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
A checklist for personal integrity
Imagine if each of us did a regular ethics audit on ourselves. What if each of us really self-managed what we stay true to, how we behave, and how we lead others, versus waiting for the bad stuff to be detected by others, and then addressing it only because we’d been...
Practical ways to navigate a messy world
Over the last seven months, I’ve worked with several groups of businesspeople, at various times needing to answer the question, Why be ethical? And we’ve done that. There are good reasons: Because it’s the good and right way to be Because it’s aligned with one’s...
Being ethical is not rocket science
Last week I talked to the leaders of an organisation which is on a journey to combine compliance and ethics management under the umbrella of good corporate governance. They want to do the right thing. They've reached consensus on what ethics management is, and agreed...
Insights
Back to the future
For businesses to thrive in the future, their leaders should lead from a position deeply rooted in ethical values. We’re already in the future, in the third decade of the 2000s, where the vocab about the future of work, and how to work, is so often about change, and...