Scamp News

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.

Our February 2025 Book of the Month is “The Gold Mine Effect: Crack the Secrets of High Performance” by Entrepreneur and performance development speaker Rasmus Ankersen.

We all want to discover our hidden talents and make an impact with them. But how? Rasmus Ankersen, an ex-footballer and performance specialist, quit his job and for six intense months lived with the world’s best athletes in an attempt to answer this question.

When we launched the business back in 2019 one of the speakers, we had the privilege of starting to work with was Anj Handa. Anj is the inspirational founder of Inspiring Women Changemakers and keynote speaker on self-care, harnessing diverse talent and gender equality.

As part of our new Speaker Focus series, Anj took the time out to answer some of our questions and to share her thoughts on the year ahead.

International Women’s Day takes place on 8th March 2025 and this year’s theme is “For ALL women and girls: Rights. Equality. Empowerment.”

The aim of the day is to help call for action that can unlock equal rights, power, and opportunities for all and a feminist future where no one is left behind.

Pivotal to this is empowering the next generation as catalysts for lasting change. If you are planning an event this year to mark the day these are some speakers we would recommend. 

It is certainly noticeable by the enquiries we receive that organisations and companies are paying more attention to supporting their staff in terms of mental health and wellbeing.

On some occasions, we have been asked to help supply a speaker who can talk about dealing with grief and how people and organisations can support their colleagues through these difficult times. These are just a few speakers we work with who share their story and offer their own advice on dealing with grief.

This is our first Speaker News of 2025 and we hope everyone has had a good start to the year. This month we feature feedback on Katie Maycock, Anne Wafula Strike, Mandy Hickson, JJ Chalmers and Sabrina Cohen-Hatton; we welcome Professor Keon West to the website; have some update speaking clips from Sina Kahen, Dan Edwards and Alex Atherton and Dr Allison Edgar has updated us with speaking topics for 2025.

Our January 2025 Book of the Month is “Change is Possible – the Seven Stages to Healing Trauma” by Founder of the Change is Possible Project and Inspirational Speaker, Michael Maisey.

In his second book, Change is Possible, the Seven Stages to Healing Trauma, Michael Maisey explores the seven stages of healing that enabled him to overcome a traumatic past. Born into poverty, his turbulent childhood was marred by neglect and sexual abuse at the age of five which set him on a path of self-destruction marked with addiction, a prison sentence and a suicide attempt.

The 2025 Speaker Summit and Speaker Awards are taking place in London again on Friday 11th July 2025

The online launch party for The Speaker Summit 2025 is taking place on the 7th February and if you interested in attending please see the details on the webpage.