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Barbara Holtmann is a process facilitator, working primarily with fragile system transformations.
After three years as Project Director at Business Against Crime in the mid-nineties, Barbara served as Chief Director of Communications for the Secretariat of Safety and Security. Thereafter for 10 years Barbara led research into development of community safety approaches at the Council for Scientifc and Industrial Research (CSIR). She has a Doctorate of Philosophy in the Management of Technology and Innovation from the Da Vinci Institute for Technology Management and a Master of Management (P&DM) degree from the Wits School of Public and Development Management. More |
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What it looks like when it's fixed |
A case study in developing a systematic model
to transform a fragile social system
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"Essential perspective for those in
government, civil society and business."
- Stanley Subramoney, Deputy CEO, PwC South Africa |
| While 'safety' and 'security' are often used interchangeably, English is one of the few languages that differentiates between them. In most languages, words from which security is a derivative confer a sameness to the concepts, yet in English 'security' refers to protection form a known or precieved threat or danger, while 'safety' describes a state in which less security in needed. |
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