Zipho Sikhakhane
Graeme Codrington
Peter Van Kets
Musa Kalenga
Dr Garrath Rosslee
Niven Postma
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.
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.
Peter Van Kets
Areas of Expertise
Motivational
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
Musa Kalenga
Areas of Expertise
Keynote Speaker
Entrepreneur
Strategic Marketer
Author
Digital Expert
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
Qualifications
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/
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
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- 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”.