Estienne de Beer with his "Meerkat Motivation for the Marketplace" is one of the really popular motivational speakers...

These days many business meetings in Kwa-Zulu Natal feature Durban motivational speakers. So, the most obvious question that keeps cropping up is do these communicators genuinely deserve their hefty paycheck or, are they simply planted to jazz up the proceedings. Some people are more or less convinced that this is a passing fad and an empty fashion; pretty soon this tribe of Durban motivational speakers would face natural extinction and fade into the memory of business history. But, a small but rapidly growing number of people are absolutely certain that these orators actually cause a difference in the lives of their vast and varied audiences. It would do us no harm if we scratch a little beyond the apparently confusing surface of this vexed question. We all know motivation cannot spawn in vacuum - it needs some reference point. So, Durban motivational speakers can be really effective if and only if such invitees are totally aware of and have ample previous experience of what their audiences face in their day to day operations. Else, these glib tongued smart individuals will only provide fleeting entertainment, much in line with stand up comedians, and true to what critics claim simply jazz up the proceedings for a brief interval. Many an industrial captain feel such pep talk is more akin to a bubble - very attractive as long as it lasts but when it bursts simply nothing is left behind to recover or reclaim and one is left wondering whether it was at all worth all the hoop la associated with it - we think the Durban motivational speakers have come to stay...