Gestalt Consult
Business Consulting in Randburg

Our services include a range of simple, effective business tools specifically developed to help business unravel the complexities of the seven pillars of the Codes of Good Practice and to turn compliance into a growth strategy that will create a measurable competitive brand edge for each client.

Gestalt is a business strategy consultancy launched in Our mission is to successfully address the needs of South Africa’s rapidly changing business environment by anticipating and identifying areas critical for sustained profit growth. The cornerstone of Gestalt’s strength in the market is broad-based black economic empowerment (B-BBEE) transformation and the resultant re-positioning of organisations that conduct business in South Africa. Gestalt’s structured models have a proven track record: They have shown themselves to be an effective contributor to successful partnership formation for both multinational and local businesses. Our business tools are designed to help businesses unravel the complexities of B-BBEE charters and government regulations. Gestalt’s offering is far more than consultancy services. The vital aspects of implementation is another of our specialist areas, using effective business transformation models to improve business competitiveness and compliance while growing shareholder value. These models take a logical and comprehensive approach to the task of designing, developing, supporting and implementing best practice transformation policies. As a result, our clients are able to shape B-BBEE into their competitive advantage and brand edge, as a business imperative. The Veri-Com journey started in early 2006 and by the middle of that year we entered into discussions with the Johannesburg Chamber of Commerce & Industry, JCCI to jointly start a verification agency. Our first accreditation visit in Feb 2009 resulted in 78 non-conformances and stern advice from the Lead assessor that we actually had a long way to go. The first 5 years were the most exciting, especially from a growth point of view. We basically doubled our turnover every year and at our peak, we had a staff complement of 30 people. During the nearly 10 years, our very successful verification internship programme introduced 21 young professionals to our industry, several of those that left us went on to carve a career in BEE as consultants or analysts, many achieving the coveted status of SANAS Technical Signatory. By choice, all of our interns were black and about half were female. The Veri-Com journey was full of highs with a few lows and in the years we made many friends in the industry. We have clients that engaged with us in that first year that are still clients today. Especially with the onset of the Amended Codes, we realised that we were better at consulting and we started to engage with our clients to offer services ranging from assessment of the impact that the Amended Codes may have on their business to comprehensive outcome based consulting engagement. By late 2016, it was clear that we wanted to move all our emphasis to consulting and solutions. We tried to sell the company, after all, we built up a trusted brand and client base, but in the end we decided that we would rather keep our staff and clients in the family than handing them over to a willing buyer. We have a number of other services that we offer to our clients.