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Anton van der Walt
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+44 (0) 20 4549 2500Locations
Sydney · Melbourne · Dubai · Africa
Published Works
The 10% Differentiator
The Transformational Leader
Leadership Through My Lens
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Biography
Anton van der Walt is a Partner at HCP Group and one of the most experienced leadership and organisational effectiveness advisers operating across the GCC automotive sector. With more than 30 years of experience across Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Australia, he brings a rare combination of operational depth and strategic clarity to every engagement.
His career was built inside complex, high-stakes environments where decisions carry real consequence. At Ford Motor Company, he led HR transformation, organisational design, workforce strategy and employer brand across 11 countries in Asia Pacific, the Middle East and Africa, restructuring operations, negotiating multi-year enterprise agreements, and building leadership capability at scale. It is the kind of experience that cannot be replicated in a consulting room.
In recent years, Anton has focused on executive coaching, leadership development programme design, and advisory work with CEOs and senior leadership teams. He is a resource speaker with TEC/Vistage Australia and New Zealand, the CEO Institute and the Leadership Collective, peer networks where the most demanding leaders in the region come to think through their hardest problems.
Anton is also the founder of ROIDEA, a micro-learning leadership platform that has achieved engagement and completion rates above 70%, exceptional for digital leadership development at this scale. He is the author of three published books on leadership: The 10% Differentiator, The Transformational Leader, and Leadership Through My Lens, all grounded in the belief that leadership is not theoretical. It is tested in practice.
At HCP Group, Anton advises automotive dealer groups and their leadership teams on organisational effectiveness, culture change, talent strategy and leadership development. He brings to clients not only intellectual rigour but the credibility of someone who has led transformation from the inside, at the highest levels of the industry, across four continents.
30+
Years of leadership experience across Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Australia
50%+
Of coached senior leaders promoted into expanded roles within 12 months
Specialisms
Leadership is not theoretical. It is tested in practice, in the moments when the stakes are real and the answers are not obvious.
Anton van der Walt
Career Timeline
Partner
Advises automotive dealer groups and their leadership teams on organisational effectiveness, culture change, talent strategy and leadership development across the GCC. Brings over three decades of operational experience from inside the world's most demanding organisations.
Founder
Founded and built ROIDEA, a micro-learning leadership platform designed for leaders who do not have time for traditional development programmes. Achieved engagement and completion rates above 70%, exceptional for digital leadership development at this scale.
Resource Speaker & Facilitator
Serves as a resource speaker and peer group facilitator for TEC/Vistage Australia and New Zealand, the CEO Institute and the Leadership Collective, peer networks where the most demanding leaders in the region work through their hardest problems.
Senior HR and OD Leader, Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa
Spent more than three decades in senior HR and organisational development roles across Asia Pacific, the Middle East, Africa and Australia. Led HR transformation, organisational design, workforce strategy and employer brand across 11 countries. Restructured operations, negotiated consecutive multi-year enterprise agreements, and built leadership capability at scale. Contributed to a three-year leadership and culture programme at a $3.8B organisation in Saudi Arabia that contributed to 56% revenue growth.
Measurable Impact
56%
Revenue growth contribution
$3.8B organisation, Saudi Arabia: three-year leadership and culture programme
50%+
Leaders promoted within 12 months
Of coached senior leaders moved into expanded roles globally
70%+
ROIDEA platform engagement
Exceptional completion rate for digital leadership development at scale
85.71
CSAT, frontline leadership programme
Vehicle manufacturing, Australia: 100/100 facilitator effectiveness, zero negatives
Published Works
The 10% Differentiator
On the leadership behaviours that separate good from exceptional
The Transformational Leader
On leading change that sticks
Leadership Through My Lens
A practitioner's view of leadership across 30 years and four continents