Peter Van Kets
Graeme Codrington
Gilan Gork
Zipho Sikhakhane
The Silent Conductor
Roy Clark
Dr Garrath Rosslee
Niven Postma
Stephen McGown
Julia Kerr Henkel
Paddy Upton
Londy Ncobo
Peter Van Kets
Areas of Expertise
Strategy
Leadership
Teamwork
Peter is a professional adventurer, highly sought after international business inspirational and keynote speaker. He has become globally known as a specialist around business’ ability to persevere in a dynamic and turbulent economy. He has worked with major corporations across Africa, Europe, the Middle East and the USA.
He takes the lessons learned from his expeditions and relates them to the business environment. His expedition stories are of survival, courage, perseverance, passion, loneliness, tenacity, amazing team work and the will to win. Peters presentations take people on powerful life- altering journeys, changing the way they think about themselves and their businesses.
Keynote Topics
Grit
“Every venture in life is going to demand clear vision, dynamic strategy, precise planning and preparation, absolute honesty and integrity, uprightness of character and self discipline, but above all it will take perseverance, nyamazela, GRIT. If we put the right processes in place, we persevere and never give up on our vision, we absolutely will not fail.”
Connecting the Dots
“We conduct our personal and business ventures in a turbulent and dynamic world. To achieve and sustain real success, accomplish significant goals and fulfil our purpose we must connect and balance all the important DOTS. This will allow us to operate at maximum personal and professional efficiency.”
The Power of Team!
This inspirational presentation focuses on lessons learned from the 5438km unsupported SoloAtlantic Rowing Race.
Target audience: Inspirational – Teams, sales conferences, Leadership programs and more
• Vision
• What is your story
• Powerful individuals
• Dynamic collaboration
• Surrounding yourself with the best possible team
• Vision, passion and principle centered teams
• Setting clear and achievable goals
• Making the move from external discipline to self-discipline.
• The power of positive attitude
• Knowing that with the right resources, there is a solution to every problem!
• Communication
• Being properly prepared
• Execution – Not being paralysed by the fear of failure
• Being decisive
• Innovation – always look for areas to improve upon
• Understand the benefit of helping others succeed
Graeme Codrington
Areas of Expertise
Futurist
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.
Zipho Sikhakhane
Areas of Expertise
Business Strategy: diagnosic, design and implimentation
Change Movement: top-team alignment, culture diagnostic, design and roll-out
customer centricity: customer strategy, segmentation change movement
Retail: RFID technology, store operations and optimisation
Communications: presentation and public speaking, inspirationsal leadership
Zipho Sikhakhane is an international speaker, writer and business advisor. She has been a motivational speaker for 15 years and has presented to audiences across four continents, including TEDx Talk delivered in the USA on Africa’s business potential. She is also a weekly Business Columnist for the Sunday Times and is the first black South African to complete an MBA at the prestigious Stanford University in the USA. She delivers inspiring talks and poetry on topics related to Africa’s potential, leadership, entrepreneurship, youth and women empowerment.
In 2016, she received the Outstanding Young Achiever Award from the UNESCO Center for Global Education and the Independent Pan- African Youth Parliament. Zipho’s professional background includes developing strategies for large public and private sector clients as a management consultant at McKinsey & Co (the leading management consulting firm globally).
She also held project management and change management positions for the industry leading retailers – Edcon in South Africa (the biggest clothing retailer in Sub-Saharan Africa)and Inditex in Spain (the parent company of Zara and the biggest fashion retailer globally). In 10 years, she has travelled to 30 countries and worked in 10 of them. Currently she is an Executive at a new venture that is acquiring the scaling businesses in the food sector. She also provides advisory and investment support to small businesses and entrepreneurs across Africa.
Keynote Topics
Leadership Begins with YOU
Individuals need to learn how to lead themselves first, before they can effectively lead others. Emerging from humble beginnings, Zipho beat the odds to achieve outstanding academic success and hold leadership positions in leading corporations locally and globally. She shares insights on the leadership techniques that enabled her to become an exceptional leader.
Leading Africa to Prosperity
The African continent presents immeasurable growth opportunities for local and multi-national corporations. The leaders that will succeed in making the most of these opportunities are ones that understand the importance of having a long term vision and adapting their leadership approaches to the demands of the local context. Zipho has presented inspiring talks across four continents on the progress and potential of African economies – including a TEDx talk delivered in the United States.
Entrepreneurship – Building the Giants of Tomorrow
Zipho is passionate about helping entrepreneurs build businesses that will last and achieve scalable growth. Having been an entrepreneur throughout her youth, since as early as the age of five years old, she shares her perspectives on some of the pitfalls that prevent small business owners from taking their businesses to the next level. She also shares the latest trends and insights on entrepreneurship in the local context – based on research done for the weekly business columns written in the Sunday Times on this topic.
