Speakers on Leadership
It takes a special quality of speaker to stand up in front of a room full of leaders, inspire and educate. Our selection of leadership speakers bring experience and expertise.
Tom Cheesewright, Applied Futurist
Tom Cheesewright is the Applied Futurist, helping people and organisations around the world to see the future more clearly, share their vision, and respond with innovation. Trusted by global corporations like Pepsi, Google and BMW, and by government bodies like NASA, Tom is an influential voice on future trends with a track record that leaders recognise.
Emma Henderson MBE, Leadership expert and former pilot
Emma Henderson MBE is redefining the boundaries of leadership and resilience for modern organisations.
In 2025, Emma was recognised as Bookers Choice at The Speaker Awards and named one of HR Magazine’s Most Influential Thinkers, reflecting her growing impact on leaders across industries—from finance and healthcare to engineering and elite sport. With over 30 years in aviation - as one of fewer than 500 female airline captains worldwide - Emma brings lessons from both sky and ground.
Her “captain’s mindset” infuses every keynote, workshop and boardroom with actionable wisdom, blending real-world crisis leadership with human-centric management.
Ruth Ibegbuna, Social Entrepreneur
Ruth Ibegbuna is a bold and pioneering CEO, with a relentless focus on working side by side with young people to build a fairer future. Ruth was listed in The Sunday Times as one of the 500 most influential people in the UK, in The Debrett’s 500 in 2016. She was also listed by Virgin and Ashoka as one of the top six female change makers internationally.
Gillian Drakeford MBE, The Power of People & Purpose
Gillian Drakeford MBE is a global retail leader, chair, advisor and speaker. She has huge experience in bringing together people and systems to deliver success with a purpose, leading IKEA in the UK and Ireland, and in China, and driving the superbrand’s global retail experience programme.
Phil Lewis, Agent of Change
Phil Lewis is the person you call when your business is stuck, when change is failing, or when you need your organisation to adapt, fast.
Phil has experienced success and failure in his own businesses and witnessed it in others. He brings these raw experiences to the stage and shares the lessons learned with the audience.
Grace Marshall, Struggle Strategist
Grace Marshall is the author of ‘Struggle: The Surprising Truth, Beauty and Opportunity Hidden in Life’s Sh*ttier Moments.
As well as helping leaders and teams to increase productivity, she offers practical lessons in how to deal with the more challenging moments in leadership, and how to build a more future-ready work culture.
Dr Simon Moore, Behaviour Explainer
Dr Simon Moore explains why people behave the way they do. A Chartered Psychologist with over 30 years of commercial consultancy experience, Simon challenges leaders’ understanding of behaviour, helping them to better connect to their critical stakeholders.
Paul Spiers, Purpose, Principles & Leadership
Paul Spiers connects profit to purpose, advocating a more ethical approach to business as the foundation of a strategy for sustainable success. Host of the global top 5% podcast, ‘The New P&L – Principles & Leadership in Business’, Paul is on a mission to rid businesses of their ‘vinyl values’: empty slogans, propositions and statements that are as thin as the office walls they so often reside on, and replace them with an intentional commitment to authentic and principled leadership and purpose-led business.
Nigel Taberner, Former Hostage Negotiator
What would you say to a man holding a gun to their partner’s head or someone threatening to set themselves on fire? For 10 years that was the type of decision Nigel Taberner had to make as a hostage negotiator. During that time, he successfully resolved more than 130 high-risk armed sieges, suicide threats and international negotiations.
Nigel now brings transferable skills, honed in the secretive and rarely seen world of hostage negotiation, to help those in business, explaining not only what hostage negotiators do, but what they are thinking and how they do it.
Paul Spiers, Purpose, Principles & Leadership
Paul Spiers connects profit to purpose, advocating a more ethical approach to business as the foundation of a strategy for sustainable success. Host of the global top 5% podcast, ‘The New P&L – Principles & Leadership in Business’, Paul is on a mission to rid businesses of their ‘vinyl values’: empty slogans, propositions and statements that are as thin as the office walls they so often reside on, and replace them with an intentional commitment to authentic and principled leadership and purpose-led business.