Mentor: Mike Said

Contact number: 0813982190

Personal Email: mike@mikesaidwhat.co.za

Work email: mike@mikesaidwhat.co.za

Work/ shop: MikeSaidWhat?

Website link/ social media link: www.mikesaidwhat.co.za
Facebook:  MikeSaidWhat
Twitter: @mike_said_what
YouTube: MikeSaidWhat

I often refer to myself as “Just a Waiter Who Got Lucky!” After 35 years in the hospitality industry, including 3 years as the marketing manager of one of SA’s leading brands (The Mugg & Bean), I bring my own brand of humour and understanding to the weird and wonderful world of marketing.

Today, my company MikeSaidWhat? works with companies and individuals from all industry segments, advising them on branding strategy, market development and customer service. MikeSaidWhat? specialises in the development and implementation of social media strategy for all business. My ability to impart his knowledge in a humorous and down to earth manor has made me a sought after speaker at corporate functions and conferences.

 

Contact number:082 855 1282

Work email: Sassyinnovations18@gmail.com

Personal email: sammilapedus@gmail.com

Work/ shop: Sassy Innovations

Website link/ social media link:www.sassyinnovations.co.za 

Coming from a teaching background of over 10 years has inspired Sam Lapedus with a love of studying and a dedication to leveraging information that empowers others.

This has developed into a passion for communication and sharing on point content, which together with her problem solving skills and strong work ethic, led to her natural transition into social media.

Starting her own social marketing business Sam’s love of learning has enhanced a continuous expansion of skills harnessed over several years of experience with diverse clients, extensive research and numerous courses to remain at the cutting edge of the continuous changes and new trends which are an inherent part of social media.

As a vital avenue for communication and engaging key target markets, Sam saw a gap in the market for one-person businesses that need impactful support with their social media marketing. “I love working with SMEs and watching them grow as a result of strategic marketing on their platforms.  They receive invaluable benefits from creating awareness and increasing their audience reach without the need for big budget campaigns,” says the social media expert.

Samantha’s business focuses on Facebook and Instagram, leveraging the different demographics which work hand in hand in creating a fully-rounded target market approach.

Inspiration in her own life, helping businesses overcome their marketing challenges, and giving back through mentoring is inspired by her father.  “My dad is my greatest influence.  He has shown me that you are stronger than whatever life throws at you.  He is the epitome of a true mensch and my hero,” she smiles.

The theme of teaching and giving back continues with the business expanding into training.  “SMEs don’t always have the budget to hire a large marketing company which led to my providing training support in social media skills,” she says

Additionally, as an Ort Jet mentor, Sam assists participating SMEs in creating a powerful social media platform.

“There is an immense reward in mentoring and seeing the impact in business growth,” she says.

Sam is an optimist, believing that patience and passion together with a strong work ethic and cutting-edge knowledge are cornerstones of success.

When she’s not making waves for clients on social media, Sam can be found doing her favourite things – painting, yoga and spending special time with her son, her dog, family and friends. Sassy Innovations is a Social Media Marketing company offering marketing, design, content creation and management of SMEs as well as, specialising in training and empowering people to manage, market and succeed on social media on their own.

We believe that Online Media Marketing is the future. Using the correct Online Media Marketing campaigns, and the freshest, most striking, original images and designs, posts, referrals, and management you can turn your business pages on all platforms from DRAB to FAB.
We have an absolute love for creating, designing and correctly marketing companies to increase their brand awareness and get their business, services or products well-known to their specific target market.