Inspirational Poetry
Zipho has been writing and presenting poetry for many years. She can deliver engaging poetry recitals on a variety of topics.
The Silent Conductor
Areas of Expertise
Non-verbal Communication
Motivation through Positive Engagement
Leadership through Action
Learning through Experience
Orchestrating Success
Armed only with a baton, enlivened by energy and humour, he conducts orchestras like none other. Leading thousands of novices and creating music that competes with the pros in its surpassing beauty.
They may not have rehearsed; and for some, it may be the very first time he or she has wielded a musical instrument. The Silent Conductor encourages his audience to sculpt a symphony that is uniquely theirs. He knits teams together and builds unity. He never says a word, but his music speaks volumes.
About Steve Barnett
Steve Barnett is The Silent Conductor. Born and raised in South Africa he has infused with the country’s unique rhythm. Steve has been a ‘Non-Speaker’ on the Professional Speakers circuit for the past 21 years in over 50 countries across six continents at venues such as Wembley Stadium and the Royal Albert Hall in London, to bush lodges in Africa. He has shared the podium with the likes of Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu, and Bill Clinton.
The Presentation
Using only simple percussion instruments, humour, and positive energy, he conducts his orchestra with ease. His performance is the perfect illustration of what is possible through good teamwork. Cultural, social and language barriers are forgotten as the audience becomes part of an experience that transcends words, and music is the metaphor.
Through his orchestrating, Steve subtly and quietly teaches the principles of effective leadership, effortless innovation, team-work and change management. Using facial expressions and body language as the tools of communication,
Steve guides his audience to discover the power of collaboration with these Basic Rules of Engagement:
Actions speak louder than words
Make work serious fun
Use the power of one to one
Smile, make eye contact, listen
Encourage the good stuff
Demonstrate belief in people
Gilan Gork
Areas of Expertise
Mentalist
Influencer
Leadership Expert
MC
Entertainment
Mind-blowing Intelligence Entertainment!
Gilan has been a highlight feature on many television shows, often attempting crazy stunts. For example, on South Africa’s longest running investigative journalism show, Carte Blanche, Gilan was challenged to drive around a racetrack in a sports car after being blindfolded by Derek Watts. Gilan has been invited as a guest on many radio stations, as he successfully reads thoughts live on air! Print media regularly feature stories on Gilan alongside other worldrenowned personalities such as Derren Brown, David Copperfield, David Blaine and Criss Angel.
The Mentalist Experience
Looking for something different? Full of interactive humour, Gilan’s show will have your guests enthralled, astounded and inspired by the time the mind-blowing finale ends it off. Is an intelligently entertaining experience in which Gilan demonstrates phenomenal abilities of influence, thought-decoding, psychological persuasion and even predicting audience’s thoughts before they’ve realised they will think them! The show comes after Gilan’s theatre production ‘Beyond The Mind’ toured around the country to sold-out audiences. The impact of this show
saw Gilan featured extensively in the media, and Gilan has gone on to present his unique mentalist feats in over 20 countries. The Mentalist Experience is a world-class performance with extreme ‘wow factor’. It’s as thought-provoking as it is mind-blowing, and has been carefully designed for corporate events, suitable for every type of audience.
Master of Ceremonies
Get the most out of having Gilan at your event by hiring him as your MC. Using jaw dropping mentalism as icebreakers and energisers, Gilan will keep your audience engaged, entertained and attentive. With his extensive experience as both an on-stage performer and business speaker, Gilan is
Keynote Topics
- The 6 Universal Principals of Influence
- The Business of body language
- Implanting Influence
- Breakthrough Influence in Hot Conversations
Roy Clark
Areas of Expertise
Keynote Speaker
Human Capital Business Enabler
Moderator
Consultant
Human Capital Business Enabler and Strategist
Founder of ClarkHouse Human Capital, “To Rise by Lifting Others”, his core belief and the foundation of Clarkhouse Human Capital. Having a local and international background in transactional and payments Banking industry, facilitated his in-depth understanding of the finance industry.
Together with a passion for people and relationships, enabled him to work in the Human Capital environment. Roy works closely with professionals who want individual, expert career advice, as well as certain NGO’s and upcoming entrepreneurs who are looking for guidance on leadership and strategy.
Helping businesses be innovative by using Future Focused Human Capital methodologies. Roy has worked closely with numerous CEO’s,CFO’s, CIO’s and COO’s throughout Southern Africa, building professional teams and advising on future talent trends.Roy holds a B.com Economics degree from UNISA and has a PDM in Human Resources from Wits Business School.
Keynote Topics:
What is the Problem? The Future of Talent
Why HR and Corporate Innovation are mutually Exclusive Yes, Exclusive
Diversity. The key to success in the 4th Industrial Revolution
Culture. Why is it so widely spoken about, but so misunderstood?
