Scamp News

Anj Handa is the Founder of Inspiring Women Changemakers, a dynamic movement of changemakers who speak up for women’s rights. During this period of lockdown Anj has been busy speaking at events as well as devising online programmes and writing articles on mental health and sustainability. These are just some highlights and more information on some of the work she has been doing.

Our June book of the month is “Connected Leadership – How Professional Relationships Underpin Executive Success” by networking expert and speaker Andy Lopata. Andy discusses how you can often tell the quality of a leader not just from the calibre of his or her relationships, but by the ease with which they draw on them and the speed and willingness with which people respond.

Anthony Bennett is an inspirational speaker and motivational speaker & fundraiser who learned how to walk, talk and speak again after contracting three virus infections at the same time. Last week we caught up with him as he delivered a webinar about his journey, his experiences and how to grow yourself as a speaker and the power in saying YES!

After another month of lockdown, our May news has a strong emphasis on the virtual space, featuring updates from speakers on some of the virtual sessions they are offering, some updated showreels and biogs and several new speakers added to the website.

Ahead of Mental Health Awareness next week in the UK, Penny Mallory very kindly took some time out to speak to us about her speaking career, mental toughness, mental health and set us a one week challenge!!

James Poulter is the former Head of Lego Group’s Emerging Platform team and a leading thought leader and keynote speaker on the future of work, voice technology, conversational artificial intelligence, and social media. He is also the founder of Vixen Labs, one of the leading Voice Technology Companies in the UK. As we continue in lockdown and working from home, James has pulled together a number of short videos looking at Innovation Culture.

Primarily celebrated in the USA, but in some other countries too, the 4th May to 10th May 2020 marks Children’s Book Week. With a lot of us working from home and with children not in school, many people are having to juggle home schooling and work, so we just wanted to take the opportunity to highlight some of the children’s books that have been published by a couple of the speakers we work with (and a couple of films too!)

This is a roundup of some speaker news from April including some more details on speakers offering virtual keynotes, some update biographies and feedback from some recent online events. Updates included from Nick Saunders, James Poulter, and Adam Kingl to name a few.