COMPANY BROCHURE SPECIALISING IN - SOCIAL RESEARCH POLITICAL ANALYSIS STAKEHOLDER MANAGEMENT
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SPECIALISING IN
SOCIAL RESEARCH
POLITICAL ANALYSIS
STAKEHOLDER MANAGEMENT
AND TRAINING
COMPANY BROCHURE
ABOUT US
VISION
Make critical thinking a core competence in
boardrooms and organizations across the
world.
MISSION
To inspire solutions for societies' pressing
problems and influence the world's
decision-makers through critical thinking.
VALUES
Creativity
Consistency
Authenticity
Honesty
Openness
Insight
Knowledge
Collaboration.
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ABOUT US
Critical ThinkAR is a consulting firm specialising
in social and policy research, political analysis,
stakeholder management and training and
facilitation for business, governmental and non-
governmental institutions.
Passionate about development and building an
inclusive society our work is focused on working
across sectors helping our clients align their
business growth, empowerment and skills
development strategies to broader economic
growth, socioeconomic transformation and
visual presentations, podcast and video as
development imperatives.
well as Op-Eds and press articles.
Through our advisory and stakeholder
Our team is passionate about critical
management service we help companies design
thinking. We encourage and inspire people
supplier and skills development strategies that
to question and think critically to help find
lead to long-term sustainability, measurable
solutions and to be the solution in their own
economic empowerment and meaningful
lives, their businesses and organisations.
transformation of sectors.
We link supplier development, CSI
FOCUS
programming and projects as well as Our sectoral and thematic focus includes:
community and worker engagement with
regulatory imperatives including meeting BBBEE Mining and energy policy
targets, social labour plans (in the mining sector) Elections and electoral systems
and skills and community development targets Governance and public policy making
more broadly. Youth empowerment
Community development
We are committed to providing technical and Political economy
academic knowledge production that empowers Active citizenship and public
our clients with critical thinking skills and participation
research-based insights to deliver the best
results for their businesses and stakeholders.
We produce research-based content presented
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2OUR
EXPERTISE
She has experience in capacity building and
training for law enforcement officials, senior
government officials, members of the media
and civil society organisations as well as
youth and students.
She has also worked in the media space as
convener of the Sowetan Dialogues and
opinions editor at Sowetan, one of the largest
daily newspapers in South Africa. As an
opinion columnist since 2014, she has
provided analysis on sociopolitical and
development dynamics in South Africa, Africa
and globally. She is also a keynote speaker
and moderator and and an author having
written chapters and a book, 'The Democratic
Opportunity: Does South Africa need
electoral reform?'. She has been featured on
radio and television as an expert contributor
and political analyst.
The firm is built on Nompumelelo Runji's She holds an MPhil in Multidisciplinary
(founder and CEO) strong track record in Human Rights, a BA (Honours) in Political
political analysis, research and Science and a BSocSci in Industrial Sociology
communications spanning 14 years. and Labour Studies from the University of
Pretoria.
She has worked in various research
capacities at think tanks including the Nompumelelo leads a team with expertise in
Institute for Security Studies and The Forum research, analysis, design, marketing and
for Public Dialogue, has lectured themes in communications.
political science and security studies at the
Department of Political Science at the
University of Pretoria and as programme
manager at the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung SA.
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SERVICES
SOCIAL STAKEHOLDER
RESEARCH MANAGMENT
We collaborate with our clients to design We identify and document key
research to achieve their objectives. We stakeholders, analyse and classify them as
help them gain crucial insights on their well as design stakeholder engagement
internal and external environments as well strategies and approaches. Our offering
as identifying strengths, weaknesses, includes:
opportunities and risks using relevant
methods in social and policy research. Our Stakeholder mapping
offering includes: Stakeholder analysis and classification
Stakeholder engagement planning and
Desktop research execution
Focus group research Communication materials including
Surveys and polls booklets, social media posts,
Needs assessments infographics, blogs
Baseline studies
POLICY TRAINING
ANALYSIS
We provide political analysis and social We provide online courses in critical
commentary explaining and unpacking thinking techniques. We also develop
macro and micro environmental dynamics. tailored courses for teams and
Our offering includes: organisations. Our course offering includes:
Policy briefs Political and social analysis
Advisory notes Critical thinking skills for personal
Presentations mastery
Interviews Critical thinking skills for effective
Press articles leadership
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RECORD
In 2019 and 2020 we provided research Enabling civil society participation in
consulting and analysis services and provincial and national legislatures.
supported stakeholder management Analysing South Africa's early Covid-19
processes for the following clients: response and the pandemic's influence
on the microenvironment and political,
Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic psychosocial and societal dynamics.
Reflection (MISTRA) a leading African
think tank. We produced Promise Betrayed: South
Democracy Works Foundation (DWF) a is Africa after Two Decades of Democracy, a
a southern African non-profit company five-part documentary series appraising
focused on democracy development in South Africa's democracy, with a focus on
the region. the constitution, nation-building, violence
Sowetan, one of South Africa's oldest and and inequality, governance, and youth. This
leading daily newspapers. project was coordinated by our marketing
head Nolwazi Sibalukhulu.
The issues we covered for our clients
included: Our CEO contributed articles to publications
including Sowetan, Daily Maverick and
Social compacting towards social
Leadership Magazine.
cohesion.
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5OUR
OFFER
We can help you gain insights into your
organisation's internal and external
environment and understand how these
impact on your operations, stakeholder
relations and strategy, using a variety of
social research methods and cutting edge
sociopolitical analysis.
We work with you to map
and identify your key
stakeholders as well as
understand their needs,
influence and expectations
to ensure the successful
delivery of your projects
and programmes.
We empower you with training in
critical thinking techniques that help
you sharpen decision-making,
enhance problem solving and harness
your capacity to innovate and adapt in
any situation.
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