Adriaan interviews Xolile Sizani - Group Chief Executive at Servest Group Africa: SA’s largest facilities management group. They discuss the current state of Servest Group Africa and Xolile’s turnaround strategy. Xolile also shares with us his views about leadership and his experience in this field, and he leaves a message to all leaders out there.

We get to know Dr Urin Ferndale - current CEO at Jet (Edcon) - as he shares a variety of experiences about his unique life path as a leader in his long career in South Africa... plus his views about leadership.

Bongani is joined by Phumzile Mthembu and Jina Shabangu to discuss their entrepreneurial journey - how looking for products to help Phumzile's son with eczema led to her manufacturing organic products that helped his skin condition, and became a viable business opportunity for her. Then, Leeroy Esbend - founder of an online fashion magazine - discusses 2019 trends and how to save print media.

Bongani is joined by Dr Sibusiso Mkhwananzi (Demographer and Researcher), and Masters student Thato Mokoena to discuss adapting to university life, empowering youth for academic excellence, undergrad/postgrad challenges, and to offer helpful advice for success.

An Authentic Leadership conversation with The Leadership Platform and Prof. Theo Veldsman – reflecting on 2018’s Leadership conversations.

An Authentic Leadership conversation with The Leadership Platform and Prof. Theo Veldsman - reflecting on 2018’s Leadership conversations.

An Authentic Leadership conversation with Prof. Theo Veldsman - what capitals are available in a company to give it a competitive means in its process of creating sustainable well-voiced stakeholders?

Bongani Tau chats to Yamkela Keviet about 'understanding your purpose for success', the value of sacrifice, and running a couple of restaurants at 24. In the second installment, Bongani is joined by Brent Feinberg - a brilliant young author - to discuss his children's range of books, that help kids and adults have meaningful conversations about fear, understanding their gifts, and how the accompanying workshops are changing people's lives.

An Authentic Leadership conversation with Adriaan and Louis Groenewald, and Mike Elliott (Chief Executive Officer at Edgars). From formal accounting experience combined with entrepreneurship, to CEO at Edgars within the giant corporate world of Edcon. Together we explore and expand on his views and experiences in leadership.

Bongani Tau is joined by Public Policy Specialist focusing on Local Economic Development and Government Institutional Planning and lecturer at North West University, Dr Kagiso TK Pooe, to discuss the science of Local Economic Development, why it has failed in the past, ethics, and the concept of servant leadership to solve our problems as a country intrinsically. Dr Pooe also shares his PhD journey and the value of character for leadership success, and compares thriving economies to ours and...

Bongani Tau is joined by Dr Sooliman (Post-Doctorate Research Fellow, Faculty of Humanities: University of Pretoria) to decode the concept of Ethical Leadership, the effects of 'Neo-Apartheid', and why current leaders are ineffective in advocating for and driving social justice.

Bongani speaks to Jake Willis, a recruitment expert, to get tips on how companies can make sure young people stay longer, building a 'millennial-friendly' working environment, and how job seekers can find and keep jobs. Jake also shares his entrepreneurial journey and ideas for business growth.

Prof. Theo Veldsman joins the team to discuss architecting the team-based organisation of the future... the organisational design for the organisation and the operating model of an organisation to identify, create and deliver value to the target market of the organisation.

Bongani Tau is joined by One Young World ambassadors Lerato Selialia, Tshepiso Ramotsehoa and Sibusiso Malinga who will unpack their experience of the 2018 One Young World summit in the Hague, Netherlands. The summit brought together over 2000 youth leaders representing 196 countries to debate, formulate and share innovative solutions for the pressing issues the world faces - with a focus on education, environmental sustainability, health, human rights and poverty alleviation. The trio also...

A very enlightening conversation about authentic leadership between Adriaan and special guest Gordana Biernat: author, a selected Oprah's SuperSoul100 Teacher, speaker and thinker from Malmo, Sweden. Gordana is a strong and growing influencer and leader, a peer to well-known global influencers such as Deepak Chopra, Eckhart Tolle and Tony Robbins. There are good reasons why she was selected as an Oprah’s Super Soul100 Teacher. Find out by listening to the interview. She actively raises...

Bongani is joined by Wall Street stock trader, business advisor, and founder of Future Gen Leaders - Thembi Buthelezi, to discuss all things business intelligence/ entrepreneur IQ (EIQ), why entrepreneurs fail, and how they can overcome their barriers.

Adriaan Groenewald, CEO of The Leadership Platform, interviews and welcomes a new Global Contributor onto the Global Leadership Platform (GLP). We learn more about Malik Melamu, CEO of MTN Sudan, as a leader and about his views on leadership, and the state of leadership in Africa and the world. A fascinating conversation filled with universal truths that could change your life as a leader.

Bongani is joined by two fresh faces of AFI Johannesburg Fashion Week - Neo and Sibusiso - to discuss Fashion Week preparation and the creative process, individual brand narrative, African consumerism, the meaning of Afrocotoure, and how they are planning to lead in changing the fashion narrative globally.

Adriaan interviews special leader-guest Angelique Du Toit - author, inspirational speaker, brand ambassador, and a global contributor on our #GLP Global Leadership Platform. Angelique has released quite a few very inspiring ‘life’ leadership books and is currently releasing her new book, 'Turn It Around - Shifting Perceptions In A Changing World'. We chat about what inspired her to write these books and experience Angelique’s personal passion, and through this her power to truly inspire as an...

"Bongani Tau talks to Thabiso Mahlape, the founder of BlackBird Books - a publishing house dedicated to amplifying unheard black voices and give a platform for black authors to showcase their work - about the role that books play in preserving our history and culture this heritage month. They also look at how literature can reshape the narrative of what it means to be young and African in the 21st century. "

The panel of Adriaan with Tineke Wulffers (Moya Institute), plus Arthie Moore and Jan Robberts (KI Leadership Institute) discuss a recent twitter poll showing that 92% of people agreed that the problem of toxic leadership is destroying our world: economically, politically, socially, morally, health-wise. We need a greater and more co-ordinated effort to create awareness of authentic leaders/ship. We need to get better at developing them.

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