Recommended Speakers of the Month
October:
Mental Health Month
October is not just another month, it is a global call to confront stigma, expand access, and reframe the conversation on mental health. From Mental Illness Awareness Week and World Mental Health Day (10 October) to Depression & Mental Health Screening Month and OCD Awareness Week, the calendar is rich with moments that demand bold voices and credible authority. Each theme, from “Access to Services, Mental Health in Catastrophes and Emergencies” to “Mental health is a universal human right”, reminds us that the stakes are human dignity, resilience, and survival.
If you are curating a mental health summit, workplace wellness programme, university campaign, or government forum, let The Speakers Firm be your partner in bringing the voices that don’t just inform, they transform.
We don’t just provide speakers; we deliver catalysts of change. From Clinical Experts who decode complex conditions, to Resilience Architects who equip leaders with practical tools, Lived-Experience Storytellers who shatter stigma, Policy Shapers who move systems, and Corporate Wellness Strategists who protect productivity and people, our portfolio is designed for impact at every level.
This October, don’t just host an awareness activity, create a movement that shifts culture, drives advocacy, and leaves a legacy of care and courage. Talk to us at The Speakers Firm, where conversations become campaigns, and campaigns become catalysts for healthier workplaces, communities, and nations.
November:
Men’s Month
November is Men’s Month. Across the country, organisations are convening men’s conferences, seminars, talks, and masterclasses that demand voices of authority, wisdom, and transformation. If you are curating your signature men’s event, let The Speakers Firm be your partner in securing world-class voices who don’t just speak, they shift culture, reframe narratives, and ignite legacy-level change.
We don’t just provide speakers; we deliver architects of change. From Men’s Conference Headliners who command presence, to Allyship Architects who build bridges, Gender Futurists who shape tomorrow, Culture Strategists who reset norms, and Masculinity Researchers who challenge outdated scripts, our portfolio is designed to meet the gravity of your platform.
This November, don’t just host an event, create a movement. Talk to us at The Speakers Firm, where men’s gatherings become milestones, and conversations become catalysts for transformation.
What Sets Us Apart
Precision. Discretion. Impact
At the Highest Level.
Closed-Door, NDA-Protected Briefings
For cabinet strategy, sovereign planning, or institutional pivots, we ensure airtight confidentiality from consultation to delivery.
Executive-Only Strategy Sessions
No spectators. No dilution. Just elite intelligence for decision-makers shaping capital, policy, and national direction.
Crisis-Proven Delivery in High-Stakes Environments
Post-crisis, mid-transition, or under scrutiny, we deploy trusted voices that rebuild trust, navigate complexity, and recalibrate vision.
Bespoke Curation by Sector, Region & Strategic Priority
From fintech to feminist economics, cybersecurity to statecraft, every speaker is precision-picked to meet your mission, market, and moment.

Upcoming Events
Why Our Engagements Stand Apart
Exclusivity by Design
Our platforms are not open to all, they’re intentionally built for high-stakes environments where discretion, precision, and strategic intent are paramount.
No Volume. Just Velocity
We don’t traffic in quantity, we deliver decisive impact. Every engagement is a calibrated move toward institutional or national outcomes.
Fortified Protocols. Surgical Precision. Strategic Firepower
Our processes are built for leaders who cannot afford leaks, delays, or misalignment. Confidentiality is absolute. Execution is exact.
Our Speakers Don’t Sit in Catalogues, They Sit at the Table Where Power Moves
You’ll find them behind presidential podiums, in closed-door boardrooms under pressure, at summits where GDPs shift, and in rooms where silence commands respect.
Our Booking Process is Built for Impact
Strategic Intelligence First
We don’t start with a list, we start with your mission, message, and momentum goals. We decode your brief like a blueprint and then find the voice to shift the room and sharpen the outcome.
Precision Curation, Not Generic Options
We handpick speakers who don’t just “fit the theme”, they elevate the stakes, command credibility, and leave audiences changed. This is curation with consequences.
Hard-Nosed Negotiation. Premium Access
We fight for maximum value, optimal terms, and absolute excellence, because we sit on your side of the table. Every time.
Flawless Execution. No Excuses
From contracts to keynote delivery, flights to finesse, our logistics unit runs the backend, so you own the spotlight.
Our Booking Process is Built for Impact
This isn’t speaker sourcing. It’s strategic activation, engineered for moments where precision is non-negotiable.
Mission-Aligned Strategic Briefing
We begin with your reality, not a form, but a focused intelligence session that uncovers your mandate, internal dynamics, pressure points, and political sensitivities. We don’t guess what matters. We define it with you, from the inside out.
Seismic Thinker–to–Moment Precision Match
We don’t send names. We deploy operatives. Every speaker is matched with intent — based on lived expertise, system fluency, and the ability to deliver under pressure. The result? Not a good talk, but the right intervention for the right moment.
Institutional Terrain Mapping
We map the room, the ripple, and the resistance. Who’s in play? Who needs shifting? What narratives need rewriting? Whether you’re navigating public sentiment, internal politics, or global optics — we ensure every message is tactically calibrated for maximum institutional effect.
Impact Engineering + Post-Engagement Debrief
We don’t close engagements. We compound them. Every activation ends with insight, measuring resonance, tracking influence, and building momentum into your next strategic move. Intelligence doesn’t stop at the podium. It loops forward into future action.
If you’re here to inspire, entertain, or motivate, there are other bureaus for that. If you’re here to shift the room, reset the agenda, and shape the future — let’s talk.
CLIENTS
We Partner with Brands That Don’t Attend the Conversation
They Own the Room.
Our clients are market-makers, movement-builders, and institutional powerhouses, global corporations, public institutions, non-profits, and agencies who refuse to settle for noise without consequence.
They’re not seeking entertainment. They’re building legacies, shifting cultural DNA, and rewriting the rules of leadership.
They choose The Speakers Firm because we deliver more than voices, we deliver commanders of thought, catalysts of transformation, and operators who drive momentum that outlives the moment.
If you’re serious about impact, influence, and long-term positioning, we’re not just a vendor.
We’re the force multiplier that takes your event from routine to unforgettable.
Deployment Formats That Hit Hard And Deliver Fast
This isn’t programming. It’s power, deployed with purpose.
Our formats are built for velocity, precision, and consequence. When the room is high-stakes, the moment can’t be missed, and mediocre isn’t an option.
Presidential Keynotes
Agenda-setting stage moments that shift national direction, reshape global narratives, and anchor billion-rand conversations.
Closed-Door Intelligence Briefings
Confidential. High-voltage. Strategy-dense briefings for presidents, C-suites, and decision-makers steering through disruption.
Boardroom War Rooms
No margin. No delay. Tactical sessions engineered to align leadership, accelerate execution, and deliver under pressure.
Executive Strategy Labs
Intensive think tanks for top leadership in pivot, rebuild, or reinvention mode. No fluff — just decisions, direction, and momentum.
Policy Hackathons & Foresight Councils
Where future policy and governance frameworks are not debated, they’re designed, drafted, and launched.
Investor Roundtables & Capital Deployment Sessions
Where money moves, trust is secured, and institutions are positioned to scale with purpose and precision.
Fireside Dialogues & Power Panels
No-script, no-nonsense forums built to provoke decisions, spark action, and move rooms with institutional force.
Youth Takeovers & Grassroots Power Platforms
High-voltage stages for next-gen insurgents. They’re not asking to be included, they’re taking the lead.

These aren’t speaker slots. They’re strategic weapons.
They don’t entertain, they activate. Because in high-stakes environments, precision isn’t optional. It’s everything. This is how The Speakers Firm delivers impact, on contact.

