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Speaking topics

Building Winning Teams
How to build high-performing teams that are cohesive, purpose-driven, and built to last — drawing on lessons being a world championship winning coach

How to Navigate Complex Social and Political Times
A practical and honest guide to leading with clarity when the political weather is volatile, public trust is fragile

Responsible Business and ESG
How organisations can build credibility in an era of heightened scrutiny.

How to Be a Better Speaker
The craft, discipline, and mindset behind truly compelling communication drawn from two decades at the highest levels of competitive debate.

Social Mobility
What must business, government, and civil society do to close the gap between potential and possibility?

Culture, Diversity and Inclusion
Building cultures where difference is genuinely valued, inclusion is structurally embedded

Education Policy
The case for an education system that works for every young person, regardless of background

Sport and Purpose
How sport, at its best, can be a vehicle for social change

Social Impact
What it really means to create change that lasts and how organisations can move from well-intentioned initiatives to strategies with genuine, measurable social value.

Where Next for Diversity and Inclusion
What has worked, what has failed, and where the movement needs to go if it is to remain relevant and drive real progress.

Your audience gets

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Compelling storyteller

Every speech I deliver is rooted in lived experience. From a humble upbringing in an immigrant family to competing on the world stage as a debating champion, my journey has taken me through some of the most powerful rooms on the planet. I draw on all of it.

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A call to action

Every engagement is designed to move people — to shift thinking, challenge assumptions, and send audiences away with a clear sense of what they must do next. Whether addressing a FTSE 100 board or a room full of young activists, he tailors each address to land with precision and leave with purpose.

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Humour

A well-placed moment of levity can unlock a room, build genuine rapport, and make a challenging idea far more accessible than any amount of earnest argument.