Angela De Long Champs
Areas of Expertise
Management Training
HR
Coaching
Angela is committed to empowering others to make every communication opportunity count. She has invested years of experience in social and behavioural psychology and human resources into creating highly entertaining, sought after and valued courses in her field of expertise “executive presence”. In addition her leadership development courses are highly valued and respected. She is an event speaker & trainer both in South Africa where she lives and abroad. She has travelled and worked across the world developing leaders in their leadership and communication skills. Angela is a learning & talent program designer and agile learning architect.
In addition her leadership development courses are highly valued and respected. She is an event speaker & trainer both in South Africa where she lives and abroad. She has travelled and worked across the world developing leaders in their leadership and communication skills. Angela is a learning & talent program designer and agile learning architect.
Keynote Topics
Executive Presence
Challenging leaders to examine their purpose; to own the stage and to proactively engage the hearts and minds of their audience.
Communicating for impact
Physical and virtual skills that can be learnt to radically transform what you say and how you say it.
Keys to personal leadership
Lead yourself before you lead others. You are your own first follower! Learn to follow, learn self- discipline, seek accountability.
’Step Up’ management modules
The following leadership skills & concepts can be used as stand alone modules or grouped into a 3 day leadership program:
- Feedback: Giving and receiving feedback to enable growth and develop others.
- Coaching: Coaching skills help leaders to enable and empower others to solve their own problems.
- Managing time: Learning strategies to make the most of your brain at work and at home to increase your productivity and effectiveness.
- Circle of control and influence:Learning the where your “edges” are and how building and maintaining a network of infuence can enhance your effectiveness.
- The Freedom ladder: It is not a one size fits all approach. Your management style influences how the people you lead and manage behave.
- Connecting to WHY: building a sense of purpose into your leadership.
Dr Ajay K Makan
Areas of Expertise
Leadership Coach
Phychiatrist
Speaker
Facilitator
Leadership Coach
Ajay Makan offers a unique and rare combination of skills. He has recently completed the Associate Certified Coaching Programme (ACC) for the University of CapeTown (UCT), Graduate School of Business – Centre for Coaching. It is with this certification that he is submitting to the International Coaching Federation (ICF) for his ACC status. He is a University of Cape Town (UCT) Masters in Business Administration (MBA) graduate with specialization in Strategy & Finance. Prior, he obtained a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBCh) form the University of Witwatersrand. With solid practical exposure to neurology he is also a Fellow of the College of Psychiatry (FCPsych).
Post his MBA, he joined big five firm, Deloitte Consulting as a Management Consultant. Ajay was part of a team that assisted in the Product development of insurance products, doing feasibility studies and market research on the identified target market. A strategic thinker who worked on a project for a major pharmaceutical company in the feasibility studies on product viability in developing countries. With experience in financial services, he consulted on client segmentation analysis aimed at revenue/cost optimisation. Prior to his current work he was employed as Director: Telecommunications & Energy at the Department of Public Enterprises (DPE) and his duties entailed ongoing restructuring of the Telecommunications and Energy sectors of South Africa in keeping with Government’s policy and restructuring objectives, managing various teams under taking different projects involved in restructuring above sectors, facilitating setting up the Telkom IPO office and selection of Deutsche Bank and J.P. Morgan as Government’s Transaction Advisors and liaising with various national and international banks e.g. Goldman Sachs, ABSA, Investec, Citibank, ABNAMRO, HSBC.
Having facilitated stress management worships for athletes representing SA on a global platform, he is a south-after speaker and team facilitator on areas of leadership development & coaching, holistic wellness; running group sessions on self-improvement, practical models of success and managing team dynamics. As a Management Consultant with Deloitte, he was part of a team that assisted in the product development of insurance products, doing feasibility studies and market research on the identified target market. A strategic thinker who worked on a project for major pharmaceutical company in the feasibility studies on product viability in developing countries. With experience in financial services, he consulted on client segmentation
analysis aimed at revenue/cost optimisation.
Nerushka Bowan
Areas of Expertise
Emerging Technology Law
Legal Tech & Innovation
Keynote Speaker
Facilitator
Nerushka is an emerging technology law specialist, legal technology innovator and speaker. She is a consultant trainer at the Blockchain Academy and a co-chair of the Johannesburg chapter of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (the largest association of privacy professionals in the world). She was recently listed on
CryptoCoin.News as one of 20 African women to watch in Blockchain and Crypto. She has a background as a technology & privacy lawyer for an international law firm and has worked on data privacy matters for both local and international clients. Nerushka has work experience in both London and Melbourne.
Her business development experience includes managing a client portfolio in the technology & innovation sector, rolling out campaigns on tech-related topics and creating thought leadership publications. She is also involved in the development of innovative legal technology products and awareness and upskilling of lawyers about the future of law, and advises legal tech startups. Emerging technology is an evolving concept and currently includes artificial intelligence, robotics, the Internet of Things, autonomous vehicles, blockchain, 3D printing, nanotechnology, biotechnology and quantum computing. Nerushka uses her unique experience and forward looking mindset to identify future risks and ask the legal and ethical questions brought about by emerging technology and packages these topics into stimulating and thought-provoking workshops and presentations.
