Buhle Dlamini
Dr Garrath Rosslee
Niven Postma
Paul Steenkamp
Paddy Upton
Paddy Upton
Buhle Dlamini
Areas of Expertise
Creating a Winning Culture
Future Trends
Buhle is an award-winning entrepreneur and South African speaker based in Canada and South Africa. As a member of the Tomorrow Today Global team he brings a wealth of international experience and expertise having consulted in dozens of countries and speaking audiences worldwide.
Buhle has met and worked with leaders such as former SA president Nelson Mandela as well as received an award from Archbishop Desmond Tutu for Nation Building. Buhle is an author of six books.
• Keynote Speaker, Facilitator, Author and Entrepreneur
• Focus on Organisational Culture and Expert in Cultural Intelligence and Leveraging Diversity
• Buhle holds a certificate in Fundamentals of Strategy from Harvard University
• Associate with the Cultural Intelligence Centre in Michigan
Delivery Method
1. Personal, entertaining, laced with humour, story-telling and engaging multimedia experience
2. Practical Application
helping clients find ways to implement learnings in real life situations
3. Impact on business outcomes
Dr Garrath Rosslee
Areas of Expertise
Strategy Development
Change Management
Project Execution
Productivity Enhancement
Culture Fit
Productivity Enhancement
Learning to do what you love for a living will lead to work not feeling like work!
Garrath is a registered Psychologist (industrial) who holds Masters degrees in Industrial Psychology, Business Ethics and Strategy. Garrath is a results-oriented, versatile Industrial Psychologist. He brings extensive consulting, research and advisory experience in fields of leadership, strategy implementation, turnaround and change management. His primary interest includes diagnostics and changes intelligence.
Skilled in Career Development, HR Consulting, Coaching, Executive Coaching, and Organizational Development. Under his leadership, the business has completed over 120 assignments on five continents. He is a Guest lecturer at the University of Stellenbosch and is completing a Doctorate in Consulting Psychology.
Garrath has been published in Turnaround Management Perspectives (Wits Business School) and the South African Journal of Industrial Psychology and has lectured on the UNISA Open University MBA programme.
With an MCom in strategy, an MA in Industrial Psychology and an MPhil in Business Ethics, he specialises in how culture can be used as a lever to facilitate change in distressed organisations and the role of leadership and management practices in promoting change.
Niven Postma
Areas of Expertise
Leadership
Strategy
Corporate Politics
Culture
Niven offers the insights and experience of a consultant as well as a practitioner. For over 12 years, she has successfully built high performing organisations, teams and people, pioneering and leading transformations in performance, culture change and diversity.
Niven’ s mantra is that a meaningful life consists of 3 things:
- Something to do
- Someone to love and
- Something to look forward to
I consider myself very lucky to have all three. I’ve been able to do work that is rewarding and that matters. I’ve been very happily married for 8 years and living in South Africa but being a citizen of the world means that there is, to my mind, never a shortage of things to relish, including mountains to hike, great restaurants to go to, cities to explore, books to read, art to buy, roads to run and people to meet.
Keynote Topics
As such, she offers informed and personal insight into how to:As such, she offers informed and personal insight into how to:
- build an effective leadership culture
- the challenges in creating future fit organisations and
- the challenges and opportunities in ensuring greater inclusion in the workplace.
Niven has spent 18 years working at a senior and executive level in business, civil society and the public sector. Interspersed with a few sabbaticals and road trips.
In the process she has developed an integrated and unique range of expertise. Her career started in management consulting, where she worked in client engagements across industries as diverse as healthcare, mining and retail.
This global experience gave her invaluable grounding in how to analyse and craft company, group and country strategies from “the outside-in”.
Paul Steenkamp
Areas of Expertise
Lean Innovation Programs
Agile Mindset
Scrum Methodology
Rethinking Innovation Culture, Practices and Structure.
Paul helps start up’s as well as complex organisations modernise by instilling a culture at all
levels, so people embrace creativity, take risks and are encouraged to experiment!
Over the last decade, running the innovation programmes, as well as sponsoring st up’s, including SnapScan, Edge Banking and feenix.org.
Creative Leadership Collective (CLC) a consortium of executives and senior managers tasked by their CEOs to excite and empower innovation within their organisations. CLC is a learning and support platform for these creative leaders who aim to produce better innovation results for their company, country and continent.
- Paul also serves on the National Advisory Council on Innovation and is a jury member for the
BAI Global Banking Innovation Awards and the African Fintech Awards.
