About Us.
Welcome to KuMo&Co, the new home for leaders who want to be great speakers. Our team has helped more than 300 people like you to step up to the TEDx stage in the last ten years. Along the way, we’ve had the privilege of working directly with the New York TED team, preparing speakers for the main stage at various TED events. Collectively, our speakers' talks have been watched more than ten million times on YouTube and TED.com.
After years of refining and countless revisions, we are excited to finally present our first offering — a speaker coaching service that we’ve aptly named WalkYourTalk™ Opening to Applause.
This service is brought to you by the combined talents of Kelo Kubu, TEDxJohannesburg licensee and curator, and Ithateng Mokgoro, TEDxJohannesburg speaker coach and creative director.
Kelo Kubu
Kelo is a senior TEDxAmbassador for Sub-Saharan Africa and holds the licenses for TEDxJohannesburg.
She is a TED Fellow, TED Speaker, and 2018 Skoll World Forum Fellow. Kelo was co-host of TEDGlobal 2017. She is a founding member of the Mandela Poster Project, a global design initiative, and was a trustee of Orange Corners, a Dutch-inspired incubator.
Kelo holds a Degree and a post-graduate Diploma in Finance and Business Administration, both from the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa.
She is an alumnus of Singularity University, the Silicon Valley-based institution focusing on exponential technologies.
She was on a residency at TED in New York in 2018, developing an ag-tech accelerator focusing on women farmers in Southern Africa.
Ithateng Mokgoro
Ithateng is a multi-disciplinary communications professional.
He has been co-curator of various TEDx events since 2010, including TEDxJohannesburg. In that role, he has worked with innovators across disciplines, from all over the world, curating discussions on technology, innovation, entrepreneurship, politics, leadership, art, agriculture, climate, health, food, and women.
He started his career as an art director in advertising in 1997 and went on to work in various creative roles at a number of communications firms.
He is a founding member of the Mandela Poster Project, a global design initiative.
He trained to become an architect at the University of KwaZulu-Natal before he pivoted into advertising prior to the end of his studies.