marcwilson
Photo by Marc Wilson
life. loves. obsessions.
life
I am a strategy consultant based in Johannesburg, South Africa.
I founded Global Advisors in 2006 after 8 years at Gemini Consulting and a year at Deloitte before that.
GA is based on a belief that combining a quantitative approach to strategy with amazing people that share a strong set of values would allow me to build a special firm delivering great results for our clients.
My life is a mixture of business, team, family and friends.
loves
I am lucky to be loved by family, friends and a wonderful dog.
obsessions
A work colleague from Europe once laughed that I was a crazy mix – “A sports obsessed geek!”
I love technology, art, music, business, sports, photography, the bush – my obsessions are mixes of those.
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Mom
9 minutes of unbelievable violence changed everything. You - the kindest, gentlest person imaginable - were robbed of peace forever. Four years later and there is still evidence of how you were beaten. But deeper than this is what you experienced. You have faced the...
Toxic chat
I wrote about losing everything.Nothing hurts more than losing people you are close to. During the challenges I've faced over the past few years, some of the loss of those people happened due to toxic chat. I know, because I was told about it or given the clues. When...
My music obsessions
What a great line from a great movie. Natalie Portman’s character meets that of Zach Braff in the doctor’s waiting room in the amazing movie Garden State. She hands him her headphones and says, “You gotta hear this one song, it’ll change your life I swear…”
It is a movie with a great soundtrack. I imagine it being a soundtrack that Zach Braff chose to in the way that music can become a soundtrack to our lives.
Music has punctuated my life. One of my great regrets is not sticking with studying music. Instead, it has been my near constant companion.
Only about once a week, does it feel like a track or artist I am listening to is in harmony with my life!
Express gratitude
M, a former colleague, a client and a friend visited me a few weeks back. He is one of the best people I have worked with. We worked with him in his role at a client over a number of projects. He has since gone to a global firm where he has worked on a number of...
Mom
9 minutes of unbelievable violence changed everything. You - the kindest, gentlest person imaginable - were robbed of peace forever. Four years later and there is still evidence of how you were beaten. But deeper than this is what you experienced. You have faced the...
Toxic chat
I wrote about losing everything.Nothing hurts more than losing people you are close to. During the challenges I've faced over the past few years, some of the loss of those people happened due to toxic chat. I know, because I was told about it or given the clues. When...