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Nicola Cooper is a trailblazing cultural strategist and trend analyst who has redefined the way businesses understand and engage with African markets. With an extensive background in visual identity, business analysis, and global sociology, she is an authority on consumer behavior and cultural shifts. Nicola’s insights empower brands to navigate the rapidly evolving landscape of fashion, lifestyle, youth culture, and digital trends, ensuring their strategies are not only relevant but deeply rooted in authenticity.
As the founder of Nicola Cooper & Associates, an independent consultancy specializing in African market insights, she has advised top-tier companies on how to integrate global trends while staying true to local identities. Her deep understanding of “glocalization” enables organizations to harness international influences that resonate with their target audience while simultaneously elevating homegrown movements to the global stage. Nicola is a sought-after keynote speaker, known for her engaging and thought-provoking presentations that challenge traditional perspectives and encourage innovation.
Nicola Cooper’s career spans over two decades of research, analysis, and strategic consulting within the fashion, lifestyle, and cultural spheres. She has built a reputation as one of Africa’s leading voices in consumer trends, helping businesses decode the shifting behaviors of modern audiences. Her work is particularly instrumental in guiding brands through the complexities of African identity and aesthetics, offering them a roadmap to create meaningful connections with local consumers.
A firm believer in data-driven storytelling, Nicola’s approach blends academic rigor with real-world application. She holds qualifications in visual identity and design, business analysis, and global sociology, with a specialization in identity formation. This multidisciplinary background equips her with a unique lens to explore how identity, culture, and commerce intersect, particularly in emerging markets.
Through her consultancy, Nicola Cooper & Associates, she collaborates with major corporations, startups, and creative enterprises to bridge the gap between local cultural movements and commercial success. Her ability to identify emerging trends and translate them into actionable strategies has made her an invaluable asset to industries ranging from retail and entertainment to technology and media.
In addition to her consultancy work, Nicola has been a featured speaker at numerous high-profile industry events, including Bizcommunity’s BizTrends sessions. She frequently shares her insights on the future of business, the rise of African consumer power, and the significance of embracing authenticity in branding. Her work is widely published and has contributed to shaping narratives around African identity in the global market.
Event planners looking for a dynamic and knowledgeable speaker who can provide deep, research-backed insights into African consumer behavior and cultural trends will find Nicola Cooper to be an ideal choice. Her expertise in trend forecasting, brand positioning, and strategic cultural analysis makes her an invaluable resource for businesses seeking to stay ahead of industry shifts.
Nicola’s presentations are known for their engaging, insightful, and forward-thinking approach. She has a talent for breaking down complex cultural trends into digestible, actionable insights that audiences can immediately apply to their own strategies. Whether addressing executives, marketers, or creatives, Nicola ensures that her content is both relevant and thought-provoking.
Her ability to highlight the importance of cultural relevance and authenticity in branding makes her a standout choice for conferences, corporate summits, and industry panels. She tailors her content to suit the needs of each audience, ensuring that event organizers receive a customized experience that aligns with their specific objectives. With a keen eye on the future, Nicola provides event attendees with a fresh perspective on how global and local trends converge to shape consumer landscapes.
Nicola Cooper is a highly respected cultural strategist and trend analyst, renowned for her expertise in African markets, consumer behavior, and brand positioning. As the founder of Nicola Cooper & Associates, she has helped businesses navigate cultural shifts and integrate meaningful, locally relevant strategies. Her thought leadership and research-backed insights make her a sought-after speaker for industry events, where she delivers engaging and transformative presentations.
With her unique ability to blend academic knowledge with real-world applications, Nicola is an essential voice for businesses aiming to connect authentically with African audiences. Event planners looking for an authoritative and compelling speaker will find her to be a game-changing addition to their lineup.
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Dr. Avron Urison is a medical doctor, entrepreneur, and strategic health, wellness and habit change consultant with over 30 years of experience in the health and wellness industry. He is the co-founder of AllLife, the first life insurance company globally to provide life insurance to individuals living the HIV. In addition he has built and managed wellness and chronic disease programmes both in corporates and in the primary healthcare setting and run wellness divisions for large corporates with over 4000 staff members. More recently, he has consulted with and managed corporate Covid committees and vaccination sites helping them navigate through the uncertainty and complexity of this Covid pandemic.
With many years’ experience in business and corporate talks, Avron has now developed a new and exciting corporate presentation entitled: Coming out of Covid – recalibriating our health and wellness compass. It is a one hour audio-visual presentation which covers what actually happened to our health and wellness during the Covid pandemic, what our new health and wellness goals should be coming out of the pandemic (or any life stress event) and how can we change our habits to achieve these goals.
This presentation, will make an impact on your life as Dr. Avron Urison explores simple and achievable goals with an action plan. Quite simply, what you can do coming out of this pandemic to change your health and wellness compass!