Media, Brand & Reputation in a Weaponised World
Media, Reputation, Influence, Partnerships, Cancel Culture
At The Speakers Firm, we know reputation is no longer managed, it is defended. In the unforgiving Court of Public Opinion, there are no second chances. A single viral post can shatter credibility, a trending hashtag can erase decades of trust, and silence is no longer neutral, it signals weakness. In this weaponised environment, media is the battlefield, reputation is the currency, and visibility is the frontline of leadership. For CXOs and boards, narrative control has become the ultimate test of power, survival, and legacy.
What distinguishes The Speakers Firm is the firepower of our speakers. We don’t provide commentators, we deploy media tacticians, crisis generals, cancel culture navigators, brand protectors, and visibility insurgents. These are leaders who have commanded headlines under fire, neutralised viral outrage, rebuilt reputations under siege, and restored authority in the toughest environments. Our roster includes CEOs, global brand architects, crisis managers, investigative journalists, media executives, and cultural power brokers who don’t theorise from the sidelines, they have fought on the frontlines of outrage, culture wars, and digital disinformation. These are not storytellers, they are war-room strategists arming leaders with the skills to anticipate, absorb, and reverse reputational attacks.
Through our flagship Summits and Talks, including the Media & Crisis Communications Summit, Cancel Culture & Social License Dialogues, Influencer Trust Workshops, Strategic Brand & Media Partnership Labs, CXO Media Training Bootcamps, and Executive Crisis Simulation Labs, we equip leaders to lead visibly, speak with authority, and defend influence under pressure. Every engagement delivers one outcome, Reputation in Motion — empowering leaders to seize control of the narrative, weaponise visibility as an advantage, and convert trust into long-term market power. In today’s transparent, high-stakes world, these are not communications activities, they are battlefield leadership platforms curated by The Speakers Firm to protect trust, secure markets, and define legacy.
Ideal For:
- CEOs under siege, CMOs caught in culture wars, and CLOs tasked with defending reputational sovereignty
- Political leaders, public institutions, and global brands exposed to relentless scrutiny, virality, and digital disinformation
- Boards and executive teams determined to build reputational resilience and seize control of the narrative
Speaker Outcomes:
- Prepare leaders to anticipate, withstand, and overturn reputational attacks before they escalate
- Develop fluency, composure, and authority under hostile media interrogation and digital firestorms
- Convert visibility into influence — transforming attention into trust, market power, and long-term advantage
• Embed crisis leadership, cultural agility, and narrative sovereignty into board-level strategy - Reframe sponsorships, partnerships, and influencer ecosystems as engines of credibility and trust capital
Speaker Archetypes:
- Political brand architects
- Legacy-saving comms chiefs
- Cancel-culture survivors turned strategists
- Media war veterans
- Corporate turnaround storytellers
- Sponsorship reframers
- Narrative engineers
Reputation is no longer an asset.
It is a weapon, and only the strongest can wield it.
Milton Nkosi
Former BBC Africa Bureau Chief, Global Correspondent, Media Relations Specialist
Rams Mabote
Media Personality, Reputation Coach, Host & Facilitator
Prof JJ Tabane
Political Commentator, Media Owner, Narrative Influencer
Phathiswa Magopeni
Veteran Media Executive, Editorial Strategist, Public Broadcasting Advocate

Leadership, Governance & Risk Intelligence
Transforming uncertainty into strategy, risk into foresight, and leadership into enduring market power
In today’s unforgiving operating climate, leadership is no longer defined by growth alone, it is measured by resilience, governance authority, cultural legitimacy, and the ability to command trust under relentless scrutiny. Boards and CXOs are confronted with fractured societies, activist pressure, ESG and regulatory demands, reputational volatility, and weaponised media, all while steering organisations through global disruption. The leaders who prevail will be those who turn uncertainty into strategy, governance into trust capital, and culture into an unassailable competitive edge.
The Speakers Firm delivers far more than speakers, we design high-impact leadership, governance, and risk intelligence interventions at board level. Our platform brings together renowned keynote voices and trusted experts: former heads of state, global CEOs, governance architects, crisis navigators, cultural strategists, and global risk futurists. We curate Leadership, Board & Governance Programmes such as Adaptive Leadership Intensives, ESG & Fiduciary Accountability Masterclasses, Global Governance Dialogues, and Crisis War-Gaming Simulations. These are paired with signature keynote talks on the world’s most urgent themes: Leadership in an Age of Fracture, Governance as Strategy, Culture & People Alignment, Crisis Leadership & Narrative Sovereignty, and Global Risk & Scenario Futures.
What sets The Speakers Firm apart is our ability to convert insight into commercial impact. Every programme, keynote, and masterclass is engineered to fortify reputations, strengthen governance pipelines, accelerate succession, and embed foresight into executive decision-making. Whether it is a geopolitical briefing from a former head of state, a governance deep-dive with an international board authority, or a crisis playbook from a legacy-saving communications chief, our engagements deliver force multipliers, not speeches. The Speakers Firm is where CXOs secure the intelligence, resilience, and authority to dominate in an age of volatility and global risk.
Sthembiso Phakathi
Youth Development Architect, Empowerment Speaker, Transformation Leader
Dr. Maanda Tshifularo
Leadership Expert, Strategy Advisor, Transformation Author
Eric Mafuna
Reputation Pioneer, Corporate Advisor, Strategic Influencer
Sihle Bolani
DEI Strategist, Transformation Advocate, Workplace Culture Architect
Khanyisile Chaba
Sustainability Leader, Corporate Citizenship Strategist, Social Impact Advocate, Driving ESG
Femi Adebanji
Customer Service Futurist, Leadership Author, Transformation Speaker
Siphiwe Moyo
Organisational Behaviour Specialist, Leadership Author, Motivational Strategist
Muzi Kuzwayo
Marketing Visionary, Cultural Strategist, Ideas Architect
Luthando Daniels
Broadcaster, Command-Level MC, Cultural Influencer
Prof. Maurice Radebe
Academic Leader, Energy Strategist, Business School Executive
Nyimpini Mabunda
CEO, Board Chair, Transformation Leader
Joy Machoene Kaapu
Entrepreneur, Women Empowerment Advocate, Growth Champion
Dr. Vumile Msweli
Global Career Coach, Leadership Strategist, Author
Tebogo Mekgoe
Founder & CEO: Systemic Advisory
Queen Ramotsehoa
Founder & Director: Tsheto Leadership & Coaching Academy, Executive Coach
Marie Sebueng
Founder & CEO, Speaker, Leadership Coach
Mncane Mthunzi
Businessman, Director of Companies, and Published Author & Scholar

Digital Identity, Cybersecurity & Data Sovereignty in an Era of AI Power
AI, Data, Sovereignty, Security, Trust
At The Speakers Firm, cybersecurity is not IT, it is power, strategy, and survival. Identity is the new passport, data the new currency, and sovereignty the new prize. In an era where AI accelerates innovation while multiplying risk, trust and control have become existential. A single breach can wipe out billions in market value, a single algorithm can distort global perception, and a single failure in sovereignty can destabilise entire nations and corporations.
We don’t provide commentators, we deploy cyber warriors, intelligence veterans, AI ethicists, and digital sovereignty architects — operators who have defended governments, secured trillion-dollar economies, dismantled cybercrime networks, and rebuilt institutions under siege. They don’t speculate, they strategise. They don’t theorise from the sidelines, they command the frontlines, equipping leaders with foresight, fluency, and resilience in a world where every click, breach, and dataset is contested ground.
At The Speakers Firm, we provide world-class speakers, talks, and experts who equip boards and CXOs to lead on the frontlines of digital risk and opportunity.
Through Boardroom Cyber Resilience Summits, CXO Digital Sovereignty Dialogues, AI & Cybersecurity Masterclasses, Executive Simulation Labs, and Trust Capital Accelerators, we deliver immersive, high-stakes platforms where leaders confront real-world breaches, navigate the geopolitics of data and AI, build fluency in emerging threats, rehearse hostile media and disinformation scenarios, and transform data ethics into trust capital. Each programme is designed not as theory but as battlefield leadership training, enabling executives to defend identity, secure markets, and convert digital disruption into enduring strategic advantage.
Defend the Code. Command the Cloud. Protect the Future.
Ideal For:
- CEOs and Boards confronting AI disruption, cyber exposure, and sovereignty risk
- CISOs, CIOs, and Chief Data Officers tasked with safeguarding trust capital and digital resilience
- Governments, regulators, and financial institutions operating under constant cyber and disinformation pressure
- CXOs and senior leaders seeking fluency, resilience, and authority in contested digital arenas
Speaker Outcomes:
- Anticipate and neutralise AI-driven and cyber threats before they destabilise trust or value
- Embed AI fluency, digital identity, and sovereignty mastery at board and executive level
- Convert cybersecurity into offensive strategy, not defensive compliance
- Frame data sovereignty as a source of power, governance, and competitiveness
- Transform trust and resilience into measurable, long-term market advantage
Speaker Archetypes:
- Ex-intelligence chiefs
- National security advisors
- CISO-level cyber leaders
- AI governance specialists
- Data sovereignty strategists
- Cybercrime prosecutors
- Digital ethics architects
- Crisis comms war-room commanders
If you don’t own your digital identity, your enemies already do.
Tumi Ramonotsi
The Financial Steward, Risk, Governance & Leadership Strategist