 

 

Contact number: 0824522196

Work email: gary.epstein@easybiztech.co.za

Work/ shop: EasyBiz Technologies

Website link/ social media link: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gary-epstein-8680481/

Gary Epstein began his entrepreneurial journey with just R1000 – approximately R6,747.67 in today’s economy. That, along with a desire to be a market leader, and identifying a gap in the electronics market, was all it took for him to establish AGE Electronics in 1990 – a company specialising in the building of electronic products and the pre-packaging of electrical accessories.
Alongside Epstein’s undeniable business acumen, his keen interest in start-ups, business digitization and cloud migration, and basic finance for business sustainability, have contributed significantly to his many successes as Managing Director of EasyBiz Technologies. Epstein played a critical role in growing QuickBooks Accounting Software from a 0% market share in 2000 to a top three accounting software choice in South Africa today, as evidenced by thousands of satisfied and loyal clients.
Epstein advocates for entrepreneurship and offers invaluable insights into what it takes to start, sustain, and grow a successful and highly profitable business. He takes pride in motivating his team to succeed while also cultivating a healthy work environment characterised by high levels of performance and positive interpersonal relationships. Epstein emphasises the importance of ethical behaviour, both in and out of the company. He is adept at determining precisely which product is best suited to the unique needs of each client and ensures that his team does the same, all while fostering positive relationships between clients, team, and employees.

EasyBiz Technologies
QuickBooks was launched in South Africa in 2000. EasyBiz (Pty) Ltd was formed and became the exclusive distributor of QuickBooks Accounting and Business Software solutions in South and Sub-Saharan Africa. Since then, QuickBooks’s market share of small, medium and growing businesses in the South African and Sub-Saharan African market has grown substantially. There are more than 60,000 businesses that enjoy the quick to learn, quick to use accounting software package that makes running the financial side of a business easy.
Running a business isn’t easy. It takes hard work, dedication and sacrifice. Once a small business too, this couldn’t ring truer for EasyBiz Technologies. That’s exactly why we’re in the business of providing innovative software solutions that help ease the daily tasks of running a business – freeing you up so that you’re better equipped and set up for success.
Starting out, small or medium sized, cloud-ready, we’ve got an affordable solution for you, the one that best suits your business and, we’ll give you the support and guidance you need to use the technology to its full potential.

EasyBiz Technologies is the authorised local partner to Intuit QuickBooks, the global #1 in accounting and payroll software with over 5.6 million users worldwide.
EasyBiz Technologies is a successful one-stop shop that provides easy-to-use and low-cost business software, together with expert service and support to South African businesses. The core values of EasyBiz Technologies are honesty, integrity, and superior customer service. They provide economical and professional products to start-ups and small to medium-sized businesses (SMEs).

 

 

Contact number: 082 448 5853

Personal Email: ianmann@gateways.co.za

Workshop: Strategy formulation for our times.

Website link/ social media link: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ianmannstrategist/
www.gateways.co.za

Ian is the MD of Gateways Business Consultants, CEO of OVO Incubators, Chairman of Khulisa Social Solutions, and the MD of Gateways Tracing Services. His reviews of business books are published bi-weekly in Fin25 and monthly on 702. Holds 5 degrees.

Ian’s practice is focused on assisting companies to formulate and implement their strategies. I have worked in 14 countries, with organizations ranging from a shipbuilder in Saudi Arabia to SANCA (an NPO) in South Africa, and much in between. I only work with one company in an industry because of intimate knowledge of these businesses you glean by working on strategy. The benefit to me has been the wide variety of exposure I have obtained.

My signature methodology is ‘Functional Strategy’, described in my book ‘Strategy that Works’ (2012) and ‘Managing with Intent’ (2002) which focuses on the execution of strategy.

Fundamentally, it rejects the idea of strategy as a cleverly crafted action plan from where you are to where you wish to be in 5 years’ time. It has recently become the dominant approach to strategy over the past few years as people realized the impossibility of predicting the future with any accuracy.

Many of Ian’s clients invite him to share the best books he has read on subjects relevant to them in monthly short talks. These are designed to keep the top teams (and in some cases their clients as well.) informed of the best of the latest business ideas and insights.

