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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 

UK Disability History Month is taking place this year from 20th November to the 20th December 2025. The purpose of the annual event is to raise awareness about disabled people’s fight for equality and human rights. It is also an opportunity to reflect on the progress made for disability rights and to look at what we can do to support disability equality in the present day.

If you are looking for a speaker to mark this month these are a few of the speakers we work with.

With people working remotely more and more, it has become even more important to maintain and build good relationships with your fellow work colleagues and your customers. Whether that is either face to face or virtually.

If you are looking for a speaker around this subject, we work with a number of speakers that talk on the importance of networking, how to network and how to get over any fears of networking.