Motivational speaker and youth leadership / entrepreneurship facilitator
Youth organisations, schools, universities, early career programmes, SME events, development agencies, leadership incubators
This talk exposes everyone to their inner greatness, using principles from nature showing the audience that they have inner greatness and providing lifelong principles on how to unearth this greatness.
In this very recent talk, Simon Mtsuki explores the variety of challenges and that thought processes that entrepreneurs have to go through. He also identifies how these can be applied in different spheres of life.
Taking initiative exposes everyone to the tremendous amount of opportunities within our country. Providing the keys to unlocking these opportunities and the principles needed to make the best of these advantages.
All entrepreneurs need to know a few principles before they go into business. In this talk, Simon Mtsuki empowers entrepreneurs to utilise their locus of control to overcome the challenges ahead.
The big ‘Generation-Y’ and ‘Born-Frees’ problem is Instant Gratification. Here, through a series of examples and analyses, exposes this ‘microwave generation’ problem and submits recommendations to building long-term success.
Simon Mtsuki is a South African entrepreneur, leadership developer and youth empowerment specialist whose work spans small business advocacy, education upliftment and enterprise growth. With a B.Comm in Accounting from Wits University, Simon’s commercial foundation is strengthened by years spent supporting young entrepreneurs and early stage businesses during his university holidays and early career. After graduating, he stepped away from a corporate path to launch SGM Motivations, a platform focused on business development, entrepreneurial inspiration and leadership training.
Simon’s commitment to developing emerging leaders quickly earned national recognition. In 2014 he was appointed Ambassador of the Eskom Development Foundation’s Simama Ranta competition, a programme designed to inspire entrepreneurship at school level. Two years later he was selected as an adjudicator for the Eskom Business Investment Competition, one of South Africa’s premier small business showcases across sectors such as agriculture, construction, engineering, manufacturing and services. He is also a regular contributor to the annual Small Business Expo, deepening his impact within the SME ecosystem.
His passion for youth leadership began while at university, where he co founded and led multiple development initiatives.
Simon Mtsuki comes from a commercial background, armed with a B.Comm Accounting from Wits University; he spent most of his university holidays and formative career years working with young entrepreneurs and small businesses.
After graduating he relinquished a corporate job to pursue his own business, SGM Motivations PTY LTD. In 2014, he was appointed as the Ambassador of the Eskom Development Foundation’s Simama Ranta competition which aims to create young entrepreneurs from school level.
He was subsequently requested to serve as an adjudicator for the Eskom’s Business Investment Competition in 2016. The Business Investment Competition is one of South Africa’s notable Small Business competitions – focusing on sectors such as Agriculture, Trade and Services, Construction, Engineering and Manufacturing. He is also one of the regular contributors in the annual Small Business Expo (SBE) held at the TicketPro Dome in Johannesburg.
Simon Mtsuki has a passion for youth development started in university where he co-founded and worked on a variety of young leader development projects. His love for developing the next generation of leaders was honed and has its foundation in these early projects that he put together while he was still a student.
His most notable programme was one he ran in his hometown – the Emalahleni Young Leader Development Programme. This programme focused on the addressing the four main causes of university drop-outs. Using career development programmes and life-skill interventions, this programme assisted students from previously disadvantaged backgrounds, within Emalahleni, to be better prepared for university.
The programme not only increased pass rates in some of the schools that participated, but also assisted students in obtaining funding for their tertiary studies.
At the age of 23, Simon was asked to join the co-author team of the Oxford University Press, co-authoring the Grade 7 – 9 and 11 Life Orientation textbooks. This is mainly attributable to his unique perspective on life principles and his ability to translate them to young people. To date, the textbooks have sold more than 120 000 copies nationwide.
In 2015, Simon wrote his first book, ‘The Road to Varsity’ which is a university starter-kit that equips students with the skills that they need to make the transition from high school to university. He has shared the principles of the book with close to 10 000 young people with close to 8 000 copies sold.
In his current role, Simon Mtsuki speaks on a variety of platforms in the young leader development space. He works with private companies, state owned enterprises and professional bodies in furthering their young leader development objectives, both within and outside of their companies.
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