Inspirational Speakers
Inspirational speakers are extra-ordinary people, who have either achieved extra-ordinary things, or who have overcome extra-ordinary circumstances to become winners or masters of their own destiny.
Alvin Law is a classic example of the breed, a man who has overcome the effects of the birth control drug Thalidomide, to lead an inspiration and fulfilled life. His humour and zest for life, is both infectious and inspiring.
Joe Simpson is another fine example. Joe survived a terrible accident while climbing in South America, and his story of survival is awe-inspiring to listen to. For help and advice on who to choose, please call us today.
A true inspirational speaker talks from firsthand experience about something that has changed their life. To inspire someone else, you have to have had personal experience of the topic that you are covering, not just trying to understand the psychology of what you believe will inspire others.
Alain Robert
Alain Robert is better known as “The Real Spiderman”, The Human Spider and the French Spiderman, and has been described as the World’s Greatest Athlete! When he was a child, his heroes were Bonatti, Rébuffat, Desmaison, some of the most famous rock-climbers of all time. Alain Robert was brought up with their lyric, epic adventures. He decided to become a top climber, but his parents did not much appreciate such a desire.
Alvin Law
Alvin Law is one of over 13,000 babies around the world that were deformed in the early 1960's because of a morning sickness drug, Thalidomide. Alvin Law was born without arms after his birth mother, thinking it was completely safe, used just a couple of the tiny pills and their lives were forever altered. Yet, what may have become a tragic life-story did not turn out that way.
Ania Lichota
Ania Lichota was raised in Poland during the communist era. In her childhood she sold tomatoes, and other family farm produce, in a market. She later worked as an accountant in her father's shipping business, and by the age of eighteen she had set up her own metals trading and small appliances import company. Ania could not hold a passport until she was aged eight, but since then her passion for travelling has taken her to sixty countries around the world.
Chris Moon
Chris supervised and trained former Cambodian soldiers in mine clearance, something described by many as the ultimate leadership and management challenge. He is one of the few westerners to have survived abduction by the Khmer Rouge, successfully preventing execution and negotiating his release and that of two Cambodian colleagues from a remote jungle base, finally marching 50km overnight through patrolled and mined jungle.
Clive Woodward
Sir Clive Woodward was the manager of the England Rugby team and is one the country's leading motivational speakers.
The son of a RAF pilot, Woodward was educated at HMS Conway School Ship where he played rugby at centre alongside a fly-half Iain Duncan Smith who would later become leader of the Conservative Party.
Conrad Humphreys
Conrad Humphreys is an inspirational team leader and world-class British yachtsman, as well as a renowned personality in the south-west and on the international sailing scene. At 35, Conrad has already crammed a lifetime of adventure and achievement into his life enduring some of the most hostile oceans of the world. Conrad has sailed around the world three times, competing in three different races.
Heather Mills
Heather Mills has come a very long way from her humble beginnings in Washington, a small town in the North East of England. Her journey has been filled with much intense experience, which has taken her all around the world through a myriad of situations and circumstances.
From the cardboard box realities and dangerous uncertainty of living on the street to a more privileged lifestyle of greater wealth Heather has seen it, been there, done it.
Iwan Thomas
Iwan Thomas is without doubt one of the finest 400m runners that Britain has ever seen
A former European Champion, Commonwealth Champion, World Cup winner and current British Record Holder, Iwan, a late starter to the world of Athletics, preferring to concentrate on BMX bike riding than to run one lap of the track.
He started his career in 1992, represented the British 4x400m relay team at the World Junior Championships, helping them to 5th place.
Jamie Andrew
In January 1999 mountaineers Jamie Andrew and Jamie Fisher were trapped for five nights on the storm bound icy summit of a French mountain. Their rescue, which was one of the most dramatic in the history of the Alps, came only hours too late to save Fisher.
Andrew, despite suffering hypothermia and appalling frostbite, survived. Days later all four of his hands and feet were amputated.
Jeremy Dale
Jeremy Dale is the UK's most innovative trick shot artist and has been ranked as high as number two in the world. His shows have to be seen to believed since Jeremy is a completely ambidextrous golfer able to hit both left and right handed. Jeremy's highest world ranking was number two, finishing runner up at the 2005 World Golf Trick-shot Championship, an event he came incredibly close to winning outright.
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Bear Grylls
Bear Grylls is one of the best known adventurers in the world. At just 23 years old, he became The Youngest Briton to climb Everest. In 2003, he led the first crew to cross the Atlantic via the Arctic Circle in an open rigid inflatable boat. His TV debut was on Ch 4's, ‘Escape to The Legion' and now ‘Born Survivor' for Ch 4 and Discovery USA.
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