April 2025 Speaker News

This is our April 2025 speaker news round up this month featuring feedback on Jonathan Acott, Matt Ellison, Alex Wood, Clarke Carlisle and Maria Conceicao; we welcome Becky Holmes and Katy Mclean to the website; and we have updates from Gary Hibberd, Phil Olley, Matt O’Neill and a recent clip of an interview featuring Terence Mauri.

EVENT FEEDBACK

“Wow! That is what I can say from my side.It has given us a lot of motivation and realisation.Please convey my message to Jonathan.” On Jonathan Acott – February 2025 (pictured)

“Yes great thanks, all went really well and the group loved Matt and hearing his story, they had lots of questions and were really engaged, thank you.” On Matt Ellison – Feburary 2025

“Brilliant. Engaging. Talking about fraud from a personal perspective and providing insights into how it works from the inside resonated with the audience. Very happy.” On Alex Wood – February 2025

“It was a brilliant day and the students responded really well to Clarke. The students took a lot from it, especially during the Q&A session. Please pass on our thanks to him once again.” On Clarke Carlisle – February 2025 (pictured)

“Many thanks for all your support for the event. Maria was great and the attendees really enjoyed her presentation.” On Maria Conceicao – February 2025

NEW SPEAKERS

We are delighted to have added Becky Holmes and Katy McLean to our website.

Becky Holmes is an author, speaker on fraud and the creator of popular Twitter/X account @deathtospinach.

In 2020, having been on the receiving end of an annoying number of direct messages from online romance scammers, Becky started to enjoy wasting their time and publicly ‘outing’ their accounts. Five years later she is now a well-known expert on romance fraud, called upon by both professionals and the media. Her book, Keanu Reeves Is Not In Love With You, has received outstanding reviews from critics, journalists, comedians, counter-fraud professionals and everyday readers.

She has become a regular guest on radio and podcasts around the world where she talks about all things romance fraud, whether that be with a light-hearted touch such as ITV’s This Morning or Richard Herring’s Book Club podcast or with a more serious tone as on Jeremy Vine’s BBC Radio 2 show or BBC Breakfast.

Hailing from the North East of England, Katy Mclean MBE is one of the UK’s most high profile Sportswomen, and has developed an imitable reputation as both a player and a leader.

Following in the footsteps of Dad David and uncle Harold, Katy began taking part in the game at the age of 5 and was involved in mixed rugby from the ages of 6 to 12 years of age.

Although forced to pursue other sports including hockey, netball and football until the age of 16 as there were no girls’ teams in the region, Katy soon returned to her first passion and excelled, representing England for U18, U19, Academy and England A sides.  In December 2020 Katy announced her retirement from international Rugby leaving her legacy of being the third most capped player and second highest England points scorer of all time with a total of 542. Katy also held the England captaincy for over four years and led her nation to a famous IRB World Cup victory at the Jean Bouin stadium, Paris in 2014.

SPEAKER UPDATES

Gary Hibberd is a Cyber Security Expert and speaker, with over 25 years experience in technology, Data Protection and Cybersecurity. Gary has updated his talks including his talk on “Think that AL is going to take over the world? It already has.”

Matt O’Neill is a globally recognised futurist, keynote speaker, and author who has delivered over 300 talks across four continents. Matt speaks passionately on topics of AI, innovation, human-machine teaming, productivity, future skills, leadership, exponential thinking, creativity and the evolving workplace and has recently sent us his updated keynote speaker topics.

Phil Olley is a sought-after inspirational speaker and international author, who speaks on Self-Leadership, Employee Engagement, Mental Toughness, High Performance Teams, and Overcoming adversity. Phil has sent us details of his new talks including – “Employee Engagement: Rallying the Team in Challenging Times”.

And lastly, keynote speaker on transforming the future of Leadership, AI and Disruption, Terence Mauri has shared with us a short interview he did on the Upside of Disruption.

That is it for this month. As always if you have any questions or enquiries please contact us on enquiries@scampspeakers.co.uk