She regularly speaks to corporates and at events, publishes blogs and articles, and is regularly interviewed and quoted in media on various technology-related topics. During September 2017, she was invited to speak at a large tech conference, PluralsightLIVE, in Salt Lake City, USA. Her clients include the South African Reserve Bank, Standard Bank, FirstRand, ITWeb, DLA Piper, Synthesis Technologies and the Blockchain Academy.
Keynote Topics
1. Every business is a digital business
2. Breaking down blockchain
3. Artificial intelligence: the robots are coming
4. Hackers gonna hack
Keitumetsi Tsotetsi
Areas of Expertise
Cyber Security
Risk Assurance
Keynote Speaker
Consultant in Cyber Security. Self Starter. En-Route Success
Keitumetsi holds a BCom IT Management Degree, Post Graduate Diploma in Management
specialising in Corporate Governance and is an ISO27001 BSI Certified lead auditor.
She is a cyber security manager and specialises in security risk, strategy, governance and compliance. Her expertise includes cyber maturity assessments and audits, role-based security awareness programmes, ISMS implementation, policy/standard development, programme assurance and privacy.
Keitumetsi is also the special projects lead at Geekulcha and has been with the organisation since 2013. She has been assisting the team with the planning, facilitation and judging of hackathons. In addition to this, she has represented the organisation on many public speaking platforms and has valuable internal knowledge of the organisation to facilitate further growth.
Keitumetsi is passionate about:
1. Creating awareness about the IT industry and cybersecurity
2. Creating opportunities for the youth to get into the industry
3. Bridging the gap between higher education and corporate/ entrepreneurship
4. Attending and speaking at IT-related events and conferences for knowledge sharing and networking with like-minded people
Keitumetsi’ s Career (2014-2019)
• 2014 to 2015 KPMG – IT Consulting Junior Consultant
• 2015 to date PwC – Cyber Security Risk Assurance Manager
Has worked in the following industries:
- Fast moving consumer goods
- Telecommunications
- Financial institutions (Banking and insurance)
- Mining
Proposed Keynote Topics
- Be cyber-savvy with your finances
- Identifying and responding to cyber fraud
- Your role in securing your data and protecting your digital identity
Pepe Marais
Areas of Expertise
Creative Leader in Advertising
Author
Wellness
Brings out the best in those around him.
Pepe, founding partner and Group Chief Creative Officer of the Brand and Communication Group Joe Public United. Pepe’s definition of success is to create an environment of harmony and joy, focusing on the well-being of people by developing their growth and achieve the highest levels of self-worth, honesty and excellence by nurturing ideas, dreams and trust.
He believes that Joe Public United is at the beginning of what he and his business partner set out to do in terms of the calibre of work they create.
Founded in 1998 and growing into Joe Public United in 2007, makes this brand and communications group one of South Africa’s largest 100% independently owned advertising agencies. Its core purpose is to deliver on Growth–the growth of its clients, people and country as well as aiming to be an agency that inspires greatness.
Joe Public’s service offering is through its specialist companies:
- Joe Public (Above-the-line)
- Connect Joe Public (Digital)
- Engage Joe Public (Public Relations)
- Ignite Joe Public (Cross-platform)
- Shift Joe Public (Brand Design)
The group has African and European partners/affiliates in fourteen different countries.
Achievements
Currently ranked number one creative leader in the South African advertising industry
- Autor of Growing Greatness, a journey towards personal and business mastery, offering purpose as a significant path towards business success
- Recipient of the 2018 Sanlam Business Partnership Entrepreneur of the Year Award for medium companies, together with his business partner
- Serves on the board of SA Day
- Founder and Chairman of One School at a Time
- A Closet Afrikaans rocker and Humanitarian at heart
Lynn Andries
Areas of Expertise
International Executive Coach
Facilitator
Keynote Speaker
Consultant
Lynn Andriés is an Entrepreneur, Coach, Facilitator and Speaker passionate about shaping a culture of trust, self-efficacy and performance across organisations of all sizes through empowering their leaders. As a result, they forge ahead understanding that trust equals ‘hard currency’, as opposed to being considered a ‘soft skill’.
She is an internationally accredited Coach (ICF), with twelve years of experience across SMME’S and Corporates.
Lynn was one of the first eight students globally, to have achieved the MSc. degree in Professional Development of the Neuroscience of Leadership, completed at Middlesex University (UK) in 2014 and is a completing her doctoral studies at the University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business.
Recognized as a courageous and resilient role model, Lynn inspires corporate delegates with compelling and transformational messages grounded in science. This is further enhanced by her moving life story which resonates across diverse audiences. Over 27 successful years, she has built a reputation for improving corporate performance though empowering leaders and teams, building trust and optimising revenue. Lynn ensures that the brief is met, and the message sticks!
Keynote and Training Topics
• Neuro Leadership
• Building a Culture of Trust
• Thrive- Bouncing Forward (A life-inspired brain-based lens on resilience)
• The Currency of Trust
• Pandemic Power-Skills
• Leading Virtual Teams
• Sales: Brain-Savvy Selling 2021