Scamp News

This is our May 2025 speaker news round up this month featuring feedback on James Poulter, Sir Bill Beaumont, Maria Conceicao and George King; we welcome James Lambert to the website; a new showreel from Andrew Bryant, updates from Mark Julian Edwards and Danny Crates and news of a podcast with Bennett Arron.

Our May book Of the Month is “The Science of Racism: Everything you need to know but probably don’t – yet” by Professor Keon West, a keynote speaker on identity, prejudice and representation.

Professor Keon West cuts through the divisive anecdotes and rhetoric with decades’ worth of clear, factual, rigorous science – the data that reveals truths about racism that are shocking and tragic, but also (somehow) funny and entertaining.

Ken Valledy is a seasoned entrepreneur, speaker and author of The Startup Lexicon, a must-read guide for navigating the language of startups.

Ken has recently developed a new speech and initiative called “The Great Escape” on how to start your own business.

Pride Month is once again taking place in June this year.

In the United Kingdom, the first official Pride march took place in London in 1972. Since then, Pride Month has grown in significance, and is a celebration that recognises the LGBTQ+ community and their contributions to society. Marked by events and activities, Pride Month helps to promote inclusivity, help educate the public, and celebrate the diversity of sexual orientations and gender identities.

If you are looking to hold an event to mark Pride these are a few of the speakers we work with you may wish to consider.

We had an enquiry the other day for a speaker on Leadership in Uncertain Times and it is not the first time either, that someone has looked for a speaker to help motivate their team through this period of ambiguity and instability

Given the times we find ourselves in how can you create a “we’re in this together mindset” and build trust and resilience within you team. These a few speakers we work with that speak on uncertainty.

Matt Ellison is a entertaining and thought-provoking transgender speaker. His life experience as a trans man has fascinated and inspired audiences of all kinds in both private and public sectors in the U.K. and internationally. I first met Matt is 2020 as he speaking work was growing and its been a real pleasure watching his speaking career develop with some amazing (and moving) feedback from the events he has worked on for us.

He has kindly answered some questions for us for us May Speaker Focus piece.

We are delighted to welcome three new speakers to our website –

Neil Edge – Athlete, Speaker, Coach. Neil Edge is an ultra-endurance athlete and mental performance coach and motivational speaker
Emma Henderson – Former Airline Captain and speaker on leadership, resilience, decision making and wellbeing.
Adam Pacifico – Author of Leaders Secret Code and presenter of the Leadership Enigma Podcast.

More details can be found on the page below and we look forward to working with all three of them.

James Poulter is a distinguished digital marketing professional and technology expert and Head of AI & Innovation at House 337 and is a thought-leader and speaker on Innovation Culture, the Future of Work and Emerging Technologies including AI.

James recently delivered his first Tedx Talk for at TedExTamworth entitled “Double Edged – Learning to Live with AI”.