High-Impact Consulting Expertise
Who We Are
High-Impact Consulting Expertise at Competitive Rates
Mike Vincent
Philani Sangweni
Stephen Dippenaar
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
Why Choose Arena Partners?
- The business model of management consulting has remained largely unchanged since the founding of the modern profession. Market forces are reshaping the very nature of management consulting.
- Clients want to get greater value from their consulting spend.
- Consultants and Subject Matter Experts want the freedom to choose what work they do while having more flexibility and autonomy in their work lives.
- Arena Partners is redefining the business model of management consulting and how value is being delivered. Professionals are increasingly opting for remote work and freelancing, leading to enhanced flexibility and better work-life balance control.
- Companies are accessing a wider and deeper talent pool while not incurring staffing costs when they do not have the need for permanent skills that freelancers offer.
- Built by a group of skilled management consultants, Arena Partners aims to use this platform as a base to make it better for clients and better for consultants.
Join Us
Join us in the Arena: Collaborate, Grow And Make An Impact
For Clients:
- Clients work with us because we deliver value from strategy to execution and we match the skillsets required to exceed our clients’ expectations.
- We set out to have sustainable multi-year relationships with our clients, deliver an integrated approach to solving client challenges and deliver sustainable value.
- Our clients have the confidence to act on our insights as a result of our relationship with them and our fact-based and actionable recommendations.
- We actively listen to our clients, design and carefully manage projects to resolve their specific issues, and engage independent consultants with relevant experience who are a pleasure to work with – all at a fair price.
For Consultants:
- Collaborative.
- Committed to growing their knowledge and skills.
- We are focused on making a sustainable impact on our clients and working with smart consultants on a platform that delivers great clients and consistent work.
- Our consultants are all experienced and have worked at the best traditional management consulting firms, or are experts in their field.
- Together we are able to solve complex business problems.
- We offer intellectual smarts and deliver implementable solutions.
- Control over their own careers.
How We Work
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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.
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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.
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Meet the Team
The actual project team will present the proposal to you and you have the chance to interview the team members.
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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.
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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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