The Human Alliance team has the experience and expertise gained from years 'in the trenches' covering diverse industries. This is underpinned by relevant academic qualifications, the passion to develop people and the hard-nosed business skills required to provide ROI on human capital and reduce any risk associated with this vital element of your business.

When selecting a HR partner, you will probably consider the following:

• Qualified and experienced staff.
• The capacity to handle all of your requirements (one-stop service).
• Available when you need them (forming a partnership).

We are sure you will find all of these attributes in Human Alliance. Plus one more…

Passion.
Passion for your business objectives.
Passion for developing your staff.


Go Bokke!

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Directors

Kevin Alborough (Managing Director)

Kevin started his career with JCI, working in the gold, platinum and industrial divisions. This astute and driven professional moved to the abrasives industry (Norton Abrasives) and then to Plessey as HR Director before founding Human Alliance. Kevin provides the vision for Human Alliance and, having escaped the sometimes-confining walls of corporate life, now revels in transferring that knowledge and vision for the benefit of his clients.

Kevin holds a degree in Social Science (Psychology and Social Anthropology) and a Post Graduate Diploma in Employment Law.

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Dave Granger (Executive Director)

Dave spent 5 years or so as a teacher before becoming a sales representative for Juta & Co in the publishing industry. A change in career took him to the PG Bison Group where he specialised in adult education and change management. Dave then extended his expertise to include Industrial Relations, joining Penny-Pinchers as the Group Human Resource Manager.

Dave's natural desire to grow people combined with his IR expertise means he is ideally placed to oversee Organisational Development & Training and Labour Dispute Resolution, which he heads at Human Alliance. One day you'll find Dave in intense wage negotiations with trade union representatives, the next he'll be teaching sales reps about how to recognise buyers "wearing" red, blue, yellow or green caps and how to manage those sales situations.

Formal education includes a degree in Arts (Stellenbosch) and Post Graduate Diplomas in Education (Stellenbosch), Employment Law (UCT) and Labour Relations (Stellenbosch).

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Dave Lake (Executive Director)

Like the other Dave, Dave Lake started off as a teacher bringing through the inherent passion of Human Alliance to develop people. Dave began his HR management career in training (Freemarket Foundation), has worked in publishing, the foundry industry (Gearings Foundry) and the electronics industry (Plessey). Dave looks after the Outsourced Services side of Human Alliance.

He is not too fussed about whether he's working with big business or an SMME, pointing out that Human Alliance can make a significant difference to smaller business. Dave wants to make that difference.

He holds a degree in Arts (UCT) and Post Graduate Diplomas in Education (UCT), Labour Relations (Stellenbosch) and Employment Law (UCT).

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Sonia MacDonald (Executive Director)

Sonia's career started as an HR Officer in the industrial division of JCI, where she worked for Kevin, and left seven years later as Acting Human Resource Manager upon Matthey Rustenburg's move to Rustenburg. From there she did a brief stint as HR Manager at E.C.Lennings, before moving to the transport industry, being on the National Bargaining Council for the Bus Passenger Transport Industry (the only female), (Maluti Bus Service), in the Eastern Free State, housing development (Free State Development Corp) and shipping (Dorbyl Marine).

Sonia is passionate about finding and realising potential in people and is responsible for client liaison, specialised services to Corporates and assisting with the marketing of Human Alliance, as well as providing embedded and consulting services. Her areas of specialisation are labour relations, organisational change and strategy. Sonia is registered with the SABPP as a Master HR Practitioner: Generalist.

Sonia holds degrees in Arts (Honours Psychology) from Unisa, a Masters in Business Leadership (SBL;Unisa) and a diploma in Labour Relations (SBL;Unisa).

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Yasuyuki Naito (Non-Executive Director)

Yas graduated in Tokyo in 1991 and commenced a career in HR with Eskom at Koeberg before joining Kevin and Dave Lake at Plessey. Yas then branched out into market research before co-founding Human Alliance and also setting up a consulting and import/export business, Foursight Ventures.

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