High-Impact Consulting Expertise

Who We Are

High-Impact Consulting Expertise at Competitive Rates

Arena Partners curates teams of independent consultants with the optimal skills, experience and ‘fit’ for our clients. We improve the speed and quality of insights to define our client strategies, transform their businesses, unlock their human potential, and align their information and technology platforms.

Mike Vincent

Mike is a Founder and Director of Arena Partners and an experienced management consultant with over 25 years’ experience. He was previously a senior Partner in the world’s largest professional services firm where he had experience running Management Consulting, Finance Advisory and Risk Advisory business units. Mike’s key focus as a strategy consultant is on revenue growth and sustainable competitive advantage.

Philani Sangweni

Philani is a Director of Arena Partners and an experienced management consultant with over 18 years of experience. He has significant tier one management consulting experience, having worked for two of the world’s largest professional services firms. Philani’s area of focus is on growth and innovation, where he has assisted numerous blue chip clients, in multiple industries with growing their businesses.

Stephen Dippenaar

Stephen is a Founder and Director of Arena Partners and an experienced management consultant with over 18 years of consulting experience. He is an expert in the area of operating model design, organisational design and creating organisational effectiveness through proper performance management and structured business change programmes. He has led large-scale programmes and is well versed in executive level strategic engagements.

Our Services

Strategy

Including growth & innovation, corporate and portfolio strategy, commercial due diligence, M&A, turnarounds, and economics.

Customer & Marketing

Including consumer research, customer segmentation, customer experience, user journeys and brand strategies.

Human Resources

Including operating model, change management, talent management, reward, leadership development and coaching, and organizational performance.

Digital Transformation

Including digitization, product design, architecture, AI, machine learning and, platforms.

Operations

Connects an organization’s strategy and its actual performance. It includes supply chain and manufacturing excellence, organizational transformation, productivity improvement, capital projects and, value chain optimisation.

Strategy

Including growth & innovation, corporate and portfolio strategy, commercial due diligence, M&A, turnarounds, and economics.

Customer & Marketing

Including customer experience, user journeys, consumer research and, branding strategies.

Human Resources

Including operating model, change management, talent management, reward, leadership development and coaching, and organizational performance.

Digital Transformation

Including digitization, product design, architecture, AI, machine learning and, platforms.

Operations

Connects an organization’s strategy and its actual performance. It includes supply chain and manufacturing excellence, organizational transformation, productivity improvement, capital projects and, value chain optimisation.

Our Clients

High-Impact Consulting Expertise at Competitive Rates

The Arena Partners team has worked as executives in some of the largest corporates in South Africa. Its members are highly experienced management consultants and served some of the leading organisations and start-ups in Africa and abroad.
We balance intellectual smarts with practical implementation skills. We know the business landscape. We understand the lifecycle of a start-up as much as we understand the challenges corporates face.
For this reason, we created Arena Partners to deliver transformative solutions to our clients without them having to pay exorbitant fees. We work with senior, independent consultants, which means that we only work with the best. To maintain reasonable fees, these consultants are supported by business analysts and admin staff, who dedicate their hours to what is important to you. Each assignment is managed by one of our Partners to ensure great solutions that exceed client expectations. We have also removed the extraneous costs of a conventional management consulting firm to deliver real value to our clients, no matter what industry you are in.

Why Choose Arena Partners?

Ready to step into the arena with us?
Contact us today to discuss your business challenge and unlock your full potential.

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How We Work

1

Contact Us

Contact us so we can start engaging.

2

Let’s Meet

Virtually or face-to-face. Let us explore what exactly you require in terms of project outcome, expertise required, timeframe and budget.

3

We Propose

We will develop a proposal clearly specifying what we will deliver, how you can measure us, the expertise we can bring, how long we think it will take and what you need to budget.

4

Meet the Team

The actual project team will present the proposal to you and you have the chance to interview the team members.

5

Contract

All work and deliverables are negotiated upfront and reduced to a contract. You know exactly what you will get from us at the start.

6

During the Project

An Arena Partner's Director will regularly check in with you and the team, ensure knowledge transfer, resolve any conflicts and direct the delivery of the project.

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