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Corne Ferreira - Business and Motivational Speaker

From time to time, uniquely skilled & talented individuals, whatever this individual does, will make it worthwhile, like the young gentlemen  Corne Ferreira - a person young in years, but very mature in experience.



Throughout his working life, he has been labeled a high flyer, typically he has been appointed as the youngest, the achiever among his peers, the one who has made money for himself and the enterprise. He is a Chairman in spirit and effect from his earliest business impact to this day.
It’s been more than a decade since he was instrumental in founding one of the most trend setting Companies listed on the JSE Stock Exchange. Under his leadership, he executed aggressive Company expansions into new territories, ensuring the emergence of a Multi-Billion ZAR Market Cap' Company.

                          A SUCCESS STORY:

He has the capacity to execute and lead aggressive Company expansions into new territories and the ability to form strategic alliances, identify & secure lucrative partnerships & sales distribution channels in diverse markets.

Making his first Million at age 23, and by age 25 he was the Founder/ Executive Chairman of a Leading Distribution Company of both Consumer and Financial Products/Services, with a national branch network, close to 2 Million Customers and with a R200 Million market cap - All in less than 5 years. 

Before the age 30, he merged Ferreira Group with Unibank Holdings and 5 fully owned Subsidiaries: Global, Constantia and Emerald Insurance Companies, Union Finance and Rubenstein Investments to form a Multi-Billion ZAR listed Company, with a client base consisting of over 3 Million, 2700 Employees and over 5 Billion Rand in loan advances.

ABSA  - Bought the entire Share Capital of UniFer in a Multi-Billion Rand transaction, the 2nd largest acquisition made by ABSA ever since the purchase of Bankfin and as a 100% Shareholder, ABSA delisted UniFer.  

 Corne was approached by 4 COSATU unions, representing 850 000 black workers to negotiate the buyback of Ferreira Group.  In a Multi-Million Rand transaction he acquired Ferreira Group together with a Union Consortium as a 70% Shareholder. He then initiated a name change to - Lesaka Holdings and as Group MD of Lesaka he grew the net income with 300% over the first 18 months.

Currently, he is working as an Expert Consultant to Multi-Nationals, seeking to establish or expand on the African footprint. 

 With 22 years experience as a Business Start-Up and Development Entrepreneur of both Listed and Privately owned large Organizations in South-Africa and across border. 

 WITH A VERY INTERESTING STORY TO TELL...

POPULAR TOPICS DISCUSSED:
  • The art of starting up a new Business.  
  • How to overcome challenges - to be outrageously courageous. 
  • From Salesman to Super Salesman. 
  • Become an astute and effective Net-worker. 
  • Having the courage to look past the wrong and see the right. 
  • Start to evaluate the quality of our lives can be a confusing, frustrating and sometimes even painful process. 
  • You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. 
  • It's not how you start, but how you will finish.
  • Synergies are the power behind business relationships.
  • Passion is no Substitute for Experience.
  • The business - to - consumer partnership.
  • The power of diverse collaboration. 
  • Communication key to success. 
  • Margin forgives many errors.
  • Proactively identify opportunities or any potential risk factors.
  • In business you don't get what you deserve but what you negotiate- don't hesitate but negotiate.
  • The power of influence is usually all that separates the successful from everyone else.
  • When somebody buys a shirt, your up sell should be a tie and not the whole suit - a quick way to boost profits.
  • The more choices you offer, the less the people take you up on it.
  • Business can never be in a motionless state “stagnate " - you are either going forward or backwards.
  • It's often the things that you don't do that you regret. 
  • I was both scared and unsure, things never go according to plan, no matter how well you've planned - be outrageously courageous. 

 Corne overcame adversity after losing complete usage in both his hands.  It was then, that he acknowledged the value of the mindset.  He Quotes:

“We all have problems and are often tested by circumstances out of our control, even though we might not be in control of things outside of us, we can still control our reactions to those situations”.

“I see my disability as an opportunity to show leadership, which would always have a profound influence and impact on others”.


NOT ONLY INSPIRATION BUT STRATEGY AS WELL... AS WE ALL WORK TOGETHER.
  • Tired of consultants and sales trainers telling you how to run our business when they've never done it themselves?
  • Has one of them ever stepped in and offered to actually partnered with you, sharing their experience, ideas and knowledge, so to fully optimize Your sales team and create measurable results?
We will help you get clear information on what it is that you really want and show you how to achieve the results, using customized strategies and tools that are most important to you in a way that’s simple, fun and that really works. 

CONTACT DETAILS:



FOR DIRECT BOOKINGS:                                             
Corne@Physica.co.za 
                                                                       Or, BOOK THROUGH AGENT: 

                   
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