Social Entrepreneur Speakers
Social Entrepreneurship is a person or group that develops, helps to fund, and implement solutions to social, cultural, or environmental issues. They are individuals that are willing to take on the risk and effort to create positive changes in society through their initiatives.
We are very lucky to work with a few social entrepreneurs and if you looking for a speaker on the subject these are a few we would recommend
Josh Littlejohn MBE is a leading social entrepreneur, inspirational speaker, and Sunday Times best-selling author.
Josh Littlejohn 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. The cafes shot to global fame when Hollywood A-lister George Clooney visited an outlet in Edinburgh in 2015. Another Oscar winner Leonardo DiCaprio then visited the social enterprise in 2016. Social Bite now employs over 75 people, many from a background of homelessness; and gives out over 200,000 items of food each year to homeless and vulnerable people through a network of cafes across the UK.
Matt Bird is a serial entrepreneur and high-impact communicator and speaker whose topics include Relationology, Dyslexia by Design and Yes I Can.Matt is the Founder and CEO of PublishU enabling over 100 people a year to write, publish, and launch their books to a global audience. He has also authored over 20 books himself and writes for The Times newspaper
In his twenties, he was diagnosed with dyslexia, and after overcoming the initial stigma, he embraced neurodiversity as his advantage rather than his disadvantage in life. Since then Matt Bird has become a serial business and social entrepreneur with numerous entrepreneurial failures and successes to his name – a few of the latter include Relationology, PublishU, and The Rooftop
He is also the Founder of NAYBA, a global non-profit that works in a dozen countries to support people and communities experiencing vulnerability and isolation.
Stephen Whitton is a Speaker, Social Entrepreneur, Influencer, Mental Health Warrior, and survivor who has been speaking up for mental health in masculine environments. Stephen Whitton is the Founder of [M]enable – the global movement for mental health support in the Automotive Sector. After a successful career spanning 35 years in the industry, with numerous roles from Salesman to Executive Director, he is a renowned authority on employee well-being to achieve results.
[M]enable was created on the back of Stephen’s own struggles, with a clear purpose and mission – to change cultures in male-dominated and performance-driven businesses, enabling the Mental Health stigma to be removed. Wanting leaders to embrace the ethos that when people feel good about themselves, they perform better, Stephen’s mantra is “positive employee outcomes = positive customer outcomes = positive business outcomes”.
Benita Matofska is a world-leading speaker, changemaker, and climate change consultant. She helps businesses and organisations navigate the economic, social, and environmental challenges of our time to become sustainable companies, fit for the future.
Benita Matofska is a world-leading speaker, changemaker, and climate change consultant to some of the world’s most forward-thinking businesses. An award-winning social entrepreneur, she is renowned for her ability to inspire and captivate audiences worldwide with her knowledge, dynamism, and insights on sustainability, social innovation, diversity, and business transformation. Benita leads sustainability for business consultancy Futuretivity, who specialise in delivering climate innovation for the media industry. Benita is the author of Generation Share, a ground-breaking book, voted top isolation read for a positive future by Forbes, containing the world’s largest collection of inspiring stories of the changemakers transforming society, the economy, and protecting the planet. In 2024, Benita co-founded Climate Women, a network for women who are passionate about protecting the planet. She previously created Global Sharing Week, a campaign addressing resource inequality reaching over 100 million people worldwide.
Sam Conniff Allende is a speaker and expert in uncertainty and is dedicated to helping people navigate change and turn fear into opportunity. In our rapidly changing and uncertain world, Sam uses a unique hybrid of online learning, interactive documentary, and psychological intervention to drive curiosity, inspire innovation, and build emotional resilience in teams and leaders alike.
Sam’s mission is to equip people with the tools needed to not just thrive in an uncertain society but to drive innovation, seize opportunities, and lead others to become Uncertainty Experts themselves.
In 2023, Sam Conniff Allende co-created the world’s first Entertainment Based Therapy experience, Uncertainty Experts. Sam is the author of the international best-seller and “modern life-bible” Be More Pirate. He was the Co-Founder of Livity, the multi-award-winning social enterprise and youth-led creative Network, Co-founder of Digify Africa, providing transformational digital skills to thousands of young Africans and Co-Founder of Don’t Panic, the original activist and Bafta-winning content studio. Sam has won Entrepreneur of the Year, Agency of the Year, The Queens Award, and many others. Sam turned down an MBE in 2020 in an open letter to the Queen suggesting an update to the honours system to move it away from its ‘colonial past’.
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