Rachel Maritz is currently a senior lecturer at the University of Pretoria (full time from 2003-2012, part time 2012-2014, and full-time again from 2014), lecturing in strategy, general management and international business management for graduate, post graduate and continuing education students in the Department of Business Management. She served on various management committees within the faculty of Economic and Management Sciences (UP). In addition to normal senior lecturer responsibilities, she was appointed as the Programme manager at the Department of Business Management in 2010. She previously consulted and worked with various companies and Government Departments on strategic management issues, including strategy development (including Annual Performance Plans and Operational plans), scenario-planning, audit of strategy, monitoring and evaluation of strategy, implementation of strategy, industry analysis and compilation of competitive intelligence newsletters and various business reports.  Rachel has also previously been in the employ of Telkom Ltd for the period 1997 to 2003. She worked as senior consultant: Internal Audit from 1997 until 2000. In this capacity she was involved in planning, coordinating and executing audits across business units. She was appointed manager for competitive intelligence in the Marketing and Sales Business Unit in 2000. In Telkom, she was rewarded a Name in Lights award twice for recognition of performance excellence.

Her area of interest are Strategy, Strategy-as-practice and Strategic Management.