Speakers
Meet our inspirational speakers
Our speakers bring a wealth of knowledge and experience to inspire and motivate you. They are the best and brightest minds in their field, handpicked to help you improve every area of your personal and professional life.
Here’s just a highlight of the 150 top UK and international speakers we use for our peer-group events:
Leadership and Organisational Development
Glen Daley
Glen is an established business strategy speaker with an engaging and motivational presentation style. Following a 20-year career in the financial services industry, which embraced sales, sales management, project and change management experience, Glen has spent more than a decade working as an independent consultant in the areas of leadership and organisational development.
Sales and Marketing Excellence, Customer Service, Virtual Sales
Frank Furness
After a successful career in sales and marketing, Frank became a full-time speaker in 1997. He has presented at sales conferences in 58 countries, and has worked as a consultant with large corporates across the globe. With over 3M views of his YouTube sales channel, Frank offers specialist insight to help businesses succeed online.
Behavioural Economist
Roger Martin-Fagg
Roger is an ex-NZ Treasury and Henley Business School, behavioural economist. He explains how the economy works, what the indicators really say, and why most mainstream forecasts are always wrong. His company Martin – Fagg Associates supplies economic intelligence and strategic thinking for laymen. His strapline is: Simplicity is the end point to understanding.
Personal Development and Leadership
Marcus Child
In the past 24 years, Marcus has helped an astonishing number of CEOs, MDs, boards, business teams, sportspeople, politicians, teenagers, and people living with health challenges realise bold and extraordinary goals. He inspires confidence, wholeheartedness and courage, and has an impressive reputation for helping hundreds of organisations embrace change positively and successfully.
Mental Health and Wellness
Celynn Morin
Celynn is an award-winning international speaker, author and registered health practitioner with over 20 years experience working in workplace wellbeing. Her purpose is to help create exceptional, high performing thriving working cultures. Celynn’s mission is to empower business leaders and their employees to make better lifestyle choices for optimal performance, health and resilience.
The Sales Engine
Nicola Cook
Nicola specializes in helping business leaders build a scaleable and profitable Sales Engine for their company. She is invited to speak internationally and has published two international bestsellers, which have been translated into 16 languages. She is a keen investor in scale-ups with strong ESG credentials. On average her clients report a 140% in Net Profit eighteen months after implementing her Sales Acceleration Model©
Leading in Adversity
Brendon Hall
Brendan helps leaders and their teams navigate through the storms of organisational change and marketplace uncertainty.
He shares the behaviours and strategies he knows develop a culture that can weather storms, embrace change, provide safety in uncertainty and develop brilliant, resilient people.
Leadership and Team Development
Lynn Leahy
Lynn is an experienced company Director who’s supported the development of leaders and teams in more than twenty countries. Her work has been recognised by nine awards, the latest in 2018 as an “Outperformer” by Vistage International.
Alongside significant business experience, Lynn is a trained counsellor and an accredited mediator who draws on a range of psychotherapeutic approaches in her work. She has an exceptional track record of helping companies manage change effectively for example leading a major Managing Change program for Unilever which was delivered to over 1,600 delegates in 19 countries. She’s also designed and helped to implement a mentoring scheme for a major UK utilities company which because of its success became the subject of an article in Strategic HR Review.
Turning Limited People Limitless
Nigel Risner
Entertaining and unreservedly direct, Nigel isn’t just a motivational speaker – he is a company turnaround specialist driving everyone from CEOs to school children to ignite excitement and action in their life.
For more than 20 years, Nigel has been on his quest to make you the best by sharing his techniques and tools to break through the boundaries we put up around us. His always animated and interactive presentations have inspired thousands of FTSE 100 and Fortune 500 delegates, school children, charities, and prison inmates, in groups of five to 5000 and all over the world, into taking positive strides in their work and personal life.