 

Contact number: 0790808474

Personal Email: ablankfield@gmail.com 

Work email: amanda@empowervate.org

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amanda-blankfield-koseff/ 

Website:  link www.empowervate.org

Amanda Blankfield-Koseff holds an honours degree in Organisational Communication, completing her undergraduate degree through Bond University, and honours through UNISA. Amanda has had experience in journalism, door-to-door sales and marketing communications. She worked as a marketing and events manager for almost six years at NPO Afrika Tikkun. She has found her passion is with youth development. She founded The Youth Citizens Action Programme in 2010 and in 2013 moved it from its incubating NPO, Afrika Tikkun, in order to start a new youth development NPO, Empowervate Trust, which partners with The Department of Basic Education. She married Jak Koseff in May 2013 and their daughter Alyssa was born in 2021. Amanda has a love of playing the guitar, composing songs, listening to music, watching films, cats and other animals, clouds and nature, and the human resilience and ability to triumph over adversity. Amanda follows a Spiritual path of meditation, mindfulness and Judaism.

Empowervate Trust is a youth development NPO that was registered in 2013. Its flagship programme is The Youth Citizens Action Programme (Y-CAP), which was born out of Afrika Tikkun in 2009, initially as a youth dialogue. The programme is run in collaboration with Department of Basic Education and with the major support of Deutsche Bank South Africa Foundation and DSV Mounties South Africa.
The Youth Citizens Action Programme (Y-CAP) empowers and motivates young people from primary and secondary schools to solve or lessen the social, environmental, educational or economic problems within their schools or communities. This is achieved through Y-CAP’s toolkit and workshops that provide project management skills development, and showcase platforms at district, provincial and national level. Over the past 13 years of Y-CAP, over 40451 learners have been impacted by the programme and encouraged to be active citizens with a social entrepreneurship mindset.

Contact number: 083-445-2801

Personal Email: davidzidel@gmail.com

Work email: davidzidel@gmail.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-zidel-training-specialist-keynote-speaker-and-author-31411712/

 

David Zidel is a Lecturer, Author, Business Coach, & Keynote speaker. He has been changing lives and making people count for over 20 years.He is an award-winning lecturer and author of 2 successful books, selling over 20,000 copies each.

Lecturing Topics:
David has lectured at both MBA and executive education levels on many programs and subjects:

• Behavioural economics (MBA)
• Business acumen (Executive education)
• Critical business skills (Pre MBA)
• Customer experience & net promotor score (Executive education)
• Entrepreneurship (MBA)
• Finance for non-financial management (Executive education)
• Financial management (MBA)

Business schools:
David as a free-lance lecturer has lectured at many of the top business schools in south
Africa: • Duke corporate education
• Graduate School of Business (UCT)
• Henley Business school
• University of the Free State Business School
• Wits Business School

Recently, David has created a finance and strategy game to help people learn. The game is called Gadol. This is a great online or face-to-face business game. Gadol is a fun and interactive way of getting delegates to experience  the thrill of compteting against each other in s simulated business world.

website: http://www.gadol.biz/

For more information and or to book a session contact David at:083-445-2801 or  david@gadol.biz  

Who is Tiltan
Tiltan was formed by leading strategy and finance academics, Mark Peters
and David Zidel. We partner with clients in all sectors and regions to identify their highest value opportunities, address their most critical challenges and transform their businesses. Our customized approach combines deep insight into the dynamics of companies and markets with close collaboration at all levels of the organization. This ensures that our clients achieve sustainable competitive advantage, build more capable organizations and secure sustainable results.

 

Contact Number: +27 (0) 83 379 3466

Work Email: aki@leadershiplaunchpad.co.za

Personal email: aki@leadershiplaunchpad.co.za

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aki-kalliatakis-b76a2b1/

https://www.leadershiplaunchpad.co.za/

Delight Your Customers! Training in all aspects of GREAT customer care – and how to deal with customer problems. Also available online as “The 30-Day Delight Your Customers Challenge.”)

