About Equity Works
From The Lawyer Who Helped
Write South Africa’s
Employment Equity Regulations
Leadership Coach and Trainer
Real Employment Equity Implementation, Not Just Ticking the Boxes:
Equity Works was founded more than 20 years ago, the same year the Employment Equity Act became law.
Marleen Potgieter wrote the original Regulations and the official Summary of the Act, the document every organisation in South Africa must still display today.
That means when you work with Equity Works, you are not getting someone else’s interpretation of the law. You are getting the person who helped write it.
Before founding Equity Works, Marleen was a partner at a law firm and later ran her own legal practice, building over 20 years of commercial experience on top of her original work on the Act.
Since then she has advised organisations across industries and company sizes, from listed corporates to small businesses, on how to actually implement Employment Equity rather than just file paperwork for it.
That difference matters, because a plan built by someone who understands both the law and how a real business runs will hold up in ways a downloaded template will not.
Marleen, over and above being a qualified lawyer with over 20 years’ commercial experience, has been a partner at a law firm, has run her own practice and has advised countless number of clients over the years.
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A Success Story
One of the Managing Directors of a company we worked with for more than 10 years to implement their transformation program, enjoyed the interaction with staff so much, insisted that the company continued their monthly meetings to discuss general employee issues while still keeping EE on the Agenda.
Clients include
ACA Group, Mazars, M&C Saatchi Abel, Educor Group, St Stithians, UWC, Sibanye-Stillwater, Ogilvy, Meropa Communications, UBS, Ogilvy, Sasol, British Telecoms, JWT, L’Oreal, Creda Communications, Chubb, Haw & Inglis, Cansa, Mitsui and Mitsui OSK Lines, Dana Spicer Axle, the Connection Group, Unilever, Braitex, Mindshare, Proudly South Africa, Sanlam, CapeSpan, MWeb, Nandos and others.