Scamp News

This our November 2020 speaker news, featuring updates from some of the speakers we work with on their new speeches, updated showreels, and publications they have come out. This month we have updates from Andrew Bernard, Sophie Bennett, and Nick Jankel, include some recent feedback from events including on Tom Swarbrick and John Volanthen, and welcome Ann Hiatt, former Executive Business Partner for Jeff Bezos, Founder, and CEO of Amazon to the website.

Christmas is coming and after a long a difficult year you might be thinking about rewarding your staff for all their hard work this year. Whilst a physical Christmas Party might not be possible, you may want to consider some of these ideas for your Christmas celebration online

Phil Olley is a sought-after inspirational speaker and author of The Nexus Code, who works with companies and individuals throughout the world to help them dramatically enhance performance, improve results, and achieve their goals. In what has been a difficult and turbulent year for most of us, Phil has been working on a number of different projects that we wanted to share with you. 

The United Kingdom Disability History Month 2020 will take place from the evening of 18th November until Friday 18th December 2020. The theme this year is Access: How Far have we come? How far have we to go? If you are planning an online event to mark this month, these are a few speakers we work with you may wish to bear in mind.

Over the last 6 months during lockdown, many of us may have been suffering from Atychiphobia – the Fear of Failure. Whether that is feeling afraid you are failing by struggling to work from home away from your colleagues, fearing you are not doing a good job as a parent whilst juggling kids at home or maybe it is the fear of venturing into the unknown starting your own business, many of us could be suffering from the fear of failure. We work with a number of speakers who can offer their insights and/or experiences on the fear of failure and how we can overcome it or manage it better.

With the USA Presidential elections, taking place this week it is appropriate that our book of the month is Allyson Stewart-Allen’s and Lanie Denslow’ book “Working with Americans”. In this new, extensively updated second edition, authors Allyson Stewart-Allen and Lanie Denslow accurately capture the current US business environment and its changes since their best-selling 1st edition published in 2002

Welcome to our October Speaker News update. With many organisations unable to plan future live events, virtual events seem to be the way forward still for the time being, and this month we have updates from a number of speakers on their virtual talks, including from Neil Mullarkey and Katie Piper, as well as recent feedback on events featuring Matt Ellison, Anthony Bennett, and Dame Kelly Holmes.

Launched on the 13th October 2020, James and his team at Vixen Labs launched the “The Vixen Labs Voice Commerce Report 2020”. 2020 has been a big year for voice assistants and the voice technology industry at large. James and his team have taken a deep look into the impact COVID has had on the voice industry and in particular what that has done for voice users researching products and services, searching for them, and buying them via voice.