Human Potential and Parenting Expert, Nikki Bush empowers individuals, families and teams in business and education to win at work, home and life.
She has the knack of putting difficult, complex and sensitive topics on the table (ones we often prefer to avoid), and making them accessible, such as disruption, death, loss, team dynamics, personal leadership, parenting, future-proofing the next generation as well as future-proofing ourselves.
Nikki has written four best-selling parenting books with major publishers, including her latest, Future-proof Your Child for the 2020s and Beyond (Penguin Random House), and she has fielded over 2 500 media interviews in just over a decade years. You may have seen or heard her on her weekly slots on Radio 702 and SABC TV3's Expresso among many others.
Nikki always speaks with passion, packs a powerful sound bite, provides valuable insights and will leave you with practical solutions to help you win at work and life.
She is a founding member of the Professional Speakers Association of Southern Africa (PSASA), holds the international Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) designation, and was inducted into the Speakers Hall of Fame in 2019 – the first woman in South Africa to ever receive it. She is the 2020/21 President of the Johannesburg Chapter of the PSASA.
Human Potential and Parenting Expert, Nikki Bush empowers individuals, families and teams in business and education to win at work, home and life.
She has the knack of putting difficult, complex and sensitive topics on the table (ones we often prefer to avoid), and making them accessible, such as disruption, death, loss, team dynamics, personal leadership, parenting, future-proofing the next generation as well as future-proofing ourselves.
Nikki has written four best-selling parenting books with major publishers, including her latest, Future-proof Your Child for the 2020s and Beyond (Penguin Random House), and she has fielded over 2 500 media interviews in just over a decade years. You may have seen or heard her on her weekly slots on Radio 702 and SABC TV3's Expresso among many others.
Nikki always speaks with passion, packs a powerful sound bite, provides valuable insights and will leave you with practical solutions to help you win at work and life.
She is a founding member of the Professional Speakers Association of Southern Africa (PSASA), holds the international Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) designation, and was inducted into the Speakers Hall of Fame in 2019 – the first woman in South Africa to ever receive it. She is the 2020/21 President of the Johannesburg Chapter of the PSASA.
Reframing COVID-19 to Win @ Work and Life
Nikki Bush, Human Potential and Parenting Expert, will help you to reframe the lockdown and re-phasing in experience, to keep perspective and continue to show up realistically at work and at home over this disruptive time.
She will challenge your (or your team's) perceptions of change, help you to come to terms with not knowing what the future looks like, give you tools to keep perspective as well as providing some practical tips for those who are working at home with...
Keep Your Business Running
The inside track to help team leaders and managers have more realistic expectations of their remote team members who are working from home while parenting full time too. Human Potential and Parenting Expert, Nikki Bush, has some answers and solutions to help you better support your team members in the unfamiliar space they find themselves in.
The Covid-19 crisis is an urgent call to keep the human in the middle and to be realistic about what to expect as teams transition to working...
Improving Your Virtual Impact on a Screen
Nikki Bush, professional speaker and Johannesburg Chapter President of the Professional Speakers Association of Southern Africa, has mastered the skill of presenting, coaching, teaching and leading from behind the webcam. In this webinar she shares her tips and tricks to help you raise you impact, grow your confidence and increase your presence in this virtual space.
She will provide real time feedback to participants during the webinar about how to adjust their setups with low-tech...
Which Jacket are You Wearing Now?
Do we ever stop to wonder how we got to here? This presentation is a reminder to every member of the audience of the journey they have walked; how everything they have done and experienced to this point has contributed to where they find themselves now. It's also a celebration of the lessons and wisdom they have learnt along the way that continue to shape and inform their own personal empowerment story, their own brand of one. Nothing is forgotten, nothing is lost.
Inspirational...
Success Cube Workshop
The Success Cube™ concept is a simple, tangible, interactive process that helps individuals and teams to determine their own Success Recipes for a specific goal, whether it's to achieve excellence in service delivery, building a stronger more connected team, being a successful sales team by way of few examples. Every Success Recipe and Success Journey is build on three pillars: attitude, skills and work rate. These are workshopped on flipcharts and worksheets in the real world and in...
What If 'what if' Happens?
