These keynote speakers bring expertise on how industries are reshaped by technological, market, and societal shifts, offering actionable strategies for businesses to adapt and thrive. Whether virtual or in-person, they provide valuable insights on navigating the fast-changing business landscape.
At Great Business Speakers, we specialise in connecting you with the perfect business speaker for your event. Our extensive network of industry leaders ensures you’ll find an expert who aligns with your event’s objectives and resonates with your audience. We help you select a speaker who can drive impactful discussions, spark new ideas, and leave a lasting impression, ensuring your event’s success.
Book a digital disruption speaker to stay ahead of the game. These transformational experts will provide a range of strategies for competitive business in a market where the speed of advancements threatens the status quo. Though brand identity is the backbone of your company, consumers expect you to push the boundaries of innovation or get left behind.
Discover our Digital Disruption Speakers below, or contact the team at Great Business Speakers to enquire or book. +44 1753 439 289
Ruby Malik leaves us in no doubt that to be a more inspirational leader or team, you need to achieve three key elements: to think more deliberately, connect more effectively and command an executive presence more successfully.
She helps them achieve just that as a leadership coach and speaker, with her winning methodologies and direct but engaging style and humour.
She also believes, in a world of constant change, challenge, and cultural diversity, that people can achieve a portfolio of life ambitions if they wish. This is proven in her own diverse and successful guises over twenty+ years in business.
Roberta Lucca – known as Beta – is a highly successful entrepreneur and co-founder of the BAFTA-winning games company Bossa Studies. Bossa is now amongst the 1% top performing start-ups in the UK in terms of annual sales, which is not bad for a company that only started in 2010.
Named in Forbes magazine’s Top 50 Women in Tech list, Roberta is a popular keynote speaker who entertains her audiences with her trials, tribulations and triumphs as an entrepreneur and a leader.
Rita Clifton is in demand as a speaker all over the world, both as a brand practitioner and as a business leader. She regularly speaks and runs workshops on a wide variety of topics including leadership, innovation and disruption, corporate reputation, women in business and sustainability. She covers all aspects of branding, including personal and nation branding, branding in the digital age and how to build a world class brand.
Rita Clifton started her career in advertising and quickly progressed to become Vice Chairman and Strategy Director at Saatchi & Saatchi during its most successful period. She then moved into brand strategy when she became London CEO, then Chairman, of leading global brand consultancy Interbrand, and led a highly diverse and talented team.
Trendwatcher, futurist and international keynote speaker Richard van Hooijdonk takes you to an inspiring future that will dramatically change the way we live, work and do business.
As a futurist, keynote speaker, and trendwatcher, Richard van Hooijdonk is an authority on new technology. He has several chip implants because he wants to physically experience the future.
His inspiration sessions have been attended by over 550,000 people at 1900 talks in 35 countries.
Richard is a regular guest at radio and television programs.
Piers Linney is an entrepreneur best known for his appearance as one of the ‘dragons’ on the popular television programme, Dragons’ Den (2013-2015). He is also an investor with experience across a range of sectors, including additive manufacturing, media converged communications, and technology.
As the founder and CEO of Moblox, a next generation technology and business tools platform for small business owners in the UK, Piers is a keen champion of entrepreneurship and SMEs. He has first-hand experience of the challenges and obstacles that face businesses as a founder, advisor, director, and investor.
In 2018, Piers was named in the top 20 of the Financial Times list of the Top 100 Minority Ethnic Leaders in Technology, and named one of the Top 100 BAME Leaders in Business.
In 2023, Piers founded Implement AI, a next-generation technology partner that aims to support SMEs in understanding and implementing AI strategies.
Nigel Barlow is an internationally acclaimed Keynote Speaker on Disruption, Innovation, Changing Mindsets and Inventing the Future.
He has spoken at major events for many of the world’s leading organisations, and his special skill is to wake up and inspire business leaders to see new and exciting possibilities in their own lives, and in the enterprises they run.
Jamie Crummie is an award-winning social entrepreneur, keynote speaker, and changemaker, known for empowering individuals, teams, and organisations to create positive impact and drive meaningful change. His work focuses on sustainability, social innovation, and tackling global challenges through purpose-driven action.
Originally trained as a lawyer, Jamie redirected his career to address the environmental and ethical crisis of food waste. He went on to co-found Too Good To Go, the world’s largest platform for surplus food. The popular mobile app connects consumers with restaurants, bakeries, cafés, and supermarkets offering unsold food at reduced prices—food that would otherwise go to waste.
