HR and employment experts bring valuable insights on effective team-building, employee engagement, and conflict resolution, helping leaders understand the importance of fostering a positive work culture. Employment speakers can also guide businesses in navigating complex HR issues, improving team communication, and aligning leadership strategies with organisational goals. By addressing key topics like talent management, diversity and inclusion, and effective employee development, these speakers ensure that teams are better equipped to collaborate, innovate, and achieve higher levels of success.
Our Great Business Speakers have the power to inspire and transform organisations. They offer actionable strategies and frameworks that leaders can apply to improve team performance and cultivate a more cohesive work environment. Through dynamic presentations and engaging discussions, they help businesses understand team dynamics and leadership nuances, equipping individuals with the skills needed to foster collaboration and resilience in any setting. With the flexibility to offer in-person or virtual talks, our HR Employment Speakers can reach broader audiences and provide tailored content that addresses specific organisational needs, ensuring businesses thrive in in-person and remote work environments.
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Hayley Mulenda is one of the most inspiring young voices in the UK currently. An established keynote speaker, consultant, and change agent, Hayley has worked all over the world, from the Middle East to North America and Africa.
With over 180,000 social media followers, Hayley has her finger firmly on the pulse when it comes to helping Gen Z and millennials with their mental health and well-being.
Named as one of Black Business Show X HSBC’s ‘Top 25 Black Entrepreneurs to Watch in 2024’, Hayley’s story is not short of difficulties.
After nearly taking her life when she was 18 years old, she had a profound realisation about the growing impact that mental health issues are having on millennials. This experience ignited her passion to make a difference to others. Her personal journey and insights have made her a credible advocate and speaker for mental health and wellbeing, diversity, and inclusion.
Hayley has spoken on stages such as Wembley Arena, and counts KFC, KPMG, META, Microsoft, Unilever, Wagamama amongst her clients. On top of this, she serves on the board of Wagamama to help the company engage young people from diverse backgrounds and is a Governor at St Angela’s Ursuline School.
Akil Hunte is a multi-award-winning lawyer, consultant, spoken-word poet, social entrepreneur, and diversity speaker.
Growing up in a single-parent household, as a black man from inner city London, Akil Hunte has had to navigate many challenges over the years; from being hit by a car to witnessing the Grenfell Tower fire, he has triumphed over trauma to thrive on his professional journey. He made history as the first student to win the Dean’s Award at the University for two consecutive years. He was named the Outstanding Alumni by Nottingham Trent University in 2023 and was a Rising Star in the Legal 500 ESG Awards.
In 2019, Akil Hunte was among the 30 people selected to be listed in that year’s edition of GUAP Magazine’s #TheBlackList2019 30 Under 30s, which celebrates young black creatives and professionals. He is a popular keynote speaker, discussing everything from law to diversity and equality. He has worked with clients including Nottingham Trent University, LinkedIn, Hogan Lovells, Clyde & Co, Freshfields, and CEL Solicitors.
Stefaan van Hooydonk is the founder of the Global Curiosity Institute, a service that helps individuals and organisations foster a curiosity mindset. He consults businesses and leadership teams worldwide – including in Saudi Arabia, India and China – to help improve their curiosity with the aim of helping their development.
His impressive education record – a Masters in Economics and Chinese and Postgraduates in Marxist Economics, Cross-Cultural Management and an MBA in Business – means his knowledge is often in demand at large-scale industry events.
As Founder and Director of L30 Relational Systems, Mark Finnis has over twenty years’ experience of working with national and international businesses and voluntary services.
He provides training sessions, consultancy, and is an in-demand keynote speaker, particularly on the national development of restorative practices.
Restorative practice describes a way of being, an underpinning ethos, which enables us to build and maintain healthy relationships, resolve difficulties, and repair harm when relationships breakdown.
L30 aims to help develop practical training and support for organisations – from corporate to charity to education. They provide all participants with an understanding of what restorative practice is, within a practical framework that can be implemented immediately.
Mads Faurholt-Jorgensen is a serial entrepreneur and bestselling author.
He has started over 20 companies across technology, financial services, marketing, HR, food and education, with thousands of employees, and investors such as Goldman Sachs, Alibaba, Peter Thiel and the World Bank.
Simon Hazeldine is best-selling author, and a sales and negotiation expert.
A hard-hitting speaker who will give your people a wake-up call that they will never forget! Through his powerful speeches and seminars, Simon inspires and enables exceptional performance. His powerful, practical and proven strategies will drive and deliver improved bottom line results.
He is the bestselling author of five books that have been endorsed by a host of business leaders including multi-billionaire business legend Michael Dell. He has a Master’s Degree in Psychology and is a Fellow of the Institute of Sales & Marketing Management.
