A skilled communication speaker helps businesses by improving internal communication, enhancing leadership skills, and fostering stronger client relationships. They provide valuable insights into effective messaging, conflict resolution, and building strong teams, all of which contribute to a more productive, cohesive work environment. By mastering communication, businesses can navigate challenges, improve decision-making, and boost employee and customer satisfaction.
At Great Business Speakers, we can help by connecting you with top communication speakers who specialise in transforming organisational communication strategies, empowering leaders, and providing actionable tools to enhance workplace interactions. Whether through workshops, keynotes, or tailored consulting, our speakers equip your team with the skills necessary for long-term business success.
Discover our Communication Speakers below, or contact the team at Great Business Speakers to enquire or book. +44 1753 439 289
Nathalie Nahai’s expertise in human behaviour, web design, and the arts provides a distinctive perspective for analysing the intricate contemporary challenges.
Her highly successful publication, Webs Of Influence: The Psychology of Online Persuasion, has become the authoritative guide for both corporate leaders and educational institutions. Her latest work, Business Unusual: Values, Uncertainty, and the Psychology of Brand Resilience, has been hailed as a fundamental text in the field of business.
Serving as a behavioural science advisor and the host of The Hive Podcast, Nathalie assists notable clients such as Google, Accenture, Unilever, and Harvard Business Review in conscientiously employing behavioral science principles to amplify their business strategies.
Natalie Fée is an award-winning environmentalist, sustainability author, keynote speaker, compere, former TV presenter and founder of City to Sea. She’s passionate about helping organisations engage their teams with sustainability goals and explore how nature connection drives productivity, wellbeing and ESG commitments through her keynote talks and Nature Governance Consultancy.
She has a unique gift for bridging the worlds of environmental action, nature connection and workplace transformation, and after a decade founding and leading City to Sea – one of the UK’s leading organisations combating plastic pollution globally – Natalie is now a sought-after speaker and event host, from corporate keynote speeches to environmental panels, staff talks to intimate dinner events. She manages to combine rigorous science with lived experience, hard-hitting facts with warmth and optimism and brings a wonderful, inclusive energy to events of sizes.
Miriam Staley is a charismatic and highly engaging host, emcee and moderator for both live, virtual and hybrid events.
As a seasoned TV presenter, business leader and event host, Miriam’s sparkling energy, dynamic stage presence and professional speaking talents take her far beyond traditional event moderation and presentations.
She first rose to fame as one of five finalists on series one of The Apprentice, capturing the nation’s hearts through her strong work ethic and exceptional interpersonal skills.
Focussing on a close working relationship with her clients, Miriam Staley ensures to add significant value to any event or conference she works on.
Miriam’s expert experience guarantees an enjoyable and seamless event for the organisers, presenters and delegates – while adding in some of her personal sparkle, flair and fun.
Matthew Syed is one of the world’s most influential thinkers in the field of high performance and cultural change. He is an author and highly acclaimed speaker in the field of high performance.
He has written six best-selling books on the subject of mindset and high performance – Bounce, Black Box Thinking, Rebel Ideas, The Greatest, and his celebrated children’s books, You Are Awesome and The You Are Awesome Journal – and has worked with many leading organisations to build a mindset of continuous improvement.
He is also a multi-award-winning journalist for The Times and a regular contributor to television and radio.
Matthew Scott is a digital media entrepreneur, executive producer, digital futurist, mentor and an international keynote speaker.
With over 20 years experience in media, marketing and technology, Matthew is a multi-award winning digital media entrepreneur with exceptional creative talent.
Matthew has worked with top global brands such as Sky, Google, Ford, Amazon, Sony Pictures, Lego, Nike and Proctor & Gamble, as well as a number of local and central Governments around the world.
A regular media commentator and expert in the media, he has featured on the BBC and the Discovery Channel series and published in The Guardian, The Independent and the Daily Telegraph.
Prior to becoming a Futurist, Matt O’Neill spent over 15 years developing marketing and communications businesses. They include an innovative events company, cutting edge video marketing products and a marketing communications agency. He has worked at the cutting edge of media throughout.
