About the firm

ISHMAEL YAMSON AND ASSOCIATES is a management consulting practice which applies two core specialisations; in business and organizational transformation, and leadership development, to help clients create and unleash value for sustained growth.

In the face of the current global and local challenges that confront businesses and organizations, we believe our essential focus as partners, is to help our clients thrive and unearth the unique capabilities that can propel them into outstanding organisations, occupying market leadership over the long term.

The firm draws on the extensive management and business experience of a stable of competent and experienced consultants and associates in designing and executing all programmes, leading projects and strategy implementation in the areas of Corporate Strategy, Organisational Restructuring, Process and Systems reviews and Brand Development.

OUR COMMITMENT

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PASSION AND FOCUS

We focus on implementing three imperatives for public and private sector organisations with a range of services as follows:

• Developing Strategy

1. Visioning and Strategy definition: We help companies and organisations define their vision and strategies, and translate Strategy into Action to create great, prosperous companies on a sustainable basis.

2. Developing Brands and Channels: We work with the operations and sales teams to help businesses to discover, formulate, and implement powerful consumer, shopper, and trade insights to guide brand vision and strategy development.

• Developing Efficient and Effective Businesses

1. Organisational Reviews & Change Management: We help organisations first to align their structures, people, values, and behaviours to their vision, strategies, and plans; second, we collaborate with them to design the right management systems and processes, which support the delivery of organisational goals.

2. Governance Arrangements and Systems & Process review: We help organisations to align their governance framework and operational processes and systems to drive productivity and innovation and the delivery of strategy. We work with leaders in organisations to review and streamline their operations to provide the right platform for efficiency and productivity gains.

3. Corporate Services: We offer boutique consultancy services on capacity building including recruitment, training and development, retention and pension planning.

• Developing People

1. Coaching and Mentoring: We provide interactive processes for managers and supervisors to solve performance problems or develop capabilities. The process relies on person-to-person collaboration to support the individuals in three areas; technical help, personal development and individual challenges.

2. Management Education: We bring leading-edge management thinking and a deep understanding of trends shaping organisations.

OUR TARGET CLIENTS

We serve a wide variety of clients, including: 1. Local and foreign investors. 2. Private sector organisations. 3. Public sector organisations including ministries, departments, and agencies. 4. Non-Profit and non-governmental organisations.

OUR PROGRAMMES

We offer exclusive business training and development programmes on client-specific basis to individual companies and organizations, and also for the general corporate community – businesses in both the private and public sectors. These programmes can be accessed in three (3) ways:

1. Companies and organizations can register their executives to participate in our advertised public programmes on specific subject areas.

2. Companies can request to run any of our programmes in-house. Such arrangements require a minimum number of participants depending on the selected programme.

3. Special programmes can be designed and run for organizations and companies on a need-specific basis.

The design of such programmes will be based on a brief from the organization or company.