Lawrence graduated with PhD, MSc, BSc Degree and a CIS diploma. He is founder and managing Director of BlaPau Management Consulting, a company specialising in strategy development and execution across different sectors.

Lawrence has varied working experiencing straddling fields of academia, development, and consulting work. Specifically, he has experience in business development, turnaround strategy development and execution, economic development, agricultural and agribusiness consulting, research and training, project and programme management.

Lawrence has delivered complex projects at Khula Finance, Development Bank of Southern Africa, Eskom Transmission, Cities Network and ICASA as a generalist management consultant.

Currently, he offers entrepreneurship modules at the University of Johannesburg and is a cluster leader on Gauteng Department of Economic Development project.

Lawrence is a licensed Insights Discovery Practioner.