Nikki Bush
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Speaker
Location:
Johannesburg South Africa
Preferred Language:
English
Tags:
Author,Businesswoman,Communication,Consultant,Crisis Management,Education,Facilitator,Health and wellness,Inspiration,Leadership,motivation,Trainer,Webinars,Womens Interest
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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.
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 throug
Synopsis:
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 is feeling much like an action replay of 2020 with some referring to it as 2020B. How can you be better prepared for the ongoing COVID-marathon, personally and professionally? How can you regain a sense of control in a time of upheaval and uncertainty? How do you continue to grow? How do you keep hope alive?
Join Nikki Bush, Human Potential and Parenting Expert for her trademark pearls of wisdom and easy to implement practical solutions for the journey ahead.
She will talk to:
Dylan Cavanagh, Principal of Broadacres Academy
I loved the way you helped our staff to get comfortable with the uncomfortable feeling of ‘not knowing what the future looks like’. You made everything so relatable and real. Your process work kept everyone 100% engaged and provided us with practical takeaway we can use personally and, in our classrooms, too.
Tammy Letcher, Deputy Principal of Broadacres Academy
WHAT IF 'WHAT IF'HAPPENS FOR WOMEN - How prepared are you for disruption in your life?
How prepared are your female staff or clients, practically and emotionally, to cope should a ‘what if’ moment happen to them?
No-one’s life unfolds in a straight line, either professionally or personally. Disruption is part of the human condition and we all experience it in very different and sometimes profound and life-changing ways, whether it is the loss of a loved one, a home, health, wealth, a business or a job. As media personality, award-winning speaker and best-selling author, Nikki Bush, shares her story of six short minutes that changed her life forever, she will inspire your audience and show them how to see collateral beauty in collateral damage.
They will be moved to shift their perspective of loss, trauma, change or disruption as a pathway to growth. They will be motivated to create peace of mind by getting their practical affairs in order using Nikki’s blueprint for being mission-ready for when a ‘what if’ moment strikes, as it will.
Nikki will share:
• The six minutes that changed her life
• How loss and trauma impacted her:
• Her brain
• Her body
• Her brand
• Her business
• Challenges faced and lessons learnt
• Her blueprint for how to be ‘mission-ready’ for when a ‘what if’ moment strikes
“I was blown away by Nikki’s courage and vulnerability, sharing her personal story. I cannot recommend Nikki highly enough as a speaker who will motivate and inspire any audience, empowering them to see loss and change differently.” Madeleine Black, international speaker, TEDx speaker and psychotherap
COVID 19
REGAINING A SENSE OF HOPE AND CONTROL IN 2021
We may be done with COVID but COVID is far from done with us. 2021 is feeling much like an action replay of 2020 with some referring to it as 2020B. How can you be better prepared for the ongoing COVID-marathon, personally and professionally? How can you regain a sense of control in a time of upheaval and uncertainty? How do you continue to grow? How do you keep hope alive?
Join Nikki Bush, Human Potential and Parenting Expert for her trademark pearls of wisdom and easy to implement practical solutions for the journey ahead.
She will talk to:
- Past, present and future thinking
- Creating order out of chaos
- Why your brain needs novelty and newness
- The importance of routine for body and mind
- Making yourself supportable
- Building you resilience muscle
- Creating your X-factor Chronicles through disruption
- Decision making and prioritising – getting out of a rut
- How to maintain focus and Get Stuff Done
- Ways to inspire yourself
- Capturing joy, growth and excellence
- Giving your energy leadership
- Keeping perspective
- I’m feeling a bit strange about this year
- I’m feeling unsettled
- I don’t feel confident
- I’m having a bit of a wobble
- I’m not sure what the year holds so I’m feeling uncertain
- I don’t feel prepared for what’s coming
- I’m terrified because I’ve been told everything is changing
- You will have newfound energy
- You will create focus to be less distracted
- You will be coming from a place of curiosity and not fear
- You will feel a sense of greater control and sanity despite the changes you are facing
- You will be able to generate feelings of progress and satisfaction – even small incremental ones
- You will be able to take responsibility for self-leadership
- You will be consciously embracing disruption rather than being a victim of it
- Your sense of purpose will make your family feel more grounded
- People will feel safer and will be less reactive because you are calmer
- You will be able to help family members and team members get clear about their year, their purpose and direction
Dylan Cavanagh, Principal of Broadacres Academy
I loved the way you helped our staff to get comfortable with the uncomfortable feeling of ‘not knowing what the future looks like’. You made everything so relatable and real. Your process work kept everyone 100% engaged and provided us with practical takeaway we can use personally and, in our classrooms, too.
