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BA Soc Sc. (Wits), MA Soc Sc. (Wits), Advanced Risk Management (UCT)
Organisational Development & Human Capital
Adv Lewis Rosen is a director of Alona Advisory Services. As a qualified psychologist and advocate of the High Court, he brings vast experience from both fields.
He has worked extensively on large scale organisational design projects and has driven the implementation of new structures, systems, and processes in government and private sector organisations.
Lewis has extensive experience in remuneration and grading systems development, organisational restructuring, advising on executive and staff packages, and human resource and organisational psychology consulting. He is also an experienced facilitator and negotiator with specific expertise in reaching agreements and evaluating performance
He has assisted organisations in designing and implementing strategic plans, structures, human resource management systems, performance management, career pathing and job grading systems. He has held senior leadership positions in the following organisations; Global Edge Consulting (Director); Deloitte (Human Capital Public Sector Leader); KPMG (Director); Network Management and Development Services (Director).
Lewis is a seasoned advocate, psychologist and HR specialist focused on assisting public and private sector organisations to become more effective and efficient by providing value adding solutions to address: Strategy; Human Capital; Restructuring; Organisation Design; Performance Management; Diagnosis & Assessment; Competency Frameworks and Shared Service Centre design and implementation.
Involved actively in litigation in the High Court and Labour Court, he is familiar with updated legislation and case law.
Leadership Development & Generative Change
Chris Kennedy is the co-founder and Director of Alona Advisory Services. She has over thirty years’ experience in creating generative change in organisations and individuals, through facilitating strategies that enable individuals and business leaders to expand, pivot, and extend their opportunities.
She has been an Executive and C-Suite coach for over two decades and has worked with organisations to enable growth and success for the business and the individual by congruently aligning individuals to the organisation’s purpose. Chris understands that an organisation is made up of individuals and that, for people to contribute effectively, they must first be understood as people and only then in the context of the business.
Chris has contributed to successful strategic People engagements in financial and advisory institutions, as well as in manufacturing, media and professional services. She is a firm believer that the discipline of People Management is a strategic imperative for any successful organisation. She founded the Phenomenal Women Initiative, which was sponsored by Hollard and SABC3 which reached over 2000 women directly and many more through media exposure. Chris was invited by Random House Penguin to write her book “Chris Kennedy’s Phenomenal Women – Your Journey to a Phenomenal Life” because of her work with women. Chris is a motivational speaker who is often invited to speak in Women’s Forums including SABC3, Hollard, Ekurhuleni Municipality, Johannesburg Road Agency, Nedbank, Standard Bank, WesBank, Eskom, CIGRE SA – Women in Energy.
Chris appeared on Three Talk, Headspace, 702, and has been featured in SARIE, O-Magazine, Psychologies, Joburg SA, Doing Business in SA (A World Bank Website), she was a regular blogger for Destiny Magazine.
Chris has lectured on Women in Leadership, Boardroom Skill at Duke University Management Education and for the ILO, an Agency of the United Nations.
Internal Audit, Risk & Governance
Ronel brings over 25 years-experience in the Financial Services Sector, leading Audits with BDO, working with Len Konar & Associates as Manager of Internal Audit, lecturing in accounting, auditing, risk management and ethics. She has lectured in accounting and allied subjects for SAICA AT(SA), Deloitte Consulting and educational institutions and municipalities throughout the country.
Ronel has managed audit and internal audit teams for the JDA, NHC, RHLF, Sentech, Department of Housing, Department of Health, Department of Public Works and Mango Airlines. Ronel is the chairperson of the AT(SA) Academic, Monitoring and Qualifications Committee, one of SAICA’s governing bodies. She is a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the AT(SA) qualification and contributes to decisions in respect of the competency framework, as well as the development of assessments and Tests of Professional Competence for membership of AT(SA).
She also provides mentoring and training to clients on Internal Audit, Risk Management, Corporate Governance, Ethics, Supply Chain Management, Public Finance Management Act and the Municipal Finance Management Act, as well as compliance to Treasury Regulations.
Ronel has assisted as a facilitator at the Phenomenal Women Initiative, a R60 million project that has created generative change for thousands of women, and has been a co-facilitator of NLP programmes. Ronel has a passion for assisting people to break through their current circumstances in order to achieve their potential. She understands that training and interactions are most successful when you meet people in their model of the world.
Every member of our team has operated at a senior level inside complex organisations. We don’t theorise, we advise from lived experience.
Our practice areas share methodology, perspective, and people. The result is advice that sees the whole organisation, not just the part you asked about.
As a boutique firm, every client relationship is a principal relationship. You work with the people whose names are on the door, not a team assembled for the pitch.
Our story is the context behind everything we do and how we came to build a different kind of advisory practice.
Boutique advisory delivering integrated Internal Audit, Governance, Risk & Compliance, and Management Consulting services.