The Add IDEAS Podcast
Inclusion is the invite. Diversity brings the vibe. Equity sets the rules. Accessibility opens the door. Sustainability keeps the party going. Welcome to The Add IDEAS Podcast, where we turn DEI, leadership, tech & growth into heart-to-heart, with a few mic drops and laughs.
🎙️ About the Host
Bandile Mndebele, award-winning DEI strategist, cultural disruptor, and intersectional leadership expert, blends 10+ years of experience helping universities and Fortune 500s embed psychological safety and belonging through major cultural shifts, personal storytelling, and global perspective.
🎧 What to Expect
- Each episode features stories, smarts, and smiles, with just the right blend of feels, heart and insight.
- Kind leadership tips (from people who might have had a cry at work and still show up).
- Real talk on grief, growth, economy, awkward firsts, tech, AI, DEI, accessibility, and allyship.
- Deep dives into intersectionality, inclusive community building, and how to be a decent human in complicated times.
Whether you’re leading a team or just trying to lead your life without emotionally buffering, you’re in good company here.
🔁 Subscribe now for monthly episodes that inform, challenge, and inspire.
📣 Bandile Mndebele is available for speaking, collaborations, features, workshops, and partnership opportunities. To connect, reach out on LinkedIn or via [email protected].
- Update frequency
- every 26 days
- Average duration
- 37 minutes
- Episodes
- 14
- Years Active
- 2024 - 2025
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Learn how Bongani Mapumulo is transforming accessibility and innovation for students living with disabilities in low-income communities in the Gl…
BONUS: The season wrap up: How to Show Up, Build Trust, and Make a Difference
It's just us today and what a season this was. Also, we got listed on The Top 100 Outstanding Role Model Lists supported by INvolve and YouTube.
Join us for the season wrap-up and key calls to action.
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10. Why South Africa needs better growth than groove with Avelile Nontanda
My friend, what should be happening to resolve the problems South Africans face with spaza shops?
Want to find the right niche?
Today, we delve deep into the multifaceted world of entrepreneurship, ex…
BONUS: Beyond Milestones: Celebrating Community For a Better Future
Briefly 1 Newsletter: Beyond Milestones
We are celebrating 1,000 downloads and community growth in our first audio newsletter.
What is covered in this newsletter:
- Thank you!
- Beyond the first time, every …
9. Better community: doing the best you can with the trauma you carry with Annemarie Shrouder
Annemarie Shrouder (she/her), international speaker, consultant and author of Being Brown in a Black and White World, which shares the personal and organisational costs of polarisation, joined me tod…
8. Why we need more startup giants - not just tech: lessons from Hubspace with Melilizwe Gqobo
Today’s guest, Melilizwe Gqobo (he/him) - Founding Director of Hubspace (Khayelitsha) and Venture Scout, has successfully created space for founders and entrepreneurs to thrive by strengthening and r…
7. Pride and community: What rights do LGBTQ+ people have? with Udoka Maya Okonkwo
E7: We delve into the concept of visibility vs freedom in the LGBTQ+ community with the multi-talented Creative, Writer, Performer, and Organiser, Udoka Maya Okonkwo (they/her).
They begin with a pers…
6. The war on DEI and the conversations we need with Roy Gluckman
E6: We have now emerged from Covid-19 to a climate of war. We still have losses and are yet to see recovery. Will there also be a war on DEI in South Africa?
Today, we spoke with diversity, equity an…
5. Inspiring others to communicate better: lessons from dating with Thabani Mtsi
E5: “Hi, will you be my valentine?”😅
It took you months to build up the courage to say at least “hi” to someone you like without feeling like a heart attack is imminent or you might spend a while in a…
4. Representation and self-narratives: why they matter with Leonore van Wyk
E4: "Helping someone go to their next step...or career goals is more powerful."
Is any dream too big?
Leonore van Wyk, influential DEI and global corporate culture builder, details how impactful repres…
3. How grief and resilience can inspire kind leadership with Pumla Dlamini
E3: "Being the change that I can be, where I am, fills my cup... what fills my cup even more, is seeing other people doing the same." 🙌🏾
ESG Enthusiast and Education Changemaker, Pumla Dlamini (she/he…
2. How To Manage Change
E2: In today's episode, I unpack some insightful self-conversations and important considerations for a year of change. How should we think or talk to ourselves when managing change? What should kindn…
1. How To Create A Sense Of Belonging
E1: In today’s episode, I unlock the key steps to building good IDEAS: Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Sustainability by asking guiding questions and providing the approach on how to…
TRAILER: Introducing IDEAS
- Getting to know IDEAS: Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Accessibility and Sustainability.
- Preview on some topics and guest highlights.