Tony Frost (South Africa)
06 07 2006
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Plenary keynote speaker about the central theme: The learning society for sustainable development

Tony Frost is a fifth generation South African; educated at Queen's college, Queenstown and at the Universities of Natal, Cape Town, South Africa and Wits. After spending about five years in a Board level marketing position, he has worked at top level as Human Resources Director for 20 years and then ran his own company which specialised in assisting organisations to design, but more importantly, to implement their strategies. He served 2 years as President of the Institute of Personnel Management (Southern Africa) (1991 & 1992), the largest professional human resource management body in Africa. He is a member of the Advisory Boards of the Wits University School of Business Administration and the Global Forum of the International Society for Human Resource Management. He is also currently the Chairman of ITO Focus International (Pty) Limited and was appointed Chief Executive Officer of the World Wide Fund for Nature: South Africa (WWF-SA) in 2002.
Tony regularly delivers presentations at conferences, both locally and internationally, on the subject of strategies in organisations, and in, particular, the importance of people making the strategy work. Presentations have been made, amongst others, to annual conferences of the International Institute for Human Resource Management, the Society for Human Resource Management (USA), IFTDO, ASTD as well as many South African conferences, seminars and workshops.
His key message will be about understanding the world we live in and why leadership is critical at this time. Title keynote lecture: The World We Live In. Tony Frost is representing ITO focus International.
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