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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
Zoya Mabuto-Mokoditoa is a leadership speaker and empowerment strategist specializing in women’s leadership, confidence, and authentic influence.
  • Leadership Speaker
Singer, guitarist, and live event entertainer Dave Starke delivers elegant, crooner-style performances that elevate weddings, corporate events, and premium social occasions.
  • Singer
Digital education speaker Dean McCoubrey equips schools and organizations with practical online safety, digital resilience, and media literacy strategies backed by two decades of traditional, digital, and social media expertise.
  • Social Media

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
Sonja Kruse is an inspirational speaker and adventurer whose 351 day Ubuntu journey across South Africa reveals powerful lessons on empathy, connection, and the transformative impact of human kindness.
  • Inspirational Speaker
Rachel Colenso is a globally recognised motivational speaker and elite adventurer whose SAS-level resilience and expedition leadership inspire organisations to excel under pressure and navigate extreme challenge.
  • Female Motivation
Africa’s first Toastmasters World Champion of Public Speaking, inspires global audiences to embrace innovation, optimism, and creative transformation.
  • Creative Innovation
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
Zanele Njapha is a global unlearning expert and future-fit culture strategist who helps organisations reshape mindsets, build agility and thrive amid rapid, disruptive change.
  • The UnLearning Lady
Entrepreneur and political leader Herman Mashaba rose from apartheid-era poverty to lead Johannesburg with a reform-driven, anti-corruption, business-minded approach to governance.
  • Political Leader
Dr. Madelaine Gomes is an international transformational speaker and consciousness mentor who empowers leaders to overcome emotional fatigue, activate inner mastery and elevate purpose-driven, conscious leadership.
  • Motivational Speaker
Stand-up comedian David Kibuuka delivers sharp, intelligent comedy that blends global perspective, cultural insight, and big-stage experience to entertain corporate and mainstream audiences worldwide.
  • Comedian

Chocochino Trio – Conference Entertainment If you looking for a live vibe at your private party, wedding or corporate event you’ve got the right group.

Our versatile 3 piece band can play swing, jazz, and Latin plus funk and soul.

Not to mention the Vocal repertoire with a fabulous female vocalist depending on the clients requirements.

Chocochino Trio | Jazz Band

Some of the music we can provide for Events:

Cool laid back jazz for background music or lively jazz for dancing
Up-tempo soul and funk with popular Jazz standards

We’re based in Johannesburg and do travel to other provinces in South Africa as well. Follow Speakers Inc on Twitter

Chocochino has done corporate events at venues such as Emperors Palace, Misty Hills, Radisson Hotels, Katzy`s Cigar Lounge, Smoke Restaurant, Westcliff hotel, Summer Place, Sun City and The Kyalami Castle amongst others.

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  • Jazz Band

Richard Poplak is an award-winning author, journalist, and filmmaker. He has become one of the most widely read and controversial political journalists in South Africa, editing at large for the Daily Maverick. Poplak has reported from over 25 developing countries, for the Financial Times, Atlantic Monthly, The Guardian, among others. He was recently part of a team that won the prestigious Global Shining Light award for investigative journalism.

Richard has worked as a freelance journalist and writer since 2005. His work has been anthologized numerous times, and he frequently appears on Al Jazeera, BBC, CBC, and elsewhere as a commentator on topics that range from world events to sport: he is considered a go-to voice on the burgeoning Sino-African relationship; on South African politics; and on international cycling.

Richard Poplak is a former Rockefeller Fellow, and a recipient of the Bookmark Award for the best journalist in South Africa. He is also a contributor in the innovative global investigative journalist collective Deca Stories.

Richard Poplak | Current Affairs

As a member in the Gupta Leaks team, Richard Poplak helped break one of the biggest stories in South African media history. The journalistic consortium won the Taco Kuiper Investigative Journalism award, Vodacom Journalist of the Year, and was cited for a Nat Nkasa Bravery in Journalism award. In 2019, the team won the prestigious 2019 Global Shining Light award, the highest honour in investigative journalism.

Before Richard Poplak became a journalist, Richard trained as a filmmaker and fine artist at Montreal’s Concordia University (1992-1995) and has produced an directed numerous music videos, television commercials, and documentary films. He is the co-director of a documentary feature film on the public relations firm Bell Pottinger, called Influence, which is premiering in competition at the Sundance Film Festival in 2020.

Keynote Topic

INFLUENCE: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE WORLD’S MOST DANGEROUS PUBLIC RELATIONS COMPANY

Synopsis

The feature-length documentary film INFLUENCE charts the recent advancements in weaponized communication by investigating the rise and fall of the world’s most notorious public relations and reputation management firm: the British multinational Bell Pottinger.

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  • Current Affairs
Leadership strategist Caroline Ravenall empowers organisations to build future fit cultures and equips individuals with the courage, resilience, and mindset needed to thrive amid uncertainty and change.
  • Motivational Speaker

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