South Africa

Brett has over 20 years of experience in the global digital landscape and over 10 years of Silicon Valley experience where he worked to build African successes at Admob (world’s largest Mobile Advertising Network), Android, Youtube, Google and Google’s Cloud Computing across Africa. It’s there that he employed the secrets of Silicon Valley. Brett St Clair is… read more »

Chantell Ilbury Cape Town-based Chantell Ilbury speaks on strategic thinking and the structure of a strategic conversation, business scenarios, global scenarios, global climate change and other South African and African scenarios. After meeting Anglo America’s Clem Sunter and sharing her ideas on scenario planning, the duo wrote their best-selling books ‘The Mind of a Fox’, ‘Games Foxes Play’ and… read more »

Terry is a design strategist specialising in emerging markets and currently works with a portfolio that includes projects in educational mobility, neuroscience, IoT (Internet of Things), global healthcare, financial access, city innovation and other digitally driven environments.. He has worked in over 20 markets across the globe and has a strong background in creativity, strategy and… read more »

London-based, Alec Hogg is the founder and publisher of SA’s leading online Business Update service. A writer, broadcaster and media entrepreneur, he was the overall winner of the Sanlam Financial Reporter of the Year in 1982, aged 23. Thirty years later he was honoured by the same competition’s judges with a Lifetime Achiever’s Award for… read more »

Sam Cowen is back in the studio with her old co-host, on “Mansfield in the Morning” from 06h00 – 09h00 on Hot 91.8 FM. When not on the radio, Sam is a life coach, motivational speaker and TV presenter, who has been “in the industry for over 2 decades”. Besides co-hosting the award-winning ‘Rude Awakening’ for 14 years on 947,… read more »

Lindiwe Hani On 10th April 1993 Chris Hani was murdered. His assassination threatened to tip South Africa over the precipice into a bloodbath. Nelson Mandela’s statesmanlike TV intervention, appealing for calm, saved SA. The perpetrators of the murder were behind bars within a week, leaving in their bloody wake a family so devastated that it has taken nearly a quarter… read more »

Graeme Codrington is an expert on the future of work. He is a researcher, author, futurist, presenter and board advisor working across multiple industries and sectors. Graeme’s breadth of knowledge and expertise make him highly relevant in today’s rapidly evolving business world. He has a particular interest in disruptive forces changing how people live, work,… read more »

Cape Town based Nobel Laureate David Baltimore wrote this about Wilmot’s book “Nature’s Gifts: Why we are the way we are” that he (Wilmot) “is fascinated by science and discusses ideas, people and history with elegance, skill and a deep human sympathy.” A Member of the South African Parliament, Wilmot James is the official opposition’s… read more »

Nick Mallett is probably best-known for his historic achievement of coaching the Springboks to an unbeaten 17 match run of Test victories between 1997 and 1998. Nowadays, he is a regular expert panellist on Supersport and is highly-regarded both locally and internationally in this field of work. He also speaks at corporate events and is an accomplished after-dinner speaker. He played for… read more »

Neil Tovey played professional football in South Africa for 20 years, holding the record for the most club appearances for the National Soccer League before it became the Premier Soccer League.The former Bafana Bafana captain, Neil Tovey is now SAFA’s (South African Football Association) technical director, SAB Castle League Ambassador and a Supersport football analyst. In… read more »

Durban based Gcina is South Africa’s best known storyteller. Storytelling has become a popular business media at conferences and seminars and Gcina is a master at creating stories to complement business and conference themes. She enjoys international recognition as a poet, playwright, actress, short story writer and storyteller. Her published books include ‘A Mother’s Search… read more »

Mandy Wiener is one of the country’s best known and most credible journalists and authors. She worked as a multi award-winning reporter with Eyewitness News from 2004 until 2014, filing reports for Talk Radio 702, 567 Cape Talk, 94.7 Highveld Stereo and Kfm radio stations. Mandy specialises in investigative reporting and legal matters, having extensively… read more »

Professor Binedell’s key area of interest is in the area of strategic leadership with particular focus on strategy in complex environments. He is a frequent public speaker in South Africa and elsewhere, is a visiting lecturer at the Rotterdam School of Management (for the past 18 years) and has been a consultant to companies in… read more »

Lynette Ntuli is the CEO of a South African entity that provides property, asset management and infrastructure solutions to the built environment. A World Economic Forum Global Shaper and Founding Curator of a South African hub, Lynette Ntuli was selected (in 2014) as one of the Top 200 Leaders of Tomorrow by the St. Gallen Symposium. Lynette is a… read more »

Cape Town based Maya Fisher-French is a well-known South African finance writer and author of Maya on Money: Implement Your Money Plan – a practical guide to everyday finances. She edited the South African version of Dave Ramsey’s best seller “The Total Money Makeover”.  She also presents a money tip show on eNCA called ‘Money… read more »