Scamp News

Whilst August can be a busy time for clients planning events for the Autumn, it is also a quieter time for events taking place and a time when many of us will take a holiday and switch off

I personally find it hard to switch off from work but the summer months is a good time to have a little bit of a breather and plan for the rest of the year ahead.

The importance of rest and wellbeing is a subject we get enquiries on from some clients and these are a few speakers we work that with that cover subjects around maintaining a good worklife balance.

According to the Cambridge Dictionary one of the meanings of to “explore” is to “travel to a new place to learn about it or become familiar with it.”

We work with a number of speakers that have explored challenging environments and using these experiences they talk at conferences and events on leadership, going into the unknown, risk taking and teamwork.

If you looking for an explorer type speaker these are just a few of the speakers we work with.

This is our July 2026 speaker news this month featuring feedback on Anthony Bennett, Alex Wood, Clarke Carlisle, Michael McGrath and Simon Calder; we welcome Ryan Llewellyn-Pace and Damian Hughes to the website; and have updates from Chris Lovett, Dan Edwards and Anj Handa.

Whenever we book a speaker for an event we always try to find out as much detail on the event before we go to contract to avoid (as best we can) what we call any “nasty surprises”.

Some of these questions may include, is the event being recorded, how is it being promoted, what are the speakers technical requirements, what are the social media requirements, does the venue have accessible facilities, do you want slides in advance etc etc.

Whilst you obviously cannot control everything, being as prepared as possible is in my view helps thing to go as smoothly as possible. These are a few speakers we work that talk on the importance of preparation and being prepared.

Our July Book of the Month is “Relentless: The Power of Doing Less in a Workplace that Demands More” by TedX speaker, executive coach and the UK’s Minimalist thought leader, Chris Lovett. 

In a world where work is literally killing us, Relentless exposes the deadly truth of modern workplace culture. With 88% of UK employees experiencing some level of burnout and 745,000 annual global deaths linked to overwork, this book is a life-saving intervention. It challenges everything we know about success and productivity, not just offering a revolutionary blueprint for survival, but giving professionals the opportunity to achieve more, by doing less.

Richard Gerver works with the world’s most demanding organisations on the problem that nobody else is solving: how to give your people back the curiosity, courage, and creativity their education and their industry trained out of them.

Richard Gerver came to prominence when, as a headteacher he turned around a failing school in the UK in under two years. He has recently updated his website with more details on his three keynotes — Reawaken Curiosity, Reawaken Change, and Reawaken Simplicity — each anchored in a book and each built around the same operating principle: your people already have what you need. The work is to give it back to them. www.richardgerver.com but more info can be found below on the three topics.

Over the years I have been fortunate enough to have booked a lot of comedians to deliver stand up sets at awards dinners and conference dinners. However we also work with a number of speakers from the comedy world who deliver more motivational/business talks all around the power of comedy and what you can learn from comedy and use in the corporate world.

With the Edinburgh Festival coming soon, these a just a few of those speakers if you looking for something both entertaining and inspiring.

Phil Olley is a sought-after inspirational speaker and international author, who speaks on Transformational Change, Team Engagement, and Resilience.

He is renowned for helping clients, both individually and as teams, to overcome adversity and turn it all around, transforming their lives and the lives of those around them.

He has kindly allowed us to share a recently article he wrote called ‘”AI Squared” and importance of Authentic Interaction.