
Finding exceptional female speakers for your next event has never been easier. Our curated roster of female speakers represents diverse industries, backgrounds, and expertise areas, ensuring you'll find the perfect match for your conference, corporate event, or special occasion.
From FTSE 100 CEOs and award-winning campaigners to innovative entrepreneurs and thought leaders, our female speakers deliver powerful presentations that inspire, educate, and transform audiences.
Defiant hope

Author, journalist, speaker & strategist helping the design sector understand, navigate & communicate the transition to a regenerative future.
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Pomona Partners is the only speaker agency in the UK with a commitment that more than 50% of our speakers will always be female. That means we can always find the perfect woman for your keynote slot, panel, fireside chat, or event hosting duties.
Each speaker in our network has been carefully selected for their ability to engage audiences, share valuable insights, and create memorable experiences that drive real results. Yes, they can speak to issues of women's leadership, diversity and inclusion, but more importantly, this is a premium selection of experts with authentic perspectives and proven track records who will grace any event stage.
Our female speakers cover topics ranging from business strategy and leadership development to technology innovation, major trends, and social impact. Many are award-winning professionals who have been featured in major media outlets and recognised as industry pioneers.
When you book female speakers through Pomona Partners, you're not just hiring a presenter; you're partnering with influential voices who can elevate your event and leave lasting impressions on your attendees.

Bespoke Tailor
I speak on executive presence, showing how the way women dress can communicate confidence, credibility and purpose before they say a word. In a 30-45 min talk I introduce 5 Lulu Stripe Style Archetypes - a practical toolkit that helps women design a work wardrobe for key career moments. My aim is to help women lead with intention, dress with confidence, and use style as a powerful professional advantage.

Conscious Founder
Celia Gaze is a Conscious Founder, TEDx speaker and B Corp leader who turned a rundown farm into an award-winning, purpose-led brand. Through powerful storytelling, humour and hard-won lessons, she inspires leaders to build profitable businesses that put wellbeing, sustainability and people first, while proving that impact and imagination belong at the heart of commercial success.

Chief Encourager
Award-winning keynote speaker and author Grace Marshall helps leaders and teams do their best work in changing times. She names the hidden reason smart strategies stall and brilliant people burn out - High Functioning Fear® - and her refreshingly human, memorable Three Shifts framework gives people a practical way to move from fear-driven reaction to courageous, connected action.

Defiant hope
Author, journalist, speaker & strategist helping the design sector understand, navigate & communicate the transition to a regenerative future.

Leadership Speaker
Emma Henderson MBE is a leadership speaker and one of fewer than 500 female airline captains worldwide. Through her signature approach, Grounded Leadership, Emma shares powerful lessons from 30 years in aviation to help organisations develop authentic leadership, strengthen decision-making, and build resilient, high-performing teams. Blending compelling stories with practical insights, she inspires audiences to lead with humanity, humility, and humour, and equips them with tools to thrive in today’s increasingly turbulent world.

Keynote speaker
Victoria Humphries is a polar adventurer, three times Guinness World Record holder, mountain climber, marathon runner, author, Bath based businesswoman and a ‘normal’ person. She prides herself on being just your average woman who happens to believe that Anything is Possible if you put your mind to it. What’s the worst that can happen? Just give it a go!

Futurist x Economist = Court Jester
The Court Jester you didn't know you needed : Bronwyn is a professional futurist and economist who helps you understand our world so you can change it. She is the author of four books, and has extensive experience consulting to listed firms, international NGOs, central banks and governments all over the world. She is a sought after media commentator comfortable with speaking uncomfortable, yet necessary truth to power.

Founder & Serial Entrepreneur
For 20 years, I’ve built communities and led award-winning events. But it was after facing loss, that I turned my experience into purpose. I create spaces where people can connect during life’s hardest times. And as a speaker, I bring strength, empathy, and fearless storytelling to every stage. My story is tear jerking, emotional and inspirational and proves that with resilience and vision, we can transform our greatest pain into purpose. It is proof that sometimes, life’s most extraordinary chapter begin exactly when you think your story has ended.

Workplace Wellbeing Pioneer
Eileen Donnelly is a Strategic Wellbeing Leader with 20+ years of senior corporate experience and a track record of helping organisations embed purpose and measurable wellbeing. A multi-award-winning speaker and FTSE 250 alumna, she’s known for cutting through the fluff with evidence-based insights that link employee mental health to real business impact.

Workplace Health and Wellbeing Consultant BABCCP Accredited Cognitive Behaviour Therapist AOC Coach
Martina Witter is an award-winning CBT therapist, AOC Leadership Coach and resilience speaker who helps leaders and teams thrive under pressure. With warmth, humour, and science-based strategies, she transforms stress into strength and adversity into advantage. Through her signature talks like Rivers to Resilience™, Martina inspires audiences to rest, reset, and rise personally and professionally.

