Expert marketing speakers bring valuable insights, strategies, and motivational energy that can significantly enhance your event. By tailoring their message to your specific needs, they can help your team better understand market trends, sales tactics, and customer relationships. Whether you’re looking for inspiration, practical sales tools, or an innovative perspective on leadership, a professional speaker will leave a lasting impact, equipping your team with the knowledge and drive to elevate their performance.
At Great Business Speakers, we specialise in curating personalised shortlists to ensure the perfect match for your event. With access to a diverse range of top-tier speakers, we can help you select someone whose expertise aligns with your business goals and event objectives. Whether you want to motivate your sales team or refine key skills, our tailored approach guarantees that your keynote speaker will resonate with your audience and elevate the overall experience. Let us help you create a memorable, impactful event that drives results.
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Rory Sutherland is an advertising executive, Vice Chairman of the Ogilvy & Mather group of companies, The Spectator columnist, and writer of three bestselling books.
He joined Ogilvy in 1988 as a graduate, going on to work as copywriter, Creative Director, and now Vice Chairman. He has also been President of the IPA, Chair of the Judges for the Direct Jury at Cannes, and has given several TED talks. He is also a trustee of the Benjamin Franklin House in London and a Patron of Rochester Cathedral.
Rory is a globally sought-after keynote speaker. His inimitable flair and curiosity have made him a TED talk superstar, with his talks gaining over 6.5 million views. He is also a regular voice on Radio 4.
Rohit Bhargava is an expert in marketing, innovation, trends, and the future. He believes the world needs more non-obvious thinking and his mission is to help people see what others miss.
For more than a decade, Rohit has been inspiring audiences at Coca-Cola, Disney, Microsoft, NASA, Schwab, SXSW and hundreds of other clients with his signature keynote presentations. He is a master at weaving stories into his talks in a way that helps audiences better understand the world today, while also preparing for the future.
He is a three-time Wall Street Journal bestselling author of 10 books on marketing, innovation, and trends; has been invited to be a non-boring speaker to events across 32 countries; and is a frequent contributor to publications including Entrepreneur and GQ magazines.
David Abbott – Keynote & Main Stage Conference Speaker
David Abbott is an international keynote and main stage conference speaker, pricing expert, and author of How To Price Your Platypus. He helps organisations and leaders around the world unlock higher profitability by understanding the psychology behind pricing — why customers decide to pay what they do, and how to set and communicate prices that stick.
His clients include EweMove, Fine & Country, The Guild, EA Masters, IPG conference, Venues of Excellence and NFAN.
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Jenny Millar: Pricing expert, author and CEO of Untapped Pricing
Renowned for revealing the human psychology that sits behind every price tag, Jenny Millar is a pricing expert, author and CEO of Untapped Pricing. She brings audiences into the quirks of human behaviour from our obsession with “free” to the surprising premiums people will pay when emotion takes over. Jenny has led major pricing transformations at eBay, teaches at the London School of Economics and Warwick Business School, and advises global corporates, private equity firms and high-growth businesses. Co-author of The Pricing Sprint (Bloomsbury, 2026), Jenny is a dynamic keynote speaker who combines behavioural science and commercial strategy to demonstrate to leaders how pricing can become their most powerful lever for growth.
Audiences describe Jenny as “high-energy, relatable and razor-sharp” — a speaker who turns the often-intimidating world of pricing into an inspiring, human, and practical conversation about value, growth and confidence.
Simon Morris is arguably one of the most successful creative entrepreneurs in the UK. For over a decade, Simon has worked at Amazon, first as a Director of Advertising, then Global Creative Director, and now Chief Creative Officer, with his leadership elevating the brand to new heights.
He is the current Chairman of the award-winning producers Object Studios, the AI-driven creative optimization business DiO, and for Novel, the UK’s leading podcast-to-streaming creator. In 2023 he was named as a Governor of the Museum of London. He is the mastermind behind several projects, including the iconic Alexa Super Bowl campaign which captured global acclaim.
Simon’s experience includes launching Sega in his territory, making Sonic the Hedgehog a household name, managing the largest software sales for Sonic 2, and generating over £1 billion in revenue thanks to his campaigns – an achievement which saw him inducted into the UK Marketing Hall of Fame.
“Stick to your beliefs, ensure everything is consistent with the brand and create an environment of trust.” – Tamara
Tamara Lohan is a co-founder and CEO of Mr & Mrs Smith, the boutique hotel booking specialists.
