An inspirational female speaker can motivate your team, drive innovation, and highlight the benefits of a diverse workforce. Female business leaders, particularly those in less-female-oriented roles (such as STEM fields), serve as invaluable role models, showcasing the impact of diversity and the importance of representation within the workplace and society.
Furthermore, female speakers are not just for female audiences; they offer valuable insights that can inspire all genders. By sharing their experiences and perspectives, female speakers discuss a myriad of topics, including challenges women face in the workplace and society. They can guide organisations to support gender equality, respect women’s voices, better understand women’s health and promote diversity in leadership roles.
Through their stories and expertise, female speakers encourage personal and professional growth, fostering an environment of mutual respect and collaboration. Their presence challenges outdated norms, opening minds to the importance of inclusivity and empowering everyone to thrive together.
Female speakers also play a significant role in events like International Women’s Day (8th March), which celebrates women’s achievements and advocates for gender equality in the workplace and women’s health.
At Great Business Speakers, we specialise in connecting you with the perfect female speaker for your event, whether virtual or in-person. Our selection of experienced and influential speakers will inspire, engage, and drive meaningful conversations, helping your business embrace diversity and empower women in leadership.
Discover our leading Female Business Speakers below, or contact the team at Great Business Speakers to enquire or book. +44 1753 439 289
Louisa Pilbeam is a presenter and reporter for the BBC, ITV, Sky News and Sky Sports.
With a big passion is rugby, Louisa was delighted to be part of the team covering the Rugby Autumn Internationals with Sky Sports, reporting from Twickenham and the England training camp, Pennyhill Park.
She currently works as a broadcast journalist for BBC News and is in high demand as a host and moderator for sporting and business events.
Sarah Furness is a former RAF Combat Helicopter Pilot, motivational keynote speaker, and inspirational trainer.
After graduating from Cambridge University with a degree in Natural Sciences and Theology, Sarah joined the Royal Air Force, first as an air safety trainer and then as a helicopter pilot. During her two decades there, she worked on tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, commanded a 120-man team across Kabul, and planned special forces operations.
Her experience in such hostile and challenging environments led to her transition into an inspirational and motivational keynote speaker. But she still has her mission: “To share the secret to outstanding resilience, performance and courage under fire”.
Sam Saadet was a candidate on The Apprentice 2024 and is the founder of The Mummy Movement, an online pre-and post-pregnancy fitness programme.
Her her knack for business earned her the playful moniker “Del Boy” among friends – a play on her ability to sell, her eye for a bargain and her Essex charm.
With a successful career in recruitment, Sam Saadet’s life took an extraordinary turn with the arrival of her twin daughters. Sam discovered a newfound passion for fitness during her pregnancy – a commitment to nurturing herself in preparation for the joys and challenges ahead.
It wasn’t just about physical health for Sam; fitness became her sanctuary, a lifeline for navigating the turbulent journey of postpartum life. Recognising the profound impact of exercise on mental well-being, Sam embarked on a mission to share her journey and expertise with fellow mothers.
Sally Bundock is a globally recognised news presenter, known best for being on BBC 1, BBC News Channel, and BBC World News.
Covering news, business, finance, and current affairs, Sally’s programmes are watched by a daily audience of more than 100 million around the world.
Sally has presented The Briefing, Business Today, and BBC’s flagship business programme Work Life, where she covers key business stories and interviews some of the world’s leading CEOs.
Sally Bee is an international motivational speaker, an author, broadcaster and survivor of five heart attacks.
Sally was only 36 years old when she experienced her first heart attack, an episode that started at a children’s birthday party where she suddenly felt extreme pain in her chest. Thinking she was too young to have a heart attack, the hospital sent her home with indigestion tablets.
Sadly, she had a further two heart attacks in the coming weeks and her family were advised to say their goodbyes due to the extensive damage caused to her heart. Having made a full recovery and worked hard on her mental wellbeing, Sally’s world was rocked again 12 years later in 2016, when she suffered two further heart attacks.
Having fought for her life five times, Sally knows the true meaning and importance of resilience and inner strength. What became patently clear to Sally was the need to strip away all the noise and meaningless distractions to gain clarity on what is really important in life, and this is something Sally shares in her inspiring talks.
Liz McKeon is the Beauty Business Expert. Empowering women in business, many of her clients are small to medium enterprises, and as a business expert she often helps them to double their turnover and exceed their targets. She also works with large chains and CEOs of international distributors, mentoring and supporting women to excel in business.
She is also a fully qualified expert witness and regularly attends legal cases, offering her expert insight into the cosmetics and beauty industry in a legal capacity. She is also an ambassador for Shear Haven anti-domestic violence salon training in the UK and Ireland.