Sam Jones combines his unique tools with his years of experience to coach the UK’s brightest public figures and influencers to create more productivity, better performances and improved wellbeing within young people.
He looks at the culture of instant-access information on our phones and devices and how it is affecting our own psychology, as well as how a fast-paced world can impact on our thoughts and feelings.
The topics he focuses on include Generation Z, wellbeing and mental health, retention and resilience of Gen Z, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) from a Gen Z perspective.
Russell Beck’s drive is inspired by the belief that people are the only USP of any organisation. He helps empower leaders and organisations to navigate the evolving world of work to be future ready.
An author, consultant, and keynote speaker, Russell Beck is widely acknowledged as a thought leader in people and leadership. He blends an engineer’s desire for knowledge, an inquisitive need for evidence, and a belief that things can be better with an inspirational, charismatic, and thought-provoking style.
Russell Beck connects dots in an informative way to help organisations take tangible actions to unlock the potential and productivity of their most expensive asset, their people. Often acting as a catalyst, he captivates people, motivating them to think differently, providing the impetus to change and transform, and enabling them to move quicker and further than they previously thought possible.
He provides inspirational and analytical insight into moving any organisation forward with giant steps.
R. Michael Anderson’s unique combination of real-life experience of founding, scaling and exiting three software enterprises, matched with his masters degree in psychology, is the reason he’s trained leaders at some of the most successful companies in the world including Microsoft, PwC and Salesforce.
In addition, he’s authored a number of best-selling leadership books, contributes to entrepreneur.com and was once named Social Entrepreneur of the Year.
His popular book Leading the Next Normal: A Guide to Building an Engaged, Resilient and Agile Virtual Workforce (2021) teaches managers and executives how to successfully navigate the chaotic world we currently live in.
Given he’s 6′ 8″ tall, you can’t possibly miss Michael, and it also explains why, in a former life, he was a professional basketball player!
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.
Mounia Berrada-Gouzi is an experienced multilingual presenter, event host & personal coach, being expert at engaging people in an authentic, creative and powerful way.
Mounia speaks Native English and German, fluent French and Spanish and basic Arabic.
She is in demand throughout Europe for expos, conferences meetings and events, conducted in multiple languages.
Jennifer Bryan can help your leaders through her pragmatic approach to leading change, particularly during these unpredictable times.
Jennifer has a real passion for ensuring people are at the heart of decision-making in change, especially with leadership. Thoroughly motivated by helping people, in whatever capacity possible, by making sure people are thought of first, last and throughout change projects and programmes.
With over 20 years of experience in working with over 40 different organisations across industries, sectors and the globe, she uses a pragmatic approach to the behavioural elements with coaching experience. She is highly skilled in connecting with clients from a position of real commercial insight and understanding, and achieves lasting change with clients by taking a holistic approach: working with the whole person and organisational system.
Jennifer has a philosophy that there can not be any change without learning and no learning without change, and works with the knowledge that human beings are multi-faceted by nature, so she achieves lasting change with clients by taking a holistic approach and working with the whole person and organisational system.
Jeff Dewing is not your typical speaker. He’s an International Energiser, Founder and CEO of Cloud and author of the bestselling business book Doing the Opposite, where he underpins his philosophy that the best solution is often not the obvious one. By doing the opposite of the expected, you can generate astounding results.
His journey to success is a testament to this belief. Jeff’s first business went bankrupt, leaving only £7.60 in his bank account, while also relying on benefits.
Jeff refused to give up. Instead, he turned his life around, learnt to code and started Cloud from his garden shed. He built it from the ground up to a £70M turnover without a penny of investment.
Jeff has since worked with some of the world’s biggest brands, including Tui, Pizza Express, Chiltern Railways and The Rank Group.
In a landscape where businesses seek a catalyst for change, Jeff uses his decades of lived leadership experience to shake things up, reignite passion and challenge leaders to rethink their ways of working. Jeff does things differently.
For instance, he gives his team two paid hours per week for reflection – a simple yet powerful practice that has improved employee wellbeing and doubled Cloud’s engagement levels compared to industry standards.
Inge Woudstra is an expert in equity, diversity and inclusion, with a specialism in gender inclusion.
She is also the author of Be Gender Smart – The Key to Career Success for Women, a book that received feedback such as “men and women bring a great deal of value to the table. The sweet spot is in appreciating the need for both” – Helena Morrissey, founder of the 30% club.
She is an inspiring speaker, with a message that resonates with women, men and senior managers: “stop changing women, start changing organisations”.
Inga has a unique take on gender diversity. She has reviewed bio-psychological and brain research to find those gender differences that are relevant in the workplace. She applies those to solve the enigma of the lack of women in senior positions and in the pipeline, and gives real examples on how to move forward and not just keep women in but also leverage what they bring.
