Unathi Mahaluba:

  • Unathi Mahaluba is an Operations Leadership Expert with over 24 years of leadership experience and 20 years of experience in supply chain, logistics, and manufacturing.
  • As a speaker, author, and Operations Leadership Expert and coach, he helps operations leaders take their leadership to the next level through practical frameworks, including his signature 6Ps of Operations Leadership.

Travel & Fee Range:**

  • Travels from: Pretoria
  • **Fee range: 20,001 - 35,000
  • Local (within the same city/province) Fee: ZAR 20,000
  • Out-of-Town (within South Africa, outside home city) Fee: ZAR 30,000

Keynote Topics

In today’s demanding operational environments, leadership isn’t optional—it’s the competitive edge. This keynote introduces the 6Ps of Operations Leadership, a practical and proven framework that helps operations leaders drive clarity, purpose, and team performance. With over two decades of experience, Unathi Mahaluba brings actionable insights for aligning people, process, and partnerships with business strategy.

Takeaway Messages:

  • Understand the six essential leadership pillars: Pledge, Prepare, Purpose, People, Performance Environment, and Partners.
  • Learn how to inspire accountability and measurable results.
  • Build operational teams that are aligned, focused, and high-performing.

Leadership in operations must evolve from control to trust. This talk equips leaders with six powerful ways to lead with autonomy—fostering innovation, ownership, and performance. Unathi Mahaluba helps audiences understand how autonomous leadership transforms decision-making and empowers teams to thrive in fast-paced, high-stakes environments.

Takeaway Messages:

  • How to create an environment where people feel trusted and accountable.
  • Practical tools to shift from micromanagement to empowered leadership.
  • Real examples of autonomy driving operational excellence.

Every person in an organization—regardless of title—can lead from where they are. In this motivational keynote, Unathi Mahaluba inspires teams to take ownership, act with initiative, and become change agents in their roles. This is a message of self-leadership, accountability, and resilience, ideal for employee engagement events and team-building programs.

Takeaway Messages:

  • Discover the power of leading without a title.
  • Learn how initiative and personal excellence drive team and business success.
  • Foster a culture where everyone feels empowered to make an impact.

Unathi Mahaluba is a highly respected Operations Leadership Expert with over 23 years of experience in the supply chain, logistics, and manufacturing sectors. Known for his practical leadership style and results-driven insights, Unathi has led high-performing teams in complex operational environments, delivering over R60 million in cost savings and year-on-year performance growth across multiple organizations. […]

Unathi Mahaluba is a highly respected Operations Leadership Expert with over 23 years of experience in the supply chain, logistics, and manufacturing sectors. Known for his practical leadership style and results-driven insights, Unathi has led high-performing teams in complex operational environments, delivering over R60 million in cost savings and year-on-year performance growth across multiple organizations.

He is the founder of People to People Academy, a leadership development company focused on empowering operations leaders with the skills to lead confidently, drive performance, and build thriving workplace cultures. Unathi is also the author of “6Ps of Operations Leadership: How to Take Your Leadership to the Next Level and Thrive”, a framework that has been praised for its simplicity, depth, and transformational impact in the workplace.

Unathi Mahaluba

As a keynote speaker and workshop facilitator, Unathi Mahaluba combines compelling storytelling with practical frameworks that resonate with frontline leaders, middle managers, and senior executives alike. His signature talks—including 6Ps of Operations Leadership, 6 Ways of Leading with Autonomy, and Lift From Where You Stand—are designed to ignite leadership ownership, team accountability, and operational excellence.

With a background in organizational leadership, employee development, and performance coaching, Unathi is passionate about helping organizations align their people with purpose. His delivery is both motivational and actionable, making him a trusted voice for businesses seeking to grow capable leaders who move teams and strategy forward.

When he’s not speaking, Unathi Mahaluba consults and coaches leaders across industries, helping them unlock their leadership potential and build cultures of feedback, trust, and measurable results.

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