Douglas Kruger
Douglas Kruger – Business Leadership is a Professional speaker and business author is changing mindsets, creating experts and building brands, one organisation at a time. Book Douglas through Conference Speakers.
When you insist on ‘owning’ your industry, there is no alternative: International speaker and business author Douglas Kruger CSP helps you to build your brand, to out-pace your competitors through innovation, and to position yourself as an industry leader.
Douglas is the author of 6 business books, including the highly acclaimed ‘Own Your Industry – How to Position Yourself as an Expert,’ with Penguin Random House. A multiple award-winning speaker, his clients include senior management at companies like MultiChoice, BMW, Liberty and HP. In 2015, Liberty and MultiChoice booked him for their multi-city roadshows. Douglas’s results were so exceptional that in 2016, both organisations insisted on using him again.
In 2016, in honour of excellence in his craft, Douglas was inducted into the Speakers Hall of Fame by his chapter of the Professional Speakers Association.
Hall of Fame Speaker & Bestselling Business Author
‘Thank you for delivering beyond our expectations. You have contributed immensely to the culture of innovation at MultiChoice’ – Charmaine Smith, GM of Strategy and Business Development, MultiChoice Africa
What would it take to place your brand at the pinnacle of an industry?
International speaker and business author Douglas Kruger answers that question for your leadership team. He helps you to build your brand, out-pace your competitors through disruptive innovation, and position yourself as an industry leader.
Douglas has been inducted into the Speakers Hall of Fame by the Professional Speakers Association. He also holds the coveted CSP designation from the National Speakers Association.
He is the author of 6 business books, including the bestselling ‘Own Your Industry – How to Position Yourself as an Expert,’ with Penguin. A multiple award-winning speaker, his clients include senior management at companies like MultiChoice, BMW, Liberty and HP. In 2015, Liberty and MultiChoice booked him for their multi-city roadshows. Douglas’s results were so exceptional that in 2016, both organisations insisted on using him again.
Douglas’s thought-leadership ideas have been featured repeatedly on CNBC Africa and he has been published in Forbes and Entrepreneur magazines. His newest book, ‘They’re Your Rules – Break Them!’ looks at how behemoth organisations can become more agile. Douglas Kruger – Business Strategy next title will be: ‘What Makes Them Great? 50 Ways to Become the Leading Name.’
When you need industry-leading ideas, backed by research and packaged with humour and charm, call on leading professional speaker Douglas Kruger. His aim is to bring life to your event and prosperity to your brand. Follow CSI on Twitter
Every keynote is designed to meet specific criteria: Solve a business problem, increase your revenue, and thoroughly entertain your people. Expect a thought-provoking mix of high-impact principles, memorable stories and humour that drives home important ideas. Aside from being a business author, Douglas Kruger CSP is a 5 x winner of the SA Championships for Public Speaking. ‘Boring’ is not in his vocabulary.
THEY’RE YOUR RULES, BREAK THEM!
Strategic Rule-Breaking for Disruptive Innovators.
Disruptive innovation is everywhere. What if, rather than suffering its game-changing blows, you positioned yourself as the brand that champions the change? Do you have the courage to lead the way?
Based on Douglas’s bestselling book, ‘They’re Your Rules, Break Them! 50 Ways to Smash Silos, Bust Bureaucracy and Create a High-Performance Culture,’ this impactful keynote helps your leadership team to learn the agility secrets of top performing brands.
Douglas Kruger – Business Leadership is a master at asking all the right, difficult questions, and revealing new ways of looking at your scenario, all with playful humour and charm.
Perfect for the leadership team that knows it needs to do something different if it hopes to gain and retain the top spot in the market. Innovation is an imperative. Find out how.
Available as a keynote presentation or workshop.
Books available as take-home gifts for your delegates.
OWN YOUR INDUSTRY
How to Position Yourself as an Expert
When you are the Branson of business, the Clarkson of cars, the Nigella of food, the business comes to you. Are you a ‘category of 1’? When clients spend into your industry, are you the only logical choice?
For over a decade, business author and professional speaker Douglas Kruger has been studying the phenomenon of experts. What differentiates them? What do they do that amateurs don’t? What can we learn by emulating the behaviours of top performers across a range of industries?
Based on two of Douglas’s bestselling book with Penguin, ‘Own Your Industry’, and ‘What Makes Them Great?’, this presentation shows how you, your business, and your brand can position yourself as the icon, the expert, the thought-leader in your industry. When you do, the business comes to you.
Own a cause and you will create tribes of believing followers. Become the only logical choice and you will be consistently recommended. Position yourself as an expert, and the entire business landscape changes in some interesting ways.
Available as a keynote presentation or workshop.
Books available as take-home gifts for your delegates.
HIGH-IQ LEADERSHIP
The latest ‘smartcuts’ from Behavioural Economics and Lateral-Thinking
Behavioural Economics has some astonishing insights for us. Imagine if you could take all the best, and all the most effective ‘smart-cuts’, and share them with your leaders in one go.
The concepts are simple. But their effects are phenomenal.
For instance, did you know that you shouldn’t perform ‘deep archaeology’ in order to change the culture in your organisation? Instead, you should supply your people with concrete prompts: ‘When this happens, I want you to do that instead.’ This idea is exponentially more effective than attempts at radical overhaul.
So is ‘speaking in photographs from the future.’ It helps our teams to ‘see what we mean,’ to a much greater extent than the kind of abstract language that managers typically use.
These are the sort of insider secrets we will cover. Douglas Kruger – Business Leadership will show your leaders how to ‘see’ more, and how to get results at a larger scale. The ideas are designed to carve years off your leadership teams’ learning curve, and they are delivered with humour and panache by a bestselling author and inductee into the ‘Speakers’ Hall of Fame.’
Available as a keynote presentation or workshop.
Books available as take-home gifts for your delegates.
LEAD FROM THE FRONT
How to engage and persuade every time you present
Too few leaders realise it, but presentation skills can be their single strongest argument for career advancement. When you are seen leading from the front of the room, you draw positive attention to your personal brand, you position yourself as a natural leader, and you become an asset to your organisation.
Poor speaking skills can stop your progress dead in its tracks. With so much at stake, why not invest in taking yours to the next level?
This course goes beyond the mere mechanics of public speaking and presenting, and shows your sales and leadership teams how to truly engage and persuade. Are your messages ‘un-ignorable’? Does the point get through? Are you so compelling that audiences leave your presentations excited about the way forward? At the very least, do you know which mistakes to cull, to avoid disqualifying yourself as an amateur?
Few people in the nation are as qualified to train this skill. In recognition of excellence in his craft, global Professional Speaker Douglas Kruger has been inducted into the Speakers Hall of Fame by the Professional Speakers Association of Southern Africa. He is a 5x winner of the Southern African Championships for Public Speaking and the author of ’50 Ways to Become a Better Speaker,’ and ‘How to Make your Point Without PowerPoint.’
Douglas Kruger – Business Leadership has been presenting on the business circuit for some fifteen years. He has personally coached the CEO of FNB South Africa, the senior leadership of BMW SA, the MD of Clarins and many more.