The platform supports businesses in reducing waste while helping consumers make more sustainable choices, and has grown into a leading force in the global fight against food waste.
Jamie is widely recognised for his thought leadership in sustainability, food systems, and environmental innovation. He is a sought-after public speaker at conferences, corporate events, and academic institutions. His accolades include being named in Forbes 30 Under 30 and other international honours for his entrepreneurial impact.
James “JP” Poulter is a leading AI strategist, keynote speaker, and founder of ThreePoint Labs, an AI transformation consultancy helping organisations navigate the shift to intelligent working with clarity, ethics and purpose.
Former CEO of Vixen Labs – a voice AI company he founded and sold to House 337 in 2023 – and previously Head of Emerging Platforms at The LEGO Group, JP brings rare depth across both start-up and enterprise scale. He has advised organisations including Amazon, Verizon, Bosch and Universal Music, delivered more than 250 keynotes worldwide, and is a committed advocate for ethical AI implementation, serving on the board of Christian Aid.
James is a popular speaker on technology and innovation. From the future of work and emerging technologies to creating innovation culture within organisations and how they can adapt to new ways of working – especially since the COVID-19 pandemic.
In March 2025, James delivered his first TEDx talk for TedX Tamworth, entitled Double Edged – Learning to Live With AI; in the walk, he unpacked the consequences of the coming AI age for each of us to ensure our communities thrive and survive.
Holly Tucker MBE is a vibrant and empowering entrepreneur, best known as the co‑founder and Executive Chairman of notonthehighstreet.com, the UK’s leading online marketplace for small, creative businesses.
In 2015 she launched Holly & Co, Holly & Co is a curated online marketplace and platform dedicated to supporting and celebrating small, independent businesses, particularly those founded by women. Over 95% of the businesses featured on the platform are female-founded, highlighting their work and creativity. It also provides advice and inspiration for small business owners.
As the founder of Holly & Co and ‘Not On The High Street’, she has become a leading figure in the world of creative entrepreneurial start-ups.
Holly also serves as the UK Ambassador to Creative Small Businesses, where she passionately advocates for the incredible talent of small business owners worldwide.
With 20 years’ experience, and as the only woman ever to have built two marketplaces to support small businesses, Holly is on a mission to use business to change the world. It is her passion to inspire and empower women, and to show that anyone can build a business doing what they love.
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).
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.
Damian Hughes expertly combines his practical experience and academic background in sports, organisational development, and change psychology to assist organisations and teams in cultivating a culture of high performance.
With eight bestselling business books under his belt – such as Liquid Thinking, Liquid Leadership, How to Change Absolutely Anything, How to Think Like Sir Alex Ferguson, and The Five STEPS to a Winning Mindset – Damian has demonstrated his profound knowledge and insights.
His 2023 books, How Performance: Lessons from the Best on Becoming Your Best, and How to Change Your Life, have both been number one Sunday Times bestsellers. His books have already been translated into a dozen languages.
He is also the co-host with Jake Humphrey of The High-Performance Podcast, which has featured some of the leading figures in business and sports spheres with over 100 million downloads and counting.
Claire Williams OBE is a British former motorsport executive who led the Williams Formula 1 racing team. She is one of only two women to have ever lead a Formula 1 team.
Under her leadership Williams finished 3rd in the World Championship for Constructors in 2014 and 2015, representing the team’s best performance since 2003.
After taking over the running of the team, Claire replaced drivers, switched to a Mercedes engine and increased the team’s racing budget by securing profitable corporate sponsorships, factors that helped the team’s renaissance between 2014 and 2017.
Today Claire is a global Brand Ambassador for WAE Technologies, formerly known as Williams Advanced Engineering, which is involved in the decarbonisation of heavy transport through the development of advanced, green and sustainable technologies.
Her late father, Sir Frank Williams, was the founder of the Williams Grand Prix Engineering F1 team, winning nine Constructors’ Championships and seven Drivers’ Championship.
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.
Chris Skinner is an award-winning speaker and one of the most influential people in technology, as well as a best-selling author. He is an independent commentator on the financial markets and fintech through his blog, the Finanser.com, which is updated daily.
He helped to found one of the first mobile banks in the world and has advised CEOs and leaders from every continent of the world including the United Nations, the White House, the World Bank and the World Economic Forum.
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.
“We’re on a mission to make Silicon Valley’s innovation strategies accessible worldwide”.
Drawing from over a decade of experience at leading technology firms, including Google and Apple, Chris Heemskerk showcases his vision on corporate innovation by heading The Innovation Alliance, a global network of tech executives and innovation leaders.
