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Our September Book of the Month is “AI At Work: How to Build a Full Stack Organization” by AI and Innovation Expert and Speaker, James Poulter.

As fears of agentic obsolescence abound, organizations are struggling to implement AI in ways that enhance rather than replace human work. This unique book introduces a full-stack approach that balances technological capability with human values, ethics and practical applications.

Alan Chambers MBE is a Polar Explorer and an Inspirational, Motivational and leadership speaker who led the first successful British unsupported expedition from Canada to the Geographic North Pole.

Alan is also the founder of Mission Spiritus which brings together the Planet – People – Purpose – Projects, through seven science-focused expeditions across the globe.

In partnership with Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Mission Spiritus is advancing research into micro and nanoplastics in some of the world’s most remote environments – using exploration to turn scientific discovery into awareness, education and action. In September they launch its latest scientific expedition to Patagonia and Alan kindly sent us over some more details on the expedition

Established by Inclusive Employers, National Inclusion Week takes place in 2026 from the 14th to the 20th September 2026 and is a yearly event that is dedicated to celebrating inclusion and taking action to build inclusive workplaces.

The theme for 2026 is “Break Barriers. Navigate Change” and is about recognising that inclusion requires more than intention alone and needs ongoing action, accountability and a willingness to keep moving forward, even during periods of uncertainty and change.

If you planning an event that week these are a few speakers we would recommend.

This is our August 2026 speaker news this month featuring feedback on Lisa Potts, Roger Black, James Poulter, Shahin Sadafi, and Priya Lakhani; we have news on Sally Henderson new book; have speaking topics updates from Ian Murphy, Andrew Bryant and Andy Lopata, and have news on the Speaker Awards Winners 2026.

Our August Book of the Month is “Be the Wolf Not the Sheep: The art of becoming an entrepreneur. Don’t fear failure make it your co-founder” by accomplished entrepreneur, speaker, business leader, and global brand strategist, Ryan Llewellyn-Pace.

90% of startups fail. Don’t follow the herd off the cliff – step off the path, think for yourself, and move like a wolf. From the boardroom of Barbour to the helm of award-winning startups, Ryan Llewellyn-Pace show you in this book how to break the cycle and build a successful business.

We hope everyone is having a good summer and hopefully getting some down time ahead of the busy Autumn period. We wanted to take this opportunity to update you on some minor changes to our website.

We have expanded out our topics section on our speakers page and have now included specific pages on new subject areas including Self Leadership and Disability Awareness. We have also separated out some of the joint topics so Technology & AI now has been split into two separate topics and Winning/Performance has just become High Performance and we have added an created a separate listing for Equality too.

A vast majority of our news pieces are client focused and based around topics speakers can offer and updates on new books, showreels etc and we don’t often put posts out for the benefit of speakers.

With that in mind, we wanted to take the opportunity to just put a news piece out covering some of the questions we get asked by speakers and provide a little bit of background on what we do. We are always flattered when a speaker does reach out to us so i hope this helps out in some way.

In the 1980s and 1990s before rolling news and vast number of TV channels we all have today, news and sporting events covered by the few TV channels were watched by tens of millions of people.

Many of those people that featured in those historic stories have remained in our minds for many years and these are just a few of them that continue to share their remarkable stories on the speaker circuit today