An entrepreneur with a background in marketing and technology, Tamara and her husband founded the company in 2002, and have been responsible for evolving the company’s digital infrastructure ever since.
From working in sales to marketing to business consultancy, Tamara has worked as the CTO, COO, and CEO of Mr & Mrs Smith. As CTO, she oversaw the development of their in-house booking engine and proprietary availability-management systems, apps, and Alexa voice skill.
The brand was acquired by Hyatt in 2023, and it now has offers all over the world and represents over 1,000 of the world’s best boutique hotels.
Tamara and her husband were both awarded MBEs in 2014 for their services to the British travel industry.
Described as a visionary leadership expert, Silvia Garcia is the founder of Feel Logic and Happiest Places to Work, and the former Global Director for Marketing and Happiness for the Coca-Cola Company.
After a 15 year career in senior communication roles, she made history as the first Global Director of Happiness for Coca-Cola, and under her leadership collaboration thrived, innovation grew, and engagement soared.
She is now a highly sought-after speaker on leadership, inspirational, and happiness; she takes her audiences beyond strategy and tactics, creating a shift of perspective and building a better future for your business. She combines science-based insights and strategies with audiences, transforming the way we understand people and empowers the audience to deal with them on a higher level, maximising their skills and creativity to become superior strategists at work and life.
Andrew McMillan started Engaging Service over ten years ago. Prior to that he spent 28 years working for the John Lewis Partnership, starting as a management trainee to becoming responsible for customer experience across the department store division.
He wants to make individuals and organisations happier and more fulfilled through a sense of collective purpose, so they engender trust, loyalty and advocacy from their customers while becoming more productive and, as a consequence, more profitable.
Gordon Glenister is a highly experienced marketing and sales professional, who has worked with a number of recognised businesses over the years. His main focus is on influencer marketing, membership, and promotional merchandise.
His journey started when he was just 15 years old. Always the entrepreneurial type, he made his first £1,000 selling plants and serving gardens in Essex. A few years later, Gordon was thrust into the world of business, working for companies including Bryant and May.
He then moved on to a bigger role, working for Grants of James, where he consistently beat his sales incentives and was one of the top salesmen in the team. From there, he moved to HP Bulmer as one of the youngest ever regional sales managers, and by the time he was 26, he was managing a £21 million Whitbread account.
Gordon Glenister has also made over 160 episodes of the Influence Global Podcast interviewing all sorts of well-known individuals. As an international speaker and moderator of over 300 events, Gordon specialises in helping audiences unlock their influence and build a strong personal brand. As a professional journalist, Gordon is able to moderate on panel discussions getting the very best from his guests.
He also presented the BPMA awards for over 10 years with an audience in excess of 900. Gordon also sits on various boards including a metaverse company.
Gordon is also the director of the development board of the Arcola Theatre, is a board member for VERCHOOL HOLDINGS, and is a brand ambassador for Home Grown Club, and 1 Club.
With over a decade of experience at the intersection of entrepreneurship, fashion, and sustainability, Zoe Bayliss Wong is a strategic force behind some of the most recognisable names in purpose-led consumer business.
Now working as a freelance CFO and COO, Zoe partners with leaders to bring high-growth expertise to businesses creating positive change for people and the planet.
As a SME advisor, board director, and strategist, Zoe speaks around two key themes: sustainable fashion and the future of retail, and women in business and driving diversity in senior leadership.
Charlie Whyman knows that facing redundancy, navigating career changes, and starting new ventures can be daunting, but she also knows they can be opportunities for growth. As the Manging Director of TGIS Aviation, Charlies specialises in solving complex, time-critical challenges. She is passionate about helping others to take control of their careers and to build the courage to take action, no matter the obstacles.
With a background in engineering, marketing, and business, Charlie has built her career across male-dominated industries, including automotive, aviation, mining, and shipping. In 2006, Charlie founded and award-winning Sardinian Olive Oil business Palmavera, and after facing redundancy twice, she launched her own consultancy business in 2017.
As a university dropout with no formal qualifications, Charlie is open and honest about the twists and turns in her career, and uses her story to show that fear doesn’t need to hold you back. Through her experiences as a speaker, business leader, entrepreneur, and parent, she demonstrates that with the right support and courage, it’s possible to take control and create your own path to success.
Brand specialist Sarah Brason invites audiences to do the one thing most people avoid: turn and face it. Whether it’s challenge, change, fear, or truth, her keynote of the same name is a rallying cry for courage over comfort.
