Kivi Bernhard

Taking the professional speakers circuit by storm, Kivi Bernhard is a riveting and captivating speaker renowned for his platform excellence. Based in Atlanta, Georgia, Bernhard was born and raised in Johannesburg, South Africa. After relocating to the USA in 1997 with his wife and family and a total net worth of $860.22, Bernhard went on to build a multimillion dollar international wholesale diamond business. With the aid of award-winning footage, Bernhard uses the hunting habits and techniques of the African leopard, perhaps the most successful feline predator on earth, to draw metaphors of personal and corporate leadership, trust, and success that will simply leave you spellbound. Now the author of the internationally acclaimed business book Leopardology: The Hunt for Profit in a Tough Global Economy (Morgan James 2009), Bernhard has received accolades from some of the finest business schools in America.

Bernhard is one of those amazing people you meet every once in a while and never forget. With an unusual synthesis, he is an orthodox Jew, passionate family man, adventurer, accomplished business entrepreneur, author, and renowned speaker. CEO and founder of Kivi International LLC, an internationally known wholesale loose diamond distributor, Bernhard's business network reads like a current edition of "Who's Who?" Tapping into this asset has allowed him access to the minds and spirit of some of the most accomplished names in the local and global business arena. A keen student of life with a huge appetite for laughter and love, Bernhard is an accomplished and published musician, Judo medalist, and gemological consultant.

Bernhard's "other love," the African bush, has become part and parcel of his fiber as a human being and is what inspired the development of "Leopardology." He has an amazing ability to synthesize his lifelong passion and study of Africa's predators with timeless life lessons across the spectrum of human experience. Often described as an amalgamation of "Crocodile Dundee" and "'Jerry Maguire' with a yarmulke," Kivi is a riveting and captivating orator. Equally at home tracking lions deep in the African bush as he is in the executive suites of a Fortune 500 company, he will regale you with enthralling stories of both. A consummate professional, Bernhard is a fountain of positive energy and human potential. His personal journey, including his victories and his losses, has given him a unique laboratory in which to study the DNA of this thing we call "success."