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Dr. Sizakele Marutlulle is a globally experienced executive, strategy advisor, and creative practitioner with a multi-sector career spanning advertising, corporate leadership, entrepreneurship and education.
She has held senior roles including Deputy MD at HerdBouys-McCann, CEO of Grey Advertising SA, COO at South African Tourism, and Head of Marketing at Barclays Africa, where she was the architect of the award-winning “Here to Help You Prosper” campaign, which helped reposition the bank across 12 African markets.
As founder of her own strategy and ideation practice, Dr. Marutlulle works with C-suite leaders to build purpose-led brands rooted in creativity, culture, and commerce. She is a sought-after global speaker on Humancentric Creativism©, business reform and inclusive growth. Currently a lecturer at the Gordon Institute of Business Science, Dr. Marutlulle holds a PhD in Critical Diversity and has completed executive programs at Harvard and NYU. She is recognised as one of South Africa’s top businesswomen and continues to influence across continents through her work, writing, and thought leadership.
Using creativity to bring humans back to the centre of everything. We believe that we are customers some of the time and are human all the time. Therefore, brand builders and custodians are responsible for engaging beyond the transactional by placing humans at the centre of the complete value chain. Working at the intersection of culture, creativity and commerce and applying a unique brand of creativity (humancentric creativism), we help brand builders and custodians build inclusive and sustainable futures.
oday’s woman is no longer playing small; she’s building empires with intention and heart. The Fentrepreneur™ Experience leaves audiences activated, affirmed, and armed with tools to lead from within and around. This is focused for women who are in leadership, entrepreneurship, or transition into new enterprise roles, corporate women building side hustles or seeking purpose, women’s forums, conferences, accelerators, and networks and organisations looking to empower female talent and leadership.
This talk explores how purpose becomes the quiet but powerful force that sets real leaders apart. You can’t lead effectively by pretending to be someone else. We discuss what separates meaningful leadership from self-serving ambition and how to consistently refine your leadership style, whether you’re just starting out, in the thick of it, or looking to leave a lasting legacy.
Identity starts with self-recognition, because resilience deserves to be seen and because when people show up fully as themselves, teams, brands, businesses and communities thrive. In this talk we explore the power of lived experiences, the resilience it takes to keep showing up, and the beauty of integrating all parts of ourselves, even the silenced ones, into how we lead, live, and love. This is a celebration of identity in its fullest expression: your voice, your values, your journey, and your presence.
Sizakele was a pleasure to work with as one of the expert speakers presenting at our conference. She quickly understood the brief, target audience and outcomes we were hoping to achieve and shaped her presentation to deliver against this. Sizakele is one of a kind, her style and approach is so effective at connecting with the audience her presentation will be difficult to forget. It is rare to find a speaker that connects what they say with how it is delivered which has a powerful impact for those listening.
Sizakele recently spoke to a group of professional independent financial advisers at an Allan Gray event. She is an energetic speaker and shared many valuable insights on adopting a humancentric creativist mindset. The financial planning industry is evolving and one of the insights shared was that we should all be engaging beyond the transactional, by placing humans at the centre of the complete value chain. A powerful message.
