Motivational Speaker Category
Choosing from our large range of motivational speakers may be daunting, but we’re happy to give you help and advice on selecting the right speaker for your event. Our keynote motivational speakers will inspire and challenge your delegates to think differently about themselves and the environment in which they operate. They will come away with new ideas and ambitions.
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Kriss Akabusi MBE Price range from £ 7000 - 10000

Ex Olympic athlete and TV personality Kriss Akabusi has been a well-recognised motivational speaker for over 10 years, presenting his FIT4Business speech to Blue Chip and FTSE companies at various corporate conferences. Kriss takes the audience on a journey from his life in a children's home and his career in the army and as a television personality using stories, anecdotes and humour. With his energetic and enthusiastic style, he teases out the importance of Focus, Innovation and Teamwork, which he relates to the business arena. Kriss's inspirational story is legendary and works well at the start of a conference to 'Fire-Up' the delegates or as an endnote, leaving the audience on a high, ready to deliver success in the arena.
Benedict Allen Price range from £ 7000 - 10000

Benedict Allen is often described as “television’s most fearless man”! Benedict is an extremely popular after-dinner and motivational speaker. His exceptional talent for applying his pioneering expeditions to the corporate ‘jungle’ ensures an enthralling, entertaining and inspirational experience for any size of audience.
Alex Alley Price range from £ 2000 - 4000
Alex has just returned from competing in the ‘Global Challenge’ as Watch Leader on Team Stelmar. Dubbed ‘The Worlds Toughest Yacht Race’, it sails the ‘wrong’ way round the world against the prevailing winds and currents. Alex stepped in as a last minute replacement after the previous Watch Leader left just 2 days before leaving for the Southern Ocean. Alex took on a de-motivated and disillusioned watch and then had the job of converting them into an effective, high performing team. The watch included an eclectic mix including several, highly successful company directors. On top of all this, Alex had to deal with the trauma and emotional loss of not 1, but 2 crew due to medical evacuations around the notorious Cape Horn.
Dr Dave Alred MBE Price range from £ 7000 - 10000
Dr. Dave Alred MBE is regarded as the world’s leading kicking coach. He was recently inaugurated into the UK Coaching Hall of Fame for his contribution to the success of the England Rugby World Cup winning squad, awarded the Mussabini Medal for outstanding success on the world stage and was honoured with an MBE in the 2004 New Years Honours List. David has been employed by England since 1998. During this time his brief not only included work with Jonny Wilkinson and the squads leading kickers but also the players’ mental preparation.
John Amatt Price range from £ 7000 - 10000

For over 30 years, John Amatt has led expeditions to remote regions of Northern Norway, Peru, Nepal, China, Greenland and has explored areas of the Arctic on six occasions, making many first ascents of previously unclimbed peaks. At the age of 20, John spent two weeks lashed to tiny ledges while making the first ever ascent of Europe's highest and steepest mountain precipice - the 5000 foot "Vertical Mile" Troll Wall in Norway.
Jamie Andrew Price range from £ 2000 - 4000

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. For many this fate would have meant the end of all hope, but not for Jamie. Since losing his hands and feet he has learned to walk again, taken up skiing, run a marathon, and returned to climb once more in the mountains that he loves so much. Jamie Andrew's incredible story of determination and courage is nothing short of inspirational.
Major Phil Ashby Price range from £ 2000 - 4000
Phil Ashby is a genuine hero. His autobiography 'Unscathed' rocketed into the bestseller list in 2004. To escape a desk job in London, he volunteered for a 6-month tour with the United Nations as a Peace Keeper in war-torn Sierra Leone (at the time the poorest country in the world). The mission was brought to a violent end when the rebels restarted the country's civil war. They turned on the UN's representatives, torturing and butchering them and taking over 500 hostages. Phil and three other Western soldiers found themselves cut off in a small compound in hostile territory, surrounded by rebels who taunted them by throwing the blood-stained uniforms of fellow UN workers over the walls.
Louise Ashby Price range from £ POA

Louise Ashby was born in Australia but grew up in London until the age of 21. Louise moved to Los Angeles to start her life a fresh and follow her dream of being an actress. This dream was shattered a mere three weeks after arriving in Hollywood. Louise was involved in what the authorities attest was to be the worst auto accident in Beverly Hills in thirty years. Her family were phoned and told to get on Concorde so that they may have a chance to say their goodbyes.
Brian Ashton MBE Price range from £ POA
Brian Ashton is one of the UK’s most experienced professional Rugby coaches. In the autumn of 2007 he led the England team, generally considered rank outsiders in the tournament, to a World Cup final with South Africa. With quiet assurance and absolute belief in his management techniques he has become one of the most sought after coaches, tacticians and commentators in world sport. Brian has been a club and international rugby coach for 31 years. He took the England squad from rank outsiders in the 2007 World Cup to within 10 points of victory in the final against South Africa with a quiet assurance and absolute belief in his management techniques that despite outside criticism proved to be world beating.
Tom Avery Price range from £ 4000 - 7000

On 26 April 2005, British mountaineer and polar explorer Tom Avery and his team set a new World Record as the fastest in history to reach the North Pole on foot. Tom Avery is the youngest Briton to walk to both poles. As one of only 38 people in history to have reached both the North and South Poles on foot, Tom Avery is quickly gaining the reputation as one of the UK’s leading young explorers, and, to quote The Sunday Times, "Avery is shaping up to join the ranks of such British immortals as Sir Ranulph Fiennes and Dame Ellen MacArthur."

