With their specialised knowledge, these speakers can break down complex topics like market shifts, sustainable building practices, and regulatory changes, making them accessible and actionable. They provide a deeper understanding of industry challenges and opportunities, helping attendees make informed decisions and stay competitive. A construction and property expert also enhances the credibility of your event, fosters audience engagement, and equips participants with valuable tools to navigate the evolving landscape confidently.
Discover our Construction and Property Speakers below, or contact the team at Great Business Speakers to enquire or book. +44 1753 439 289
Nikki Greenberg is a world-leading futurist and multi-award-winning keynote speaker, focused on preparing organisations and leaders for a tech-enabled future. Nikki helps leaders to reimagine their businesses to bring them into alignment with the increasingly digitised way that people live, work, and communicate today.
She has held leadership positions with Fortune 500s, most recently serving as Head of Technology Strategy for Real Estate at Australian investment manager QIC. She is the founder of Women in PropTech and co-chair of the Technology and Innovation Council for ULI in NYC.
Nikki Greenberg is a highly respected and highly sought-after thought leader, speaker and commentator. She is the recipient of a vast number of awards, including being recognised as one of the Top 15 Most Popular Future Trends Keynote Speakers, CIO View’s Five Most Influential Women in Real Estate to Watch, and as a finalist at MIPIM Global PropTech Awards.
Yasmine Mahmoudieh is a multiple award-winning architect and interior designer, renowned for her pioneering work in multi-sensory and sustainable design.
She is deeply committed to sustainable practices in her field, and demonstrates her devotion by speaking at forums around the world, but also through her actions.
Yasmine Mahmoudieh is the founder of Impact Design Now, a company that produces high-quality, sustainable future using 3D printing technologies and recycled materials, maintaining the integrity of high-quality design while promoting sustainability.
She also explores the future of architecture and the role of technology in her discussions. She is at the forefront of technological innovation in design, with projects including a 3D printed furniture line from recycled plastics and a pioneering virtual real estate project in the Metaverse.
Through her talks, Yasmine Mahmoudieh educates audiences worldwide about the importance of sustainability in architrave and design. She discusses how careful selection of materials can lead to healthier alternatives to toxic substances like plastic and concrete, resulting in designs that are both attractive and eco-friendly.
In addition to being an impactful keynote speaker, Yasmine Mahmoudieh is a guest lecturer at universities and colleges in London, New York, Los Angeles, Monte Carlo, Lausanne, Shanghai, and Moscow. She serves on the BLLA board and has been a visiting professor at EHL for nine years. For the last 10 years, she has taught at the Institut Paul Becuse in Lyon and Paris, and she is a mentor at the Royal College of Art in London.
With her influence and expertise in sustainable architecture and design, Yasmine Mahmoudieh has been featured in several high-profile publications. Her work and insights have been highlighted in Architectural Digest, Forbes, Yahoo Finance, ELLE, Business Insider, and Digital Journal.
Beyond her speaking engagements, Yasmine Mahmoudieh serves as a global ambassador for sustainability in architecture and design, delivering lectures at prestigious forums like the World Economic Forum in Davos, and COP28 in Dubai.
An experienced mortgage broker, property expert, blogger, and investor, Tayo Oguntonade regularly uses his expertise to break down complex and relevant property topics for the everyday person to understand.
Tayo is best known for presenting the BAFTA award-winning show The Great House Giveaway (2020-) on Channel 4. In this show, two people who have never met and have never owned a house, are given a lump sum of money to buy a property at auction. They, with the help of Tayo, then have six months to revive the property into a habitable and desirable home, with the aim to split any profits. If the house doesn’t sell, it then goes back to auction.
Tayo can also be seen offering his expert advice on shows such as Steph’s Packed Lunch (2020-), Rip Off Britain (2009-), Watchdog (1985-), Morning Live (2020-), and the ITV News (1955-) as a property and investment expert.
Sophie Robinson is one of the industry’s top interior stylists and designers, regularly employed by Britain’s best-selling magazines to produce inspirational yet achievable room designs.
With over 25 years of experience, the undisputed queen of colour is regarded as an expert with a keen eye for the latest looks and high-street trends.
Martin Roberts is one of the most well-known faces on British Television. Martin has presented BBC1’s highest rating daytime programme Homes Under the Hammer for the past ten years.
Martin has a regular weekly audience of over 12 million daytime viewers and is regarded by most housewives as their ‘guilty pleasure’. Martin is an all-round performer and presenter and can be seen daily on BBC1 and was a hit on I’m a Celebrity .. Get Me Out of Here in 2016.
He is a regular After Dinner Speaker and compere and enjoys sharing his inside secrets of making a profit out of property, lifting the lid on the secrets only he know in making one of Britain’s most popular daytime show.
For the past ten years, he has written and presented the hit property auction show which is shown on BBC1, BBC Worldwide and Home. He has also written his own series of children’s books – The Villes.
Martin Raymond is the co-founder and Futures Director of The Future Laboratory, a UK-based consumer insight, trend forecasting and brand strategy agency. Clients include American Express, Louis Vuitton, Laurent-Perrier, Absolut, BMW, Lamborghini, Selfridges, British Airways, Procter & Gamble, Marks & Spencer, Standard Life Bank, HSBC and Condé Nast.
