Motivational Speakers
International Women’s Day
We're proud to represent some of the most influential and motivational female speakers, who are the perfect addition to bring any event or conference to life.
SAVED SPEAKERS
Belinda Parmar OBE
Diversity campaigner, AI expert, CEO of The Empathy Business and Non-Executive Director for the Ministry of Defence.
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Lara Morgan
Lara Morgan is a British entrepreneur with a track record of delivering exceptional accelerated growth.
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Rachael Flanagan
Rachael set up a now multi million pound cleaning business from just £20 investment.
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Dr Sue Black OBE
Sue is one of the leading tech personalities in the UK today with over 20 years’ experience.
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Jo Malone CBE
'English scent maverick' - the woman responsible for creating some of the world's most-loved fragrances.
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Alex Scott MBE
Alex is a a former professional footballer, pundit and lead Presenter on BBC’s Football Focus.
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Dr Tessy Ojo CBE
Visionary female leader driving transformative change for youth and women globally.
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Jos Dirkx
Jos Dirkx is an award-winning communications advisor, Faculty at SingularityU on the Future of Learning and a global expert on diversity.
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Gillian Wilmot
Gillian is the Founder & CEO of Board Mentoring & one of the UK's marketing leaders.
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Edwina Dunn
Edwina Dunn is best-known as co-founder of the international data analytics company, Dunnhumby.
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Jill Scott MBE
Former Professional England Footballer and England's second-most capped player.
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Sharon Amesu
Former Barrister turned award-winning speaker and consultant, specialising in leadership and diversity.
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Baroness Karren Brady CBE
The First Lady of Football and advisor to Lord Sugar on BBC series 'The Apprentice'.
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Dame Katherine Grainger DBE
Dame Katherine Grainger DBE is Britain’s most decorated female Olympian.
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Debra Searle MBE
Entrepreneur and adventurer who rowed solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
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Col Dame Kelly Holmes DBE
Double Olympic Gold Medalist and renowned leadership speaker.
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Mary Portas
Executive Creative Director, retail & brand advisor, journalist, TV presenter, author & ambassador for Save the Children.
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Kirsty Mac
Kirsty Mac is one of Raise the Bar’s Senior Consultants and Coaches, specialising in leadership development & coaching.
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Helen Richardson-Walsh MBE
Helen was part of the GB hockey team that beat The Netherlands in the Rio 2016 Olympics
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Dr Nighat Arif
Dr Nighat is a GP specialising in women's health, family planning and menopause care with over 15 years of experience in the NHS.
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Beth Tweddle MBE
Asymmetric Bars and World Floor Champion, Beth is only the fifth person in history to reach the top in 2 separate disciplines
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Sathya Bala
Sathya is a leader, board member, entrepreneur and Top 100 Empower Ethnic Minority Exec committed to building a more equitable world.
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Susie Wolff MBE
Former professional racing driver, Susie Wolff, is a motorsport executive and entrepreneur.
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Rebecca Adlington OBE
Double Olympic Champion & one of Britain’s highest profile and most popular female athletes.
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Kay Formanek
Kay Formanek is an advisor, author, coach and speaker on the transformational power of diversity to organisations and society. Kay collabor
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Rebecca Romero MBE
Rebecca Romero MBE is one of only two women to have ever won Olympic medals in two different sports and the only Briton to do so.
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Mariella Frostrup
Renowned UK broadcaster, known for insightful interviews and advocacy for menopause and women in the workplace.
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Dr Alison Edgar MBE
Alison Edgar MBE is also known as “The Entrepreneur’s Godmother” to a plethora of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs.
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Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill DBE
One of Britain’s most successful sportswomen, Dame Jessica was undoubtedly one of the stars of the London 2012 Olympics.
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Dame Denise Lewis DBE
Denise Lewis OBE is a former gold medal winning Olympic Heptathlete, TV Presenter and President of Commonwealth Games England.
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Seyi Akiwowo
Founder and CEO of Glitch, an award-winning charity working to prevent online abuse & gender-based violence.
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Victoria Thornley
Victoria Thornley is an Olympic silver medallist, three time Olympian and history maker in the sport of rowing.
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Lily Lapenna MBE
Lily Lapenna MBE is the founder and Co-Chair of global social enterprise MyBnk.
