Sizakele Marutlulle

Founder and CEO of a pan-African strategy and advisory practice that advocates f...

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In-person: £3k-£5k, £5k-£10k
Virtual: £1k-£3k

Topics:

Leadership
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Women in Leadership
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Future Readiness
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Entrepreneurship
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Business Reform

Dr Sizakele Marutlulle has held executive positions since an early age, in a multi- sector and global career. She has worked across various geographies including Pan-Africa, Asia, Europe and The Americas.

Dr. Marutlulle is a highly sought-after and respected advisor to leaders who seek her counsel on designing inclusive futures and building high-influence brands that inspire people, drive profit, and transform society. By positioning her practice at the intersection of commerce, creativity, and culture, she uncovers insights and innovations that enhance her clients’ competitiveness and distinctiveness.

Before establishing her eponymous practice, she held executive roles in the advertising and corporate sectors. Her positions included Deputy Managing Director at the historic HerdBouys-McCann, Chief Operations Officer at South African Tourism (South Africa’s Destination Marketing Organisation), CEO at Grey Advertising South Africa, and Head of Marketing at Barclays Africa, where she managed 12 Pan-African markets. At Barclays Africa, she led the brand’s reframing, resulting in the ‘Prosper’ campaign—a successful repositioning effort that achieved both reputational and commercial success, bolstering the bank’s competitiveness in the financial services sector. She also served on the Barclays Plc. Global Leadership team.

In addition to guiding leaders and their teams towards sustainable success, Dr. Marutlulle is in high demand on the global speaking circuit. She speaks on topics such as future readiness, creative excellence, business reform, entrepreneurship, women in leadership, and diversity and inclusivity. She has spoken at events including Creative Mornings, Design Indaba, African Marketplace Show, Branding Conference in South Africa, and in Miami, USA, upon invitation by Ms. Debra Lee (past Chair of BET International). She has also been invited to Oxford University by Business Fights Poverty and by Standard Chartered UK as part of their Future-Makers initiative, among many others.

Her deep commitment to female entrepreneurship led her to coin and trademark the term Fentrepreneur™—a term that describes a unique breed of female entrepreneurs with distinctive skills, resilience, and experience. Through a blend of bootcamps, workshops, coaching, talks, and other immersive programs, she co-creates enterprises that are scalable, bankable, and sustainable. In this realm, she has worked in countries such as Nigeria, Rwanda, Gabon, the UK, and Jamaica. In 2022, she was invited by the UN Women Office in the Caribbean to address a multicultural and multi-sectoral audience on personal, interpersonal, and business mastery skills.

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Featured topics include

Diversity is more than skin-deep it is also more than just about legal compliance and/or ethical pressure. The might of difference is unleashed when each unique individual is given space to contribute, learn and self-correct however, the environment must be enabling for this to unfurl. Do you know where your organisation’s blind spots are? Have you uncovered inequality in your environment that limits people’s ability to contribute?

Voice is more than just volume, it is also about perspective. Knowing when and how to use your voice is more important than the what. What are the spaces that can benefit from your voice and how might you use voice to advocate for the self whilst advancing a collective good?

True personal branding is the art of interior architecture, it is about finding and then arranging your interiority in a way that ensures the pieces align, angles fit, and a whole structure is built on a solid foundation and built to last Are you ready for the excavation? You may not like what you find, but you will love what we build together. This talk promises practical insights and actionable tips to redefine your presence and unlock new opportunities!

Using creativity to bring humans back to the centre of everything. Our aspiration is for a world where all forms of connecting, conversing, creation starts and end, with the human in mind. We believe that we are customers some of the time and are human all the time. Therefore, brand builders and custodians have a responsibility to engage beyond the transactional by placing humans at the centre of the complete value chain.

Rather than live down to the dictates of stereotypes about femininity and nurturing, when women who are self-aware lead, they lead from a place of self-knowledge. They allow for that convergence of their unique characteristics, talents, skills, experience and purview to unveil insights that help teams and organisations make audacious jumps. This approach is a skill not a birth right.

In the dynamic world of business, a new breed of entrepreneurs is emerging, redefining the landscape with their unique blend of innovation, resilience, and vision. Meet the FentrepreneursTM – female entrepreneurs to the power of F. These extraordinary women possess distinct characteristics that make their businesses not just viable, but scalable, fundable, and preferable. FentrepreneursTM: Redefining Entrepreneurship. Empowering Growth. Inspiring Change.

In a world where sight and sound are valorised, substance suffers. It becomes important to remember that ‘leadership starts with the self’. When this self is anchored in integrity and ethical behaviour, the leadership style that unfolds is not only effective and efficient it is also transformative and inspiring.

What people say

We have received volumes of positive feedback on how you facilitated and contributed to the discussion from the audience and panellists alike. You saw for yourself how your energy and sincerity touched the room!”

Womvest: Maya Burney: Founder

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.”

Allan Gray: Kevin Feather – Manager Distribution Development at Allan Gray

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