Scamp News

This is our March 2025 speaker news round up this month featuring feedback on Anthony Bennett, Anna Hemmings, Michael Maisey, Richard Gerver and Alex Atherton; we welcome Adam Weymouth and Felicity Ashley to the website, and have updates from both Winston Ben Clements and Akil Hunte.

“Doing Things Differently” has been a subject that we have experienced an increase in this year. The phrase seems encompass many different things including –

How do we get the most out our team?
How do we think differently?
How can we be more creative?
What will make us stand out from our competitors?

These are just a few of the speakers we work with that help organisations to do things differently.

Our March 2025 Book of the Month is “The Financial Times Guide to Mentoring: A Complete Guide to Effective Mentoring (The FT Guides)” by Dr Ruth Gotian and Andy Lopata.

The Financial Times Guide to Mentoring gives you the tools you need to understand what mentoring is and its benefits, learn how to mentor effectively and be mentored.

Maria Conceciao is an innovator, humanitarian, and the first Portuguese woman to summit Everest or trek to the North and South Pole. She’s a philanthropist, a teacher, a mother figure to dozens of successful young people – and a compelling public speaker who elevates her audience as she relates her own incredible journey.

Now in 2025 she launches Project Limitless where she will attempt to complete the highest 14 peaks in the world. Having already climbed Everest and K2 she will attempt to climb 6 of the remaining peaks in 2025 and the last 6 in 2026. Maria and her team are looking for sponsors for the expeditions and more information can be found here.

A multi-generational workforce is a work place where its employees come from different generations and all work together. With people living and working longer there could be up to 5 generations working in one workplace today, including the Silent Generation, Baby Bloomers, Millennials, and Generations X and Z.

If you are looking for a speaker to cover specific generations or multi-generations these are a few of them we would recommend. 

Winston Ben Clements is an Inclusion Speaker & Advocate with expertise in the areas of disability awareness, anti-racism and resilience. 

He was predicted to live a life of isolation and pain due to a rare bone disorder known as Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI). This condition caused his bones to be extremely fragile, suffering over 200 fractures in his lifetime.

Winston is wonderful speaker and always a joy to work with and as part of our Speaker Focus series, he took kindly took some time from his home in the USA (or so we thought he was) to answer some questions on his speaking work. 

This is our February 2025 speaker news round up. This month we feature feedback on Anthony Bennett, Andrew Wilson, Alex Barker, Michael Maisey and Anne Wafula Strike; we welcome Emma Campbell and George King to the website; and we have a new showreel from Oli France and Dan Edwards shares his new talk for 2025.  

Helen Gibson MBE is an award-winning international business entrepreneur, Non-Executive Director, motivational speaker, author, coach and leadership expert. 

With her first book “Go for Goosebumps; how to encourage yourself through life’s porridge and get more goosebump moments” soon to be published Helen has shared with us details of her talk about encouragement and how you can get some more of your own goosebump moments.