Zipho Sikhakhane
Saffron Baggallay
Zipho Sikhakhane
Areas of Expertise
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.
Saffron Baggallay
Areas of Expertise
International Narrative Enneagram Facilitator
Somatic Intelligence Facilitator & Coach
Brain-based Coach
Personal Mastery
Saffron is passionate about growing supportive and engaged leadership communities through building authentic trust and fearless vulnerability. This has led to the development of her unique personal mastery based approach to all her programmes & keynotes.
With an Honours degree in Sociology and Philosophy from Trinity College, Dublin, and an MADA degree from WITS, Saffron is often asked to address topics facing most businesses today. These include, but are not limited to her personal mastery programmes, management and talent development, organisational design and change management.
Employing her skills as an experienced facilitator, coach and keynote speaker,Saffron is highly proficient in adapting her approach to match her audience and their specific needs. Her ability as as tory teller, makes Saffron’s interactions with delegates that much more engaging than dealing with dry theory. Her content is both environmentally and industry specific, containing universal truths about human behaviour to captivate her delegates, and empower them to thrive in their roles & in their lives.
Saffron’s focus is on delivering real value, by imparting knowledge and skills to her delegates that have practical applications in both life, and work. “It’s not what you know, it’s what you do with it!”is a phrase you will often hear in her workshops.
Her unique blend of methodology, models and coaching while delivering content makes for a leader and team experience like no other. Delegates often contact Saffron, describing her work as life- changing; and not just after the programme, up to years afterwards.
Focus Areas
• Beating Burnout • personal leadership
• Managing Mental Health For Managers
• Self-Esteem For Leaders
• Building Trust In Hybrid Workplaces
• Rebuilding Employee Culture After Covid & Restructures