Kevin Keegan OBE

An incredibly passionate and renowned communicator, Kevin Keegan is one of the most recognisable faces in British football. An illustrious playing career included time at Liverpool, Hamburg, Southampton and Newcastle ... Read more

Sir AP McCoy

Sir A P McCoy is the greatest jump jockey of all time. The 18 times champion jockey has won everything there is to win – including the prestigious Cheltenham Gold ... Read more

Rasmus Ankersen

Rasmus Ankersen is a bestselling author, an entrepreneur, a speaker on performance development and a trusted advisor to businesses and athletes around the world.

Marc Hogan

An ex-sales and marketing professional with over 14 years experience, Marc Hogan has inspired audiences to seek out opportunities, tackle challenges and improve their communication and influencing skills with his presentations. ... Read more

Paula Reid

Inspirational speaker, author and adventurer Speech 1: BOAT to BOARDROOM High performance inspiration for leaders and teams drawing on the Global Challenge round-the-world yacht race. As a core crew member ... Read more

Mike Forde

As the former Director of Football Operations at Chelsea FC, Mike Forde is one of the UK’s leading Sports Executives, having worked at senior level in the English Premier League ... Read more

Mark Foster

Mark Foster burst onto the International swimming scene, at the age of 16, representing England at the 1986 Commonwealth Games. He went on to represent his country for 23 years ... Read more

Adrian Webster

Adrian Webster is a highly entertaining Motivational Speaker who specialises in delivering key messages on behalf of clients in a humorous and completely unique, down to earth style that audiences ... Read more

Debra Searle MBE (formerly Veal)

Debra has packed an enormous amount into her 20’s. Reading her CV is exhausting in itself! To add to her first class honours degree she has had entrepreneurial success with ... Read more

John Nichol

“John Nichol has made a big impression. He exceeded our expectations and has become a talking point within the organization. His presentation was very thought provoking: no one can fail ... Read more

Chris Moon MBE

Chris Moon MBE believed in service, so after attending agricultural college, he worked as a volunteer at a centre for the homeless and then joined the army. On graduating from ... Read more

Alex MacPhail

Alex MacPhail is a passionate and compelling motivational speaker. His great expertise is empowering large audiences to master their motivation – allowing them to achieve their full potential, both on ... Read more

Perry McCarthy

Perry McCarthy is one of Britain’s top former racing drivers, is part of motor racing folklore, and is known to millions of BBC Top Gear viewers simply as “The Stig”. ... Read more

Jim Lawless

Jim Lawless is one of the world’s leading inspirational speakers.

Anna Hemmings

A highly accomplished motivational speaker, Anna is entertaining, direct and on target. She has a passionate belief that every individual has a talent and an ability to achieve beyond their ... Read more

Pen Hadow

Pen Hadow, ‘the thinking man’s explorer’, has spent longer than most on the North Pole ice cap and has watched its gradual thinning with growing alarm. Twenty years ago, you ... Read more

Sally Gunnell OBE

Sally Gunnell OBE has a special place in the nation’s hearts as one of Britain’s most popular female sportspeople. She is the only woman ever to hold four major track ... Read more

Paul Fletcher MBE

Paul is one of only a handful of professional footballers who have made the transition from team sheet to balance sheet. Over the last decade he has been Chief Executive ... Read more

Sean Fitzpatrick

One of the most durable rugby union players of all time, Sean Fitzpatrick was one of the very best. Capped 92 times by his country, the abrasive hooker captained the ... Read more

Richard Dunwoody MBE

Richard Dunwoody was bred into the Sport of Kings. His father George rode and trained many winners in his native Ireland, while his grandfather Dick Thrale also trained at Epsom. ... Read more

Richard Denny

Richard Denny is the one of the most inspirational business speakers in the UK . He is probably unique in that his presentations not only motivate, inspire and educate his ... Read more