She is also a renowned public speaker, and her unique gift for storytelling sees her speak at many of the industry’s top events, trade shows, and Women In Business events. Her expertise regarding business has resulted her in being a panellist and keynote speaker for some of the beauty industry’s biggest brands, delivering on a spectrum of business topics, keeping attendees entertained whilst being incredibly inspiring and motivating.
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.
An Oxford-trained lawyer, Roz Savage spent the first eleven years of her career working as a management consultant, braving nothing more intrepid than rush hour on the London Underground before an environmental epiphany led to a radical personal transformation into a world-class adventurer.
During the seven years of her ocean rowing career, Roz Savage had more chance than most to explore the far horizons of courage. Spending up to five months alone at sea on a 23-foot rowboat, thousands of miles from land and humanity, at the mercy of winds, waves and currents, she evolved from a nervous novice adventurer into the world’s foremost female ocean rower, having rowed – solo – across the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans.
While crossing those 15,000 miles of the ocean she had to redefine her comfort zone on a daily basis and reach deep into her inner sources of strength, self-discipline, and commitment to her goal.
Roz Savage discovered the vital importance of keeping a cool head in life-endangering situations, to optimise her capacity for smart decision-making, accurate risk assessment and creative problem-solving.
In 2024, she was elected a Liberal Democrat MP for the new South Cotswolds constituency.
Rosalyn Palmer is an award-winning transformational coach and therapist combining clinical hypnotherapy, Rapid Transformational Therapy and NLP-based coaching to create deep change.
She is also an acclaimed author with a remarkable ability to inspire positive change and foster wellbeing.
Rosalyn Palmer has a wellbeing column in local newspaper The Newark Advertiser and was formerly the wellbeing expert on radio show Girls Around Town – a weekly radio programme billed as Radio Newark’s answer to Loose Women, providing news, gossip, opinions, and interviews; made by women, for women, as well as the host of the Monkey Business podcast, exploring the mindset secrets of top business leaders.
She is also the award-winning self-help author of Reset! A Blueprint for a Better Life (2018), and contributor to Ignite Your Life For Women (2019), Ignite Your Female Leadership (2019), and Ignite For Female Changemakers (2020).
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.
Rachel Watkyn is an award-winning entrepreneur, businesswoman, keynote speaker, and sustainability advocate.
She started Tiny Box Company from a bedroom in her parent’s home, and went on to receive investment on Dragons’ Den. She is the winner of the 2010 National Small Business Recycler of the Year, the 2020 NatWest Entrepreneur of the Year Award, the 2020 Rural Business Award, and the 2021 Entrepreneurial Business of the Year Award.
Now a popular keynote speaker, Rachel’s mission is to encourage female entrepreneurs to follow their passions and fulfil their dreams.
Professor Sue Black is the Professor of Computer Science and Technology Evangelist at Durham University, a digital skills expert, social entrepreneur, consultant and internationally popular keynote speaker.
She holds a PhD in computer science, management experience, and is passionate about sharing her knowledge about the opportunities being in a STEM industry offers.
Prof Sue Black is a successful social media campaigner heading up the campaign to save Bletchley Park, with expertise in leadership and the equality challenges faced by the tech industry.
Professor Beverly Alimo-Metcalfe, a Chartered organisational Psychologist, has an international reputation in the field of leadership studies – an area of interest for over 30 years. She has a passionate interest in translating rigorous applied academic research into a form that is practical and accessible to organisations. She supports Boards and Executive Teams of organisations to embed the ethical application of leadership, increase valuing diversity, and strengthening their capacity for engagement, collaboration, innovation and effectiveness.
While Chair of Leadership Studies at the University of Leeds, as a result of ground-breaking research into the nature of engaging leadership, involving over 6,000 managers and professionals in the NHS, wider public sector, and FTSE100 companies, Beverly Alimo-Metcalfe established a Leeds University spin-out company, Real World Group.
The company undertakes research into leadership, culture, governance, diversity and inclusion, creates robust diagnostic instruments that are utilised worldwide, and undertakes major cultural transformation projects across the public and private sectors.
An experienced British TV/Radio Presenter, Polly Middlehurst is best recognised as a familiar face on the leading rolling news channel Sky News, where she anchored live news from London for 20 years, covering major breaking news events from royal weddings and the deaths of Hollywood stars to political uprisings and the latest international business/market news.
Now Polly divides her time between being an Event Moderator, Chair and Media Resilience Coach while still working as a TV Presenter.
Pixie Turner is a registered nutritionist (RNutr) and science communicator. She graduated with a First Class degree in Biochemistry, and went on to complete a Masters in Nutrition with Distinction.
