Kivi Bernhard

Based in Atlanta, Georgia, Kivi Bernhard was born and raised in Johannesburg, South Africa. After relocating to the USA in 1997 with his wife and family and a total net worth of $860.22, he went on to build a multimillion-dollar international wholesale diamond business. With the aid of award-winning footage, Bernhard uses the hunting habits and techniques of the African leopard, perhaps the most successful feline predator on earth, to draw metaphors of personal and corporate leadership, trust, and success.

Now the author of the internationally acclaimed business book "Leopardology ™ – The Hunt for Profit in a Tough Global Economy," Bernhard has received accolades from top CEOs and bestselling authors. "Leopardology™" was incorporated into the MBA program of Kennesaw State University, Coles School of Business in 2007.

With an unusual synthesis, Bernhard is an orthodox Jew, passionate family man, adventurer, accomplished business entrepreneur, author, and renowned speaker. In 1998 he founded Kivi International LLC, an internationally known wholesale loose diamond distributor and was its CEO for some 20 years. Tapping into this asset has allowed him access to the minds and spirit of some of the most accomplished names in the local and global business arena. A keen student of life with a huge appetite for laughter and love, Bernhard is an accomplished and published musician, Judo medalist and gemological consultant, and currently is engaged in an international business project as a founder and board member.