Inspirational Speakers

Neil Edge

Resilience Speaker

Neil Edge is a mental performance speaker and ultra-endurance athlete who helps leaders prevent burnout and lead through personal adversity. Drawing on his experience living with cancer and coaching professional triathletes, he translates resilience and cognitive performance science into clear, practical tools that help leadership teams sustain clarity, composure, and long-term performance.

Michelle Niziol

Wealth Strategist

Michelle Niziol is an award-winning Wealth Strategist and serial entrepreneur who went from near-homelessness at 17 to building a multi-million-pound property and finance group. Female Entrepreneur of the Year winner 2025, Michelle speaks powerfully on financial independence, resilience, and building wealth on your own terms—combining real-world results with bold advocacy for women in business.

Paris Norriss

TV Host

The Grit Code keynote delivers a framework that everybody can use to build the most important ingredient of success, Grit. Audiences see a measurable transformation in their results by changing nothing more than the way they position their thought process.

Nigel Taberner

Former hostage negotiator

Nigel is a former UK hostage negotiator and expert speaker on communication, influence, and negotiation. During his 10 year career as a negotiator, he saved over 130 lives, successfully resolving highly volatile armed sieges, domestic and international kidnaps and high-risk suicide interventions. As a passionate and engaging speaker Nigel brings to life, through his stories, subjects such as elite level listening, emotional intelligence and how to influence people and negotiate when you have nothing to give away.

Grace Marshall

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.

Penny Haslam

Paul Spiers

Global keynote speaker, advisor, Podcast Host

Paul Spiers is a leading keynote voice at the intersection of AI leadership, transformation, culture and human-centred change. He is founder of The New P&L® Institute, host of top 5% global podcast, The New P&L – Principles & Leadership in Business, and author of the forthcoming book, THE SENSITIVE CYBORG™: Recoding leadership & Culture for the Age of AI. Through his keynotes and workshops, Paul equips boards and leadership teams with the frameworks and mindset to enable them transform their culture and leadership and help them thrive in an era of rapid technology-led change.

Emma Henderson

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.

Alex Staniforth

The Adversity Adventurer

By 19 years old Alex had already overcome and achieved more than many will in a lifetime, and survived the two most significant disasters in Mount Everest history, in two consecutive years. This is not your typical success story of reaching the summit. Combining lessons from adventure and ultra-endurance with a relatable vulnerability, he shares his Resilience Rucksack that anyone can apply to achieve their own Everest.

Colin Ellis

Culture Consultant

I'm a 5 x best-selling author, award-winning speaker and culture consultant with almost 200 recommendations for my work of helping organisations to transform their cultures. I work with some of the world's biggest (and smallest!) organisations to help them create safe, respectful, high performing teams.

Victoria Humphries

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!

Gill Whitty-Collins

Gill Whitty-Collins - Author of WHY MEN WIN AT WORK… and how we can make inequality history. & a captivating keynote speaker who leaves audiences enlightened, inspired & motivated to drive gender equality

Author of the ground-breaking book WHY MEN WIN AT WORK… and how we can make inequality history, Gill Whitty-Collins has gone from a comprehensive high school, to Cambridge University, to Senior Vice-President at Procter & Gamble; to Gender Equality champion. She is a captivating and thought-provoking keynote speaker who leaves audiences enlightened, inspired & motivated to drive progresson gender equality. Inclusive approach that resonates with everyone in the organization & provides actionable tips for all genders to drive real changeA razor-sharp, highly energetic, inspiring communicator with a clear vision and message delivered in a straightforward style

Nicky Wake

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.

Rob Hosking

The Mighty Motivator

Dubbed ‘The Mighty Motivator’ by Chris Evans, Rob Hosking is a TEDx speaker and former frontline Police Officer who helps teams thrive under pressure. Blending raw, real-life stories with practical tools, he inspires organisations to lead through change, build resilience, and prioritise mental wellbeing while empowering people to adapt fast, speak up, and perform at their best.

Stephen Steers

President

Stephen Steers is a consultant, keynote speaker, and author of Superpower Storytelling. He’s helped 1,000+ companies across 40+ countries—including Google and Nike—sell with confidence. Creator of Context Selling, Stephen teaches what school doesn’t: how to connect, listen, and lead with stories that convert. Because stories close the sale, never the conversation.

Christine Cort

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.

Penny Mallory

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

Ore Oduba

Work in Progress

Over a 20-year career, I have achieved everything I have ever set out to do both personally and professionally.. However only now, in my era of no fear, have I finally cracked the code to not just succeed in my life, but to save it. It’s that formula I want to share with you.

Dinara Mukh

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.

Paul Berriff

documentary filmmaker

Paul Berriff OBE is a British documentary filmmaker, cinematographer and fine art photographer with a distinguished career spanning more than 50 years. He's best known for his powerful visual storytelling in both still photography and television documentaries.

Helen Butters

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.