Successfully deliver your company's business message

Professional speakers create and deliver powerful images and memorable messages. and those who are able weave and craft individual company business messages and direction into their presentations are amongst the most highly sought after in their profession. Michael Jackson has carved out his reputation as one of the best business-to-business speakers on the professional circuit by doing just this.

Over the last fifteen years Michael has worked with dozens of the world's leading companies, and has addressed conferences and seminars across the globe;
to audiences ranging from factory workers to Heads of State. Once acclaimed by former President Nelson Mandela as "a national treasure", Michael has an uncanny ability to connect with his audiences at a personal level, and is often referred to as
a passionate champion of the cause.

With over twenty years of business experience in both England and South Africa, his communication and marketing expertise has been applied by such clients as Microsoft, Nike, Compaq, Virgin Atlantic Airways, HP and British Telecom, amongst many others.

Michael is the owner of a specialist forensic marketing consultancy, Zebra Crossing. He is also widely involved in the media, having been a Radio 702 and Voice of Soweto radio host, as well as a feature contributor to The Saturday Star and Sunday Independent. Currently Michael edits two magazines, and writes monthly columns for two others, including the British Airways in-flight magazine.

On TV Michael has presented "The Consumer Files" for the series "Your Own Business"; "Money" for the SABC; Business Web and TechnoLogic for Summit TV, and currently presents a lifestyle, property and leisure weekend programme on DStv. He is also a board member of the National Speakers Association of SA.

The Challenge of Change

Encompassing a motivational and dynamic view of the global business world, this keynote presentation begins with an initial look back over past business/lifestyle trends and the resultant pressures and changing dynamics of today's key business issues, before focussing on current and future trends facing companies and their staff today, and into the immediate future.

Designed for businesspeople across the enterprise this presentation clearly explains the issues facing each and every business its day-to-day scenarios, and does so in a way that surprises, delights and entertains.

Selected examples of business excellence and references to modern successful businesses are included and used to highlight the route to future success.

Tailor-made and adaptable to suit individual company audiences, businesses and/or marketplaces, this presentation provides serious common-sense food for thought and gives hands-on guidance as to the best business practices of the day, whilst motivating and stimulating individual audience members to perform to their full potential.

Michael's skill in presenting, combined with the subtle interplay of messages from the host company, makes for a memorable and enthralling presentation, and one which has been rated as no less than excellent by over 70 000 executives to date across Southern Africa and Europe.

Michael is considered to be one of the most requested business-to-business speakers in Southern Africa and is an active member of National Speakers Association of South Africa, where he holds the position of Deputy Vice President.