FOUNDER
Branding & Marketing YOU helps leaders and professionals own their story, strengthen their visibility, and lead with confidence.
A proudly Level 3 B-BBEE company, Branding & Marketing YOU combines strategy, storytelling, and self-awareness to help individuals show up with credibility and confidence in boardrooms, interviews, and beyond.
Branding & Marketing YOU’s programmes and interventions have been implemented at leading international blue-chip companies, including: Teva, Novartis, Deloitte, McKinsey, Marriott, Discovery, Absa, Nedbank, Standard Bank, and ABInBev, to name a few.
Want to support your talent to make the shift from capable to chosen?
FOUNDER
Brightside Marketing helps B2B organisations turn marketing into a commercially accountable function that drives growth.
In many businesses, marketing exists, but it isn’t structured to deliver results. Strategy is disconnected from execution, teams lack direction, and activity fails to translate into pipeline, conversion, or measurable impact.
Brightside addresses this by bringing the structure, leadership and execution discipline required to make marketing work. It operates as both a strategic partner and an extension of the business, ensuring marketing is aligned to commercial priorities and directly accountable to growth.
Through a combination of advisory, capability building and full-service delivery, Brightside builds marketing functions that are clear, consistent and effective, not just active.
Brightside Marketing works with local and international players in fintech, insurance technology, logistics & supply chain and engineering; clients include Cardinal, Focus Rooms, Apex RTS, Codeplex, Futuresense, Afrilog, and Viva Engineering, to name a few.
Looking to connect marketing strategy to execution that drives real business growth?
CO-FOUNDER
With a proven track record of success, Ignite is an award-winning leader in the field of leadership development, unlocking the full potential of leaders and igniting a new era of success within organisations.
Leading in today’s dynamic, complex and competitive business landscape requires more than theoretical knowledge; it demands a deep understanding of the ‘how’ of leadership. Through immersive experiences and transformative conversations, Ignite equips aspiring, emerging, and current leaders, and those who advocate for them, with practical skills and tools to lead with purpose and authenticity whilst driving organisational growth.
Organisations, including Absa, Old Mutual Insure, Sanlam Investment Group, FNB, and Standard Bank, to name a few, partner with Ignite and benefit from its extensive business experience, unparalleled knowledge, and unwavering dedication to helping leaders achieve greatness.
Ready to ignite leadership that’s visible, influential and deeply human?
INVESTOR
Seed Academy partners with corporates to develop women and youth-owned businesses into credible, scalable suppliers that can operate within real supply chains, create jobs and deliver measurable economic value.
For corporates, this means ESD investment that moves beyond compliance into procurement-ready suppliers, transparent reporting and outcomes that stand up to scrutiny. For entrepreneurs, it means targeted development, practical support across business fundamentals, technical capability and leadership capacity and access to networks, building businesses that can trade, deliver consistently and grow sustainably within the economy.
By aligning corporate objectives with entrepreneur growth, Seed Academy creates a development model where investment translates into capability, capability translates into market access, and market access translates into economic impact.
Seed Academy’s clients include, amongst others: Absa, Old Mutual Insure, Thermo Fischer, Linde, Metropolitan and Honeywell.
Looking to build entrepreneurs who don’t just participate in the economy, they shape it?
AshtonQ is a behavioural intelligence platform that makes behaviour measurable by translating how people show up into structured, consistent data, so it can be understood, compared and tracked over time.
It gives organisations clear visibility into capability, tracks whether development is working, and enables more informed decisions about people, performance and potential.
By connecting behaviour directly to performance, AshtonQ turns people insight into something leaders can act on; bringing clarity, consistency and accountability to how organisations understand and develop their people.
Want to turn behaviour into something you can measure, track and improve, much like any other business metric?
Strider gives clients access to the bright minds and talent that are paving the way for the future of digital, centred on the belief that technology isn’t about technology, it’s about people.
Over the years, the Strider digital team has assisted some of the largest financial institutions on their digital transformation journies, nurturing and supporting the best emerging and established digital talent across all specialist fields, and enabling them to create their best work.
Looking for the hottest digital talent?
Primestars facilitates youth development programmes for high school learners from underserved communities using an “Educational Theatre of Learning” model (films and TV) to enhance the educational experience and create an entertaining and enjoyable way for learners to process and retain information.
Known as the private tutor for public education in South Africa, Primestars educational and social initiatives include ‘What About the Boys’ (working with young boys to redefine ‘boyhood’ in S.A.), ‘Step Up to a Start Up’ (shifting the mindset of the youth from job seekers to job creators), ‘Educate’ (providing Matric learners with Maths and Science revision support), and ‘My Future, My Career’ (provide youth with career guidance).
Primestars proudly partners with leading organisations, including (but not limited to) Cell C, Uber, 3M, Nandos, McDonald’s, EoH, Absa, and Sasol to create a ‘legacy of empowering the youth and changing lives’.
Looking to drive social change through innovative and sustainable youth development initiatives?
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