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When you insist on 'owning' your industry, there is no alternative: International speaker and business author Douglas Kruger CSP helps you to build your brand, to out-pace your competitors through innovation, and to position yourself as an industry leader.

Douglas is the author of 6 business books, including the highly acclaimed 'Own Your Industry - How to Position Yourself as an Expert,' with Penguin Random House. A multiple award-winning speaker, his clients include senior management at companies like MultiChoice, BMW, Liberty and HP. In 2015, Liberty and MultiChoice booked him for their multi-city roadshows. Douglas’s results were so exceptional that in 2016, both organisations insisted on using him again.

In 2016, in honour of excellence in his craft, Douglas was inducted into the Speakers Hall of Fame by his chapter of the Professional Speakers Association. In 2018, he was granted the acclaimed ‘Certified Speaking Professional’ designation by the National Speakers Association in America, the highest earned award granted by this international body, and held by only 12 per cent of speakers globally.

What does he do differently? Douglas dismantles the self-imposed rules that can hamstring aspiring companies and shows you how to develop talent. He guides you away from the cultural norms that can kill innovation, and he is a committed crusader against victimhood-mentality.

Douglas’s thought-leadership ideas have been featured repeatedly on CNBC Africa and he has been published in Forbes and Entrepreneur magazines. His newest book, ‘They’re Your Rules - Break Them!’ looks at how behemoth organisations can become more agile.

When you need industry-leading ideas, backed by research and packaged with humour and charm, call on leading professional speaker Douglas Kruger CSP. His aim is to bring life to your event and prosperity to your brand.

Douglas is the author of 6 business books, including the highly acclaimed ‘Own Your Industry – How to Position Yourself as an Expert,’ with Penguin Random House. A multiple award-winning speaker, his clients include senior management at companies like MultiChoice, BMW, Liberty and HP. In 2015, Liberty and MultiChoice booked him for their multi-city roadshows. Douglas’s results were so exceptional that in 2016, both organisations insisted on using him again.

What would it take to place your brand at the pinnacle of an industry?

International speaker and business author Douglas Kruger answers that question for your leadership team. He helps you to build your brand, out-pace your competitors through disruptive innovation, and position yourself as an industry leader.

Every keynote is designed to meet specific criteria: Solve a business problem, increase your revenue, and thoroughly entertain your people. Expect a thought-provoking mix of high-impact principles, memorable stories and humour that drives home important ideas. Aside from being a business author, Douglas Kruger CSP is a 5 x winner of the SA Champ

Degrees (1)

BA, Communication & Philosophy

University of South Africa

2000 to 2003

Presentations

Presentations (4)

THEY'RE YOUR RULES, BREAK THEM!

Disruptive innovation is everywhere. What if, rather than suffering its game-changing blows, you positioned yourself as the brand that champions the change? Do you have the courage to lead the way?

Based on Douglas's bestselling book, 'They're Your Rules, Break Them! 50 Ways to Smash Silos, Bust Bureaucracy and Create a High-Performance Culture,' this impactful keynote helps your leadership team to learn the agility secrets of top performing brands.

Douglas is a master at asking all the right, difficult questions, and revealing new ways of looking at your scenario, all with playful humour and charm.

Perfect for the leadership team that knows it needs to do something different if it hopes to gain and retain the top spot in the market.

OWN YOUR INDUSTRY

How to Position Yourself as an Expert

When you are the Branson of business, the Clarkson of cars, the Nigella of food, the business comes to you. Are you a ‘category of 1’? When clients spend into your industry, are you the only logical choice?

For over a decade, business author and professional speaker Douglas Kruger has been studying the phenomenon of experts. What differentiates them? What do they do that amateurs don't? What can we learn by emulating the behaviours of top performers across a range of industries?

Based on two of Douglas's bestselling book with Penguin, ‘Own Your Industry’, and ‘What Makes Them Great?’, this presentation shows how you, your business, and your brand can position yourself as the icon, the expert, the thought-leader in your industry. When you do, the business comes to you.

HIGH-IQ LEADERSHIP

The latest ‘smartcuts' from Behavioural Economics and Lateral-Thinking

Behavioural Economics has some astonishing insights for us. Imagine if you could take all the best, and all the most effective ‘smart-cuts’, and share them with your leaders in one go.

The concepts are simple. But their effects are phenomenal.

For instance, did you know that you shouldn’t perform ‘deep archaeology’ in order to change the culture in your organisation? Instead, you should supply your people with concrete prompts: ‘When this happens, I want you to do that instead.’ This idea is exponentially more effective than attempts at radical overhaul.

So is ‘speaking in photographs from the future.’ It helps our teams to ‘see what we mean,’ to a much greater extent than the kind of abstract language that managers typically use.

LEAD FROM THE FRONT

How to engage and persuade every time you present

Too few leaders realise it, but presentation skills can be their single strongest argument for career advancement. When you are seen leading from the front of the room, you draw positive attention to your personal brand, you position yourself as a natural leader, and you become an asset to your organisation.

Poor speaking skills can stop your progress dead in its tracks. With so much at stake, why not invest in taking yours to the next level?

This course goes beyond the mere mechanics of public speaking and presenting, and shows your sales and leadership teams how to truly engage and persuade. Are your messages 'un-ignorable'? Does the point get through? Are you so compelling that audiences leave your presentations excited about the way forward? At the very least, do you know which mistakes to cull, to avoid disqualifying yourself as an amateur?