RAJAH, KANES

BSc., MSc., PhD. Kanes Rajah is Director of the Centre for Entrepreneurship at the University of Greenwich. This Centre is unique, it champions creativity and leadership in entrepreneurship and this is seen in all their work. He has extensive management and business experience, having spent 25 years in international senior marketing management, commodity training and is President of his own management consultancy, Klondyke Management Consultants. Kanes is an eclectic professional. He is a writer and broadcaster and regularly publishes scholarly work in science, technology and business. He is certificated in the use of psychometric instruments and is an active researcher and practitioner of Kirton's Adaptor-Innovator inventory which he uses extensively in his classes and on his SME as well as corporate client groups in the UK and overseas. He is founder member of the Business Creativity Network, the Aberystwyth Creativity Laboratory and The Creativity Unleashed Consortium.

REIN, ROSEMARY

is the Author of “Go Wild! Survival Skills for Business and Life” and a contributing author to “Blueprint for Success” with co-authors Dr. Stephen Covey and Ken Blanchard. President of Now to WOW!TM Learning Adventures, Rosemary hosts creativity, communication and leadership workshops worldwide in addition to keynoting association conventions and bringing leadership teams to her home in Costa Rica for Business Ideation and Executive Immersion Programs. Rosemary bring a “Go Wild! Go GREAT! Attitude” to her inspired programs which link head and heart connection to both business and classroom environments. She is a frequent presenter at international education conferences including the Creative Problem Solving Institute, Mindcamp in Toronto and Sacreativity in South Africa. Rosemary is a frequent facilitator for the YPO (Young President's Organization), International Women in Coffee and an extensive list of Fortune 500 companies On a personal note, Rosemary is an advocate for youth scholarships and environmental education. A graduate of wilderness survival and arts and culture historian, she brings tribal traditions from world cultures to her highly interactive learning adventures.
www.gowildgogreat.com www.businessmeetingscostarica.com

RUTHERFORD, RACHé

Rachè has been involved in identifying and developing creative behaviour as part of the Kobus Neethling Group for more than 10 years. She is also director of Solutionsfinding, which focuses on the distribution and management of instruments developed by the Kobus Neethling Group. She is involved in the development of creativity programmes in various South African and overseas Companies, (such as Anglo Platinum, Citadel, Sanlam, Sasol, SAAF), schools and other institutions. Rachè is also the co-author of more than 40 books, including the best sellers which she co-authored with Dr Kobus Neethling.: Am I clever or am I stupid?; Creative people can perform miracles; Smart Parents, Courage; Whole-Brain Sexuality, Think like Jesus and Feel Like Jesus and Talk to your Food. She has appeared on several TV and radio programmes as a creativity expert and writes regular magazine articles on creativity.

SCHOONWINKEL, LIESL

EBA (Hon); Higher Education Dipl. At present training and talks on creativity and wholebrain thinking to schools, community groups, public organisations and private companies through the Kobus Neethling Group. As Programme Manager for Student Support at a college, Liesl utilizes the four-quadrant Neethling Brain Instrument for career guidance and train students in creative thinking as part of lifeskills.

Her involvement with learnerships and skills training at the college has lead her to believe that mentorship in the workplace is South Africa's answer to up-skilling and uplifting all economic role-players. Establishing company to do mentorship training.

Van den Broeck, Herman

Herman Van den Broeck has a doctor’s degree in psychological and educational sciences, with a major in pedagogy. He studied at the University of Ghent, Belgium and at the Lancaster University, United Kingdom.

Herman is professor at the University of Ghent, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, and full professor at the Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School. Herman is Partner of the Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School. At this School he is chairman of the Competency Centre ‘People and Organisation’.
His major fields of interest are learning organisation, social skills, change management, emotional intelligence and cognitive styles. This year he taught at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Port Elisabeth, SA.

Herman Van den Broeck is chair holder of the Belgacom Chair ‘Building Organisations that Last’. As part of this assignment he is building the serious game ‘Mastering your mood’.

He has worked with large organisations in a variety of sectors: Alcatel Bell, Fortis Bank, Janssen Pharmaceutica (Johnson and Johnson), Libertel, Borealis, TNO, Vedior, Siemens, Novo Nordisk, Belgian Airport, Ministry of Education Botswana, Standard Bank (SA), …

VAN GRAAN, COBUS

Tap into the practical experience of someone that has dramatically enhanced the sales performance of SME’s and large corporate companies, countrywide. Cobus van Graan specializes in the implementation of Sales Strategies and more specifically the implementation of key account strategies. He has been involved in sales, sales management and key account management since 1990. In addition, Cobus has an excellent track record in different industries and has an uncanny way of turning theory into results.

Cobus is:
•Owner - Scientia Performance Consultants (Pty) Ltd: Consults via his own company as a Sales Strategist to a number of companies delivering excellent results.
•Senior Partner - Tracer and CQM Software international (Pty) Ltd: Tracer CQM is the leader in the measurement of Sales Force Effectiveness through Cell Phone and Web based Technology.
•Co-Author - The Invisible Customer: A management guide for unlocking immense hidden potential for sales growth through customer quality management.
•Public Speaker and Trainer.