Gender Transformation. Lessons for my daughter. Powerful and
Emotional
Courage or Comfort. What is your Leadership Legacy?Powerful
and Emotional
High Performance Teams
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”.
Stephen McGown
Areas of Expertise
Inspirational Speaker
Resilience
Communication
Stephen McGown, an ordinary guy, was abducted and held hostage by Al Qaeda in Mali for almost 6 years.36 at the time and travelling by motorbike from London to South Africa, he was kidnapped from Timbuktu along with a Dutch and Swedish national.
During the six years ,Stephen lived far from civilisation, kept deep in the Sahara away from the searching eyes of French surveillance planes and drones.He had limited communication with his family in the first six months of his captivity, which ceased altogether once the French Military Forces arrived in Mali.
Living outdoors in harsh conditions, he learnt a variety of skills such as how to protect himself from the elements. But most significantly, he learnt how to stay alive and positive when everything was stacked against him. Uncertain as to whether he would ever be released–or die in the Sahara–Stephen made a decision to come out of this experience a better person.
He chose to hold onto hope and keep a positive attitude despite the tough and seemingly hopeless situation he was in. Stephen was finally released in August 2017 and is now in the process of getting his life back together. Stephen is from Johannesburg where he went to school and attended university. Prior to Stephen’s kidnapping, he and his wife had been living in the UK and had plans to return back to South Africa to start a family and run his family’s farming business.
Keynote Topics
Stephen’s keynote take’s you on a journey through his experience of being captured by Al Qaeda. A grueling story, which taps into the resilience, and hope that Stephen, the Government, and his family endured, to get him home. This is a deeply human story, which is relevant for any organization that would like to tap into themes on
resilience, self leadership, hope, and team work.
Even though Stephens story is far removed from the reality of people lives, the essence of his struggles are not far off from his audience. His story is about resilience, and the overcoming of adversity amidst harsh weather conditions, a different culture, language, and religion.
Julia Kerr Henkel
Areas of Expertise
Dare to Lead : Brene Brown Certified Facilitator
High Performance Team Development
OD and Leadership Workshops
Individual Coaching
Conflict Resolution
Enneagram Workshops
Founded by Julia Kerr Henkel in 2008, Lumminos focuses on partnering with intact teams, human capital professionals, individuals and certified coaches as they develop the courage and skills to transition through organizational, professional and personal change. Julia is an ICF PCC-certified Integral Coach® through USA-based New Ventures West, the University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business & Centre for Coaching and a certified Leadership Embodiment Coach through USA’s Leadership Embodiment.
She is also one of Dr Brené Brown’s newly Certified Dare to Lead Facilitators™ based on Brown’s global research into the topics of courage, vulnerability and shame in the workplace – one of only 3 in Africa, 200 in the world.
Julia chooses to work with like-minded organisations and individuals who are sincere about investing in long-term human capital development and supporting their people and/or themselves through the complexities of change and the nuances of culture and team dynamics which define day-to-day business as usual.
Julia is an Organisational Development Program Designer and Facilitator, seasoned Communications and People Change Management consultant and keynote speaker. Julia primarily works with corporate Exco, senior management teams and professional individuals who are often dealing strategic, leadership, relationship, interpersonal communications and life-balance challenges and transitions.
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)
Londy Ncobo
Areas of Expertise
Africa’s first female Dredge Master
Motivational Speaker
MC/Facilitator
A Global Ship Navigator and Africa’s First Female Dredge Master. Londy Ngcobo is passionate about unlocking Africa’s ocean economy. With over 13 years of experience in the Maritime industry, her background includes Maritime Studies, International Merchant shipping experience, Advanced dredging from the Netherlands IHC, An industry shaking role as a former Maritime Compliance Manager for Transnet National Ports Authority, Founder of Global Maritime Youth and Chief Executive of Womaritime Experts, a consulting firm in the shipping industry. All which has led to her well known title “The BLACKMERMAID”
As a mother and wife herself Londy is passionate about women and Youth empowerment. Her experience has equipped her with the ability to focus on providing sustainable tools for women to thrive and her zest for life encourages the youth to think outside the box. Through public speaking which includes a TEDx Talk, Forbes Women Africa, and various media platforms Londy has impacted so many lives by instilling bold and global mentality to those who have had a privilege of seeing her in action. This Blackmermaid sure is making waves on land.
Keynote Topic
- Navigating Against All Odds. – Realizing the warrior in her.
- Why Is A Ship Called “SHE” – The power she holds.
- Getting Ready To Abandon Ship – Give it your best shot.
- Mayday Mayday – Claiming her power.
- The Pink Ship – The power of women collaboration.