Tony Dovale: "South Africa's #AdaptAgility Expert. Trusted by Coca-Cola, Vodacom & SA Mint to Move Teams from Stuck to Unstoppable."

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Quick Facts:

  • Highlights:

    35+ years experience in human performance, leadership, and organisational transformation

     R22 million invested in proprietary research and methodology development

     Creator of AdaptAgility™ — a proven high-performance system deployed across corporates, governments, and NGOs

    Creator of the Revolutionary Workplace® framework for sustainable culture change

    Trusted by Coca-Cola, Vodacom, SA Mint, Makro, Nedbank, Standard Bank, Nissan SA, Grant Thornton, and more

    Clients report 2x to 4x business growth following interventions

    Spoken (in person & Remote)  in 8+ countries — South Africa, USA, UK, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Sierra Leone, Kenya, Pakistan, Canada

    Published in British Airways Comair Magazine, HR Future, and Human Capital Review

    Rated "better than 99.9% of speakers in 26 years" by a professional conference organiser

    Expert in VUCA/BANI leadership, psychological safety, resilience, mindset optimisation, and team cohesion

    Delivers measurable performance shifts within 90 days

    Available for keynotes, workshops, executive labs, and retainer partnerships

    Fully customised to every client's goals and audience

  • Formats: Keynote, Remote, Firside chat, Facilitation, Interactive, Coaching, Team Coaching
  • Audience: IDEAL AUDIENCE Industries: Corporate, Financial Services, Mining, Retail, Manufacturing, Government, NGOs, Healthcare, Professional Services, Technology Roles: CEOs, MDs, HR Directors, L&D Managers, Event Planners, Professional Conference Organisers, Department Heads, Sales Leaders, Executive Teams Occasions: Leadership Conferences, Annual Conferences, Sales Kickoffs, Team Building Events, Executive Retreats, Culture Change Initiatives, Post-Merger Integration Sessions, HR & People Strategy Forums, Management Offsites Audience Size: Small executive groups to large conference audiences of 1,000+ Best Fit When: Teams are disengaged, change-fatigued, or underperforming — and leadership is ready to do something about it
  • Outcomes:

    After a Tony Dovale engagement, your people will:

    Think more clearly and make better decisions under pressure

    Adapt faster to change without losing focus or momentum

    Lead with greater consciousness, empathy, and accountability

    Collaborate more effectively with higher trust and less conflict

    Operate with renewed energy, resilience, and psychological safety

    Execute strategy with clarity, commitment, and measurable results

    Build bullet-proof, growth-optimised mindsets that last beyond the event

    📈Your organisation will see:

    Improved team performance and productivity

    Stronger leadership effectiveness at every level

    Reduced burnout, disengagement, and conflict

    A culture where high performance becomes the norm

    Tangible ROI — not just a motivated audience

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Keynote Topics:

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The world has changed permanently. Volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity are no longer temporary conditions to be managed — they are the new business normal. Leaders and teams that cling to old ways of thinking, operating, and responding will find themselves increasingly outpaced, overwhelmed, and outcompeted. What organisations need now is not more motivation or another change management programme. They need a fundamentally better human operating system.

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AdaptAgility™ is exactly that. Developed by Tony Dovale over 35 years of research, field-testing, and real-world application, it is a proven, science-backed framework that equips leaders and teams with the mindset, tools, and behavioural strategies to adapt swiftly, perform consistently, and thrive — even when pressure, disruption, and uncertainty are relentless.

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In this keynote, Tony unpacks the six core capacities of AdaptAgility™ — Adaptability, Agility, Resilience, Responsiveness, Creativity, and Balance — and shows audiences precisely how to develop and deploy them in their daily leadership and teamwork. Participants leave not just inspired, but equipped with a practical operating system for navigating whatever comes next with clarity, confidence, and competitive advantage.

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Perfect for: Executive forums, leadership conferences, large team events, organisational change initiatives

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Most organisations are running a 20th-century workplace model in a 21st-century reality — and wondering why engagement is low, execution is slow, and talent keeps walking out the door. The traditional command-and-control, fear-driven, compliance-focused workplace is not just outdated. It is actively destroying the performance, wellbeing, and potential of the very people organisations depend on most.

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The Revolutionary Workplace™ is Tony Dovale’s flagship framework for building something fundamentally different — a consciously constructive, psychologically safe, high-performance culture where people are genuinely engaged, fully accountable, and consistently delivering exceptional results. Built on Tony’s proprietary CLEARx process and grounded in the latest research on human performance, positive psychology, and organisational neuroscience, this keynote gives leaders a clear, practical blueprint for transformation.