Tammy Letcher, Deputy Principal of Broadacres Academy
KEEP YOUR BUSINESS RUNNING - The Realities of Working from Home with Kids
The inside track to help team leaders and managers have more realistic expectations of their remote team members who are working from home while parenting full time too. Human Potential and Parenting Expert, Nikki Bush, has some answers and solutions to help you better support your team members in the unfamiliar space they find themselves in.
The Covid-19 crisis is an urgent call to keep the human in the middle and to be realistic about what to expect as teams transition to working remotely. Journeying with your team members has never been more important for productivity and your bottom line. This webinar is based on Nikki’s popular white paper called Keep Your Business Running that was written to help businesses to mitigate one of the biggest threats to their bottom lines during the COVID-19 pandemic – the staff babysitter.
THIS WEBINAR WILL COVER:
- Understanding your employees and team members
- Why we are feeling threatened
- The reality of mass shock and grief
- Insights into children and what they need
- What about you – the manager or team leader?
- Building the problem-solving muscle in your team rather than being the rescuer
- The daily reality for people working at home with kids
- Managing and leading your team remotely
Advice for parents
- A parent’s role in distance education
- Takeaways for winning at home and life
- Takeaways for winning at work
- Comes with a downloadable copy of Nikki’s white paper, Keep Your Business Running.
- Can be presented for your leadership team or your whole business.
Keep Your Business Running was a very good reminder to our leadership team about the need to focus on the little things, that are really the big things, to help us keep the human in the middle during this crisis.
Donald Khumalo, The JSE
Your white paper and presentation were so on point and useful that we have booked a suite of your webinars for our staff at FNB Loans to support them during this disruptive time.
Margaux de Wet, Internal Communications and Events Manager, FNB Loans
This workshop will:
SHIFT FROM HUMAN DOING TO HUMAN BEING - Connecting Beyond your Job Description, Kids and your Workstation
How well do you know your colleagues? How often to you really connect and engage as human beings vs human doings – chasing KPIs, surviving and just getting the job done? When last did you laugh so much that your cheeks ached?
In this very interactive, process-based workshop that is customised to raise issues or start conversations that are important to your group or organisation, award-winning speaker, Nikki Bush, will help your team break down barriers, reconnect and raise their energy levels. Laughter and learning are guaranteed as she facilitates critical conversations in between each carefully selected process. Nikki is an expert at helping individuals and teams to win at life and work.
This workshop will:
- Empower participants both at work and at home
- Encourage clear communication
- Create greater understanding of team dynamics and collaboration
- Break down barriers between team members
- Build stronger, more connected teams
- The added bonus of this workshop is that every process is something participants can go and do with their own families at home or do again in the business setting, making them a hero at work and at home. Both boxes ticked!
Nikki will leave your team viewing the world from a new perspective, with fresh eyes.
WHICH JACKET ARE YOU WEARING NOW? - Celebrating How you got Here
Do we ever stop to wonder how we got to here? This presentation is a reminder to every woman of the journey they have walked; how everything they have done and experienced to this point has contributed to where they find themselves now. It’s also a celebration of the lessons and wisdom they have learnt along the way that continue to shape and inform their own personal empowerment story, their own
brand of one. Nothing is forgotten, nothing is lost.
Inspirational speaker and best-selling author, Nikki Bush, takes your audience behind the scenes of what it takes to build a strong personal brand. In this vibrant, energetic presentation she will wear five different jackets sharing the most important lessons she learnt from wearing each of them, while building three different careers. Today she is a stand-out brand of one, a thought leader and media personality who inspires other women to aim higher while staying true to who they are.
