Strategy Speakers

Book world-class African speakers specializing in Strategy. 37 speakers available for keynotes, panels, and workshops.

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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

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

Sharron L. McPherson

Sharron L. McPherson

Founder and CEO, Resilience Technologies Inc. | Author, From Risk to Resilience • South Africa,United States of America

Sharron L. McPherson helps leaders see what gets missed when big infrastructure and investment decisions are made in silos, before those decisions become expens

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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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