Known for her quiet strength and piercing clarity, Sarah doesn’t offer hype or surface-level motivation. She offers something deeper – a moment of shift. With emotional precision, warmth, and wit, she helps audiences see what’s really holding them back and what’s possible when they stop running and start facing forward.
She brings a fresh voice to the stage, unafraid to sit with discomfort, and skills at guiding others through it. Her talks stay with you long after the applause, sparking reflection, realignment, and bold new steps.
Jo Fairley is a serial entrepreneur, best known for co-founding the luxury chocolate brand Green & Black’s. Leaving school with just six O Levels, Jo became the UK’s youngest-ever magazine editor at Look Now.
Today, Jo continues to make influential contributions to Green & Black’s, as well as to the wider industry. She has founded several businesses across industries, but always themed around the senses.
Jo is a highly sought-after speaker, sharing her experiences, invaluable expertise, and advice for fellow entrepreneurs. Jo was once awarded the World Aware Award for her influential entrepreneurship, a testament to her dedication to ensuring all she works on is environmentally friendly.
Ken Hughes is one of the world’s leading authorities on customer experience (CX) and modern consumer culture, renowned for helping some of the biggest global brands better connect with their customers and employees.
Recognized as The King of Customer Experience, Ken Hughes has worked with industry giants such as Starbucks, Google, Coca-Cola, Verizon Media, and the NFL, offering expert insights into consumer behavior, digital anthropology, and the future of customer engagement.
With over 20 years experience as CEO of a consumer insight agency, Ken is best described as a social science Frankenstein – his interests made up of part anthropologist, part sociologist, part psychologist and part cyber behavioralist.
As an accomplished author, TED speaker, actor and university lecturer, Ken Hughes keynote presentations are high-energy, thought-provoking, and packed with his signature Irish wit, navigating the needs of the modern consumer and predicting what is to come.
Sedge Beswick is an entrepreneur, business founder, consultant, advisor, and speaker, helping brands and people grow without losing their edge. Sedge has built a career at the intersection of brand, culture, and real life.
Sedge Beswick has built her career by challenging convention, pushing boundaries, and breaking new ground. From pioneering social at ASOS to growing SEEN Connects into a £24 million global agency, she knows how to scale businesses and grow audiences.
Whether it’s start-ups or global giants, Sedge brings a no-nonsense, sharp approach to navigating the chaos of scaling in today’s world. She’s a go-to expert on marketing, influence, and brand-building, backing up her opinions with experience, no buzzwords.
She is regularly featured on BBC News, Sky, and The Financial Times, is a two-time author, lecturer, and has led workshops for No. 10 Downing Street and Google.
David Meikle – a leading thinker and innovator in marketing and advertising and an accomplished business author, combines unparalleled experience and expertise with an ambition to transform business relationships.
He has worked with some of the world’s most prominent brands through roles at global agencies like Grey and O&M and as Group Managing Director of Ogilvy Russia. His expertise lies in driving impactful marketing strategies and organisational transformations within the advertising sector.
Over the years, David has gained a renowned reputation as a speaker on Leadership and Management, delivering seminars, workshops, and training courses to various businesses, organisations, and professional bodies across the globe: from the largest advertising agency networks in the world to the European Commission, from New York to Dubai to Singapore.
David’s unique delivery style combines real-world case studies, academic theory, and personal anecdotes wrapped in his signature wit. Whether addressing leadership, marketing transformation, or mental health, his talks leave audiences inspired, entertained, and equipped with practical tools for change.
Amit Bhalla is a transformational strategist, coach, and inspirational speaker.
With over 20 years of coaching, M&A, and strategy experience, his unique approach focuses on activating businesses, individuals, and teams to fully operate from their authentic selves. His focus is always on bespoke and tailored services, reflecting the differences between businesses and individuals and the patterns they face in life and in business.
He has spent of 20 years working with CEOs, founders, and high-level executives to help them through the transformative journey to unlock their full potential.
Allyson Stewart-Allen is an expert in leadership, development, and internationalisation. Allyson helps leaders, brands, and businesses successfully expand internationally by giving them the tools to be more effective globally.
Sky News once dubbed her the “Muse of Marketing”. She has collaborated with companies, media channels, and publications worldwide, including BBC News, CNN, and The Financial Times. She has also appeared on BBC1’s The Apprentice, and has created one of LinkedIn Learning’s most popular courses on leading international growth.
