Leadership Speakers

Book world-class African speakers specializing in Leadership. 49 speakers available for keynotes, panels, and workshops.

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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

Uduak Amimo

Uduak Amimo

Executive Coach | Leadership Facilitator | Communication Advisor • Kenya

Uduak Amimo is the founder of Asanama Leadership. She brings a journalist's understanding of how leaders perform under scrutiny, a coach's capacity to work with

Jan van Schalkwyk

Jan van Schalkwyk

Institutional Capacity Development Champion • South Africa

Jan van Schalkwyk is an institutional capacity-development practitioner, facilitator and co-designer with close to thirty years of experience at the Auditor-Gen

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

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

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

Oelzah Puckree

Oelzah Puckree

CEO • South Africa

Oelzah is the CEO of Figure Eight Network Solutions and a highly experienced organisational advisor, executive coach, and leadership strategist with nearly two

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

Thembani Ncayiyana

Thembani Ncayiyana

Rail and Operations Specialist | Board Chair | Advocate for Quiet Authority • South Africa

Thembani Ncayiyana is a rail and operations specialist, engineer, board chair and emerging speaker whose work sits at the intersection of authentic leadership,

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

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

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

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.

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

Lindiwe Matlali

Lindiwe Matlali

Chief Executive Officer • South Africa

Lindiwe Matlali is a London based deep tech entrepreneur, keynote speaker, and systems builder. She is the Founder and CEO of SWERFVALK and the Founder of Afric

Chris Brooks

Chris Brooks

Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Clarendon Capital Ventures • United States of America

Dr. Chris Brooks works at the intersection of capital, identity, sovereignty and human flourishing. His central argument is deceptively simple: value is not abs

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

Kevin Lentin

Kevin Lentin

Chiropractor | Functional Medicine Practitioner | Preventive Health Speaker • South Africa

Dr Kevin Lentin has spent 41 years in clinical practice in Cape Town, where roughly 35,000 people have walked into his rooms. Most came because something hurt.

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

James Wasserstrom

James Wasserstrom

Integrity, Corruption & the Cost of Speaking Truth to Power • Greece

James Wasserstrom is an American diplomat, international anti-corruption expert, whistleblower and founder of The Integrity Sanctuary whose career has placed hi

Boipelo Letlape

Boipelo Letlape

Visionary Leader | Governance, Transformation & African Sovereignty Voice • South Africa

Boipelo Letlape is a visionary leader, governance advocate, and one of South Africa's emerging voices on African sovereignty, youth leadership, and systemic tra

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

Hubert Danso

Hubert Danso

CEO and Chairman, Africa investor (Ai) Group | Architect of Institutional Capital at Scale • South Africa

Dr. Hubert Danso is the CEO and Chairman of Africa investor (Ai) Group, a pan-African institutional infrastructure investment platform he founded in 2002. For

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

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

Onyi Anyado

Onyi Anyado

• United Kingdom

I partner with senior executives, leadership teams and organisations on how to become future fit, future focused and future fluent in what I call “The Era of Cr

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

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

Samke S. Mhlongo

Samke S. Mhlongo

Global MC and Panel Moderator | Founder, The Next Chapter Global • South Africa

Samke Mhlongo is a strategist, author and global moderator specialising in conversations on capital, markets and economic growth, with a particular interest 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

Jay Atara

Jay Atara

Author of Coherent Leaders | Former Chief Financial Officer, FCMA FCT | Executive Coach to Finance Leaders • United Kingdom,Tanzania

Jay Atara is a former chief financial officer and corporate treasurer, the author of Coherent Leaders: Leadership Begins from Within, and an executive coach to

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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