With extensive experience in live situations, our broadcasters confidently handle unexpected challenges, minimising disruptions. Bringing their expertise and skills to your business event or corporate video, they deliver clear and engaging content. From highlighting key messages to connecting with diverse audiences and creating a memorable experience that adds polish and credibility, our broadcasters are top in the field.
At Great Business Speakers, we can help by providing experienced broadcasters who understand your corporate business needs. We collaborate with top industry names, and if not already on our roster, we’ll use extensive connections to try and secure the talent you need.
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Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock is a passionate space scientist, television presenter, author, and STEM speaker.
In 2009, Maggie was awarded an MBE for her services to science education. Her first TV programme, Do We Really Need the Moon? (2011) brought her to the attention of the masses and showed that space science needn’t be difficult to access and understand. The show earned her the Talkback Thames New Talent Award in December 2011.
She has since won several awards for her expertise, including the ‘Out of the Box Thinking Award’ by Yale University, and the William Thomson, Lord Kelvin Medal and Prize by the Institute of Physics for her public engagement in sciences.
She has also been named an honorary doctor of science by the University of Bath, University of Leicester, and Loughborough University, and has been recognised on the UK Powerlist’s ‘Top Most influential Black People’ three times.
Former Blue Peter presenter Ayo Akinwolere is a BBC journalist, presenter, speaker, and multiple BAFTA nominee and RTS Award winner.
He also has his own production company – Milk First Productions – which he founded in late 2020 and has since released the documentaries Yorkshire Cop: Police Racism and Me (2021), and Wolf on the High Street (2021).
Ayo spent five years presenting Blue Peter, from 2006-2011, and was always up for a challenge, no matter how dangerous. This included bungee jumping from a helicopter at 11,000 feet and completing the deepest open water swim at the time.
With such an established presence on our screens, Ayo has become a popular choice to host private and corporate events and conferences. With his extensive experience and endless enthusiasm, Ayo is a safe pair of hands for event organisers.
Katie Prescott is a familiar writer and voice to millions as The Times Technology Business Editor and, before that, a Business Presenter for Radio 4’s Today Programme and a Business Correspondent across BBC News.
She was a business correspondent across a number of platforms including television, radio, websites and social media.
Katie has presented as far and wide as Tanzania to Rwanda, Northern Ireland to Russia, China to the USA – where she worked for the BBC’s New York Bureau.
She is also a confident conference moderator, event host and keynote speaker.
June Sarpong OBE is an award-winning author, TV Presenter and Director of Creative Diversity at the BBC.
She has enjoyed a career spanning over 20 years, in which she has become one of the most recognisable faces on British television. She began her career at Kiss 100 before moving on to MTV UK & Ireland and T4 where she interviewed the then British Prime Minister, Tony Blair.
She has hosted events such as the 2005 Make Poverty History event, the MOBO awards on several occasions, presented at the UK leg of Live Earth in 2007 and hosted Nelson Mandela’s 90th birthday celebrations in front of 30,000 people in London’s Hyde Park in 2008. June has interviewed some of the world’s biggest names including HRH Prince Charles, Bill Clinton, Al Gore and George Clooney.
From human rights to feminism to workplace discrimination, June’s pioneering influence has sent positive ripples throughout British business, politics and society. She has spoken at a number of high-profile events – including the DNA Summit – to share her unique understanding of inclusion and diversity.
From child prodigy to MBE, Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon is Head Stemette and co-founder of Stemettes, the award-winning social enterprise inspiring the next generations of females into Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) roles via a series of events, talks and opportunities.
She completed her GCSEs whilst in primary school, won a scholarship to study mathematics at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore at the age of 13, and was awarded a Masters degree in mathematics and computer science from the University of Oxford at age 20, becoming one of the youngest people ever to do so. Unsurprisingly, Anne-Marie’s career has continued to soar.
In 2018 alone, Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon was named in Forbes’ list of the Top 50 Women in Tech in the World, voted the 5th most influential woman in IT by Computer Weekly and was the recipient of the prestigious Barclays UK Woman of the Year Award.
Named amongst the top 10 BAME Leaders in Tech by The Evening Standard, Anne-Marie’s impact in STEM is unmatched. A champion for women in the sector, she discusses the future of work, why technology needs diversity and company culture transformation.
Dr Alex George first came to prominence when he took part in the 2018 series of Love Island, becoming a popular figure for his looks as well as his personality.