Impact Coach
Growth Advisor and Impact Coach for Women in Tech |TEDx Speaker |Social Sustainability Advocate| #4 in the Top 10 diverse leaders in UK Tech| Social Mobility champion DEITA 2023|Women in IT 2022 |TechWomen 100 UK 2020|

Founder & Director at Edge Of Difference
Mo Kanjilal is a TEDx speaker, entrepreneur and author with 25+ years leading diverse teams in the tech world. Known for championing bold inclusion, Mo brings sharp insight and real-world experience to every stage she steps on. She helps audiences rethink how they communicate, work and lead — by truly including different perspectives, people and lives.

Executive coach
Jude Jennison develops CEOs and executive teams to lead change with clarity, by working with a herd of horses to reveal unconscious non-verbal behaviours. A bestselling author, her clients include blue chip companies and fast-growing entrepreneurial businesses.

Anxiety Specialist
My name is Caroline Cavanagh and I believe we’ve got anxiety all wrong. It's time to stop treating anxiety as an enemy and instead, release the untapped potential it creates. This is what I do. I help people channel anxiety into a catalyst for growth, motivation and deeper self-awareness. And I do it by teaching people how to decode anxiety’s hidden messages and transform it into lasting mental resilience.

Managing Partner
Marketing strategist, founder, and international speaker who helps leaders navigate growth with clarity and confidence. With over a decade in senior marketing roles and experience building my own ventures, I specialise in making complex topics - AI, strategy and go-to-market—accessible, engaging and actionable for ambitious business audiences.

Christine Cort co-founded the biennial Manchester International Festival (MIF) in 2005 along with former CEO and Artistic Director Alex Poots. Born in Blackburn in 1963, Christine was Managing Director at the MIF for 16 years. The festival is widely regarded as one of the most successful in the world, with a reputation for staging world premieres and entirely new work, bringing visitors from across the globe to Manchester.

Broadcaster and Journalist
Nadine Dereza is an award-winning broadcaster, journalist, and renowned conference chair with a proven track record of captivating global audiences. Named 'Financial Journalist of the Year', she brings unparalleled expertise in business, finance, and current affairs. Whether you’re looking to inspire, inform, or ignite conversation, Nadine delivers with authority, energy, and insight.

Penny Mallory helps people to develop their Mental Toughness, so they can better manage stress, pressure and the challenges life chucks at us
Penny Mallory is a motivational speaker, specialising in Mental Toughness, High Performance, and Mindset Transformation. As a teenage homeless runaway, Penny turned her life around to become a Rally Driving Champion , TV presenter, boxer, mountaineer and marathon runner, Penny’s extraordinary journey, from homelessness to competing in World Championship motorsport, has inspired audiences across every industry and sector. She puts it all down toher mental Toughness

Alexandra Forsyth is a speaker, podcast host and TEDx presenter working across women’s sport, leadership and human performance — helping leaders and organisations turn potential into performance through her H.U.M.A.N. ROI Matrix™.
Alexandra Forsyth is a speaker, podcast host and TEDx presenter working at the intersection of women’s sport, leadership and human performance. Through Take A Chance On You — her media and speaking platform — and her H.U.M.A.N. ROI Matrix™, she helps leaders and organisations turn what people build under pressure into how they perform, lead and grow. UK-rooted, increasingly working across the US.

Hormone & Nutrition Educator Women's Health Educator
Dinara Mukh is a TEDx speaker and hormone and nutrition expert who helps women reclaim their energy, balance their hormones, and feel powerful in their bodies again. After healing her own severe hormonal symptoms naturally, she now translates science into practical, actionable strategies that create real, sustainable change — leaving audiences inspired, confident, and ready to take action.

Helen Butters is a record-breaking ocean rower, motivational speaker, and performance life coach who helps people turn belief into action. In 2016, as part of the Yorkshire Rows team, she helped make history by becoming one of the first women to row the North Sea and then the Atlantic in the Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge, earning a Guinness World Record. Today, Helen brings those lessons in resilience, teamwork, and pushing beyond limits to audiences worldwide from corporate leaders at Mercedes F1 and Ernst and Young to individuals seeking personal transformation. Through powerful storytelling and coaching grounded in NLP, she helps people move from knowing they want change to understanding how to achieve it. Her message is simple: limits are learned, resilience is built, and extraordinary results are possible when we choose to believe.

Futurist & Neuroscience Expert
Described by CNN as “one of the most trusted voices in the industry” and by the World Economic Forum as a ‘thought leader beyond compare’, Shivvy is one of Britain's very few female, Asian Tech Futurists who also specialises in the human, behavioural psychology side. As a five-time award winning Futurist and Neuroscience expert, she's done over 600 speeches and hit a 38 Million reach online! 25 industry accolades in, she's been named one of Britain’s ‘Women of the Year’ and an Asian Woman of Achievement.
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