Dr. Brenda Hattingh: Leadership Speaker

Dr. Brenda Hattingh is a leadership speaker and psychologist who equips organizations with Power Intelligence, resilience, and “organizational DNA” tools for authentic, future-ready performance.

Quick Facts:

Highlights:
  • Creator of Power Intelligence, with keynotes on PI, neurodiversity, resilience, and enlightened leadership.
  • Developed tools like the Power Intelligence Success Profile for culture, performance, and change.
  • Track record includes national transformation work and 25+ published books.

Formats:

Keynotes 45–60 min; executive briefings; leadership and resilience workshops; coaching programs.


Audiences:

CEOs and EXCOs, HR and OD leaders, people managers, transformation teams, public sector leaders.


Outcomes:
  1. Shared language and tools for Power Intelligence across teams
  2. Practical steps to “rewrite” organizational DNA and embed authentic leadership
  3. Resilience habits that turn setbacks into sustained comebacks
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  • Travels from: Johannesburg

Keynote Topics

Developing the creative intelligence of the future

This presentation focuses on answering the following questions:

  • What is Power intelligence?
  • Why is Power Intelligence the intelligence of the future?
  • How do we develop our Power Intelligence?
  • What is the real meaning of success?
  • What are the five most important power intelligence tools we need to secure a happy, successful, and prosperous future?
  • Why will some people stay behind?
  • Who will move forward?
  • How does my Power Intelligence help me secure my place in the success of the future?

Not only do we answer these questions, but participants leave inspired, with a new mindset and heart-set and five new skills and tools to enhance their Power Intelligence. This is applicable not only to individuals but also to groups, communities, teams, companies, and organizations. 

A new brain, a new mindset, and a new intelligence taking us forward
Humanity is constantly changing, transforming, and moving to the next level. Part of this process is the awakening of different parts of the nervous system and brain. Because of this, we find neurodiversity. People have different mindsets, ways of thinking, and perspectives on life. This could and does cause confusion.

However, if we harness and synergize all this diverse power and potential, we can create progress and prosperity that benefits all. The pinnacle of this process is the activation of the brain’s frontal lobe. Here, we find a new mindset, a new heart, and even a new intelligence – Power Intelligence (PI). Power intelligence is the intelligence of the future. 

This presentation explores the five must-have skills to develop your Power Intelligence and fast-forward our progress into a prosperous future. 

The world is changing at an accelerated pace. As the old disintegrates the new emerges. However, only those who are resilient and prepared can make the shift. Others will stay behind. It is the responsibility of each individual, including each team, company, and organization to be prepared for the changes by staying resilient.

Resilience also guarantees the sustainability and longevity of people. Projects and processes. A future of health, wealth, happiness, success, and prosperity depends on developing our resilience – now.

In this presentation, we focus on answering the following questions.

  • Why all the change? Change from what to what?
  • What does our new future look like?
  • What is resilience? 
  • How do we develop our resiliency?
  • What is our DNA Success Blueprint and how does it influence the future?
  • How do we access and recover the power and potential of our DNA Success Blueprint? 
  • What is the true meaning of success and how do we achieve it?
  • How do we turn setbacks into comebacks?
  • Who will be able to move forward and take the leap into the new future? 
  • Who will stay behind? 
  • Why will they stay behind?
  • What are the results of being resilient and investing in resilience training?
  • How will resilience guarantee success, prosperity, and longevity?           
  • Where do we start? 
     

After this presentation, each person will be aware of the importance of resilience in a world of constant change and transformation. Each person attending will have a new vision of the future and know what skills and stools they will need to develop to get to this future.

They will know the benefits resilience has for each person, team, company, and organization in creating success, prosperity, and sustainability now and in the future.

They will not only have a new mindset and skill set where success, prosperity, and peak performance are concerned but will be able to move with the waves of change while others will stay behind. Those attending will leave with a new mindset and toolset to develop their resilience and be inspired by the future.  

