Intelligent Africa™ #FutureCEOs

#FutureCEOs

A show focused on assisting young, ambitious, up and coming, high-potential entrepreneurs and executives grow their businesses and fast-track their careers. Gareth Armstrong and Hlubi Mboya do this every week by pulling together an expert panel that includes CEOs, thought leaders, industry experts, and other movers and shakers, to discuss topics and issues that are facing those pushing for CEO status.
Weekly English South Africa Business · Technology
302 Episodes
152 – 172

CEO of i-PAY - Thomas Pays

CliffCentral.com — He used to sell Ferraris in France. He has started and grown multiple successful businesses, and he is studio with Gareth Armstrong sharing insights and lessons from his journey. Listen to this very interesting conversation with the CEO of i-Pay, Thomas Pays.
28 Jul 2016 22 min

Mayleen Kyster – Founder of Africa Steel Holdings

CliffCentral.com — This ambitious African woman entrepreneur is breaking stereotypes as she takes her business in the male-dominated mining and steel industry from strength to strength. Listen as Gareth Armstrong talks to Mayleen Kyster, the founder of Africa Steel Holdings, about how far she has come and how far she…
28 Jul 2016 25 min

Who & What is Saleboat?

CliffCentral.com — The team from Saleboat joins Gareth in studio to talk about their journey and interesting experiences, while developing their sales management tool, that looks, feels, and operates exactly as a sale team and their manager would want, because it has been built working closely with them through every…
21 Jul 2016 25 min

Why Do Some Brands Keep On Winning?

CliffCentral.com — Have you experienced frustration because your business or product just isn’t getting the right attention or traction? Maybe it’s your brand and communication strategy? Gareth Armstrong talks to Samantha Presbury, Director of Epic MSLGROUP Johannesburg about how focused and smart communication allows you to connect with your customers…
21 Jul 2016 24 min

Anthony Goodman – Founder & CEO AG Mobile

CliffCentral.com — He started this business by selling second-hand phones via the “free section” in newspaper classifieds. 21 years on, and Anthony Goodman and AG Mobile continue to go from strength to strength as this wonderful South African tech business and story serves as an example and leader to us…
14 Jul 2016 23 min

1,000,000 Digitally Educated Youth

CliffCentral.com — It’s exciting to think about the evolution of education and the ever-changing, ever-improving digital delivery mechanisms for this educational material. In studio today, Hlubi and Gareth speak to the team from the Mandela #LongWalkToFreedom Project and AG Mobile, pushing uTata Madiba’s legacy of education for every child in…
14 Jul 2016 25 min

How To Survive The Coming Downgrade: Start Preparing Today

CliffCentral.com — How long can you survive without a job and your credit cards? This is a question we MUST ask and a reality we MUST consider as we face the rather large economic storm headed our way, consisting of rising inflation caused by our current drought, elections and political…
7 Jul 2016 23 min

Dial-A-Nerd Founder and CEO – Colin Thornton

CliffCentral.com — With tech taking over, ‘nerds’ really are beginning to rule the world. Colin Thornton, the founder and CEO of Dial-A-Nerd saw the amazing technological advances we are experiencing today way before any of his peers and most of us, which led to the establishment and growth of the…
7 Jul 2016 25 min

Education vs Certification

CliffCentral.com — Live from the EduWeek 2016 Event Gareth and Hlubi chats to Dolfe Steyn, Principal and MD at Midrand Graduate Institute SA and Graeme Bentley Edwards, Headmaster at St. Davids Marist Preparatory School, about the different but complimentary natures of Education vs Certification.
30 Jun 2016 22 min

The Evolution of Education

CliffCentral.com — Gareth and Hlubi are on site at the EduWeek 2016 Event where Maurice De Hond, CEO and Founder of Steve JobsSchools and Steve Sherman, Chief Imagination Officer at Living Maths SA, join them to talk about the exciting evolution of education. A modern day Revolution to equip our…
30 Jun 2016 25 min

Harvard’s “Professor Happiness” – Tal Ben-Shahar

CliffCentral.com — “Are you happy…I mean are you truly happy?” This is a question our guest in today’s Future CEOs episode has been asking for a long time – and this resulted in Tal Ben-Shahar running the largest and most popular course in the prestigious Harvard University’s history. Gareth catches…
23 Jun 2016 44 min

Innovation in HR

CliffCentral.com — Roy Clark, MD of Clarkhouse Human Capital discuss HR and the evolutions that are occurring that will impact all of our businesses and companies.
23 Jun 2016 28 min

The Gap Between Planning And Execution

CliffCentral.com — How often have you spent time planning, only to feel like that time has been a massive waste because the execution of your strategy was so different to what you had envisioned? What is in this gap between strategy formulation and its execution? Hlubi and Gareth explore this…
9 Jun 2016 27 min

Brand Strategy From John Malkovich & A 100+ Year Old Cognac

CliffCentral.com — 100 Years – The Movie You Will Never See is an exclusive original film starring John Malkovich and directed by Robert Rodriguez. It envisions Earth one hundred years from now and will not be released in its entirety until 2115. The movie was inspired by the legacy of…
9 Jun 2016 21 min

Public Speaking Lessons From Dr John Demartini

CliffCentral.com — As #FutureCEOs it is a sure thing we are going to have to stand up in front of one or more people to present an idea, plan, or give a talk. This can be a terrifying prospect to many. Dr John Demartini travels 360 days a year presenting…
2 Jun 2016 25 min

How To Be An Actor/Artist/Entrepreneur All At The Same Time

CliffCentral.com — It isn’t easy being an actor in South Africa, nor is it easy to be an artist…or entrepreneur – how in the world does Tumisho Masha do all three AND manage the stress that accompanies this amazing mix? Hlubi and Gareth ask him to share the answer to…
2 Jun 2016 26 min

Tips Every Service-Industry Start-Up Needs To Know

CliffCentral.com — Entrepreneurs and Startups face a tough time building their businesses and client bases – unfortunately this hard work can be unraveled in an instant by one or two small mistakes or lapses in concentration. Bradley Elliott, MD of digital company Platinum Seed, joins Hlubi and Gareth in studio…
26 May 2016 21 min

Mclean Sibanda: CEO of the Innovation Hub

CliffCentral.com — It’s extremely difficult to summarise the career and journey of the Innovation Hub’s CEO, Mclean Sibanda. So instead, Hlubi and Gareth invite him into studio where they pick his brain for wisdom and insights only he - with two Masters degrees and as an admitted attorney - is…
26 May 2016 30 min

IConnect Founder & CEO - Calvin Collett

CliffCentral.com — In this very real conversation, Calvin Collett, Founder and CEO of telecommunications company, iConnect, shares important lessons he has learned as he has grown this business into a truly end-to-end provider.
19 May 2016 26 min

New CEO of The Sunflower Fund

CliffCentral.com — Hlubi and Gareth are grateful to have Alana James, the newly appointed CEO of The Sunflower Fund, in studio where she shares her wealth of experience, global insight, and the exciting new operational plan she has for the organisation.
19 May 2016 24 min
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