Dr Riaan Steenberg is passionate about enabling online and face to face higher education in Africa.
He is an experienced education, management, analytics and consulting executive with global experience. Also certified Project Management Professional (PMP) with Phd in Entrepreneurship and MBA with specialization in change, investment and portfolio management and Six Sigma Master Black Belt. Data Scientist and Data Analyst with extensive R statistical programming experience. Have completed management consulting, project management and business startup assignments for hundreds of projects ranging from major infrastructure implementations to complex research and process re-engineering assignments including business innovation and expansion.
Specialities: Entrepreneurship, six-sigma, statistical analysis, strategic impact financial modelling, scorecards and metric design, large-scale organisational change, process engineering, business model design and execution, general governance and legal compliance, strategy, high performance, operations execution, mass communications, application of actuarial principles to business design.
He is open to consulting roles and for longer-term opportunities that require strong leadership and technical skills in growth-oriented concerns. Also open to academic work such as supervision, examination and collaboration on research.
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