Find the right leadership speaker for your event
Wavelength SpeakersHub matches corporate events with keynote speakers, moderators and hosts who bring real leadership experience, clear ideas and practical relevance. The right speaker can challenge a settled view, give your leaders language for a difficult issue or create the shared moment your event needs. Wavelength helps you make the choice with confidence.
How does Wavelength SpeakersHub choose the right speaker?
Sarah Dryden, Director of Wavelength SpeakersHub, explains how Wavelength assesses a brief, what makes its speakers different and why direct experience of the roster matters.
What should your speaker help your audience do?
The right speaker should help your audience see a live challenge differently and know what to do next. That might mean better decisions under pressure, a more useful conversation about artificial intelligence, or renewed momentum around culture and change.Impact depends on fit. A personal story can make a difficult subject human. A practitioner can show how an organisation handled it. A skilled moderator can move a panel beyond prepared answers and towards a conversation the audience values.The question is not, “Who is famous?” It is, “Who has the experience, ideas, and delivery style to help this audience now?” Wavelength selects around that question, then considers the format, tone, and level of participation that will make the session useful.
The right speaker can
Challenge a settled viewGive leaders language for a difficult issueMake a complex subject relevant to the roomCreate a shared moment across different rolesTurn inspiration into a useful next conversation
Which speakers could fit your brief?
These eight speakers show the range available through Wavelength SpeakersHub. Each brings direct experience to a defined leadership question. We can help you compare them against your audience, desired outcome, format and budget.
Sam ConniffBest-selling author and uncertainty speakerUncertainty, change, rule-breaking, leadership and human judgementCreator of Uncertainty Experts with Netflix and University College London, author of Be More Pirate and co-founder of Livity.Livity received a 2013 Queen’s Award for Enterprise in the Innovation category.View Sam’s profile
Sally HendersonHigh-stakes leadership mentor and authorHigh performance, purpose, self-doubt, identity and boundariesCreator of High-Stakes Leadership Mentoring and The REAL Method, author of The HOW of High Performance, with more than 26 years working with C-suite leaders and executive teams.View Sally’s profile
Mike AndersonFormer Chief Executive Officer, executive coach and authorLeadership, artificial intelligence, judgement, courage and connectionAcross a 40-year career, Mike reached the boards of News UK and Associated Newspapers, helped launch Metro and founded Chelsea Apps Factory. He wrote Serious Fun in Business: A Human Algorithm.View Mike’s profile
Mandy HicksonFormer Royal Air Force fighter pilotHigh-stakes decisions, teamwork, trust, resilience and pressureOne of the first female fighter pilots in the Royal Air Force and author of the bestselling book An Officer, Not a Gentleman.View Mandy’s profile
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Baroness Sue CampbellFormer Chair of UK SportCulture, high performance, change and women in leadershipBaroness Sue Campbell helped lead the transformation behind Great Britain and Northern Ireland’s medal-table progress and later served as Director of Women’s Football at The Football Association.Highly Commended for Best Motivational Speaker at The Speaker Awards 2026.View Sue’s profile
Zoe ScamanFounder of Bodacious and artificial intelligence strategistArtificial intelligence, emerging technology, innovation, culture and brandsFormer Global Head of Strategy at Ridley Scott Creative Group, with speaking clients including the Coca-Cola global leadership team, Pinterest, TikTok and World Rugby.Highly Commended for Best AI & Future Technology Speaker at The Speaker Awards 2026.View Zoe’s profile
Oke EleazuFormer UK Chief Executive Officer of ManyPetsCulture, customer centricity, inclusion, innovation and uncertaintyChair of Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust and founder of Elevate Colour, with experience across executive leadership, governance and organisational change.View Oke’s profile
Chris Barez-BrownSpeaker, author and founderHuman energy, creativity, culture, psychological safety and resilienceFounder of Upping Your Elvis and Talk It Out. Chris has worked with Nike, Coca-Cola, Diageo, Unilever and Roche, and his work with Unilever has featured in Harvard Business Review.View Chris’s profile
Which topics can your speakers cover?
