About
Meet Jon Oliff.
Entrepreneur, podcaster, Communication Specialist, and Co-Founder and Managing Partner at TIM Africa.
The work sits at the intersection of communication, creativity, technology, marketing, and human performance. The thread through all of it: make the experience better.
The founder story
A lifelong learner with one job.
I'm a serial entrepreneur with a background in digital and performance marketing, creativity, and code. A degree in Media and Communications, an honours degree in Strategic Brand Leadership, and teams that have won more marketing awards than I have shelf space for.
I'm also an eternally grateful husband and father of two boys and a dog. Eternally, because I still have no idea how I got this lucky. Asked if I'll ever leave South Africa, I give the same answer I give of my family, "I'll stay as long as they'll have me."
The professional work is purpose-driven people and brands: directing budgets to match values and goals, offering technology advisory that answers real business needs, and playing the long game in life and in business. Exponential thinking, applied practically.
Experience and credibility
Where the advice comes from.
Media and Communications
Degree-level grounding in how messages actually land.
Strategic Brand Leadership
Honours-level brand strategy, applied to real budgets.
Software and technology
A development background that keeps the advisory honest.
Performance marketing
Award-winning campaigns measured in outcomes, not impressions.
Project management
PRINCE2-trained delivery discipline behind the creative work.
Podcasting
Host of The Incredible Machines podcast and the studio behind it.
AI-powered systems
Practical adoption, workflow design, and tools that earn their keep.
Biohacking
Former professional athlete who still trains daily and applies the techniques to think, recover, and perform better.
Values
Three, held firmly.
Truthfulness.
Say the true thing, kindly. It is the fastest route to a better outcome.
Helpful by Design.
Useful beats impressive. Every deliverable should make someone's day easier.
Constructive Ingenuity.
Invent, but make it land. Creativity that ships and improves something real.
The ecosystem
One system, three parts.
Not three competing brands. One operating system for making the experience better.
Hey Jon
Founder voice, advisory lens, public speaking platform, and thought leadership home.
TIM Africa
The agency and delivery engine. Strategy, marketing, development, and production teams.
The Incredible Machines podcast
The content, proof, and relationship engine. Conversations that compound into trust.
Trusted brands
Work in good company.
Brands Jon and the TIM Africa teams have worked with and alongside, locally and globally.
Ready to be better; infinitely?
One conversation is enough to tell whether this is a fit.