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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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 Brindley MBE is a prominent UK Business Leader, Chair AT MCRactive and Zellar Limited, and Non-Executive Director (NED) at companies including Four Recruitment, Her Spirit, Equilibrium Asset Management, and Goodson Thomas. He is also an Elite Sports Business Mentor for The Premier League, Leadership Coach for Metro Bank, and a Trustee of Switch the Play Foundation.
He is the former Chair and NED of the Rugby Lead World Cup 2021 Board, Chair of GreaterSport Manchester and Sporting House, a Non-Executive at Rugby Football League, Super League, Move With Peppa, Rapport, and Manchester Football Association, and former Executive of British Gas, Metro Bank, and NatWest.
A leading authority on sales management, employee engagement and satisfaction, and customer experience, Chris holds Non-Executive Director positions at multiple organisations, and has been awarded UK Non-Executive Director (NED) of the Year, Most Outstanding Employer, and Britain’s Best Boss.
He has studied for a range of topics including strategic retail management at Manchester Business School, performance management, and executive coaching at Hult Ashridge, customer experience at Duke University, managing strategic risk at The Wharton School, managing for value creation at INSEAD, and executive leadership from the prestigious Harvard Business School.
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.
Chloe Combi is an ex-teacher, educator, researcher, brand consultant, political consultant, broadcaster, podcast host, film director, bestselling author, and international speaker.
Using a data-driven approach, based on over 30,000 interviews, she works with global companies, governments, institutions, and schools to give them an insight into the future and help them prepare for what the future brings.
Chloe coined the term ‘Generation Z’ – people born between 1997 and 2012 – when she wrote the first bestselling book on the topic, way before the rest of the world became fascinated with them. In her book Generation Z: Their Voices, Their Lives (2015), she interviewed over 3,000 people, and has since added over 20,000 more for her next book about Generation A.
Her unprecedented research into generational shifts makes her one of the world’s leading experts on the matter, and she has become a popular keynote speaker, appearing at events including Edinburgh Book Festival, the London Festival of Education, and Latitude Festival.
Elle Mace is a Master Practitioner and therapeutic coach in eating disorders, body dysmorphia, nutrition, obesity, and clinical weight loss.
She is also a qualified ILM Level 5 Coach & Mentor, and CPD accredited online course creator. Elle Mace is also an in-demand keynote speaker on the topics of eating disorders, body dysmorphia, mental health, positive psychology, and relationships with food.
Elizabeth Cowper brings almost 30 years of HR experience to her role as the founder of Ludo, a company that provides innovative technology solutions and HR expertise to the workplace.
As a working mother of three, Elizabeth has established a reputation for her work with renowned brands such as Planet Organic, Harvey Nichols, LVMH, and Tapestry, the parent company of Coach, kate spade, and Stuart Weitzman.
At Tapestry, Elizabeth served as VP HR Europe, Global Head of Wellbeing, and a member of the Global DEI Committee. Known as the ‘Culture Adjuster’ Elizabeth has been recognised in the HR Most Influential Awards for five consecutive years. Her expertise lies in engaging talent, promoting workplace well-being, empowering women’s success, and fostering a culture of inclusion—her speciality.
Elizabeth’s speaking engagements have included facilitating conferences such as The Retail Bulletin and participating in public and private events. She has addressed large corporate audiences and led more niche sessions with smaller businesses.
Blaire Palmer is the authority on disrupting the future of leadership, and wants to provoke senior leaders to think more critically about the idea of work and leadership itself.
After starting her career as producer of the BBC’s Today programme, she took the leap from this safe and respected job to train as one of Europe’s first corporate coaches and start her own company. Since then, she has worked with many multinational corporations and organisations such as Mattel, Airbus, Roche Pharmaceuticals and the FA.
Blaire can help make sense of the perfect organisational storm of generative AI, hybrid working and the long tail of the pandemic, growing understanding of mental health, the rising cost of living and cost of supply, and global unrest.
Bianca Miller-Cole is an award-winning Entrepreneur and personal brand expert; having founded the ‘go-to’ business for harnessing workforce potential.
The business has an impressive list of clients including HSBC, Accenture, AMEX, CMS LLP, PWC, Barclays, EY, Google, LSE, UAL, BT, KPMG to name a few. Bianca was honoured as a ‘Forbes 30 under 30’ for her commitment to e-commerce and retail via her diverse hosiery brand, which she pitched in the final of The Apprentice in 2014.
Bianca Miller-Cole ’s business influence also resulted in her being awarded a Top 10 ‘Power Profile Leader’ via LinkedIn out of 20 million members, alongside Richard Branson. She appears in the Top 50 Future Leaders lists for the Financial Times HERoes (women only) and EMpower (ethnic minority) lists for her success in business. She is the co-author of the bestselling book Self Made: The Definitive Guide to Business Startup Success and uses her spare time to mentor a growing community of budding entrepreneurs.
