Hendrik Baird has worked in the entertainment industry for the past 40 years. He has an honours degree in Drama (university of Pretoria, 1988) and a masters degree in Media and Journalism (University of the Witwatersrand, 2019). 

He is also a certified non-medical hypnotherapist (South African Institute of Hypnotism, 2010) and an LGBTQ+ activist.

Hendrik is available to speak on the following topics:

• Become a Podmaster: Based on his upcoming book Become a Podmaster: Everything You Need to Know to Master the art of Podcasting (available on Amazon.com from January 2023).

• Repurposing Content: Based on his book Purposefully Repurposed for Profit: How to Save Time When Creating a Content Marketing Campaign Simply by Repurposing a Podcast (available on Amazon.com).

• Online R@dio in South Africa: Based on R@dio in South Africa: An Exploratory Study (co-authored by Franz Krüger). In Radio, Public Life and Citizen Participation in South Africa, co-authored by edited by Sarah Chiumbu and Gilbert Motsaathebe. (published by Routledge).

• Hypnotherapy: Does It Work?: Based on his podcast Hypnosis Works!

• How to Run a Successful Online Petition: Based on his successful campaign to have gay-hating US Pastor steven L. Anderson and his group banned from entering South Africa.

• Empowering Rural LGBTQ+ Communities: Based on his book Same-Sex Sexuality in the North-West Province: Community Report on the Outcomes of a Research Project (published by the University of South Africa).