Inspirational Speakers – January 2025
And just like that, January is almost over! We hope you all had a fantastic festive break and are feeling refreshed and ready for an exciting year ahead.
2024 was an incredible year for us at Inspirational Speakers, and we’re thrilled to kick off 2025 with the same energy, passion, and commitment to delivering outstanding speakers for your events. Already, this month has been packed with brilliant keynote talks, leadership sessions, and inspiring workshops, setting the tone for what’s shaping up to be a fantastic year.
A huge thank you to our speakers for hitting the ground running this January, bringing motivation and fresh perspectives to audiences across the UK and beyond. And to our clients – we’re so grateful to be working with you again this year, helping you find the perfect speaker to inspire, engage, and create lasting impact.
If one of your goals for 2025 is to bring fresh ideas, resilience, and motivation to your team, now’s the time to book a speaker for your next event! Get in touch – we’d love to help.
Scroll down for some exciting new speaker additions, client feedback highlights, and a special shoutout to one of our fantastic speakers!
Here’s to an amazing year ahead!
Claire Rackham
Managing Director
Monthly Shoutout
Kicking off our first monthly shoutout of the year with the incredible Martine Wright MBE.
This month has been a huge one for Martine, with the release of the powerful BBC series 7/7: The London Bombings, where she speaks openly and emotionally about the life-changing events of that day. Her story of resilience, hope, and determination continues to inspire so many, and it’s no surprise that following the series, Martine has been fully booked with speaking engagements – receiving standing ovations at every single one!
Martine’s ability to connect with audiences and leave a lasting impact is truly remarkable, and it’s a privilege to work with her. A massive well done, Martine – this shoutout is so well deserved!
New speakers
We are pleased to introduce a few new speakers to our website this month, below is a short bio, but if you are keen to know more – just click on their name to go to the profile!
Levison Wood
Levison Wood is a professional explorer, writer and photographer. Over the last decade he has had eight critically-acclaimed documentary series which have aired around the world, in which he has walked the length of the Nile, the Himalayas, the Americas, crossed the Caucasus, circumnavigated the Arabian Peninsula, followed the migration and conservation of elephants in Botswana and more. His latest series about endangered animals aired in August 2023 on Channel 4.
Amy Brann
Amy Brann is the founder and Director of Synaptic Potential and an expert in helping organisations harness their unrealised people potential through the power of neuroscience.
She is a speaker, author, and people development consultant whose fact-not-fluff approach is a welcome authority in a world awash with questionable science and neuromyths. She passionately believes that the only way to achieve your full potential in life and work is by knowing more about how your brain works.
Andy Lopata
Andy Lopata is a renowned expert in professional relationships and networking, with nearly 25 years of experience in the field.
Recognised as ‘one of Europe’s leading business networking strategists’ by the Financial Times and ‘a true master of networking’ by both The Independent and Forbes.com, Andy has built a reputation as a thought leader in the industry.
Emma Campbell
Emma Campbell is an author, speaker, and podcast host, widely recognised as “Limitless Em” by her 66K Instagram followers.
Emma shares her inspiring journey as a long-term cancer survivor, single mum of teenage triplets, and advocate for embracing life’s challenges with honesty and vulnerability. Her story offers hope to countless women in the breast cancer community, showcasing the limitless potential within us all. Despite ongoing cancer treatment, Emma celebrates her resilience and strength.
Rob Pope
Rob is bringing his experience of being able to excel under pressure whilst also allowing room to follow your dreams to the public sector, corporate, and academic environments. By sharing his secrets of resilience, time management and making the best of whatever life throws at you, he is transforming people’s attitudes to what they can achieve and creating happy and successful work and home environments.
Rob can show you how to “Be More Forrest” and help make your world a better place.
Keith Bates
Keith Bates is an SEMH expert, an experienced system leader in the education world and Associate Trainer with Adele Bates Education.
He is also a storyteller. Keith Bates has worked in schools for thirty years; residential special SEMH schools for fifteen years, navigated SEN challenges across Local Authorities, and led as a Headteacher for eight years. He has a lifetimes’ worth of amusing, horrifying and ultimately inspirational stories.
Shazia Hussain
Award-winning speaker, Shazia Hussain is best known for being a candidate on the hit BBC ONE show The Apprentice, and TEDx speaker, Founder of Gourmet Mithai and a Technology Recruiter and Talent Attraction Specialist.
Shazia has worked for some of the biggest corporates in the world, JP Morgan, Accenture, Microsoft and has specialised in leading talent acquisition teams to build, inclusive teams as well as running multiple successful businesses, she understands the importance of STEM innovations.
Jehan Casinader
Award-winning journalist and sought-after keynote speaker Jehan Casinader is now available to clients across the UK for both in-person and virtual events. Jehan’s expertise lies in teaching audiences the transformative power of storytelling.
Jehan’s journey started early. At just 13, he convinced a primetime TV show to entrust him with a camera crew to film his first story. This marked the beginning of his meteoric rise in the media industry, interviewing an incredible range of people – from Prime Ministers and gold medal-winning athletes to Spice Girls and white supremacists.
Client feedback
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