Leadership Seminar 2025

Developing Leaders to Lead Efficiently in a Complex World

Overview

Leadership has never been more challenging than it is today—and tomorrow will be even more demanding. Leaders face relentless pressures, fast-shifting priorities, and higher stakes than ever before. Making decisions under complexity requires not only technical skill but adaptive intelligence, resilience, and purpose.

As Marius Pretorius and Nico Schutte, authors of The Leadership Master Code, remind us: “Leadership as we know it is out of breath.”

To thrive, leaders must:

  • Navigate complexity, disruption and geopolitical volatility
  • Accelerate growth while developing their people
  • Prepare organisations for an AI-driven future
  • Lead with transparency, humility, and cultural awareness
  • Increase efficiency and impact at every stage

This one-day online seminar will explore how organisations can design leadership development programmes that equip leaders to function effectively under uncertainty, foster resilience, and inspire motivation across their teams.

Join some of South Africa’s leading leadership specialists as they share new approaches, research, and case studies to help current and future leaders not only cope, but thrive, in a fragile and complex world. Also, discover how to create a culture of continuous leadership development to enhance organisation capability.

Who Should Attend?

  • HR and L&D Experts
  • Leadership Development Practitioners and Consultants
  • Executives seeking to lead more effectively under uncertainty
  • Organisational Development Consultants
  • Business School Faculty and Academics in Leadership Development

Registration Fees:

Registration fees exclude VAT. Includes speaker slides of the seminar

11 November 2025 • Online One-day Seminar
R6 000.00

Hourly Schedule

11 November 2025

08:30 - 08:45
Login and Introduction
08:45 - 09:30
A New Paradigm of Leading in a FRAGILE World: The Five Gateways to Adaptive Leadership Intelligence
Dr Marius Pretorius, Managing Director & Business Psychologist, TDCI, Prof Nico Schutte, Professor, University of Western Cape | Prof Nico Schutte, Professor, University of Western Cape
09:30 - 10:15
What the Latest Neuroscience Research is Teaching Us About Developing Future-Fit Leaders
Dr INGRA DU BUISSON-NARSAI, Director, NeuroCapital & Registered Organisational Psychologist
10:15 - 11:00
Panel Discussion: Business Schools Pivoting to Equip Leaders for Complexity
11:00 - 11:20
Recharge Break – Stretch, Refresh, Reflect
11:20 - 12:20
A Leadership Case Study
Dave van der Merwe, Senior Executive, MAC Consulting
12:20 - 13:00
Is Executive and Leadership Coaching Delivering on Its Promise?
Susi Atengo, Managing Director, CoachMatching | Dumisani Magadlela, Founder & President, Afrika Coaching
13:00 - 13:50
Lunch Break
13:50 - 14:30
Fixing the Leadership Trust Deficit
Dr Charles du Toit, Management Director, Trust-Based Leadership Academy
14:30 - 15:00
Fireside Chat: Leadership Lessons: The Leopard Way
Professor Phinda Mzwakhe Madi, Chairman, Mkhandela Capital
15:00 - 15:30
Leadership and Executive Decision-Making in Uncertain Situations: What Business Schools Don’t Teach You
Dr Morne Mostert, Commissioner, National Planning Commission SA
15:30 - 16:00
Open Discussion and Closing Remarks

Date

11 Nov 2025

Location

Virtual online event
Category

Organisers

Virginia Motsepe
Phone
+27 (76) 251 1815
Email
virginia@knowres.co.za
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