Motivational Speakers

Personal Development Speakers

Looking for a personal development speaker to inspire, motivate and challenge your people to overcome their challenges and perform at their best? Then take a look at our range of personal development, motivational speakers to help deliver powerful messages and personal stories that will leave a lasting effect on your audience.

Our speakers come from a wide range of backgrounds including business experts, athletes and authors, each with their own unique insights and experiences to share. Experts in their fields, they know how to connect with their audience and can tailor their speeches to meet your needs.

SAVED SPEAKERS

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Dr Paul Redmond

With almost 30 years of working in the employment and education sector, Dr Paul Redmond is as the employment and generations guru.

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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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Azeem Rafiq

Azeem Rafiq is a British Asian ex professional cricketer and now a campaigner for meaningful change in sport.

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Steven Bartlett

Steven Bartlett is the 27-year-old CEO of Social Chain, one of the UK’s largest publicly listed social marketing agencies & media publishers

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Dr Andy Cope

Andy Cope is a trained teacher, author, happiness expert and 'learning junkie', helping people become happier.

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James Cracknell OBE

One of Britain’s most successful athletes with two rowing Olympic Gold medals and six World Championships to his name.

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Debra Searle MBE

Entrepreneur and adventurer who rowed solo across the Atlantic Ocean.

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Ellie Simmonds OBE

Ellie is a five time Paralympic champion and the youngest person to receive and MBE.

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Col Dame Kelly Holmes DBE

Double Olympic Gold Medalist and renowned leadership speaker

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Emma Mills-Sheffield

Expert in how businesses can be efficient, productive and resilient.

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Dr Sarah Caddy

Dr Sarah Caddy is a Director of Chimp Management and a General Practitioner of 11 years.

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Nicolas Hamilton

Nicolas Hamilton, born with Cerebral Palsy, became the first disabled driver to compete in the British Touring Car Championship.

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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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Rebecca Adlington OBE

Double Olympic Champion & one of Britain’s highest profile and most popular female athletes.

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Chris Brindley MBE

Leading authority on sales management, customer experience and employee engagement and satisfaction.

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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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Martina Navratilova

Martina Navratilova, tennis player extraordinaire, took women's tennis to a new level with her speed, determination and agility.

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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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Professor Steve Peters

Professor Steve Peters is a Consultant Psychiatrist & best-selling author who has worked with Liverpool FC, Sky ProCycling & World Snooker.

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Alec Stewart OBE

Alec Stewart OBE is a broadcaster, speaker and the most capped English Test cricketer of all time, with 118 international caps.

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Elizabeth Day

Elizabeth Day is an author, journalist and broadcaster.

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Alex Partridge

Alex Partridge is one of the pioneers of social media content the way we know it today.

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Eric Cantona

Eric Cantona is a legendary French footballer best known for his transformative impact at Manchester United.

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Dr Robbie Anderson

Robbie is a British Psychological Society (BPS) Member Status Psychologist and has over 10 years of frontline experience as a Mentor

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Dr Kate Goodger

A leading psychological mentor, who leads a team of expert practitioners to develop the application of the Chimp Paradox

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Kriss Akabusi MBE

Famous for his achievements in athletics, his greatest individual triumph was his 1990 European Championships Gold medal.

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Sir Chris Hoy MBE

Olympic hero Chris Hoy is a multiple World Champion track cyclist and winner of six Olympic gold medals.

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Sir Clive Woodward

His reputation as a world-class leader makes him one of the most sought after public speakers industry-wide.

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Chris Boardman MBE

Former British Cyclist who set 3 World Hour Records, won an Olympic Gold and held the prestigious yellow jersey in the Tour De France.

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Matt Ellison

An experienced keynote speaker on Diversity & Inclusion and LGBTQ+ topics, whose journey and story as a transgender man is truly inspiring.

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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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Jamil Qureshi

One of the world’s most in-demand experts in high performance.

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Dr Kate Allatt

Dr Allatt was considered 'better off dead' but her extraordinary recovery and resilience, proves you can do anything if it matters enough.

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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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Diane Modahl MBE

As one of Britain’s most successful middle distance runners, she held both the British and Commonwealth record for the 800m.

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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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Ayo Sokale

Civil engineer, entrepreneur, BBC Presenter, Former Deputy Mayor of Reading, speaker on sustainability, motivation, STEM and neurodiversity.

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Dr Jon Finn

Best-selling author, founder, and expert in high performance and mindset.

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Dominic McGregor

Dominic McGregor is a 31-year old trailblazing entrepreneur, investor, and sought-after speaker.

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