The Business Book Club: Recent Episodes
Jacques Velleman
The Business Book Club is a not-for-profit organisation in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Our aim is to share knowledge and our goal is to donate and distribute books to libraries in need in South Africa.
One way we do this is by running monthly events, where our Founder, Jacques Velleman, interviews a local author about their book in a business context. We ask attendees to bring along any second-hand or new books to donate.
This podcast is a recording of these events and we hope that by listening, you might learn something new to implement in your business.
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International Award-Winning Business Leadership facilitator and Business Coach, Jacques Velleman, interviews Musa Kalenga about his book: Ladders & Trampolines.
Musa Kalenga is an author, marketer and entrepreneur. He is a lauded speaker and strategist who was recognized as one of the Top 200 young South Africans by the Mail & Guardian. Kalenga is an enthusiastic entrepreneur who is passionate about using technology to empower the digitally invisible.
This event took place in Johannesburg, South Africa
International Award-Winning Business Leadership facilitator and Business Coach, Jacques Velleman, interviews Jeremy Maggs about his book: Win! - Compelling Conversations with 20 Successful South Africans.
Jeremy Maggs is a South African journalist, radio host and television presenter, best known for hosting the South African version of the game show Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? and for his anchoring roles on top South African 24-hour news channel eNCA on DStv over the past ten years.
This event took place in Johannesburg, South Africa
International Award-Winning Business Leadership facilitator and Business Coach, Jacques Velleman, interviews Mandy Weiner about her book, Ministry of Crime: An Underworld Explored.
Mandy Wiener is an award-winning investigative journalist and author of the true-crime bestseller Killing Kebble: An Underworld Exposed, the acclaimed memoir My Second Initiation (co-written with Advocate Vusi Pikoli) and Behind the Door: The Oscar Pistorius and Reeva Steenkamp Story (co-written with Barry Bateman).
This event took place in Johannesburg, South Africa
International Award-Winning Business Leadership facilitator and Business Coach, Jacques Velleman, interviews Ian Fur about his book: The Soul of Sorbet: Building People, Culture and Community.
Sorbet's founder and CEO, IAN FUHR, is a serial entrepreneur. During his career, he has launched five successful companies. With each endeavour, he entered a new industry and successfully challenged the status quo.
This event took place in Johannesburg, South Africa
Business Coach and international award-winning Business Leadership facilitator, Jacques Velleman, interviews Kerryn Krige on her book: The Disruptors: Social Entrepreneurs reinventing business and society.
Kerryn Krige is chief technical advisor with the International Labour Organisation and working with the Economic Development Department to develop a policy for the social economy in South Africa. She led the Network for Social Entrepreneurs at the Gordon Institute of Business Science from 2012 to 2017 and has chaired the programme advisory committee of the Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa’s social enterprise fund. Kerryn is registered in a joint PhD in social entrepreneurship with KU Leuven and the University of Pretoria. She has received numerous fellowships and is leading a VLIR-UOS grant to develop the social enterprise teaching and research agenda in Southern Africa. She also sits on the board of the MMI Foundation.
This interview took place in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Business Coach and international award-winning Business Leadership facilitator, Jacques Velleman, interviews Emma Sadleir on her book: Seflies, Sexts and Smartphones: A Teenager's Online Survival Guide.
Emma Sadleir is South Africa's leading expert on social media law. The company she founded, The Digital Law Company, specialises in educating and advising corporates, employees, schools, parents, teachers, and universities on the legal, disciplinary and reputational risks of social media.
This interview took place in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Our Founder and CEO, Jacques Velleman, chat with top Global Speaker, Venture Capitalist and Business Mogul, Vusi Thembekwayo, about his book: The Magna Carta of Exponentiality.
This interview took place in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Business Coach and Leadership Facilitator, Jacques Velleman, interviews CEO and Founder of THINKspiration, lecturer and strategic alignment, communications and marketing expert on her book: The Leadership Riptide and How to Escape It.
This event took place on 6 March 2018 in Johannesburg, South Africa.
At our final event for 2017, Business Coach and Facilitator, Jacques Velleman, interviews Advertising Visionary, Entrepreneur and revolutionary thinker, Mike Sharman, about his book: The Best Dick.
This book answers questions that all entrepreneurs ought to know like what to do when you going through cash-flow issues.
This event was held in Johannesburg, South Africa on 5 December 2017.
CEO and Founder, Jacques Velleman interviews Entrepreneur, DJ Host of his own radio station, traveller and serious businessman, DJ Sbu about his book, Billionaires Under Construction.
This event took place on 11 November 2017 in Johannesburg.
At our very first launch event of The Business Book Club, Founder and CEO, Jacques Velleman, interviews radio jock and podcast host, Gareth Cliff, on his book Cliffhanger.
This event took place on 4 April 2017 in Johannesburg.