Dr Wilhelm Neuland

Research Interests

• Strategic Management
• Leadership
• Management
• Small Business Management
• Resource-based View

Brief Bio

Dr. Wilhelm Neuland started his career as a Combat Officer in the South African Navy in 2001. 

He obtained a BMil (Stellenbosch) degree in 2005, after which he served as Assistant Weapons Officer and Navigation Officer on Strike Craft until 2011. 

In 2007-2008 he served as an exchange officer with the French Navy onboard the helicopter carrier Jeanne d’Arc, specializing in anti-submarine warfare. 

From 2011-2014 he was a Navigational Instructor at Maritime Warfare Training Centre in Simon’s Town. 

He resigned his commission in 2014 and in 2015 became primary lecturer for Strategic Management (Hons) at UNISA, also obtaining his MBL (UNISA) during the same year. 

During 2018-2019 he was Head Business Coach at Siyakha Implementation Partners. He is currently the National Portfolio Manager of Brand and Business at IIEVega. He obtained his Doctorate in Business Leadership from the Unisa Graduate School of Business Leadership in 2022. 



His thesis is titled “Reformed Curatorship as a strategic approach to resource vulnerability reduction in the South African wine industry.”