Masters of Ceremonies, Facilitators & Panel Chairpersons
Where Dialogue Becomes Power
At The Speakers Firm, we understand that an MC or facilitator is not an accessory to a programme, they are the heartbeat of the experience. They set the tone, hold the narrative, and determine whether a summit, boardroom, or national gathering commands attention or dissolves into noise.
These are not mere presenters, they are architects of influence, command-level communicators who turn agendas into journeys, speakers into powerhouses, and audiences into engaged communities. With precision, presence, and cultural intelligence, they ensure that every exchange carries weight, every moment lands with purpose, and every outcome leaves a lasting imprint.
Our curated faculty features award-winning broadcasters, veteran journalists, cultural icons, and thought leaders, trusted to guide South Africa’s and the continent’s most critical conversations. From chairing presidential forums to moderating CEO roundtables, from curating investor summits to facilitating national dialogues, they deliver authority, neutrality, and agility under pressure.
Ideal For:
Presidential summits, CXO forums, global investor conferences, national policy dialogues, transformation roundtables, and high-stakes corporate events
Speaker Outcomes:
Elevate audience engagement, amplify partner visibility, sharpen the quality of dialogue, and cement your platform as a space of consequence
In rooms where leaders gather, moderation is not logistics, it is leadership in real time. It is the ability to balance power and empathy, to translate complexity into clarity, and to turn conversation into momentum.
That is the edge The Speakers Firm delivers, a faculty of communicators who transform microphones into instruments of influence, stages into spaces of consequence, and conversations into catalysts for change.
Bongiwe Zwane
News Anchor & Television Host
Joy Machoene Kaapu
Radio Broadcaster & Media Facilitator
Kgomotso Monyai
Television Broadcaster & Panel Moderator
Linda Maqoma
Corporate Facilitator & Public Speaker
Kayise Ngqula
Actress, Producer & Television Presenter
Nqaba Mabece
Radio Broadcaster & Media Personality
Hulisani Ravele
Television Presenter & Media Personality
Penny Lebyane
Radio Broadcaster & Media Facilitator
Khaya Dlanga
Author, Marketing Executive & Storyteller
Clement Manyathela
Radio Talk Show Host & Broadcaster
Thembekile Mrototo
News Anchor & Broadcaster
Rami Chuene
Actress, Author & Public Speaker
Dr. Paulina Mamogobo
Academic, Leadership Coach & Speaker
Naledi Moleo
Radio Host, Television Presenter & Producer
Nimrod Nkosi
Television Presenter & Actor
Criselda Kananda
Broadcaster, Humanitarian & Health Advocate
Putco Mafani
Radio Broadcaster & Motivational Speaker
Thabo “Tbo Touch” Molefe
Media Entrepreneur, Broadcaster & Business Leader
Nozipho Tshabalala
Global Moderator, Conversation Architect & Broadcast Journalist
Mpho “Popps” Modikoane
Comedian, Actor & Television Host
Eugene Khoza
Comedian, Writer & Broadcaster
Lala Tuku
South African actress, presenter, director, producer, vocal coach, and events entrepreneur
Sphiwe Mselane
Keynote & Motivational Speaker

Comedy, Culture & Strategic Disruption
Laughter isn’t entertainment, it’s transformation.
Humour, Disruption, Insight, Resilience, Culture.
At The Speakers Firm, we don’t treat comedy as a “nice to have,” we weaponise it as a strategic lever that transforms events into cultural catalysts. The right comedian doesn’t just deliver punchlines, they punch through resistance, dismantle barriers, and spark moments of shared perspective that unite teams and leaders. Whether it’s turning year end functions into legendary celebrations, fuelling national roadshows with cohesion and energy, or reframing resilience and agility at high stakes leadership events, our comedians are cultural tacticians who blend wit with insight. They leave audiences not just entertained, but aligned, re energised, and ready to perform with conviction, ensuring your event delivers impact long after the last laugh.
Comedy, at its sharpest edge, is not escape, it is a force multiplier for culture, leadership, and disruption. In environments where pressure is unrelenting and every decision sits under a spotlight, humour is not a sideshow, it is a strategic accelerator. It cuts through noise, reframes complexity, and defuses tension, giving leaders the agility to see patterns clearly, act decisively, and connect with impact. For CXOs, laughter is not performance, it is a leadership tool for resilience, perspective, and cultural agility.
At The Speakers Firm, we don’t send comedians to chase applause, we deploy satirical disruptors, humour tacticians, cultural commentators, and narrative reframers who decode power, society, and leadership through razor sharp wit. They dismantle blind spots, challenge inertia, expose cultural fault lines, and rebuild trust with humour’s disarming clarity. Their impact doesn’t lie in punchlines, but in strategic disruption, harnessing humour to shift mindsets, unlock creativity, and provoke transformation in rooms where traditional messaging falls flat.
From Culture & Comedy Dialogues to Satire & Strategy Keynotes, Humour Driven Leadership Labs, and Disruption Roadshows, our Comedy, Culture & Strategic Disruption speakers anchor signature events, board retreats, and executive culture programmes. This isn’t entertainment, it is cultural strategy disguised as humour, deployed with precision to strengthen leadership, humanise authority, ignite creativity, and transform how organisations think, adapt, and lead.
Ideal For:
- CEOs, boards, and executive teams seeking new levers to build resilience, authenticity, and cultural agility
- Organisations hosting year end functions, roadshows, and strategic events that demand both entertainment and impact
- Leadership teams needing to cut through resistance, shift energy, and build deeper human connection through humour
Speaker Outcomes:
- Use humour to reframe complexity, dissolve conflict, and drive connection at scale
- Unlock creativity, agility, and fresh thinking in leadership and cultural contexts
- Strengthen resilience by transforming stress and scrutiny into moments of levity and clarity
- Humanise leadership, embedding humility, relatability, and cultural intelligence
- Deliver memorable experiences that unite teams, amplify culture, and leave lasting impact
Speaker Archetypes:
- Political satirists
- Corporate comedians
- Social justice humourists
- Cultural critics
- Award winning MCs
- High IQ disruptors
- Comedy strategists with empathy and edge
Laughter doesn’t just entertain,
it leads, it transforms, it reimagines strategy.
Isaac Gampu
Veteran Voice of Satire & Social Commentary
Tol Ass Mo
Unapologetic Truth-Teller & Disruption Artist
Donovan Goliath
Multi-Disciplinary Entertainer & Creative Strategist
Summary
Storyteller, Comedian & Cultural Disruptor

Inspirational Keynote Speakers:
Shaping Leaders, Cultures & Legacies
Vision, Resilience, Purpose, Transformation, Legacy
At The Speakers Firm, inspiration is not entertainment, it is a weapon of culture, leadership, and performance. In an age defined by volatility and disruption, organisations don’t just need ideas, they need ignition. A powerful keynote does more than open an event, it reframes perspective, unlocks resilience, and galvanises entire systems to act with purpose, clarity, and courage.
This is not motivational fluff. It is power-charged storytelling from battle-tested leaders who have turned collapse into command, scars into strategy, and struggle into movements that shift nations. Our speakers don’t chase applause, they shift energy. They awaken courage where fear has settled, and mobilise conviction where resignation once ruled.
At The Speakers Firm, we don’t trade in inspiration, we weaponise it. Our speakers are warriors of grit, architects of resilience, and empire-builders forged in fire. They don’t just inspire, they ignite legacies, activate movements, and engineer belief systems that endure in boardrooms, arenas, and nations. These are visionary leaders, cultural transformers, turnaround architects, resilience strategists, athletes of consequence, media icons, and legacy builders who bring scars, stories, and strategies that shift leaders from reflection to action.
Our Inspirational Keynote Speakers sit at the heart of signature events, board and management leadership programmes, and global roadshows. From Boardroom Leadership Programmes and CEO Retreats to Culture and Transformation Roadshows, Executive Summits, and Global Signature Events, we embed inspiration as a multiplier of performance and culture. Through Talks, Dialogues, Offsites, and Leadership Conferences, every keynote becomes a catalyst that ignites courage, accelerates transformation, and anchors legacy inside the DNA of an organisation.
Ideal For:
- CEOs and boards driving culture change and transformation at scale
- Management and leadership teams seeking resilience, purpose, and alignment
- Organisations embedding inspiration into signature events, roadshows, and legacy programmes
Speaker Outcomes:
- Ignite courage and resilience in uncertain, high-pressure environments
- Align leaders and teams around purpose, culture, and performance
- Translate lived, high-stakes experiences into actionable CXO-level insights
- Transform inspiration into strategic advantage and organisational energy
- Anchor legacy and culture as drivers of market relevance and endurance
Speaker Archetypes:
- Visionary CEOs and global change makers
- Cultural transformers and leadership coaches
- Turnaround architects and resilience strategists
- World-class athletes and performance leaders
- Media icons and narrative shapers
- Legacy builders and purpose-driven pioneers
Inspiration is not theatre;
it is transformation in motion.”
At The Speakers Firm, Inspirational Keynote Speakers are not booked to fill agendas, they are deployed as strategic interventions that rewire cultures, mobilise leadership, and embed legacies. They turn events into movements, and movements into enduring systems of belief.
Sipho Maseko
Internationally Acclaimed Inspirational Speaker, Former Telkom CEO
Miles Kubheka
Internationally Acclaimed Inspirational Speaker, Entrepreneurial Maverick
Femi Adebanji
Internationally Acclaimed Inspirational Speaker, Customer Service Futurist & Transformation Thought Leader
Theo Baloyi
Internationally Acclaimed Inspirational Speaker, Entrepreneurial Pioneer & Founder of Bathu Shoes
Dr. Vumile Msweli
Internationally Acclaimed Inspirational Speaker, Entrepreneurial Pioneer & Founder of Bathu Shoes
Timothy Maurice Webster
Internationally Acclaimed Inspirational Speaker, Personal Brand Architect & Behavioural Science Strategist
Prof. Bonang Mohale
Internationally Acclaimed Inspirational Speaker, Business Statesman & Corporate Governance Champion
Dr. David Molapo
Internationally Acclaimed Inspirational Speaker, Leadership Icon & Transformation Catalyst
Prof. Maurice Radebe
Internationally Acclaimed Inspirational Speaker, Academic Leader & Energy Strategist