Clients Include:
ABSA, Accenture, Acer Africa, Adcock Ingram, Alexander Forbes, Comztek, Diners Club, Glenrand MIB, Momentum, Monsanto, Value Logistics, Virgin Money, Etc

VAN STADEN, CHRISTO

Christo van Staden is an experienced Biodanza facilitator from the Rolando Toro School of Biodanza in South Africa. With Annalie Pauw, he has been presenting weekly Biodanza classes in Pretoria for the past seven years. He is also a published poet and a fierce poetry slam contender. Professionally, he works as a learning and transformation designer, assisting organisations and other groups to make difficult transitions, by means of a rich range of transformation modalities, integrating mind, heart and will. He is the creator of a range of engagement processes enabling learning in the organisational space around the key themes of purpose, promise and performance.

VENTER,  DAVID

Prof Dr David Venter obtained his bachelor of education and his master in Psychology cum laude at the University of Stellenbosch.
He practiced psychology for fifteen years, during which he was head of a number of large school clinics. In the mid eighties he joined the public services where he was responsible for the design and implementation of the largest opinion polling operation ever in South Africa. The results of these polls were important in convincing the government of a peaceful transition from apartheid to democracy. In 1992 he became Director General of the then South African Communication Service. In this position he advanced the cause of a negotiated and peaceful end to the Apartheid area.
During the 25 years he has spent in psychology and in government, he acquired valuable insights into human behaviour, leadership, communication, negotiation and innovative management practices. The many opportunities he had to travel locally and internationally brought him into frequent contact with prominent international leaders in the fields of human behaviour, negotiation, communication, creativity and management. In 1997 he gave up his position to start a company specialized in negotiation training, conflict resolution and mediation. He worked with big companies like Essilor, Astra Zeneca and Proctor and Gamble.
David Venter was appointed professor in Negotiation and Conflict Dispute Resolution at Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School. He teaches negotiation at numerous other tertiary institutions in South Africa and consults to organizations in all spheres of business.

WALL, KEN

Ken Wall is the creator and CEO of The Thinking Network™, a consultancy which originated in the UK in 1978.  The focus is on creativity and a more productive way of thinking - helping people and organisations think better, work better, do better.  Ken’s approach is based on the premise that teaching people in all walks of life just to ‘know’ more will be inadequate in the rapidly changing future – we need to learn to think more and think differently. Ken is also CEO of Whole Brain Thinking Pty Ltd – providing measuring and assessment instruments on thinking preferences and the implications for personal development in every conceivable role.

As a young man in the UK Ken pursued a career in engineering, only to find he felt like a fish out of water.  He was a ‘right-brain’ person in a ‘left-brain’ job. Driven by the thought that “work shouldn’t have to be like this” Ken left engineering to work in training for seven years, after which The Thinking Network™ was born. He also obtained Bachelor Degrees in Psychology and Business Economics.

Ken is a visiting lecturer on future leadership, creativity, productive thinking and whole brain thinking in the MBA program at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.  He is a regular presenter on Personal Creativity, Productive Thinking and Business Innovation at International Conferences in Europe, the USA, Canada and South Africa. 

WISEMAN, EDWARD

Edward Wiseman is President of the American Institute of Management and International Training (AIM It Inc). His organization brings over 35 years of applied Creative Problem Solving experience to organizations worldwide. Ed has been a leader/keynote speaker/session presenter at hundreds of Creativity Conferences in North, South and Central America as well as Europe and South Africa. He has been a leader at the Creative Problem Solving Institute for 38 years and has attended every session during that time. Ed has appeared on national television in South Africa many times on applying creativity in Business, Education and Parenting. He has taught and consulted with major universities in the United States, Mexico and South Africa. His work has been featured in the Harvard Business Review several times and the book "Leaders at all Levels" provides a case study for the application
of creativity in a major Fortune 500 Company. He is a Life Time Creative Education Foundation Member and has been a leader at the Foundation's annual Creative Problem Solving Conference for 40 years.

ZONNEVELD, KOEN

Koen has more than 20 years of experience in training and consulting. He is working with Managers, Works councils, Union officers and volunteers in the Netherlands. Koen is a facilitator of creative thinking sessions where new ideas and possibilities are discovered. Since 2004 he has launched his own consultancy company and provides training in leadership, creativity and working conditions. Koen holds a Master of Science in occupational health and safety, he is the Dutch/Flemish agent of NBI® and is a member of the COCD and CEF.

If it would exist, Koen would have a PhD in living a healthy and meaningful life. Proud of his working class background, which seems rare in the creative community, he has been a landed immigrant in Canada at the age of 18, was in the forefront of industrial strife and the women’s lib movement.  He has run three marathons and has skated the original “Elfstedentocht” twice (200 km speed skating in one day).