HR Network

HRN is a company specialising in management consulting services in the areas of Business, Organisation Development, HR and Training. Our projects are frequently multidisciplinary in nature and solutions are tailored to meet client specific needs. Our vision is simple: To make an IMPACT through our work, wherever we work in South Africa, Southern Africa and Africa. We achieve this through our passi

on and reputation for consistently delivering outstanding, innovative, specialised, quality services and solutions to our diverse clients in every sector. We establish and grow relationships which we value as the very foundation and heart of our and our client’s business. HRN has representation in Cape Town, Johannesburg, Port Elizabeth and Windhoek. HRN is 100% B-BBEE compliant as a level 4 contributor. HRN is also the sole owner of HR Shop an on-line one-stop portal offering a wide range of HR and Business Products / tools. The mission of HR Shop is “Empowering HR online” with knowledge, services and easy to use products which can are easily customisable. About our founder

HRN is led by Stan Horwitz, a recognised Master HR and OD practitioner with over 20 years of large scale strategic and operational business, HR, consulting and project management experience. Stan, having worked his way through the ranks of HR and business line management at every level, can say that he truly operates as a strategic HR and Business partner. He has a solid understanding of strategic and operational business related issues and needs. He responds to these needs proactively by designing and implementing appropriate Business, OD, Change, HR and training solutions. Stan plays a strategic partnership role to many of South Africa’s leading organisations across many sectors of the economy. His grass roots experience was initially based in the retail and banking sectors but currently spans to most sectors of the economy. He adds value through the strategic solutions that he offers to the diverse client base that he built up originally at HR Outsource. Stan sold HR Outsource in July 2009 to start a new venture HR Net (HRN) and to focus his consulting offering as a sole proprietor. Stan keeps abreast of HR developments globally. His focus is in business consulting and organizational development and change. The latter includes key areas such as change leadership; coaching and mentoring; Organisation Design and Development as well as the design and implementation of change programmes. Primarily he is known for making business and HR strategy work. As a strategic implementer, he has developed a well-tested change methodology and toolkit which he has sold, to amongst others, a major Insurance and financial services company which integrated it into their Programme Office driving change and transformation of people, processes, systems and culture. Stan has presented a number of conferences on a wide range of topical HR issues including: Organisational Change; Mergers and Acquisitions and E – HR. In August 2006 he presented a full public seminar on Strategic HR Management and presented at another conference on conducting HR Audits. In 2009 he presented a conference in Nairobi on Strategic Planning. He is an energetic, passionate, mature, creative, well balanced, team player who thrives on change (personal and organisational) and who understands how to prepare organisations for the future while managing their present environments. Stan is regarded as an HR and development expert and a person who is easy to work with by most people with whom he has interacted. Stan worked internally as a Senior HR practitioner in two leading South African organisations, Woolworths and the Standard Bank Group in Organisational Development (OD) in Johannesburg Head Office and headed the OD function at Stannic. He left Standard Bank to return to Cape Town for personal reasons. It was from this base that he joined PricewaterhouseCoopers in a consulting role before establishing HR Outsource where he was the founder and Managing Director. He has sourced many clients in developing the business, maintained relationships and managed projects. Stan completed his Masters Degree in Commerce at the University of Cape Town in 2007. He achieved half academic colours for his undergraduate degree and holds a HR post graduate diploma from Wits Business School. He is married with two children. Stan is a past Chairman of the Community Intervention Centre Exco and a member of the Board of Patrons.