Bev Jones is an award-winning transformational speaker, author and panel host who shares her expertise on preventing and dealing with burnout. Her expertise comes from her lived experience, having battled burnout during a 30-year senior management career.
Bev’s battle with burnout saw her crash through self-harm, paranoia, anger, loneliness, and even suicidal thoughts. While it was the saddest and darkest part of Beverley’s life, she now sees it as one of life’s greatest gifts.
During her transformation and recovery, Bev decided it was her life mission to not only help others avoid what she had gone through but also support others to achieve calm in their lives. Her personable character shines through in her thought-provoking talks. Her honest, authentic account about the dark days of burnout are delivered with humour and her audience receives practical tips to take away.
Bev Jones has spoken at many events of all sizes for organisations such as Welsh and Southeast Water, NHS, HSBC and Mars Ltd. She is also regular panel host and member for organisations such as the Welsh Assembly and Lloyds Bank.
Dr Gary Crotaz, PhD, is an extraordinary polymath – a medical doctor and PhD, a world-class dancer, and later a C-Suite corporate leader with global retailers Mothercare and Selfridges Group.
Now he is a sought-after executive and strengths coach in the UK, Us and Europe, award-winning author, and inspiring leadership speaker. He is also the host of the hit leadership podcast ‘The Unlock Moment’, where he interviews many of the leading thinkers on finding purpose, achieving peak performance, and building leadership effectiveness from around the world.
Dr Gary Crotaz has featured in Forbes, the Telegraph, the Sunday Times and on TalkTV, and has spoken at events including CarFest, alongside Dr Rangan Chatterjee, Clive Branson, and Simon Ong. His innovative self-coaching book The IDEA Mindset by Dr Gary Crotaz was awarded Coaching Book of the Year by Henley Business School in 2022.
Dr Paul Redmond is one of the UK’s leading experts on generational change and the future of work. He is a popular keynote speaker, employment guru, and bestselling author.
His reached into Generation Z and their impact on organisations has seen him receive high praise and respect from national and international organisations. As an in-demand speaker, Paul presents at numerous conferences and events around the world, helping organisations and professionals acquire the skills and knowledge to thrive in today’s multi-generational workplace.
Dr Ozak Esu is a multi-award-winning professional electronic and electrical engineer and STEM advocate from Nigeria.
Growing up in Nigeria, motivated Ozak to pursue engineering by the challenges posed by electricity shortages. Her aspirations revolve around making meaningful contributions to the development of enduring and sustainable solutions.
“Developing a new method, improving an existing engineering method, mastering a new software, technique, opportunities to travel for work, and successfully managing a project from concept design to construction excite me.”
Dr Michelle P King is an international expert on inequality and organisational culture, a bestselling author and award-winning speaker.
She is a senior advisor to the UN Foundation’s Girl Up Campaign and previously held the position of Director of Inclusion for Netflix, and Head of UN’s Women’s Global Innovation Coalition, working to achieve gender equality and women’s empowerment.
Dr King holds a PhD in Organisations and Management and has been named a Top 100 Woman at Davos, a LinkedIn Top Voice for Workplace Equity, and shortlisted for the Thinkers50 Talent Award. She currently leads Performance, Culture, Learning and Talent at HSF Kramer, having previously held roles at Netflix and UN Women. Her work has featured in Harvard Business Review, The Economist, and CNBC.
She regularly provides keynotes, fireside chats and masterclasses with leading companies like Fifa, Guardian, Amazon, Dior, FedEx and Morgan Stanley. In 2020, Michelle founded The Culture Practice, a global consultancy which provides organisational leaders with inclusion coaching needed to create cultures that value difference.
Belinda Parmar OBE is an expert in Human Leadership in AI, a diversity campaigner, CEO of The Empathy Business, and a Non-Executive Director for the Ministry of Defence.
As one of the world’s leading authorities on empathy, technology, and business performance, she uses the science of empathy to change the way companies transform their organisations, focussing on leadership, operations, and communications. She has spent over 20 years helping global companies, including Lexus, Lloyds Bank, Barclays Bank, AGL, Toyota, and Aston Martin, turn empathy from a soft aspiration into a hard commercial advantage.
She is the creator of the Global Empathy Index which was published in the Harvard Business Review- the first index to measure empathy and inclusion at scale.
A dynamic entrepreneur and keynote speaker, Belinda has a proven track record in delivering change management programs for major businesses and governments. Recognised by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader, Belinda has spoken at Davos and has received an OBE for serves to women in tech.
With a background in opera, Beatrice Freeman’s presence on stage is unique.
In 2008, Beatrice Freeman decided it was time to move away from Opera and retrain. As a result of the British recession at the time, Beatrice focused her attention on marketing and started working in cybersecurity. In the process, she established herself as a top networking strategist and was interviewed in the national press. It resulted in workshop requests and this is how her company ‘Personal Connection’ was born.