As Nikki Bush shares her story of six tragic minutes that changed her life forever, you will be moved to get your practical affairs in order and to lay emotional foundations for resilience and...
Future-proof Your Child for the 2020s and Beyond
'Mommy, Daddy, what should I be when I grow up?' This is the question every child asks when they begin to develop a sense of the future, and it's never been harder for parents or educators to answer, than it is right now. This century is characterised by disruptive change that is turning our world upside down. Jobs aren't just changing, but whole industries are ceasing to exist. The scripts for success and failure are being rewritten on a daily basis in our families, at work and in life....
Parenting on the Run
Nikki will show you how time spent in the car together, doing household chores and activities or waiting for appointments, can be so...
Tech-Savvy Parenting
In this insightful talk, creative parenting expert and co-author of Tech-Savvy Parenting and Future-proof Your Child, Nikki Bush, will help you make sense of the digital world your children are so attracted to. For families to remain connected today, parents need to bridge the digital divide to their children.
This talk, peppered with personal anecdotes, will provide you with insight and practical parenting guidelines for a plug-and-play world, from passive entertainment of...
Brand Teacher
Teachers think they are one homogenous group - but are they? Parents do not see teachers in the same way. We have labels and descriptions for every teacher based on how we perceive them, on their strengths, talents, abilities, personalities and weaknesses.
In my book, Future-proof Your Child (Penguin, 2008), the final chapter suggests the active development of Brand Family. We urge parents to ask their children to describe them in just three words - for some a...
The One Thing You Need to Remember
As learners get older, their parents will be around less and less to help them make wise choices and decisions in difficult situations. This short presentation for learners is designed to introduce the importance of taking personal responsibility for their use of social media, cellphones and technology.
The concept of building and protecting their online reputation will be discussed and illustrated as this is crucial to their employment in the future. Nikki will also do...
The X-factor is You
The future is no longer predictable - it's going to be a roller coaster adventure filled with new challenges and incredible possibilities the world has never seen before.
Approximately 60% of the jobs our learners will do have not yet been invented and many of the jobs and skills in the world of work today are on their way to becoming obsolete or will morph and change into something entirely different in the not too distant future.
In this presentation, creative parenting...
Talent Re:Defined
There is a new mantra for the world of work: "Who you are is going to be far more important than what you do or what you sell". This is because companies are operating in a fast-changing environment enabled by the technology. What they do and what they sell is going to change at a pace if they are to stay in business.
For companies to survive and thrive they need to be nimble and flexible. They need to be able to adapt as disruptive technologies change the way they do business or...
Whispers for Young Talent
Young people starting out the world of work today are entering a very new and different place from their parents. There are no longer jobs for life and people tend to job hop with increasing frequency for a variety of reasons. In addition, the world of work is changing rapidly in line with the technological revolution and many other disruptors of which COVID-19 is perfect example.
In Whispers for Young Talent, Human Potential and Parenting Expert, Nikki Bush paints a picture...
Shift from Human Doing to Human Being
How well do you know your colleagues? How often to you really connect and engage as human beings vs human doings - chasing KPIs, surviving and just getting the job done? When last did you laugh so much that your cheeks ached?
In this very interactive, process-based workshop that is customised to raise issues or start conversations that are important to your group or organisation, award-winning speaker, Nikki Bush, will help your team break down barriers, reconnect and raise their...
Developing Your Talent Profile
As the demands of the new world of work change, and as companies increasingly want their potential recruits to showcase X-factors for success in addition to, or over and above, their qualifications, so the traditional curriculum vitae will become outmoded.
Creating a Talent Profile is a concept Nikki Bush & Graeme Codrington introduced in their best-selling book, Future-proof Your Child (Penguin, 2008). This presentation is a development of that concept to help anyone...
And So It Begins...
For teams of financial advisors, brokers, estate planners and attorneys, utility servie providers etc.
This talk is a first-hand journey into the bureaucratic nightmare of wrapping up a life from a survivor's perspective. It's a deep dive into customer service, or lack thereof, when faced with loss which eventually boils down to paper, policies and money.
Speaker, author and media personality, Nikki Bush, has been at the sharp end of traumatic loss.
This is her...







