o o Speaker Bio: Dr Michael Mol MBChB, Dip PEC  // 2011 Michael Mol is a medical doctor, an executive television producer, presenter, international speaker, business consultant and most importantly – a husband and father of three. He started his multi-faceted career as a medical doctor with interests in Emergency medicine and HIV management. Twelve years ago, whilst continuing in the medical fraternity, he carried his charisma from the casualty room over to the small screen and has anchored Top Billing, South Africa’s longest running prime time television magazine program ever since. He has spoken to the stars, travelled the world and shared his experiences in a personal and endearing way with a captive audience, scooping up along the way numerous critically acclaimed media awards – from scriptwriting to presenting, the most recent of which is a People’s Award for the Best TV Presenter, and the Best of Joburg’s Award for most popular TV personality 2009 and 2010. A former Mr. South Africa, he is also a Red Cross Children’s Champion and a patron of SA Cares for Life.   Michael's passion for understanding the world around him led him to make a subtle shift in emphasis by co-founding the futurist consultancy TomorrowToday. A shift that allowed him to devote more time to working with individuals and organizations, helping them to understand the way the world works, trends that will affect us in the future, and what to do today to be ready for them. In particular, Michael has a passion for helping people find true significance and a holistic, balanced approach to the world they live in. This combines his medical training, his life experiences and his business skills in a truly unique blend that sets him aside from the average motivational or inspirational communicator. He has spoken to leading companies around the world, has been nominated by South Africa’s foremost CEO’s as one of the country’s top business speakers, and was awarded a Hall of Fame Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Speakers Association of South Africa in April 2011. In October 2006, Michael was appointed as CEO of the Sportron International group of companies, a group focused on providing and promoting health and wellness, through ongoing education and the provision of a new generation of nutritional supplements (FoodState) that are as yet unsurpassed the world over. In October 2010 he signed up for a new challenge – 40 hours of LIVE television a month, as anchor presenter for SABC3’s latest morning show, Expresso. Then as Executive Producer and presenter he melded his passion for medicine and media into a new TV series called “Hello Doctor” which launched in April with a vision to educate, entertain and inspire South Africans to live their best life, by being the healthiest they can be. The show currently has an average viewership of 700 000 people. He’s a writer and speaker that suffers from an incurable addiction … an insatiable thirst for adrenalin! From sky-diving out of a hot-air balloon, to running the bulls in Pamplona, to scuba diving under an frozen lake, to wing walking on a bi-plane, to surfing the great Zambezi white waters on a body board and bungi jumping off the highest bridge in the world backwards … there’s nothing that he would shrink back from – yet! Michael resides in Cape Town, South Africa - has been married to Jacqui since 1994, has three children, Joshua, Rachael and Naethan.