The Customer Loyalty Breakthrough System™ – a complete strategy which helps client companies discover the extent to which they are able to be driven by customers, and from which a specific plan emerges for implementing a new culture and infrastructure.

Customer Care Support – including customer focus groups, mystery shopping, surveys, staff recognition and more.

Aki Kalliatakis founded of The Leadership LaunchPad in 1989, a business that helps companies create loyal customers. He has all the right academic credentials, lectures at a number of business schools, and has spoken at thousands of local and international conferences, with many global blue-chip clients.

But his energy and enthusiasm for customer care is obvious, and he is also a voracious reader and writer. With eight books under his belt, and hundreds of articles in management journals, he has also appeared on Southern African television and radio programmes like Business Day TV and Radio 702.

He is married with two teenage sons, and loves astronomy, the African bush and music. His dream as a young man was to play in a hard rock band, but instead he now sings as a chanter in his church choir.You know how businesses desperately want to have delighted and loyal customers that love their brand… but don’t know how to actually achieve it? We help visionary business leaders to create a spectacularly positive impact on their growth – and in their lives – by being completely customer-driven.

 

Contact number: 0833446729

Email: lori@beyondthedress.co.za 

Website: www.beyondthedress.co.za

Lori Milner is passionate about empowering and equipping diverse teams with the tools and skills to fulfil their potential in their careers and personal lives. In filling the gap between the roles, demands, and challenges of the new working world, her full-service consultancy, Beyond the Dress (BTD), helps individuals build harmony into their personal and professional lives.

Known for tailored and engaging corporate training sessions, conference presentations, keynote addresses, and workshops with a difference, Lori provides practical tools and techniques to achieve tangible, lasting change and quick results. (She doesn’t believe in leaving delegates with a post-training ‘sugar rush’ that lasts only a few days.)

As a strategic intervention coach, Lori assists her clients to close the gap between where they are and where they want to be by providing practical tools to achieve success in their work and life goals.

Beyond the Dress has worked with South Africa’s leading corporates and empowered hundreds of employees with valuable insight on bridging the gap between work and personal life. Clients include Siemens, FNB, Dimension Data, Liberty, Smollan, Telesure, Sanlam, Hollard, and RMB Private Bank to name a few.

 

After attending a BTD workshop or talk, delegates are better equipped to achieve work-life harmony and are more confident in their life and business goals.  BTD’s practical toolkits create a culture of ownership for the individual, rooted in the mind-set that they are their own boss, responsible for their growth and the company’s.

 

Contact number: +27 82 450 5551

Email: niki@nikiseberini.com

Website: www.conversationswithniki.co.za

Niki Seberini is a Mind Freedom Fighter, Facilitator, Speaker & TalkShow Host. Her passion and focus is to help people free their minds of thoughts and beliefs that create a false reality. When we operate from a ‘clear’ mind it becomes easier to cultivate peace and joy even in the most challenging of times. Niki is a facilitator of Byron Katie’s “The Work” – a tool used by hundreds of thousands of people around the world to successfully & permanently eliminate stressful and negative thoughts. Her ability to inspire, engage and shift people’s lives has been garnered over 20 years as a Director & Facilitator of The Communicator and as a radio talk show host on Cani FM, Highveld Stereo, Chai FM & Radio Today. Niki currently hosts the DL Link Show on 101.9 Chai FM.

Niki operates within the personal development, mind wellness and stress management space with Mindfulness being the foundation of all her work.

You can book Niki for:

– Workshops – The Mind Revolution workshop or Mindfulness workshop

– One-On-One Mind Freedom sessions

– Keynote address: ‘Getting Unstuck’

‘Are You Thinking Your Thoughts Or Are Your Thoughts Thinking You?’