Full Potential Leadership
Carole Gaskell
Carole is a highly-acclaimed coach, inspirational speaker and best-selling author in the field of people and leadership development. She has made numerous TV and radio appearances and is a regular contributor to business, national and consumer publications. Carole founded top UK leadership and coaching firm, Full Potential Group (FPG), over 20 years ago. She believes most people and businesses can accelerate their growth and activate at least 30% more of their potential. Carole is a Master Certified Practitioner in Neuro-agility, Insights Discovery and Motivational Maps. She combines cutting edge science and psychology with practical on-the-ground insights and ideas for action, to make a real difference in the world.
Staying in the Helicopter®
Roger Harrop
"Roger Harrop, The CEO Expert, spent over 25 years leading international business at the highest level. His mix of vast experience allied with an accomplished ability to make business simple and his infectious enthusiasm and energy has inspired global audiences and made him the most highly regarded and sought after international business growth expert. Over 30,000 business leaders in 50 countries have achieved transformational change through his thought-provoking, entertaining keynotes and Masterclasses laced with real-life stories and humour.”
Present Naked!
Brad Waldron
Brad has a proven record of helping others to succeed. He harnesses a rare combination of insight, humor and practical strategies to increase performance and results driven productivity. The former CEO of Oxygen Learning and Regional Managing Director of the Covey Leadership Centre he tackles the most important challenges and opportunities facing leadership and teams in being able to accelerate their growth.
Finance a la Carte
Jean Pousson
Originally from Mauritius, Jean Pousson is an international management consultant with over 30 years’ experience and has worked in over 34 countries on assignments ranging from finance for directors, strategy consultancy work and other diverse corporate governance related activities.
In a typical year Jean will interface with around 600 directors and work with about 8 to 10 Boards. His clients have ranged from FTSE listed companies to mid sized corporates, and smaller family businesses. He has also worked with public sector entities and charities.
Besides his own boardroom experience ,his skill has been to explain difficult technical topics to directors and his engaging personality has helped energise many organisations as they navigate through uncertain times. He was twice voted Lecturer of the Year for UK Finance, the UK professional body for the Asset Financing Industry.
The Truth About Getting Things Done!
Mark Fritz
Mark’s coaching/mentoring style is driven by stories and practical examples, helping you realize success isn’t all on you and providing you with the tools you need to help you grow your business’s results. He does this by working with you to develop strategies and methods (particularly NIFO leadership) which will enable your people to own the results of their work – both individually and as a business.
Your role as a leader is simple – to create an environment which gives your leadership team the empowerment they crave and the trust they deserve. By working with Mark, you don’t just equip your business with the leadership skills it needs to succeed today, you’re also ensuring it possesses the resilience and flexibility it needs to withstand and overcome future challenges too.
Time Management
Chris Croft
Chris Croft has come from an Operations background, having started with an Engineering Degree from Cambridge, qualifying as a Chartered Engineer, and working as a senior manager in manufacturing for 10 years. He gained an MBA and worked as a university lecturer for four years before starting his own training company 21 years ago. He is one of the top selling and most viewed authors on udemy.com (with the number one Negotiation Skills course in the world) and on Linkedin Learning (previously lynda.com) (with 34 courses, 22,000 views a day and 18 million students in total).
Blue Ocean Strategy
Andy Davison
Andy works with CEOs to deliver rapid and sustainable profit growth strategies. He shifts the thinking from traditional competition to a market creating, convention-busting, growth mindset, supported by the rigour of the best strategy tools available.
In his 35 years as an international management consultant, Andy has advised hundreds of organizations, from start-ups to Fortune 500s, from all sectors and from many countries, initially as a partner at Accenture and, since 2004, as a specialist in Blue Ocean Strategy.
Improvisation Skills & The Art of Reading People
John Cremer
John Cremer helps you transform your personal and professional relationships so you can experience increased success and happiness. Not only that - he ensures you enjoy the process of acquiring new skills and techniques by using humour, engagement and unique content. You will learn through two main strands which are unusual and yet totally complementary - Improvisation skills and how to read people when they walk through the door.