YOUR personal and professional success depends on the diversity and quality of your interpersonal relationships. Yet most of us don't spend enough time building, nurturing and quantifying the key personal, functional, and strategic relationships we need to achieve success. That's where internationally acclaimed business relationship building expert, Karl Smith the founder of Business Networking South Africa® and author of the book: Beyond The Business Handshake: Dare To Build High-Trust Business Relationships comes into play. 

Karl is a powerful self-improvement teacher and he is the first Chief Bureau of the Southern Hemisphere for The National Networker, the world’s largest global networking resource. Karl is recognized as an ‘influential’ by YouGovStone, a leading international online market research agency and he participates regularly in topics and debates concerning business and other issues.

His impressive client list includes Old Mutual South Africa , The South African Institute of Chartered Accounts, Standard Bank, Western Cape Department of Education, The Cape Law Society of Southern Africa, The Fine Women Network and Oprah Magazine, WECBOF, APSO, Cape Chamber of Commerce, entrepreneurs and many others. Karl believes that there is no greater joy in life than seeing others blossom, grow, and reach their full potential. 

His life's work is to inspire a new generation of business developers, entrepreneurs, leaders and managers to be more of what they were created to be… winners with themselves... to show them how to win with others…and to show them how to help others to win with themselves. His work gives them immediate and authentic access to new levels of power and influence.