About Nikki Bush
Speaker, Author & Human Potential Expert
Award-winning speaker and best-selling author, Nikki Bush, helps individuals and teams to win at life and work. Her passion for connection and relationships, and how to maintain them in a fast-changing world, is at the core of everything she does as a human potential thought leader.
Nikki is admired and respected in the business, education and parenting circles for her work in raising human potential through leadership, engagement, resilience, connection and teamwork. She helps to create mission-ready individuals and organisations for everyday and future disruption.
Nikki is the co-author of three bestselling books: Future-proof Your Child (Penguin, 2008) co-authored with Dr Graeme Codrington, Easy Answers to Awkward Questions (Metz Press, 2009) co-authored with Ilze Alberts and Tech-Savvy Parenting (Bookstorm, 2014) co-authored with Arthur Goldstuck. She recently published two ebooks: Talent Re:Defined with Raymond de Villiers, and Parenting Matters 2.0. Her next book, the 10th anniversary revised and updated edition of Future-proof Your Child for the 2020s (Penguin Random House), will be published in August 2019.
She is a prolific speaker and has presented in South Africa, in neighbouring African countries, Hong Kong and the United States. Nikki is as comfortable presenting at high end conferences as she is in under-resourced squatter camps, and she has high impact with practical application wherever she goes.
She has a large digital footprint and an impressive mainstream media presence. Due to her trusted, independent and informed opinion and her ability to pack a soundbite, she has racked up over 2 000 media appearances in just over 10 years. She is the resident family and parenting expert on SABC TV3’s Expresso and Radio 702 where she has had weekly slots for many years.
Nikki is a guest lecturer at Wits Business School, GIBS & Henley. She is a professional member of the Professional Speakers Association of Southern Africa (PSASA) of which she is a founding member.
Certified Speaking Professional
In 2016 Nikki received her CSP™ (Certified Speaking Professional) designation from the National Speakers Association in the US. It is the highest earned international recognition for professional speakers who speak for a living. Nikki is one of just over 600 speakers in the world to hold this designation. In South Africa she was the 10th speaker to acquire her CSP and was one of only four women to achieve it at the time.
Speakers Hall of Fame Award
In 2019 she was inducted into the PSASA’s Speakers Hall of Fame for excellence in her craft and being an industry icon and an example to others. She is the very first woman to receive this award in the 11 years since its inception, breaking the glass ceiling. #womenonfire #doingitforthegirls #glassceiling
Personal
Nikki was married to Simon for 26 years before his untimely passing at the end of 2017. She has two sons aged 19 and 23 and they live in Johannesburg. Her children are the light of her life and the inspiration for much of her work. Family is an extremely high value for Nikki who believes that strong societies are built on the foundation of strong family life just as good matric results rest on good foundations that are laid in the pre-school years; and strong businesses are not just about processes but about the people behind them.