Kgadi Mmanakana

Kgadi is a Professional Speaker and Author on Entrepreneurship, Disruption and Innovation strategies that uses the concepts of Design Thinking, Business Model Innovation and Competitive Strategy to counsel business executives on how to gain Competitive Advantage in ever changing and disruption prone market environments.

¶As a Competitive Strategy Keynote Speaker

She is a Strategist that leverages on her market intelligence & ability to simplify and contextualize buzzwords (market disruptions & industrial revolutions) and then creates keynote presentations and masterclasses for business executives to give them practical and working blueprints and pointers on how to (1) Make Innovation Happen (2) Navigate Disruption and (3) Gain Competitive Advantage.

¶As a Performance & Morale Boost Motivational Speaker

Her genuine desire to want to see people succeeding combined with her natural ability to connect with people and inspire action in them is a total supercharger for operational teams, sales teams and students. She is a total morale booster that plants the seed of possibility in minds of the audience and equips them with practical tools on how to perform at their best. Kgadi also guides students and young professionals on career mapping & success in the age of workplace & jobmarket disruption.

¶As an Entrepreneurial Success Enabler

After spending 6 years working full-time at grassroot level with entrepreneurs & SMEs as their strategy consultant, and realising that the missing link in Enterprise Development in South Africa is the Entrepreneurship Development (Entrepreneurship education, develop entrepreneur's business skills and mindset shift) which is hugely driven by the SA's Entrepreneurship culture, Kgadi has decided to switch roles from being a consultant to a teacher/mentor through speaking.

She is an Entrepreneurship & Startup Conference Speaker focused on Idea Execution, Access to Funding & Markets, and Business Growth; An author of 8 eBooks written with the intent to equip entrepreneurs and startup founders with practical blueprints of what it takes to move just an idea to having a business that sustain itself. The books include The Art and Science of Entrepreneurship, Adapt or Get thrown out of Business by Covid19, Marketing plan Guide, Get Procurement Ready, Business Plan Guide, Decoding X Industrial Revolution and 4IR and Career Choices.

She is also a content producer for Kgadi on Strategy, a podcast serving as an archive of business blueprints and pointers for startup business owners.

Kgadi's specific talents;

Foresight

Enterprising and Business Model Innovation

Ability to unearth failure and problem root causes instantaneously.

Ability to connect with people

Ability to decode, simplify and teach concepts

Ability to see the bigger picture