Philip Viljoen
Regional Director, South Africa and India
Philip Viljoen is the Principal of Goldratt Schools for Africa and India and a successful implementer of all the TOC solutions. He is currently responsible for the development of external and internal TOC consultants for Goldratt Consulting as well as offering Goldratt Schools programmes.
He teaches Strategic Project Management at the University of Pretoria where he previously taught Operations and Production Management, Project Portfolio Management and Project Management at post graduate level. He was programme manager for the Masters degree in Technology Management at the School of Engineering and Technology Management.
He attained the degrees Hons. B Eng (Civil) at the University of Stellenbosch in 1979, and in 1988 the MBL at University of South Africa (UNISA). He attended the Management of Technology programme at the University of Cape Town in 1991. In 1993 he completed the International Teacher’s Programme at INSEAD, France.
He started his career as construction manager in the South African Airforce and worked as contracts manager for a period of 3 years on road surfacing projects. He then taught Business Statistics and Operations Management at the School of Business Leadership of UNISA till 1995.
He met Eli Goldratt in 1992 and became a Jonah’s Jonah in 1993.
He worked for 7 years as management consultant with the Avraham Goldratt Institute on a number of projects developing and implementing logistic system solutions and improvements using the Theory of Constraints.
Currently he is project leader on TOC projects in South Africa, coaches and mentors TOC project leaders in India and develops and coach TOC implementers in South Africa and other parts of the world.
He is registered at the Engineering Council of South Africa as Professional Engineer, is a member of the Theory of Constraints International Certification Organization (TOCICO) and is a certified implementer in all the TOC fields of application.
He authored 3 peer-reviewed journal articles and has participated in a number of local and international conferences as well as acted as study leader for a number of Masters students at the University of Pretoria and UNISA. He also contributed to the Critical Chain sections of a textbook on Project Management.