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Two stages, one client: Old Mutual, twice in a month
Client
Old Mutual
Sector
Financial services
Format
Two keynotes
Where
Cape Town & Johannesburg, South Africa
When
2026
The brief
The first booking was a keynote at Old Mutual's Pinelands head office in Cape Town. Weeks later a second invitation followed: Old Mutual Insure's Digital Learning Day in Johannesburg, a day devoted to future readiness and the human side of AI adoption — uncertainty, resistance, excitement and fear.
What Carina delivered
- 01Cape Town: the signature keynote on resilience and performing under pressure for the head-office audience.
- 02Johannesburg: a tailored keynote arguing that technology alone doesn't create readiness — growth mindset, the willingness to engage uncertainty, and adaptability under pressure decide who turns change into progress.
- 03AI framed honestly: not just as a tool, but as something that triggers deeply human responses — which is exactly why resilience belongs in the AI conversation.
- 04The Johannesburg session flowed into a live human-and-AI performance collaboration, demonstrating the keynote's thesis in practice.
What happened
The first keynote generated the kind of feedback that creates rebookings — and then it did exactly that, with a second Old Mutual stage within weeks. The Johannesburg team followed up with a written thank-you after the Digital Learning Day.
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Deeply inspirational, engaging and entertaining — it captured everyone's attention from start to finish. It exceeded all my expectations and left a lasting impression on me and many others.
Widaad Baba · Old Mutual