Four strategic pillars, each grounded in 25+ years of lived C-Suite experience. CKM Advisory Services offers expert consulting, leadership capability, executive education, and business speaking, tailored to the specific context of every client.
Get in Touch →CKM Advisory Services delivers expert solutions across four strategic areas, each designed to create meaningful, measurable organisational and leadership impact.
Strategic advisory and consulting grounded in deep C-Suite expertise. CKM Advisory brings macro-strategic vision alongside detailed delivery management, ensuring recommendations translate into real, lasting organisational change across two core streams.
Stream 1A, Leadership, People & CultureHuman resources strategy, leadership capability, culture development, talent management, organisational design, and transformation, from strategic intent through to implementation.
Stream 1B, Business in Society / CSI AdvisorySocial investment strategies, Social & Labour Plans (SLPs), stakeholder-aligned community programmes, and shared value creation that is both genuinely impactful and aligned to corporate strategy.
Bespoke, business-centric leadership development for executives, newly appointed leaders, and high-potential talent. Grounded in Charlotte’s own journey as a senior executive, these programmes are real-world, outcomes-focused, and deeply personalised.
Business-Centric MentoringOne-on-one and group mentoring for CHROs, newly appointed executives, and senior leaders navigating transitions, including the “Leaders in Transition” programme.
Emerging Leaders AccelerationCustom cohort programmes combining masterclasses, group mentoring, and individual coaching to accelerate development and build a pipeline of confident, capable future leaders.
As a sought-after postgraduate-level facilitator and recognised thought leader, Charlotte brings real-world C-Suite insight directly into executive education settings, translating theory into lived organisational experience.
HR Leadership MasterclassesPractical, insight-rich masterclasses on HR strategy, organisational transformation, talent, rewards, and the evolving CHRO mandate.
Custom InterventionsTailored leadership and management development programmes, executive team workshops, and learning interventions designed specifically for organisational needs.
Charlotte is available as a keynote and conference speaker for corporate events, industry conferences, and executive forums, delivering authoritative, insight-driven sessions that challenge, provoke, and inspire leaders at every level.
Leadership, People & CultureThe axis of organisational performance, culture as strategy, the CHRO as a business leader, building leadership capability in complex environments.
Business in SocietyImpactful, community-relevant, and corporate strategy-aligned social investment, creating genuine shared value between business, people, and society.
CKM Advisory Services partners with Boards, executives, and organisations managing high-stakes leadership and organisational priorities. Our approach combines strategic insight with practical experience across human capital, governance, and organisational effectiveness.
Boards seeking an experienced, independent advisor on human capital governance, executive remuneration, CEO succession, culture, and people-related risk.
Chief Executives and leadership teams navigating organisational transformation, culture change, leadership transitions, or strategic workforce planning challenges.
Chief People Officers and CHROs looking for a trusted peer-level sounding board, mentoring support, or specialist advisory on complex HR strategy matters.
Search and selection firms seeking a specialist assessor or advisor for senior executive and board-level appointments in human capital and corporate affairs functions.
JSE-listed and mid-market companies in mining, energy, FMCG, manufacturing, telecoms, and financial services, across South Africa and select global markets.
Development finance institutions, CSI entities, and social impact organisations requiring expertise in Business in Society strategy, SLPs, and stakeholder engagement.
CKM Advisory Services is a boutique advisory and consulting practice led by Charlotte K. Mokoena, bringing 25+ years of executive and board-level experience directly into client engagements. Where required, CKM works alongside expert associates and trusted partners to bring together the right expertise for each intervention and organisational context.
Charlotte describes her approach as that of a Solutioning Interventionist, combining strategic perspective, specialist insight, and practical delivery oversight to support meaningful and sustainable outcomes. The result is advisory work that is grounded, thoughtful, and designed with implementation in mind.
“I am a Solutioning Interventionist, able to have macro-strategic vision, expert inputs, and detailed delivery management.”
Advice grounded in real C-Suite accountability, not theory. Charlotte has led the functions she now advises on.
You engage directly with Charlotte, not a team of associates. Senior attention on every engagement.
From strategy to delivery. CKM Advisory doesn’t hand over a report and leave, we partner through implementation.
Deep expertise across energy, mining, telecoms, FMCG, and more, bringing cross-sector insight to every challenge.
Every engagement is approached with the same rigour, regardless of size or scope. We embed ourselves in your context and work with you through every stage.
We invest time upfront to understand your strategic context, culture, people dynamics, and the specific challenge at hand, before proposing anything.
Drawing on 25+ years of C-Suite pattern recognition, we identify root causes, systemic issues, and leverage points that surface-level analysis misses.
We co-design targeted, context-specific solutions, built for your organisation, not adapted from a generic playbook.
We partner through implementation, ensuring recommendations translate into real organisational change with measurable, lasting impact.
“Partnering. Impact. Strategic and operational solutioning, offered from a place of lived experience, genuine investment, and an unwavering commitment to results.”
Charlotte K. Mokoena, Founder, CKM Advisory Services