Spirituality, Heritage, Identity & Cultural Power
Where Spirit Shapes Systems, Where Heritage Fuels Economies, Where Identity Anchors Legitimacy, and Where Culture Drives Leadership and Innovation
In the new global economy, spiritual intelligence, cultural consciousness, and identity capital are fast becoming the most valuable currencies of leadership. As automation redefines labour and volatility tests institutional resilience, nations and organisations are awakening to a profound truth, the next economic revolution will not be technological alone, it will be spiritual, cultural, and human-cantered.
At The Speakers Firm, we convene the continent’s foremost spiritual philosophers, heritage architects, cultural economists, and creative power brokers, visionary thinkers who bridge the sacred and the strategic, the ancestral and the institutional. They don’t just tell stories, they translate spirit into systems, memory into policy, and culture into capital. These are the voices redefining what economic power looks like when rooted in identity, purpose, and consciousness.
Our speakers activate a Pan-African consciousness grounded in ubuntu, ancestral wisdom, and spiritual intelligence, challenging global systems that profit from cultural erasure, moral emptiness, and extractive economics. From the reclamation of indigenous spiritualities to the rise of the cultural and creative economy, they help boards, governments, and leaders embed sacred and cultural intelligence into governance, enterprise, and innovation, aligning Africa’s moral heritage with its economic future.
This theme speaks directly to the intersection of economy, spirituality, and identity in a fast-changing world, where inclusion, ethics, and sustainability have become the core performance indicators of modern leadership. We reframe heritage as infrastructure, identity as economic legitimacy, and culture as enterprise. The result, organisations, nations, and industries that are not only globally competitive, but spiritually grounded and socially coherent.
Through Cultural Economy Dialogues, Conscious Leadership Summits, Spiritual Intelligence in Governance Forums, and Heritage & Identity Weeks, The Speakers Firm empowers decision-makers to design economies and institutions that balance growth with grace, profitability with purpose, and technology with humanity.
We also drive the economy of heritage and culture sectors through high-impact National Heritage Weeks, Creative Economy Summits, Calendar Day Activations (Heritage Day, Africa Month, Women’s Month, Youth Month), and signature leadership events that mobilise investment, policy reform, and global attention toward Africa’s creative and cultural industries as strategic growth engines.
This is where economy meets essence, where boards, institutions, and global platforms discover that culture is not decorative, but directive, that spirituality is not retreat, but reinvention, and that heritage is not past, it is policy, capital, and continuity.
Ideal For:
Board and executive leadership summits, Creative and cultural economy forums, National heritage weeks and festivals, ESG and transformation platforms, Faith, ethics, and governance conferences, Future of Work and conscious leadership dialogues, Cultural diplomacy events, Policy and innovation forums, Heritage and identity calendar days (Heritage Day, Africa Month, Women’s Month, Youth Month)
Speaker Outcomes:
- Embed spiritual, cultural, and ancestral intelligence into leadership, economy, and governance,
- Drive inclusive economic models rooted in culture, ethics, and identity,
- Advance the creative and heritage economy as a pillar of sustainable growth,
- Align organisational and national purpose with legacy and moral capital,
- Position Africa’s cultural and spiritual wisdom as a global leadership asset.
Speaker Archetypes:
Cultural economists, Spiritual philosophers, Heritage policymakers, Indigenous knowledge custodians, Conscious leadership strategists, Creative economy architects, Future of Work reformers, Faith and ethics thought leaders.
Economy without spirit is extraction,
Heritage without policy is memory,
Identity without strategy is vulnerability,
Culture without power is performance.
At The Speakers Firm, we fuse economy with spirituality, heritage with innovation, and culture with governance, building systems where profit meets purpose, leadership meets legacy, and growth meets grace.

Economics & Politics
Crisis Leadership, Risk & Geopolitical Foresight
Voices who decode economies, interpret politics, and equip nations, markets, and institutions with foresight.
At The Speakers Firm, we don’t deliver commentary, we deploy command-level leaders who have stood at the helm of nations, markets, and institutions in their most volatile hours. They are not observers, they are practitioners who have lived the crises, led through the chaos, and re-engineered the systems that followed.
As wars erupt, markets fracture, cyber threats multiply, climate shocks destabilise economies, and political divides widen, the balance of global power is being redrawn in real time. In this arena, resilience is not enough. Resilience reacts; foresight leads.
Our faculty of former heads of state, economists, political analysts, military generals, sovereign wealth strategists, intelligence chiefs, and crisis-tested CEOs deliver more than insights, they deliver sovereign-grade strategy, economic foresight, and geopolitical intelligence. They equip presidents, boards, and investors with the frameworks, risk simulations, and foresight models to anticipate fractures before they strike, restore confidence when it falters, and seize opportunity in moments of disruption.
Ideal For:
Presidential briefings, sovereign strategy sessions, investor confidence summits, board risk committees, and crisis simulation labs
Speaker Outcomes:
Decode global power shifts, anticipate systemic breakdowns, master scenario strategy, and lead institutions into breakthroughs
In Economics & Politics, leadership is never about survival.
It is about setting the pace, shaping the narrative, and commanding the future.
That is the decisive edge The Speakers Firm delivers.
Ebrahim Fakir
Political Analyst & Democracy Governance Specialist
Dr. Siphamandla Zondi
Political Scientist & Global South Policy Strategist
Khaya Sithole
Accountant, Broadcaster & Economic Analyst
Elias Masilela
Economist, Former PIC CEO & Policy Architect
Sifiso Skenjana
Economist, Entrepreneur & Inclusive Growth Strategist

Diversity, Belonging, Gender & Inclusive Leadership
Reclaim the Table, Reshape the Culture, Redefine the Power
At The Speakers Firm, we frame Diversity, Belonging, Gender, and Inclusive Leadership as a strategic engine of growth, legitimacy, and resilience, not a compliance exercise. In today’s environment, where gender, gender relationships, identity, equity, and culture directly shape competitiveness and reputation, inclusion must be designed as a systemic advantage embedded in governance, leadership, and the lived experience of the workplace.
Our programmes and talks serve boards, leadership teams, management, and workforces, delivered through roadshows, workshops, masterclasses, fire chats, and keynotes. Each engagement moves beyond symbolic gestures to deliver measurable strategies, cultural transformation, and performance outcomes. Whether in the boardroom, within leadership forums, or across the workforce, we translate belonging into trust, gender equity into legitimacy, diversity into innovation, and inclusion into business advantage.
Unlike others, The Speakers Firm convenes the leaders and practitioners who drive transformation, not optics. Our speakers, facilitators, and experts include equity architects, reformist CEOs, DEI economists, workspace diversity specialists, gender justice warriors, gender and relationship specialists, and culture disruptors who do more than speak on representation, they engineer structural change that endures. Alongside them, we deploy inclusive leadership pioneers, intergenerational strategists, cultural intelligence experts, and policy reformers who embed inclusive practices into strategy, governance, and workplace culture.
Reclaim the Table, Reshape the Culture, Redefine the Power. This is the mandate of our faculty of consequence, equipping organisations to move decisively beyond surface-level diversity and embed gender equity, belonging, and inclusion as both a cultural imperative and a commercial advantage.
Ideal For:
Executive DEI strategy briefings • Boardroom culture interventions • ESG leadership forums • Transformation accelerators
Speaker Outcomes:
Hardwire equity into leadership DNA. Redesign power structures. Build cultures where belonging is not symbolic, but systemic.
Speaker Archetypes:
Reformist CEOs • Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officers • Intersectional equity strategists • Global DEI economists • Inclusive culture engineers • Boardroom accountability advisors • Gender & race justice disruptors
Belonging isn’t a benefit.
It’s the new architecture of power.

