What does it take to be the first?

Way back in 2005, Verity started her journey as the first South African musician with the tenacious foresight to get online crowd funding for an album she hadn't even recorded yet. Fifteen years later, and a career glittered with accolades, brings us to 2021 and Verity's latest big first - first speaker from Africa to ever be crowned the World Champion of Public Speaking and the 6th woman in history.

Her talent for ‘acting out the box’ rather than merely ‘thinking out’ of it, has brought international success for Verity, speaking globally on innovation and thinking differently, which includes two TEDx Talks.

As the Toastmasters 2021 World Champion, Verity captured the judges, and thousands of peoples imagination with her winning speech ‘A Great Read’ - an inspiring invitation to improve our lives by "writing a different story".  Helping people do just that, is Verity's passion.

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Kelly Swanson is an award-winning storyteller, comedian, motivational speaker, Huffington Post Contributor, and cast member of The Fashion Hero television show airing on Amazon Prime.

She is also author of Who Hijacked My Fairy Tale, The Land of If Only, The Story Formula, and The Gutsy Girls Pocket Guide to Public Speaking. She was a featured entertainer for Holland America Cruise Lines, keynote speaker for the International Toastmasters Convention, and has keynoted major conferences and corporate events from coast to coast.

Kelly’s wacky wit and powerful stories have charmed hearts and tickled funny bones for over 15 years. In addition to her role as a funny motivational speaker, Kelly teaches people how she does it by sharing what she has learned about connecting and engaging to have more influence in business, through the use of one tool – strategic storytelling.

Sharing her own powerful journey through story and the formula she discovered, you come to that magical place where the art of story meets the business of persuasion.

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Ntsiki Mkhize is passionate about working with individuals and teams to inspire, connect and empower them to discover their purpose, and implement practical methods for personal and business success.

As Miss South Africa 2nd Princess 2015, Ntsiki focuses on coaching on personal branding, living on purpose and personal development.

Ntsiki is a self-published author and founder of MentHer. Her inaugural book My Hall of Mentors was released in 2019 with launches in South Africa and Scotland.

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Anthony Stears is better known as “The Telephone Assassin” and he’s on a mission to get businesses talking again and stop people from hiding behind their emails and social media.

Helping clients to get in front of more of their ideal customers and getting more business from their existing customers. Anthony has made calls for a huge range of business and when he found himself as the sales or marketing manager for 5 different companies all at the same time, he realised that his growing waiting list of clients needed to be serviced too.

After working closely with an NLP master trainer he was able to teach people to “fish for themselves” as he started to really understand the power of his communication style, so combined with the structure he had developed, Anthony began to run a Telemarketing Masterclass.

Adam Markel is a recognized expert in professional and personal reinvention. A highly sought-after keynote speaker, transformational leader and business mentor, he guides individuals and businesses to capitalize on change and magnify their impact.

After building a multi-million-dollar law firm, Adam became CEO of one of the largest business and personal development training companies in the world, overseeing more than $100 million in sales.

For more than 20 years, Marie Hale revolutionized small business marketing and sales in the Chicagoland area and nationally with her no-nonsense sales and marketing approaches and speeches.

As her career and agency have evolved into one as an international change-maker, her personal story has made her journey something more than just success for herself and her clients.

Marie's ability to tell her story of dreams coming true and unimaginable loss gives her the ability to connect to audiences at every level, causing the kind of change that is felt long after the event is over.

Her 'stage' presence is filled with joy, connection to the audience, and the kind of impact that only comes from true authenticity.

Providing deep insights and conversations about the power of resilience. As the world keeps changing we must stop pivoting and start learning to pirouette into deeper relationships, innovation, and better results.

Dr Samke Ngcobo is a dynamic, and passionate wellness speaker who has a passion for issues related to mental health advocacy and mental health psycho-education.

Samke is living with Bipolar Disorder since the age of 14 years old (for the past 21 years). I have a commendable work ethic and excellent interpersonal skills. She values purpose-driven living and creating a legacy that will benefit the greater good in the long-term through philanthropy.

Dr Samke is the author of a book called Reflections Of A Convoluted Mind: A journey with my mental illness. It was inspired by my desire to create an awareness and understanding about the life of someone who is living with a mental illness. I felt that I could share valuable insights as someone who lives with a mental illness and as a doctor to individuals like myself. The intention is to humanise this journey through sharing my thoughts and reflections related to it.

Duncan Wardle is the founder of ID8 and former Head of Innovation and Creativity at The Walt Disney Company, Duncan is a renowned expert in developing innovative, magical brands, engaging stories, and creative experiences that drive results.

As an award-winning global Keynote Speaker, Duncan delivers in-person and virtual speeches and Masterclass Workshops, or Consulting services to empower teams with the tools they need to start innovating today.

He now brings his extensive Disney expertise to audiences around the world using a unique approach to Design Thinking, helping people capture unlikely connections, leading to fresh thinking and disruptive ideas.

THE JOY EXPERIENCE!

Audiences learn, laugh and LOVE the Joy Experience. In her dynamic and engaging keynote presentations, Joy Baldridge, provides significant takeaway value on managing and coping with mental health and wellness issues by sharing an abundance of her “Golden Nuggets” – useful, immediately applicable tools and techniques to add to your toolkit, drawn from her life experiences, extensive studies, and degree in psychology. You will also discover how to deal with adversity, innovative approaches to self-care and making positive changes happen. You will acquire new habits that stick that you can personally use and bring back to work and share.

You will learn and leave with:

· An instant perspective change

· Fresh ideas on how to deal with adversity

· New proven coping tools that lead to improved mental health and wellness

· Skillset and mindset transformation

· An overall improvement of quality of work and life

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Making complex issues tangible, Bruce Whitfield interprets the noise at the murky intersection where business, politics and society collide. He has the extraordinary ability to bring clarity and transform the way we see the world. This fresh perspective shines a light on how we can fix the future. Today.

In his new book “GENIUS” and the accompanying talk, he examines what it takes to thrive in an increasingly complex, fast-paced, divisive global environment.

Bruce draws on two decades of studying the business environment in one of the world’s most fraught socio-political economies, South Africa, and distils what has made that country’s top entrepreneurs globally competitive.

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