He is also Editor-in-chief of Viewpoint magazine, bi-annual trends, intelligence, consumer research and forecasting journal, and co-founder and editor-in-chief of LS:N Global, the online lifestyle news and consumer insight portal.
Martin has written several books, including CrEATe (Gestalten) and The Tomorrow People: Future Consumers and how to read them today (Financial Times/Prentice Hall). The Trend Forecaster’s Handbook (Laurence King), is the definitive work on trends and the trend forecasting arena.
Mark Clemmit is a seasoned TV and radio presenter and event host, with 20 years experience.
He has appeared on BBC’s Match of the Day, Football Focus and Final Score, as well as Radio 5 Live, where he is one of the station’s longest-standing voices.
Mark’s areas of expertise also include property and consumer issues; presenting the BBC One How Safe Is Your House, reporting for The One Show and writing as a columnist for The Times.
Mark is also an experienced awards presenter, conference facilitator and event host, including work on a broad range of topics from diversity and equality to innovation and leadership.
With a penchant for the quirky, extravagant and avant-garde, Shaun Clarkson has shaped the face of the British hospitality scene since first introducing Absolut Vodka to the UK more than 25 years ago.
Today, he is recognised as one of the world’s leading authorities on interiors, furniture, brand and experiential design. He’s a dealer and a collector with a passion for vintage and re-invented furniture, curiosities and antiques, and recently featured as one of the dealers on the hit Channel 4 antique show Four Rooms.
Sarah Beeny is best known for her property expertise, which she frequently shares on popular television programmes, such as Renovate Don’t Relocate (2019-20), Help! My House is Falling Down (2010-11) and Restoration Nightmare (2010-11).
She is also an esteemed entrepreneur, business owner, TV presenter, author, and cancer campaigner.
Roma Agrawal is a diversity campaigner, author and award-winning structural engineer best known for working on the foundations and spire of The Shard in London, one of the tallest buildings in Western Europe. Roma attributes her enthusiasm for engineering to her love of making, and breaking, things with Lego as a child.
She was once described by The Telegraph as “the new voice of women talking about science and engineering and making it cool.” She has won international awards for her technical prowess including the prestigious Royal Academy of Engineering’s Rooke Award, and an MBE in 2018.
Her first book Built (2018) won her an AAAS Science Book Award and has been translated into nine languages. This was then adapted in 2021 into How Was That Built, a more child-friendly version. Her latest book, Nuts and Bolts: Seven Small Inventions that Changed the World (in a Big Way) was released in March 2023.
Roma Agrawal is also a very popular and much sought-after speaker, and has given thousands of talks to organisations, universities and schools around the world, as well as appearing on numerous TV and radio shows for the BBC, Channel 4 and Discovery. She is passionate about promoting technical careers to young people, especially those from minoritized groups.
Oliver Heath is a qualified Domestic Energy and Green Deal Assessor and is passionate about sustainable design and how this can affect people’s wellbeing. His human-centred biophilic design approach seeks to reduce stress by strengthening human connection with nature to improve physical and mental wellbeing in our home and workspaces.
He studied architecture at Oxford Brookes University and then completed a postgraduate in architectural studies with a distinction at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. He went on to work in the exhibition and set design industry before winning the BBC’s Young Designer of the Year award in 1998. Following this, he set up the interior and architecture practice, Blustin Heath Design, with business partner Nikki Blustin.
With over 30 years of industry experience, as well as a wealth of media and research experience, Oliver Heath has firmly secured his spot as a leading expert within the industry.
Architectural designer, writer and TV presenter, Charlie Luxton is passionate about the environment and communicating his enthusiasm for sustainable architecture and eco-friendly design.
Charlie has presented Homes by the Med (2016-2017) where he visited some of the best coastal properties on the Mediterranean for Channel 4, and Building the Dream (2013-) for More4, where he helps people design and build their dream home, often on a budget.
Lars Tvede is a professional investor, serial entrepreneur and author who over the last 30 years has founded a string of companies within telecommunication, software development, property and finance.
His work has won him numerous international awards, including the Wall Street Journal Europe Innovation Award, Red Herring Global 100 Award, and Swiss IMD Startup Award.
Lady Michelle Mone, Baroness of Mayfair OBE, is one of the most sought-after inspirational speakers of our time. Recently voted the UK’s Number 1 Woman speaker, she is best renowned as one of Britain’s most influential ladies; both an entrepreneur and an advocate for equality for women in business.
Founder of Ultimo Brands International, the UK’s leading lingerie brand for the last two decades, she set out with a vision of helping women look and feel they’re very best. It was upon that simple concept Baroness Mone built her career and influence, being honoured with a Life Peerage to the House of Lords by the Prime Minister and an OBE from Her Majesty the Queen for her outstanding contributions to the business.
Baroness Mone grew up in the impoverished East End of Glasgow when, at the age of fifteen, her father fell ill and was subsequently declared paraplegic and wheelchair-bound for life. This forced Michelle to leave school without any qualifications in search of full-time employment, sparking her instinct for entrepreneurship. At the age of just 22, she excelled herself to Head of Sales and Marketing in Scotland for the Glasgow-based Labatt’s Brewers, however, was made redundant after two short years.
Presenter on ITV’s Love Your Home & Garden, Property Expert, Problem Solver, and Social Entrepreneur, Kunle Barker began his business career whilst studying for an MA at the University of Leeds.
Kunle has set up several successful companies including Illustrious Homes an award winning Construction and Design Management Company.
