Carina Bruwer at the YPO Greater Cape women's event
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An intimate evening with YPO's Greater Cape women leaders

Client
YPO
Sector
Executive network
Format
Keynote + live performance
Where
Cape Town, South Africa
When
2024

The brief

YPO is the world's leading network of chief executives, and its Greater Cape chapter wanted something its women's event guests would genuinely remember: not a conference talk scaled down, but an intimate evening with real emotional depth.

What Carina delivered

  • 01A high-impact keynote calibrated for a small, senior room — closer to storytelling among peers than a stage production.
  • 02A live musical performance after the keynote — the award-winning musician following the speaker, in the same evening.
  • 03The combination only Carina offers: the story of resilience told, then expressed through music.

What happened

Tears of joy and inspiration in the room — the emotional register an intimate executive evening is designed for and rarely achieves. For leaders who have seen every speaker format, the keynote-plus-performance pairing landed as something genuinely new.

Carina Bruwer's guest-speaker card at the YPO Greater Cape women's event