Dr Kobus Neethling is the president of the South African Creativity Foundation. In 1998, he received "The Distinguished Leader Award" from the International Creative Problem Solving Institute and the Creative Education Foundation: the most prestigious creativity award in the world. He is the founder and director of the South African Creativity Foundation and the Kobus Neethling Group. He holds six university degrees (Cape Town, Potchefstroom and Georgia USA), including two masters’ degrees, a doctorate and a post doctorate (Cum Laude). Neethling is a keynote speaker and corporate trainer. He focuses on getting companies and individuals to extraordinary levels of thinking and doing. He is also an author of more than 80 books and has written and presented many television series. Neethling has won many awards: one of 2 000 Outstanding People of the 20th Century; South Africa's Best Speaker Award (SA Quality Institute); Communicator of the Year (Toastmasters International); International Personality of the Year 2000 for Exceptional Contributions to the development of creativity; World Guinness Record holder: book written in fastest time ever (100+ pages in four minutes 30 seconds); Creative Genius Award; Excellence in Innovation Award (Mumbai 2008). Neethling has done motivational speeches, training programmes and development programmes to most of South Africa's leading companies and organisations and numerous international companies, including Shell, BMW, Ogilvy & Mather, Mercedes Benz, Anglo American, Amplats, Anglo Gold, Old Mutual, Sanlam, Absa, First National Bank, Standard Bank, Toyota, MultiChoice and Johnson & Johnson. Neethling was also a provincial rugby player and the mental coach to three Olympic athletes.
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