David Harding - TMA-SA member profile
Contact details
Email address:
Cell: 082 565 0520
Land line: 011 784 2073
Fax: 086 510 6184
Personal web page: David Harding
Member information
TMA-SA membership status
Leadership: Director: Pro Bono.
Membership category: Regular member.
Background and experience
David retired as Deputy Managing Director of African Explosives in 2001, where he was extensively involved in business transformation.
With 35 years' experience in this field, David has pioneered ways of working with consulting firms to provide sustainable business transformation and turnarounds both in SA and Europe.
His role as a transformation expert is the topic of a case study used in the UCT MBA program.
Prior to joining Corporate Renewal Solutions, he consulted to various organisations in SA. He also served as chair of a distressed company turnaround management consulting firm associated with an international consulting firm.
David is passionate about job preservation.
David was a member of the Advisory Group of the Task Group for Organising the Turnaround and Business Rescue Industries.
He is a member of the Turnaround Management Association - Southern Africa - Southern Africa. On 22 September 2005 he was elected Executive Director: Pro Bono Activities.
Qualifications
- Honours degree in engineering (University of London).
Turnaround professional discipline(s) represented
- Turnaround practitioner.
- Turnaround consultant.
- Interim manager.
- Corporate renewal consultant.
- Business transformation consultant.
- Management consultant.
Services offered
- Turnaround viability assessment.
- Emergency management.
- Crisis stabilisation.
- Turnaround management.
- Turnaround restructuring.
- Turnaround recovery.
- Turnaround interim management.
- Turnaround private equity.
- Corporate renewal.
- Business transformation.
- Management consulting.
Why I joined TMA-SA
Firm: Corporate Renewal Solutions
Corporate Renewal Solutions is a full-service management consulting focusing on turnaround and corporate renewal that has been active in South Africa since 1999. It has 4 main service offerings.
Distressed situation turnaround:
CRS Turnaround helps turn around distressed companies in crisis due to liquidity or solvency problems. These turnarounds involve triage principles and emergency management.
Turnaround:
CRS Turnaround helps turn around severely underperforming companies that have the time and resources to find solutions. Our turnarounds rehabilitate such companies and set the stage for future achievement.
Remedial business transformation:
CRS Business Transformation helps moderately underperforming companies to achieve and surpass industry performance standards by changing the way the do business, by means of transformational change management.
Proactive business transformation (continual corporate renewal):
CRS Business Transformation helps healthy companies to continually transform themselves in response to market-place events of a political, economic, social, technological, legal and environmental nature.
Management consulting:
CRS Management consulting helps management to unlock value by reshaping their businesses through the formulation and implementation of leadership, strategic, financial, organisational and operational change.
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