International Women’s Day 2025
International Women’s Day takes place on 8th March 2025 and this year’s theme is “For ALL women and girls: Rights. Equality. Empowerment.”
The aim of the day is to help call for action that can unlock equal rights, power, and opportunities for all and a feminist future where no one is left behind.
Pivotal to this is empowering the next generation as catalysts for lasting change. If you are planning an event this year to mark the day these are some speakers we would recommend.
Anj Handa is the Founder of Inspiring Women Changemakers, an inclusive community of changemakers who stand for fairness and safety for women. Recognised in Forbes as one of the ‘10 Diversity & Inclusion Trailblazers You Need to Get Familiar With’. Anj is a keynote speaker and an authority on Good Governance and Inclusive Leadership.
Her focus is on creating inclusive cultures and positive social change: how to get and keep people engaged with your organisation’s mission. Anj’s global changemaking work has been featured in Generation Share by Benita Matofska and Sophie Sheinwald, a visual storybook featuring 200 global changemakers, the largest-ever collection of changemaker stories.
Anne Wafula Strike, MBE PLY, is an inspirational and motivational speaker on overcoming adversity, diversity, inclusion, and disability awareness.
Born in Mihu, Kenya, to Nekesa Ruth and Athumani Wafula, Anne was a fit and healthy child before polio struck when she was two years old. She was given the middle name of Olympia at birth, a title of prophetic significance for the future and prescient of hurdles she would face in forthcoming years.
Charity work is something she does tirelessly, and as well as giving her time to a wide variety of charitable organisations she set up the charity, The Olympia–Wafula Foundation, whose main aim is to empower the differently-abled (disabled) people in the developing world.
Maria Conceicao is an innovator, humanitarian, and the first Portuguese woman to summit Everest or trek to the North and South Pole. She’s a philanthropist, a teacher, a mother figure to dozens of successful young people – and a compelling public speaker who elevates her audience as she relates her own incredible journey. In July 2024 Maria became the first Portuguese Woman to Summit K2.
Born into poverty, Maria began cleaning toilets. No one would have expected that she would ever rise beyond an early marriage and a life of grueling manual labor. Through sheer force of character, however, she became an elite flight attendant who traveled the world in luxury. Most would have accepted this as a satisfying definition of success, but Maria hadn’t even begun. Her purpose became clear the day she witnessed unspeakable poverty in the slums of Bangladesh, and she vowed to do something, anything, to lift the children she saw living there out of crushing hopeless circumstances.
Catherine Mayer is a bestselling author, journalist, speaker and activist. She is the co-founder and president of the Women’s Equality Party and co-founder of Primadonna, the festival celebrating brilliant writing, music, and ideas and giving prominence to women, which was launched in 2019.
She was the lead candidate for the Women’s Equality Party in London in the 2019 European elections. She served as the elected President of the Foreign Press Association in London from 2003-2005. She is on the founding committee of WOW—the Women of the World festival. She was a judge for the 2018 Women’s Prize for Fiction.
Lurata Lyon is a motivational speaker, public speaking, and presentation coach. At 17 years of age, Lurata fell victim to kidnap by Human Trafficking and Organ Harvesting gang during the split of former Yugoslavia. She was kept in a dark small room, locked up for 6 months in solitary confinement abused, beaten, and fearing for her life.
After finally, eventually getting rescued, Lurata was brought to the UK as a political refugee and is now an international public speaking and presentation skills coach and motivational speaker.
If we can help further with your enquiry for International Women’s Day please email us at enquiries@scampspeakers.co.uk or call on 020 8854 7247.