Her presentation highlights:
• How to hold on to what’s important to you
• The importance of connecting with others and not travelling through life alone
• Finding mentors on your journey
• Owning one’s choices
• How life doesn’t always unfold in a straight line
• The importance of a flexible mindset and opportunity eyes
“Nikki presented her 5 Jackets talk to the women in Vodacom Group's Finance Team on the occasion of International Women's Day for 2019 - what an inspiration! A fabulous speaker with so many lessons we can all relate to - considered by many of the women present as simply the best they have listened to. Down to earth but with world class finesse and so much energy and passion.” Sandi Linford, Group Company
Secretary at Vodacom who hosted the International Women’s Day event at Vodacom
WHAT IF 'WHAT IF'HAPPENS FOR WOMEN - How prepared are you for disruption in your life?
How prepared are your female staff or clients, practically and emotionally, to cope should a ‘what if’ moment happen to them?
No-one’s life unfolds in a straight line, either professionally or personally. Disruption is part of the human condition and we all experience it in very different and sometimes profound and life-changing ways, whether it is the loss of a loved one, a home, health, wealth, a business or a job. As media personality, award-winning speaker and best-selling author, Nikki Bush, shares her story of six short minutes that changed her life forever, she will inspire your audience and show them how to see collateral beauty in collateral damage.
They will be moved to shift their perspective of loss, trauma, change or disruption as a pathway to growth. They will be motivated to create peace of mind by getting their practical affairs in order using Nikki’s blueprint for being mission-ready for when a ‘what if’ moment strikes, as it will.
Nikki will share:
• The six minutes that changed her life
• How loss and trauma impacted her:
• Her brain
• Her body
• Her brand
• Her business
• Challenges faced and lessons learnt
• Her blueprint for how to be ‘mission-ready’ for when a ‘what if’ moment strikes
“I was blown away by Nikki’s courage and vulnerability, sharing her personal story. I cannot recommend Nikki highly enough as a speaker who will motivate and inspire any audience, empowering them to see loss and change differently.” Madeleine Black, international speaker, TEDx speaker and psychotherap
COVID 19
During the COVID-19 crisis I have been running Staff and Parent Support Programmes for corporates, SMMEs and schools including the JSE, RMB, Anglogold Ashanti, RMB Private Bank, Standard Bank, Vodacom, Standard Bank Wealth and Investment, Discovery, Brescia House School, Kyalami Schools, Simplybiz and many more. My presentations have also formed part of client events online.
The realities of working from home with kids and managing school from home too, are a major risk to any business’s (or school’s) bottom line right now and I am well-positioned to help with insights and practical solutions:
I have written a COVID-19 white paper called Keep Your Business Running that has been shared extensively
I have also landed a book contract with Penguin Random House on the topic of Dancing with Disruption
I do extensive media interviews on Navigating COVID-19 to Win at Work and Life including weekly Saturday AND Wednesday slots on Radio 702 among others
I am a Human Potential and Parenting Expert, speaker and author
I have built a business and a brand from home for 25 years with kids
I have walked the path of grief, loss and trauma for the past two years since my husband’s death
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In other words, I ‘get it’ and can empathise from a deep and authentic place with my clients and audiences while not allowing them to become victims either. I help both employers, business owners and employees to be realistic and to take responsibility.
I am providing a number of companies with group parenting support and resources to help working parents find and keep perspective, to create a safe ‘container’ in which to hold their fear-riddled children and to create realistic expectations for how they show up at work, finding new ways to be productive while balancing the demands of parenting at the same time. There are also sessions just for management and leaders.
See what’s included in the Corporate or School Parent Support Programme below.
REFRAMING COVID 19 - To Win @ Work and Life
Human Potential and Parenting Expert, will help you to reframe the lockdown and re-phasing in experience, to keep perspective and continue to show up realistically at work and at home over this disruptive time. She will challenge your perceptions of change, help you to come to terms with not knowing what the future looks like, give you tools to keep perspective as well as providing some practical tips for those who are working at home with children.