Wavelength SpeakersHub covers the leadership questions shaping corporate agendas, from artificial intelligence and uncertainty to culture, resilience, inclusion and customer focus. We can help turn a broad theme into a brief that leads to the right voice.
Artificial intelligence and the future of workHuman judgement, emerging technology, automation, data, new business models and how work is changing.
Leadership under pressureHigh-stakes decisions, resilience, personal leadership, psychological safety and sustained performance.
Culture and transformationLeaders who have changed organisations, challenged established rules, built trust or led people through uncertainty.
Innovation and customer centricityPractitioners who connect new ideas to customer needs, commercial decisions, creativity and delivery.
Purpose, sustainability, diversity and inclusionSpeakers who can move these subjects from statements of intent to candid, experience-led conversations.
Can you book a keynote, moderator, host or full speaker series?
Yes. Wavelength can support one keynote, an interactive workshop, an event host or moderator, or a sequence of engagements built around your organisation’s priorities.
KeynoteCreate a shared point of view and give the whole room an idea to discuss.
Interactive workshopGive people time to test an idea against their own leadership and organisation.
Host or moderatorKeep a complex conversation moving and help experts get beyond prepared answers.
Speaker seriesSustain the conversation across several live or virtual engagements.
Why book through Wavelength SpeakersHub?
Wavelength is a leadership business first. It researches, approaches and uses the speakers it represents in its own leadership events, giving the team direct knowledge of each speaker’s strengths, delivery style and best format.If you already have a speaker in mind and cannot see them in the directory, tell us. Wavelength may still be able to approach them.
Direct experience of the rosterWavelength knows where each speaker is strongest because it uses SpeakersHub contributors in its own leadership events.
Selection around your audienceWe look at the people in front of the stage, the conversation you need to create and the practical limits of the event.
Support through the bookingWavelength checks availability, holds the date, issues the contract, arranges the briefing call and coordinates agreed logistics.
How does booking a speaker work?
The booking process has four steps: share the brief, review a shortlist and availability, confirm the speaker by contract and deposit, then brief the speaker and finalise delivery. Wavelength manages the process with you.
Share your briefShare the event objective, audience, theme, preferred format, date and budget. Include any speaker names already under consideration.
Review speakers and availabilityWavelength suggests suitable speakers, checks availability and asks candidates to hold the date provisionally while you decide.
Confirm the bookingOnce you choose a speaker, Wavelength issues the contract and confirms the date. A 50% advance payment is due when the contract is signed.
Brief and prepareWavelength arranges the briefing call and coordinates the speaker’s agreed audiovisual, presentation, travel and accommodation requirements.
What will a speaker cost?
Speaker fees vary according to the speaker’s experience and the length and format of the session. We will discuss the relevant fee before you make a decision.Fees exclude VAT. The buyer also covers agreed travel, accommodation and subsistence expenses. Wavelength invoices the first 50% when the contract is signed, with the final 50% and expenses billed after the event. Rates for charities and social enterprises can be discussed.Ask to see Wavelength’s full terms and conditions, including cancellation terms, before confirming the booking.
What do corporate clients say?
Corporate buyers value the breadth of the roster and Wavelength’s help in turning a leadership need into a useful event conversation.
Every time I work with the SpeakersHub team, I’m blown away by the quality of people on their roster and the access they have…Jeremy Phillips-PowellGroup Talent Director, Rentokil Initial
We recently partnered with Wavelength as part of our Executive Development Programme, to identify a range of speakers who could help enhance our learning…Nick UlyczChief People Officer, Aldermore Bank
What should you include in your speaker brief?
Share your event date, audience, objective, theme, preferred format and budget. You do not need to arrive with a finished speaker brief. A clear description of the event and the change you want from the session is enough to begin.
The event date and locationThe audience’s roles, seniority and approximate sizeThe central theme or business questionWhat people should think, feel or do afterwardsThe session format and available timeYour budget range and any speakers already under consideration
Interested? Get in touch with Sarah
If you would like more information on any of the speakers featured on SpeakersHub, please do contact [email protected] with the name(s) of the speakers you are interested in or click on the button below to fill a form.
Our team will contact you at the earliest opportunity.
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