Stephen Attenborough
Stephen Attenborough is a keynote speaker on the second space age, business innovation, and technological growth.
Stephen Attenborough’s name is synonymous with the opening of space to private individuals. At Sir Richard Branson’s personal invitation, he joined Virgin Galactic as employee number one in 2004, to lay the commercial foundations of the world’s first spaceline. Stephen went on to become the company’s Chief Customer Officer, responsible for initiating and guiding the customer journey to the transformative experience of spaceflight.
Stephen Attenborough’s extraordinary 18 years with the company, culminated in Richard’s history making trip to space and saw Virgin Galactic become the first human spaceflight company to be taken public with its $3bn NYSE listing. Today, Stephen remains a part of the Virgin family as a Board member of the Virgin Group’s foundation, Virgin Unite.
SPEAKING TOPICS
Stephen Attenborough has spoken globally at many of the world’s most prestigious events on topics including:
Opening access to space for the benefit of humankind; lessons learnt from the Virgin Galactic story
Making the impossible, possible; forging a brand new industry and building a purposeful and innovative brand from scratch
Interaction with Customers – Keeping wealthy customers on your side and by your side, regardless of the terrain.
Entrepreneurial Culture – Creating and maintaining an entrepreneurial culture which survived and thrived on the challenging road to space.
"A great and compelling speaker."
— Boston Consulting Group
"Stephen was great, absolutely fantastic."
— Shreena, Succinctcomms
“Our Live Audience of some of the Uk’s leading entrepreneurs at oyr flagship awards event loved Stephens talk and presentation. He vividly shared both the dream and the reality of Virgin Galactic. A great motivational speaker”
— Hamish Stevenson, Founder for Sunday times Fast Track 100