Zoya Mabuto is a Professional Speaker, Public Speaking Coach and Communications Consultant.
She is the current Toastmasters International Public Speaking Champion for Southern Africa (2015) and has recently returned from Las Vegas, Nevada, where she represented Southern Africa at the World Championships of Public Speaking.
Her recent highlights include:
One of the main speakers at a Rotary Youth Leadership Conference – (October 2015 – East London)
Speaker at Toastmasters International Ubuntu Conference – (October 2015 –East London)
Representing Southern Africa at the World championships of Public Speaking in Las Vegas, Nevada (August 2015)
Southern African Toastmasters Public Speaking Champion (May 2015)
Presenting a Personal Branding Workshop for delegates at the ‘Women in Water’ Conference hosted by Amabhubesi Conference & Training Centre (May 2015)
Accredited to facilitate ‘Purposeful Team’ – an Organisational Design intervention for teams; Worldsview Academy (April 2015)
Chairlady of the “Women in Transport” and ‘Women in Water” Conferences hosted by Amabhubesi Conference & Training Centre (March & May 2015)
A feature in the DreamFactory initiative – www.dreamfactoryshow.com (Feb 2015) Editing her 1st book, a work of fiction, ‘FIFTEEN,’ by Loyiso Gura (February 2015)
Voice-over artist for True Love TV adverts (Jan 2015 to date)
Conducting monthly Personal Branding Workshops for women
Speaker
She has had extensive speaking engagements ranging from delivering talks at various public and private entities to MCíng events, delivering keynote addresses and hosting Personal Branding and Public Speaking workshops.
Her Professional Speaking offering is aimed specifically at women on the African continent. She uses her speaking ability to tell stories of hope and drive home positive messages about Africa and the role of women, as leaders, towards the development of the continent. She speaks on Leadership.
She is currently embarking on a tour to share her story of success to No 1 in Southern Africa. She tells how she competed with over 600 contestants from 9 countries to reach the top spot. She hopes to inspire with her story of determination, courage and hard work to pursue their dreams.
She is a member of Toastmasters International and has successfully completed her Competent Communicator.
Coach
She is also a Speaker Coach and offers a 12-week intensive week-on-week speaking development programme to individuals or groups in companies wishing to develop/improve their spoken communication skills.
Communications Consultant
Her background in Communications, Marketing and Public Relations has served her well in terms of understanding communications holistically and her communication skills include:
Communication strategy,
Online and offline communications,
Writing (business and creative),
Copy editing,
Paper
The aim of this course is to provide delegates with the opportunity to improve and develop their effective business and public communication skills. During the course, delegates will learn how to confidently and effectively communicate with others. This will be achieved by, amongst others, allowing participants to “learn by doing” prepared speeches, a business presentation, evaluations and participating in group discussions on an impromptu basis.
During a Speechcraft program delegates will:
- Improve communication and presentation skills so that they are less afraid to talk in front of other people
- Prepare a number of speeches in quick succession
- Find that improved presentations skills will be noticed and make a difference to their work performance
- Benefit because participation in a Speechcraft course will increase their management potential