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Inspirational motivational speaker and cancer survivor Yavi Madurai helps audiences reframe adversity, harness mindset, and rediscover purpose through resilience and conscious living.
  • Cancer Survivor
Elite middle-distance runner Caster Semenya is a two-time Olympic champion and global sports equity advocate redefining excellence, resilience, and competitive longevity at the highest level.
  • Olympic Legend

Yolande Steyn – Digital Leadership specialises in “out the box” thinking, strategy and execution in digital an innovation.

With 20 years of experience in Financial Services and Telecoms Yolande combines a deep love for technology and business with creativity and her ability to think differently to implement practical, human-friendly digital innovation.

Notable innovations include:
• CEO and Founder of FNB eWallet Solutions; Head of FNB Innovation; Founding member of FNB Cellphone Banking and its subsequent rollout on Africa; Branchless banking for FirstRand Bank India and FNB Zambia,
• Managing Executive Vodacom Digital
• Other notable projects include eBucks, MTN Call Awards, MTN ICE and Virgin Mobile Australia “Vibe”,

Yolande Steyn | Digital Leadership

Yolande is able to combine a deep love for technology and business with my creativity and ability to think differently to implement practical, human-friendly digital innovation.

With 20 years experience in Financial Services and Telecoms, Yolande Steyn – Digital Leadership has worked in South Africa, Africa and India and understand developing markets and its challenges.

• As a Mobile money and Innovation expert she has spoken at numerous conferences and media events.
• Yolande Steyn – Digital Innovation is able to tailor my keynotes to the audience, with a central theme of “How do we ensure our innovations and technology are meaningful for emerging markets

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  • Digital Leadership
occer legend and leadership keynote speaker Mark Fish inspires teams with lessons from elite football, champion mindsets, and high-performance teamwork drawn from African and European success.
  • Soccer Legend
Tinoda Moyo is a branding and sales speaker who helps professionals and teams build confident personal brands that attract clients, opportunities, and career growth.
  • Branding | Sales
High-performance coach and resilience speaker John McGrath helps athletes and leaders unlock peak performance through discipline, mental fortitude, and holistic mind-body conditioning grounded in lived experience.
  • Peak Performance
Sports psychologist and motivational speaker Dr Henning Gericke equips leaders and teams with mental resilience, focus, and winning mindsets drawn from elite sport and high-performance psychology.
  • Peak Performance
All-female jazz band Heels over Head delivers smooth, African-influenced pop jazz performances that energize audiences with elegance, rhythm, and irresistible dance-floor appeal.
  • Jazz Band
The Bala Brothers deliver world-class classical crossover performances, blending popera, soul, and orchestral power into a proudly South African musical experience led by three extraordinary siblings.
  • Singers
Poet, storyteller, and cultural ambassador Dr. Gcina Mhlophe preserves and reimagines African oral tradition through powerful performance, literature, and education that connects generations across the world.
  • Inspiring Storyteller
Human values expert and Valuegraphics founder David Allison helps organizations replace outdated demographics with measurable values based insights that drive behavior, connection, and meaningful engagement.
  • Leadership Values
Political analyst and public intellectual Aubrey Matshiqi delivers rigorous insight on South African politics, democracy, and governance shaped by research, policy, and lived political experience.
  • Political Speaker
Rock tribute powerhouse and live performer Clint Cunningham delivers stadium-level energy through iconic tribute shows that consistently sell out theatres and major venues.
  • Singer
All-women African drumming, marimba, and dance group Basadi Le Meropa delivers powerful, joyful performances that celebrate African culture, female strength, and high-energy entertainment for live events.
  • Marimba Drumming
World-renowned gospel ensemble Soweto Gospel Choir delivers powerful, joy-filled performances that celebrate South African spirit, inspire unity, and move global audiences through song and storytelling.
  • Gospel Choir

Professor Shirley Zinn is the former Group Head of Human Resources at Woolworths Holdings Limited. Prior to this, she was the Head of Human Resources of Standard Bank South Africa and Deputy Global Head of Human Resources for the Standard Bank Group.

Prior to this she was the Group Executive HR at Nedbank. Before this, she was the General Manager for Human Resources at the South African Revenue Service (SARS).

She is also an Extraordinary Professor at the University of Pretoria’s Department of Human Resource Management, and recently been appointed as Adjunct Professor at the University of Cape Town.

Shirley is the Past President of the Institute for People Management South Africa and registered as Master HR Professional with South Africa Board for People Practice.

Professor Shirley Zinn hails from the Cape Flats in Cape Town, and started her career as a secondary school teacher of English, then moved to the University of the Western Cape where she lectured in Teacher Education.

After this, Professor Shirley Zinn served at Southern Life as Training Manager and then moved to the Department of Public Service and Administrations’: South African Management Development Institute, in Pretoria as Director.

She held the position of Executive Employment Equity at Computer Configurations Holdings. Before her appointment at SARS, she filled the role of Regional Human Resources Director for Middle East and Africa for Reckitt Benckiser, a global company listed on the London Stock Exchange.

Professor Shirley Zinn is the former Chairman of DHL: Global Forwarding SA, and currently a Non-Executive Director on the Boards of JSE listed AdvTech (Lead Independent and Chair of Remco) and Sygnia Asset Management (Lead Independent, and Chair of Remco and Social and Ethics Committee).

She also serves as a director on the Boards of Tuesday Consulting, Empowerment Capital, Knowledge Resources, Business Engage, Community Chest, and the Boston Consulting Group SA. In addition, she is the HR Advisor to the Board of Silvertree Internet Holdings.

Professor Shirley Zinn | Inspirational

Professor Shirley Zinn also serves on the Takeover Regulation Panel Board and on the Council of the University of Cape Town. She is a Trustee on the Nedbank Eyethu Community Trust, Ambassador for the Orbis Africa Charity, and the former Chairman of Starfish Greathearts Foundation.

She also serves on the Advisory Boards of Monash South Africa, and the University of Pretoria’s Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences. Shirley is the past President for the Harvard Alumni Association South Africa and a Fellow of the Institute of Directors SA.

She also previously served as the Chair of the Institute of Bankers. She was recently appointed as the Patron for South Africa Council of Business Women.

She is a coach and mentor to several women across multiple industries She has presented at numerous national and international conferences as a keynote speaker.

In 2015, she wrote her autobiography entitled “Swimming Upstream” which focuses on her personal and professional journey. It has officially been announced as a best-seller.

In 2016, she presented several “Swimming Upstream” talks nationally at corporates, schools, universities and charities, with the hope of motivating and inspiring especially youth and women that they can achieve despite adversity, and to never give up.

She holds a BA (University of the Western Cape); Post Graduate Higher Diploma in Education (University of the Western Cape); B.Ed. Honours (UNISA); M.Ed. (University of the Western Cape); Ed.M. (Harvard); and Doctorate in Education (Harvard).

Professor Shirley Zinn was awarded the Top Woman in Business and Government and Top Executive in Corporate South Africa by Topco Media in 2008. Professor Zinn also was recognized by the Black Business Quarterly and received the Award for Top Woman in Business and Government and most Visionary Woman in 2008.

She also received an award from the World Human resources Congress in Mumbai in 2007 and 2013 respectively for Excellence in Global HR Leadership. In 2012, was listed in the Top 30 Wonder Women in South Africa by the Wits Business Journal.

Professor Shirley Zinn was awarded Africa’s Most Influential Women in Business and Government for 2016 in the SME Sector by CEO Global.

She also completed her ninth Two Oceans Half Marathon in March 2018.

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  • Inspirational

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