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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
Motivational speaker and journalist Sara-Jayne King delivers powerful, deeply human keynotes on identity, race, adoption, and resilience, transforming lived experience into insight-driven conversations for modern audiences.
  • Motivational Speaker
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
Sarah Begum is an award-winning explorer, filmmaker and global ambassador dedicated to protecting cultures, championing climate justice and inspiring future generations through science, technology and exploration.
  • Sustainability Speaker
Shemara Ramnarain is a seasoned event MC and broadcast personality who blends 24 years of stagecraft, cultural richness and organisational leadership to deliver engaging, high-impact audience experiences.
  • Event Emcee
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
IT trends keynote speaker Andy Hadfield helps organizations understand the future of digital life, work, and business by translating emerging technology into clear, practical strategic insight.
  • IT Trends
Sports and exercise medicine professor and keynote speaker Prof Wayne Derman delivers evidence-based insights on athlete health, performance, and resilience drawn from elite international sport and medicine.
  • Sports Science
Entrepreneur and impact investor Sangu Delle helps leaders unlock scalable innovation and social impact through African venture building, job creation and purpose driven investment.
  • Entrepreneur Speaker

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
Cricket legend Jonty Rhodes transforms world class sporting insight into powerful lessons on resilience, leadership and performance, inspiring audiences through his journey of perseverance and elite excellence.
  • Cricket Legend
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
Retail futurist Howard Saunders helps global brands reinvent customer experiences through visionary design leadership, consumer insight and twenty-five years shaping transformative retail environments.
  • Retail Futurist
Sharon Jessop is an international keynote speaker and ultra-endurance athlete who transforms bold ideas into action, blending leadership innovation with powerful lessons from elite adventure and conservation.
  • Motivational Speaker
Dr. Julia Shaw is a psychological scientist and keynote speaker on memory, criminal psychology, digital ethics, and workplace culture.
  • Psychological Scientist
Customer experience strategist Geoff Ramm teaches organisations how to design unforgettable Celebrity Service moments and OMG marketing ideas that spark loyalty, industry buzz, and long term competitive advantage.
  • Marketing Expert

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