Lorato is a reputation management and crisis communication specialist with a keen interest in how technology disrupts life, work, and play. In 2009, he was recognised as a leading communication strategist by Mail & Guardian’s Top 200 Young South Africans. He is also a media contributor and freelance columnist who writes for publications, including the Sunday Times and City Press, South Africa’s two leading and agenda-setting weekly newspapers. Lorato works with executives and senior managers in the public and private, and civil society sectors in roles ranging from communication and thought leadership strategy development, media training and coaching to change management.