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Tony walks audiences through the six pillars of the Revolutionary Workplace™ — from building conscious leadership and psychological safety, to embedding growth-optimised mindsets, high-trust team dynamics, and a culture of perpetual reinvention. This is not theory. Clients who have implemented the Revolutionary Workplace™ system have reported business growth of 200% to 400% — and come back for more. If you are serious about building an organisation that performs at 10x its current level, this is where it starts.

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Perfect for: Leadership summits, CEO forums, culture change initiatives, HR strategy events, post-merger integration

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Change fatigue is one of the most underestimated performance killers in modern organisations. After years of disruption, restructuring, uncertainty, and relentless pressure, many teams have quietly given up — not dramatically, but in the thousand small ways that add up to disengagement, underperformance, and a workforce that is going through the motions rather than giving their best. Gallup research confirms that up to 85% of employees are not fully engaged at work. In South Africa, that figure is often higher.

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The root cause is almost never laziness or lack of talent. It is a mindset that has been worn down, rewired by repeated adversity into a state of learned helplessness — where people no longer believe that their effort will produce meaningful results. Reversing that pattern requires more than a pep talk. It requires a systematic, science-based rewiring of how people think, feel, and respond to challenge.

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In this high-energy, deeply practical keynote, Tony Dovale draws on neuroscience, behavioural psychology, and his AdaptAgility™ methodology to show leaders and teams exactly how to rebuild bulletproof, growth-optimised mindsets from the inside out. Participants learn how to identify and disrupt the thinking patterns that keep them stuck, replace reactive responses with conscious, strategic ones, and reignite the focus, energy, and accountability that drives real performance. The result is a team that doesn’t just cope with pressure — it converts pressure into momentum.

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Perfect for: Sales conferences, leadership events, team reset sessions, high-pressure industries, post-crisis recovery

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Research consistently shows that 40% to 60% of organisational performance is directly influenced by leadership quality. Yet most leadership development programmes focus on skills, processes, and frameworks — while completely overlooking the single most important variable: the consciousness, self-awareness, and inner operating system of the leader themselves.

Limitless Leadership is Tony Dovale’s transformational keynote for leaders who are ready to go beyond competence to genuine impact. Drawing on over three decades of working with executives, managers, and team leaders across every major industry, Tony reveals what truly separates high-performance leaders from the rest — and it is not what most people expect.

This keynote takes leaders on a journey of honest self-examination and powerful practical growth, exploring how to develop the emotional intelligence, psychological safety, empathy, and conscious awareness that unlocks the fullest potential of every person in their team. Tony introduces the concept of “Limitless Leadership” — leadership that activates, amplifies, and aligns human potential rather than constraining, controlling, or diminishing it. Participants leave with a clear personal leadership development roadmap, practical tools for immediate application, and a fundamentally elevated understanding of what it means to lead people in the modern world.

Perfect for: Leadership conferences, executive retreats, management development programmes, succession planning events


5. High-Performance Teams — Building Trust, Cohesion & Collaboration

A team is not just a group of people who share a reporting line. A genuine high-performance team is a living, breathing system of trust, shared purpose, conscious communication, and mutual accountability — and building one requires far more than a day of team-building games or a motivational talk. It requires addressing the real, often uncomfortable dynamics that either unite or fracture teams: unresolved conflict, broken trust, poor communication, unclear roles, and the absence of psychological safety.

In this immersive, experiential keynote and workshop experience, Tony Dovale cuts through the surface to address what is actually happening beneath the team dynamic — and gives leaders and teams the tools, frameworks, and honest conversations needed to rebuild from the inside out. Drawing on his AdaptAgility™ methodology and the Revolutionary Workplace® CLEARx process, Tony creates a powerful platform for authentic connection, renewed trust, and collaborative commitment.

Participants explore the neuroscience of trust and psychological safety, learn practical communication and conflict resolution strategies, and leave with a shared team charter and action plan for sustained high performance. Clients including Coca-Cola, Vodacom, SA Mint, and Nissan South Africa have described Tony’s team sessions as “life-changing,” “outstanding,” and capable of achieving in one day what years of conventional team development could not. This keynote is for teams that are ready to stop performing at average and start operating at exceptional.

