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 workshops for athletes representing SA on a global platform, he is a sought-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. With experience in financial services, he consulted on client segmentation
analysis aimed at revenue/cost optimisation.

Frank Magwegwe is an entrepreneur, personal finance and employee financial wellness expert, active citizen, and business speaker whose work has been recognized by many esteemed organizations. A lifelong learner, Frank is reading for his doctorate in financial planning at Kansas State University.

Life.Money.You

The average person makes six to ten money decisions per day ranging from small decisions like buying a cup of coffee or packing lunch for work to saving for retirement or a child’s education. So many financial decisions require a balance of financial literacy, self-control and making the best possible decision given limited information. Most of these decisions are unguided. No wonder money continues to keep people up at night. Since personal finance is hardly taught in schools, most people learn to manage money through trial and error or from their parents who also learnt to manage money through trial and error. No wonder, low financial literacy is accompanied by high levels of debt, irrespective of income and background and general financial stress. Financial stress can impact negatively impact mental and physical health. People need more financial guidance but they are not getting it Get hope in your financial life and get started on the journey to long-term financial security using Frank’s 6 SMARRT steps. In this practical talk, Frank will discuss the money mindset, money stories, money mindfulness, the power of choices and the money behaviours that sabotage long-term financial security

Life.Purpose.You

Are you passionate about how you are living today and where you are going in the future? Or do you sometimes feel that you are merely a passenger in a bus to nowhere that you hopped on early in your working life and allowed to determine the direction of your life With very few people instinctively knowing where they want to go with their lives and many people in search of purpose, Frank’s talk puts people in the driver’s seat of their life, making them confident about being there, knowing where they want to go and more importantly WHY. Through the 6 SMARRT steps, Frank shows that the “why” of life is the force that inspires people and the foundation for finding their purpose.

Life.Obstacles.You

Be inspired by Frank’s deeply personal story of setbacks, challenges, adventure, success and triumph. Frank takes you on an amazing journey through his life experiences as a barman, dead broke, unemployed, and homeless young man, fruit & vegetable vendor, entrepreneur and most importantly, the lessons learned. Motivate your audiences to get out of the shadows, overcome obstacles, go from invisible to invincible and flourish with Frank’s 6 SMARRT lessons from overcoming obstacles. The proven, actionable, real-life and practical SMARRT steps show how Frank “beat the odds” and “escaped” homelessness in his transformation from invisible homeless young man to personal finance and employee financial wellness expert, entrepreneur and active citizen. The 6 SMARRT steps can be brought into the context of any organization and harnessed by anyone with determination, drive and desire to excel.

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

• The 6 Universal Principals of Influence
• The Business of body language
• Implanting Influence
• Breakthrough Influence in Hot Conversations

Michael Cowen, an ex-Digital Agency, ex-Digital Management Consultant, now turned Explorer of The Future. Michael helps business to shift the thinking and to redefine their underlying operating system within a digital economy.

Today’s world demands a different operating system. The old one has been disrupted by exponential technology at exponential speeds. It’s no longer business as usual! Exponential thinking is required within this new digital economy.

Michael helps business understand how to transform and disrupt themselves.

1. Digital Economics

The underlying operating system is being redefined and requires a massive shift in thinking. This goes beyond #ThinkingDigitally and building a digital business. These are built on an operating system that governs how we do things. You need to start with understanding the change in the operating system and #ShiftYourThinking into a post capitalistic world.

2. #ShiftYourThinking: Disrupt Yourself before you become irrelevant

You need to change your business, the results that you are getting, and how you scale your business tomorrow requires you to think digitally.

Why? Because we are now in the digital economy, where we see:

• How you scale your business is defined by how well you embrace technology, converting inefficiencies process through technologically driven automation.
• Driving towards zero margin costs through digital dematerialization. Data feedback loops growing your business through real insights and understanding as opposed to strategic assumption.
• The speed of change defines your ability to compete rather than the uniqueness and differentiation of who you are and what solutions you offer.

3. The 3 Steps to Digital Disruption

Based on this two-sided strategy, we see three key steps to the digital transformation process. We all know how hard digital transformation is and you need to keep the structure practical and simple we see 3 key steps:

a. Refine the Core
b. Refocus the Core
c. Reinvent The Core and who it serves

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.

1. Every business is a digital business
2. Breaking down blockchain
3. Artificial intelligence: the robots are coming
4. Hackers gonna hack

Musa is an enthusiastic entrepreneur, born in Zambia. He has lived in Scotland, Botswana and England. He currently lives in Johannesburg, South Africa. CEO and Founder of Bridge Labs, Musa addresses the problem of gaining access to appropriate online tools for entrepreneurs and small to medium businesses (SMB’s) by building mobile platforms to support growth in emerging markets.

As a respected thought leader in the marketing industry, Musa advises on digital marketing strategy for businesses with his Marketing in a Digital World Executive Programme. Through the use of technology, the digitally invisible economy will be able to create viable, affordable and sustainable solutions that will solve crucial problems in our society.

