#2: The speaker’s hat
Speaking
In 2019 I stood on a stage in Southern Africa’s final of the Toastmasters championship with a speech about a chicken crossing the road, and I won. A decade of Toastmasters taught me that speaking is thinking made audible. Today I keynote on Reinvention, AI adoption and the AI-first journey, and I teach teams and leaders to communicate clearly, through talks, facilitation, and hands-on courses under my own name.
Keynotes
What I speak about
Personal & corporate reinvention
Leading through disruption and change, reinvention stories, and why incumbents fail.
Keynote
AI adoption in real organisations
Competence before platform. What actually makes AI stick, drawn from coaching inside a large insurer.
Keynote · Workshop
Rebuilding a firm in public: the wins, the mess, and the numbers. The talk version of the documented journey.
Keynote
Storytelling as a leadership skill
From a decade of stages: how leaders earn attention and keep it.
Keynote · Masterclass
Courses
Teaching and facilitation
Hands-on courses and cohort programmes for teams: practical AI skills, project management, and communication. Built on the twenty hours of deliberate practice principle, taught under my own name. The most recent:
Six-week AI journey, large insurer
From never-touched-AI to processing complex work inside Microsoft Copilot. Weekly coaching, running now.
Corporate cohort · 2026
Two days, hands-on, built on the A.I.M.S. framework. Leave with a prompt library and one automation running.
Flagship workshop
The manager’s working introduction to AI: what it does, where it fails, and how to lead teams that use it.
Cohort course
Leadership communication in 20 hours
Deliberate practice for leaders who need their words to land: briefings, difficult conversations, and the room.
Cohort course
Your work reads as AI-produced and the reader is discounting it. Thirty free minutes to see what gave you away, then two days to get your voice back.
One to one · Two days
Feedback
What the room says
It’s not often that I feel challenged while still being able to hold space for meaningful discussion with clarity and understanding. I found today’s session especially reflective and well aligned with my journey of elevating my personal brand and strengthening self-mastery. Thank you for creating a space where I felt seen, valued, and exactly where I needed to be today. Thando, truly amazing work.
Programme participant, MTN Group · Executive Presence, May 2026
From the same room: a delegate asked how to present to executives who leave early for hard-stops. My answer, on LinkedIn