As former Head of Scaled Acquisitions for Google in North America, Chris Heemskerk transformed his business operation into a global centre for innovation and operational excellence. Hence, he was asked to serve as an advisor to Google’s Innovation Lab and established a partnership with Harvard Business School to document the lab’s endeavours in two HBS Case Studies, in which he features.
In pursuit of providing organisations the necessary resources to innovate consistently, he authored The Innovation Scorecard™️, a comprehensive framework that enables firms to maximize their innovation capabilities and discover new growth opportunities.
Chris Griffiths is a high-profile keynote speaker on creativity, innovation, and mind mapping and a bestselling author published in over 20 languages worldwide.
In 2006, he founded OpenGenius, a company focussed on helping transform creativity, learning, and thinking. His passion for creativity links to his strong support of neurodiversity. Through his work with The Inspire Genius Foundation, he aims to promote the inclusion of neurodivergent thinkers and how that can add value to any business.
Millions have used his technology solutions, and he has personally worked with Nobel laureates, governments, royal families, and business CEOs.
Described by The Guardian as a long-haired, twinkly eyed cross between Richard Branson and a wizard, Chris Baréz-Brown’s natural ability to uncover everyone’s inner genius helps people to get their energy right every day, so they can achieve more through their own talents and be extraordinary, all whilst driving bottom-line results.
He is a transformational speaker inspiring everyone from corporate to TEDx audiences worldwide.
Chanelle Lady McCoy is one of Ireland’s most successful businesswomen, winning the All-Ireland Business Champion Award and recently ranked no 23 in the ‘50 incredible people shaping modern Ireland.
Having previously been a co-founder of Ireland’s largest indigenous pharmaceutical company and more recently Chanelle McCoy Health, a research and development-led pharmaceutical company, Chanelle is a very motivating speaker on business and leadership.
Chanelle was previously one of the dragons on Ireland’s Dragons’ Den where she enjoyed sharing her experience of growing successful businesses and supporting entrepreneurs on their journey to business growth. She is also a huge supporter of women in business and mentoring young entrepreneurs.
Caspar Berry is a professional motivational and keynote speaker who started his career as the lead in the first series of Byker Grove (1989-1997) on BBC One alongside Ant and Dec. He went on to read Economics and Anthropology at Cambridge and, after aiming to become a professional film writer, he had his first screenplay produced by Film Four in his final year. By the age of 23 he was writing for companies Columbia TriStar and Miramax.
Just two years later, he decided he needed a change in his life, which led him to Las Vegas where he became a professional poker player. He spent three years playing professionally and using his wits against some of the world’s best-known players.
After his time in Vegas, he moved back to the UK in 2002. Here he co-founded Twenty-First Century Media and built it into the fastest-growing audio-visual media company in the North East of England. Whilst here, he began his career as a speaker and catalyst for new thinking within business about risk-taking and decision-making. In 2008, he sold the company to Bob Geldof’s media giant, Ten Alps.
Caspar Berry’s eye-opening comparisons between playing poker and running a business incorporate risk-taking, innovating and communicating. His keynote speeches deliver a unique, insightful and refreshing take on business.
Brett StClair is a business rebel technologist, digital pioneer, entrepreneur, lecturer, and keynote speaker.
After spending a decade in England, Brett returned to his hometown of Johannesburg in South Africa to launch his own digital marketing and media company. He has worked for some of the world’s leading digital businesses, including Admob, Google, and Barclays Africa.
As well as his own work plus his speaking duties, Brett has served as the co-chair of the South Africa Mobile Marketing association with the aim of establishing mobile marketing as a separate industry.
His expertise, knowledge and passion for the field have impacted thousands of audience members from around the globe.
As Head of Innovation & Creativity at Disney, Duncan Wardle helped teams at Disney Parks, Lucasfilm, Marvel, Pixar, Imagineering and Animation to innovate, creating magical new storylines and amazing experiences for consumers around the globe.
He now brings his Disney experience to audiences around the world, delivering a series of keynotes, masterclasses, and ideation forums, that help people capture unlikely connections, leading to both disruptive thinking and revolutionary ideas.
He is a multiple TEDx speaker and has been featured in many publications including Fast Company, Forbes, INC., and more. He teaches Innovation and Creativity Masterclasses at Harvard, Yale and Edinburgh Universities. Duncan Wardle also holds the American Citizen Award presented at the White House, an Hons. MBA and Hons. Doctorate from Edinburgh University and the Duke of Edinburgh Award, presented by Her late Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II.
