To hire me, visit the contact page.
- I work with organizations and individuals to generate innovation, design business models, and build ventures—particularly within Africa and emerging markets.
- My work is grounded in a simple idea: innovation is not accidental. It can be understood, structured, and applied.
What I Do
- Keynotes: Explaining how innovation works through systems, patterns, and real-world application
- Workshops: Intensive, all-day generative sessions where ideas are built into practical models
- Advisory & Consulting: Innovation strategy, business model design, venture and product development
Experience
- 15+ years across product development, publishing, and venture building
- Contributed to the launch of 100+ products across publishing, fashion, music, technology, and events
- Worked with: ABSA, Standard Bank, Nedbank, Wits Business School, Johannesburg Business School, Transnet, The Innovation Hub
Work
- Brands: I Am Kool Kid Clothing, Gabble Heights Clothing, Rural Joss Clothing, Malombo VS
- Ventures: Bula Buka Publishers, Atimeme, Startup Picnic, Ekhaya Moji, Startup Picnic Academy
- Focus: Building systems that move ideas from concept to market
Writing & Thought
- Author and award-winning publisher focused on innovation, entrepreneurship, and emerging markets
- Books include: Introducing Ubuntu Stoicism, Daily Grace & Ubuntu Stoicism, and other titles on innovation and venture building
- Helped pioneer the diary chronicle book genre in South Africa
- Explore Ubuntu Stoicism—an approach I helped inspire, integrating African humanism with systems thinking
Approach
- Systems thinking
- Real-world product development
- Original frameworks: Human Greed Pyramid, Spaza Metrical, EBC Business Model, Innovation Design Model, Product Adjacent Possible
Engagements
- Corporates
- Universities and business schools
- Government and development organizations
- Founders and entrepreneurs
Enquiries
- For speaking, workshops, or advisory engagements, visit the contact page.