Although the term ‘rewriting organizational DNA ‘ has become a job description, very few know how to actually do this on a DNA level. In this presentation, we focus on mindfully and consciously enabling our DNA blueprint.   

We needed a whole new mindset, hear-self, and skillset to do this. We even need a whole new intelligence – Power Intelligence (PI).  Power Intelligence is the intelligence of the future. 

In this presentation, we take it step by step on how to rewrite organizational DNA by recovering our original DNA success blueprint thereby securing success and prosperity for all 

Harnessing the power of alchemy

Fundamental change is taking place right down to our DNA coding. In the process, new genetic potential is being activated, and new power and potential are being released. Even a new genetic pool is emerging. Understanding epigenetics is one of the most important skills and tools.

Epigenetics is the ability to change, recover, and reactivate our original DNA success blueprint. Epigenetics is the process whereby our DNA expression is influenced by external factors – or – that one person with an activated DNA blueprint can influence a whole team, community, company, or organization, thereby securing a new future with health, wealth, happiness, success, and prosperity that benefits all.

By making use of the science of Epigenetics, we can rewrite personal, team, community, and organizational DNA and secure growth, development, satisfaction, and longevity. Epigenetics is the way into a new and brighter future.

The rapid pace of change that new authentic leaders now stand up and take in their place as our new pathfinders, mapmakers, bridge-builders, and change agents. Unfortunately, a multibillion-dollar Leadership Development profession has not succeeded in providing us with the kind and quality of leaders, growing sustainable teams, companies, organizations, and governments, and the world we live in, now needs.

The leadership profession has even succeeded in botching authentic leadership because current training is mainly provided by ego-driven teachers, coaches, and mentors. The time has come to set the records straight and develop new, enlightened, authentic leaders who know the way, go the way, and show the way into a new future of health, wealth, happiness, success, and prosperity that benefits all.

After this presentation, each person will be aware of what true, authentic, enlightened leadership is all about. They will not only have a new mindset and skill set where leadership is concerned but will be able to tell the difference between ego-driven leaders and real, authentic leaders. They will be mindful of the importance of developing our DNA Leadership Blueprint to secure a brighter future with health, wealth, happiness, success, and prosperity that benefits all. Those attending will leave with a new mindset and toolset and be inspired by the future.

This is an interactive fun session. 

Talent Short Bio

Dr. Brenda Hattingh is an international keynote speaker, consultant, and author whose work centers on Power Intelligence, authentic leadership, resilience, and rewriting organizational DNA to unlock health, wealth, happiness, success, and prosperity that benefits all. A qualified psychologist with a PhD in Psychology and earlier degrees in science and education, she has lectured in organizational psychology and advised leaders across sectors.

Earlier in her career she served as a transformational change specialist during South Africa’s transition, coaching new leaders and facilitating peaceful integration. Brenda has authored 25+ books and developed assessment and coaching frameworks that help people and organizations recover their “Success DNA Blueprint” and move from ego-driven behaviors to enlightened leadership. She travels from Johannesburg.

Dr Brenda Hattingh returns to the Speaking Profession after a time of R&D. She found that research revealed that we all have an authentic self encoded as our original DNA Success Blueprint that guarantees our health, wealth, happiness, success, and prosperity.  Unfortunately,  we became disconnected, forfeited this power and potential, and created a shadow ego-self. Today, we live the results of this disconnection as we struggle to survive the disconnected ego-self.

Today, Dr. Brenda brings this groundbreaking work to international platforms as an inspirational and keynote speaker. Her speaking topics include a wide range of issues.

Dr. Brenda Hattingh is an international inspirational speaker, authentic leadership consultant, change and transformation facilitator, coach, mentor, thought leader, and author of over 25 books. She is committed to inspiring, helping, and assisting individuals, leaders, companies, and organizations in recovering their Success DNA blueprint and rewriting organizational DNA while creating a new future of health, wealth, happiness, and prosperity that benefits all, including nature.