Most speakers believe their job is delivering content. To Matt O’Neill, that’s selling short. He judges success by enabling actionable, fresh realisation on the world around us. His job is only complete if your audience leaves feeling inspired to do something different tomorrow than they did today.
His real interest lies at the intersection between technology and humanity. His positive outlook means he’s always looking for ways to fuse the best of what technology has to offer and how we humans flourish alongside.
Matt Lindley was an RAF Pilot, specialising in flying VIPs such as The Queen, members of the Royal Family and Government Ministers, as well as flying missions in Afghanistan, Iraq, Kosovo and Sierra Leone. He is now a commercial long haul pilot.
Matt was one of the first ever gay pilots in the Royal Air Force, and is now a very influential military figure. Matt had dreamt of being a RAF pilot ever since he was a child, and he wasn’t going to let something like LGBTQ+ prejudice stand against him. His brave journey has paved the way for change in the Armed Forces and to ensure all sexualities are represented.
Matt now runs workshops and keynotes based on lessons he has learnt whilst flying, aimed at reducing human error in the workplace. He uses fascinating case studies of aircraft accident, applies basic psychology and provides lots of ‘take homes’ for any audience.
Guy Clapperton is a freelance journalist and speaker, offering top business advice through media training and interview practice, writing and editing publications and facilitating events.
Guy Clapperton has been a technology and business journalist since January 1989, starting in the trade press and making his way into the nationals in 1993. You may have seen his work in the Guardian, Times, Sunday Telegraph, Observer, Independent and most recently the New Statesman (particularly as launch editor of New Statesman Tech).
Grant Leboff is one of the UK’s leading sales and marketing experts. He has written several books on the industry and still works as a practitioner in the field. It is this combination that enabled Grant to bring a mix of thought leadership and genuine real-life examples into his talks.
Grant Leboff’s main focus is to address the changes that are taking place in a world that is constantly being changed by new technologies. He ensures his audiences get the latest thinking, and more importantly, makes it clear what the implications – positive and negative – are for their business.
Global transformation director Gina Buckney is a two-time TEDx global speaker, former head of UK customer services for BT, author, and keynote speaker.
Qualified in a range of subjects from neuroscience to emotional intelligence to business management, Gina is the founder of YOUR PEOPLE POWER, a company built to revolutionise industries and redefine work cultures through scientifically backed education.
With over two decades worth of experience, Gina is a passionate female leader on organisational change and cultural transformation. She is also a meditation and mindfulness champion, a published author, and in-demand corporate speaker.
Current most requested speaking topics are: The Power To TAP (Transform At Pace), Power Skills For A Players, Building Winning Teams With D&I, Emotionally Intelligent Leaders, Beating Burnout.
Gerd Leonhard is a global citizen of the future who spends his life travelling to worldwide meetings, workshops, and conferences on transformational change.
A star speaker on topics of major strategic importance – from digital disruption to business remodelling to specific vertical scenarios across public and private sectors, Gerd Leonhard is a rare hybrid of artist and researcher/scientist, with a pioneering background in digital music ecosystems and a head start in the disruption game. For the last fifteen years, he has been the first choice in business leaders’ minds for inspirational and paradigm-shifting advice.
Listed by Wired Magazine as one of the top 100 most influential people in Europe, Gerd Leonhard’s work focusses on the future of humanity and technology, digital transformation, the mega-shifts, artificial intelligence and robotics, media, content, marketing and advertising, telecommunications, culture and tourism, banking and financial services, government and leadership.
In his keynotes, presentations, workshops and advisory sessions, Gerd Leonhard addresses what it means to be human in a world of machines and algorithms, the coming redefinition of human-machine relationships, the future of work and jobs and many more. His presentations are renowned for a hard-hitting and provocative yet inspiring, humorous and motivating style.
Fredrik Haren, known as The Creativity Explorer, is a world-renowned conference speaker and author on business, creativity, and change. He has been invited to speak in over 75 countries on 6 continents and has delivered more than 2,000 speeches in a speaking career spanning more than 25 years.
During the past 25 years he has travelled the world to learn about human creativity. As The Creativity Explorer, he aims to discover more about human creativity, be it from innovators in Silicon Valley or nomads in the desert of Mongolia, with the aim of helping more people discover their full creative potential.
