Do your best work
Unravel human behaviour for business strategy.
Entering chaos and creating a winning strategy isn’t for the faint of heart.
Outside insight that matters.
“Pierre is that intellectual heavyweight in my corner who also deeply understands matters of the heart - a rare find in a sparring partner.”
“In a time where speakers all seem to sound exactly the same. Pierre manages to sound completely different. He’s the Ernest Hemingway to their Dan Brown, the Pink Floyd to their Nickelback.”
This is Pierre
Pierre unravels the secrets behind human behaviour for business strategy. He cares deeply about two things, building people and helping them do work that matters.
As the founder of Be Brave, he has more than two decades of experience developing people, and building businesses and products that matter. He's a sought-after speaker on human dynamics, building teams, and navigating uncertainty.
As a thinking partner and speaker Pierre's insights empower businesses to understand, map, and harness complex human behaviours for impactful strategies and game-changing products.
He has spoken on four TEDx stages and engaged with leading organizations around the globe such as HATCH, Tencent, BP, Alan Gray, FNB, Yum!, and many others.
He has written four books and received the Desmond Tutu Gerrit Brand Prize for literature in 2018.
Pierre believes he is the love child of Gertrude Stein and Jason Bourne and lives in Cape Town with his wife, two kids, and his iPhone.
“Think different. Apple said it. Pierre makes you do it.”
STRATEGY
DESIGN
A unique process that blends trusted frameworks, hard data with deep reflection and gut instinct to design an unbeatable strategy.
Featured Keynotes and Masterclasses
“Growth” is not a strategy.
Discover the building blocks for a differentiating strategy that moves far beyond the fluff of vision and mission statements and non-sensical goals
From Teams to Tribes
Build a team that truly matters because nothing great has ever been created if not through a great team
In Praise of Shadows
Discover the biggest missed opportunity in innovation, embrace uncertainty and leverage chaos.
Money is ‘just’ a Story.
Discover the hidden narratives that drive your team and customers’ financial decisions.
Learn
Impactful talks and masterclasses tailored to inspire your team and rocket your learning events.
Collaborate
We are not built to go at all of this alone. Gain a valuable thinking partner that creates lasting value and real growth.
Teams
Humans are pack animals. To build anything worthwhile a business needs a stronger culture carried by strong teams.
TRAIN NAKED
A guide to a meaningful life and work that matters.
The ancient Greeks trained in the nude in the gymnasium and competed in the buff in the Olympic Games. They literally had skin in the game.
The ancient Greek word for gymnasium, gumnasia, means to train naked. The ancient Greek gyms were not just for physical training but also had dedicated spaces for intellectual exercise for philosophy, teaching, and conversation.
To Train Naked is to show up just as you are. No pretences, no masks, no BS. We train to compete, we practice to nail a presentation. Why do we then not train to become better human beings, craft meaningful lives, do work that matters, and thrive in chaos?
The curated selection of Pierre's daily reflections, meditations and practices presented in this book is a call to Train Naked and finally have some skin in the game.
Enquire to book a Train Naked keynote or Masterclass with books for each of your team members:
“Pierre is the Seneca the 21st century needs.”
“A thought-provoking collection of ideas and musings that, if taken to heart, have the potential to add immense depth and richness (with compounding interest) to your life.”
Testimonials
“Few speakers can take half a sentence brief and deliver a mind-shifting talk. New leaders need that compass of “age-old ancient wisdom” in times like this when it all looks grey.”
“A completely new angle on leadership, with practical applications we can immediately implement in our teams.”
“Fresh, thought provoking, and captivating”
“You will not regret booking Pierre, he is one of the best speakers I have ever heard.”
“Pierre has a knack of pin-pointing a trend on the rise, but most importantly its roots and trajectory. Without these two elements you don’t have context, and Pierre has the ability to provide that all-important context.”
“Pierre du Plessis is most probably one of the best speakers I have encountered, anywhere in the world. I do stuff differently, both with my team at KFC and in my personal life, because of Pierre”