Brenda Hattingh academic career includes a B.Sc. degree in natural and medical science, an Honours degree in assessment and counseling, a Masters degree in Adult Education, and a Ph.D. in Psychology. As an academic, Dr. Brenda Hattingh has lectured in organizational psychology at various universities and business schools.

Dr. Brenda Hattingh was born and bred in South Africa. During the early 1990s, she was contracted as a transformational change specialist under the leadership of Nelson Mandela. Her role was to assist in facilitating a peaceful integration and transformation of South Africa, the peaceful transfer of power, and the implementation of Nelson Mandela’s vision of ‘equality and freedom for all’.

Her inspirational and transformational work in communities, companies, organizations, and the newly formed government, including the training, coaching, and mentoring of new leaders in business and the government, earned Dr. Brenda the ‘The Professional Businesswoman of the Year Award’.​

Dr. Brenda is committed to training and coaching new, enlightened, authentic leaders who will now emerge, take in their place, and bring change, transformation, and the authentic leadership now necessary to not only rise above an ego-driven world but to create a whole new vision of success, prosperity and progress the world now needs.

As an international speaker, Dr Brenda Hattingh delivers keynote addresses, coaching, authentic leadership training, facilitation, and consulting, all backed by over 25 books, including the series Authentic Living and Leading. She is also an international keynote speaker at many business, professional, and academic conferences in South Africa, Europe, the United States, Belgium, Africa, Egypt, and others. Her latest presentation at the International Psychology Conference (ICP) in Prague is Power Intelligence Success Strategies. Rewriting Organizational DNA.

A Power Intelligence Success Profile (PISP) was developed as a powerful self-assessment tool to assist individuals, teams, companies, and organizations in managing their power and potential, maximizing their success strategies, enhancing productivity, and securing resilience, sustainability, renewal, and longevity. The PISP facilitates change and transformation, rewrites organizational DNA, and ensures success strategies, wellness, and resilience.

However, at the height of her career, she was left paralyzed when three neck vertebrae were fractured in a motorcar accident. While being in traction and then learning to walk again, she used this time to further her research and the development of next-level inspiration. She developed transformational books, training material, assessment tools, and speaking topics that included our DNA recovery.

Dr. Brenda Hattingh Believes the future looks bright. All we need to do is claim it.  Everyone is invited.

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Talent Videos

How to recover your DNA Success-blueprint

A concise primer on Power Intelligence and self-coaching, positioning DNA-level ownership as the antidote to change fatigue and reliance on external fixes.

Dr. Brenda Hattingh opens with a clear context: change is escalating, and only people who think on their feet and coach themselves will thrive. She observes an unintended consequence of today’s coaching culture. As organizations outsource development to mentors and external experts, many individuals hand their power away, creating costly dependency and draining time and energy. Her proposition is to restore agency through self-coaching and a unifying language of Power Intelligence.

She invites viewers to imagine teams where every person knows who they are, what they want, and how to get there, and where relationships are fueled by motivation rather than neediness. The centerpiece is her DNA Success Blueprint, which she describes as an original, inner code for health, wealth, happiness, and success. Power Intelligence becomes the practical interface to activate that code. It is framed as the intelligence of the future, supported by a full ecosystem of books, training, and the Power Intelligence Success Profile assessment.

Key Moments

00:00 Escalating change and the case for self-coaching
00:35 The dependency trap of over-relying on coaches and mentors
01:05 Vision of self-led, motivated relationships and teams
01:35 Introducing Power Intelligence and the DNA Success Blueprint
02:10 Tools and ecosystem: books, training, and the PI Success Profile
02:40 Organizational value: productivity, sustainability, culture health
03:05 Individual promise: reclaim agency, align identity and action
03:30 Invitation to take the leap and program options for rollout

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Yes. Programs are customized to your context with relevant cases and tools. 

Power Intelligence, PI and neurodiversity, resilience, enlightened leadership, and epigenetics in the workplace.

Johannesburg, with international engagements and virtual delivery.

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