CHAOS TO CLARITY
Operator led avdisory
Route to Results Advisory is a strategy execution firm — operator-led, done at scale. We bring the playbook, not just a process. With 22+ years running P&Ls, turning around operations and building businesses from chaos to clarity — across Southern Africa. We bring the playbook, not just the process. We connect strategy to operations to financial performance, then we lead the execution that delivers measurable EBIT growth. Every product ties back to EBIT and cashflow.
“Operator-led advisory. We have done it at scale.
We bring the playbook, not just a process.”
What We Offer
Every engagement is built around one non-negotiable: measurable results. Not reports. Not recommendations that gather dust.
Actual performance improvement — in your P&L, your operations, and your team.
Strategy Execution System
A strategy without execution is just a document. We build the system that makes your strategy run — with accountability structures, milestone tracking, and real-time performance visibility built in from day one.
P&L Mastery & Financial Performance
We make your numbers work harder. From cost structure to margin improvement to EBIT optimisation — we find the levers most operators miss because they’re too close to it.
Turnarounds & Revenue Growth
When the business is under pressure — cash tight, operations broken, stakeholders nervous — we stabilise fast, then build for sustainable growth. We’ve been in these situations before. We know what to do first.
Leadership Performance Accelerator
A business performs at the level of its leadership. We develop leaders who own their numbers, drive accountability, and deliver consistently — not just manage day-to-day activity.
Logistics & Supply Chain Expertise
Transport, warehousing, agri-logistics, grain, citrus, port operations — we know Southern African supply chains at a depth most advisors don’t, because we’ve run them at scale for over two decades.
Sales Training & Coaching
Revenue growth doesn’t happen by accident. We build sales capability — from pipeline development to closing discipline — that stays inside your business long after we’ve left.
Business Intelligence & Visibility
You cannot manage what you cannot see. We build the dashboards, control towers, and reporting infrastructure that give leadership real-time visibility — so every decision is made on facts, not gut feel. This is how we built Southern Africa’s first multi-country logistics Control Tower, and it’s what we bring to every client engagement.
The Man Behind The Mission
R2R Advisory was not built to consult. It was built to get in alongside operators and fix what’s broken — with speed, precision, and real accountability. We are the case study.
Derek Mans
The Founder and CEO of Route to Results Advisory. With over 22 years as a CEO, MD, and P&L owner across logistics, supply chain, and infrastructure in Southern Africa, he has managed billion-rand businesses, operated across 9 countries, and built the kind of operational muscle that only comes from doing it — not studying it.
- Managed P&L businesses of R1.4bn and R2.8bn
- Tripled EBIT from 3% to 9% across a major logistics group
- Built Southern Africa’s first Centre of Excellence Control Tower — 7 countries from Johannesburg
- Added $285k to EBIT through leadership culture transformation
- Uncovered R30m in corruption and operational leakage
- 22+ years as CEO, MD, and P&L owner — not as a consultant
Our promise
- The truth — even when it’s uncomfortable
- Urgency — because your problems don’t wait
- Accountability to the same standard we hold your team
- Capability built inside your business — not dependency on us
- Your business treated as if it were our own
- Our 25 Graduation Criteria govern every engagement — no exceptions
About
Vision – Where We Are Going
A South Africa built to compete with anyone in the world. Homegrown businesses — built strong enough, smart enough, and systems-driven enough to stand toe-to-toe with the multinationals, the global players, all of them. And to leave something real behind — for the people, the families, and the continent that comes next.
Mission – What We Do And Why
Twenty-two years of running billion-rand operations across nine countries — the systems, the financial discipline, the execution frameworks, the leadership muscle — packaged and put to work inside your business. We get in alongside you. Not above you. Alongside you. We fix what’s bleeding, build what’s missing, and grow your revenue and your margins until your business is something to be proud of.
Impact – What Changes Because We Exist
The owner who can finally compete with the global players. The family business that survives the founder. The operator who builds something worth selling — and retires with dignity. Africa has always had the resources, the resilience, and the raw talent to supply the world. What too many of our businesses have lacked is the operational backbone and the strategic firepower to match that potential. That changes here. Every business we strengthen creates jobs, builds wealth, and proves what African enterprise is truly capable of.
How We Do It
Discovery — Listen Before Leading
A strategy without execution is just a document. We build the system that makes your strategy run — with accountability structures, milestone tracking, and real-time performance visibility built in from day one.
Diagnosis — Find What’s Really Broken
We make your numbers work harder. From cost structure to margin improvement to EBIT optimisation — we find the levers most operators miss because they’re too close to it.
Design — A Plan Built for Your Reality
When the business is under pressure — cash tight, operations broken, stakeholders nervous — we stabilise fast, then build for sustainable growth. We’ve been in these situations before. We know what to do first.
Deploy — Get in Alongside You
A business performs at the level of its leadership. We develop leaders who own their numbers, drive accountability, and deliver consistently — not just manage day-to-day activity.
Deliver — Results You Can See in the P&L
Transport, warehousing, agri-logistics, grain, citrus, port operations — we know Southern African supply chains at a depth most advisors don’t, because we’ve run them at scale for over two decades.
“RouteToResults has saved us thousands of hours of work and has unlocked insights we never thought possible.”
CEO, Greenprint
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