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Jo Fairley
Green & Black’s, started with just £20,000 of Jo’s savings, has grown into a brand worth approaching £100 million worldwide.
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Kess Eruteya
Kess Eruteya is the Founder and CEO of a corporate innovation company, InclusionZ.
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Penny Haslam
Award-winning motivational speaker, author and former BBC business journalist.
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Holly Tucker MBE
As the founder of Holly & Co, notonthehighstreet and the UK Ambassador to Creative Small Businesses, Holly champions and shines a light on t
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Jennifer Holloway
For over 15 years Jennifer Holloway has been teaching people in business how to blow their own trumpet, without sounding like an idiot.
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Anna Hemmings MBE
Anna Hemmings MBE, OLY is best known as Britain’s most successful female marathon kayaker, a 2-time Olympian and 6-time World Champion.
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Dr Shahzadi Harper
Dr Shahzadi Harper is the ‘perimenopause Doctor’ – she is one of the most renowned experts specialising in women's health and wellbeing.
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Stef Reid MBE
World champion, paralympian and speaker specialising in high performance and diversity and inclusion.
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Baroness Eliza Manningham-Buller LG, DCB
Baroness Eliza Manningham-Buller is a Former Head of MI5, The UK's Security Service.
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Jeannette Linfoot
Jeannette is a high performing corporate CEO turned entrepreneur with a multi-million pound business portfolio.
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Marga Hoek
Marga Hoek is a global thought leader on sustainable business and capital, three-time CEO, and a member of Thinkers50.
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Helen Sharman CMG OBE
Helen became the first British person to enter space in 1991, spending 8 days orbiting the Earth.
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Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon MBE
Anne-Marie Imafidon is Head Stemette and co-founder of Stemettes, inspiring females into STEM.
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Dr Liz Jackson MBE
Dr Liz Jackson MBE is an award-winning entrepreneur, author and industry expert in marketing.
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Sarah Willingham
Sarah Willingham is an entrepreneur, investor and personal finance expert who was a Dragon on the 13th series of the BBC's 'Dragons' Den'.
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Anna McNuff
Anna McNuff is an endurance athlete and adventurer.
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Bianca Miller-Cole
Successful entrepreneur, former contestant on The Apprentice and “face” of the My 365 Microsoft Office business campaign.
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Rachel Colenso
South African born Rachel Colenso believes wholeheartedly that people can achieve the seemingly impossible if they put their mind to it.
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Hayley Barnard
Diversity, Inclusion and Unconscious Bias expert
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Katharine Merry
One of Britain’s most outstanding female athletes, now turned broadcaster in radio and television.
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Davina McCall MBE
Presenter, fitness guru, author, and mother Davina McCall is one of the UK’s most loved TV personalities.
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Stefanie Sword-Williams
TEDx speaker, founder, and author of F*ck Being Humble - an empowering movement dedicated to inspiring individuals.
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Raina Brands
Raina Brands is a leading researcher on social networks, gender bias and leadership in the workplace.
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Fearne Cotton
Mental health advocate, best-selling author, long-standing broadcaster, and founder and creator of the Happy Place brand.
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Karen Blackett OBE
Karen Blackett OBE, UK Country Manager for WPP and GroupM UK CEO, is a renowned and proven business leader with a track record in creating v
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Gina Battye
Gina Battye is a world-renowned, award-winning Psychological Safety and LGBTQ+ Inclusion Consultant and Trainer.
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Lisa Forte
Lisa began her career working in anti-piracy intelligence off the coast of Somalia trying to protect commercial shipping from attacks.
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Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson DBE DL
Britain’s greatest Paralympic athlete and acknowledged as one of the most courageous sportswomen of her generation.
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Perrine Farque
Perrine Farque is a professional keynote speaker, author and inclusion and diversity and inclusion expert.
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Kresse Wesling CBE
Multi-award winning environmental entrepreneur and Young Global Leader with a background in venture capital.
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Vicki Anstey
Leading wellbeing expert, TEDx speaker, coach and mentor. Entrepreneur turned adventurer and 2x World Record holder.
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Kate Ancketill
Kate heads up a team of researchers utilised by companies around the globe to give them the winning edge
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Donna Fraser OBE
Donna Fraser is a 4 time Team GB Olympian with Equality, Diversity & Inclusion expertise in sport organisations and businesses.
