Author
Mbulelo Mayikana and was born in Katlehong, Gauteng South Africa almost 58 years ago. He grew up in different geographical areas of South Africa i.e Katlehong, the Eastern Cape (where he looked after his grandmother’s livestock) and KZN where he completed his high school and junior tertiary qualification. He has worked as an educator, lecturer, Human Resources Leader and a Business Consultant, something that he is still passionate about. He has over 26 years’ experience as a Business Consultant, consulting under different companies that he started by himself and others that he owned with other people. He is passionate about people especially creation of environments (socially and in organisations) that are conducive for effective engagement and enablement of people.
He consults in different areas including but not limited to: Strategy, Organisational design, Organisational Effectiveness, Organisational culture, Leadership, Employee Engagement & enablement, Employee relations, diversity and employee psychological & mental health.
It is the last part that also resulted in him starting a company that is called Contemporary Conversations where through writing of books, filming of documentaries and podcasts he traverses various challenges that bedevil organisations and society in general. Through this platform he conducts and facilitate conversations that are robust, realistic, engaging, not so politically correct but are meant to contribute to people’s psychological and mental wellness both in organisations and in society. These conversations are part of a drive, desire and a need to deal with unchecked idealism and pie in the sky rhetoric that is brain washing contemporary society leading to a flood of social ills and challenges that are faced. To date, he has written 18 books and published 16 of them on various topics.
Mbulelo also has a string of documentaries and podcasts (some on this website www.mbulelo.co.za and others on YouTube. He is a father of 4 wonderful boys. Mbulelo is also a regular guest and contributor on Radio shows.
What drives Mbulelo is his passion for “Truth” disruption of “False Consensus” on critical issues “social wellness” i.e in individuals, relationships, families, communities and broader society and growth in of individuals and workplaces. It is through his consulting, writing of books and documentary making that he hopes to positively impact the society.
“What drives me in writing books is the passion that I have for “social wellness” i.e in individuals, relationships, families, communities and broader society. It is through my writing that I hope to positively impact the society.”