Dr Andrew (Andy) Brough

Andy Brough has over 20 years experience in corporate communications, training and leadership development. He has worked in over 25 countries and is well-positioned as a keynote speaker, facilitator, broadcaster and trainer.  

Andrew Brough is a international learning consultant, organizational development practitioner, and PhD candidate, based in Johannesburg, South Africa.

As a facilitator, lecturer and broadcaster, Andy's wide ranging professional experience includes over 20 years as a communications and training consultant. Andy has invested more than half of that time working as an Executive Business coach specialising in Sales & Marketing and Leadership related subjects. He is well known in the industry for his work teaching Stakeholder Collaboration, Corporate Reputation and  Commercial Negotiation. He has lectured on Principles of Strategic Marketing, Professional Selling, and Negotiation and Influencing Results on a number of MBA programmes. 

As a qualified Chartered Marketer- the top professional marketing designation in South Africa - Andy consults for and with many international blue chip companies around issues pertaining to individual and team development. His research and facilitation in both an African and European context means that he brings a professional understanding to issues around diversity, teamwork and leadership.

As a student of Leadership & Management, Andy has spent his career trying to understand the keys to successful leadership and organizational development and he has had the privilege of sharing these insights to audiences around the world through keynote speeches, seminars, face-to-face contact sessions and webinars and teleconferences. Andy is part the faculty of a global management development team  and is often asked to form part of the external faculty at a number of universities. 

Professional Background:

Andy has designed and delivered a wide variety of programs ranging from basic Life Skills through to Global Corporate Branding through South Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa, and as far a field as Malaysia, Germany, England, Eastern Europe, Brazil, the Middle East and the USA. As a big picture-bottom line thinker, Andy facilitates around organizational and management development in Strategic Planning, as well as Transformational Leadership, Personal Effectiveness, and Stakeholder Relationships.  His client base is made up of some of the world's top brands as well as smaller to medium enterprises who all testify to the benefit of working with Andy and his team. 

Andy has a passion for working in both the broadcast and narrow cast media (both satellite television and the virtual classroom) as means of distance learning - and writes, broadcasts and presents targeted educational programmes for corporate clients.

Having successfully completed a Masters in Organizational Leadership, and Ph.D in Business Management and is researching the relationship between leadership & corporate reputation. 

Philosophy and approach:

Andy works to help learners understand how an individual's values and beliefs influence attitudes that determine behaviour, team effectiveness and potential. He prides himself on using a principle-based approach to training of "Equipping for Excellence" by demonstrating transfer of skills in an "applied-learning" context.

Relevant Training Experience:

Some of the programmes that Andy has designed and delivered include:

• Brand Behaviour and Organizational Assimilation
• Change Management
• Communication Skills - Verbal Interaction Analysis
• Conflict Resolution 
• Corporate Reputation
• High Performance Teams
• Negotiation and Influencing Excellence
• Presentation Skills
• Professional Selling
• Sales & Marketing Management
• Stakeholder Relationships
• Strategic Planning 
• The Manager Coach
• Transformational Leadership in the 21st Century
• Partnering across Cultures

Key clients include: ArcelorMittal, Barloworld, BMW, Boehringer Ingelheim, BP, Caterpillar Chevron, First National Bank, GIBS, Global Access, Heinemann, HP, McGraw Hill, Nedbank, Netcare, Old Mutual, Pepsico, Standard Bank, Visa Inc.

Professional Qualifications:

Ph.D. Business Management (Da Vinci Institute, Johannesburg, South Africa)

Chartered Marketer - CM(SA), Graduate School of Marketing, European Marketing Council.

Masters Degree in Organizational Leadership (Regent University, School of Global Leadership and Entrepreneurship, Virginia, USA.)

Bachelors Degree in Education, (University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.)

Member of the Marketing Association of South Africa

Member of the Reputation Institute

Member of the Global Speakers Federation