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Penny Haslam
Former BBC business presenter Penny Haslam now deploys her journalistic rigour and sense of humour as an award-winning motivational speaker, delivering inspiring and outstanding talks about confidence and communication. Book her live and interactive talks and workshops to empower your teams today.
Biography
“In a word – fantastic! Penny Haslam was such an engaging and entertaining speaker at our virtual event. I would love to have her back.”
Alison Whitcombe, DAS UK Group
Penny’s impressive background in broadcasting means that she brings useful, relevant, inspiring content to audiences of all types, and she’s also completely brilliant on camera!
She delivers motivational short talks, longer keynotes, lunch and learns and leaders’ development sessions both remotely or in person, catering to different time zones and locations with ease.
Penny Haslam is also the author of Make Yourself a Little Bit Famous, a business book that helps people power up their profile and get known for what they do.
Penny is regularly booked to give motivational talks about:
• Communication for leaders and emerging leaders
• Confidence for teams and organisations
• Personal brand visibility
• Business brand visibility
• Confident communication on camera
Penny Haslam’s Online Confidence Workshop
During this fun and informative workshop, Penny shares her 5 steps to confidence. Part business talk, part stand-up comedy routine, her take is that confidence is crucial for people, teams and organisations in order to create a more innovative, creative, productive and resilient culture.
As well as being a witty and incisive speaker, Penny’s content has a lasting impact on her audiences, who frequently say that they still use her ideas, tips and techniques long after she’s spoken. They get concepts that are simple to adopt and phrases that are easy to remember. Delegates go away with a bundle of game-changing, instantly actionable, take-homes.
Far from just talking at her audience, Penny engages guests with her humour, well-crafted stories and brilliant off-the-cuff remarks. She brings incredible interaction to her talks, ensuring that everyone is laughing, smiling and having a great time. Penny believes that people learn better when they’re entertained, and she does exactly that. As one audience member put it: “She’s a female Michael McIntyre who speaks to businesses”.
As a former journalist, being well-prepared and doing as much research as possible before an event is second nature to Penny. She works hard to get under the skin of your team, organisation or sector, so her content is bang up to date and relevant to your delegates.
In addition, Penny is also happy to create bespoke video content for you to use and share on social media before your event. She was dubbed a top ten social media influencer by the global firm Condeco – so she’ll jump on social media, if that’s appropriate, before, during and after your event. And if there’s something that will help you promote your event internally, she’s more than happy to do what she can to assist.
Penny Haslam is perfect for: Online events, corporate events, workshops, online conferences, conferences, webinars, media events, team-building events, industry events, charity events, sports events, private functions
Read morePrevious Clients
American Express
Barclays
Deloitte
Bae Systems
National Housing Association
CO OP
PWC
City of London
Manchester Metropolitan University
Joseph Rowntree Foundation
BASF
RSM
JRF
CIMA
Testimonials
“A true breath of fresh air. Penny Haslam delivered a virtual presentation of the highest level with rich content, amplified by her authentic, witty, engaging and truly genuine style of delivery. You cannot help but feel better, just being around Penny – she’s an awesome addition to your online event.”
James Vincent, UK Performance Director, Action COACH
“Penny Haslam absolutely lived up to her reputation! She delivered an Adobe & Women Masterclass on ‘Make Yourself a Little Bit Famous’ and the feedback has been amazing. She is engaging, fun, makes you think and people left with tangible actions. I highly recommend.”
Tara Rule, Senior Director of Commercial Strategy & Operations EMEA, Adobe
“I see lots of others present but I have to tell you Penny’s stage presence is outstanding. Her timings, her humour and her interaction with her audience make her, for me, a top premier league speaker.”
Will Kintish, Networking Expert
Will Kintish, Networking Expert
“If you haven’t heard the lovely inspiring Penny Haslam, you need to.”
Ally Philips, Pink Spaghetti
“Penny did an absolutely fantastic job as host and panel chair at our launch event and the feedback has universally reflected that.”
Kerim Derhalli – Founder & CEO, Invstr
“She was an absolute knockout, funny, with real cut-through.”
Michael Taylor – Guardian Live DISCUSS
“The feedback we received from our clients was fantastic. I would highly recommend Penny and look forward to working with her again.”
Helen Kaye, Deloitte
“Penny’s remote session for our EMEA leaders was sensational and they’ve gone on to use what they learned to great effect. What was also highly impressive was how she engaged them through the camera and held their attention from start to finish. The feedback has been fantastic.”
Tabitha Brear, Industry Engagement Lead, EMEA, Google
“Funny, engaging, informative and professional are how I’d best describe you Penny! You were professional from start to finish and the whole process was seamless. The fact that attendees are still talking about what you said explains that our money was well spent.”
Steve Smith, Chief Executive, NWEEG
