Business / Management Speakers

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Ahmed Ahmod

Ahmed Ahmod

The People Performance Strategist • South Africa

Ahmed Ahmod is The People Performance Strategist, a former ICT sales executive who helps organisations understand the human behaviour underneath business perfor

Veli Ndaba

Veli Ndaba

Brain-based Leadership & Human Performance Architect • South Africa

Veli Ndaba is a Brain-based Leadership & Human Performance Architect, keynote speaker, and author of The Neuroscience of Effective Leadership, known for transfo

Per Lagerstrom

Per Lagerstrom

Venture Builder | AI Digital Strategy & Transformation | BehaviorTech | NED | Ex-McKinsey Partner • South Africa

Per Lagerstrom is a Swedish-born, Cape Town-based venture builder, AI strategy adviser and former McKinsey partner with more than 30 years of experience across

Xolela Mangcu

Xolela Mangcu

The Decision Strategist | Professor, Sociologist, Biographer & Leadership ScholarGeorge Washington University • South Africa,United States of America

Dr Xolela Mangcu is a sociologist, biographer and professor at George Washington University whose work examines how leaders make difficult decisions when values

Musa Kalenga

Musa Kalenga

Entrepreneur | Digital Marketing Expert • South Africa

Musa Kalenga is a technologist, marketer and entrepreneur, and the Group CEO and shareholder of Brave Group. He co‑founded Bridge Labs, where he serves as Execu

Teddy Tatenda Chikondo

Teddy Tatenda Chikondo

Leadership Capacity Builder | Strategy Advisor | Management Consultant | Speaker & Facilitator • Zimbabwe

Teddy Tatenda Chikondo helps Africa lead with clarity, confidence and purpose. With experience across Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Botswana, Namibia, Malawi, Zambia, Uga

Queen Ramotsehoa

Queen Ramotsehoa

Executive Coach | Facilitator | Speaker • South Africa

Executive coach, facilitator and speaker; founder of Tsheto Leadership and Coaching Academy; 20+ years transforming leadership cultures across Africa.

Samuel Alexander

Samuel Alexander

Global Innovation Executive | Technology Strategist | Keynote Speaker | Investor| CEO/Founder • United States of America

Founder and CEO, C2C Fashion and Technology Ecosystem | Circular Systems Strategist | Fashion Technology Innovator | AI, Web3 and Smart Manufacturing Thought Le

Khaya Dlanga

Khaya Dlanga

Former Managing Partner, Delta Victor Bravo and eatbigfish Africa | Founding CMO, rain | Author • South Africa

Khaya Dlanga is a strategist, TED speaker, author of five books and former Managing Partner at Delta Victor Bravo, eatbigfish's partner in Africa. He has worked

Aisha Pandor

Aisha Pandor

Founder & CEO, Pandora Health; Co‑founder & Board Director, SweepSouth; Co‑founder/Partner, E4E Africa • United States of America

Dr Aisha Pandor is a scientist‑entrepreneur working at the intersection of healthcare, technology and inclusive growth. She is Founder & CEO of Pandora Health,

Brad Beira

Brad Beira

Risk Analyst | Former Secretary General, World Federation of Chiropractic (WFC) • South Africa

Prof. Brad Beira operates where leadership, ethics and health meet. His signature idea, Tensegrity Leadership, shows how organisations hold their shape by balan

Johan Steyn

Johan Steyn

Human centred AI advocate • South Africa

Johan Steyn has been called “Africa’s foremost Artificial Intelligence thought leader.” A prolific writer, speaker, teacher and academic, he regularly helps org

Martin Feinstein

Martin Feinstein

Entrepreneur | Innovation Strategist • South Africa

Entrepreneur and innovation strategist; founding CEO of Proudly South African; three decades designing SME and innovation programmes; co‑led Step‑Up Technology

Bonang Mohale

Bonang Mohale

Board Chair | Chancellor • South Africa

Professor Bonang Mohale is the Chancellor of the University of the Free State, Former President of Business Unity South Africa (BUSA), Professor of Practice in

Mpho Matsitse

Mpho Matsitse

C-Suite Group Executive | Non-Executive Director | Unlocking Hidden Value, Engineering Real Results • South Africa

Mpho Matsitse has spent fifteen years working between what organisations commit to and what they can later prove changed. His career has taken him through mana

Lionel L. Marumahoko

Lionel L. Marumahoko

Entrepreneur; Executive Advisor; Leadership Speaker; Former Coca‑Cola VP/GM & M&A Director • United Kingdom,Zimbabwe

Lionel T. Marumahoko is a Zimbabwe‑born global business leader and advisor who spent over 25 years with The Coca‑Cola Company leading multi‑country P&Ls, M&A, a

Jeetesh Kathawaroo

Jeetesh Kathawaroo

Founder & Managing Director, Echo Advisory • South Africa

Jeetesh Kathawaroo helps organisations close the gap between strategy and results. As the Founder & MD of Echo Advisory (Johannesburg/Sandton), he leads practic

Yaa Ashantewaa Archer-Ngidi

Yaa Ashantewaa Archer-Ngidi

Entrepreneur | Social Impact Leader • South Africa

Yaa Ashantewaa Archer-Ngidi is a social impact leader and entrepreneur dedicated to empowering communities and advancing women's leadership.