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Mandy Hickson
The only female pilot on her Front Line Tornado Squadron, flying multimillion pound fast jets for the Royal Air Force.
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Julie Deane CBE
Julie resolved to start a business manufacturing satchels, and so “The Cambridge Satchel Company” was born.
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Liz Earle MBE
Legendary businesswoman, media influencer and TV presenter campaigning for better health and wellbeing.
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Charlotte Sweeney OBE
Diversity & Inclusion Expert and Speaker
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Katie Piper OBE
Katie Piper is a hugely inspirational acid attack survivor, TV presenter, best-selling author, campaigner & charity founder.
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Deborah Meaden
Deborah Meaden is a highly successful Entrepreneur, Investor & Dragon on the BBC's business TV show 'Dragon's Den'.
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Julia Streets
Julia Streets is a champion of tech and entrepreneurship, innovation, diversity and inclusion.
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Dee Caffari MBE
Dee Caffari is the first woman to have sailed single-handed and non-stop around the world in both directions.
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Sarah Furness
Founder of Well Be It | Keynote Speaker| Bestselling Author | Executive Coach| Helicopter Pilot | Human Factors Expert | Mindfulness Coach
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Rachel Murphy
Female entrepreneur who built and sold a multi million pound business in a thousand days. Not for the faint hearted. Big personality!
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Martine Wright MBE
She lost both legs in the Circle line bombing, yet she considers herself a lucky woman with a whole new life of opportunities
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Leanne Spencer
Leanne Spencer is a female keynote wellbeing speaker specialising in stress management, burnout prevention, recovery and resilience.
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Margaret Heffernan
Margaret Heffernan is an entrepreneur, Chief Executive and author.
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Dame Stella Rimington DCB
Dame Stella is known to billions of people worldwide as the role model for the character “M” played by Dame Judi Dench in the James Bond 007
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Maggie Alphonsi MBE
Former Womens England Rugby World Cup Winner
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Kate Richardson-Walsh OBE
Captain of the gold medal-winning Team GB women’s hockey team.
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Roberta Lucca
Roberta is a Serial Entrepreneur, founder of the multimillion-dollar Bossa Games, Forbes Top 50 Women in Tech and BAFTA winner.
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Afua Hagan
Afua Hagan TV & Radio Presenter, regularly appears on ITV, BBC and TalkRadio, Keynote Speaker, Diversity and Inclusion Speaker, Event Host,
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Vernice Armour
America's First Black Female Combat Pilot, Former Marine & Cop, Author of Zero to Breakthrough and Consultant to Business
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Ayo Sokale
Civil engineer, entrepreneur, BBC Presenter, Former Deputy Mayor of Reading, speaker on sustainability, motivation, STEM and neurodiversity.
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Alex Mahon
As the CEO of Channel 4, Alex Mahon stands out as the first woman to lead a major UK broadcaster.
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Dr Lynda Shaw
Lynda is one of the most sort after applied neuroscientists & leadership psychologists specialising in communication skills to unlock genius
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Sacha Romanovitch OBE
Sacha Romanovitch made history as the first female CEO of a major accounting firm when she took the helm at Grant Thornton UK.
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Dr Michelle King
Dr Michelle Penelope King is a globally recognised expert on inequality and organisational culture.
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Laura Siddall
Laura is a world-class, highly driven Professional Triathlete, three-time Ironman Champion and multiple 70.3/half distance Champion.
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Gina Martin
Gina Martin is a gender equality campaigner, speaker, and training facilitator.
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Nicola Green
Nicola Green is an expert on identity, allyship, race and inclusion.
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Eva Carroll
Eva is a powerful speaker on Women’s Rights, Equality and Climate Change.
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Melissa Sterry
Design Scientist, Systems Theorist, BioFuturist, Serial Founder, Designer, Speaker, Writer.
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Tania de Jong
Tania de Jong AM is a trail-blazing Australian soprano, global speaker & an award-winning social entrepreneur.
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Mette Johansson
Mette Johansson is a highly awarded author, keynote speaker and entrepreneur. She speaks on Authentic Inspirational and Inclusive Leadership
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