About

Some background on Erik Vermeulen

I am an international business-to-business consultant and speaker working in Southern Africa, Europe and the United States. I constantly travel around the world to speak to audiences in corporate environments as well as general audiences. I am well known for my dynamic, yet humorous manner of speaking, but ultimately my goal is to deliver my ideas and concepts in a clear, concise, yet entertaining format.

"Strong TEAMS and made up of strong INDIVIDUALS"

Audiences leave sessions with ready-to-use actions, ideas and fresh ways to influence their motivation. Since first representing my province at Hockey in the late 1980's (retiring in 1999) I have been intrigued by the way people and teams function. This fascination has lead me down the consultation path I currently find myself on. I have focused all my efforts on researching how to move people's attitude to "TEAMATUDE".

"I don't motivate, rather I INFLUENCE what people are MOTIVATED to do."

I am a recognised expert on experiential team building through developing Personal Potential and Relationship IQ using 45-minute presentations and more popular one and two-day seminars. I have also developed several courses (in the form of coaching clinics) to assist managers in understanding their people and building their teams. As I said, I am really fascinated by behaviour and team dynamics, I have a passion for analysing existing dynamics and improving them.

"Every action begins with a thought. Repeated actions become HABITS. Hence people become what they repeatedly DO. Therefore BEHAVIOUR is CONSISTENT with RESULTS"

I have been linked with some of South Africa's top companies, global "Fortune 200" companies and "Top 10" sports teams yet the impact and relevance of my content have ensured that clients request me to come back time after time. I am naturally energetic and practical. Having delivered over 1000 programmes multi-day during the last decade, I continue to challenge myself at endurance events and ultra-triathlons. Leader Motivation Systems was founded in 1999, and in a very short time gained a national reputation for delivering top class team and personal growth programmes.