Steve Cunningham

Steve Cunningham is totally blind, and yet he has achieved truly remarkable feats of mental and physical stength and determination. Founder member and captain of Englands Blind soccer team, Steve ... Read more

Steve Cram MBE

British middle distance running could not believe its luck when, in a majestic-striding youngster from the northeast called Steve Cram, it found a “third man” to eclipse Seb Coe and ... Read more

Tim Collins OBE

Colonel Tim Collins OBE was born in Belfast and educated in The Royal Belfast Academical Institution and Queen’s University Belfast where he read Economics. He was commissioned into the Army ... Read more

Will Carling OBE

Will Carling OBE is the former captain of England’s Rugby Union team. He was England’s youngest, longest-serving and most successful skipper ever taking on the position at the tender age ... Read more

Roger Black MBE

For over ten years Roger Black MBE performed at the highest level in the world of athletics. He is respected both as an individual 400m runner, and as a key ... Read more

Robin Sieger

A successful businessman, best selling author, and a leading success strategist Robin has developed a reputation within media and circles as a peak performance ‘guru’, in both business and sport. ... Read more

Simon Weston CBE

Only a handful of people would have recognised the Simon Weston who headed out for the Falklands Conflict back in June 1982. But the face of the Simon Weston who ... Read more

Tim Drake

Tim has seen success – and failure – in business over several decades, and has learnt from both.

Penny Mallory

Penny Mallory is one of the most successful women Rally Drivers and the first woman in the world to compete in a World Rally Car (the Formula One of Rallying). ... Read more

Monty Halls

Well known as a BBC television presenter, Monty Halls has worked for over a decade in partnership with organisations large and small as a speaker of the highest quality. As ... Read more

Jas Hawker

Jas Hawker joined the Royal Air Force aged 18 and went on to be the youngest ever pilot to fly the Tornado ground attack aircraft on the front-line. He served ... Read more

Will Greenwood MBE

One of England’s greatest ever rugby players, Will Greenwood MBE was an integral member on the team that won the World Cup in Australia. In the matches that led up ... Read more

Baroness Tanni Grey Thompson

Baroness Tanni Grey Thompson is one of Britain’s best-known Paralympic athletes, having performed at world-class level, in distances ranging from 100m to the marathon. Tanni’s career has taken her around ... Read more

Heather Fell

Heather Fell is an Olympic Silver medallist and former World number one modern pentathlete with strong academics. An ambitious, and enthusiastic elite athlete who is forward thinking, resilient and focused ... Read more

Craig Sandercock

Craig Sandercock specialises in motivating people and businesses on how to achieve their goals. He gives people the tools on how to cope with adversity and pressure which all people ... Read more

Caspar Berry

Caspar Berry started his career in Byker Grove on BBC1 alongside Ant and Dec. He went on to read Economics and Anthropology at Cambridge and, after setting his sights on ... Read more

Benjamin Mee

Benjamin Mee is the man behind the bestselling book and Hollywood blockbuster film “We Bought A Zoo”.

Ben Heason

Ben Heason is a highly regarded inspirational motivational speaker, who has a powerful presentation that delivers a strong message suited to a wide variety of audiences. Whether you are looking ... Read more

Kriss Akabusi MBE

Kriss Akabusi is famous for his achievements in athletics where his greatest individual triumph was his Gold Medal in the 1990 European Championships when he also beat David Hemery’s 22 ... Read more

Simon Woodroffe OBE

Simon Woodroffe left school at the age of 16 with 4 ‘O’ levels in the days when they used to do peace signs and mean them. He went on the ... Read more

Mike Southon

Mike Southon is one of the UK’s leading authorities on entrepreneurship and sales with a weekly column every Saturday in the Financial Times.

