COBUS VISSER \V/IKING
Cobus The Viking Visser is a renowned South African Certified Speaking Professional, author, trainer, facilitator, life coach, and Master Firewalking Instructor dedicated to helping individuals and business leaders reach their greatest potential. Over the past decade, he has worked with thousands of individuals, teams, and organisations to achieve peak performance — and what you do to be the best you in your organisation effortlessly becomes the best you in life.
Cobus holds a BBA in Marketing Management from the IMM Graduate School. Adjacent to his degree, he has dedicated a great sum of his time to amplifying his ability to motivate and inspire others to succeed in every arena. He is expertly qualified as the only Certified Master Firewalking Instructor in Africa and a Certified Master Executive Business Coach who leads driven, powerful, forward-thinking individuals to achieve greater impact within their organisations. In addition, he has completed courses in Applied Sports Psychology, Train the Trainer, and Mental Strength, and is skilled as an Enneagram facilitator, amongst a host of other development courses that bring the most out of every mentee.
But he hasn’t only pursued the academic; Cobus lives the ethos of doing whatever it takes to achieve every version of your life that you pursue. After being diagnosed with haemophilia as a child and enduring excruciating pain for years, he found himself in the hospital in 2013, unable to move. Instead of conceding to that fate, Cobus decided his body would no longer be his prison. He has since not only gained full mobility but has also conquered a seemingly impossible feat and has scaled Mount Kilimanjaro — on crutches
Cobus has co-authored three books, Extraordinary You 1, 2, and 3, with fellow coach, Renier Horne, and has just released his debut memoir, Walking Through Fire in English and Loop Deur Vuur in Afrikaans available globally. And since starting this journey, he has twice been honoured with the Men of Valour award, but 2024 has seen him receive global recognition as a Certified Speaking Professional, headlining at the Global Speakers Association in Bali, the Business Expo Africa and REAL Success in South Africa.
Cobus lives his life by two maxims: to #livewithoutregret by doing #whateverittakes.
The great-grandson of South Africa’s first president, CR Swart, Cobus was born in Vereeniging and matriculated from Hoërskool Piet Potgieter in Potgietersrus, Limpopo. After being diagnosed with haemophilia as a child and enduring excruciating pain for years, he found himself in the hospital, unable to move, in 2013. Instead of giving up, Cobus decided his body would no longer be his prison.
He has since not only learned to move his arms, crawl, and walk, but he has also conquered Mount Kilimanjaro.
