GROWING ETHICAL CAPACITY
What we stand for
Values-led leadership
The ethical leadership of your governing body forms the foundation of your organisation’s corporate governance, underpins its performance, and even provides competitive advantage.
Going beyond compliance is wise and makes business sense. Being concerned about ethics gives meaning and addresses the well-being of your people.
Good corporate governance growing your business
Putting the right governance in place for your entity reduces risk, saves money, enhances your reputation, and generally contributes to the sustainability of your organisation.
Suppliers and customers are more likely to want to work with you.
Partnership and trust
You know your business. We know and are good at governance.
Often, in young businesses, organisations in change, or small- to medium-sized entities, the focus is on staying in business!
Instead of governance taking a back seat, you can trust us to help you get organised, using our range of governance, Company Secretarial, and ethics interventions and services.
You can trust us to ask the right questions, and help your leaders make the right decisions for your business.
Excellence
We benchmark our service against the new globally-accepted standard for good governance, ISO 37000, published in 2021.
The tools we use relate directly to the best-practice guidelines of the King IV Report on corporate governance.
MGK & Associates is a Cape Town-based consultancy offering professional governance services, Company Secretarial services, and ethics leadership and management services.
MGK & Associates is a Cape Town-based consultancy offering professional governance services, Company Secretarial services, and ethics leadership and management services.
Insights
How to be an ethical entrepreneur
Some associates and I recently got talking about how to encourage smart young people still studying, or starting on their career tracks, to understand and use an ethical approach to work. Many of the young people we were speaking of have a strong desire to start their...
On Some, and Others
In South Africa at the moment, there is outrage and fear related to gender-based violence which stems from the disregard of Some for the value of Others. There is outrage and fear related to xenophobia-related violence which stems from the disregard of Some for the...
They go low, we go high
If you’ve worked with me for any length of time, you’ll know that I am inspired by people who lead from their values or principles, no matter how hard this is. I’ve just read former US First Lady Michelle Obama’s book Becoming. Her story is inspiring, covering her...
Insights
What I learned having cancer in the time of Covid
I don’t usually write about my personal life here. But this crazy, topsy-turvy year has been a year which has melded personal into work and back again, hasn’t it? I learned a great deal in 2020 and thought to share. I was diagnosed with Stage 2 breast cancer, with...