Sales and retail speakers offer actionable strategies to improve customer experiences, foster brand loyalty, and accelerate sales growth. With deep knowledge of retail trends and consumer behaviour, these speakers equip your team with the tools to connect more effectively with customers, deliver personalised experiences, and build lasting relationships that drive conversions. Whether you’re seeking practical strategies or innovative team approaches to customer engagement, a professional sales speaker will inspire your team to elevate their customer service.
At Great Business Speakers, we specialise in curating tailored shortlists of exceptional speakers who understand the intricacies of retail and customer engagement. Our expertise ensures you choose the perfect speaker to deliver impactful, relevant content for your event. Whether you want to empower your team with fresh customer interaction strategies or boost your retail sales, we’ll help you select a speaker whose insights align with your business goals. Let us help you create a memorable event that inspires your team and equips them to engage customers more effectively, driving success in the retail industry.
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Jo Malone has been described as an “English scent maverick” and the woman responsible for creating some of the world’s most-loved fragrances.
Originally a facial therapist, Jo fell in love with fragrance whilst working from her discreet skin care clinic which she set up from her London home. Discovering an instinctual talent for creating scented products by hand in her kitchen, word of her exceptional potions quickly spread and soon Jo was unable to keep up with demand.
From these artisan beginnings, Jo launched her first brand, Jo Malone London which gained cult status around the world.
In 1999, Jo sold the business to Estée Lauder Companies and remained Creative Director until she left in 2006.
Jeremy Schwartz is a business expert on accelerating the performance of individuals and teams to profit from sustainability. As a former CEO & MD with iconic consumer and retail companies, Coca-Cola, L’Oréal, The Body Shop and Pandora, he delivers audiences ‘valuable actionable insights.’’
Jeremy draws on his leadership roles where he inspired teams to turn around Pandora and Sainsburys and innovate sustainability initiatives, delivering in excess of $20 billion of shareholder value.
This, he combines with a prediction of the future.
“Alison delivers clear business impact, with a human touch and personable approach.”
Dr Alison Edgar MBE, is an expert in improving performance inside organisations. Throughout Alison’s years advising entrepreneurial businesses, she has analysed the important factors that make them successful. Alison takes these lessons and applies them to big companies, enhancing motivation, communication, and agility. She is known both for her practical tools that teams can implement immediately and for the ground-breaking and lasting impact she has on audiences.
Alison Edgar was one of the few women to be awarded an MBE on the Queen’s Birthday Honours list in 2020 for her services to entrepreneurship and business. After gaining her knowledge and experience in the corporate arena for over 25 years, Alison has mentored some of the world’s leading entrepreneurs, from start-ups to multi-million-pound turnovers.
A dyslexic author of two international best-selling books, Alison Edgar has mastered the balance of how to enhance readers’ personal and professional development. Her debut book was not only a WHSmith Top Ten Business Book but named one of the top business books written by a woman in 2019 by The Independent newspaper.
Alex Partridge is one of the pioneers of social media content the way we know it today. At age 21 in 2010, while a student at Oxford Brookes University, he founded UNILAD, one of the most engaged with social news and entertainment Internet companies in the world with an astonishing following of over 50 million people around the globe. In 2012, Alex founded LADBible which would also grew to become a social media juggernaut.
He is regarded as a Facebook Genius!
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.
Alex Hunter is a branding and customer experience expert, keynote speaker, and angel investor. He is also the creator and host of Attaché, an award-winning online travel show, aimed at showing frequent travelers all they need to know before visiting a city on company business.
Previously, Alex served as the global Head of Online for the Virgin Group, overseeing the Virgin brand’s global digital strategy in its entirety, as well as Sir Richard Branson’s personal digital strategy.
After studying for her master’s degree at the University of Chicago and working on a political campaign there, Alex Depledge returned to the UK to work as a consultant at Accenture. She specialised in customer and channel execution. In 2012, Alex teamed up with her friend and fellow Great Business Speakers Jules Coleman to start the online business Hassle.com, now known as ‘Helping’. Impressively, Alex raised the largest VC capital funding ever for a solely female owned business at the time.
What started life as a rather modest booking page allowing users to book all manner of services, became a well-known brand. The duo would go on to sell the company in 2015 for an impressive £24 million.
The following year, the duo set up Resi.co.uk – with Alex as CEO and Jules as CTO – an online architectural platform helping UK homeowners renovate and extend their homes.
Alex is now a popular entrepreneurial speaker, looking at start-up mentality, branding, scaling up a business, overcoming obstacles, the importance of duty of care, diversification, and how to respond to customer needs.
Alan O’Neill can guide your team through his structured path to profit increase, tailoring his insight to the needs of your business. Wherever you are on your journey, Alan’s no-nonsense expertise, infectious enthusiasm and sheer depth of experience can reignite your company’s passion for growth.
A seasoned expert in facilitating organisational change in culture and strategy, Alan can help your team to navigate any stormy waters and overcome resistance. His tried-and-tested formula will help you transform your business to deliver the meaningful experiences your customers crave.
Practical, empathic and very commercial, Alan’s refreshing and passionate style will inspire and challenge your organisation to embrace change and grow, using real-life business models and memorable success stories.
Alan brings 30 years of wide industry experience, from retail to manufacturing and distribution, FMCG to financial services, hospitality to professional services, motor to travel and tourism and more. His work history spans blue-chips and PLCs, SMEs, family businesses and the Public Sector across Europe, the Middle East and Asia.
Daniel Bobroff is the founder of Coded Futures, a creative technology advisory firm focused on the future of retail, and formerly the co-founder and Investment Director of ASOS Ventures, the online fashion company’s venture capital division.
In over two decades as an innovator, entrepreneur, mentor and investor, Daniel Bobroff has pioneered in-game advertising – “selling Mario to the admen” – starting an advertising medium that is today an eight-billion-dollar market, has developed chart-topping video games that sold in their millions, and is, today, a leading thought leader and keynote speaker in the world of retail and fashion technology.
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.
