The Leadership Platform

Leadership Masterclass

Adriaan and Louis Groenewald, together with Ellis Mnyandu, chat with businessman and DA Mayoral Candidate for Johannesburg, Herman Mashaba, regarding the relevance of the SONA 2016 for leaders.

15 Feb 2016 31 min

Leadership In Education

Adriaan and Louis Groenewald, together with Barbara Dale-Jones, have another conversation with the Principal of Parktown Girls High School, Dr Anthea Cereseto. This follow up will be focused on the importance of planning for school principals.

8 Feb 2016 22 min

Conversation with SME Audience

The panel engages the SME owners that listened for the previous hour. The SME owners, after a draw, get to pitch their business in 30 seconds, share comment and/or ask questions of the panel.

8 Feb 2016 23 min

SME Interview

Adriaan Groenewald, Grant Robson and Adam Rabinowitz chat with Arthur Wade Anderson, Founder of Got Game, a start up focused on the education and economic inclusion of people in underserved communities.

8 Feb 2016 36 min

Business Skills Conversation

Adriaan Groenewald and Grant Robson host Adam Rabinowitz from USB-ED. The theme of the discussion is “working IN the business versus working ON the business”.

8 Feb 2016 30 min

Leader Interview

Adriaan and Louis Groenewald engage directly with MTN SA CEO, Mteto Nyati, about his leadership experiences as well as the challenges he faces.

8 Feb 2016 27 min

Leadership Masterclass

Adriaan and Louis Groenewald, together with MTN SA CEO, Mteto Nyati, discuss “debunking leadership myths” with Prof. Theo Veldsman from UJ.

8 Feb 2016 31 min

Leadership In Education

Adriaan and Louis Groenewald, together with Barbara Dale-Jones chat to Theo Tholo, Programmes Manager at the South African Council of Educators (SACE). They speak about the Continuous Professional Development Points programme.

1 Feb 2016 20 min

Conversation with SME Audience

The panel engages with the SME owners who listened for the previous hour. The SME owners have 30 seconds to pitch their business, share comment and/or ask questions of the panel.

1 Feb 2016 28 min

SME Interview

Adriaan and Louis Groenewald, together with Richard Angus, introduce you to Bongani Gosa from Breeze Website Designers (BWD). Selling cow dung to make some cash during his school holidays is what drove Bongani Gosa to become an entrepreneur. He has tasted failure, but got up, dusted himself off and tried…

1 Feb 2016 33 min

Business Skills Conversation

Our theme of “Analysing one’s environment effectively” is presented by Michael Hinton, CEO of Finatix and facilitator at USB-ED (University of Stellenbosch Executive Development).

1 Feb 2016 23 min

Leader Interview

Former Business Report Editor Ellis Mnyandu and media personality Gareth Cliff chat to the panel about leadership lessons learnt over the course of South Africa's recent race debates.

1 Feb 2016 33 min

Leadership Masterclass

Adriaan and Louis Groenewald have an exclusive interview with Ellis Mnyandu who leaves Independent Newspapers as its Business Report Editor of six years. Why leave? What will he be doing next? Also hear his views on the political, economic and business landscape?

1 Feb 2016 32 min

Leadership In Education

Adriaan and Louis Groenewald speak with three top 2015 matriculants of Unity Secondary School, about their success, their school and their futures.

25 Jan 2016 25 min

Conversation with SME Audience

We engage the SME owners that listened for the previous hour. The SME owners will pitch their business in 30 seconds, share comment and/or ask questions of the panel.

25 Jan 2016 28 min

SME Interview

Adriaan and Louis Groenewald, together with Richard Angus, interview SME owner George Argyropoulos, CEO of Cruises International, which started 22 years ago with just one cruise ship, through his dedication, his business now boasts nine cruise ships.

25 Jan 2016 30 min

Business Skills Conversation

Our theme for the day of ‘Corporate Culture & Organisational Structure’ is introduced by a guest from USB-ED (University of Stellenbosch Executive Development).

25 Jan 2016 29 min

Leader Interview

Adriaan Groenewald kicks off leader interview with a short book review done by Lorraine Hlapolasa. She reviews a book called 'Lean-In' by Sherly Sandberg which speaks to a woman who aspires to be a leader. Then, they get to know Group CEO for MMI Holdings, Nicolaas Kruger, a little better.

25 Jan 2016 27 min

Leadership Masterclass

Adriaan and Louis Groenewald interview Nicolaas Kruger, Group CEO for MMI Holdings. He led two giant organisations (Momentum & Metropolitan) through a merger. They also chat to Nicolaas about his personal approach to leadership and who he is as a person.

25 Jan 2016 28 min

Leadership In Education

Adriaan and Louis Groenewald, together with Barbara Dale-Jones, speak with Dr Anthea Cereseto, Principal of Parktown High School for Girls. They are one of the most successful schools in the country and Dr Cereseto shares their successes, planning and leadership principles.

18 Jan 2016 24 min