Perfect for: Team offsites, departmental alignment sessions, post-conflict team rebuilding, cross-functional team integration


6. FutureFit — Leading in the Age of AI, Disruption & Constant Change

Artificial intelligence, machine learning, robotics, and exponential technology are not future threats — they are present realities already reshaping every industry, every job function, and every leadership challenge. Research suggests that up to 50% of current job tasks could be automated within the next two decades. The question is not whether disruption is coming. It is whether your people have the human performance capabilities to not just survive it, but leverage it.

FutureFit is Tony Dovale’s forward-looking keynote for leaders and teams navigating the Fourth Industrial Revolution — and it delivers a clear, grounded, and deeply practical answer to the question every CEO, HR Director, and team leader is asking: what do we need to develop in our people that technology can never replace?

Tony draws on his extensive research into Human Performance Technology (HPT) to map the critical human capabilities — AdaptAgility™, emotional intelligence, conscious collaboration, creative problem-solving, resilience, and growth-optimised mindsets — that will define competitive advantage in the age of AI. Participants leave with a clear FutureFit roadmap for their own development and their team’s, a powerful understanding of how to position the human element as their organisation’s greatest strategic asset, and the mindset shifts needed to lead confidently into an uncertain but extraordinary future.

Perfect for: Technology sector conferences, HR strategy forums, CEO and executive leadership events, future of work summits


7. AntiFragile — Turning Adversity into Competitive Advantage

Most organisations build for resilience — the ability to absorb shocks and return to normal. But in a world where disruption is permanent and “normal” no longer exists, resilience is no longer enough. What leaders and organisations need now is antifragility* and adaptagility — the rare and powerful capacity to not merely survive adversity, but to actually grow stronger because of it.

*Inspired by Nassim Taleb’s groundbreaking concept and powerfully translated into practical leadership and team application by Tony Dovale, this keynote challenges audiences to fundamentally rethink their relationship with pressure, failure, uncertainty, and change. Drawing on his own deeply personal experiences — including a life-altering paraglider crash, entrepreneurial failure, and hard-won reinvention — Tony brings raw authenticity and profound wisdom to a topic that most speakers only address theoretically.

In this keynote, Tony reveals the specific mindset shifts, behavioural strategies, and organisational conditions that transform adversity from a source of damage into a driver of growth. Participants discover how to reframe challenge as data, failure as feedback, and disruption as opportunity — and how to build teams and cultures where these perspectives become instinctive rather than aspirational. The organisations that will dominate the next decade are not those that avoid difficulty. They are those that have learned to use it. This keynote shows exactly how.

Perfect for: Post-crisis recovery events, resilience and wellbeing conferences, executive leadership forums, high-pressure industry conference


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

A team is not just a group of people who share a reporting line. A genuine high-performance team is a living, breathing system of trust, shared purpose, conscious communication, and mutual accountability — and building one requires far more than a day of team-building games or a motivational talk. It requires addressing the real, often uncomfortable dynamics that either unite or fracture teams: unresolved conflict, broken trust, poor communication, unclear roles, and the absence of psychological safety.

In this immersive, experiential keynote and workshop experience, Tony Dovale cuts through the surface to address what is actually happening beneath the team dynamic — and gives leaders and teams the tools, frameworks, and honest conversations needed to rebuild from the inside out. Drawing on his AdaptAgility™ methodology and the Revolutionary Workplace® CLEARx High Performance Organisation process, Tony creates a powerful platform for authentic connection, renewed trust, and collaborative commitment.

Participants explore the neuroscience of trust and psychological safety, learn practical communication and conflict resolution strategies, and leave with a shared team charter and action plan for sustained high performance. Clients including Coca-Cola, Vodacom, SA Mint, and Nissan South Africa have described Tony’s team sessions as “life-changing,” “outstanding,” and capable of achieving in one day what years of conventional team development could not. This keynote is for teams that are ready to stop performing at average and start operating at exceptional.

Perfect for: Team offsites, departmental alignment sessions, post-conflict team rebuilding, cross-functional team integration

Artificial intelligence, machine learning, robotics, and exponential technology are not future threats — they are present realities already reshaping every industry, every job function, and every leadership challenge. Research suggests that up to 50% of current job tasks could be automated within the next two decades. The question is not whether disruption is coming. It is whether your people have the human performance capabilities to not just survive it, but leverage it.

FutureFit is Tony Dovale’s forward-looking keynote for leaders and teams navigating the Fourth Industrial Revolution — and it delivers a clear, grounded, and deeply practical answer to the question every CEO, HR Director, and team leader is asking: what do we need to develop in our people that technology can never replace?

