Topic: Reflect, Redefine, Realign!

Kevin Chaplin will bring the challenges facing our country to the fore together with proposed solutions. He will bring the conversation down to our own lives and how we can each be the best we can be, charting the way forward.

Author of Can Do! Making the Impossible Possible, with a foreword by Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, Kevin was a banker for 26 years. He grew up in KwaZulu Natal and spent 10 years in Gauteng before moving to Cape Town. He graduated with a BComm degree majoring in Accounts and Business Economics, an Associate Diploma in Banking & completed the UCT Graduate School of Business Executive Management Development Programme.

Kevin was previously Provincial Manager, at First National Bank, Western Cape and before that Sales and Service Director in Cape Town; Director of Finance, Human Resources & Admin FNB First Commerce, Gauteng and National Industrial Relations Manager. As Sales and Service Director Cape Town, he turned the business around from bottom to top performing.

At the end of 2006, after 26 years in banking, Kevin founded the South African Ubuntu Foundation. A few months later he took over an organisation called Amy Biehl Foundation as Managing Director (now called Amy Foundation) when they were insolvent and turned it into a thriving organization with 1 200 youth and 5 centres today. In 2014 and 2015, against all odds, Kevin and his team built the Amy Foundation Youth Skills Centre costing over R 8 million and fully paid off in 18 months. Since 2016 Amy Foundation has placed 1 378 youngsters in employment & internships and since 2019 started 153 new businesses.

Kevin is a lecturer and speaker at numerous local and international conferences, corporate events and universities.

Come and be inspired and motivated!