She is the brains behind the ‘Pixie Nutrition’ social media accounts, which aims to encourage a healthy relationship with food and debunk nutrition misinformation online.
Pip Tomson is an award-winning, highly-experienced and versatile live TV presenter, correspondent, journalist, and event host, with over 20 years experience in live television.
Most recently, Pip has been a presenter on Good Morning Britain and GB News. She has worked alongside the likes of Eamonn Holmes, Michael Portillo and Richard Madeley or fronted shows solo.
Pip has twice received a Best Presenter award from the Royal Television Society for outstanding live outside broadcasts and studio presenting. She has interviewed some of the world’s biggest stars including George Clooney and Hugh Jackman and is known for not being afraid to ask the tough questions of politicians.
She is an accomplished host of corporate and charity events where clients have included MasterCard, You Magazine, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and Power of One animal welfare charity.
Penny Power OBE is a UK entrepreneur, international public speaker, author, and community builder.
In 1998, ahead of LinkedIn and Facebook, Penny Power and her husband created “Ecademy,” a platform which connected business people to one another with strong values around deep connections, honesty and the culture of “friendship first”. It grew to include 650,000 business members across 52 countries.
Approaching business in a highly personal way, she performed her first Public Speech in 2001 to BT, with the topic of Emotional Wealth and its impact on Financial Wealth.
Penny has always approached business in a highly personal way. Culminating in her authoring her book in 2019 Business is Personal which shares the importance of respecting that our personal life and attitudes impact our business life and visa versa.
International motivational speaker Penny Mallory is an expert in psychological performance and works within, and alongside, world-class teams to overcome obstacles and improve their performances.
Her experience ranges from world championship rally drivers to young offenders, and focusses on improving their mental performance, orchestrating change and building outstanding individuals and teams.
She works with organisations, teams (including Formula 1) and individuals on mental performance and also hosts development programmes and workshops. Penny was also the first woman in the world to compete in a world rally car – the Formula 1 of rallying.
Penny is an inspirational motivational speaker thanks to her life and career experiences and her ability to make the impossible seem possible.
“I listened to Pam’s talk and must say it was absolutely inspirational. It was really motivational – thank you”. – Innovus BMS
Known to many as Paddington Train Crash survivor ‘The Lady in the Mask’, Pam Warren’s extraordinary experiences are so much more than that one incident.
Swanning from owning a multi-million turnover financial services company, surviving the crash with life-changing injuries, running a strategised UK-wide rail safety campaign (and winning), living with PTSD, and successfully rebuilding her life, she is the epitome of resilience and motivation.
Pam offers audiences, not just inspiration, but actual strategies to employ to overcome their own challenges. Her passion is to get everyone to fall in love with change.
Olamide ‘Ola’ Majekodunmi is a renowned financial expert and the founder of All Things Money, an online platform dedicated to providing young adults with valuable financial tools to navigate the challenges of adult life.
The platform offers a diverse range of personal finance tips and information, covering topics such as budgeting, saving, investing, and mortgages. Additionally, All Things Money hosts a podcast that further expands on these financial topics.
Social media influencer, podcaster and fledgling comedienne Oenone Forbat is full of questions about our world and our species: Why is the world the way it is? Does using a menstrual cup mean you’re allowed to sometimes forget your keep cup? Are our actions free-will or conditioning?
Nisha Menon is a medical microbiologist turned mumpreneur who is the Director of Nikasu Foods & Founder of Jack & Chill
The businesses have an impressive list of clients globally including celebrity chefs, fine dining restaurants, pub chains, stadiums and high-end health stores.
She was nominated to attend the FORTUNE Most Powerful Women Summit in London & is 3 times Finalist of Croydon Business Awards.
She has contributed and been featured in various press articles including BBC news, Femina magazine, Empowered Magazine & The Telegraph. She also runs a Facebook Group (UK Importers Hub) which supports over 2.5K businesses who import goods into the UK.
Nicola Cook specialises in helping business leaders create accelerated growth and scalability in their sales function.
Nicola is constantly invited to speak at international conferences and her firm, Company Shortcuts was a finalist in two categories at the prestigious BESMA (British Excellence in Sales & Marketing Awards) in 2016, making the finals in the ‘Best sales trainer in the UK’ category, and ‘Best Training centre’.
Nicola herself is a past winner at the North East Women Entrepreneur of the Year Awards in 2012, is a Fellow of the ISM (Institute of Sales Managers) and most recently has been added to the Smith & Williamson Power 100, which celebrates the top 100 individuals who help shape policy, champion, mentor, support and promote entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship in the UK.
