Scamp News

Have you ever been tried to be set up as supplier and it takes forever?

Or want to speak to someone and there is no phone number or their number is not allowed to be given out?

Or have you replied to an enquiry and then never heard anything back?

We all have our frustrations in our job and these are a few of mine and perhaps there are things we can do better ourselves too. However, If you are looking for someone who can offer advice on good customer service these are a few speakers we work with that can help.

Our book of the Month for April 2026 is “Lessons From A Clown: How To Find Courage To Show Up For Yourself and Laugh Every Day” by the Comic Coach, Em Stroud (and Orange!)

In Lessons from a Clown, Em Stroud and Orange share how you can show up more confidently, and embrace opportunities while allowing yourself to have fun and find joy again.

For over 20 years, Anj Handa has worked at the intersection of equality, leadership and structural change: as a professional lobbyist, governance specialist, consultant, community builder and speaker.

Anj is the Founder of Inspiring Women Changemakers (IWC), a community and consultancy working toward a world that is safer and fairer for women and other marginalised people.

Her work is grounded in a single, unfashionable conviction: that women’s inequality is not a pipeline problem or a cultural inconvenience. It is a structural failure, reproduced through the design of organisations, boards and institutions that were not built with women in mind, and have not been adequately redesigned since.

Anj has recently updated us on her new speaking topics

This is our April 2026 speaker news this month featuring feedback on Richard Gerver, Matt Ellison, Anthony Bennett, Roger Black and Maria Conceicao; we have updates from Katie Maycock, Alison Edgar and Chris Britton; we have news on Andrew Bryants new book and we welcome Viola De Girolami to the website and celebrate our 7th anniversary.

As we enter the 4th of the year we are delighted to have added a few additional speakers to our website. These include –

Allister Frost – A world-leading thinker on the Future-Ready Mindset

Mitch Hutchcraft – A former Royal Marine Commando, speaker and author and multiple world record breaking adventurer and endurance athlete

Em Stroud – Em Stroud is the Comic Coach and is a keynote speaker on the Secret to Happier Teams and Building Teams that Actually enjoy working together.

More can be found on this page and we look forward to working with them

Matt O’Neill is The Optimistic Futurist and a Keynote speaker and author dedicated to helping organisations navigate technological change while keeping the human element front and centre.

He has kindly allowed us to repost this article he has written on “3 Future-Facing Ways to Make Your 2026 Event Sing” 

Are you looking to plan a conference this year and looking for a conference host or facilitator? Or looking for someone to interview your CEO on stage in a fireside chat format?

We have supplied and worked with a number of experienced conference hosts and journalists that have hosted half day and full day conferences and these are just a few of them we would recommend

Our book of the Month for March 2026 is “The Uncertainty Toolkit: How to Feel Calmer, Happier and More Confident in an Uncertain World” by Sam Conniff and Katherine Templar Lewis.

Drawing on the world’s most extensive study into ‘uncertainty tolerance’, led with professors from University College London, the book explains the science behind how we cope with the unknown.