Celia Jordaan

Celia brings extensive and diverse experience across advisory, legal and commercial environments, providing her with a well-rounded understanding of how organisations operate in practice.

She is frequently engaged where matters are complex, high-risk, or not yet clearly defined — situations where issues may be difficult to articulate, competing considerations are at play, or decision-making requires careful judgement.

Celia is known for her ability to quickly understand context, identify underlying issues, and support clients to move from ambiguity to well-reasoned, defensible outcomes.

Celia’s experience spans public and private sector engagements across complex, high-risk and non-standard environments, particularly where scrutiny, accountability and competing interests are present.

She brings particular depth in matters requiring careful judgement, defensibility and clarity of process, often supporting organisations at critical decision points.

Her areas of focus include:

• Complex and high-risk procurement
• Governance, assurance and probity
• Commercial strategy, models and negotiation
• Advisory support across policy development, delivery and implementation
• Supporting organisations through challenge, review and change

Across this work, Celia is known for her ability to balance rigour with practicality, and to provide advice that is grounded in both technical understanding and organisational realities.

Celia brings a broad and integrated perspective to her work, enabling her to see the big picture while also breaking complexity down into manageable, practical components.

Drawing on her early legal background, including litigation experience, she has a strong ability to question assumptions, listen carefully, and identify the real issues sitting beneath presenting problems. Clients often engage Celia where matters are unclear, sensitive, or require careful navigation.

Where subject matter extends beyond her immediate knowledge base, Celia is skilled at rapidly gaining insight and understanding — asking the right questions, testing information, and forming a clear, informed view.

This combination of perspective, curiosity and judgement allows Celia to support clients not only to understand their challenges, but to translate that understanding into workable solutions and outcomes.

Clients regularly note that Celia is approachable, clear in her communication, and takes the time to understand context, constraints and people — qualities not always associated with traditional procurement roles.

Celia places a high value on her clients’ expertise, intellectual property and institutional knowledge, and treats this with care, respect and discretion.

Ichiban Commercial Solutions is intentionally boutique.

Celia works collaboratively with a small number of trusted, highly experienced consultants who share similar values, standards and ways of working. These relationships allow Ichiban to bring in complementary expertise where appropriate, while maintaining quality, independence and accountability.

This model enables clients to benefit from:

• Direct access to senior-level advice
• Carefully selected expertise aligned to the task at hand
• A cohesive and considered approach, rather than fragmented inputs

Celia remains closely involved in all engagements, ensuring work is well-integrated, appropriately governed, and grounded in a clear understanding of client objectives and risk.

As Founder and Principal of Ichiban Commercial Solutions, Celia established the practice to provide thoughtful, senior-led commercial and procurement advisory services without unnecessary complexity.

Her role is focused on setting direction, maintaining standards, and ensuring that Ichiban’s work reflects independence, rigour and practical judgement — values that underpin the firm’s approach across all engagements.

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