Ilka Dunne

Ilka Dunne

Founder • South Africa

With a career spanning multiple sectors (including 20 years in financial services) and having worked with all employee levels from young talent to exco, Ilka br

Nosipho Damasane

Nosipho Damasane

Chairman and Independent Non-Executive Director, Richards Bay Coal Terminal | Former CEO, Richards Bay Coal Terminal, PRASA Rail and Bombela Operating Company | Former COO, Transnet Port Terminals • South Africa

Nosipho Siwisa Damasane is Chairman and Independent Non-Executive Director of Richards Bay Coal Terminal and has more than three decades of executive leadership

Paul Jones

Paul Jones

Founder & Executive Director — One Million Strong • South Africa

Cape Town–based business strategist, leadership coach and social entrepreneur; CEO of the Nolands Foundation; Founder & CEO of Kairos Connect; Founder/Executive

Andrew Wambari Kairu

Andrew Wambari Kairu

Former Group Chairman, KCB Group PLC | Board Leadership & Governance Practitioner | Founder, AWK Capital • Kenya

Andrew Wambari Kairu is one of East Africa's most experienced board chairs. As Group Chairman of KCB Group PLC from 2018 to 2023, East Africa's largest bank by

Isvari Naidoo

Isvari Naidoo

Founder Thirdmind Advisory • South Africa

Isvari Naidoo brings a rare blend of commercial leadership, digital commerce expertise, and behavioural insight shaped over 16 years in Africa’s most complex FM

Neil Bierbaum

Neil Bierbaum

Executive & Team Performance Coach | Keynote Speaker | Author • South Africa

Neil Bierbaum is an executive, leadership and team performance coach, keynote speaker and author based in Johannesburg, South Africa. An ICF Professional Certif

Ajay Jivan

Ajay Jivan

The Standards Architect | Professor of Practice | Psychologist | Non-Executive Director | People Governance and Leadership Development Authority • South Africa

Prof Ajay Jivan is The Standards Architect, a psychologist, Professor of Practice at North-West University and Non-Executive Director at JET Education Services.

Michael Andrew

Michael Andrew

Business Leader | Strategist | Business & Management Coach • South Africa

Pretoria‑based business and management coach; founder of A2M Consultants; 27 years at SARS (senior management & management coach); delivers keynotes and worksho

Eric Edmeades

Eric Edmeades

Transformational Architect • United Arab Emirates,South Africa,Estonia

Eric Edmeades is a South African-born transformational architect, entrepreneur and international keynote speaker who works on one stubborn organisational proble

Buhle Dlamini

Buhle Dlamini

Global Keynote Speaker • Canada

Meg Faure

Meg Faure

Occupational Therapist, Founder and Author • South Africa

Meg Faure is an internationally recognised occupational therapist, infant specialist, entrepreneur, author, and FemTech innovator who has spent more than three

Rapelang Rabana

Rapelang Rabana

Co-CEO, Imagine Worldwide | Founder & Chair, Rekindle Learning | Partner, FFWD Innovation • South Africa

Rapelang Rabana is a South African computer scientist, entrepreneur and keynote speaker who builds technology that changes how people learn and work. She is Co-

Mushambi Mutuma

Mushambi Mutuma

Author of The Adaptability Code | Executive Adviser on the Future of Leadership | Managing Partner, Kairos Consulting Africa • South Africa

Mushambi Mutuma helps leaders make sense of a challenging and uncertain future and turn it into tangible mindset and operational changes they can begin making w

Eunice Ireri

Eunice Ireri

Project Manager | PhD Researcher | Author • Kenya

Eunice Ireri is a Kenyan project manager, PhD researcher and author who speaks for the person doing the work. Across more than two decades in project environmen

Sthembiso Phakathi

Sthembiso Phakathi

Organisational Transformation Strategist, Leadership Adviser and Author • South Africa

Sthembiso Phakathi is an organisational transformation strategist, leadership adviser and author with more than two decades of experience helping organisations

Michael Ikpoki

Michael Ikpoki

Adviser to CEOs, Boards and Investors on growth, governance, and market expansion in Africa. Former CEO of MTN Nigeria and MTN Ghana. • Nigeria

Michael Ikpoki is a Board Chairman, Non-Executive Director, and Senior Adviser to CEOs, boards, and investors in Africa, drawing on his experience as a multinat

Bryan Cassady

Bryan Cassady

Professor, Author and Keynote • United States of America,Belgium

Bryan is not your average speaker. He is a professor, worked as a consultant, authored two international bestseller books, serial entrepreneur and now with a mi

Anael Granoux

Anael Granoux

Strategy Advisor | Lecturer | Speaker • South Africa

Anael Granoux Founder at Strategy Reignited Strategy Advisor | Lecturer | Speaker Anael is a French advisor, lecturer, speaker, NED and entrepreneur with tw