Dr. Avron Urison will unpack topics like weight, immunity, health screening and wellness, mental health, nutrition, exercise, sleep and medication and how these can be optimised to make simple but meaningful changes to your lifestyle in a sustainable way, thereby improving your health and wellness in the days, months and years to come.
How you embrace the future is in your hands and is your decision. Don’t miss out on this opportunity. Join Avron for an interactive and meaningful hour as he explores and unpacks this topic.
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Dr. Graeme Lategan is a highly regarded corporate speaker, leadership strategist, and training expert with decades of experience transforming mindsets in boardrooms, leadership teams, and professional development arenas across South Africa and internationally. Known for his commanding presence and emotionally intelligent delivery, Dr. Graeme bridges the gap between organisational culture and people performance.
He has facilitated high-impact training and strategic leadership interventions for global brands, the public and private sector, and executive teams in regions including the Middle East and Africa. His focus on adaptive leadership, organizational culture, and management excellence has allowed him to serve clients across industries, cultures, and leadership levels with impact and clarity.
As a Power Speaker, Dr. Graeme Lategan brings a rare mix of authority and relatability — making him a natural choice for events, executive sessions, and strategic consulting. His ability to command attention, translate complex narratives into human stories, and hold space with credibility has positioned him as a sought-after trainer and speaker in both public and private sectors.
With a growing international presence, Dr. Graeme Lategan is increasingly recognised as a distinctive voice on leadership and culture in a globalised business world — combining insight, presence, and relevance on every stage he enters.
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Nick Christelis frequently asks Are you struggling to build those extremely important partnerships in your life?
Whether it’s customer/supplier, employer/ employee, department to department, company/unions, husband/wife or police/communities, the nature of the game has changed.
The ability to build partnerships that co-create value has become not only critical, but is in itself a powerful strategic differentiator for businesses, and an important prerequisite for happy and successful personal relationships.
Alone, as good as you or your business or your marriage might be, you are just another commodity and you are at risk from a highly competitive and sometimes unforgiving world.
This demanding environment has forced us to become focused and individually excellent in order to survive and succeed.
As individuals and businesses become more independently excellent and self sufficient, so do they, unfortunately, become more polarised, creating the potential for conflict believes Nick Christelis.
Fixed viewpoints, processes and behaviours that are independently correct for one party can be incorrect for the other.
The battle is on, with the spoils going to the strongest, the most powerful, or the party that is the best negotiator. Or a compromise is reached.
Whichever way it goes, value is destroyed. The battle has been won but the war has just begun.
Tomorrow’s success goes to those who have the skills to build partnerships that create great mutual value – value that can never be achieved individually – while leaving both partners independently enriched and more powerful by the experience.
So whether you are in business or in a personal relationship, “The Partnership Journey” is the ideal presentation for you.
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Deon Basson – Sales Communication: Success is all about how we persuade and influence people, not just processed communication.
The way we Pitch is what makes the difference in the boardroom, in sales, in teams, between people.
Deon’s talks on sales or communication are highly applicable to any sales team and any team or company that needs more effective communication.
Deon Basson is the CEO of 2interact and has been doing his doctoral studies on what really differentiates the top performing salespeople. And the common denominator is …. The psychology of sales.
Applying the right psychology is far more important than the process of selling.
Running the first training to address this issue some people could make the shift to greater conversations while others could not. It became apparent that there was another skill salespeople need. Having spoken to numerous people, companies and academic institutions it became obvious that the key was to understand and apply how people differ. The focus at that time was to make sure that salespeople understand how people differ.
So the Psychology of Sales was born.
This initial program focused very much on showing salespeople how people differ in the way that they think as well as how personalities differ. This program from Deon Basson was run for about 18 months, but from the experience it was realized that commonly found personality profiles did not serve the communication purpose effectively as they were not built for that (square peg in a round hole).
2interact and the people associated with the company realized that the true issue that they were trying to address was improving communication skills of salespeople and not personalities. In 2006 this was put into practice when the first form of the 2interact communication framework was defined and used in training programs.
In 2011 Deon Basson and 2interact was conducting training with an international bank. After the training the sales director approached 2interact to run a workshop for management and executives. That was the first step outside of the sales field and the real birth of what we stand for today.
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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.
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Kieno Kammies has become synonymous with asking tough questions. His frank and direct approach on the CapeTalk weekday Breakfast Show from 6:00 – 9:00 has won him many fans.
Kieno Kammies often invites opinions challenging his own. But it’s not all hard talk with this experienced journalist and radio personality. Kieno cares deeply about the community in which he lives and works. His compassion for those less fortunate or those who have been wronged is evident.
His presence on the Breakfast Show has made big names a regular feature on CapeTalk. Kieno has interviewed CEOs, Ministers, industry leaders and trend-setters. Some of his interviews have resulted in changes in policy.
A focus on MediClinic, for example, resulted in the group of hospitals changing the way they do triage.
His interview with a mother who couldn’t afford the tuition fees of Stellenbosch University for her daughter who achieved seven distinctions, resulted in listeners pledging enough funds for her first year.
