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Dr David Molapo

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What Dr Molapo is booked for.

Keynotes, workshops and seminars for corporate and public-sector audiences across South Africa. Each topic can be shaped to the room — tell us the audience and the outcome, and we will propose the format.

  1. Choose to Change

    Keynote45–60 min

    Built on Dr Molapo's own journey from imprisonment at 13 to the boardrooms of global corporations, this talk shows that transformation is not luck or circumstance, but a decision anyone can make. A high-energy, story-led opener anchored in his signature message: we are no longer prisoners of our past, but pioneers of our future.

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    What your people will take away

    • Why change begins with one deliberate choice, not a change in circumstances
    • How to interrupt limiting patterns and replace them with intentional habits
    • Turning adversity into a launchpad rather than an excuse
  2. Leadership Skills for 2030 & Beyond

    Keynote or half-day workshop60 min (keynote) / 3 hrs (workshop)

    As automation reshapes every industry, the leaders who thrive will be the ones who double down on what machines can't replicate. Dr Molapo maps the human skills — critical thinking, emotional intelligence, adaptability — that define future-ready leadership in the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

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    What your people will take away

    • The core human competencies that outlast automation
    • How to build digital literacy and adaptability across a team
    • Leading people through AI-driven change without losing the human core
  3. HABITS – The DNA of Success

    WorkshopHalf-day or full-day

    Motivation fades; habits compound. This practical, tools-in-hand session shows leaders how to design a personal operating system of small, repeatable behaviours that quietly determine long-term performance — for themselves and the teams they lead.

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    What your people will take away

    • Why systems beat willpower for sustained performance
    • How to install high-value habits without burning out
    • Breaking unhelpful patterns without relying on motivation
  4. If You're Not Growing, You're Dying

    Keynote45 min

    A wake-up call for leaders and organisations that have grown comfortable. Using the eagle's life-cycle of renewal as its through-line, this talk challenges audiences to leave the plateau on purpose and design deliberate seasons of growth into their year.

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    What your people will take away

    • Why stagnation, not failure, is the real threat to leaders
    • How to build intentional renewal into a career and an organisation
    • The true cost of comfort — and how to leave it behind
  5. Raising the Next Generation of Leaders

    Keynote or panel45–60 min

    Drawn from Dr Molapo's life's work through I CAN Leadership Institute Africa, this talk makes the case that a nation rises or falls on the leaders it develops. Ideal for corporate leadership programmes, education and community audiences, it blends vision with a practical model for growing leaders at every level.

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    What your people will take away

    • What separates leaders who develop others from those who don't
    • A practical framework for mentoring and coaching the next generation
    • Building a leadership pipeline inside any organisation or community

Fees are not published. They depend on the format, the travel and the preparation involved, and are agreed in conversation.

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