Buhle Dlamini: Future Trends
Leadership keynote speaker Buhle Dlamini combines global business experience, cultural intelligence and entrepreneurship to help organizations navigate change, strengthen inclusion and build effective teams.
Quick Facts:
- International speaker with TomorrowToday Global.
- Entrepreneur with business experience in South Africa and Canada.
- Co-founder of ForGood.co.za and Columba Leadership.
- Fundamentals of Strategy Certificate from Harvard University.
- Formats:
Keynote Speaker
- Audiences:
Executives, managers, HR professionals, emerging leaders and organizations focused on change, inclusion and team culture.
- Outcomes:
Recognize how cultural differences influence communication and collaboration.
Identify leadership behaviours that encourage inclusion and contribution.
Connect future-of-work challenges with practical decisions about people and culture.
- Travels from: Nova Scotia, Canada
- **Fee range: $10,001 - $20,000
Keynote Topics
Owning The Future
The future of individual and business success is very different to anything we have experienced before.
Owning The Future is a must for organisations and individuals that are serious about being at the forefront and lead the wave of the new economy.
While it gives a very strategic and futurist message, it is also light in style. Inspiring, eye-opening, practical and full of ideas you can walk out and apply immediately.
Afro-Centric Leadership
There is no need to look across the seas for inspiration and direction when it comes to leadership.
Africa has birthed some of the greatest leaders, throughout history, and right up to this present day.
What made them stand out as great leaders of their day?
What makes one person stand out head and shoulders above the rest in the competitive area of leadership?
Passion to Success
This Buhle Dlamini presentation will help teams, organizations and individuals to be clear about what their passion is and in turn using this passion to spur them on to success in their field.
Without passion work is a chore, without passion vision statements are just words on paper.
Scratch the Itch of Greatness
The itch of greatness is full of hope, resilient by nature and boundless in its potential to serve the common good.
There is a deep innate need, an almost exponential yearning within each of us to start scratching this itch of greatness.
Five Dysfunctions of a Team
For a company to reach its maximum potential it needs each of its teams to function as united entities.
However getting different personalities, experience levels and work ethics, to become one unit is often seen as a unattainable goal.
From Dream to Delivery Excellence
This Buhle Dlamini presentation looks at how visionary organisations can turn great visions and dreams into excellence in service delivery.
In most organisations there seems to be a breakdown between ‘The Dream’, ‘The Great Vision’ and quality of the service delivered.
Women and Leadership
Many women find themselves in uncharted waters as they are promoted to positions of leadership in the corporate sphere.
The Communication Game
An overview of basic skills that will help participants improve their abilities at all levels of communications.
Cross-cultural Skills
Never in the history of mankind have so many cultures interacted with such regularity.
Whether traveling internationally or simply heading to the local mall we’re all encountering people whose culture and worldviews differ from our own.
Talent Short Bio
Buhle Dlamini is a South African-born, Canada-based keynote speaker, entrepreneur and author who speaks on leadership, the future of work, organizational culture and cultural intelligence.
Working with TomorrowToday Global, he helps companies understand change, strengthen inclusion and create environments where people can contribute. His entrepreneurial experience includes leading Young & Able for 14 years in South Africa, founding MindGro Consulting in Canada and co-founding social enterprises including ForGood.co.za and Columba Leadership.
Raised in the rural Zulu village of Hlabisa, Buhle brings a personal perspective to growth, opportunity and human potential. He holds a Fundamentals of Strategy Certificate from Harvard University and is a fellow of the Cultural Intelligence Center.
The author of six books, including Unleashing Your Greatness, Buhle combines strategic content with humour, warmth and storytelling. His presentations engage executives, emerging leaders and broader teams in practical conversations about collaboration, culture and preparing for the future.
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