He is the author of 10 books – including The Idea Book which was included in The 100 Best Business Books of All Time.
Fredrik is a truly global conference speaker, knowing how to craft a speech so that audiences from all parts of the world will be inspired and laugh at the same time, walking away from the speech with meaningful takeaways relevant to them.
“It’s not just about perfection, it’s about cultivating charisma, gravitas, and energy that transmits”.
With over 20+ years of coaching experience, Evelyne Brink’s background as a performer and producer of her own shows, record deals, author, coaching, corporate training expertise, and keynote speaker, make her a popular choice to help support senior leaders to develop their personality in the spotlight.
Evelyne Brink is the founder of Brink Coaching, was once Europe’s Number one Madonna impersonator, and is the mother to the first survivor of having no small intestine from birth.
In 2022, she presented a TEDx talk at TEDx Católica Lisbon SBE entitled ‘How to dare to be you when everyone is watching’.
Esther Stanhope is a highly sought-after confidence speaker and travels all over the world spreading her ‘Impact’ and ‘oomph’ to encourage people to speak up and get their voice heard in business.
She speaks on topics including pitching, presenting, confidence, getting promoted, and succeeding in your career.
Coach Chris Browne is a man who lives with a passion to help others overcome their personal blocks in life especially in their careers and general work life.
His passion comes from his own experience of challenges that he had to overcome, and a realisation that this is transferable to many other challenges that we all have to deal with in life and work, therefore through his study of Personal Development combined with his experience he has helped many overcome their challenges to date.
‘Your competition is not with others, your competition is with you to become better today than you were yesterday, and just fantastic tomorrow’.
He delivers impactful talks and workshops on Effective Interview techniques, Potential and Direction, Career Goals, Employee Engagement, Confidence building, Effective Communication skills, and The Power of Teamwork, amongst other areas of development to organisations, and individuals of whom have given raving testimonies of having life-changing results in their work, careers, and personal lives after attending his workshops. When it comes to interviewing skills he has perfected a style to help you overcome your fears and sell the better you.
Christopher TS Harvey has spent the past two decades mastering the complexity of change and how to manage change successfully.
Since studying alongside the Prince and Princess of Wales at the University of St Andrews, Chris has been busy in the change space. Unaware at the time, he was somewhat of a trailblazer in the Change Management domain, obsessed with the human-centric, psychological nature of change. Pushing himself ever since to operate at the ‘bleeding edge’ of the change sphere.
What makes him a standout as a speaker is his ability to convert extensive academic understanding and hands on experience of complex change, into meaningful learnings and tangible takeaways for the audience to better manage through change. All done against a captivating backdrop of 80s/90s soundtracks, balloon metaphors and ‘tongue in cheek’ British humour.
Chris has been published extensively in GQ Magazine around the world, on change subjects ranging from natural disasters to workplace burnout. He’s also written for the Daily Mail, The Telegraph, HR Magazine, Business Insider, been interviewed by BBC, TalkRadio and many more. His proudest achievement will be publishing the book he continues to work on, whilst educating the next generation of change leaders through his guest lecturing.
Christopher Howell shows how in change management, innovation and professional development, creativity is one of the most valuable skills we can develop. He delivers his inspirational talks and workshops using magic to show how to think creatively ‘like magicians’.
Christopher entertainingly demonstrates learning concepts to add energy to your conference. This can be backed up by interactive exercises to teach new skills. Your audience will finish the session with a tool kit full of useful and inspiring material to put to work.
A certified coach and member of The Magic Circle with worldwide experience, Christopher’s fun and practical sessions teach how to escape comfort zone behaviour and boldly take steps into fresh creative terrain. Google called his recent appearance “The Event of the Year”.
Christine Armstrong is a researcher, author and vlogger on the future of work, and founder of Armstrong & Partners.
By exploring current working trends, workplace culture, workplace communication, work/life balance, remote working and all the data that comes with it, she examines the challenges present in using old business practices. These include being overloaded with communication, the challenges between professional/personal boundaries and burnout. She also explores how these working practices can impact different groups such as carers and parents.
