Global Strategic Consulting
“He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.” –Francis Bacon
“One of the most important lessons I have come to learn over the years is that you can’t do today’s job with yesterday’s methods and be in business tomorrow. You must keep learning new methods and ways of doing things to keep abreast with the world’s ever changing trends.” –Chris Kirubi, Fortune Magazine, USA 2011
Global Consulting is the foundation of Sophia Bekele’s advisory legacy — the body of work that shaped her two-decade reputation as a strategist who sees around corners, translates complexity into opportunity, and builds systems that endure beyond political cycles and technological eras.
Under CBS International (now CBSegroup), Ms. Bekele advised private-sector leaders, governments, and international organizations across development, governance, and long-term strategic planning. She also supported corporate development and communications programs for U.S. start-ups and OTC companies, while advancing governance standards across diverse institutional environments. Over these formative years, she built a global and national client base and established African affiliate entities such as SBCnet, enabling sustainable local capability and knowledge transfer.
During this period, she delivered major nation-building and internetworking programs—including e-government and digital infrastructure initiatives for the OAU (African Union), Parliament, and regional ministries, as well as similar modernization efforts in Ethiopia.
These roles collectively shaped her ability to build, guide, and direct the future of both public and private sectors. Working alongside senior executives and high-level public authorities, she helped identify strategic vulnerabilities, define governance priorities, and develop policy frameworks and remediation guidelines designed to strengthen institutional resilience and mitigate systemic exposure.
CBSIntl and its people spend enormous amount of time and resources jetting from country to country, spending time with the right people, shaping economic policy, improving national business climates, developing communities, as well as the strategy of individual firms – It is not always a glamorous affair by any standard.
Located few miles north of Silicon Valley, the technology capital of the world, CBS International was established in with an objective to support the transfer of technology and knowledge to large and enterprise-wide organizations in emerging markets. Since, CBS clients include global, multinational, continental and national organizations, in both private and public sector.