Tony draws on his extensive research into Human Performance Technology (HPT) to map the critical human capabilities — AdaptAgility™, emotional intelligence, conscious collaboration, creative problem-solving, resilience, and growth-optimised mindsets — that will define competitive advantage in the age of AI. Participants leave with a clear FutureFit roadmap for their own development and their team’s, a powerful understanding of how to position the human element as their organisation’s greatest strategic asset, and the mindset shifts needed to lead confidently into an uncertain but extraordinary future.

Perfect for: Technology sector conferences, HR strategy forums, CEO and executive leadership events, future of work summits

Most organisations build for resilience — the ability to absorb shocks and return to normal. But in a world where disruption is permanent and “normal” no longer exists, resilience is no longer enough. What leaders and organisations need now is antifragility* and AdaptAgility— the rare and powerful capacity to not merely survive adversity, but to actually grow stronger because of it.

*Inspired by Nassim Taleb’s groundbreaking concept and powerfully translated into practical leadership and team application by Tony Dovale, this keynote challenges audiences to fundamentally rethink their relationship with pressure, failure, uncertainty, and change. Drawing on his own deeply personal experiences — including a life-altering paraglider crash, entrepreneurial failure, and hard-won reinvention — Tony brings raw authenticity and profound wisdom to a topic that most speakers only address theoretically.

In this keynote, Tony reveals the specific mindset shifts, behavioural strategies, and organisational conditions that transform adversity from a source of damage into a driver of growth. Participants discover how to reframe challenge as data, failure as feedback, and disruption as opportunity — and how to build teams and cultures where these perspectives become instinctive rather than aspirational. The organisations that will dominate the next decade are not those that avoid difficulty. They are those that have learned to use it. This keynote shows exactly how.

Perfect for: Post-crisis recovery events, resilience and wellbeing conferences, executive leadership forums, high-pressure industry conferences

Talent Short Bio

Tony Dovale | AdaptAgility™ Expert | Leadership & High-Performance Speaker

Tony Dovale doesn’t do motivation. He delivers transformation.

With 35+ years of experience and over R22 million invested in human performance research, Tony is South Africa’s leading AdaptAgility™ expert — helping leaders and teams think clearly, execute decisively, and thrive under pressure.

His proprietary AdaptAgility™ system goes beyond the keynote, equipping people with bullet-proof, growth-optimised mindsets that drive measurable shifts in performance, resilience, and culture — within 90 days.

Trusted by Coca-Cola, Vodacom, SA Mint, Makro, and Nedbank, Tony’s “Mind-Grow-Tainment” approach has been described as “better than 99.9% of speakers in 26 years” by a seasoned PCO who’s seen them all.

If your audience needs movement, momentum, Meaning, and results — not just a motivational high — Tony Dovale is your expert speaker you can trust.

📍 Based in Johannesburg | Available Nationally & Internationally 📞 +27 83 447 6300 | Speaker@coachfree.com

TONY DOVALE | AdaptAgility™ Expert | Business Leadership & High-Performance Speaker

“Momentum eats motivation for breakfast.”

In a world drowning in motivational speakers, Tony Dovale stands apart — because he doesn’t just inspire audiences, he changes how they think, lead, and perform. Permanently.

With over 35 years of experience as a Human Performance Technologist, executive coach, leadership facilitator, and organisational culture architect, Tony has invested more than R22 million in researching, developing, and field-testing the methodologies that underpin everything he delivers. The result is AdaptAgility™ — a proven, science-backed human operating system that equips leaders and teams to decide faster, adapt smarter, and perform consistently under pressure, uncertainty, and relentless change.

This is not motivation. This is transformation with measurable outcomes.


THE ADAPTAGILITY™ DIFFERENCE

Most keynote speakers leave audiences feeling pumped for 48 hours before the old patterns reassert themselves. Tony’s approach is engineered to prevent exactly that.

AdaptAgility™ works on four interconnected levels:

People — Rewiring mindsets from fixed, fearful, and reactive to growth-optimised, resilient, and response-able. Tony addresses learned helplessness, burnout, disengagement, and emotional friction at the root, not the surface.

Teams — Building the psychological safety, trust, communication, and conscious collaboration that transforms a group of individuals into a genuinely high-performing unit.

Leadership — Developing what Tony calls “Limitless Leadership” — the ability to activate, amplify, and align the fullest potential of every person in a team, even in VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous) and BANI (Brittle, Anxious, Nonlinear, Incomprehensible) environments.

Culture — Creating the context in which high performance becomes the norm, not the exception. Tony’s Revolutionary Workplace® framework embeds sustainable behavioural change across entire organisations.