Stephen Sackur

Stephen Sackur is best known as the presenter of BBC Hardtalk which is broadcast on BBC News 24 and BBC World, the BBC’s international news channel, and has received widespread ... Read more

Nick Leeson

The collapse of Barings, and the role that Nick Leeson had in it, is one of the most spectacular debacles in modern financial history. How could one trader bring down ... Read more

Lord Digby Jones

Lord Digby Jones was United Kingdom Minister of State for Trade & Investment July 2007 – October 2008, accepting a lifetime peerage in the House of Lords where he sits ... Read more

Luke Johnson

Luke Johnson studied medicine at Oxford University graduating in 1983. He then worked as media analyst at stockbroker Grieveson Grant (subsequently Kleinwort Benson Securities). He took control of PizzaExpress in ... Read more

Sahar Hashemi

In 1995 Sahar Hashemi together with her brother Bobby founded Coffee Republic, and built it into one of the UK’s most recognised high street brands with a turnover of £30m. ... Read more

Jeff Grout

Jeff Grout was, until 2000, UK Managing Director of Robert Half International, the largest specialist recruitment consultancy in the world. A graduate of the London School of Economics, he joined ... Read more

Sandro Forte

Dynamic, innovative and creative – Sandro Forte (FPSA, CSP) is a speaker as well as a strategic and personal development coach. Sandro is a Fellow of the Professional Speakers Association, ... Read more

Frances Edmonds

Frances Edmonds is a truly international expert in the business of communication. Her latest book, “Winning The Game of Life” suggests tools for personal success and motivation and embraces techniques ... Read more

Karen Darby

Karen Darby is a serial entrepreneur, and has been a leading figure in the call centre industry for over 25 years.

Declan Curry

Declan Curry is an event facilitator, conference chair, speaker and awards host. He has been a business and economics journalist for more than twenty years.

Barbara Cassani

Barbara Cassani founded the low cost airline Go and spearheaded the successful London 2012 Olympic bid. Currently, she is working on developing new business ventures – both start-ups and existing ... Read more

James Averdieck

James Averdieck is the founder and Managing Director of Gü Chocolate Puds, launched in May 2003.

Richard Watson

Richard Watson is a writer, speaker and consultant who advises organisations on the future, focusing particularly on scenario planning and the impact of trends on long-term strategy.

Sir Stuart Rose

Former Chief Executive and Chairman of Marks & Spencer, Sir Stuart Rose is a stalwart of business, and a leading authority on retail and management with a reputation and track ... Read more

Dame Stella Rimington

Stella Rimington DCB was the first woman to become Director General of MI5. Educated at Edinburgh and Liverpool Universities, Dame Stella started her career working part-time for MI5 at their ... Read more

Richard Reed

Richard Reed left advertising to set up a fresh fruit juice business with two friends. Famously they set up a stall at a music festival selling smoothies. They set up ... Read more

Gerald Ratner

Famously almost sank his business due to an ill judged comment at the IoD Annual Convention (he described his company’s products as crap!). Since then he has bounced bank with ... Read more

Michael Portillo

Michael Portillo is a popular former politician and broadcaster, possibly best known today for his travel series on TV ‘Great British Railway Journeys’ and ‘Great Continental Railway Journeys’.

Julie Meyer MBE

Julie Meyer is the founder and CEO of Ariadne Capital, Founder – Entrepreneur Country, Managing Partner – Ariadne Capital Entrepreneurs Fund.

Andrew McMillan

Andrew McMillan is currently a Principal Consultant at Charteris PLC specialising in customer experience. He started his career as a management trainee with the John Lewis Partnership at Brent Cross. ... Read more

Martin Glenn

Martin Glenn was appointed as CEO of the Football Association in 2015. Prior to that, he was appointed as CEO for United Biscuits in April 2013. He is the former ... Read more

Geoff Burch

Presenter of BBC’s All Over the Shop where he helps failing businesses up and down the country to run around. A phenomenon who has delighted audiences throughout Britain and abroad, ... Read more

Dave Fishwick

Entrepreneur Dave Fishwick left school aged 16 without any qualifications. However, armed with a huge amount of determination and ambition, he’s now the largest supplier of minibuses in the country, ... Read more