Flavilla Fongang helps leaders understand how people choose, trust and buy in a world being reshaped by AI.

 For 15 years, she has helped some of the world’s most recognised brands understand one deceptively simple question: why do people say yes?

AI is changing how we buy, how we work, how we lead, and how people decide what to trust.

The organisations that win will not be the ones chasing every new tool. They will be the ones that understand people deeply enough to use technology with clarity, courage and commercial intelligence.

That is the work Flavilla brings to every stage: helping leaders and teams turn uncertainty into trust, decisions and growth.

Why book Flavilla

Technology is accelerating. Attention is harder to earn. Trust is easier to lose. Customers are overwhelmed. Teams are anxious about AI. And leaders are being asked to make faster decisions in a market that feels less predictable every year.

Most organisations respond by chasing tools, trends or surface-level transformation.

They install AI on top of yesterday’s thinking and call it progress.

Flavilla helps leaders do something more valuable.

She helps them understand the human behaviour behind growth, trust, adoption and decision-making.

Her work sits at the intersection of marketing, brand strategy, behavioural science and technological change. She translates complex shifts into clear, practical ideas that leaders and teams can use immediately.

Her keynotes are commercial, grounded and energising.

Not theoretical. Not trend-led. Not built to impress the room for 45 minutes and disappear.

Built to help people think differently, decide better and act with more confidence.

What Flavilla helps organisations do

Flavilla works with conferences, leadership teams and organisations that want to:

• Understand the human behaviour behind how customers and B2B buyers choose, trust and commit
• Build brands that remain trusted in high-noise, high-change environments
• Help teams move from AI anxiety to confidence, ownership and intrapreneurship
• Strengthen leadership judgment and decision-making when AI creates false certainty
• Turn relationships, networks and brand equity into measurable commercial outcomes

Her work makes technology feel human, relevant and commercially useful.

Speaking

Flavilla delivers international keynotes, leadership sessions and executive workshops for organisations navigating change. Every session is shaped around the audience, the brief and the outcome you want people to leave with.

These are four signature topics. The emphasis, examples and format can be tailored for your conference, customer event, leadership programme or team.

1. Sell More Without Losing Trust

Audience outcome: Understand why people choose, hesitate and buy, then use that insight to sharpen positioning, strengthen messaging and make marketing more persuasive without becoming pushy.

2. Turn AI Anxiety Into Commercial Confidence

Audience outcome: Move from uncertainty to confident, responsible action by understanding what AI changes, where human judgement matters most and how to turn adoption into useful behaviour.

3. Build Alignment That Creates Growth

Audience outcome: Strengthen trust and alignment across customers, teams and partners so people make clearer decisions, act with shared purpose and create growth that compounds over time.

4. Make Your Brand the One People Believe

Audience outcome: Understand how people judge credibility in an AI-shaped market and make clearer marketing, technology and brand decisions that help your organisation stay human, useful and chosen.

Flavilla can also deliver each topic as an interactive masterclass or workshop for marketing, customer-facing, leadership, learning and development teams.

Experience and credibility

Flavilla Fongang is a multi-award-winning behaviour brand strategist, serial entrepreneur and international keynote speaker in English and French.

Her work sits between marketing, technology, human behaviour and commercial growth.

She has been recognised as:

• Number 1 Most Influential Woman in Tech in the UK (Computer Weekly)
• Top 100 Black Powerlist, recognised by J.P. Morgan
• Global Top 100 Most Influential People of African Descent (Futurists & Innovators)
• UN Women Partner supporting women’s economic advancement
• “She’s Mercedes” businesswoman award (Mercedes-Benz, alongside Sheryl Sandberg)
• Entrepreneurship Expert at the Entrepreneurship Centre, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
• BBC’s chosen brand advisor

She advises organisations across technology, media, finance, education and the public sector, and serves on advisory boards shaping leadership, talent and business ecosystems.

Companies founded

Three companies. One mission: helping leaders, organisations and people turn potential into measurable outcomes.

Sixth Hive

Sixth Hive is an opportunity engine. A business decision engine that helps professionals, organisations and networks turn relationships into measurable outcomes through intent data, intelligent matching and AI-powered execution.

GTA Black Women in Tech

One of Europe’s largest ecosystems supporting Black women at every level through education, storytelling and real-world opportunity. A network of over 24,000 across the UK, Europe, Africa and the US. GTA also partners with brands to bridge the gap between exceptional Black women and the companies that want to hire, collaborate or innovate with them.

3 Colours Rule

An award-winning brand and experiential marketing consultancy. Flavilla is the creator of the D.A.C. system and The Beyond Marketing Approach, frameworks that have helped numerous brands grow their businesses. As BBC’s chosen brand advisor, she regularly provides actionable brand strategy guidance to senior leadership teams.