Vusi Thembekwayo
Global business maverick Vusi ignites bold strategy, leadership, and sales transformations - trusted by Fortune 500s to spark real results.
Why book Vusi Thembekwayo for your next event
- A trusted advisor to global CEOs and Fortune 500 companies, delivering real-world business strategies that produce results across continents.
- As an investor and former Dragon’s Den star, he’s scaled multi-million-dollar ventures—bringing real business experience to every stage he steps on.
- Empower your organization with bold, actionable strategies that drive measurable impact, accelerate growth, and prepare leaders for tomorrow’s challenges.
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Leading Boldly Through Complexity and Change
A global business maverick and bestselling author, Vusi turns strategy into results. He doesn’t just inspire, he ignites real transformation in leadership, culture, and sales. Book him to challenge your thinking, unlock growth, and drive performance across your organization.
Keynote Speaker Vusi Thembekwayo is a globally celebrated business strategist, bestselling author, and serial entrepreneur known for transforming organizations through bold thinking, strategic execution, and fearless leadership. With an unmatched ability to blend real-world business experience with electrifying stage presence, Vusi delivers keynotes that don’t just inspire, they catalyze action.
As a former star of Dragon’s Den Africa and the author of The Magna Carta of Exponential, which sold over 6,000 copies on launch day, Vusi brings deep insight into the mechanics of high-growth organizations. His keynotes empower leaders and teams to rethink performance, challenge comfort zones, and embrace the urgency of innovation. Vusi speaks the language of CEOs, sales leaders, and change-makers, because he’s one of them.
From global boardrooms to international stages, Vusi has advised Fortune 500 companies, led multi-million-dollar business ventures, and helped organizations ignite cultural and commercial transformation. His thought leadership in sales performance, strategic agility, and disruptive growth is trusted by top-tier brands across five continents.
If you’re looking to challenge your leadership team, future-proof your strategy, or accelerate business performance, book Vusi Thembekwayo for your event. He doesn’t just deliver keynotes, he delivers the tools, mindset, and momentum needed to create lasting impact in today’s complex business landscape.
Keynotes
Keynote by Vusi Thembekwayo:
Designing the Future: Strategy, Innovation, and the Customer of Tomorrow
Keynote Speaker Vusi Thembekwayo brings unmatched energy, strategic brilliance, and provocative clarity to the stage. In this keynote experience, he explores the seismic shifts reshaping business, technology disruption, rapidly evolving customers, and the new economy of shared knowledge, and how organizations can adapt, innovate, and lead in a future that is already here.
Drawing from his work advising Fortune 500 executives and scaling ventures globally, Vusi's delivery style is sharp, passionate, and thought-provoking. He doesn’t deliver abstract theory - he offers bold frameworks, future-facing strategies, and actionable steps tailored for executive teams and innovation-driven audiences.
Ideal for leadership offsites, strategy retreats, and future-oriented conferences, this keynote package prepares organizations to redesign how they think, lead, and serve. It’s perfect for those seeking to challenge their current model and step into exponential relevance.
Vusi speaks on the following future-facing topics:
Future-Nomics
Your Customer Today & Tomorrow
Magna Carta of Exponentiality
unManagement
Keynote by Vusi Thembekwayo:
Mastering Chaos: Leadership Tools for Complex and Uncertain Times
Keynote Speaker Vusi Thembekwayo is a commanding voice for organizations navigating turbulent change. Known for helping companies perform in chaos, Vusi blends strategic insight with real-world experience to show leaders how to embrace uncertainty, master complexity, and lead with clarity under pressure.
His keynote style is direct, fast-paced, and rich with stories from global business, offering frameworks that shift mindsets and empower high-stakes decision-making. This session is built for companies facing rapid transformation or organizational inertia, and is especially relevant for senior leaders, change agents, and high-growth teams.
With a rare ability to cut through noise, Vusi delivers more than just motivation, he offers leadership tools that foster resilience, innovation, and adaptability in environments where chaos is the norm.
Vusi’s chaos-leadership keynotes include:
Managing Complexity
Leading at the Edge of Chaos
Beyond Chaos
Keynote by Vusi Thembekwayo:
The Power of the Outsider: Winning Through Disruption and Grit
Keynote Speaker Vusi Thembekwayo knows what it means to defy the odds, and he brings that fierce underdog mindset to every stage. In this powerful keynote package, Vusi highlights the winning behaviors of organizations that dare to challenge the status quo, lead with purpose, and create success on their own terms.
This keynote experience is high-impact, emotional, and deeply energizing. Vusi speaks the language of disruptors, those fighting legacy systems, pushing against industry norms, or building momentum from humble beginnings. He draws from real-world business battles, inspiring case studies, and his own entrepreneurial journey.
Perfect for challenger brands, agile teams, and organizations in competitive transition, this keynote delivers the rallying cry and strategy playbook for those ready to lead with grit, courage, and conviction.
Keynote themes in this rebel-minded package:
The Black Sheep
Barbarians at the Gate
Underdogs
Leaving With Gratitude | Thank you USA
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