Nolo Mokoena: Business Innovation

Nolo Mokoena is a Creative Solutionist and business innovation speaker focused on youth-led enterprises, strategy, and bottom-up empowerment.

Quick Facts:

  • Highlights:
    • Business innovation and strategy
    • Youth-led and youth-focused enterprises
    • Creative problem-solving (“Creative Solutionism”)
    • Dialogue, mediation, and social cohesion
  • Formats:

    Business Innovation Strategist and Creative Solutionist

  • Audience:

    Youth leaders, entrepreneurs, brands, institutions, and organizations seeking authentic youth engagement and inclusive innovation strategies.

  • Outcomes:
    1. Clear frameworks for building youth-led, sustainable enterprises
    2. Practical insights into innovation, strategy, and bottom-up empowerment
    3. Tools for facilitating dialogue, mediation, and inclusive leadership
Reading time: 2 min
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  • Travels from: Johannesburg

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Nolo Mokoena is a Creative Solutionist, entrepreneur, and thought leader passionate about innovation, youth development, and sustainable business models. He is the co-founder of several forward-thinking start-ups, including Storage Wards Solutions and South Africa’s first online house music publication, The Set Magazine, both of which reflect his belief in culturally relevant, youth-driven innovation.

Before fully immersing himself in entrepreneurship, Nolo built a strong corporate foundation as an Associate Manager at Procter & Gamble. This experience sharpened his strategic thinking and exposed him to world-class operational excellence, which he now applies to youth-focused enterprises and creative business solutions.

Nolo’s leadership journey began early. While studying at the University of Pretoria, he served as Chairperson of the Young Economists Society and Vice-Chairperson within his faculty, later contributing as Projects Head for the Student Sports Committee. In his final year, he founded The Heritage Talk Series in partnership with the Department of Student Affairs, creating a platform for dialogue, identity, and transformation among young South Africans.

Nolo Mokoena is a Creative Solutionist, Nolo Mokoena is the co-founder of several innovative start-ups such as Storage Wards Solutions and South Africa’s first online house music publication, The Set Magazine.

 
Previously an Associate Manager at Procter & Gamble, Nolo currently focuses on advertising for the youth voice, and creating youth-led and youth-focused enterprises that truly empower from the ‘bottom up’.
 
As a student leader at the University of Pretoria, he serves as the Chairperson of the Young Economists Society and Vice-Chairperson of the faculty, whilst later making contributions as Projects Head for the Student Sports Committee. 
 
In his final year, he founded The Heritage Talk Series in partnership with the Department of Student Affairs.
 
Nolo’s key interests lie in innovation and strategy; mediation and dialogue, youth development and agricultural reform.
 
A recent alumni of the South Africa-Washington International Program (SAWIP) in 2014, he spent his summer in work placement at the Michelle Obama-endorsed High Achievement, an education-focused NGO in the Washington D.C metropolitan area – focusing his efforts on the NBL’s Washington Nationals’ Youth Program.
 
Nolo is also a recent fellow of the ISFIT Dialogue Groups in Norway, which was hosted by the Nansen Centre for Peace & Dialogue and Trondheim University. 
 
Aside from his entrepreneurial ventures, he hopes to grow as a social innovator – making a considerable contribution, providing alternative solutions in both private and public sectors of society.
 
Nolo Mokoena – Business Innovation is both an opinion writer on News24’s Voices platform and a TEDx speaker and he is a continual contributor to various organisations and publications through various mediums.

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