The methodology synthesises neuroscience, positive psychology, emotional intelligence, human performance technology, and real-world business strategy — delivered in Tony’s signature “Mind-Grow-Tainment” style that is simultaneously engaging, insightful, and deeply practical.


WHO HIRES TONY — AND WHY

CEOs, HR Directors, and event planners hire Tony when they need more than a feel-good moment. They bring him in when:

— Teams are stuck in change-fatigue, conflict, or disengagement — Leaders are struggling to execute strategy under pressure — Culture is undermining performance and retention — A conference or leadership event needs to deliver lasting ROI, not just applause — Mergers, restructures, or rapid growth have fractured team cohesion

Tony has delivered transformational keynotes, leadership labs, and high-performance programmes for some of South Africa’s and the world’s most respected organisations — including Coca-Cola (USA FIFA World Cup Management Team), Vodacom, SA Mint, Makro, Nedbank, Standard Bank, Grant Thornton, Lafarge, Nissan South Africa, the Independent Development Trust, and many more.

His work has been published in British Airways’ Comair Magazine, HR Future, Human Capital Review, and featured by the American Society for Training & Development (ASTD).


WHAT AUDIENCES EXPERIENCE

Tony’s sessions have been described as “life-changing,” “soul-shifting,” and “better than 99.9% of speakers in 26 years” — the latter from a professional conference organiser who has booked and watched hundreds of speakers over a career spanning more than two decades.

Participants leave with:

— Clearer thinking and better decision-making under pressure — A tangible framework for adapting to change without losing momentum — Stronger resilience and the mindset tools to bounce back faster — Improved team trust, communication, and collaboration — Renewed energy, focus, and personal accountability — Practical strategies they can implement immediately

One client — the Financial Manager of the Independent Development Trust — reported almost 400% business growth following Tony’s Revolutionary Workplace® High-Performance intervention, growing annual turnover from R200 million to nearly R800 million. Another CEO attributed growth from R30 million to R90 million in annual sales directly to their work with Tony — and came back for a third engagement targeting R200 million.

These are not outliers. They are the standard Tony holds himself to.


TONY’S STORY

Tony’s credibility is not built in a classroom. It is forged from decades of entrepreneurial experience — building multi-million-rand ventures, navigating catastrophic failure, surviving a life-altering paraglider crash, and emerging from each challenge with deeper insight, harder-won wisdom, and sharper tools for improving human performance.

He is a former IT professional turned “Corporate Soul Surgeon” — someone who understands both the hard logic of business systems and the human software that makes or breaks execution. His background in competitive sport instilled the performance discipline that runs through every methodology he teaches.

Tony is also the author of multiple works on leadership, mindset, and high-performance teams & culture, and holds the distinction of being invited to speak by the Professional Speakers Association of South Africa — whose president described his talk as “absolutely amazing.”


SPEAKING FORMATS

Tony customises every engagement to the client’s specific goals, team dynamics, and performance challenges. His offerings span:

Keynote Talks (45 mins – 3 hours) — High-impact, audience-shifting experiences ideal for conferences, leadership forums, and large team events. Tony’s most popular keynote, “Revolutionary Workplace™: 10x Leadership & Peak Performance Mindset,” has been delivered to thousands of participants across South Africa, the UK, USA, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Namibia, Pakistan, Sierra Leon, and Canada.

Executive Deep-Dive (Half-day – Full day) — The AdaptAgility® Leadership Lab, an intensive, hands-on session for senior leaders that builds practical skills and embeds the CLEARx framework for adaptive leadership.

Implementation Sprints (6–12 weeks) — Structured programmes that apply the Revolutionary Workplace® principles across a department or cross-functional team, embedding sustainable high-performance behaviours.

Annual People Performance Partnership — Retainer-based advisory, diagnostic tools, recurring sessions, and ongoing culture work for organisations committed to lasting transformation.


IDEAL FOR

Executive conferences | Leadership summits | Sales kickoffs | Team alignment events | Culture change initiatives | HR and people strategy forums | Post-merger integration | Annual general meetings | Corporate retreats


NOT IDEAL FOR

Audiences seeking hype-only motivation with no follow-through. Organisations unwilling to address behaviour, accountability, and leadership consciousness. Tony is direct about this — because his commitment is to your results, not your applause.


BOOK TONY

📍 Based in Johannesburg, Gauteng | Available Nationally & Internationally 📞 +27 (0)83 447 6300 ✉️ 🌐 www.tonydovalespeaks.com   

“If Tony can help teams 2x to 4x their results — imagine what he can do for yours.”

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