Neuroscience, Peak Performance & Mental Agility
Master the Mind. Outperform the Moment.
At The Speakers Firm, we understand that in today’s unforgiving environment, performance is no longer about output alone, it is about cognitive agility, resilience, and neural advantage. Neuroscience has shifted from the lab into the boardroom, offering leaders and organisations evidence-based strategies to rewire focus, manage pressure, and sustain clarity under volatility. Peak performance is no longer reserved for athletes, it is a C-suite necessity, where milliseconds of clarity, resilience, and decision-making shape billions in value.
We don’t provide wellness talks, we deploy neuroscientists, performance psychologists, elite coaches, and resilience architects who decode how the brain drives performance, culture, and leadership under pressure. These are experts who have trained Olympians, advised Fortune 500 CEOs, rebuilt resilience in military leaders, and designed mental agility systems that transform how executives think, decide, and lead. They don’t theorise about mindfulness or motivation, they equip leaders with practical, science-backed tools to master stress, enhance focus, and outperform in critical moments.
At The Speakers Firm, our Neuroscience, Peak Performance & Mental Agility speakers sit at the heart of signature events, leadership programmes, and executive roadshows designed to give boards, management teams, and high-potential leaders a mental edge. Through Peak Performance Summits, CXO Resilience Dialogues, Mental Agility Bootcamps, and Neuroscience in Leadership Masterclasses, we deliver immersive, high-stakes experiences where leaders sharpen clarity, build resilience, and align mind and body to strategy and execution.
These are not lifestyle sessions, they are battlefield performance systems engineered to help leaders master the mind, outperform the moment, and create enduring organisational advantage.
Ideal For:
- CEOs and boards navigating high-pressure decision environments
- Leadership teams driving resilience, agility, and sustained performance
- Organisations embedding neuroscience and mental agility into leadership culture
Speaker Outcomes:
- Equip leaders with neuroscience-based tools to enhance focus, clarity, and decision making
- Reframe resilience and mental agility as competitive advantages, not wellness add ons
- Translate peak performance systems from elite sport, military, and science into business leadership
- Build cultures that thrive under volatility, pressure, and complexity
- Strengthen leadership energy, focus, and adaptability as drivers of long-term performance
Speaker Archetypes:
- Neuroscientists and brain optimisation experts
- Elite performance psychologists
- Resilience and stress management architects
- World class sports coaches and athletes
- Military and special forces performance strategists
- Behavioural economists and decision science experts
- Mindset engineers and cultural performance builders
Pressure doesn’t create leaders.
It reveals those prepared to command their own minds.
Dr Billy Selekane
International Keynote Speaker, Author & Organisational Culture Specialist
Siphiwe Moyo
International Keynote Speaker, Organisational Behaviour Specialist & Author
Boniwe Dunster
Leadership Strategist, Corporate Executive Coach & Inspirational Speaker
Veli Ndaba
NeuroLeadership Coach, NeuroSpeaker and Author
Doctor Khumalo
Former South African Professional Footballer
Neil Tovey
South African Soccer Legend, Coach, and Technical Director.

Integrated Futures
Building Graduates and Employees for the Future of Work, Employability, Job Readiness, 4IR, and Youth Advantage
The future of work is no longer coming, it has arrived. Powered by 4IR, AI, and relentless disruption, only those organisations that treat talent as a unified, intergenerational pipeline will thrive. Integrated Futures is the blueprint for employability and youth readiness, aligning graduate entry with employee advancement to create purpose-driven organisations where digital fluency, ethical governance, cultural intelligence, and resilient leadership are embedded across the workforce.
At The Speakers Firm, we don’t speculate, we convene the leaders shaping tomorrow. Our faculty unites Global CEOs and Board Chairs designing graduate-to-executive pipelines, Policy Makers and Regulators setting AI ethics and ESG standards, and CHROs and Talent Specialists re-engineering workforce models for agility and scale. Alongside them, Youth Employability Architects and Cultural Strategists decode generational dynamics, while Futurists and Trends Analysts transform disruption into opportunity. Entrepreneurs and Intrapreneurs ignite innovation engines that fuel growth both inside and beyond organisations. Together, they equip boards and executives to future-proof leadership, embed culture, and turn volatility into advantage.
This is not training; it is a strategic ecosystem. Integrated Futures hardwires ESG, adaptability, innovation, and belonging into organisational DNA, making culture a lived, measurable practice across Baby Boomers, Gen X, Millennials, and Gen Z.
The return on investment is undeniable, succession accelerated, employability pipelines secured, generational divides bridged, investor confidence strengthened, and governance trusted. For employees and graduates, the benefits are personal, inclusion, resilience, purpose, and fast-tracked careers within organisations that recognise and leverage the strengths of every generation.
At The Speakers Firm, we don’t follow trends, we set them. The most progressive organisations are abandoning outdated “graduate only” and “employee only” models, replacing them with intergenerational ecosystems where youth employability, leadership readiness, and workforce resilience converge. Digital natives contribute speed and innovation; experienced leaders bring foresight and governance. The outcome, a workforce fused by purpose, prepared for the future.
From Digital Futures & AI Ethics Pathways and Graduate-to-Leader Accelerators to Job Readiness & Employability Labs and Responsible Innovation & Resilience Tracks, we curate ecosystems that re-engineer pipelines. AI-Augmented Coaching and Reverse Mentoring Pods break down generational silos, while Inclusive Leadership Design and Intergenerational Culture Programmes embed belonging as competitive advantage. Work-Integrated Rotations and Youth Employability Sprints accelerate readiness and mobility, ensuring talent is not merely trained, but transformed into agile, future-proof leaders.
Integrated Futures is the new standard, equipping boards and executives to convert disruption into advantage and securing employability for every generation.
Ideal For:
Boards, C-Suites, HR & Talent Leaders, Graduate Development Heads, Corporate Universities, Business Schools, Public Policy Leaders, ESG & Transformation Executives.
Speaker Outcomes:
- Equip leaders with frameworks to integrate graduate and employee pipelines into future-of-work strategies.
- Build understanding of AI, ESG, and digital ethics as non-negotiable talent levers.
- Inspire executives to embed inclusion, resilience, and culture into leadership pipelines.
- Provide actionable models to accelerate succession, boost retention, and align talent with transformation.
Speaker Archetypes:
- Global AI Ethicists
- Future-of-Work Strategists
- Youth Employment Architects
- Behavioural Economists
- Digital Policy Reformers
- Tech Futurists
- EdTech Disruptors
- Workforce Skilling Pioneers
The future isn’t coming.
The future is already coding itself. The only question is, will you lead it, or be led by it?
Boniwe Dunster
Executive Manager, Finalist, 2022 IPM HR Practitioner of the Year, Acclaimed Speaker, Facilitator
Andisa Liba
Chief People Officer, FloatPays, Award-Winning HR Executive & Conference Speaker
Manqoba Zungu
TEDx Speaker, WEF Young Global Leader, Part-Time Faculty at GIBS & AmazuluFC Business College, CEO, GetReadySkills & Business Executive, SoluGrowth