When he’s not on air, he runs a business consultancy that aims to improve EQ, or Emotional Quotient, in the workplace. “I’m a capitalist with a social conscience,” he says. “We should all be trying to make a difference in other people’s lives.”
With his feet firmly planted on the ground and his wicked sense of humour, Kieno Kammies is the perfect MC to work with because of his particularly ‘un-diva-like’ personality
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Samuel Baloyi is an author of Leadership and Motivational books. He is a sought after conference speaker and an entrepreneur. He is a dedicated community worker and a leadership and management consultant.
He provides mentorship in business and leadership and is the Founder and Director of Training the Trainer Leadership Academy. He is a banker by profession and holds a qualification in Banking and in Theology. His banking career took off at FNB followed by Wesbank until he resigned to pursue Leadership and Personal Development Consulting.
He is the founder and Director of ParExcellence (Pty) Ltd, a company that trains on Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Personal Development and Public Speaking.
Samuel Baloyi has since travelled extensively both nationally and internationally on speaking engagements for various companies such as Coca-cola, Nedbank, Standard Bank and Cashbuild, organisations (inclusive of churches, Non- Profit Organisations, community events etc) and Government entities such as the Department of Social Development, the SAPS and Department of Education coaching over 7000 educators.
He has spoken in conferences, conventions, seminars, workshops and public events. His travelling extends to Lesotho, Zambia, Kenya, the USA and throughout South Africa.
Samuel Baloyi speaks on topics such as Leadership Development, Performance (Career and Business), Conflict Management, Personal Management, Cultivating a Winning Attitude, The Power of Perception and various Inspirational and Motivational Topics.
Under the ParExcellence Publishing House, a wing in his company, he has published 8 books including “Dreamers Never Die”, “Winning Tendencies of High Performers” and “Failure is Necessary”.
His latest book, “Transformational Leadership” extends his training programme providing informative guidelines on excelling in one’s Leadership role especially within Corporate situations within your business.
Samuel Baloyi is married to Amanda Baloyi and together have been blessed with two daughters, Pearl and Samantha.
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Zolani Mahola is a South African Storyteller – she is a singer, an actress, an Inspiration Speaker and an agent for social change. Zolani Mahola aka The One Who Sings
Born in Port Elizabeth in 1981, she studied Theatre and Performance at the University of Cape Town where she met musicians with whom she would later form pan-African multi-cultural multi-genre band Freshly Ground in 2002.
17 years and 7 albums later Freshly Ground has gone on to become a household name in South Africa and is one of Africa’s most acclaimed and successful bands. They have captured the heart of the continent and have also claimed global recognition.
One highlight of their near two decade career was a collaboration with pop superstar Shakira with whom they recorded the official song for the FIFA World Cup 2010 and performed it at the opening and closing ceremony for a global audience of over a billion people. The band has to date opened stages for and collaborated with such artists as Stevie Wonder, BB King, Hugh Masekela, Miriam Makeba, Robbie Williams, Oliver Mtukudzi, Vusi Mahlasela and Busi Mhlongo to name but a few.
Zolani Mahola is well loved and respected by South Africans for unifying the country through music and bridging social, racial and cultural divides. As an artist, she explores themes of identity and belonging and she shares a message of individual agency and responsibility.
She firmly believes that though we are all connected and have much in common, “our individual stories are unique; we must be curious about them, to find the reason we were put on this planet and to realise our full expression.”
She has been a judge on the acapella show The Sing-Off (2009) and guest judge on Idols (2010) and The Voice (2016), encouraging uniqueness and a good work ethic in the contestants. She sang the lead in a new South African musical “Calling Me Home” (2017) at Joburg Theatre.
Recently collaborated with Zip Zap Circus School, for whom Zolani Mahola is an ambassador and board member, and the Johannesburg Youth Orchestra at Joburg Theatre in the boundary breaking production“ Journey Beyond” (2019).
Zolani is passionate about sharing her experience for the good of her community and has expanded her portfolio to include what she terms Inspiration Talks. In these talks she shares intimately about her life story, challenges and wins … encouraging others to investigate their own stories and to share them too. She believes that this sharing and listening leads to empathy and will lead to healing pain caused by division in our societies globally.
Zolani Mahola is currently recording her debut solo material with Grammy nominated producer JB Arthur who, together with acclaimed bass player Victor Sibusiso Masondo produced Freshly Ground’s biggest selling album to date.
She will release the material in the latter part of 2019. The artist is also currently developing a theatrical production called “The One Who Sings” which will see its debut release staged at the Baxter theatre in Cape Town in November 2019. 2020 will find Zolani staging the production all over the country as well as globally.
The next phase of Zolani Mahola’s career will see her staging her musical productions in concert halls, auditoriums, concert spaces and theatres the world over as the world joyfully discovers The Next Chapter of this global icon.
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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.
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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