
This keynote explores how purposeful collaboration can inspire agile thinking, ignite curiosity and spark a deeper sense of purpose. Through simple creative strategies, Conn shows how teams can strengthen connection, unlock co-creation and become happier, healthier and harder to kill.
Considered one of South Africa’s top creative thinkers, Conn Bertish is a multiple internationally awarded creative strategist, keynote speaker and architect of resilience programmes, cancer survival and big wave surfing, who resigned from his high-powered job after beating brain cancer in 2015 to launch ‘Resiliency Dojo’ and ‘Cancer Dojo’ – two enterprises that empower business, employees and patients with his medically approved ‘Happy People are Harder to Kill’ products, talks and training programmes.
Conn’s talks and systems of resilience ignite staff, leaders and organisations with simple tools to enable personal and group agency to attain true creative resilience during challenging and changing times.
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