Graeme Codrington
Alison Jacobson
Mqondisi Gumede
Graeme Codrington
Areas of Expertise
Global Trends Expert
Strategy
Innovation
Graeme Codrington is an expert on the future of work and the disruptive forces that are shaping it. As an author and researcher, his insights and analysis are sought after by business schools and CEOs around the world, with five degrees, four best selling books and a full-time research team at his company, TomorrowToday, to back it up.
Graeme works as a Board advisor, strategist, and as a keynote presenter and facilitator, using multimedia, a gently rebuking humor and an engaging style to make his insights accessible and inspiring. He works across multiple industries at numerous meetings and events in more than 20 countries every year. He was recently inducted into the Professional Speakers Association “Hall of Fame”.
Keynote Topics
Build the Future Now
- How to keep and engage your customers – and staff – in a world of digital integration.
The new digital companies that have become household brands in just the last decade have tapped into some core values of the digital age. Learn how every company can – and must – do the same in order to be successful in the future.
Achieve Remarkable Things
- Get More Productivity, More Innovation, More Meaningfulness and More Competitiveness.
We are living in a New Age of Discovery where exponential advances in technology are fast enabling the impossible to become possible. Successful companies and individuals will be those that are bold enough to think big, challenge conventional thinking, fail fast and implement innovations that do remarkable things.
Tomorrow’s World Today
- The disruptive forces shaping the world right now, and how we should respond.
- The mega-forces shaping the world right now, and what we should be doing about them.
This presentation or workshop provides a future-focused leadership toolkit, along with a compelling picture of the near future. It will inspire and inform in equal measure, and leave your team excited about the future while at the same time knowing what each of them can do to help you get there.
Future-Fit Leadership
- Understanding what it means to be an Adaptive Leader.
Future-Fit Leadership clarifies the changing context for leaders and explores the problem of ‘what to do next’ in order to be an effective and successful ‘future-fit’ leader in tomorrow’s world.
Alison Jacobson
Areas of Expertise
Agile Mindset
Holacracy in Organisations
Strategy
STRATEGY, DISRUPTION and DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
Alison is a Director of The Field Institute and previously Group Principal Digital Strategist for the Dimension Data Group where she launched their Global Digital Advisory practice.
Alison works with senior leadership to navigate the future of work and strategic change. She is a thought leader on emerging technology, and our responses to it has led to her publishing articles in academic journals and speaking on many digital leadership platforms. With an extensive background in digital consulting and software development, Alison has pioneered
various industry-first solutions.
She is coaching executives globally in digital transformation and emerging technology by shifting focus to the application of these principles and the tools necessary to enable new business models and sustainable competitiveness.
Working with the best brains, Alison creates memorable transformation journeys that can be talked about and celebrated, driving new value for businesses, their customers and entire ecosystems.
Alison has led the way to strategic vision by supporting the implementation of large-scale digital and business transformation projects within FMCG, Retail, Pharma,
Manufacturing, Oil & Gas, IT, Education and Financial Services.
Mqondisi Gumede
Areas of Expertise
4th Industrial Revolution
Big Data
Technology
Exponential Growth
Mqondisi has spent much of his career as a technology advisor for business and has given a number of perspectives on the relevance of the 4th Industrial Revolution, Big Data and related technology aspects that business is grappling with today.
Much of his work has been in the financial services industries giving him relevant insight to the challenges of the industry and frequently interacts with the industry as evidenced by his Keynote address at the CFO Get Smarter Summit in Johannesburg in February 2019, an event only opened to member CFOs and CHROs of the CFO South Africa, his opening keynote address at the 2018 Finance Indaba and speaking contributions at the same event in 2017.
This paired with insight from solution engineering for some of clients’ toughest challenges have given Mqondisi a broad and deep understanding of the technological challenges particularly as it relates to engaging people, strategically aligning to business goals and objectives in a practical and attainable way the South African business context.
Mqondisi is Founder and CEO of the customer success company, The OMG, a sought after corporate and conference keynote speaker and is a knowledge merchant at IC Knowledge Bureau. The OMG is a company that uses Uncommon Sense to assist customers radically grow their businesses. IC Knowledge Bureau aims to provide the top 1% of thinking to inspire customers to exponential growth. Mqondisi has the aim of providing fit for purpose knowledge necessary to inspire the growth of the South African economy to grow 6 times its annual turnover in all industries in the next 20 years.
He is skilled in the use of a number of highly valuable intangible tools, concepts and frameworks drawn from the humanities and social sciences that allows him to bring a fresh approach to strategy, technology and operations considerations