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Alex Wood is a speaker on Fraud, Cybercrime and Social Engineering.

After his music career was cut short due to RSI, faced with mounting debts and no source of income, his criminal career began. His life spiralled out of control, culminating in several years spent in prison for a number of dishonesty offences – everything from impersonating the 13th Duke of Marlborough to committing multi-million pound cyber-crime.

Since his release from jail in early 2022 Alexander has turned his life around and become an immensely powerful force in the Counter Fraud profession.  In addition to his speaking work, Alex has been working on a BBC radio show and writing a number of recent articles – we wanted to take this opportunity to provide with some of these exciting updates:

January and February are often a time when companies hold their’ Kick-Off events. It is an opportunity to bring all of the team together and launch their strategies and plans for the year ahead.

If you planning such an event and looking for an inspirational speaker or a sales speaker, these are just a few of the speakers we have supplied for similar events before.

Katie Maycock is a Burnout Specialist and Speaker. She specialises in talking about the impact that stress has on the body and mind and how it can reduce productivity, mental clarity and how it’s limiting people.

Mental health has become one of most popular speaking areas we get enquiries on and in turn Katie has spoken for us on a number of events on Burnout. She has kindly taken some time out to answer some questions for us for this months Speaker Focus. 

Our October Book of the Month is “It’s Not Magic: The Ordinary Skills of Exceptional Leaders.” by former British NBA Basketball player, psychologist, consultant and speaker on High Performance, John Amaechi.

In It’s Not Magic: The Ordinary Skills of Exceptional Leaders, author, chartered psychologist and Professor of Leadership at the University of Exeter Business School, John Amaechi, delivers an impactful discussion of the dull, ordinary, energy-expensive, and transformative behaviours that define the world’s best leaders.

There are many elements that make a business successful but one of them is having a happy workforce. A happier work place is linked to a more productive and engaged workforce.

We work with a number of speakers that cover some of the strategies and tools you can use to transform your organisation’s approach to mental and physical health and employee happiness.

This is our October 2025 speaker news round up this month featuring feedback on Adrian Webster, Dame Inga Beale, and Anthony Bennett, we welcome Jonny Huntington to the website, have news of new speeches by Marc Convey, Ken Valledy and Jackie Handy; updates from Becky Holmes Anj Handa and Emma Henderson and news of Mark Van Rijmenam new book.

Mickey Wilson is a speaker on branding and is the CEO, founder and creative force behind Firestarter, a brand consultancy known for fusing ingenuity with psychology to fuel stand-out B2B brands.

Micky has kindly shared with us a recent article she has written on “Branding for Gen Z” where she explains who Gen Z are, what makes them different and branding principles that work for them.

Andrew Pain is a motivational and CPD accredited mental health speaker, a podcaster and award-winning campaigner for men and boys, leading in his work on men’s mental health, also delivering talks on burnout, community building and psychological safety.He’s a lived-experience speaker on domestic abuse and his popular TEDx talk is one of the only TED/TEDx talks exploring the topic as a male victim.

Ahead of International Mens Day in November this year, Andrew has kindly allowed us to publish this article on why we should celebrate this day