Nikki Bush

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SPEAKER DETAILS

Guest Speaker and best-selling author, Nikki Bush, is an award winning speaker that helps individuals and teams to win at life and work. Her passion for connection and relationships, and how to maintain them in a fast-changing world, is at the core of everything she does as a human potential and parenting thought leader.

Nikki is admired and respected in business, education and parenting circles for her work in raising human potential through leadership, engagement, resilience, connection and teamwork. She helps to create mission-ready individuals and organisations for everyday and future disruption.

She has the knack of putting difficult, complex and sensitive topics on the table (ones we often prefer to avoid), and making them accessible, such as disruption, future-proofing, dealing with loss and adversity, team dynamics, self-leadership, parenting and more.

Nikki’s book on disruption, Future-proof Yourself (Penguin Random House) hits the shelves in July 2021. She has also has co-authored four best-selling parenting books with major publishers, including, Future-proof Your Child for the 2020s and Beyond (Penguin Random House, 2019), Tech-Savvy Parenting (Bookstorm, 2014), Easy Answers to Awkward Questions (Metz Press, 2009) and a number of ebooks.

Nikki always speaks with energy, passion, self-deprecating humour and a disarming honesty and vulnerability. She is a high impact and engaging speaker whether she is on the stage or presenting a webinar virtually with experience of 18 different virtual conferencing platforms. She packs a powerful sound bite, provides valuable insights and will leave you and your audience with practical solutions to help you to win at work and life.

NIKKI’S FOOTPRINT

Nikki has presented in South Africa, neighbouring African countries, Hong Kong and the United States. Nikki is as comfortable presenting at high-end conferences as she is in under-resourced squatter camps in Africa. She has high impact with practical application wherever she goes.

She has a large digital footprint and an impressive mainstream media presence. Due to her trusted, independent and informed opinion and her ability to pack a relevant and powerful soundbite, she has racked up over 3 000 media appearances in 15 years. She is the resident family and parenting expert on SABC TV3’s Expresso and Radio 702, where she has had weekly slots for many years.

Nikki has been a guest lecturer at Wits Business School, GIBS & Henley. She is a professional member of the Professional Speakers Association of Southern Africa (PSASA) of which she is a founding member and was the 2020/21 Johannesburg Chapter President.

In 2016 Nikki received her CSP™ (Certified Speaking Professional) designation from the National Speakers Association in the US. It is the highest earned international recognition for professional speakers who speak for a living. Nikki is one of just over 600 speakers in the world to hold this designation. In South Africa she was just the 10th speaker to acquire her CSP and was one of only four women to achieve it at the time.

In 2020 Nikki became a Certified Virtual Presenter with eSpeakers. CLICK HERE to view her profile. During the global pandemic Nikki has worked on over 18 different virtual conferencing platforms proving her flexibility and adaptability in this space.

In 2019 she was inducted into the PSASA’s Speakers Hall of Fame for excellence in her craft, being an industry icon and an example to others. This is a lifetime achievement award in recognition of her impact and the body of work she has created. Nikki was the very first woman to receive this award in the 14 years since its inception in South Africa, breaking the glass ceiling. #womenonfire #doingitforthegirls #glassceiling

Nikki was married to Simon for 26 years before his untimely passing at the end of 2017. She has two sons in their early 20s and they live in Johannesburg. Her children have been the inspiration for much of her work. Family is an extremely high value for Nikki who believes that strong societies are built on the foundation of a strong family life; good matric results rest on good foundations that are laid in the preschool years, and strong businesses are not just about processes but about the people behind them.

PRESENTATIONS by Nikki Bush

REGAINING A SENSE OF HOPE AND CONTROL IN 2021

We may be done with COVID, but COVID is far from done with us. 2021 has felt like an action replay of 2020. How do you stay prepared for the ongoing marathon, regain control in uncertainty, continue to grow and keep hope alive?

Join Nikki Bush, Human Potential and Parenting Expert, for practical, easy-to-implement tools to help you move forward with clarity and confidence.

Key focus areas:

Past, present and future thinking
Creating order out of chaos
The brain’s need for novelty and routine
Building your resilience muscle
Decision-making and getting out of a rut
Maintaining focus and getting things done
Capturing joy, growth and excellence
Leading your energy and keeping perspective

This webinar is for you if:

You’re feeling unsettled or uncertain
You lack confidence about the year ahead
You feel unprepared for change
You’re overwhelmed by disruption

Takeaways include:

Renewed energy and sharper focus
Greater control and calm
A shift from fear to curiosity
Practical self-leadership tools
Clearer direction for you, your family or team

Nikki delivers powerful messages that leave audiences energised, positive and challenged. She reads the room beautifully and customises her sessions with care.

Dylan Cavanagh, Principal of Broadacres Academy

Relatable, practical and deeply engaging. Our staff left feeling equipped and supported.

Tammy Letcher, Deputy Principal of Broadacres Academy

KEEP YOUR BUSINESS RUNNING – The Realities of Working from Home with Kids

This webinar helps leaders and managers better support remote team members who are working from home while parenting full time. Nikki provides realistic insights and practical solutions to protect productivity and wellbeing.

Based on her white paper, Keep Your Business Running, this session addresses one of the biggest risks to business continuity during COVID-19 – the strain on working parents.

This webinar covers:

Understanding employees under pressure
Shock, grief and uncertainty
What children need during disruption
Leading remotely with empathy
Problem-solving instead of rescuing
Winning at home and at work

Includes a downloadable copy of the white paper. Suitable for leadership teams or entire organisations.

A powerful reminder to keep the human in the middle during crisis.

Donald Khumalo, The JSE

SHIFT FROM HUMAN DOING TO HUMAN BEING – Connecting Beyond Your Job Description

This interactive workshop helps teams reconnect as human beings, not just KPI-driven performers. Through facilitated processes and meaningful conversations, Nikki breaks down barriers and boosts energy.

Outcomes:

Stronger communication
Greater collaboration
Deeper team connection
Practical tools for work and home

WHICH JACKET ARE YOU WEARING NOW? – Celebrating How You Got Here

A vibrant presentation celebrating women’s journeys and personal brand building. Nikki shares lessons from wearing five “jackets” across three careers, highlighting resilience, choice and flexibility.

Highlights:

Holding on to what matters
Finding mentors and support
Owning your choices
Embracing a flexible mindset

An inspiring, world-class speaker with energy, authenticity and powerful lessons.

Sandi Linford, Vodacom

WHAT IF ‘WHAT IF’ HAPPENS FOR WOMEN – Preparing for Life’s Disruptions

Nikki shares the six minutes that changed her life and offers a blueprint for becoming “mission-ready” when disruption strikes. This moving keynote reframes loss and trauma as pathways to growth and resilience.

She shares:

The impact of trauma on brain, body, brand and business
Lessons learnt through loss
Practical steps to prepare for uncertainty

Courageous, vulnerable and deeply inspiring. Nikki empowers audiences to see change differently.

Madeleine Black, International Speaker and TEDx Speaker

REFRAMING COVID 19 – To Win @ Work and Life

This high-impact session helps audiences reframe disruption, avoid fight-flight-freeze responses and adjust to a new normal with perspective and purpose. Participants leave equipped for a marathon, not a sprint.

Keep perspective
Understand transition stages
Reframe change
Find collateral beauty in collateral damage
Feel positive about future possibilities

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