Suits & Sneakers presents: "Better Humaning" with Brad Shorkend (Cape Town edition)

Suits & Sneakers hosts several events each month in Cape Town, each featuring a different guest and theme. The idea is to create a space for ongoing learning that helps you broaden your thinking in a fast-changing world. This event will be hosted on the evening of Thursday, 25 June at The Tryst in Woodstock.

WHAT IS THIS EVENT ALL ABOUT?

Human Better! It sounds too obvious! In a world gone digital crazy and filled with massive complexity and constant pressure, our biggest competitive advantage isn't our strategy, our technology, or our network… it is how we show up as human beings, the quality of the experience that we deliver for others, and the conditions for success that we create.

On Thursday, 25 June, Brad Shorkend joins us to share his keynote titled “Better Humaning: The Playbook You Didn’t Know You Needed.”

This thing that Brad calls ‘Humaning’… how you do it, how you behave, what you focus on, what you measure, and what you prioritise are easier said than done – but the people who are winning in business and life have worked it out. They know how to connect with and leverage their unique human advantage. They have learned how to human better in a world that tends to forget that human beings matter. This is what Brad’s Better Humaning Playbook equips you with… the Mindset, Method, and Muscle for Humaning in the ways that you need to in the times we are living in.

Whether you’re a business leader, team member, early-stage founder, or a solopreneur - from this this talk you will:

• Learn methods for increasing the quality and sustainability of high performance in your business/job
• Receive practical tools that you can use immediately to significantly enhance your business culture
• Walk away with a mindset and skillset equipping you to retain your powerful human relevance in a challenging digital dynamic.

It is the Playbook that you didn’t know you needed.

MORE ABOUT BRAD SHORKEND

Brad is a highly regarded behavioural specialist and performance coach, obsessed with helping businesses, leaders, executives and everyone who wakes up in the morning to go to work to be better at the complicated job of being human. Since 2005 he has worked as a sparring partner to thousands of leaders and teams around the world and was recently recognised in the top 30 Global Gurus for 2026 in the category of Organisational Culture for the significant impact that his work has had.

He is a relentless entrepreneur having founded and successfully (mostly) led over 20 businesses across numerous industry sectors. He is the co-author of the 2018 publication “WE ARE STILL HUMAN (and work shouldn’t suck!)” and is also a contributing author to the numerous other published works.

He is adjunct faculty at GIBS and Duke CE business schools.

In his free time Brad loves to travel and climb big mountains… he has summited three of the seven summits (the tallest mountain on each continent) and has also expeditioned to Everest Base Camp in Nepal.

SPONSORS & PARTNERS

This Suits & Sneakers event is proudly brought to you by EasyEquities, Evolv Outdoor, SA Future Trust, and the many small business owners that are Suits & Sneakers members. Together, we have created a support structure for small business owners and our collective goal is to grow the economy, while lowering unemployment. More about that on the night.