About

We help firms navigate both through prosperous and difficult times, without the difficulties and costs associated with bringing on full-time employees or services. By being pro-active, mindful of growth and the minimising of risk, we focus and act on all 6 capitals: Financial, Intellectual, Manufactured, Human, Social and Natural. 

We wish to play a role by guiding and helping companies to identify the opportunities available to them and nullify the threats they are exposed to. We will help our clients navigate this path to successfully clear the obstacles they face.

Kairos as a company helps build resilience and flexibility through the qualities of doing the right thing, optimism and determination. In this way our clients can steer to the most friendly ports, in the quadrant of high return and low risk.

Our proven methodologies and frameworks are developed to be flexible in order to deliver bespoke solutions and clear results.

We offer our services to start-ups, established companies, such as multi-nationals, financial institutions, family offices, and family businesses looking for expertise by giving them strength in areas they may not have.

THE NAME

The ancient Greeks had two words for time: Chronos and Kairos.

While the former refers to chronological time, the latter signifies a critical or opportune time for action!

An updated definition of kairos concludes that, along with taking advantage of the timeliness and appropriateness of a situation, the term also implies “being knowledgeable of and involved in the environment where the situation is taking place in order to benefit fully from seizing the opportune moment”. This has been the inspiration behind our name.

This is the right, critical and opportune moment to chart a course in the right direction, powered by favourable and steady winds and, guided by an experienced team of mariners.

Our Ethos

Our cornerstone philosophy, core values and adopted approach is based on:

• Trust & Integrity

• Simplicity

• Transparency

• Accountability

• Respect

• Result-oriented

• Prudence

We have a well-defined methodology, follow a disciplined approach to ethical conduct, governance and risk management, and apply professional scepticism in all our dealings.

Our team has a combined experience of over 90 years. We enjoy longstanding relationships with all our clients and have seen them grow commensurately with the funding we facilitate and advisory assistance we provide.

Robust processes have been implemented in order to comply with laws, regulations and international frameworks standards and best practice.

We have multi-disciplinary capabilities across the full spectrum of a company’s environment, both internal and external.

We offer fast, practical and effective advice and follow a simple, seamless approach.

Our wide-ranging network and capabilities allow us to link up with best-in-class law firms, insurance brokers, risk advisors, accounting firms and financial institutions.

Our Approach

We do not try and "put a square peg in a round hole"! We follow an approach that deploys current resources wisely and prudently.

The collaborative partnership approach adopted by the team is synergistic and symbiotic centered, designed to ensure that the team, its clients and its service providers:

·      Do the right thing

·      Create and generate value

·      Achieve objectives and deliverables

·      While ensuring sustainability

We work around our ‘ARISE’ formula:

• Awareness – of everything that concerns you

• Resources – deploy limited resources wisely and prudently

• Information – quality and disclosure – ‘one version of the truth’

• Strategy – reconfigure for the future

• ESG – emphasis on Environmental, Social and Governance

   

Where appropriate, we structure our Roadmap around three key stages:

Stage 1: Stabilise / Fix It – take-action fast and methodically

Stage 2: Rebuild It – effective action requires specific tools and building blocks. Create a new reconfigured operating and productive paradigm

Stage 3: Grow It – with the foundation set, continue with confidence to a regenerative and resilient type of business.

We are involved with companies that have attractive growth prospects and entrepreneurial purpose-driven management.

The key drivers for us consulting to companies is to assist them to:

• Consider their succession policy

• Assist management to navigate treacherous waters and paradigm shifts

• Strengthen their financial position (i.e. balance sheets) as well as the other ‘5 Capitals’

• Grow their company - with long-term value creation in mind

• Build up their credibility, trust and stability and strengthen their business relationships and prevent creating a ‘Trust Void’ and ‘Trust Deficit’

• Help create and strengthen their competitive advantage and negotiating position - by building capacity and not corroding it

• Helping them keep all the links the chain attached

• Helping them make a difference to society

Our Commitment TO OUR CLIENTS

• Service excellence

• Truthfulness, transparency and integrity

• Ensure that all stakeholders’ interests are fully protected at all times

• Focus on your business

• Commitment to a long-term, mutually beneficial relationship

• Access to a team with diverse skills and decades of experience in auditing, banking, risk, governance and (trade) finance, as well as extensive networks and links to some of the world's top legal, insurance and other business practices such as sustainability training, foreign exchange and digital transformation

• Successful and established track record

• Conflict-free advice