Brad Shorkend

Guest Speaker, Brad Shorkend is an agitator & thought provoker… he works with business leaders around the world helping them to be constantly innovation ready and to create exceptional employee experiences that translate into meaningful innovation, constant relevance, and significant revenue.

He walks his talk as a leader, entrepreneur and innovator and is currently an active shareholder in businesses across numerous sectors.

His professional career kicked off with him founding and building his own architectural practice and specializing in architecture for business.

It was here that he discovered his love for entrepreneurship, leadership, people development and the “thinking” space and successfully diversified into a number of exciting business ventures across numerous sectors such as technology, telecoms, real estate, retail, beauty, fashion and construction to name a few.

Since founding Urban Everest Lateral Thinking in 2006 and more recently co-founding the relevance bureau Still Human in 2015, Brad has been coaching, mentoring, speaking and facilitating across a wide range of industries and industry sectors working primarily with CEO, MD, Exco, and leadership at all levels of organisations, high potential individuals, teams and entrepreneurs.

Brad’s clients range from an exciting array of many of the top blue chip organisations in South Africa and globally to early and mid-stage start-ups. As a high performance specialist, Brad’s passion is teaming up with individuals and organisations to consciously create the conditions and the thinking for functional curiosity, awesome experiences, and champion performance in whatever environment… and then powerfully behaving into and maintaining those conditions.

Brad is also the co-author of the 2018 published book WE ARE STILL HUMAN (and work shouldn’t suck!).