She has worked with over 260 organisations across 26 countries, including Burberry, Cadbury, Chanel, HSBC, and Shell. She is also one of the original mentors for the Mayor of London’s International Business Programme.
Peter Stojanovic is a leading business and technology thought leader, journalist, panel moderator, and keynote speaker with extensive experience in the field.
He has particular experience interviewing Fortune 500 and FTSE 100 C-level executives as Editor of HotTopics, covering themes across innovation, business strategy, and technology, including AI, within its award-winning industry events.
Peter is recognised as a rising star among executive and board-level leaders, regularly hosting international events, private lunches, and panels to address their main concerns, challenges, and opportunities within their industries.
As a result, Peter enjoys high-quality debates on topics ranging from AI applications and ethics to business transformation, ESG and purpose, the future of work, inside the minds of Gen Z, and cloud computing and cybersecurity measures for the C-suite.
Peter has worked with organisations such as Costa Coffee, Uber, Telefonica, Zoom, Wellcome Trust, Channel 4, IKEA, Generali, Bupa and The Financial Times. He has led virtual and in-person business and technology events at iconic venues such as Tottenham Hotspur Stadium and Abbey Road Studios.
Perla Bloom is a dynamic global marketing strategy leader.
Passionate about the intersection of tech, creativity, and culture, she builds brands and creates connected experiences for audiences that solve a problem to reach specific objectives.
She is currently the senior global comms manager for Expedia, responsible for planning content, editorial and entertainment for the company. She is also the WELL London Chapter Lead, Expedia’s internal women’s organisation.
She is also a much sought-after international keynote speaker at industry events and on podcasts.
Matt Swain is the founder and CEO of Triangle, working with an exclusive group of UK and US leading founders, CEOs and entrepreneurs, helping to build their digital reputation to drive commercial outcomes.
He is also the founder of SOCIAL CLUB, an exclusive social media communications company where influencers and brands manage a following of over 328 million.
Matt is also a published author, and a popular inspirational speaker.
Jessica Matthias is the Global Director of Sustainability at Sabre Corporation, a global technology company in the travel sector. With a 17-year track record of transformative ESG initiatives, impactful policy advocacy, and compelling communications, Jessica is a globally recognized leader in sustainable travel. She’s the visionary behind numerous high-profile sustainability campaigns, and her thought leadership consistently shapes the industry’s agenda.
Jessica Matthias is a compelling speaker known for her ability to inspire and engage audiences – with previous engagements at events like the Global Travel & Tourism –resilience & Innovation Summit, The Travel Tech Summit, and the Travalyst Convention.
Jessica Matthias discusses eco-conscious practices, overcoming personal challenges, and building a sustainable future for travel– with her insights into decarbonising industries and empowering the next generation in the ESG landscape being particularly impactful.
Jessica’s personal journey is one of resilience, from being a teenage single mother of a child with severe disabilities to a leading global sustainability expert. This adds a distinctly personal depth to her talks. Her unwavering commitment to sustainability and social equity has made her a prominent voice in the field, sought after for her expertise and inspiring presentations.
For the last year, she has been the Vice Chair of the GBTA Foundation’s Sustainability Leadership Council.
Jessica Matthias’ clients include Arival, Choice Hotels, FairFly, Gett, the United Nations, the Vienna Tourist Board, and Voyage Privé.
With a CV described by The London Times as “takes some beating”, Hamish Taylor is a world leader in customer-led transformation, with unparalleled experience in inspiring audiences.
Hamish Taylor is a popular keynote speaker, offering practical and inspiring advice from real stories by someone who has succeeded at the highest level. As the former CEO of Eurostar and Sainsbury’s Bank, Hamish has presented to over 500 companies in 48 different countries.
Gabrielle Hase is an eCommerce, digital marketing and branding specialist known for her expertise in transforming businesses and driving growth.
She has established herself as a trusted advisor and leader, helping companies navigate the challenges of the digital economy and capitalise on new opportunities. Her work has had a significant impact on brands both in the UK and internationally, making her a sought-after consultant and speaker.
During her career spanning more than 20 years, Gabrielle has transformed brands, including Moonpig, The White Company, and Sweaty Betty, helping them to build their online presence and increase market share.
She also mentors start-ups in leading London incubators and is highly regarded for her ability to guide emerging businesses through the complexities of modern retail.
Gabrielle’s expertise is also in demand as a keynote speaker, panel moderator, and conference chair. She has recently shared her insights at events for major companies like GHD, Avado, and Tealium and has also moderated discussions for organisations such as Smart Pensions.