Before his first brush with fame, Alex was working as an A&E Doctor, a career he initially went back to before also working as a GP. He now has a particular passion for mental health issues, following the sad suicide of his brother. Determined to use his newfound public platform for good, he left his job as an A&E doctor in early 2022 to focus more on the mental health and wellbeing side to medicine.
In 2021, former Prime Minister Boris Johnson named Dr Alex George the UK Government’s Youth Ambassador for Mental Health thanks to his years of campaigning for greater mental health support. From reality TV to Instagram to the British government, Alex now advises corporate clients on how to support their employees’ mental health.
Juliette Foster is an award-winning TV and radio presenter who has enjoyed a high-flying broadcasting career presenting flagship programmes at some of Britain’s biggest broadcasters.
At Sky News, she fronted the breakfast show Sunrise and Sky News at Ten, after initially presenting their business bulletins.
Julie Etchingham is Anchor of ITV News at Ten and ITV Tonight. She is a journalist with 30 years experience at the BBC, Sky News and ITN.
She has twice won the RTS News Presenter of the Year Awards, the first woman to do so.
She is also a highly experienced moderator of live debates and events and recently has extended her skills to host numerous webinars.
Having presented BBC Breakfast for five years alongside Natasha Kaplinsky, Dermot Murnaghan moved to Sky News in 2007 where he presents their weekday breakfast show.
From 2011 to 2016, he also presented his own self-titled show, Murnaghan on Sky News which aired on a Sunday.
Since 2016 he has presented Sky News Tonight where he covered topics such as UK elections and the Brexit vote.
Alongside his job as a newscaster, Dermot Murnaghan presented long-running BBC quiz show Eggheads as well as its spin-offs Celebrity Eggheads and Are You an Egghead between 2003 and 2014. He has also hosted shows such as Treasure Hunt (2002-2003), Crimes That Shook Britain (2015-) and The State We’re In (2002-2003).
Andrew Wilson is a veteran of live television presenting and an award-winning foreign correspondent. He is a leading news and communications professional who now turns his hand to speaking events.
Andrew Wilson is an experienced event host, after-dinner speaker and conference moderator. Thanks to a decade of hosting his own current affairs programme on Sky, he is an expert interviewer, skills that he has used in a number of productions including international CEO interviews, global events for Reuters and thought leadership exchanges at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos.
Jonathan Charles is a strategic communications and geopolitics expert, reputation management consultant and broadcaster.
Jonathan was a familiar voice and face after thirty years on BBC Television and Radio. He was a BBC Foreign and War Correspondent covering some of the biggest stories of recent years, reporting on 29 wars and conflicts including Iraq, Afghanistan, Yugoslavia, Chechnya, Northern Ireland and a host of others, winning several awards for his journalism.
Jonathan established television operations for the BBC in Brussels and Frankfurt, and operated in many conflict zones throughout the world. For five years, he presented the television news on BBC1, BBC World News and BBC News Channel.
David Shukman was appointed as the BBC’s first Science Editor in 2012, a role he retired from in the summer of 2021.
He is acclaimed for his innovative reporting from the frontlines of global change. Since joining the BBC in 1983, he has held a series of key positions for the broadcaster, reporting on conflicts, politics, research, and the environment.
For two years, David covered the Troubles in Northern Ireland before being appointed as Defence Correspondent, which took him to Berlin for the fall of the Wall, the Gulf, and some of the former Soviet Union’s most secret nuclear installations. More recently he has covered a range of news items related to the environment and sustainability issues.
Jeremy Bowen is a journalist with vast knowledge and experience of the Middle East.
From 1995-2000, he was based in Jerusalem as the BBC’s Middle East Correspondent, winning awards from television festivals in New York and Monte Carlo, as well as a Best Breaking News report from the Royal Television Society on the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin.
During the Kosovo crisis of 1999, he reported extensively from the region, often in dangerous conditions, which included being robbed at gunpoint by bandits whilst reporting from the Albanian border. Since June 2005, he has been working in the newly created role of BBC Middle East Editor.
A political correspondent and presenter for many years with ITV, Alex Forrest Whiting brings authority and panache to all her broadcast work.
She has reported and presented for a variety of national and international news organisations including ITV News, BBC World, Al Jazeera English and Germany’s international broadcaster, Deutsche Welle (DW) she has a deep knowledge of international affairs.
She is an accomplished event Moderator, Host, Facilitator and Emcee for all corporate and business events.
