About Vernon Cresswell – Keynote Speaker

Vernon Cresswell (B Com LLB H Dip Tax and Company Law) is well-known and respected in the Financial Services Industry. His regular column – “Smart Money” – ran in the Sunday Times newspaper for over a decade and was always considered to be topical and interesting.

Vernon has enjoyed an illustrious career in the Financial Services and Wealth Management Industries. Gaining valuable experience in business, he and a few colleagues built their own Wealth/Financial planning practice, which was later sold to a large corporate. More recently, he and his team successfully established a Private Bank for a major bank in South Africa.

Applying lessons of nature

Vernon is an entrepreneur – a highly successful businessman who is now a professional speaker, focusing specifically on applying the lessons we find in nature to our everyday business and personal lives. Vernon’s keen interest in nature has resulted in him successfully completing a number of nature related qualifications, including FGASA Level 3 Trails Guide. Recently, Vernon was voted “Best Newcomer” at the 2007 Speaker of the Year awards.

“That Vernon Cresswell uses his observations of the natural ecosystem of the bushveld to illustrate messages to management is fascinating and relevant. Teamwork, and the recognition of interdependencies in a business, is as important in a business context as it is in nature.” – Paul Harris, CEO FirstRand Limited

Vernon’s on-the-job experience in corporate SA and business in general for the past 20 years, coupled with his strong inter-personal skills and in-depth understanding of nature makes him a truly unique individual when it comes to understanding the intricacies of team dynamics – whether in our business or family lives. Read more about Vernon’s keynote speaking.