The job of a Chief Executive Officer brings with it power, great salaries, and of course, the often envious task of being the boss - it is also the loneliest position in the business world!

Their job has grown dramatically in recent years, both in its scope and in complexity. CEO's may even operate all over the world, in a period of our history, that have rarely been more turbulent than today. Most organisations, they head, are no longer simple subsidiary structures but are comprised of intricate networks of overlapping jurisdictions and relationships. Global issues mean that CEO's' responsibilities are no longer limited to what happens inside the company. In fact, global sustainability and the way it shapes our lives depend as much on the actions of the medium to large corporations as on those of any government or NGO's -maybe more so. The average CEO must feel as if he has the weight of the world on their shoulders. 

CEO's need to be good at what they do, and what they do involves a great measure of responsibility. Most of all, in order to be successful, a CEO needs to be able to perform every task well. Right from start-up to the success or failure of the company, the CEO is responsible. Whether it is operations, finance and budgeting, marketing, human resources, hiring and firing of employees, and more, the CEO is responsible for every aspect of the business. Even though there may be functional managers looking into the running of various departments, the ultimate responsibility does fall on the CEO.

On the other hand, there are several areas such as creating a corporate culture - setting the tone and theme of the business - ensuring simplification of business processes, ensuring adherence to corporate governance, acting as a role model of sustainable job performance and building a core senior management team, which must be competently managed by the CEO.

It is therefore imperative that CEO's /Managing Directors and Business Owners get the correct advice. Not from yes men but real factual unbiased advice that is based on fact, not subjective bias.

 OUR speciality is working with the CEO or Managing Director or Business Owner of Medium to a Large Business acting as an UNBIASED business advisor/mentor/coach, helping you in getting the correct facts to make your tough decisions or just giving advice on how best to manage a particular situation in your organisation.

Our Senior Advisors, with 75 years of accumulated experience  and exceptional skills built on a foundation of tertiary education, coupled with practical working experience in multi industry sectors, have been tasked to assist CEO's/Managing Directors and Business Owners to achieve their strategic goals and objectives.  All of our Senior Advisors have been managing directors, executive directors and chairmen of some of the best-known national and multi-national companies.  All of them have experienced the unique difficulties and the loneliness of being the CEO/Managing Director or Owner (MDO) of an independent business.

Our methodology is based on making a personal appointment with the CEO or Managing Director. This appointment achieves a twofold purpose. The first is to establish whether or not they can assist the CEO; but the most important task is give both parties the opportunity of assessing whether or nor they can work together.

The first appointment is free and includes a free computerised assessment that is designed to highlight the areas that may be of concern to the CEO. This report can be done on line by the CEO at the appointment and results can be downloaded at the end of the session.

The great strength of our Strategic Business Advisory Support Service is in addressing the problem of CEO's/Managing Directors and Company Owners not having anywhere to turn for independent, unbiased advice and the chance of just a chat with someone who has “been there - seen it - done it” and survived to tell the tale.

Dr Freestone, one of our Senior Lead advisor, is a Fellow of The Chartered Institute of Secretaries and Administrators (ICSA). He has an MBA in Marketing and a D.BA (Doctorate in Business Administration). He recently underwent the full Alt-x certification program with Wits Business School in the non executive director training program and specialises in Corporate Governance.

He is a proponent of the Balanced Score Card approach in ensuring execution of Strategic Management. He has received formal training on this from The Palladium Group in a Balanced Scorecard Bootcamp which taught the Kaplan and Norton Methodology.

To discuss how our CEO Strategic Business Support program can help you send us an email by clicking on the box below and one of our lead advisors will contact you.

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Dr. Freestone is an accredited Associate of the Institute for Independent Businesses.