Christine is a much sought-after keynote speaker on the future of work and has worked for companies including the BBC and NHS to help them use more up-to-date working trends to ensure employee health, happiness and productivity.
Christian Howes is a digital, social media, and big data expert, TV presenter, and keynote speaker.
He is a leading expert with over 30 years’ experience driving digital transformation, powering digital marketing, and delivering actionable insights for global brands such as Accenture, HSBC, and Sony PlayStation. His pioneering work in merging digital data with transactional insights has revolutionised customer service and empowered companies to make data-driven decisions.
Christian rose to prominence by analysing reality TV social media trends on Big Brother, and has since become a sought-after presenter, appearing on This Morning, Good Morning Britain, and a range of BT Sport shows.
In the corporate world, he has build innovative analytics platforms and creative testing solutions – including leveraging paid social advertising to accelerate product innovation – for brands including ASOS, Barclays, Lloyds, and The Telegraph.
A dynamic keynote speaker and conference host, Christian captivates audiences with clear, practical insights and engaging storytelling, inspiring leaders to reimagine how they harness data for growth.
Christian Fraser is the presenter of The Context and former co-anchor of the BBC programme Beyond 100 Days in which he hosted alongside fellow presenter, Katty Kay for the BBC News Channel, BBC World News, BBC Four and PBS.
Beyond 100 Days is an acclaimed nightly public affairs show, reaching a global audience and providing expert insight on international news from around the world.
Christian also presents BBC1 News, BBC Breakfast and Radio 4’s PM Programme and has specialised in programmes on the Trump Presidency and Brexit. He began his career as a trainee reporter with the UK’s Mirror Group, later becoming a staff reporter with the Daily Mirror.
Chris Sanderson is the CEO and co-founder of The Future Laboratory, where he is responsible for delivering the company’s extensive global roster of conferences, media events, in-house briefings, consumer insight, trend forecasting and brand strategy.
Clients include Louis Vuitton, Design Hotels, the Ministry for Tourism, Australia, and Women’s Wear Daily’s CEO Summits.
Chris Roebuck has a unique experience and approach that helps leaders, teams, and organisations understand how they can reach their full potential and be successful in just a few steps.
His innovative and inspiring manner shows everyone that they already know what delivers success, but just don’t recognise it. Once they do, they can quickly transform their performance by using a few simple actions. This adds investor value, serves customers better, builds the brands, boosts the bottom line by 10% at no additional cost, and supports effective risk management and cost-efficiency.
For over 30 years he has led global teams growing C Suite and other leaders as high-performance human leaders to accelerate success by meeting their key objectives and beating challenges. Chris Roebuck has delivered award-winning major transformations and culture change, grown new talent to build entrepreneurial future focussed organisations, and shown how people power can boost profits. His experience, supported by over 250 real-life studies, has helped him develop his successful approach, focussing predominantly on:
Corporate Leadership: How to develop leadership in major global corporations and SMEs to enable both personal and organisational success.
Governmental Leader: Talks around his own experience working with the UK Government and public sectors on major change and leadership projects.
Chris Hirst is an innovative and inspirational leader, keynote speaker, and award-winning author with an impressive track record of successful business transformation.
With over a decade of experience as a global CEO, he is now known for his no-nonsense approach to business transformation and his focus on wiping away the bullsh*t to bring clarity and insight to modern leadership.
Through his experience as a successful CEO, Chris shares his first-hand experience leading organisational change to deliver record growth and cultures of lasting success. In 2022, Chris was shortlisted by Campaign Magazine as global CEO of the year.
Chris Hines MBE has spent over 30 years campaigning for the environment and inspiring positive change.
He was the co-founder and director of Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) from 1990 to 2000. Regarded as “some of the Government’s most sophisticated environmental critics” by the BBC and “Britain’s coolest pressure group” by The Independent, SAS helped deliver massive environmental improvements. He then became the sustainability director for the Eden Project for five years, which involved him conceiving and delivering ‘Waste Neutral’, an early version of the circular economy.
He is now the owner of A Grain of Sand, a company dedicated to saving the environment. Shortlisted for the 1999 Green Politics Award and having provided evidence to Commons and Lords Committees, Chris is now booked as a highly-popular sustainability and environment speaker.
