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Sam Carrington is a former sales controller at ITV turned professional comedian and communication coach. He understands both sides of the fence — the commercial pressures, and the performance skills needed to cut through.

Via is Smirk Experience Sam offers two types of talks –

Harnessing the power of Comedy to transform business communication
Helping Sales teams become unmissable in every conversation

Here is some more information on his talks and what he can offer in detail

Our Book of the Month for January 2026 is “Career Comedown: What to do when work isn’t working for you” by Stefanie Sword-Williams – a TEDx speaker, founder, and author of F*ck Being Humble.

So if you’ve ever asked yourself…

Am in the right career?
Am going to feel stuck forever?
How can I find better work life balance?
How can I stop letting work take over?
Can I reinvent myself and still be successful?

…then this book is the one for you.

As we start the New Year we are delighted to welcome 3 new speakers to our website.

Paul Tolley is a former RAF fast jet pilot and Big 4 management consultant, and currently an elite performance coach working with professional cricket teams, and is a speaker on high performance and mental health.

Dave James is a professional speaker, TEDx speaker and former healthcare professional who helps people and teams reconnect with what makes them human and what makes a Happy Human.

Shaun Flores is an inspirational speaker, consultant, and changemaker redefining how we talk about mental health, masculinity, neurodiversity, and redemption culture

When we get asked about a speaker on change, it can be difficult to suggest some speaker ideas as it is such a wide ranging term with speakers offering views on change from a personal/lived experience to those offering more of a business view on dealing with change

One specific area on change we have been asked about recently is about “Leading change” and in specific for speakers who have within a business or organisation helped to bring about change.

As we come to the end of the year, we wanted to thank all of the clients and speakers that have worked with us in 2025. Thank you so much.

Our offices our closed from the end of Monday 22nd December and we reopen again on Monday 5th January 2026. Emails will be checked during this time but might be delays in replies.

We wish everyone a fantastic Christmas and look forward to working with you in 2026

We work with a number of speakers who speak on their experience of overcoming adversity and how they overcame many of the challenges they faced.

Some of those speakers talk about having a positive mindset and what techniques they used to remain positive and optimistic to help them through difficult times.

These are just a few of them who offer their insights into positivity and how they found a way through tough times with the right mindset.  

We work with a number of speakers who centre their talks around nature and the natural world and what we can learn from nature in relation to storytelling, wellbeing and sustainability.

From working with and studying animals or lessons learned from expeditions, these are some examples of speakers we work with if you looking for a speaker on nature.

Our Book of the Month for December is “Cut Through: The Pitch and Presentation Playbook” by communication and unlocking star performance speaker Dominic Colenso.