Topic: Team Building

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.

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.

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 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)