Tim O’Hanlon is the founder of Tim O’Hanlon Strategic Management Services and the creator of the Integrated Governance Framework.

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He has over 30 years of hands-on experience in governance, regulatory and strategic transformation, including complex change programmes across financial services, banking, listed-company environments, data protection, consumer protection, credit provision, anti-money laundering and other areas of governance and compliance.

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His work has included the global implementation of a new integrated governance model for a financial services group affected by the subprime crisis, the licensing of major financial services and banking operations following regulatory interventions, and the delivery of large-scale regulatory transformation programmes across complex organisations.

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Earlier in his career, Tim headed the corporate planning division of a Fortune 500 multinational financial services provider, where he developed deep experience in strategy formulation, execution, planning and organisational alignment.

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Tim began his career in the South African Navy after graduating from the South African Naval College as a commissioned officer and qualifying as an electrical engineer at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology. He later ran engineering projects in Naval Logistics Command and became a Lieutenant Commander responsible for information systems across Naval directorates, including the preparation of the Naval Logistics Information Master Systems Plan and the implementation of major IT programmes.

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After leaving the military, he moved into the private sector, where he headed planning, finance and client service for the central computer division of a major insurance group before moving into corporate planning, governance transformation and strategic advisory work.

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Rethinking Governance brings together these decades of experience into a wider thought-leadership programme focused on why governance fails, what must change and how governance can become a serious professional discipline.