She published her top tips on building a sustainable network in the book Introverts Make Better Networkers: How Anyone Can Succeed at Networking.
Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson is one of Britain’s greatest Paralympians, having competed in five Paralympic Games and winning 11 gold medals, 4 silvers and 1 bronze.
She is widely acknowledged as one of the most gifted and courageous sportswomen of her generation.
Tammi is also a Crossbench Peer in the House of Lords, motivational speaker and broadcaster. In recognition of her service to sport, Tanni was made a Dame in 2005, while in 2010, Tanni became a life peer and was conferred as Baroness Grey-Thompson with a position as a crossbench peer in the House of Lords.
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.
Andy Halliday is a former international hockey player and manager of England and Great Britain men’s hockey teams, as well as a former Specialist Firearms Officer at the Met Police. Andy now applies his skills as a coach, facilitator and keynote speaker.
Andy joined the Metropolitan Police when he was 18 years old. Here he developed his policing skills in a pressurised environment of 1980s London. After an initial period on the beat in Tottenham, he became a riot training instructor for seven years before transferring to the tactical Firearms Unit.
Spending more than three decades in pursuit of best practice in high performance environments, Andy understands what it takes to thrive and succeed, as well as the challenges faced by individuals and organisations from teenagers all the way up to executives in large businesses. Andy has been interviewed on many podcasts, talking about topics including growth mindset, stress reframing, learning from mistakes and his experience managing GB men’s hockey team and 30 years policing in London.
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.
Delivering coaching, workshops and keynote talks, Andrew Pain is an approved TEDx Mental Health speaker and ICF-accredited coach. He is an energetic speaker, on a mission to create decisive and resilient communities, where psychological safety is the norm, the tragic number of suicide victims is reduced to zero, and where diverse communities of people work cohesively as allies. He leads in his work on men’s menta health, burnout, prevention, and overcoming adversity.
Andrew Pain is a hugely relatable speaker, delivering in his own down-to-earth style, exploring tough topics such as men’s mental health, suicide, domestic abuse, toxic masculinity, and gender division, with a frank yet upbeat and optimistic approach.
He is passionate about sharing fresh insights and practical strategies for progress, which people won’t have heard many times before. Whether he is talking about men’s mental health, decision making, burnout, imposter syndrome, or domestic abuse, Andrew delivers ‘refreshingly different’, and it is something which makes him stand out as a speaker.
Andrew is an accomplished senior leader with over 20 years’ experience in heading up major programmes. He excels in building integrated collaborative cultures with clients, and multi-disciplinary and organisational teams to achieve rapid delivery. Andrew trains teams and leaders to thrive under pressure, maximising their potential and teaching them how to look after their wellbeing.
Andrew helps leaders and teams unlock their potential through self-leadership, enhanced collaboration and practical strategies for navigating complex workplace challenges. Drawing on his extensive background of leading teams under intense pressure and the stress that comes with it, Andrew brings and applies 20 years of senior leadership experience, most recently serving as a Regional Director in the Private Sector and Director in the UK Civil Service where he led multi-billion pound programmes.
He is also an accredited mindfulness teacher and brought these two worlds together in his book Organisational Mindfulness: a How-To Guide in 2019 which has sold in four continents. By integrating his experience in leadership and his teachings in mindfulness, Andrew has developed a method to help leaders and their teams embed mindfulness techniques in their organisation.
Currently, Andrew McNeill offers leadership training to a wide range of small and large organisations, helping individuals and teams improve their performance and their wellbeing.
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.
Joe Britto’s passion for mindset as a lever of change is contagious. Author of The Six Attributes of a Leadership Mindset (Crown House Publishing, 2019), Joe works with a wide range of industries across the non-profit, public, and private sectors.
Psychological coach, mindset consultant, thinker, speaker, and writer, Joe Britto founded Innate Leaders, a mindset consultancy, in 2008. It operates in the UK and North America and has gone on to work with organisations including NASA, Lockheed Martin, intel, Coca Cola, and Bayer in the areas of change management, strategy, and the implementation of both.
In 2021 he developed ‘Mindset VI’, a visionary and innovative way to operationalise a shift in mindset around change and strategy in small business and multinationals.
Prior to founding Innate Leaders Joe Britto was an international trainer, radio producer, sound engineer, tree planter, and bush firefighter. And that’s only the tip of the iceberg.
Jodie Armore-White is a bilingual English/Japanese speaker and presenter who was born in Australia, had a global upbringing and now lives in the UK.
Jodie prides herself on being a ‘realist’ and offers an insight into the role that psychology and experience play in personal, professional and business behaviour and performance. Her style is refreshing, factual and importantly, humorous.
Regardless of the subject matter, she’s conscious that her keynote is strategically well balanced verbally and visually to ensure maximum delegate engagement, benefit and entertainment.
