Ascendancy Risk Management Specialists (ARMS) is a locally owned and managed private organization that has been in business for the last ten (15) years.

It has been in operation, solely as a risk and restructuring management company, coming up with risk mitigating strategies for corporations in the SADC region.

The company is based in Centurion, Pretoria.

ARMS is a 100% black owned company with the principal director being a well-rounded prolific citizen who is both internationally and locally trained.

This gives the organisation the capability to think globally and act locally.

ARMS boasts of an international research and development in restructuring ailing organisations driven by relevantly trained and experienced management, supporting clients not only in South Africa but also in the SADC region and the greater part of the African continent.

The organization has core competences as turnaround specialists for ailing businesses in order to enable them to achieve the highest possible levels of their corporate goals through a combination of strategies and mentoring.

ARMS’ core competencies are based in its unique human resources who disseminate and redefine client needs and offer locally based solutions relevant to the individual organizations.

Our operational strategies go beyond problem identification and quick fixes, we avail long lasting solutions, which will permeate our clients’ processes and productivity.

Our services have attributes and uniqueness of being multi-purpose “holistic” business solutions that are used all round the business management strategies in finance, human resource, marketing and operations.

These generic strategies are known to be able to drive the corporate strategy in order to meet stakeholders’ requirements.

ASCENDANCY RISK MANAGEMENT specializes in:

• risk management with special emphasis in credit management,
• restructuring of underperforming organizations or departments,
• turnaround strategies,
• productivity,
• wellness,
• leadership,
• motivation,
• finance,
• management,
• health, safety and environment,
• and others.

Dr John Chibaya Mbuya graduated from De Montfort University (UK) with an MBA and a PhD in Holistic Risk Management from University of Johannesburg.

He is a seasoned corporate banker, University Professor in Dubai, part-time HIV /AIDS counsellor in Gauteng South Africa, Women and Child Abuse activist in African and the Mid East.

John has performed many varied roles ranging from financial accountant to risk management.

As well as having considerable practical experience he is also a member of various institutions and an advisory committee member of many financial institutions in Southern Africa.

He is the Executive Director of Ascendancy Risk Management, a training company in South Africa and Managing Director of International Risk Management in Dubai.

Dr John Chibaya Mbuya is global player, an international authority, author and lecturer in risk management and strategic management and is regarded as having pioneered many of the systems, procedures and training programmes which companies can put into place to handle the risk aspects of their businesses.

Dr John is a former principal senior lecturer (Banking) in the Department of Economics and Econometrics at University of Johannesburg, where he specialised in Banking and Risk Management, former senior lecturer at De Montfort University, former Director of Milpark Business School South Africa, former Professor of International Business at College of Applied Sciences in Oman and Professor of Finance in Dubai.

John has supervised over 150 master's students and 5 doctoral students in South Africa, Botswana and Mozambique, published over 50 articles in various newspapers, magazines, and journals.

He has written and published over 30 books. His books can be found at your nearest bookshop all over the globe including the following: