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
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.
Dr Lynda Shaw is a cognitive neuroscientist and business psychologist who works with senior leaders and wider teams to better understand the emotional responses of clients.
Together with her clients, Dr Lynda aims to harness this knowledge to improve business culture, unite managerial teams, ensure employee job satisfaction and turn fear and stress into profit and loyalty. Together this is achieved through consultation, workshops, coaching, group mentoring and keynote presentations.
She is an experienced entrepreneur having owned three businesses including a health club with 2000 members and 20 staff. She is also a business psychologist and holds a doctorate in neuroscience, specialising in the unconscious processing of emotion and communication. She works with senior leaders and their teams who want to better understand the emotional responses of clients and colleagues and harness this power to increase business growth and dramatically improve communication and long term business relationships.
Kate Atkin is a speaker on imposter syndrome who offers training consultant and coaching on overcoming the ‘Imposter’.
Offering her keynote talk “Success: What Lies Behind the Mask? Understanding and Exploring the Imposter Syndrome (and why it’s really a phenomenon)”, Kate has worked with many high-end clients on business, management and communication issues within their workplace.
Anthony Stears, AKA The Telephone Assassin, is on a mission to get businesses talking again and stop people from hiding behind their emails and social media. From small business owners to global corporations, Anthony helps teams connect with more of their ideal customers, win more repeat business, and build relationships that last.
Helping clients to get in front of more of their ideal customers and getting more business from their existing customers. Anthony has made calls for a huge range of business and when he found himself as the sales or marketing manager for 5 different companies all at the same time, he realised that his growing waiting list of clients needed to be serviced too.
After working closely with an NLP master trainer he was able to teach people to “fish for themselves” as he started to really understand the power of his communication style, so combined with the structure he had developed, Anthony began to run a Telemarketing Masterclass.
If you want your audience fired up, inspired, and equipped with practical tools they can use immediately, Anthony Stears is your speaker.
Named as one of the world’s Top 30 Professional Speakers by Global Guru, and one of the Top 10 Thought Leaders on AI by Thinkers360, Karl Lillrud is one of the most experienced eCommerce business professionals, as well as a business coach, and bestselling author.
His book You, Me and AI (2023), Karl delves into the AI revolution from 54 different angles, underscoring his extensive understanding of the subject. He also explores how AI is transforming society in areas such as education, creativity, work, and our sense of identity, identifying topics including digital immortality, machines understanding spirituality, and the reinvention of democracy through AI governance.
In huge demand, Karl provides keynotes on the topics of business growth, eCommerce, consumer behaviour, and online business strategies. He has worked with and spoken to clients across the globe, from the UK and the US to Norway, Sweden, Spain, and France.
Anthony Sinclair is the founder and owner of Sign Source, an online tool that reinvents how to learn sign language, and brings deaf awareness in a user-friendly and convenient way.
With a personal journey filled with challenges and triumphs, Anthony brings a unique perspective to his presentations, inspiring audiences to embrace diversity and create a more inclusive society.
Anthony was named the winner of the 2022 Belfast Telegraph Digital/Social Media Award. He often holds an Olympic medal, winning gold in the mixed doubles tennis at the 2007 Deaflympics in Taipei.
Karen Blackett OBE is the UK Country Manager for WPP and Chairwoman of MediaCom UK and Ireland. She is a renowned business leader with an impressive track record in creating vibrant cultures, energising teams and consistently delivering business growth and success.
Named by Vogue as one of the 25 Most Influential and Inspirational Women of 2018 and ranked top of the EMpower 100 Ethnic Minority Executive Leaders list, Karen was appointed the national Race Equality Business Champion by then-Prime Minister Theresa May in 2018.
Karen is now a popular keynote speaker who can energise teams and promote diversity in the advertising and media industry to create a vibrant company culture.
“Made a genuine difference to the team – gave them the tools to understand their own blockers and how to overcome them.” – Landmark Geodata
How do you sell if you hate selling?
An experienced sales person & mindful sales speaker, and agile mindset expert, Anis Qizilbash knows cognitive tricks to make you stop procrastinating, overcome fears, and appreciate your value. Her tools help leaders and teams unlock growth to achieve predictable, consistent, and powerful results in all areas of their professional or personal lives.
Anis Qizilbash helps leaders and teams from around the world create value for their clients, grow their businesses, and – most importantly – achieve their goals. individuals and companies alike have grown their sales, boosted performance, and gained renewed self-belief and motivation after a talk or workshop with Anis.
Dominic McGregor is a successful entrepreneur and advocate with a strong background in business, mental health, and sobriety.
Dominic co-founded Social Chain, a global marketing agency that achieved significant growth and success. After leaving Social Chain, Dominic co-founded Fearless Adventures, an investment fund focused on supporting and scaling new businesses.
Dominic is also involved in the Fearless Academy, which aims to provide education and skill development in the digital space.
Andy McNab DCM MM joined the army in 1976, served in B squadron 22 SAS for nine years and commanded the legendary Bravo Two Zero patrol in the Gulf War.
After a fierce firefight, three of the eight men were killed; four were captured; one escaped. McNab was held prisoner for six weeks and relentlessly tortured.
He was the British Army’s most highly decorated serving soldier when he finally left the SAS in February 1993. He is the author of Bravo Two Zero, the bestselling war memoir of all time, and ten bestselling novels.
An expert on building, nurturing, and leveraging professional relationships, Andy Lopata was once called ‘one of Europe’s leading business networking strategists’ by The Financial Times, and ‘a true master of networking’ by Forbes.com.
He believes that networking and communication is one of the most important tools in business, from generating sales to developing your career. He believes that knowing the reasons why you are networking and what you want to achieve, it is possible to improve and gain tangible results.
As well as his networking strategies, Andy Lopata is also a podcast host, and successful business author. In 2017, he was awarded the PSA Award of Excellence.
He is a two-time board member and former President of the Fellows Community of the Professional Speaking Association UK and Ireland, a member of the Association of Business Mentors and the Meetings Industry Association, and a Fellow of the Learning and Performance Institute.
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 Holloway is a creative visionary, seasoned business leader and extraordinary storyteller who understands that every single organisation needs better tools to manage constant change, and create the unforgettable experiences that their customers and colleagues require.
His bold thinking and talent for connecting huge vision to practical action illustrate the compelling execution that great companies need to thrive in disruptive times.
Jon Burkhart is best known for being an international award-winning keynote speaker, strategist and author of the world-famous Newsjacking.
Through his consultancy company, TBC Global, he has helped brands rethink their business practices so that they stand out from their competitors with a more impactful and engaging story. He has also helped leaders solve problems in surprising ways that lead to growth. In his speeches and workshops, he uses his Constant Curiosity framework to solve problems in marketing, company culture, and customer experience.
In the last decade, Jon has travelled to over 25 different countries, inspiring clients such as BMW, Deloitte, Havanans, Microsoft and Salesforce to be more daring. He is also one of the very few people to speak at the South By South West (SXSW) conference 10 times, and he now serves on their advisory board. He has also hosted an event at Cannes Lions which led him to create his ‘beernote’ closing keynote speech.
In addition to his own published work, he has been featured in publications such as Rolling Stone, Fast Company, and The Guardian.
David Thomas is a speaker with an unbelievable and inspirational story who will show your audience how to manage change and challenge.
David suffered a deeply abusive childhood at the hands of his alcoholic mother and aged stepfather. He went off the rails at 16. He started burgling shops, attempted suicide twice, nearly killed a police officer one night, received a criminal conviction and was expelled from school.
He turned his life around and after a series of dead-end jobs, joined the Fire Service at 20.
Andrew Thorp is an award-winning speaker, trainer and consultant in the field of business storytelling. He works with senior leaders and salespeople to improve their external marketing message, but also with their broader workforce to encourage a more connected and productive company culture.
Companies regularly hire a branding/marketing agency to help define their message (Vision, Values, Purpose, etc) but it often fizzles out when the focus returns to the daily grind; people revert to a factual and forgettable version.
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.
Former Squadron Leader John Peters came to the world’s attention in 1991, when his bruised and battered face flashed on our television screens. It was this shocking image that became a terrible symbol of Saddam Hussein’s ruthless aggression.
Since leaving the forces, John Peters has become a prominent keynote speaker, using his own dramatic, and sometimes harrowing, experiences to reach into our minds, and how us how we can overcome our worst fears.
David McQueen is an international speaker, executive coach and facilitator, working with clients around the globe and sharing his insights on effective leadership and communication in the workplace.
He started his career as an accountant, then went to IT working in systems support and then as a project manager.
In his career, he found that he spent as much time advising colleagues on career development and presentation skills as he did the technical part of work and decided that he would leave the corporate world to set up his own communications company, Narratively Ltd.
Since then David McQueen has spoken at conferences, in-house meetings, away days and executive retreats in Europe, Canada, USA, The Middle East, Thailand, South Africa, Australia and Tanzania to name but a few.
David Hyner is a unique motivational speaker and facilitator on goal-setting and purpose. He brings a sense of humour and authenticity to a subject he has been researching over the last 23 years.
He’s carried out 250+ interviews with top achievers and takes inspiration from this research to see how this learning, behaviour and wisdom can be applied to get better results for people and for businesses.
First and foremost though David Hyner is a Brummie. There is an ‘ordinaryness’ and a down-to-earthness that is a core part of who he is and what he offers the world.
David Gillespie is an actor, author, keynote speaker, and corporate coach. He has had many TV appearances including, EastEnders, Holby City, and Red Dwarf.
He also appeared with the ‘Long Johns’ in Bremner Bird, and Fortune and led the cast of BBC’s totally improvised Operation Good Guys comedy series, which won Gold and Silver Roses at the Montreux TV Festival.
In April 2023, it was announced that David would return to EastEnders to revise his role as Duncan Boyd, 34-years after initially leaving the soap.
Dave Birss is obsessed with creativity, what it is, how to make use of it, and why some people are better at it than others. It’s at the very centre of everything he does, and he is passionate about helping everyone to improve their creative thinking.
Dave’s talks are simple, easy-to-understand, funny, interesting, and captivating, and offer audiences tangible ideas that they can then implement in their own personal or professional lives.
As well as keynote speaking, Dave offers a number of training courses designed to help at every stage of the creative process, offers consulting work to a wide-range of companies to create better ideas and more successful innovation, and puts all his thoughts to paper, publishing a number of successful books.
Daniel Disney is a LinkedIn and social selling expert, trainer, author and award-winning keynote speaker.
His LinkedIn expertise has earned him the title of King of LinkedIn, where he has generated over £25 million in revenue, has 1 million followers and his content reaches 10 million people every month.
Daniel uses his 20 years of sales experience and his expert knowledge of social selling to help organisations turn LinkedIn into a sales and revenue-generating machine.
He is the number 1 expert on LinkedIn social selling and is in-demand for speaking, training and consultancy where he helps organisations maximise their growth, reach and sales through LinkedIn.
