Focusing on key themes such as resilience, teamwork, and mental health, these speakers help audiences develop the mindset and skills necessary to overcome challenges and achieve personal and professional success. Our Personal Development speakers empower individuals to bounce back from setbacks while promoting the importance of teamwork to drive collaboration, innovation, and collective growth. Additionally, by addressing mental health, they emphasise the significance of maintaining emotional well-being, creating a balanced approach to both personal and professional development.
Our Great Business Speakers provide actionable tools and techniques that foster a positive mindset, enhance interpersonal skills, and encourage self-care. They motivate individuals to embrace change, develop a strong sense of purpose, and work together to overcome obstacles. Our Personal Development Speakers create a transformative experience through real-life, motivational examples and engaging stories, equipping audiences with the tools to build a healthier, more productive, and successful future.
Discover our Personal Development Speakers below, or contact the team at Great Business Speakers to enquire or book. +44 1753 439 289
Andrew Thorp is an award-winning speaker, trainer and consultant in the field of business storytelling. He works with senior leaders and salespeople to improve their external marketing message, but also with their broader workforce to encourage a more connected and productive company culture.
Companies regularly hire a branding/marketing agency to help define their message (Vision, Values, Purpose, etc) but it often fizzles out when the focus returns to the daily grind; people revert to a factual and forgettable version.
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.
David Gillespie is an actor, author, keynote speaker, and corporate coach. He has had many TV appearances including, EastEnders, Holby City, and Red Dwarf.
He also appeared with the ‘Long Johns’ in Bremner Bird, and Fortune and led the cast of BBC’s totally improvised Operation Good Guys comedy series, which won Gold and Silver Roses at the Montreux TV Festival.
In April 2023, it was announced that David would return to EastEnders to revise his role as Duncan Boyd, 34-years after initially leaving the soap.
Jimmy McLoughlin is the former Special Advisor to the British Prime Minister, PR & marketing professional, and current Head Podcaster on Jimmy’s Jobs of the Future.
Jimmy’s Jobs has since become one of the UK’s top listened to podcasts.
Dave Birss is obsessed with creativity, what it is, how to make use of it, and why some people are better at it than others. It’s at the very centre of everything he does, and he is passionate about helping everyone to improve their creative thinking.
Dave’s talks are simple, easy-to-understand, funny, interesting, and captivating, and offer audiences tangible ideas that they can then implement in their own personal or professional lives.
As well as keynote speaking, Dave offers a number of training courses designed to help at every stage of the creative process, offers consulting work to a wide-range of companies to create better ideas and more successful innovation, and puts all his thoughts to paper, publishing a number of successful books.
Jim Lusty is a creative, energetic, large-than-life character who helps organisations transform their teams and cultures into more energetic, creative and inspiring ones.
He has an impressive track record for challenging and expanding global businesses, and among his client list are Nike, Spotify, ITV, Diageo and WPP.
Jim has the unique ability to make holistic connections with people who innovate both their work and life, whether in workshops or speaking at conferences and events worldwide. People leave feeling energised, inspired and ready to make change.
Helping his audiences get out of their comfort zone and feel special simultaneously, Jim helps people embrace and make changes, injecting a human, creative element into what they do.
Darren Edwards is a record-breaking Disabled Adventurer, a leading authority on adaptability, resilience and teamwork, as well as an inspirational speaker and best-selling author.
At 26 years old, Darren experienced a devastating and life-changing climbing accident that left him paralysed from the waist down. What could have been the darkest time of his life was turned into a catalyst for personal growth and development.
His story is a living example of the limitless capabilities of the human spirit to overcome adversity. Since his accident, Darren has become a record-breaking Disabled Adventurer with a list of remarkable achievements. His inspiration is boundless, having redefined what is possible for a person with a spinal cord injury. Darren has shown what is possible with the right mindset and the ability to adapt to change.
He has understandably become a highly sought-after speaker to big global companies including British Airways, PepsiCo, Procter and Gamble and Google to name a few.
Daniel Disney is a LinkedIn and social selling expert, trainer, author and award-winning keynote speaker.
His LinkedIn expertise has earned him the title of King of LinkedIn, where he has generated over £25 million in revenue, has 1 million followers and his content reaches 10 million people every month.
Daniel uses his 20 years of sales experience and his expert knowledge of social selling to help organisations turn LinkedIn into a sales and revenue-generating machine.
He is the number 1 expert on LinkedIn social selling and is in-demand for speaking, training and consultancy where he helps organisations maximise their growth, reach and sales through LinkedIn.
Adam Corbally is a motivational speaker, entrepreneur and former candidate on The Apprentice.
Despite not winning the competition, Adam Corbally left a lasting impression on viewers with his infectious energy and positive attitude. Following his stint on the show, he embarked on a successful career as a motivational speaker and business consultant.
Speaking to audiences, Adam shares his personal story and journey, from leaving school and home at only 16 years old with little hope and then turning his life around, returning to education and becoming a financial success, achieving happiness and fulfilment in his life.
His message is about how to be resilient, raise aspirations, cope with change and achieve goals. Adam’s speaking style is dynamic and authentic, as he shares practical advice and inspirational stories from his own journey as an entrepreneur.