She is a highly qualified speaker, facilitator and tutor, and experienced panel moderator, researcher and consultant.
Chief Happiness Officer Henry Stewart is the founder of Happy Ltd., a corporation focused on creating happy and productive workplaces
Initially founded in his back room over three decades ago, it has now gained a reputation for enjoyable IT training and has won recognition for its innovative approach to management. Happy was named one of the top 2 workplaces in the UK in 2022, in the SME section, and one of the top 15 in Europe.
Henry Stewart was listed in the Guru Radar of the Thinkers 50 list of the most influential business thinkers in the world. “He is one of the thinkers who we believe will shape the future of business”, explained list compiler Stuart Crainer.
International Leadership Expert, author of Leadership Laid Bare! and founder of the award-winning Successfactory™ Graham Wilson is a leading performance facilitator and inspirational developer of leaders.
His key purpose is to awaken possibility in leaders to deliver extraordinary results.
He is skilled in teaching New World Leadership, Senior Team Development, Strategy, Business Modelling, Organisational Development, Salesforce Transformation, Developing High-Performance Teams, Innovation and revitalising organisations suffering from Change Fatigue!
Graham works internationally with organisations and their Senior Teams to align strategy and action, specialising in the people aspects of change.
Since his early days in the Army, and then working for Dupont, Graham Wilson has consulted, trained and coached top-level business people in the public and private sector in the UK, US, Europe, Asia, Australia and the Middle East.
Graham Wilson has been described by clients as an ‘igniter of human potential’ – ‘a true leadership wizard’ – ‘an inspirational storyteller’ and ‘an inspirational provider of practical insights that make a difference – immediately’.
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.
Gabby Jahanshahi-Edlin is a creative consultant, social entrepreneur, female business leader, and speaker on social and cultural change, specialising in bold branding and business growth. She helps inspire teams to be bolder and braver, to work with compassion, be daring and be fun. Gabby works with founders to nurture their brands for extraordinary and sustainable growth.
In 2016, she founded the first-of-its-kind charity, Bloody Good Period, and worked as CEO until 2022. Through her charity, she changed the way we talk about periods at home, in the workplace, and on a wider national level. Her entrepreneurial skills and charitable nature has seen her named one of London’s Most Influential People by The Evening Standard, a Top 50 Trailblazer in Gender Equality by We Are The City, and one of the 100 trailblazers redefining the creative art industry by recruitment website The Dots.
She has appeared on television shows, including The Last Leg, Sky News and BBC News. She has been featured in several written publications, including The Metro, The Sunday Times, Third Sector Magazine, Vogue, Stylist, The Evening Standard, and Glamour.
She is a much sought-after keynote speaker, having worked with brands such as Adidas, Apple, Disney, The Guardian, and the University of the Arts London.
“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.
Erica Farmer has over 20 years experience in learning and development, apprenticeships and digital training, having worked for big brands such as LV, British Gas and Virgin.
Her area of specialism is the future of work and skills, and digital learning. Erica is passionate about providing opportunities in business, specifically driving innovation and thought leadership.
In 2021 Erica co-founded Quantum Rise Talent Group, a leader in Learning and Development, and she is currently the Business Director.
Cynthia V Davis is a successful businesswoman, Founder and CEO of Diversifying Group, an entrepreneur, diversity specialist, leadership fellow, and international speaker.
Cynthia V Davis began her business, with a new baby in tow, determined to make the world a fairer place. With her own experience as a woman of colour, Cynthia originally founded her business under the name BAME Recruitment due to the historic marginalisation of Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) communities in the UK, before expanding into Diversifying Group.
She was nominated as one of the ‘Most Inspirational Women in Tech 2020-2023′ by Computer Weekly. Cynthia is also a Board Trustee at Over The Wall and a sought-after speaker on topics like diversity, equality, technology, and entrepreneurship.
Colin Minto is a world leader in resilience, workforce stress, burnout and EDI. He supports organisations to develop resilient workers and environments where employees can openly talk about mental health.
Having overcome and managed his own personal battle with OCD, anxiety and stress over 40 years, he now helps others do the same, combining his lived experience with his knowledge and understanding of the corporate world. Drawing on his own mental health challenges, he shares how each time he has come back faster, stronger and smarter.
In a 30 year career in HR, recruitment and talent acquisition, Colin has worked with global organisations such as Disney, Deutsche Bank, Liberal Democrats, Lloyd’s of London, AXA, Marriott, and HSBC.
Colin’s open, honest and thought-provoking talks, first shock with his inspirational journey …but then provide practical ways to optimise mental health to survive and thrive in a modern world.
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.