This acclaimed, moving and high impact presentation will reset your mind and shift your heart. You will walk away with frameworks and useful resources to help you to continue to win at work and life, prepared for a marathon, not a sprint. Nikki will help you to:
• Keep perspective
• Avoid fight, flight or freeze
• Understand the stages of adjustment and transition to a new normal
• Reframe change and disruption
• Find collateral beauty in collateral damage
• Feel positive about future possibilities
Human Potential and Parenting Expert, will help you to reframe the lockdown and re-phasing in experience, to keep perspective and continue to show up realistically at work and at home over this disruptive time. She will challenge your perceptions of change, help you to come to terms with not knowing what the future looks like, give you tools to keep perspective as well as providing some practical tips for those who are working at home with children.
This acclaimed, moving and high impact presentation will reset your mind and shift your heart. You will walk away with frameworks and useful resources to help you to continue to win at work and life, prepared for a marathon, not a sprint. Nikki will help you to:
• Keep perspective
• Avoid fight, flight or freeze
• Understand the stages of adjustment and transition to a new normal
• Reframe change and disruption
• Find collateral beauty in collateral damage
• Feel positive about future possibilities
PRESENTATIONS by Nikki Bush
REGAINING A SENSE OF HOPE AND CONTROL IN 2021
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INTRODUCING NIKKI - Introduction to be used
Inspirational speaker and best-selling author, Nikki Bush, is highly regarded among parents, educators and business people alike. Her work is fuelled by her passion for play, connection and relationships.
Through her keynote talks, interactive workshops, books and games, she inspires her audiences to find creative ways of connecting with today’s children, and themselves, in a fast-changing world.
Nikki is the co-author of two bestselling books: Future-proof Your Child (Penguin 2008), now in its fifth reprint, and Easy Answers to Awkward Questions (Metz Press, 2009), a book on sexuality development for children under 13, which was endorsed by Childline and is in its third reprint. She is working on four new books at the moment.
Nikki has developed seven educational games including board games for well-known brands such as Barney, Thomas and Barbie, and she is also a toy judge, running a very popular annual event called Toy Talk®.
Nikki is a regular guest on radio and TV and is often quoted in the print media. She is the parenting expert on SABC3’s Expresso, the family expert for Longevity magazine and is on the advisory team for Living & Loving magazine.
Nikki writes a weekly column called Parenting Matters® which is used in many school newsletters around the country. She is a guest lecturer for the Wits Business School Executive Development Programme.
Nikki is married and has two sons and lives in Johannesburg.
Inspirational speaker and best-selling author, Nikki Bush, is highly regarded among parents, educators and business people alike. Her work is fuelled by her passion for play, connection and relationships.
Through her keynote talks, interactive workshops, books and games, she inspires her audiences to find creative ways of connecting with today’s children, and themselves, in a fast-changing world.
Nikki is the co-author of two bestselling books: Future-proof Your Child (Penguin 2008), now in its fifth reprint, and Easy Answers to Awkward Questions (Metz Press, 2009), a book on sexuality development for children under 13, which was endorsed by Childline and is in its third reprint. She is working on four new books at the moment.
Nikki has developed seven educational games including board games for well-known brands such as Barney, Thomas and Barbie, and she is also a toy judge, running a very popular annual event called Toy Talk®.
Nikki is a regular guest on radio and TV and is often quoted in the print media. She is the parenting expert on SABC3’s Expresso, the family expert for Longevity magazine and is on the advisory team for Living & Loving magazine.
Nikki writes a weekly column called Parenting Matters® which is used in many school newsletters around the country. She is a guest lecturer for the Wits Business School Executive Development Programme.
Nikki is married and has two sons and lives in Johannesburg.
INTRODUCING NIKKI - Introduction to be used
Inspirational speaker and best-selling author, Nikki Bush, is highly regarded among parents, educators and business people a
Inspirational speaker and best-selling author, Nikki Bush, is highly regarded among parents, educators and business people a
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