‘Don’t Change Your World, Change Your Lens’

‘The Time Is Now – Revolutionise Your Mind’

Niki has recently launched an online programme ‘Finding Peace Of Mind No Matter What’ where she shares the tools required to cultivate peace of mind regardless of one’s circumstances. The course is designed in such a way that you build the skills incrementally over a 5 week journey. There are no long modules to work through and it doesn’t require hours of your precious time. Every day you watch a short new lesson which comprises a theoretical component with a practical application. Start 2022 with a positive, flexible and resilient mindset! ‘Finding Peace Of Mind No Matter What’ will teach you how to manage your mind and become the creator of your reality.

Niki has a special offer for the Ort Jet Community! For the month of January only you will be able to access this online course for only R1,495.50 (normally sells for R4,611.69). Use this code to qualify for the discount: ORTJET

 Click on this link to find out more about this life shifting programme: https://www.nikiseberini.com/copy-of-l-p-the-cpr-to-reset-your-m

Twitter: @Seberini

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/niki_seberini/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mindfreedomfighter/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/NikiSeberini

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/niki-seberini-32193a68

 

Contact number: 082 771 3164

Email: janet.goldblatt@now-here.com 

Website: https://www.now-here.com/  

For the last 15 years Janet has been involved in facilitating and catalysing personal growth and change in others. Her main focus has been working with leadership in building their teams. Their philosophy is that when people and their teams are able to step into the unknown with a sense of purpose, they call on their inner creativity and true innovation is born. They facilitate teams as they work through a variety of innovative processes designed to gently introduce them to the unknown. In this space Janet and her team’s focus is to cultivate their creative genius that they believe lies dormant in each individual. She is renowned for taking on the most challenging situations and articulating ‘what can’t be seen.’

“Through her own experience of finding strength and purpose through times of adversity, she has learned how to work with others in helping them to do the same. She works with families, individual leaders, their teams and businesses to catalyse new meaning and purpose and to guide them through a process to optimize their leadership capacity and business’s efficiency.”

Janet’s goals are to…

• help you find solutions to your most intractable challenges,
• help you build a culture of innovation in your business,
• work with you to co-create game-changing strategies, and
• show you how to move from high performance to peak performance.

She does this via the nowhere Practice: a revolutionary practice borne of over 20 years of development and refinement alongside some of the world’s biggest brands and most inspiring leaders.

Janet has been working with Ort leaders for the past 5 years, as part of the Bootcamp initiative by facilitating the Leadership sessions helping entrepreneurs to understand their own mastery. Whether you are looking for your own personal growth or self-actualization, or whether you are looking to find new meaning, cohesiveness and purpose among your team or if you would like to know more please follow the enquire link below. You can also find out more about nowhere at now-here.com.

 

 

Contact Number: +27 83 266 7599

Email: ishah@icon.co.za

Website: https://www.frangelicas.com/

Elana Godley has an over 30 year track record of success in her field, both locally and internationally. Elana qualified as an industrial, organizational & counselling psychologist and she works in the corporate industry as a master coach, an organizational and leadership performance consultant and a change consultant. Over Elana’s long career she has built a brand of excellence through tangible results.

Operating within South Africa, Elana has been a pioneer of executive coaching. Furthermore she is among the few coaches who can also claim to have been themselves an entrepreneur and corporate executive.  These past experiences add a dimension of practicality and credibility to her message.

Info about Frangelicas

Frangelicas is a community landmark and one of the longest running businesses in Glenhazel. Nearly a decade ago the restaurant and bakery was purchased by Elana and her husband Simon and taken from its humble beginnings to the neighborhood institution it has  since become.

Owned and operated by Simon and Elana Godley, Frangelicas is known for its delicious and hearty home-cooked style menu and its award-winning cheesecake.

Whether you’re looking for delicious Kosher meals, desserts, or a cake for any occasion that has been made with love and passion, you’ll love Frangelicas.

Frangelicas’ customers are the neighbours stopping in for breakfast, the friends meeting for coffee, the busy professional picking up their up on-the-go breakfast or the young mom picking up desserts for their family gathering. It is a place where friends and family can meet and eat together.

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