Vivek Wadhera
Transforming Culture to Innovate
Keynote Speaker | JSE-listed COO | Tech Entrepreneur
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Meet Vivek
Inspiring a New Way of Growing
A Keynote Speaker & Thought Leader who partners with your organisation to create a Culture of Mindsets for Innovation. You will appreciate his approach of Empathising & Collaborating with stakeholders, that leads to an environment where Change, Growth, and Diversity become the pillars your business thrives on. Vivek’s work will provide the following benefits to delegates:
Grow Sales by creating products that work for your end customers – not the other way around.
Improve Loyalty by communicating & collaborating better with diverse groups & cultures, e.g. Millennials.
Create Innovative Solutions by understanding underlying problems & generating ideas.
Quick Facts:
COO at Choppies, a ZAR 12 Billion JSE-listed FMCG retailer.
Entrepreneur in MFS Africa, tech startup rated by Fast Company as Africa’s 2nd Most Innovative Company.
Management in 2 US Fortune 500 firms: Harley-Davidson & Micron.
MBA from Kellogg, a world Top 5 MBA.
Experience covering 20 countries, 4 continents, and African, Western, and Indian business cultures.
Companies Vivek has Served
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Please view some of my latest talks and video blogs. You can also view my Youtube channel here.
Articles
Articles of interest
SA and Botswana — neighbours but poles apart in entrepreneurship
I recently I had a look at the 2015/16 Global Report from Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), the world’s foremost study on entrepreneurship. I’ve lived and worked both in Botswana and SA, so I was especially [...]
Losing Touch: Power Diminishes Perception & Perspective
“With great power comes great responsibility, so goes the famous saying. But responsibility is not all that seems to accompany puissance—dictators often exhibit extreme behavior, often in ways patently detrimental to their nations; managers are [...]
Fast Company ranks MFS Africa as Africa’s 2nd Most Innovative Company, 2017
MFS is a tech startup whose leadership team I was a member of & where I’m presently a shareholder With its huge “unbanked” population, Africa has seen some of the most rapid adoption of [...]