Program Director
Alex Granger
Business Motivational Speaker
Introduction
Alex Granger, Business Motivational Speaker & CEO of Granger Media Group, is a high performing business professional with more than 18 years sales and marketing, business strategy, and travel and tourism, and conference experience. He holds leadership and executive leadership qualifications from Gordon’s Institute of Business Science with a distinction in leadership. Having worked for blue chip organisations such as Europcar, Sandton Convention Centre, Bidvest, HRG Rennies Travel, and Dinersclub International, his exceptional business acumen and experience is the defining difference that will add value to any event where he delivers his keynote presentations. He is also an exceptional Program Director, MC, Facilitator, Mentor, and Coach.
Alex has been on the professional speaking circuit for 12 years, primarily speaking on the subject of customer loyalty, championship thinking, sales, teamwork, high performance, the power of purpose, and greatness
Alex can be best described as dynamic, inspirational, energetic, exciting, and passionate about excellence.
Topic: "Smart Meetings Business Destinations: Moving from Suppliers to Strategic Partners"
Juan José GarcíaDirector of Sales and Marketing Barceló Congresos
A native of Barbate, located in the province of Cadiz (South of Spain), Juan José has an extensive experience of more than 26 years in the meetings industry.
Juan José holds a MBA degree and is highly skilled in project management. He joined the PCO Business in 1987 and he held various positions within the sector until he settled in his current position as Director of Sales and Marketing of Barceló Congresos, one of the leading PCO’s in Europe. Besides the mentioned skills, he is a an expert and professional consultant in business development, business strategies, management and presentation of bids, destination marketing as well as association management.
Other professional data of interest:
- 1st Vice-president and treasurer of the International Congress and Convention Association -ICCA-
- Director of Sales & Marketing of Barceló Congresos, leading PCO in Europe,
- Senior Consultant on Extrategya Association Development Consulting, Extrategya
- Business Events Consulting and Extrategya Marketing Solutions
- Educational seminar program developer and professional speaker of Extrategya Meetings Industry Education
- Faculty member of the ICCA Research, Sales & Marketing Programme in Gdansk (2011) and Bregenz (2012)
- Faculty leader of the ICCA Research, Sales & Marketing Programme in Amsterdam (2013)
- Program director and professor of the Master in Conference and Events Management
- (MOCE) at the Business School of the Chamber of Commerce in Sevilla (Spain)
- Member of the jury of the ICCA Best Marketing Award
- IAPCO Training Academy Certificate
- Guest speaker in many international seminars, meetings and congresses, among them the ICCA World Congress, EIBTM Trade Show, ICCA Iberian Chapter, MICE Forum, Europe+Asia Event Forum, Expo Meetings México, MICE Leadership Dialogues in Singapore, IX International Forum "Investments into Human" in Kislovodsk, 2nd ICCA Latin America Meeting and Meetings Cartagena de Indias among others
- Winner of the 2009 award as the “Best Event Organizer” of the Spanish Association of Hotel Managers
Topic:"Unleashing the African potential"
Tshifhiwa Mamaila
Tshifhiwa Mamaila completed his Masters degree in Social development in 2005 at the University of Pretoria and his BA (Honours) degree in Social Work in 1996. He worked for different sectors in South Africa including Public / Government, Private Sector, NGO, Hospital, Mining, Correctional Services and he is currently an Employee Wellness Specialist and Consultant in Private practice.
He has been involved in the Counselling, Employee Wellness, HIV and AIDS field for fifteen years as an Employee Wellness manager, EAP practitioner and Social worker. He has been exposed to a number of training as part of his continued professional development such as: Investment in Excellence, Franklin Covey’s seven habits, Project Management, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Hypnotherapy, Reiki Master and Regression.
He has served in the Employee Assistance Professionals Association since 2007 holding the following portfolios: Marketing, Vice President, President and now the Immediate Past President of the Association. He has won an International award for his role as the President of EAPA during the 2013 World EAP conference in Phoenix Arizona.
He has presented at national conferences and represented EAPA-SA at international conferences including being a guest speaker at the ICCA African Chapter conference in Arusha. He is now a member of the conference programme planning panel for the 2014 World EAP conference in Florida.
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