Strategic advisory and consulting delivered across two core streams, Leadership, People & Culture and Business in Society / CSI Advisory, grounded in 25+ years of lived C-Suite experience.
A Solutioning Interventionist who brings macro-strategic vision alongside detailed delivery management.
CKM Advisory & Consulting operates across two specialised streams, each representing an area where Charlotte K. Mokoena has held C-Suite accountability and delivered measurable organisational impact at the highest levels.
Strategic human resources advisory, leadership capability development, culture transformation, talent management, and organisational design, from strategic intent through to full implementation. CKM Advisory brings the full arc of a CHRO career to bear on every engagement.
End-to-end human resources strategy development and implementation advisory, aligning people strategy to business strategy, building the HR function for impact, and advising on the full spectrum of strategic people matters at board and executive level.
Diagnosing and redesigning organisational structures, operating models, and governance frameworks to enable strategy execution. CKM Advisory partners with leadership teams through the full transformation journey, from design through to embedding.
Defining, shaping, and embedding organisational culture as a strategic asset. Advisory on culture diagnostics, values articulation, behaviour change, and the leadership actions required to sustain culture through periods of growth or transformation.
Strategic talent management frameworks, high-potential identification, succession planning, and talent pipeline development. Practical advisory grounded in what actually works in complex, high-stakes corporate environments.
Advisory on executive remuneration philosophy, pay governance, incentive design, and board remuneration committee support, ensuring reward strategies are competitive, equitable, and strategically aligned.
Strategic DEI advisory, moving beyond compliance to embed genuine inclusion as a business imperative. Advisory on transformation strategy, Employment Equity planning, and building diverse leadership pipelines that reflect the communities organisations serve.
Senior advisory on complex labour relations matters, collective bargaining strategy, union engagement, and the development of robust employee relations frameworks that support organisational stability and growth.
Board-level advisory on CEO and executive succession planning, including process design, internal candidate assessment, transition planning, and ensuring continuity of leadership capability at the top of the organisation.
A trusted, peer-level sounding board for Chief People Officers and senior HR leaders navigating complex strategic, political, or organisational challenges, combining deep functional expertise with C-Suite pattern recognition.
CKM Advisory does not hand over a report and leave. We partner through implementation, ensuring recommendations translate into real, lasting organisational change.
Strategic advisory on Corporate Social Investment, Social & Labour Plans, stakeholder-aligned community programmes, and shared value creation. CKM Advisory brings board-level accountability in Business in Society to every engagement, ensuring impact is genuine, sustainable, and aligned to corporate strategy.
Developing coherent, strategic Corporate Social Investment frameworks that align social investment priorities to business strategy, stakeholder context, and genuine community need, creating shared value rather than philanthropic spend.
End-to-end advisory on the development, implementation, and reporting of Social & Labour Plans for mining and energy rights holders, ensuring plans are credible, community-relevant, and compliant with regulatory requirements.
Strategic advisory on stakeholder mapping, engagement frameworks, and community relations, helping organisations build and sustain trust with host communities, government, and civil society in complex social and political environments.
Design and advisory on Enterprise and Supplier Development programmes that create genuine economic participation, building sustainable local enterprises and supply chain inclusion aligned to both B-BBEE objectives and business strategy.
Frameworks and advisory for measuring, evaluating, and reporting on social impact, ensuring organisations can demonstrate genuine value creation beyond outputs, meeting the expectations of boards, regulators, and stakeholders.
Senior advisory to boards and executive teams on the social and community dimensions of ESG, including governance frameworks, risk identification, and positioning the organisation as a responsible, trusted corporate citizen.
CKM Advisory ensures Business in Society strategies go beyond compliance, becoming a source of competitive advantage, stakeholder trust, and lasting community impact.
25+ years of C-Suite accountability across South Africa’s largest and most complex organisations, in the exact functions she now advises on.
The rare ability to move fluidly between board-level strategic vision and the granular detail of implementation, ensuring nothing falls between strategy and delivery.
You engage directly with Charlotte. No junior teams, no associates, senior, personal attention on every engagement from start to finish.
CKM Advisory Services operates across four strategic pillars. Explore the other streams alongside Advisory & Consulting.
Bespoke, business-centric leadership development for executives, newly appointed leaders, and high-potential talent, including the “Leaders in Transition” programme and group mentoring.
Explore Leadership CapabilityPostgraduate-level facilitation and executive education, HR leadership masterclasses, custom interventions, and learning programmes grounded in lived C-Suite experience.
Explore Business EducationKeynote and conference speaking for corporate events, industry conferences, and executive forums, delivering authoritative, insight-driven sessions on leadership, people, culture, and Business in Society.
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