Mike Stopforth - Back to honesty, value and impact

More about Mike

Mike Stopforth is an entrepreneur, writer and speaker. He is particularly passionate about transformational leadership and organisational change, and enjoys helping fellow business owners, executive teams and CEOs get the best out of their people, especially in the midst of rapid political, environmental and socio-economic change. In this line of work he is often invited to offer business commentary for industry publications, on TV and on radio.

In 2006, after a short and colourful career in sales (that included peddling welding machines and earth-moving machinery spares), he took the entrepreneurial plunge and started a company called Cerebra. With a specialist focus on digital content and engagement, Cerebra won numerous multinational accounts and grew quickly to become South Africa’s leading social media agency. In his role as CEO of the business, he had the privilege of working with Coca-Cola, Samsung, Toyota, Vodafone, AB InBev, Google, Ford, Huawei, Barclays, and many other remarkable brands. Cerebra was acquired by global advertising giant WPP in 2013.

In 2007, Mike co-founded a web start-up called Afrigator.com that was acquired by Naspers just 18 months later. Around the same time, he began hosting a popular networking event called the 27dinners, which went on to catalyse business collaborations and relationships through hundreds of successful events.

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Show Notes

People:

Richard Mulholland

Jordan Belfort

Julius Malema

Seth Godin

Organisations:

Cerebra

London School of Economics

Marshall Institute

Nike

Gillette

Stratton Oakmont - Jordan Belfort’s company

Facebook

Uber

Amazon

Microsoft

AirBnB

Costco

BCorp

H&M

Apple

Places:

Scandinavia

South Africa

Sandton

Miscellaneous:

Executive MSc Social Business and Entrepreneurship

Hybrid Economy Theory

Wolf of Wallstreet

Bosberaad - South African slang

Chuckles

The Big Lebowski

Black Economic Empowerment/Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment

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