Chair, SmilingOne Change Agent Committee

Monitor of: SmilingOne Change Agent Projects, Bursary for youth at risk, Distributor of equipment and funds

SmilingOne Change Agent

TRI/COC Facilitator: Nyanga – Ivy Nyovane Educare Project in Nyanga, Youth at Risk, Parolee Support, SKY Gallery Entrepreneur & Talent Scout: Central Music District Project – Youth in music development

Motivational Speaker

City of Cape Town – Wellness and Awareness CTICC – Future Spes Bona High School, Uitsig Primary & Constantia Waldorf School – Gangsterism and Drugs

The SmilingOne Foundation

(SOF) 14 Brocker Way Tokai 7945

Cape Town

WE UNLOCK POTENTIAL THROUGH CIRCLE OF CHANGE ACTIVATIONS

Franklin Esau, SmilingOne Change Agent

Speaker Profile

Since 2009, Franklin Esau SmilingOne Change Agent has been part of an exceptional Leadership Development Programme that has been introduced by Karina Andersen, Author & Founder of the SmilingOne Foundation, to several Prisons around the Western Cape. Being incarcerated himself in one of the notorious Maximum Prisons he invited the Leadership Programme called ‘The Responsible Individual’ (TRI) to be a part of his way forward in life. The programme was designed by author Karina Andersen to develop leaders in a world full of challenges. Franklin started the programme and soon after aspired to join her in training to inspire others to follow a life of responsibility with challenges he himself have over-come in the inmate population. Soon came the guidance and peer facilitation of the programme for up to 2500 inmates with the aid of radio, moving from Maximum Prison Facilities to Medium Prison Facilities and Youth Prison Facilities, guiding inmates in the responsibility of change, with the tools of ‘The Responsible Individual’ and SmilingOne's Circle of Change Approach (COC).

His expertise stretches all the way from music development to support for parolees eager to change their directions in life, to various projects in the community. Much of Franklin’s

current projects in the Nyanga, Elsies River and Ocean View areas are joint ventures with parolees and community members who have invited the Leadership Programme of ‘The Responsible Individual’ into their lives.

WE UNLOCK POTENTIAL THROUGH CIRCLE OF CHANGE ACTIVATIONS

“In my sharing and caring

sessions I thank Franklin for

being the best coach and

mentor. He challenges me to

work harder and to get in touch

with what I go through

emotionally. I do have a lot of

healing to go through and I am

working hard on getting to the

point where I can fulfil my

dreams and live my passion”.