The Facilitation Company

Facilitation for complex decisions

We help businesses, families, and institutions navigate the moments where the stakes are high and the room is crowded — strategy, governance, restructuring, and the conversations that decide what happens next.

Businesses · High‑Net‑Worth Families · Non‑profits · Distressed Debt

About us

The Facilitation Company is a premier global facilitation firm specialising in Fundraising, Strategy, and special situations.

Our two decades of experience facilitating strategy, fundraising, and special situations have helped us develop an approach across four categories: Strategy, Fundraising, Special Situations, and Family Office governance.

Operating in Europe and Africa, we focus on the commercial, non-profit, and family office sectors.

In doing so, we apply value-oriented, human-centred strategies to our facilitation role. With experience in 21 cities globally, The Facilitation Company is renowned for its event and process facilitation in special situations.

Our offices are in Johannesburg and Amsterdam.

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Meet our leadership

Nick Mokobane at his TIAS Executive MBA graduation

Nicholas "Mallet" Mokobane

Founder & Team Principal

Nicholas "Mallet" Mokobane is the founder and Team Principal of The Fundraising Company, originally founded as Ideas Imagine in 2014. As lead facilitator, he sets the company's overall direction and strategy.

Nick is a dual Dutch–South African national who feels at home in both Limpopo and Tilburg. Born in South Africa, he came of age in New Zealand and found his calling in Holland. He studied Mechanical and Electrical Engineering at the University of the Witwatersrand as an undergraduate, before pursuing an Executive MBA at Tilburg University's TIAS School for Business and Society.

His capstone thesis, "Value Investing for Generational Wealth: A Strategic Framework for a South African Family Office," earned an 8.0 from Prof. dr. Alfred Slager, Professor of Institutional Investments at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and former Professor of Pension Fund Management at TIAS School for Business and Society, Tilburg University. Slager is also a non-executive board member at pension fund ABP, Europe's largest pension fund by AUM.

Nick has been a lifelong entrepreneur and intrapreneur, focusing his work on driving real-world impact.

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Capabilities

Multi-stakeholder negotiation

Aligning parties with genuinely different incentives — creditors, family members, boards — toward a workable outcome.

Confidential advisory

Engagements that require discretion by default, from ownership disputes to pre-announcement planning.

Board & executive session design

Structuring the agenda, sequence, and roles before the room ever sits down.

Crisis and distressed situations

Facilitation under time pressure, where the wrong sequence of conversations can cost as much as the wrong decision.

Cross-industry reach

Engagements across finance, industrials, nonprofits, and private family enterprises.

Independent facilitation

No stake in the outcome beyond a well-run process — brought in precisely because we're not a party to it.

Insights

What a good facilitator does in the first five minutes

The tone of a session is set before anyone states their position. Notes on framing, seating, and silence.

Governance for family offices: fewer rules, clearer roles

Most family councils don't fail from a lack of structure — they fail from too much of the wrong kind.

Restructuring is a negotiation before it's a spreadsheet

The creditors in the room often agree on the numbers. What they need help agreeing on is the sequence.