Shanaaz Majiet

Shanaaz Majiet

The Courage Architect • South Africa

Shanaaz Majiet is an institutional transformation practitioner, ICF Master Credentialed Coach (MCC), and public sector leadership expert with more than three de

Zain Reddiar

Zain Reddiar

Global CHRO and Culture Strategist | CCI Global | Doctorate in Innovation and Technology | Author • South Africa

Dr Zain Reddiar, a sought after speaker is a respected, dynamic and innovative business professional who excels at executive level strategic management, human r

Mteto Nyati

Mteto Nyati

Chairperson of Eskom | Executive Chairman at BSG • South Africa

Dr Mteto Nyati is the Chairperson of Eskom and Executive Chairman of BSG. He was previously CEO of Altron, CEO of MTN SA, and MD at Microsoft SA. Known for driv

Richard Harding

Richard Harding

• United States of America

Global partnerships strategist and media executive with more than 20 years of experience designing collaboration infrastructures linking national government age

Freeman Nomvalo

Freeman Nomvalo

Former CEO, SAICA (2019 - 2024); Former Accountant-General of South Africa (2004 - 2013); Former CEO, SITA (2013 - 2015); NSFAS Administrator (2024–2025) • South Africa

Sithembiso Freeman Nomvalo is the former CEO of SAICA and South Africa’s first African, longest‑serving Accountant‑General (2004 - 2013). He previously led SITA

Nyimpini Mabunda

Nyimpini Mabunda

President & CEO I Board Chair I Best Selling Author • South Africa

Nyimpini Mabunda is a global executive, turnaround specialist and best-selling author known for leading complex organisations across Africa. His story from rura

Zanele Hadebe

Zanele Hadebe

Leadership Beyond the Mask: Brand, Voice and the Human Side of Performance | Executive Marketing Leader, Customer Experience Strategist & Leadership Voice • South Africa

Zanele Hadebe is an executive marketing leader, customer experience strategist and speaker with 24 years of leadership experience across financial services, tel

Claudelle Von Eck

Claudelle Von Eck

Founder, Brave Inflexions | Board Director | Authority on Ethical Leadership and Governance in Complex Systems • South Africa

Dr Claudelle von Eck works at the point where formal governance meets the considerably less orderly reality of human behaviour. Her central argument is that in

Phillip Tsvangira

Phillip Tsvangira

Dr • South Africa

Dr Phil Tsvangira International Leadership Strategist | Executive Coach | Change Specialist Phil Tsvangira is a distinguished expert in leadership development,

Katlego Mabusela

Katlego Mabusela

• South Africa

Katlego Mabusela is a behavioural performance strategist, entrepreneur, and speaker who helps organisations close the gap between strategy and execution. With

Gina Margaret Tiger

Gina Margaret Tiger

Founder • United Arab Emirates

Gina-Margaret Tiger is a Zimbabwean-born entrepreneur, digital growth strategist, filmmaker, media creator and emerging AI business builder whose career sits at

Songezo Zibi

Songezo Zibi

African Systems Interpreter for Boards and Leaders | National Leader, RISE Mzansi | Member of Parliament | Chair, SCOPA • South Africa

Songezo Zibi is better known as the Chairperson of the powerful Standing Committee on Public Accounts in Parliament, but he has had a stellar corporate career a

Nonhlanhla Mjoli-Mncube

Nonhlanhla Mjoli-Mncube

Business leader; Policy Advisor • South Africa

Nonhlanhla Mjoli-Mncube is a corporate executive, entrepreneur and board leader who has served as Lead Independent Director at Absa Group and Zeder Investments

Lulu Gwagwa

Lulu Gwagwa

Chair, Barloworld | Chair, Zutari • CEO/Principal, Lereko Investments • South Africa

Dr Nolulamo “Lulu” Gwagwa is a development planner, investor and board chair across public, private and NGO sectors. She is Chair of Barloworld and Zutari, IN

Zipporah Maubane

Zipporah Maubane

Head of Communications and Advocacy, AUDA-NEPAD | Founder Digital Ascent Ltd • South Africa

Zipporah Maubane is Head of Communications & Advocacy at the African Union Development Agency (AUDA‑NEPAD), advancing Agenda 2063 through narrative strategy, in

Evita Nyandoro

Evita Nyandoro

• South Africa

Evita Makura Nyandoro is a Pan-African financial and risk expert,governance strategist, Chartered Accountant CA(SA), FCA, and senior executive with over 20 year

Royal Duduza Khosana

Royal Duduza Khosana

Executive Decision Architect | Governance, Leadership & Institutional Transformation Adviser • United Arab Emirates

Dr Royal Duduza Khosana is an Executive Decision Architect and governance, leadership and institutional transformation adviser who helps boards and executive te

Dikeledi Seleka

Dikeledi Seleka

CEO & Business Development Strategist • South Africa

Dikeledi Seleka is the CEO of Dynamic Timz Coaching, a Johannesburg-based leadership development and business strategy firm she founded 12 years ago. Her work s

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