Paul’s Project Achievements
- FNB Minivations
Created and launched the concept of Minivations within FNB.
All employees are now encouraged and recognised for implementing small, ‘Lo No’ budget innovations. Minivations helped quadruple the net monetary contribution of innovation and helped FNB win the Most Innovative Bank in the World.
Role: Head: FNB Innovators & Employer Branding
Goal: Todemocratise innovation across all 35 000 employees.
- Internal Digital Ventures
Empowering employees to drive growth via the formation of numerous internal start-up’s within Standard Bank, including but not limited to Edge and Shyft.
Role: Innovation Capability Build Executive
Goal: To leverage a customer-centric and evidence led approach to drive growth.
- National Advisory Council on Innovation
I am serving my second term, having first been appointed to serve by South Africa’s top performing Minister, Naledi Pandor.
Role: : NACI Council Member
Goal To advise Cabinet on the purpose and contribution of innovation, in promoting and
Paddy Upton
Areas of Expertise
High Performance Coach
Keynote Speaker
Author
Paddy is an acclaimed speaker, Head Coach in international cricket, a university Professor, and mental coach to professional athletes from 10 countries and 11 different sports. His unique and out-the-box approach to leadership, coaching and performance has seen him described as ‘one of the best coaches’ and ‘the most innovative coach’ in the world.
His over 150 keynotes in 40 cities across five continents, include glowing references from Boeing, Dell, General Electric, Google, Microsoft, Unilever and many more, and ‘consistently being rated the highest scoring speaker’ at conferences in the USA, Australia and South Africa. He is described as a ‘delightfully entertaining’, ‘authentic’, ‘inspiring’ story-teller, with an ‘amazing ability to translate his message to be relevant and applicable
across industries’.
Some accomplishments include;
Helping lead the Indian Cricket Team to achieve the World’s No. 1 Test ranking for their first time, and then to win the 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup for the first time in 27 years.
Helping lead the South African Cricket Team to become the first team ever to simultaneously hold the World No. 1 ranking in all three formats of the international game.
Head Coach in 13 global T20 cricket seasons, for five different teams in three of the worlds’ premier tournaments, the Indian Premier League (IPL), Australian Big Bash League (BBL) and Pakistan Super League (PSL).
In his first season, he led underdogs Rajasthan Royals (IPL) from four years at the bottom of the log, to both the IPL and then Champions League finals, and followed this by leading Sydney Thunder team, after losing 21 out of 22 games prior to his arrival, to become Big Bash League Champions in 2015!
He has been mental coach to professional athletes from 10 countries and 11 different sports, including International cricketers, rugby, soccer and hockey players, Olympians, para-Olympians, World Tour golfers and World Tour surfers.
He has degrees from four different universities, including two masters degrees. In recognition for his innovative leadership and coaching approach, applicable in both sport and business, he was appointed Professor of Practice at Deakin University (Business and Law faculty. Melbourne, Australia)
Karen Dudley
Areas of Expertise
Chef
Food Writer
Restaurateur
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Karen Dudley (born 1968) is a South African chef, food writer and restaurateur. She is best known for her restaurant, The Kitchen in Woodstock, Cape Town, which was visited by former First Lady Michelle Obama in June 2011. “If you’re a regular politician’s wife, you go to the Mount Nelson. But if you’re Michelle Obama, you’re looking to make the biggest impact. She understood the power of her endorsement.
We played our regular music. We were making sandwiches for her two girls, and she brought her mom. I think she was saying she was coming to Woodstock, a growing area, to a black woman-owned business. Locals have often stopped me in the street and said: did she really come to us?”
For Karen Dudley, food informs the family dynamic and her home is as multilayered and as delicious a delight as her colourful personality and cooking style. ‘When it comes to food and cooking, I learned from my mother how to make “nice” with what we feed the people we love and care about,’ says Karen Dudley, author, cook and creator of The Kitchen, the much-loved Woodstock dining destination that she opened in Cape Town in 2009. ‘We were the kind of family who would be sitting at the kitchen table in the middle of the night, eating her perfectly thin French crêpes, if repairs after an argument needed to be made.
Delicious food has always been her love language,’ she says. When news broke that The Kitchen would not be reopening in June after lockdown, people were shaken. Dudley has produced beautiful cookbooks, and is active on Instagram and YouTube. She believes her future will involve being an authority on food and recipes