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“Fresh, thought-provoking and captivating.” Jacques Fouche, Director, Southern African Association for the Conference Industry
If you’re looking for creativity and innovation, Pierre’s concepts explore what is happening in the world, who we are in it, and how we can produce good work in that world.
Pierre is a mentor and coach. He helps you cut through the BS and find the tools to create your best work, inside and out.
Pierre is a prolific writer and crafts work for three blogs: Ramblings, Three Things and, Happiness
I am jaded, I have been in the industry a very long time (20 years feels like a lifetime), I have seen a lot, heard a lot, had my intelligence challenged and my mind bent, and often been bored. There are not many speakers out there that make me stop (mid running around on an event) and listen. Pierre is one of those. Kelly McGillivray – The Squad Events
Discover how to become a leader and create momentum in a flat world.
Find a roadmap to engage disruption and create positive change in your organisation.
Embrace innovation so that you can use it to let your organisation create its best work.
This keynote inspires you with aesthetics, authenticity and creativity.
Enter into the shadows, so that you’ll find innovation, creativity, and new possibilities.
Find out how to survive and thrive in volatile, uncertain, chaotic and ambiguous times.
Leadership lessons from myths, archetypes and legends
Crafting a virtuous strategy in a VUCA world
Pierre is an author and a master storyteller who firmly believes in the ludicrousy of speaking to
crowds to change the world.
He has a habit of making the familiar strange and turning the world upside down.
He is currently the CEO of HumanWrites, saving the world one wee notebook at a
time.
He works with a contemplative community of faith in the heart of Cape Town but finds truth in
every corner of the world.
He has been featured on TEDx stages numerous times and travels the world preaching less about
religion and more about chaos, leadership, innovation, and trends.
He is an educator at DUKE CE
University and his corporate clients include BMW, KFC, Adcock Ingram, Old Mutual, FNB and others.
He was awarded the Desmond Tutu Gerrit Brand prize in 2017 for best spiritual publication by a
debut author in an official language.
He believes he is the love child of Gertrude Stein and Jason Bourne.
He lives in Cape Town with his wife, two kids, and his iPhone.
What some clients have said about innovation speaker, Pierre du Plessis
Pierre du Plessis is most probably one of the best speakers I have encountered, anywhere in the world. I have been lucky enough to see the likes of Nir Eyal, Eric Qualman, the great Tony Dungy, even that guy Bill Clinton, but do I do anything different after listening to them? Nope.
Pierre du Plessis is a class act….and pretty damn world class. I do walking meetings now. I search in “darker” places for insights now, I randomly pick cinema numbers and watch that movie sometimes, now when travelling I stroll around a city or town and try to also observe the world. I do stuff differently, both with my team at KFC Africa and in my personal life, because of Pierre du Plessis.
His talks are like those movies you simply will watch over and over and over. I am a fan.
He is not a typical “speaker circuit” guy, that sounds like a radio recording. Pierre is real. Pierre is authentic. Above all, Pierre lands a message so delicately, that weeks later little nuggets from a talk will still pop up in your head like popping candy.
Pierre is also a nice guy. And I like nice guys. Our business do nice….when often in the rest of the business world nobody does nice.
Think different. Apple said it. Pierre makes you do it.
Pierre, like all good trend spotters, looks at the world with infinite curiosity and an open mind. As such, he has a knack of pin pointing a trend on the rise, but most importantly its roots and trajectory. Without these two elements you don’t have context, and Pierre has the ability to provide that all important context
Pierre’s talk dropped bombs in my head that have been exploding in my brain for weeks – love it!
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