The Teal Deal: How Praelexis AI is rewriting the rules of work

Praelexis AI has built a Teal organisation in the heart of Stellenbosch, defined by self-management, evolutionary purpose, and wholeness. Employees operate with autonomy and trust, reducing hierarchy and challenging conventional corporate control models while sustaining innovation, alignment, and human-centred performance.

Building Values into performance measures at work

The DPWI in the Eastern Cape is challenging all the norms in a quest to develop a culture of true accountability and alignment aimed at delivering exceptional and reliable service to provincial residents. In this talk, we’ll discover how.

Defying the Law of Disorder: The evolution of PEP’s endearing Sikhula KunYe culture 

This is a humble storytelling of how intentional leadership rescued PEP from cultural drift. Discover our journey toward an endearing, purpose-driven community where every Dynamo has potential to grow.

Built to last, wired to change: 30 Years of culture-driven transformation at CRDB Bank

What does it take for an organisation to evolve continuously without losing its identity? Drawing on CRDB Bank’s 30-year journey, this session shares how culture became the anchor for navigating growth, regulatory shifts, digital transformation, and changing workforce expectations.

Culture by design: how small actions build big culture

An overview of how Flash Group intentionally weaves culture into the full employee lifecycle, with a deep dive into the first 90 remarkable days of a Flash Group team member.

The power of micro-rituals in building a distributed culture

While culture is often approached through large-scale programs and initiatives, at BASF East Africa, it is built, and sustained, through small, consistent daily actions: micro-rituals. Simple, intentional practices embedded into everyday work that shape how employees feel, how leaders show up, and how teams perform.

A journey in culture transformation for business impact

Harmony Gold’s culture transformation project over the past few years was a complex endeavour, which ultimately led to real business improvement through more highly engaged people. This case study will share all the important details.

How to use AI as a partner in culture change

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How Tiger Brands got its roar back

The story of how the largest FMCG company in Africa, brought back its roar by leveraging a robust culture transformation journey to turn around business performance.

Summit Moderator

Colin will link the stories together to make our summit come to life.

Managing culture across the diverse African continent, and making it work

Recently appointed head of Global engagement, Pretheshini has for the past few years been in charge of HR across Africa for this French medical diagnostics firm. Here she will share insights about distributed culture across borders and time zones.

Great beer comes from great people: the story of high performance 

Practical strategies from Ethiopia on forging resilient team cultures, unstoppable drive to outmaneuver competition and thrive in a formidable market

Creating an Ecosystem of Proactive Wellbeing

Any talk of health and wellbeing in the workplace will reveal glaring pain points that impact employees and the business itself. In this talk, we’ll visit the TIH model, an ongoing development of nearly 4 years work, showcasing the true DNA of a successful wellbeing programme.

Goodbye helpdesk: architecting a modern people function

A detailed look at The Courier Guy culture blueprint used to dismantle a legacy HR structure and build a modern, advisory-led People and Culture function. 

Cape Cobra Leathercraft is a third-generation, women-led family business dedicated to crafting luxury handbags and accessories from sustainably sourced specialty leathers. Justine leads a team of 65 artisans whose commitment to excellence has earned them international acclaim.

Building a people-first retail culture

Leroy Merlin is a recent entrant to the South African marketplace, but it is growing fast with multiple new store openings scheduled in 2026. Keeping pace with that growth has been Nthabiseng’s job, ensuring a workforce of new company hires, aligned around a single culture.

How a focus on Making Memories drives Puma’s engagement

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The cultural archaeologist: unearthing the stories, signals and systems that shape workplace culture

An exploration of how to uncover hidden cultural patterns, decode everyday organisational behaviours, and intentionally shape workplace culture by understanding the stories, systems, and signals people live by at work.

Making Culture Real in the Hardest-to-Reach Places

IFS has the remarkable task of providing restaurant quality food and service in the cafeterias and canteens it runs in some of the least accessible places on the continent, and has earned a great reputation for consistency. This unexpected story is full of amazing lessons.

Culture is contagious: the NSRI Ripple Effect

NSRI’s culture doesn’t just save lives. It creates a multiplier effect across communities, families, and generations. When a fisherman returns to his family, when a child learns to swim for survival, when a seaman is rescued from a ship far off our coast, their service translates into societal impact. How the NSRI measures culture isn’t just about how people feel within the organisation. It’s about what changes externally as a result.