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James Poulter is a distinguished digital marketing professional and technology expert and is the founder and CEO of Vixen Labs (part of House 337) one of the UK’s leading Voice Technology companies and is a thought leader and speaker on Innovation Culture, the Future of Work and Emerging Technologies including AI

From January James has introduced “The Forecast” a weekly AI News recap to start your week – featuring news and updates from across the AI and tech sector.

Josh Littlejohn MBE is a leading social entrepreneur and Sunday Times best-selling author.

Josh began his career as a social entrepreneur when he co-founded Social Bite, a social enterprise with a mission to end homelessness. Social Bite started as a small chain of sandwich shops that began offering jobs and free food to homeless people.

On Wednesday 6th March 2024 as part of Eastwood Park Theatre’s Scotland Inspires series, Josh will be taking part in “An Audience with Dr Josh Littlejohn”

The theme for this year’s International Women’s Day, which takes place in the UK on Friday 8th March 2024, is “Invest in women: Accelerate progress”

The aim of the IWD 2024 is to help achieve gender equality and improve women’s well-being in all aspects of life – more information can be found on the UN website. 

If you planning an event around International Women’s Day these are a few of the inspirational speakers we would recommend.

Anthony Bennett is an Inspirational and motivational Speaker and fundraiser who learned how to walk, talk and breathe again without the aid of machines, after contracting multiples viral infections on the return from a school trip abroad.

Whilst most of his speaking work has been for keynote sessions, Anthony has now developed a longer interactive 90mins session which has been proving popular for events.

This is our first speaker news of 2024 and we hope the year has been going well for everyone so far. This month we feature –

– Feedback on Helen Fospero, Matt Ellison, Darren Edwards, James Poulter, and John Hoskison;
– Ben Sauer and Jens Heitland have updated us with recent footage of their talks;
– We welcome Helen Gibson to the website;
– and we have news on our new feature for 2024 Scamp Stories.  

Crises can occur at any moment with or without warning and can take many forms – from personal crises to corporate/organisational crises. 

Whilst businesses can aim to plan properly for critical events, it does not always work out. These are a few speakers who can either speak on their own crisis management experiences, what they did at the time, and how they dealt with the pressure or talk on how to lead in times of crisis.  

Our January Book for the Month is “The Big Bold Mindset: Re-Thinking the Rules of Leadership” by leadership and teamwork speaker Caspar Craven.

What does it take to be a leader today? To be a leader in times of exponential change where challenges come from every direction? Today needs a different type of leader. A leader with a Big Bold Mindset. Drawing on over three decades of experience working with ambitious leaders from world class companies, Caspar Craven is on a mission to lead the movement on rethinking what leadership needs today.

We often get asked what is the most popular speaking topic we get enquiries for.

To mark the end of 2023, we have looked through all the speaker bookings and enquiries we have had and shortlisted the top 5 subjects we get enquiries for – with an honorary mention of two subjects that have been on the rise in the last year.

The list is not in any particular order but be interesting to see whether this changes in 2024. We hope you find this interesting.