1. Walking Through Fire® – Leading Under Pressure When It Matters Most

A powerful keynote on courage, responsibility, and performance under pressure. Using experiential elements such as firewalking and live engagement, Cobus challenges leaders and teams to confront fear, take ownership, and act decisively. This keynote is about stepping up when conditions are hard, expectations are high, and excuses no longer work.

Core outcomes: Responsibility, courage, decisive leadership, execution under pressure.

2. Whatever It Takes® – From Intention to Execution

Based on Cobus’s book Whatever It Takes, this keynote focuses on ownership, discipline, and follow-through. It challenges leaders and teams to move beyond good intentions and commit to consistent action. High-impact, practical, and direct, this session draws a hard line between average performance and excellence.

Core outcomes: Accountability, execution, performance discipline, results.

3. Responsibility Is the New Leadership

This keynote reframes leadership as responsibility rather than position or authority. Cobus unpacks how cultures drift into blame, entitlement, and avoidance and how responsibility restores trust, performance, and momentum. A strong fit for leadership teams, management forums, and culture resets.

Core outcomes: Ownership culture, leadership maturity, trust, accountability.

4. Performance Under Pressure – How Elite Teams Win

A keynote designed for high-performing organisations, sales teams, and leaders operating in demanding environments. Cobus explores how emotional intelligence, clarity, and execution discipline determine performance when pressure is high and margins are tight.

Core outcomes: Resilience, focus, emotional control, team performance.

5. Trust Is the Strategy

Trust is not a soft concept; it is a performance multiplier. In this keynote, Cobus shows how trust impacts speed, decision-making, engagement, and results. Through real examples and experiential moments, teams experience how trust is built, broken, and restored.

Core outcomes: Trust, collaboration, psychological safety, execution speed.

6. From Potential to Performance

Many organisations have talent but struggle with execution. This keynote focuses on closing the gap between what people are capable of and what they consistently deliver. Cobus challenges teams to align mindset, behaviour, and daily habits to measurable outcomes.

Core outcomes: Consistency, ownership, execution rhythm, results.

7. The Future-Fit Leader – Human Leadership in an AI-Driven World

A forward-looking keynote for 2026 and beyond. Cobus explores how AI accelerates business, but human leadership determines outcomes. This session focuses on the irreplaceable human skills leaders must strengthen: judgment, responsibility, emotional intelligence, trust, and values.

Core outcomes: Future readiness, leadership relevance, AI + human performance.

8. Culture Is Behaviour, Not Posters

A direct and practical keynote on why culture initiatives fail and how behaviour changes culture. Cobus challenges leaders to stop managing culture conceptually and start shaping it behaviourally through clarity, accountability, and example.

Core outcomes: Behavioural change, culture alignment, leadership credibility.

WORKSHOP TITLES

1. LEGO® Serious Play® – Strategy, Alignment & Team Clarity

A facilitated workshop using LEGO® Serious Play® to help teams think strategically, surface hidden assumptions, and align around shared goals. Participants build models to represent challenges, opportunities, and future direction, creating deep insight and shared understanding.

Ideal for: Strategy sessions, leadership alignment, culture work

Focus: Strategic thinking, alignment, engagement, clarity

2. MAPSTELL® Behavioural Mapping (DISC-Based)

A behavioural mapping workshop that helps individuals and teams understand behavioural preferences, communication styles, and decision-making patterns. The focus is on behaviour (not personality) to improve collaboration and reduce friction.

Ideal for: Leadership teams, sales teams, team development

Focus: Behavioural awareness, communication, trust, teamwork

3. Customer Experience (CX) Journey Game

An interactive customer experience workshop using a game-based approach to map the end-to-end customer journey. Teams identify gaps, pain points, and opportunities to improve service, sales, and loyalty.

Ideal for: Sales teams, customer-facing teams, service organisations

Focus: Customer obsession, service excellence, journey alignment

4. Art of Scale® Growth Strategy Blueprint

A structured growth and scaling workshop using the Art of Scale® framework. Leaders work through a practical blueprint covering strategy, systems, people, execution rhythm, and scalability.

Ideal for: Founders, executives, growth-stage businesses

Focus: Growth strategy, scalability, execution, structure

5. People School® – Communication, Influence & Body Language

Based on Vanessa Van Edwards’ Science of People framework, this workshop helps leaders improve communication, influence, and presence through understanding body language, vocal cues, and behavioural signals.

Ideal for: Leaders, sales teams, client-facing roles

Focus: Communication cues, trust-building, influence, presence

6. Behavioural Intelligence for Performance

A combined workshop using MAPSTELL®, emotional intelligence, and experiential learning to help teams understand how behaviour impacts performance, trust, and results.

Ideal for: Leadership pipelines, performance teams

Focus: Behavioural awareness, emotional intelligence, execution

7. Leadership & Culture Diagnostic Workshops

Pre- and post-event diagnostic sessions using behavioural mapping, EI tools, and facilitated discussion to identify cultural strengths, blind spots, and performance blockers.

Ideal for: Organisations undergoing change or growth

Focus: Insight, measurement, targeted intervention

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