October 2026 Speaker News
This is our October 2026 Speaker News this month featuring speaker updates from Bianca Miller Cole, Kate Anckertill, Mark Denton and Jim Lawless; we welcome Alastair Greener to the website; we have new topic updates from Erica Farmer, Ken Valledy and James Lambert and a new showreel from Chris Roebuck.
SPEAKER UPDATES
For 25 years, Kate Ancketill ran London-based business futurist consultancy GDR Creative Intelligence, acting as innovation partner to more than 100 of the world’s largest brands — including P&G, Tesco, Sephora, Microsoft, Google, Samsung, Pepsi, LVMH and Coca-Cola.
Named Best AI & Future Technology Speaker at the 2025 Speaker Awards and one of BizTech Magazine’s Top 30 IT Influencers in 2024, she continues to bring those same signals directly to conference stages, corporate summits and executive boardrooms worldwide.
Kate has recently moved on from GDR and sent us some more update details on what she is working on now.
Bianca Miller-Cole is an award-winning entrepreneur, personal brand strategist, executive mentor and internationally renowned keynote speaker. With a career spanning entrepreneurship, personal branding, leadership, business growth and financial empowerment, Bianca is passionate about helping individuals and organisations turn potential into influence, opportunity and sustainable success. She has recently sent us an update bio with more details on current projects
Mark Denton is the keynote speaker on ‘collective performance’ — how leaders earn belief and teams align and execute as one. He speaks at the intersection of leadership, teams and change — where collective performance is either strengthened or fractured under pressure.
A podium-winning round-the-world skipper, Mark led 17 amateur sailors — 70% complete novices — across 32,000 miles of extreme weather, conflict and relentless pressure. Mark has also recently update his biog and information on his talks.
Once the enterprise strategy is clear, Jim Lawless rolls up his sleeves with the CEO and exec to architect and deliver the Second Strategy: the route to mobilising tens of thousands of employees globally to turn that slide deck into action at scale.
His client list includes Apple, Microsoft, Diageo, Bayer, BAE Systems, Novartis and VW Group. He is the author of the global bestseller Taming Tigers (Penguin Random House).
He has delivered DARE Loop and Second Strategy keynotes to well over a million people across five continents and is ranked among the world’s leading business speakers by Global Gurus. Jim’s credo is that performance and change are extremely emotionally testing for the individual and for those who would lead them, with discipline, through uncertainty to bold new ambitions. Jim has recently updated us on his talks.
NEW SPEAKER
We are delighted to welcome Alastair Greener to the website
Alastair Greener is a speaker that specialises in helping organisations unlock the power of generational diversity through tailored consultancy, keynote talks, and training. In a world where four generations often share the workplace, effective communication across age groups has never been more critical—or more challenging.
Alastair’s mission is simple: to bridge the generational gap in the workplace, creating environments where everyone feels valued, understood, and empowered to contribute their best. With over 30 years of experience in communication and leadership, Alastair brings a unique perspective to every project, combining real-world insights with practical strategies that deliver measurable results
NEW SPEAKER TOPICS
Erica Farmer is one of the UK’s leading voices on AI, future skills and human potential. With more than 25 years of experience across learning, development and apprenticeships, she has helped some of the country’s most recognisable organisations, including LV=, British Gas, Specsavers, Virgin Care and many more prepare their people for the future of work. Erica has sent us details on her new speaking topic –The AI Fire Hydrant: What Organisations Must Do Next to Stop the Pressure Building
Ken Valledy is a seasoned entrepreneur and speaker and co- author of The Startup Lexicon, a must-read guide for navigating the language of startups.
After a successful career in senior marketing roles for some of the biggest brands, Ken founded his own business. His company specialised in forging meaningful, world-wide, partnerships between cutting edge start-ups and large corporations, including Mercedes, P&G, Kimberly-Clark and Haleon. That company was acquired by the Anthesis Group in October2023. Beyond his corporate-startup expertise, Ken is a dedicated mentor, providing guidance across multiple accelerator programs such as Techstars, BlockDojo, and EASI. A sought-after speaker and panellist, he frequently shares his insights at leading business and start-up conferences.
Ken has shared details on his new speech –
The Lost Art of Listening – As neurologist Oliver Sacks put it, “Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears.” In “The Lost Art of Listening,” Ken Valledy shares his own reconnection with music and especially vinyl records and what it revealed to him about attention, presence and mental restoration in a world of constant partial attention.
James Lambert is changing the way the world approaches engagement and leadership — starting with the one dimension every strategy forgets: the individual.
He’s the founder of Engage to Succeed and creator of the Engage to Succeed Model®, built around what he calls The 4th Dimension: The Individual.
His last corporate role was at Capita, a global BPO business, where he led a team of 300 people that hired over 25,000 people in a single year — the capstone to 21 years in recruitment and talent acquisition across large blue-chip organisations. That’s given him a front-row seat to why people DISengage from their work, and a hard truth most leadership training won’t say out loud: you can’t lead an engaged team if you’re running on empty yourself. “One dead battery can’t jump-start another”. He has sent us an update on his new speaking topics
NEW SHOWREEL
For over 30 years Chris Roebuck has led global teams growing C suite and other leaders as High Performance Human Leaders to Accelerate Success by meeting their key objectives and beating challenges from M&A to customer focus, brand building to risk management and now AI adoption. He has recently sent us his new showreel which can be found on his webpage too.
That is, it for this month. As always if you have any questions or enquiries, please contact us on enquiries@scampspeakers.co.uk