Strategy, Governance, Culture & People
Reframing leadership, embedding foresight, and building resilient organisations for a volatile world
At The Speakers Firm, we deliver more than keynotes, we engineer boardroom-grade interventions that fuse strategic intelligence, consulting rigour, and facilitation excellence for boards, leaders, and management teams. Our programmes move executives from insight to execution, embedding foresight, governance strength, and cultural alignment at the centre of decision-making.
From leadership intensives and ESG masterclasses, to crisis simulations, culture transformation journeys, and scenario-planning labs, each engagement is designed to sharpen strategy, safeguard reputation, accelerate succession, and future-proof organisations against volatility. This is where leading organisations secure the authority, resilience, and competitive edge to lead with confidence in an unpredictable world.
We curate renowned keynote speakers, governance architects, boardroom strategists, and cultural change leaders who deliver tested frameworks, systemic foresight, and executive-level intelligence. Our programmes, from Strategic Futures & Scenario Planning and Governance & ESG Mastery, to Culture & People Transformation Journeys and Adaptive Leadership Intensives, are not designed as motivational events, but as commercially relevant, results-driven interventions that align leadership, reinforce governance, and secure long-term resilience. What sets us apart is our measurable impact: every engagement is structured to fortify reputations, accelerate succession pipelines, embed foresight into decision-making, and convert culture into enduring legitimacy and market trust. We are not a traditional bureau, we are a force multiplier where CXOs gain the clarity, authority, and resilience to dominate in a volatile, high-risk global landscape.
In today’s fractured global environment, boards and executive teams must deliver performance while navigating regulatory scrutiny, reputational volatility, activist pressure, and disruptive technologies. Legacy leadership models are obsolete. The organisations that thrive are those embedding adaptive governance, cultural agility, strategic foresight, and people-centred transformation at the very heart of their leadership architecture. This is why emerging and niche programmes in strategy, governance, culture, and people are in highest demand among forward-thinking organisations worldwide, and why The Speakers Firm is uniquely positioned to deliver them at scale and with impact.
Ideal For:
C-Suite intensives • National economic councils • Investor briefings • Strategic foresight summits and workshops• Leadership academies • Policy transformation sessions
Speaker Outcomes:
- Equip CXOs and boards to embed foresight into strategic decision-making
- Strengthen governance and ESG fluency as a driver of market trust
- Build cultural agility and people alignment into competitive advantage
- Stress-test leaders under crisis and reputational risk scenarios
- Translate complexity and volatility into clarity, resilience, and authority
Speaker Archetypes:
- Former heads of state and global CEOs
- Governance and fiduciary architects
- Strategic foresight futurists and economists
- Culture and people transformation leaders
- Crisis navigators and reputation engineers
- Policy reformers and national advisors
Power doesn’t wait for consensus.
It commands, transforms, and endures.
Nene Molefi
The Inclusion Vanguard, Diversity, Equity & Cultural Transformation Specialist
Dr John Kani
The Living Legend, Actor, Playwright & Cultural Icon
Siphiwe Moyo
The Leadership Futurist, Organisational Behaviour & Strategy Speaker
Dr. Eunice Cross
The Wellness Strategist | Medical Doctor & Holistic Health Advocate
Lerato Sithole
The Brand & Influence Architect | Marketing, Media & Leadership Specialist
Prof Mazwe Majola
The Governance & Gender Powerhouse, Leadership Coach & Institutional Reform Specialist
Dr Maanda Tshifularo
The Leadership Accelerator, Strategy, Change & People Development Specialist
Femi Adebanji
The Customer Excellence Authority, Service, Sales & Performance Strategist
Sthembiso Phakathi
The Organisational Dynamics Analyst, Culture, Change & Strategy Advisor
Luthando Daniels
The Emerging Voices Architect, Youth Development & Leadership Advocate
Dr Maureen Tong
The Governance & Gender Powerhouse, Leadership Coach & Institutional Reform Specialist
Dr David Molapo
The Leadership Mentor, Inspirational Speaker & Transformation Strategist
Abner Mariri
The Performance Catalyst, Leadership, Motivation & Growth Specialist

Gender, Identity & The Inclusion Economy
Reframing equity as strategy, identity as legitimacy, and inclusion as market power in a fractured world
The global economy is being redefined not only by capital and technology, but by identity, representation, and the legitimacy of inclusion. Today, boards and CXOs are under relentless scrutiny from investors, regulators, employees, and society to move beyond symbolic compliance and deliver authentic, systemic transformation. Organisations that fail to integrate inclusive strategies face reputational erosion, investor flight, and cultural irrelevance. Those that lead will be the ones that elevate gender, identity, and inclusion into levers of growth, trust, and enduring legitimacy, embedding them as non-negotiable pillars of strategy and governance.
At The Speakers Firm, we curate renowned keynote voices, global strategists, and cultural architects with deep expertise in gender equity, identity politics, inclusion economics, and organisational transformation. Our programmes and signature talks, from The Inclusion Economy: Competing Through Equity, Identity & Power in the Boardroom, to Gender as Strategy: Building Future-Ready Cultures, are engineered as commercially relevant, board-level interventions. Each session equips executives, boards, and policy councils to navigate complexity, align identity with corporate purpose, and embed inclusion into decision-making at scale, positioning equity as a direct driver of competitiveness, investor confidence, and global reputation.
What sets The Speakers Firm apart is our ability to turn inclusion from rhetoric into a strategic force multiplier. Our speakers are not commentators, they are architects of the Inclusion Economy, former ministers and policy shapers who rewrote the rules of equity, pioneering CEOs who built inclusion into corporate DNA, cultural strategists who decode identity into market authority, and narrative leaders who transform diversity into trust capital. They bring lived experience, global authority, and boardroom credibility to deliver interventions that are not motivational talks, but strategic engagements designed to protect reputation, strengthen governance, unlock markets, and build purpose-driven cultures. We are not a traditional bureau, we are the catalyst where CXOs secure authority, resilience, and growth in an era where inclusion is power.
Ideal For:
Gender equity forums • ESG investment panels • Government inclusion mandates • CXO culture intensives • Corporate transformation summits
Speaker Outcomes:
- Equip boards and CXOs to integrate equity as a strategic growth driver
- Reframe identity and representation as sources of legitimacy and trust
- Align inclusion with governance, ESG, and investor confidence
- Build cultural agility and people-centric leadership into long-term resilience
- Transform inclusion from compliance into market power and global reputation
Speaker Archetypes:
- Former ministers and government advisors on gender and inclusion policy
- Trailblazing CEOs and corporate transformation leaders
- Cultural strategists and identity architects
- Global economists and inclusion economy researchers
- Activists turned corporate strategists
- Narrative leaders and reputation engineers
Inclusion is not charity. It is capital.
And in the new economy, equity is the price of survival.

Financial Inclusion, Wealth Management & Legacy Strategy
Where Financial Foresight Meets Leadership, Where Wealth Becomes Impact, Where Legacy Outlives Title.
In an era marked by volatility, widening inequality, and the largest intergenerational wealth transfer in modern history, financial inclusion is no longer a moral gesture, it is a hallmark of enlightened leadership. Today’s forward-looking CXOs understand that wealth is not merely about accumulation, but about architecture, the deliberate design of stability, mobility, and generational continuity. Estate planning, wills, and financial education have transcended administrative formality to become strategic levers of legacy, empowering families, fortifying organisations, and strengthening communities.
At The Speakers Firm, we convene some of the world’s most accomplished wealth architects, behavioural economists, financial educators, and legacy strategists, thought leaders who transform global insights into actionable systems for boardrooms, employees, and communities. We enable organisations to embed financial intelligence at every level, ensuring that prosperity is not the privilege of a few, but a shared and scalable capacity across society.
We transform financial literacy into strategic capital, redefining it as a leadership asset that drives impact, foresight, and enduring legacy. Through high-impact programmes, masterclasses, and speaker engagements, we empower CXOs and institutions to convert financial acumen into systems that build wealth with purpose and distribute prosperity with intent. We help leaders engineer inclusive wealth ecosystems aligned with ESG, ESD, and transformation mandates, ensuring that financial empowerment flows seamlessly from the boardroom to the community.
By integrating estate planning and wills into holistic governance frameworks, we safeguard both generational continuity and institutional resilience. Through Financial Education Roadshows reaching underserved communities, Executive Wealth Masterclasses recalibrating board-level strategy, and Campus Financial Literacy Workshops equipping students for lifelong independence, we ignite a national financial inclusion movement, one that transforms knowledge into power, resilience into equity, and wealth into lasting impact.
Our approach strengthens both institutional and national capacity by equipping employees, entrepreneurs, and emerging leaders with the tools to budget, save, invest, and build intergenerational wealth. Above all, we align wealth with purpose, embedding philanthropy, ethical investing, and legacy design into leadership culture, ensuring that financial success becomes not only a measure of prosperity, but a mechanism for transformation, credibility, and continuity.
Ideal For:
CXO leadership retreats, Board governance sessions, ESG and transformation panels, corporate wellness & financial education campaigns, Employee empowerment drives, educational institutions, Community development initiatives, Family business transitions, Private wealth roundtables
Speaker Outcomes:
Strengthen financial literacy and inclusion, Drive intergenerational wealth creation, align personal and corporate finance ethics, empower communities through financial education, Embed financial foresight into leadership culture
Speaker Archetypes:
Wealth strategists, Estate and legacy architects, financial educators, Behavioural economists, Private bankers, Inclusion policymakers, Philanthropy & impact investing experts
Financial inclusion is not a project; it is power institutionalised.
Wealth, when shared through education, multiplies.
Legacy, when designed with intention, transcends generations, and defines leadership.
Mandisa Zavala
Wealth Management and Financial Inclusion Specialist

