Scamp News

Our August Book of the Month is “Be the Wolf Not the Sheep: The art of becoming an entrepreneur. Don’t fear failure make it your co-founder” by accomplished entrepreneur, speaker, business leader, and global brand strategist, Ryan Llewellyn-Pace.

90% of startups fail. Don’t follow the herd off the cliff – step off the path, think for yourself, and move like a wolf. From the boardroom of Barbour to the helm of award-winning startups, Ryan Llewellyn-Pace show you in this book how to break the cycle and build a successful business.

We hope everyone is having a good summer and hopefully getting some down time ahead of the busy Autumn period. We wanted to take this opportunity to update you on some minor changes to our website.

We have expanded out our topics section on our speakers page and have now included specific pages on new subject areas including Self Leadership and Disability Awareness. We have also separated out some of the joint topics so Technology & AI now has been split into two separate topics and Winning/Performance has just become High Performance and we have added an created a separate listing for Equality too.

A vast majority of our news pieces are client focused and based around topics speakers can offer and updates on new books, showreels etc and we don’t often put posts out for the benefit of speakers.

With that in mind, we wanted to take the opportunity to just put a news piece out covering some of the questions we get asked by speakers and provide a little bit of background on what we do. We are always flattered when a speaker does reach out to us so i hope this helps out in some way.

In the 1980s and 1990s before rolling news and vast number of TV channels we all have today, news and sporting events covered by the few TV channels were watched by tens of millions of people.

Many of those people that featured in those historic stories have remained in our minds for many years and these are just a few of them that continue to share their remarkable stories on the speaker circuit today

Whilst August can be a busy time for clients planning events for the Autumn, it is also a quieter time for events taking place and a time when many of us will take a holiday and switch off

I personally find it hard to switch off from work but the summer months is a good time to have a little bit of a breather and plan for the rest of the year ahead.

The importance of rest and wellbeing is a subject we get enquiries on from some clients and these are a few speakers we work that with that cover subjects around maintaining a good worklife balance.

According to the Cambridge Dictionary one of the meanings of to “explore” is to “travel to a new place to learn about it or become familiar with it.”

We work with a number of speakers that have explored challenging environments and using these experiences they talk at conferences and events on leadership, going into the unknown, risk taking and teamwork.

If you looking for an explorer type speaker these are just a few of the speakers we work with.

This is our July 2026 speaker news this month featuring feedback on Anthony Bennett, Alex Wood, Clarke Carlisle, Michael McGrath and Simon Calder; we welcome Ryan Llewellyn-Pace and Damian Hughes to the website; and have updates from Chris Lovett, Dan Edwards and Anj Handa.

Whenever we book a speaker for an event we always try to find out as much detail on the event before we go to contract to avoid (as best we can) what we call any “nasty surprises”.

Some of these questions may include, is the event being recorded, how is it being promoted, what are the speakers technical requirements, what are the social media requirements, does the venue have accessible facilities, do you want slides in advance etc etc.

Whilst you obviously cannot control everything, being as prepared as possible is in my view helps thing to go as smoothly as possible. These are a few speakers we work that talk on the importance of preparation and being prepared.