Do you need an expert speaker for your event? Hear from practitioners with real experience in the marketplace, investment and education. Whether you are looking for motivation & inspiration, or practical training, we have you covered.

Speciality topics:

• Inspiration and motivation
• Innovation and entrepreneurship
• Women and gender
• Money mastery
• Sales and business growth

Sandras Phiri

Sandras Phiri is an award-winning entrepreneur, CEO and Founder of Pranary and former director of Startup Grind, South Africa.

Sandras has worked with over 25 organisations and has lectured at over 15 universities. His work has taken him to 22 countries including UK, Bali Indonesia, Hong Kong, Ghana, India, Switzerland and Silicon Valley USA. Sandras has a degree in Computer Science and an MBA from UCT.

He has shared stages with Facebook and Asana co-founder Dustin Maskovitch, Youtube co-founder Steve Chen, Guy Kawasaki, Clayton Christensen of Harvard Business School.

He has been named one of the 15 tech people in SA to follow in 2018. He has been a mentor on SABC 1 TV programme Making Moves and has been featured on CNBC Africa.

Sarah Dusek

Sarah Dusek is the co-founder and general partner at Enygma Ventures, a ZAR100m Venture Fund focused on women businesses in SADC.

She co-founded Under Canvas; the leading US adventure-hospitality company, which received a spot to on the coveted Inc. 5000 list under her leadership. She was named to the EY Entrepreneurial Winning Women list from Ernst & Young. 

Sarah believes passionately in empowering women to reach their full potential and enabling them to grow in their leadership. This commitment extends to her broader mission to help grow scalable, sustainable businesses that have the power to transform communities, cities and nations.

Lelemba Phiri

Lelemba Phiri, PhD(c) is a seasoned development finance professional with specialised expertise in gender-lens investing, innovative financing vehicles and climate instruments and incentives. She is an award winning educator, writer and entrepreneur with work experience covering 10+ African markets; spanning 18yrs+; working across the public, private, start-up and investment sectors.

She is passionate about women leadership and entrepreneurship development in Africa and has committed her life’s work to advancing equality and empowerment of women.