Workplace Wellness & Health
Elevate Wellbeing, Engineer Resilience, Embed Performance
At The Speakers Firm, we position Workplace Wellness and Health as a strategic lever of competitiveness and resilience, not a peripheral HR initiative. In an era defined by burnout, bullying, toxic workplace cultures, hybrid fatigue, HIV & AIDS challenges, and escalating mental health pressures, leading organisations know that wellness is no longer a perk, it is a boardroom mandate directly tied to performance, retention, governance, and investor confidence.
Our programmes, campaigns, and signature talks are designed for boards, CXOs, leadership teams, managers, and entire workforces, delivered through executive workshops, roadshows, masterclasses, fireside chats, keynotes, and corporate wellness activations. These include Wellness Days, HIV & AIDS workplace interventions, Mental Health campaigns, and other themed wellness days that move beyond awareness to embed wellbeing as culture and strategy. Each engagement delivers measurable outcomes by hardwiring mental resilience, psychological safety, physical vitality, and cultural trust into the organisation. In practice, wellness becomes resilience, health secures retention, energy fuels productivity, and balance sustains long-term performance.
The Speakers Firm convenes a faculty of consequence, leaders, and practitioners who re-engineer organisational health and embed wellness as strategy. Our ecosystem brings together mental health strategists and workplace psychologists dismantling stigma and building scalable models, bullying and harassment specialists transforming conflict into trust-based cultures, and resilience scientists and neuroscience experts applying brain science to sharpen focus, adaptability, and leadership. We integrate behavioural economists and ROI analysts proving the business case for wellness and anti-bullying frameworks, alongside human capital reformers and culture architects embedding health into governance and leadership. Supporting them are wellness innovators, from nutritionists and sleep experts to fitness specialists and mindfulness architects, who align energy, vitality, and balance with peak performance. Together, they transform wellness into resilience, culture into trust, and health into measurable strategic advantage.
Elevate Wellbeing, Engineer Resilience, Embed Performance. This is the mandate of our Workplace Wellness & Health faculty, enabling future-focused organisations to dismantle stigma, confront HIV & AIDS, prioritise mental health, activate wellness days, eliminate toxic behaviours, and hardwire resilience into leadership, culture, and strategy.
Ideal For:
- Sovereign health strategy forums
- Pharma power summits
- Global vaccine equity briefings
- ESG-health investment days
- Cognitive longevity labs
- Wellness policy think tanks
- Board governance intensives
- Leadership and workforce resilience forums
- Corporate Wellness Days and organisational health activations
Speaker Outcomes:
- Position wellness as governance and strategy, not HR rhetoric
- Equip leaders to dismantle stigma, bullying, and toxic cultures
- Demonstrate the ROI of wellness through retention, productivity, and investor confidence
- Translate neuroscience, resilience, and wellbeing into leadership advantage
- Hardwire psychological safety, dignity, and trust into culture and performance
- Reimagine Wellness Days as platforms for measurable cultural impact and workforce resilience
- Establish organisations as employers of choice through wellbeing leadership
Speaker Archetypes:
- Mental health strategists and workplace psychologists
- Bullying and harassment specialists
- Resilience scientists and neuroscience leaders
- Behavioural economists and ROI analysts
- Human capital reformers and cultural architects
- Nutritionists, sleep experts, fitness innovators, and mindfulness architects
- Global health policy leaders and wellness economists
The future of power is not political.
It is biological.
Dr. Gugulethu Xaba
Student Governance and Leadership Development: TUT, Leadership Expert, Community Builder
Sibulele Sibaca
Dynamic International Speaker, Social Entrepreneur and Health Advocate
Olwethu Leshabane
Prominent South African media entrepreneur and TV personality
Dr. Mothomang Diaho
Founder and Medical Director, Lifestyle Clinics Spiral Aloe (Pty) Ltd.
Zizipho Nyanga CA(SA)
Chartered Accountant, Business Leader, Mentor & Keynote Speaker
Dr. Brenda Kubheka
Co-founder and MD of Health IQ Consulting
Lerato Makhetha
Versatile Artist and Media Personality
Dr. Shingai Mutambirwa
Head of the Department of Urology at Dr George Mukhari Academic Hospital and Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University

Entrepreneurship & Venture Futures
From Ideas to Scalable Enterprises, Building Ecosystems of Growth, Funding, and Supplier Development
At The Speakers Firm, we don’t run events, we engineer ecosystems of consequence. Entrepreneurship today is not a side-stream, it is the engine of growth, competitiveness, and inclusive prosperity. In an era defined by disruption, ESG imperatives, and digital acceleration, the organisations that lead are those that design entrepreneurial ecosystems, where startups, SMEs, corporates, funders, and policymakers converge to unlock capital, scale ventures, strengthen supply chains, and empower communities.
Our programmes, spanning Venture Creation, Funding Readiness, Enterprise & Supplier Development (ESD), SME Growth, and Township Economy Catalysts, are not one-off initiatives, but strategic accelerators. They fuse venture-building with capacity development, funding with governance, and supplier enablement with market access, creating a continuum that transforms entrepreneurs into high-growth founders, SMEs into industrialised suppliers, and corporates into ecosystem anchors.
Unlike others, The Speakers Firm convenes the pioneers rewriting the playbook of enterprise and transformation. Our speakers, facilitators, and experts include venture capital leaders and fund managers unlocking capital flows, policy makers and ESD specialists aligning compliance with competitiveness, and entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs who have built and scaled enduring business models. Alongside them, SMME specialists and township economy champions drive grassroots ventures into resilient industries, while supply-chain strategists, futurists, and trends analysts decode disruption into new opportunities for growth.
We also showcase the new archetypes of transformation: ESD and SED architects converting compliance into competitiveness, township capital insurgents industrialising informal economies, scaled black industrialists redefining African ownership, women-led disruptors scaling inclusive enterprises, informal economy reformers formalising hidden opportunities, inclusive finance engineers bridging capital gaps with innovative funding models, circular economy builders embedding sustainability, and policy-linked enterprise warriors aligning entrepreneurial ambition with national transformation mandates.
Founders don’t just build businesses, they rebuild countries. That is why our speakers, facilitators, and experts form a faculty of consequence, ensuring that transformation is not compliance-driven, but a competitive advantage, an engine of growth, and a force for global relevance.
This is Entrepreneurship & Venture Futures at The Speakers Firm, where ideas are capitalised, SMEs are industrialised, township economies are mainstreamed, and disruption is harnessed as fuel for commercial growth, resilience, and national transformation.
Ideal For:
Nation-building think tanks • ESD/SED strategy platforms • Public sector growth engines • VC & DFIs • SMME transformation summits
Speaker Outcomes:
Reposition enterprise as sovereignty • Unlock scalable capital ecosystems • Weaponise entrepreneurship as statecraft
Speaker Archetypes:
ESD and SED architects • Township capital insurgents • Scaled black industrialists • Women-led disruptors • Informal economy reformers • Inclusive finance engineers • Circular economy builders • Policy-linked enterprise warriors
Entrepreneurship isn’t small business.
It is statecraft, and the founders who build it are rebuilding nations.

