This is pierre
Pierre is an internationally renowned speaker, strategist, and author who has dedicated over two decades to helping businesses and individuals navigate the intricacies of strategy, leadership, and chaos. As the founder of Be Brave, Pierre partners with leading multi-national organizations and scaleups to co-create transformative strategies that build businesses that matter.
Pierre has delivered keynotes for high-profile clients such as BMW, Yum!, FNB, Allan Gray, EO, KFC, HATCH and TENCENT all across the world.
His core topic, strategy, is presented through a lens that combines a blend of current trends, trusted frameworks, academic research, ancient wisdom and the odd dose of pop culture. Pierre’s talks inspire leaders to make brave decisions, embrace uncertainty, and transform challenges into opportunities for innovation and growth. He has also shared his insights on prestigious platforms, including four TEDx stages.
As an author, Pierre has written four books, including Train Naked, a guide to a meaningful life and work that matters and has received the Desmond Tutu Gerrit Brand Prize for Literature. His writings explore the interplay of strategy, leadership, and how to be a better human being, giving readers tools to create meaningful change in their lives and organisations. Pierre’s signature keynote, "In Praise of Shadows" challenges conventional approaches to chaos and equips audiences with practical insights to navigate complexity and to build products and business that move our world forward.
Whether speaking to exco’s, founders, or diverse teams, Pierre’s presentations are delivered in a conversational style and are marked by thought-provoking ideas, relatable storytelling, actionable frameworks, a good shot of humour and tons of storytelling.
Holding a Master’s degree with a focus on Loneliness and Belonging, Pierre brings a unique, human-centric perspective to his work. His academic and professional expertise enables him to blend insights into human behavior with proven strategic frameworks, helping businesses and teams harness their potential to thrive in chaotic and complex environments.
Pierre’s professional journey started in fashion in the 90s and meandered through advertising, marketing, branding, product design and development and includes serving as a trend analyst at Flux Trends and helping design the behaviour change ecosystem at Coachbit Inc. which contributed to the company’s 15 x growth.
Pierre lives in Cape Town South Africa with his wife and two kids and when he is not reading, enjoys weightlifting or doom scrolling.
“Pierre finds the hidden treasures, that insight you never imagined, in the most surprising places and from those unexpected stories. Pierre is a storyteller, whose stories I will listen to over and over again.”
- DEWALD DU PLOOY, KFC
TLDR Bio:
Pierre unravels the secrets behind human behaviour for business strategy. He cares deeply about two things, getting people to become better people and helping them do work that matters.
As the founder of Be Brave, he has more than two decades of experience developing people, building businesses and creating products that matter and has helped global businesses design winning strategies.
His insights empower businesses to understand, map, and harness complex human behaviours, to make tough decisions and create unique strategies and game-changing products.
He's a sought-after speaker on human dynamics, strategy, and navigating chaos, has spoken on four TEDx stages and has engaged with leading organisations around the globe such as HATCH, Tencent, BP, Alan Gray, FNB, Yum!, and many others.
He has written four books and received the Desmond Tutu Gerrit Brand Prize for literature in 2018.
Pierre believes he is the love child of Gertrude Stein and Jason Bourne and lives in Cape Town with his wife, two kids, and his iPhone.
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