Musa started his first business, Monatefellaz, a youth marketing consultancy, while studying
at the University of the Witwatersrand (WITS).

After Monatefellaz was incorporated into IHOP WORLD, as part of a merger with a division of the Brand Leadership Group, Musa worked asManaging Director before becoming Group Head of Digital Marketing at Nedbank, and then Facebook Client Partner for Africa. As a strategic marketer for these two companies, Musa worked with foreign governments and multinational companies to create innovative digital

With a Bachelor of Commerce and Chartered Marketer (SA) designation from WITS, Musa has excelled academically, and was the top student in Sustainability and Future Fit Business at the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS), while completing his MBA in 2015.

Musa received three nominations for the prestigious Black Business Quarterly Awards in 2008, and was voted as one of the Top 200 Young South Africans by the Mail & Guardian in 2012. Musa was the first Chairman of the Youth Advertising Board of South Africa in 2005/6, and previously held the position of Head of Brand Portfolio for the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB). He is also a board member for Africa Teen Geeks. As a thought leader and influencer, Musa was a member of the Johannesburg Hub of the World Economic Forum Global Shapers Community, an organisation of inspiring young individuals who work together to make a strategic and grassroots impact on their communities through dialogue, policy contributions and partnerships. https://www.globalshapers.org/

“An Entertainment and Technical, one stop shop”

A Powerhouse, made up of a high caliber team who boast over 11 years of experience in professional productions. We are driven and thrive on diversity, logistics, artistic assignments, and personalised services.

With new benchmarks set to generate exceptional productions tirelessly striving to inspire our clients, audiences and affiliates in the entertainment industry, internationally acclaimed productions, sets and audiovisuals to suit any budget.

Our graphics department and creative divisions support cll branding installation for event and entertainment requirements.

• Our values are realistic – careful to deliver on our promises
• Our Systems – functional, efficient and practical.
• Our Approach – success  focused on
  • keeping the outcome in mind
  • rapid turnaround on delivery
  • budget margins that stick to efficient scheduling.

With state of the art studio facilities, we specialise in:

• Choreography
• Entertainment directions
• Stage management
• Scriptwriting
• Music production
• Musical arrangement and score
• Dance studio facilities
• AV, sound, lighting, staging,multimedia and recording studio facilities.

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

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

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.

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

Comedian, Actor, Businessman, Cool Dad Extraordinaire

Is much more than what meets the eye. Mpho’s journey began like anyone with a “big dream”, in the casting line on the national comedy search TV show , “So You Think You Are Funny”. This platform gave him the audience needed to put himself out there as a serious comic.

With great local and global appeal, Popps packed venues and line ups with his debut one-man show, “Exhibit A”, and his annual, “Mpho Popps Birthday Comedy Special”, Blacks Only.

Club tours and festivals is where Popps solidified his mark in the industry, earing him a nomination for the first ever, Annual Comics Choices Awards as best newcomer where he went on to win the award for “Breakthrough act” the following year.

Popps has a talent for languages and is a “fox with a real silver tongue” on stage, captivating all types of audiences in and around South Africa. Popps performs overseas, a comedian of the world and as such he has already shown his global appeal.

• LA – Laugh Factory
• Canada – Just for Laughs Comedy Festival
• Nigeria – Lord of the Rib’s Comedy Festival
• Zimbabwe – Shoko Festival
• Kenya – A Night of a Thousand Laughs
• Lesotho, Botswana, Swaziland and Ghana ‘s – Easter Comedy Show

Popps uses real-life situations and makes them relatable through humour. Combining Intellectual Wit and Pop Culture Plugs, creates a world filled with joy and laughter. His performances, talent and skill is an embodiment of his true self – this is Popps, all day and every day.

• More of Popps’ s Accomplishments
• Debuted as an Actor on the hit drama series “Ayeye”
• Starred and executive produced a local film “Tina Sobabili” that was selected to represent South Africa at The Oscars and The Golden Globes
• Hosted the South African Music Awards

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

Author, Motivational Speaker as well as an Entrepreneur.

Sibusiso grew up just like any other kid in Soweto. Strong to his Faith, by God’s grace he was afforded the opportunity to go to boarding school. Growing up in a township, the experience, exposed him to many things.
To dream bigger and work harder.

“Your talent will be seen once you are given an opportunity to try out things.”

Sibusiso’s book, Work Through the Barriers to Success, speaks about what he refers to as the five significant barriers preventing our dreams from coming true.

1.Lack of Vision
2.The Enemy Within
3.Negative Opinions from others
4.Victims of Circumstance
5.Being Comfortable

Keynote Topics

1.From Idea to Reality

Sharing strategies on how to take an idea and make it a reality as well as ways in which to overcome procrastination

2.Attitudes of Champions

Sharing five attributes that Champions display:
1.Attitude of Patience
2.Attitude of Plus +1
3.Attitude of Persistence
4.Attitude of Personal Growth
5.Attitude of Partnership

3.From Communication to Connection

Sharing strategies that help people become more effective, confident and eloquent communicators that will not only communicate but connect with their audience.

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:

• 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”.