Masculinity, Women Allies & Strategic Transformation
Where Identity Evolves, Where Power is Shared, Where Masculinity and Women Allies Redefine Leadership Through Men’s Conferences and Global Platforms.
Masculinity in the workplace is no longer background noise, it is a decisive force shaping culture, leadership, and equity. The outdated models of dominance and silence have collapsed, yet without new scripts, the vacuum breeds tension, exclusion, and systemic fractures. Globally, the complexities of masculinity echo in pay gaps, mental health crises, broken pipelines, and stalled equity journeys.
At The Speakers Firm, we deploy women allies and high-impact speakers for men’s conferences and leadership events to reframe masculinity as a strategic lever for transformation. This isn’t about sidelining men, it’s about activating them as partners, alongside women, to build institutions and cultures anchored in courage, empathy, justice, and accountability. When recalibrated, masculinity becomes a source of innovation, resilience, and collaboration, and women allies ensure the shift is not symbolic, but systemic.
Our men’s conference and event speakers go beyond entertainment, they are catalysts of cultural reset, weaving lived experience, data, humour, and strategy to dismantle toxic archetypes, unlock inclusive models, and design pathways where men and women lead together.
Ideal For:
Men’s conferences, Leadership summits, Global DEI strategies, Culture resets, Mental health initiatives, Gender equity accelerators, Policy and governance transformation
Speaker Outcomes:
Redefine masculinity as a force for equity, Equip men and women allies as change agents, Position men’s conferences as engines of cultural renewal, Embed vulnerability as strength, Build high-trust, high-performance workplaces
Speaker Archetypes:
Men’s conference headliners, Allyship architects, Gender futurists, Culture strategists, Masculinity researchers, Leadership coaches, Social justice humorists, High-impact storytellers
Masculinity is not a liability,
with women allies and men’s conferences as launchpads, it becomes one of the most powerful levers of global transformation, redefining not just how we work, but how we lead, live, and build the future.
Bafana Khumalo
Co-Founder, Sonke Gender Justice, Faith, Policy & Gender Justice Advocate
Professor Kopano Ratele
Psychologist & Scholar of Men & Masculinities Studies, Academic & Global Thought Leader
Mbulelo Dyasi
Gender & HIV/AIDS Activist; National Convenor, National Men’s Forum, Policy & Public Health Champion
Dr. Gugulethu Xaba
Student Governance and Leadership Development: TUT, Leadership Expert, Community Builder
Lerato Makhetha
Versatile Artist and Media Personality
Dr. Shingai Mutambirwa
Head of the Department of Urology at Dr George Mukhari Academic Hospital and Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University
Dr Anele Siswana
Clinical Psychologist, Healer & Researcher, Integrating Psychology & Indigenous Knowledge
Dr Jerry Gule
CEO of the Institute of People Management (IPM)
Joshua Makukule Mtanyelwa
Founder, Men of Purpose, Advocate for Men’s Identity & Community Transformation
Bongani Luvalo
Philanthropist, Youth Activist and Development Practitioner
Sello Maake Ka-Ncube
Actor

Best Female Keynote Speakers
Where Women Rewrite the Rules of Leadership
Women are no longer asking for a seat at the table, they are building new tables, designing new rooms, and redrawing the blueprints of power itself. This is not about participation; it is about transformation.
From Wall Street to Sandton, from policy chambers to boardrooms, women are not waiting for history to catch up. They are architects of strategy, reformers of culture, and custodians of legacy. The question is no longer whether women belong in the highest offices of power, but how fast they will re-engineer the very systems that once excluded them.
At The Speakers Firm, we don’t bring token voices or panel fillers, we deliver global CEOs, policy shapers, financial architects, cultural reformers, and women who have shattered ceilings so high they now command the skyline. These leaders don’t only lead, they shift power, redefine strategy, and institutionalise legacy.
Ideal For:
Leadership and transformation summits • Corporate strategy sessions • ESG and governance platforms • Financial sector briefings • Government and policy forums • Women’s leadership ecosystems
Speaker Outcomes:
Restructure power dynamics • Build inclusive leadership pipelines • Align governance with growth • Accelerate women-led systems change • Deliver sectoral and national transformation
Speaker Archetypes:
Global CEOs • Reformist policymakers • Financial strategists • Governance experts • Cultural transformers • Women trailblazers • Legacy architects
This is not women stepping into power,
this is women rewriting what power means.
Linda Maqoma
Corporate Executive, Leadership Strategist & Keynote Speaker
Samke Mhlongo
Founder and Chief Executive, The Next Chapter Wealth Partners
Joy Machoene Kaapu
Radio Broadcaster & Media Facilitator
Delia Ndlovu
Business Executive, Transformation Strategist & Keynote Speaker
Mary Bomela
CEO of Mineworkers Investment Company (MIC), Keynote Speaker
Dr Nombasa Tsengwa
Former CEO of Exxaro Resources, Mining & Energy Leader & Keynote Speaker
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Simphiwe Masiza
Founder and Managing Executive
Simphiwe Masiza is the visionary Founder and CEO of Empowaworx and The Speakers Firm — two powerhouse brands at the forefront of South Africa’s integrated marketing, reputation leadership, and impact ecosystem. As the architect of groundbreaking platforms like EmpowaYouth, EmpowaWomen, EmpowaEntrepreneurs, EmpowaHim, EmpowaMen, and EmpowaHer, he is redefining how nations mobilize people, capital, and ideas for lasting transformation.
A sought-after international keynote speaker, author, and trailblazing entrepreneur, Simphiwe is known for turning vision into velocity. His platforms are not just events — they are movements that fuel opportunity, unlock capital, and champion inclusive growth.Armed with academic excellence from WITS, GIBS, and other top institutions, his expertise spans strategic planning, executive leadership, governance, organisational development, and reputation architecture. Simphiwe Masiza doesn’t just build brands — he engineers impact.

Retha Venter
Bid & Project Administrator
Retha Venter is a seasoned professional with over 25 years of expertise in bid administration and project management. Her deep understanding of tender processes has been instrumental in securing high-impact opportunities for Empowaworx. Known for her meticulous approach and strategic insight, Retha plays a key role in the organisation’s growth and success.

Neo Mathebe
Talent Manager
Neo brings over 12 years of diverse experience in administration, aviation, and events management. With qualifications in Marketing and Business Management, Neo plays a pivotal role in coordinating talent, managing social media content, and overseeing marketing for The Speakers Firm. His experience with brands like SAA and Absa Bank reflects his commitment to operational excellence and creativity.

Carshiefa Sissing
Talent, Client and Digital Lead
Retha Venter is a seasoned professional with over 25 years of expertise in bid administration and project management. Her deep understanding of tender processes has been instrumental in securing high-impact opportunities for Empowaworx. Known for her meticulous approach and strategic insight, Retha plays a key role in the organisation’s growth and success.

Bonnie Maponya
Acting Talent Manager
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The Speakers Firm | Prospective Speaker Submissions
We don’t work with everyone, we work with game-changers.
At The Speakers Firm, we represent voices that don’t just inspire, they intervene, influence, and ignite change. These are the minds trusted in boardrooms under pressure, institutions in transition, and global forums where futures are being decided. If you are a credible force, a thought leader, practitioner, or provocateur with the power to move markets, minds, or mandates, we welcome the opportunity to explore alignment.

But let’s be clear
We don’t manage speakers. We deploy strategic operatives. We don’t build speaker lists. We activate systems-shifting intelligence. If you’re ready for that level, read on.
Minimum Submission Requirements
To be considered, send the following to speakers@thespeakersfirm.com
A recent live keynote video (no interviews or panel clips)
Two recent client testimonials or reference letters
A clear, concise speaker biography
Your top 3–5 keynote topics
Your speaking fee range (local and international)
Submissions missing any of the above will not be reviewed.
Excellence begins with precision.
Please Note
- We receive a high volume of submissions. If you’re a fit, we’ll be in touch within 3–4 weeks.
- Incomplete submissions will not be considered.
- We do not accept printed materials or unsolicited physical kits, all communication must be digital.
- Our representation is rare by design, curated intentionally and limited to those with the credibility, content, and command to operate at the highest level.
What to Expect
- All complete submissions are reviewed for potential inclusion in The Speakers Firm’s private strategic roster, accessed daily by our agents curating for high-stakes, high-profile opportunities.
- If your voice aligns with a live brief, we’ll contact you directly to request additional material or initiate partnership terms.
- Inclusion is not a guarantee of representation, but it is the first step. What happens next depends on your resonance, relevance, and real-world impact.
- As your profile and influence grow, we may invite you into a formal, long-term partnership.
What Not to Do
- Do not send hardcopy press kits, printed materials, or unsolicited packages, they will be discarded and not returned.
- Do not follow up via phone or DM, we value discernment, not pressure.
- Do not submit unless you meet the full criteria, because at this level, detail is credibility.
Fill in the form for enquiries

info@thespeakersfirm.co.za
Phone
+27(0) 11 482 7256/7257
Address
364 Pine Avenue, Ferndale, Randburg, 2196
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