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Mental Health Awareness week is taking place in the UK between the 12th and 18th May 2025 and the theme for 2025 is “Community”.

The week is designed to raise awareness of the importance of community for our mental health and wellbeing and a reminder that we are not alone and how community can bring a sense of belonging, safety, support in difficult times.

If you planning an event around this week and looking for a speaker these are a few speakers we would recommend.

This is our April 2025 speaker news round up this month featuring feedback on Jonathan Acott, Matt Ellison, Alex Wood, Clarke Carlisle and Maria Conceicao; we welcome Becky Holmes and Katy Mclean to the website; and we have updates from Gary Hibberd, Phil Olley, Matt O’Neill and a recent clip of an interview featuring Terence Mauri.

Mark Julian Edwards is a globally recognised strengths-based leadership expert, two-time acclaimed author, and dynamic TEDx speaker, widely known as The Strengths Explorer.

For 25 years Mark Edwards worked as a top performing consultant across multiple sectors with Global Fortune 250 organisations and he has kindly agreed to be part of our Speaker Focus series and taken some time out to answer some of our questions

Our April book of the Month is “The Leader’s Secret Code: The Belief System that Distinguish Winners” by Ian Mills, Mark Ridley, Ben Laker and leadership speaker Adam Pacifico. 

This book is for any business manager or executive, or indeed anyone involved in leading a team in their company, who wants to learn the secrets of successful leadership.

We wanted to take the opportunity to update you on two of our exclusive speakers that have recently update their websites.

James Poulter is an Expert Keynote Speaker on AI, Innovation & Digital Transformation and Specialist in ChatGPT, Prompt Engineering & Building AI-Enabled Teams. (www.jamespoulter.co.uk)

Anthony Bennett is a keynote motivational speaker on teamwork, resilience and mental health, who having survived 12 near death experiences, helped to raise over £25m for charity. (https://anthonyinspires.com/)

Both websites have updated details on their talks as well as featuring testimonials and clips from their speeches too.

From time to time, we like to update you on some of the podcasts the speakers we work with are either producing or taking part in.

For this news piece please find some details on some podcasts featuring Richard Gerver, Cally Beaton, Adam Pacifico, and Tim Reid. We also to let you know about several speaker substacks you might be interested in following.

Anthony Bennett is an inspirational speaker who talks on his near-death experience and how through a positive mindset and saying yes to opportunities you can achieve anything if you put your mind to it.

I was first introduced to Anthony Bennett back in 2019, and can honestly say he is an absolute gentleman and always a real pleasure to work with. He had very kindly taken the time to answer some of our questions for our Speaker Focus series.

This is our March 2025 speaker news round up this month featuring feedback on Anthony Bennett, Anna Hemmings, Michael Maisey, Richard Gerver and Alex Atherton; we welcome Adam Weymouth and Felicity Ashley to the website, and have updates from both Winston Ben Clements and Akil Hunte.