Bontle Senne

Bontle Senne (she/her) is an AuDHD author, publisher, speaker, facilitator, and interim transformation leader. She has written for Forbes, Fast Company, The Times, Inc., Stylist magazine, HuffPost UK, SME Today, and many others. Her extraordinary career has included everything from leading billion-dollar megamergers to rebuilding national education systems and coaching ADHD leaders in the corporate and charity sectors.  

She started her writing career in children’s and Young Adult literature, has published six novels in South Africa and Ghana, and was shortlisted for Africa’s most prestigious children’s literature prize, the Golden Baobab Prize, in 2014.

In 2025, Bontle published three new non-fiction books: Beyond Buy-In, The ADHD Boss, and The ND Lovers Club with Sara-Louise Ackrill.  

Reviews and Articles:

Drum Magazine – Chasing Dreams

City Press – Thrilling to last page of last book!

Jellybean Journal – Race against time to defeat monsters

The Reading List – ‘I like the idea of a black girl kicking butt’

City Press – The Shadow Chasers is thrilling to the last page of last book

Nali Bali – Bontle Senne and the power of stories

Cover2Cover – Interview with Bontle Senne, author of ‘Powers of The Knife’

Cover2Cover – South African kids are hungry for relevant local literature