Business Speakers

Rams Mobate is a leading broadcaster, public affairs strategist and facilitator who turns business, leadership and social impact conversations into clear, insightful dialogue that inspires informed action.
  • Business Motivation
Business leader and Chancellor Bonang Mohale delivers transformative insights on leadership, governance, purpose and sustainable growth shaped by decades of top tier corporate and public sector experience.
  • Business Leadership
Innovation keynote speaker Sterling Hawkins equips leaders with actionable frameworks for resilience, growth, and discomfort-driven transformation that accelerates organizational innovation no matter what challenges arise.
  • Business Innovation
Economic activist and Kasinomics founder GG Alcock unpacks South Africa’s invisible informal economies, helping organisations understand, engage and unlock opportunity within the thriving kasi marketplace.
  • Economic Activist
Business networking expert, leadership consultant, and bestselling author Helen Nicholson helps professionals and leaders grow influence, opportunity, and results through strategic relationship building.
  • Business Networking
Entrepreneur and Legazy founder Zuko Tisani empowers African startups by building global tech pathways, forging international partnerships, and accelerating innovation through world class conferencing platforms.
  • Entrepreneur
Motivational keynote speaker, performance coach, and bestselling author Llewellyn Devereaux delivers high-impact experiences that ignite personal mastery, peak performance, and lasting audience transformation.
  • Innovation Speaker
Mbali Nwoko is an award-winning commercial farmer, agribusiness CEO, and motivational speaker who empowers audiences with practical strategies for sustainable farming, innovation, and resilient entrepreneurship.
  • Motivational Speaker
Innovation entrepreneur Ludwick Marishane empowers audiences with practical lessons in problem solving, sustainable thinking, and market creating innovation drawn from his invention of DryBath and global entrepreneurial journey.
  • Entrepreneur Innovation
Motivational speaker and entrepreneur Cindy Norcott empowers audiences with practical wisdom on leadership, resilience, and purpose driven success drawn from 25 years of building award winning businesses and community impact.
  • Business Speaker
Global business speaker and leadership maverick Vusi Thembekwayo equips organisations with disruptive strategy, high performance thinking, and transformative leadership insights that ignite growth and inspire bold action.
  • Business Innovation

Nicola Tyler is a renowned expert in the field of Lateral Thinking and she has been a strategist and leadership development trainer for over twenty years.

During this time, she worked with, and was trained by, Dr Edward de Bono, in his creative and lateral thinking methods. As CEO of Business Results Group, she heads up the official distributorship of Dr Edward de Bono’s Thinking Methods, Official Tom Peters Training, iOpener Institute’s Science of Happiness at Work and Liz Wiseman’s Multipliers Leadership Development in Southern Africa.

BRG also owns the prestigious brand, ‘The Progress Conference’; host to the annual Happiness @ Work conference and numerous thought leadership programs in South Africa.

Nicola Tyler has shared the stage with a number of world renowned speakers such as Martin Seligman, Dave Ulrich, Tom Peters, Martin Lindstrom, Robert Kaplan, Ricardo Semler and more. She has personally addressed audiences in Argentina, Bahrain, Bangkok, Brussels, Cambodia, Paris, Prague, Mauritius, Switzerland and London, as well as having done extensive work in Africa and in the Middle East.

Nicola Tyler | Strategic Leadership

She is a Professional Associate at GIBS (Gordon Institute of Business Science), which has been ranked as the number one Business School in Africa (Financial Times, UK), where, for several years

Nicola presented an MBA elective on Creative and Innovative Thinking. Today, she presents on a number of company specific programs for the business school on both Innovative and Strategic Thinking.

Nicola Tyler is a professional, insightful and engaging speaker who is passionate about making a difference and delivering results.

She brings a deep respect and appreciation for business needs into their sessions by engaging people at all levels and encouraging the process of thinking in such a way, that it stimulates commitment and buy-in to decisions.

She is widely considered a master at applying de Bono’s techniques in live business situations. Nicola Tyler is an erudite presenter and master facilitator with business experience way beyond the field of Creative Thinking.

Nicola Tyler unique and pragmatic style of working has earned her a reputation for being able to ‘turn strategy into action’ and personal passion for thinking, innovation and results, is realized through a process that she has coined as ‘Operative Strategy’.

Drawing on Nicola Tyler twenty years of experience in the fields of strategy and innovation, Nicola facilitates strategic planning, strategic thinking and innovation processes and workshops across a variety of industries.

She regularly consults to organisations on strategic innovation, she coaches executives on the implementation of strategy and she facilitates partnering innovation workshops for clients.

Nicola has been interviewed on radio, television, and Nicola Tyler – Strategic Lateral Leadership has frequently contributed to articles on management journals, both locally and internationally.

Thinking Differently ™ About ….

It’s not often that you can book a speaker to present on any topic but quite literally, that’s what you can do with Nicola.

Nicola Tyler will bring to your subject the topic of thinking and in an engaging and high impact presentation, she will get your team thinking differently about … just about … ANYTHING!

The trick is the thinking part. She’s done in mining, sales, financial services, health care, human resources, manufacturing, marketing, branding, finance, risk management and more! And, even if she hasn’t done one in your field, she will be up for the challenge for sure!

Think – discover how your brain processes information and what goes right and wrong when you begin to think.

Differently – discover the power of perception and how learning to change perceptions can change, just about, anything. It’s the key to innovation success and it will unlock new thinking in the room, in an instant!

About – pick your topic and that will become the theme of Nicola Tyler presentation. She will research your industry and get to know your needs to ensure that she hits the relevant nail on the head! Your wish, is Nicola’s command!

Our company has quite a few different products in our stable.  Nicola Tyler is a master certified trainer in de Bono courses (Six Thinking Hats, Lateral Thinking, Power of Perception, Six Value Medals and Simplicity).  The most favoured course is Lateral Thinking.

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  • Strategic Leadership
Business leadership keynote speaker Yael Geffen shares real-world insights on resilience, innovation, and brand-led growth from leading Sotheby’s International Realty South Africa.
  • Business Leadership
Business strategist, keynote speaker, and global thought leader Zipho Sikhakhane helps organizations unlock authentic leadership, transformation, and Africa-driven growth through insight-rich, action-oriented engagements.
  • Business Leadership
Keynote speaker and business strategist Juanita Vorster helps leaders navigate rapid change with strategic clarity, ethical governance, and practical frameworks for confident, future-ready decision-making.
  • Business Strategy
Quinton Coetzee is a leading bush craft specialist and business strategy speaker who transforms wilderness wisdom into practical insights on resilience, adaptation, and performance for modern organizations.
  • Business Strategy
Digital strategist and WordStart founder Mongezi Mtati empowers brands to spark influence, create authentic buzz, and engage communities through storytelling, entrepreneurship, and digital culture insight.
  • Entrepreneur Speaker
Arabile Gumede is a leading financial journalist, business anchor and event emcee who delivers sharp economic insight, impactful interviews and clear, practical guidance on markets and financial literacy.
  • Business Emcee

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