Programme
08:50
Registration / Networking
09:25
Event Starts - Compere Welcome with Heather Wright
09:35
Michelle Mills-Porter - National President's Welcome
09:45
Andrew Bryant - Accelerate your Speaking Impact through Self-leadership and Intentional Collaboration
SELF-LEADERSHIP
As speakers, we often stand alone on stage, but the lasting impact comes when we collaborate with clients, peers, and our audiences.
Self-leadership authority Andrew Bryant teaches that effective collaboration begins with how we lead ourselves. When we intentionally influence our thinking, feelings, and actions, we unlock the ability to:
Build authentic connections with audiences.
Create meaningful partnerships in the speaking industry.
Navigate challenges with clarity and confidence.
Self-leadership isn’t just a tool in times of adversity—it’s necessary for growth and collaboration.
Andrew shares actionable strategies to help you lead yourself, amplify your influence, and build partnerships that take your speaking business to the next level.
10:30
Nick Gold - Industry Specialist Spotlight, Interviewed by Amy Rowlinson
Speak More
The UK speaker bureaux industry is responsible for booking c. £500 million worth of speaking talent every year. Both up and coming and established speakers are eager to get on a bureaux roster to elevate their speaking career. However too often speakers find it challenging to cut through the noise and struggle to understand how the bureaux industry works, the nuances of each agency and ultimately what it takes to engage bookers, so they are being proactively recommended to their clients.
Nick Gold has worked in the speaking industry for more than twenty years. He is the Co-Founder of one of the biggest bureaux in Europe, Speakers Corner as well as the speaker management company, Speaking Office and the first ever programme looking at the business of speaking, Future Voices. Nick was the first and currently only ever, UK President of the International Association of Speaker Bureaus and is the author of the Penguin Business Expert Series, Speaking with Confidence.
In this session, Nick will answer your questions and will attempt to unveil and lift the curtain behind the bureaux marketplace, debunk the myths about speaker bureaus and will cover how we can strengthen the relationship between bureaus and speakers.
10:50
Tea & Coffee Break
11:20
Bite-sized Keynotes
SPEAK BETTER
with Sam Warner, Charlie Hart, Chris Bonnello, Anita Phagura, Emily Haslam-Jones and Dr. Stacy Moore.
11:50
Neurodivergence Expert Panel hosted by Tony Coll
SPEAK BETTER
What’s it like to live with ADHD and other neurodiverse conditions? How should I behave towards ND people? This panel discussion gives you the chance to ask everything you ever wanted to know about neurodiversity. Chaired by a former BBC presenter with ADHD, it features a distinguished panel of speakers with both professional expertise and personal lived experience of neurodiversity.
with Sam Warner, Charlie Hart, Chris Bonnello, Anita Phagura, Emily Haslam-Jones and Dr. Stacy Moore.
12:25
Alex Staniforth - From Stammer to Stage: Turning Adversity into Opportunity
Resilience
Challenges are inevitable: being defeated is optional. The pandemic was perhaps the greatest challenge our industry has ever faced. But change brings opportunity and evolution, and Alex is no stranger to overcoming challenges. He will share his unlikely journey through adversity and adventure to become an inspirational keynote speaker at just 18 years old, and how we can change our narrative to become more bookable and reach our peak.
13:05
Lunch / Networking
14:05
Penny Haslam - Smart Energy: The Savvy Speaker’s Guide to Powering a Brilliant Business
SPEAKING BUSINESS
Working in the speaking business is a wonderful career choice. We also know it to be a challenging, disheartening, scary, exposing and uncertain option, don’t we?
The responsibility of being employer and employee, master and servant, director and performer can rest heavy on our shoulders. It’s no wonder that getting tangled up in decisions about what to speak about (that’s saleable), for whom, and for how much, is commonplace for speakers, no matter their business model.
In this funny and inspirational keynote, Penny Haslam distils her decade long experience as a full-time professional speaker, coach and trainer.
She shares what’s held her back and what’s powered her forward, so you can:
- Stop reinventing the wheel – align what you love with what’s lucrative.
- Understand your market so deeply that you become the obvious choice.
- Expect greatness every time, when you’re working – on stage and in the office.
Smart Energy: The Savvy Speaker’s Guide to Powering a Brilliant Business will set you up for a career in speaking with more edge, more speed and more impact.
14:45
Emerging Speaker of the Year - Final
The stage is set! After conquering the regional heats and semi-final, our three finalists go head-to-head one last time to win the title of Emerging Speaker of the Year 2025.
15:20
Tea & Coffee Break
15:50
Awards, hosted by Alastair Greener & Olga Geidane
Join us in celebrating this year’s PSA Spring awards!
16:25
Michelle Mills-Porter - Speaking Business Summit Sneak Peek
16:35
Richard McCann - It Takes a Village: The Unexpected Power of Collaboration
Collaboration
Richard McCann has been inspiring audiences for over 20 years with his remarkable story of resilience and transformation. But behind every success was a key ingredient: collaboration. In this candid and insightful session, Richard shares how the support and guidance of others, from ghostwriters to fellow speakers and trusted mentors , helped him navigate the challenges of building a successful speaking career.
From his first nerve-wracking PSA appearance to international keynotes and bestselling books, Richard reveals how leaning on the strength and expertise of others elevated his career beyond what he thought was possible. If you’ve ever wondered how to take your speaking career to the next level or if you’ve believed you have to do it all alone, this talk will change your perspective.
17:05
Compere Close with Heather Wright
But that's not all...
18:00
✨ NEW: Afterglow Dinner!
Don’t let the magic end when the event wraps. Stay on, enjoy an informal meal, and keep the collaborations—and conversations—going late into the evening.
(Additional ticket required)
