Our Directors
Nathaniel Davie
Nathaniel has worked globally across the Oil & Gas, Construction, Mining and Financial Services industries with more than 20 years supporting clients during critical transition phases. He has significant experience in supporting and coaching managers to create the cultures and conditions they need to generate significant business results. Nathaniel has more than 14 years’ experience in managing, supporting, and delivering JMJ’s Incident and Injury-Free (IIF) safety practice to clients, both onshore and offshore and in some of the most challenging environments in Africa, Middle East, Russia, and Kazakhstan. Clients included Chevron, Anglo Platinum, BHP Billiton, and Maersk. Working alongside clients and in service of project goals & objectives, he was instrumental in transforming safety culture with a focus on coaching senior leadership, engagements with supervisors and authentic conversations with workers. Before Nathaniel’s IIF journey, he worked for Old Mutual plc as a Senior HR Consultant. His work focused largely on facilitating and coaching people through change by transforming the culture of the organisation using various OD and HR practices and processes. Nathaniel holds a Psychology degree and a Post-Graduate Diploma in School Counselling from Nelson Mandela University, South Africa. He has a Certificate of Professional Development in Coaching from the University of Strathclyde and The School of Coaching. He has several certificates via the Old Mutual Business School. Some of these include Leadership Coaching; Personal Mastery – Train the Trainer; Change Leadership & Organizational Development. Nathaniel is inspired by family and has one daughter, who is currently at university studying towards a post graduate degree in Strategic Management and Sustainability. In his free time, Nathaniel likes to hike in the beautiful city of Cape Town, in which he resides.
David Abrahams
David was born and grew up in the so-called “Coloured” Northern Areas suburb of West End, Port Elizabeth. He completed his studies at the erstwhile University of Port Elizabeth (now Nelson Mandela University), in Gqeberha, Eastern Cape, where he obtained the degrees B Juris, LLB LLM. He also obtained an LLM in International Humanitarian Law (“Law of Armed Conflict”) from his second alma mater the University of Geneva, Switzerland. He completed an Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) course with the erstwhile IMSSA (Independent Mediation Services of South Africa), and further completed a Certificate in Labour Law Practice (this certificate developed into the current PGDip in Labour Law Practice – the “CCMA Commissioner Training Course”). He went into private practice in 2020, where he ventured into estate management, and became au fait with Governance in HOAs and Sectional Title Schemes. Prior to that he was an academic at the Nelson Mandela University for close to 19 years, where he taught labour law, legal interpretation international law and IHL. He continues to teach on an ad hoc contractual basis. He is a research associate in the Faculty of Law, Nelson Mandela University, as well as an associate in the Labour and Social Security Law Unit, also Nelson Mandela University. He is a co-author of "Labour Law in Context", a Pearson publication used at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. As a consultant his current focus areas include chairing disciplinary hearings, drafting various documents and contracts, policies, MOUs, and SLAs. He also advises employers on compliance matters and often acts as mediator on internal matters relating to misconduct and incapacity. David has a very strong human rights background, and always strives to ensure that fairness prevails for all parties that he engages with, using the values as enshrined in the Bill of Rights of the South African Constitution.
