Ian Thomas is an economics graduate with more than ten years' experience guiding and educating people through Southern Africa 's wild places. This background has given him an understanding of business and nature and how the two can complement and benefit each other.

Lessons from Lions

Ian Thomas is an economics graduate with more than ten years' experience guiding and educating people through Southern Africa 's wild places. This background has given him an understanding of business and nature and how the two can complement and benefit each other.

Ian spent eight years at Londolozi Game Reserve and went on to open his own company as a business consultant and public speaker. He has consulted to many major corporations including Sanlam, IBM, Hewlett Packard and has appeared as a guest speaker in Germany , France , England , Belgium , Holland and the USA .

Ian delivers fascinating presentations on Teambuilding, using wonderful slides illustrating the life and habits of the Lion Pride and how they benefit from high productivity due to 'teamwork'. Using this unique method of relating business to wildlife scenarios, Ian also covers subjects such as 'Adapting to Change' and 'Strategy for Survival'.

Team Building

"The Strength of the Pride is the Lion" -"The Strength of the Lion is the Pride"

This presentation discusses facets of a lion pride and their use of teamwork for survival. Ian draws an analogy of this to business and teamwork and shows how teams can benefit from implementing their tactics. Factors discussed include:

•  A Common Goal

•  Focus on that Goal

•  Mutual Respect

•  Knowledge of the Strengths and Weaknesses of Team Members

•  Success Linked to Incentives

Strategy for Survival

Using the example of a Game Lodge this talk discusses business strategy. Aspects include:

•  Deciding on a Strategy and Implementation of the Strategy

•  The Importance of Competitive Advantage

Adapting to Change

This talk discusses various ways of helping people and organisations adapt to change.

Factors discussed include:

•  Change is Here to Stay & How Animals have Adapted to Change

•  Leadership / Mobility /Analysing Information

Customer Service  - The Surival of the Fittest

A fascinating account of the long-term partnership that exists between leopards and one of their prey species - lmpala. This partnership is then compared to the service relationship that exists between a supplier and a customer.

Factors discussed include:

•  Goals / Profit / Systems / Incentives / Training / Image

•  What do Customers Want / Recruit the Right People

"Your presentation exceeded my expectations and the feedback has been extremely positive."
COLONIAL MUTUAL - AUSTRALIA

"Your presentation was superb and entirely appropriate. Conference evaluations noted you top speaker."
SIGMA - AUSTRALIA