Professional Speakers

Cape Town based, Rassie Erasmus is a globally acclaimed rugby strategist, head coach of the Springboks, and high-performance leadership speaker. Renowned for leading South Africa in back-to-back Rugby World Cup victories in 2019 and 2023, and for retaining the Rugby Championship title in 2025, he is celebrated for his innovative mindset and authentic leadership. As World Rugby’s 2019 Coach of the Year and an honorary doctorate recipient from North-West University, Erasmus brings unmatched insight into resilience, transformation, and team culture. His talks empower corporate audiences to think strategically, adapt under pressure, and achieve sustained excellence through trust, discipline, and clarity of purpose.

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Richard Wright is a globally acclaimed keynote speaker, resilience coach and bestselling author whose extraordinary journey, from life-threatening brain cancer to finishing multiple full-Ironman triathlons, embodies the power of purpose and mental mastery. He partners with executive teams and event planners to deliver tailored presentations on leadership resilience, high-performance culture and purpose-driven transformation. Leveraging over two decades of sales and leadership experience, including a national training manager role, he weaves client strategy and storytelling into every keynote. With audiences in more than 69 countries and over 200 000 professionals reached, Richard brings fresh insight to the challenges of change, disruption and human potential.

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Dr. Samke Ngcobo is a compelling mental health advocate, medical doctor, and keynote speaker who brings lived experience and clinical insight to corporate audiences. Living with bipolar disorder for over two decades, she is the founder of Vocal Mentality and Sisters For Mental Health, and a Brand South Africa “Play Your Part” ambassador. Samke has inspired leading organisations including Discovery, Accenture and Anglo-American with her powerful, stigma-breaking talks on wellness, resilience and mental health in the workplace. She empowers professionals to thrive, not despite their challenges, but because of them.

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A Certified Ethics Officer, Sarah helps organisations translate ethics from policy into everyday behaviour, decision-making and workplace culture. Her work focuses on ethics awareness, ethical leadership, accountability, values-based conduct and building trust across organisations. Through ethics assessments, training programmes, awareness campaigns and stakeholder engagement initiatives, she helps teams understand how ethical choices are made in real working environments. Known for making complex ethical concepts accessible and relevant, she brings a practical perspective to conversations about organisational culture, governance and responsible leadership. Her insights help organisations strengthen ethical culture and support sustainable business performance.

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An experienced mountaineer and business leader, Saray became the first Black African woman to summit Mount Everest in 2019. Her climbing career includes expeditions on several of the Seven Summits, undertaken while balancing executive responsibilities. She applies lessons from high altitude decision making to organisational leadership, focusing on preparation, risk assessment and disciplined execution under pressure. Through her Climbing With a Purpose initiative, she has raised funds to support the development of libraries in under resourced communities. Her work connects endurance, accountability and long term impact within both commercial and social contexts.

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Siphiwe Moyo is a Hall of Fame global keynote speaker, organisational behaviour strategist, and executive director of the Organisational Behaviour Institute. He helps leaders build human-centred, high-performance workplaces, through science, story, and strategy. Renowned for his authenticity, humour, and practical insight, Siphiwe delivers compelling keynotes like 'Bouncing Forward', 'Radical Ownership', and 'The Science of Happiness at Work'. His clients include Google, Coca-Cola, and Standard Bank, among others. An adjunct faculty member at Wits, Henley, and Johannesburg Business Schools, and past Chairperson of SABPP, Siphiwe brings academic depth and real-world relevance to every stage, boardroom, and leadership retreat.

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For more than two decades he has analysed South Africa’s political and economic landscape across television, radio and print. He anchors Daytime Update and hosts The Money Show, and is the author of SA Politics Unspun. His work is defined by rigorous preparation, disciplined questioning and an ability to translate complex policy and power dynamics into clear, usable insight. At corporate events he moderates high-stakes discussions with authority and balance, ensuring executives confront the implications of political risk, regulatory change and governance failure without noise or partisanship. He brings broadcast discipline to boardroom debate and strategic decision making environments alike.

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A 127-cap Springbok lock who played a central role in the 2007 Rugby World Cup victory, he captained at Test level and led elite teams during sustained competitive pressure. Widely regarded as one of the finest line-out tacticians in modern rugby, his leadership combined strategic clarity with uncompromising standards. Since retiring from professional sport, he has worked in international coaching environments, serves as a rugby analyst on SuperSport, and holds commercial interests in hospitality, property and player development ventures. He advises organisations on leadership, resilience and alignment, translating elite performance into practical frameworks for executives and boards.

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