults on organization effectiveness and has developed the Resources Management System, a unique participative staff resourcing system.

Ray holds a B.Com degree and is a Fellow of the Chartered Insurance Institute (London).

He was a Senior Member of the S.A. Institute of O&M.

CAM has consulted to some of the major listed financial institutions and government departments including the Department of Justice and Metrorail in the areas of organizational restructuring, performance management and productivity measurement.

Prior to moving into consulting Ray spent fourteen years within the corporate environment  and in his last position was responsible for organizational development and productivity at Southern Life/ Anglo American Life.

He was responsible for implementing the first successful Quality Circle programme in the commercial sector whilst at Anglo American Life.

During this period Ray placed significant focus on developing in-house consulting services with a team of professional productivity specialists.

Professor Extraordinary, Department of Engineering and Technology Management: University of Pretoria

Semi-permanent Professor Extraordinary, CEPM:  University of Texas at Austin

Was the first person in South Africa’s history to introduce formal university Project Management training to previously disadvantaged people(1977)

Was selected by the United Nations (NY) and USAid to implement basic Project Management training for disadvantaged communities under the RDP(1995)

Has over a period of 31 years offered Project Management training at Qhakaza, Mutale, Transkei,  Malawi and many other venues

Elected as an Active-for-Life member of the Honour Society of Phi Kappa Phi, due to the fact that he completed his Ph.D within the top 10% of the U.S. nation

Ranked by CEPM graduate students as top international Project Management summer school professor(1998)

Ph.D Texas A&M University (1989)

Since his childhood, Douw has had an intense interest in Nature.  At the young age of seven he accompanied his father on safari’s in Africa. Successfully completed his studies in Nature Conservation, he chose a  career, where he specialised in Bush Survival Training in Southern Africa.

As a qualified Professional Hunter, Douw led and undertook numerous safaris.  He is familiar with places like the Zambezi Valley(Zimbabwe), Luangwa Valley(Zambia) and went as far north as Sweden. His passion for Nature led him to awesome places.  These include the Iguassu Waterfalls and Amazon Jungle in Brazil; Pamplemousses Botanical Gardens in Mauritius; the world’s biggest Volcanic crater, Karthala, on Grande Comore and the Grand Canyon.

Douw has a special feeling for animals.  That is proved by the fact that he is also a trained Farrier and Veterinary orderly.  Douw is also known for his wildlife related articles in various magazines and participation in competitions or television programmes of similar subjects.

Douw believes that by discovering the uniqueness of other species, we might discover our own potential and uniqueness !  To find answers on many of our questions, we must go back to our basis – Nature!
 

Dr. Piet Muller is a futurist and creativity consultant that brings with him a wealth of experience in diverse fields. He was amongst others co-founder of two publishing houses, and founding editor of an opinion magazine. He is also an active environmentalist, who was involved in various local and national conservation projects and presents programs on the future.

 For his political journalism, and especially his attempts at bringing the ANC and the then South African government to the negotiating table, he was awarded with the SFW Award for journalism (the only time it was ever awarded for political journalism) and with the International Visitor Travel Grant of the American Information Service)

He was twice requested by the South African Dept of Foreign Affaires to expound on political developments in South Africa to European audiences.

Invited in 1996 as visiting scholar to the Institute for Creative Studies, at the Business School of the St Thomas University in Minneapolis, USA. This prepared him for a career in human development.  He developed various corporate training courses, i.e. A New Life is Waiting®, The Psycho Soma Programme ®, The Synos Model of Creativity® and Dimensional Dynamics

Elsie Pule holds a BA (Social Work) degree from the University of the North, BA Hons in Psychology from the University of Pretoria and a Masters in Science (Business Management) Degree from Warwick University in the UK.

She started her career as a Social Worker and then taught psychology at the University of Pretoria for a year before moving into a corporate environment in 1995. In Eskom she has made a significant contribution in the field of Organization Development with special emphasis on change management, performance management, succession and talent management. She also initiated a Human Performance Programme for the Generation Power Stations to manage human error in plant failures. Her masters Dessitation is based on this subject.

In 2003 she became Project Manager for Skills Management, a system to manage talent in Eskom.

In 2004 she led the Shared Service Project of which the first phase was implemented on 1 November 2004.

She was recently appointed as the HR Shared Services Manager for Eskom Holdings.
 

Studied Mechanical Engineering and graduated in 1989. Involved in various process re-engineering projects and logistics in the process design domain of Spoornet. Responsible for capacity planning/design of future rail/facilities and developments

Joined Absa in 2001 and was appointed as the Head of the Workstudy & Process Design Department. The department  is now a Group Wide function that drives Business Efficiency Improvement initiatives and responsible for Staffing Capacity Planning, Service Level Management and Business Process Management