How Hiring A Top Speaker For Black Leaders Awareness Day Can Help Boost Your Business
A newpoll has pinpointed the country’s most inspiring speakers on issues of diversity and inclusion.
Olympic boxing legend Nicola Adams, track stars Dame Kelly Holmes, Colin Jackson and Derek Redmond, and business leader Kayne King featured in the top 20 compiled by the country’s leading speakers agency.
Champions Speakers compiled the list ahead of Black Leaders Awareness Day 2025, which is celebrated on July 18.
The day was created, in addition to black history month to enable people from all cultures to benefit from the knowledge of current and past leaders, through videos, speeches and quotes they share.
The occasion provides a chance for all business leaders to consider how they deal with issues of diversity and inclusion.
Jack Hayes, the founder of the Diversity & Inclusion Speakers Agency – the UK’s first dedicated DEI agency, has helped support multiple businesses with strategies for the best ways to celebrate Black Leaders Awareness Day.
He said: “The day marks an important time of year when business leaders should be planning to help employees to exchange ideas on what more can be done to make a workplace more inclusive and harmonic.
“They could be encouraged to circulate quotes and videos on the day to help them explore how people from different backgrounds can value each other.
“One of the best ways that is proven to have a lasting impact on the workforce is by booking a keynote speaker who can relate their real-life experiences and literally breathe life into the day with often life-changing insight and advice. Our new poll outlines the speakers who are currently delivering the most uplifting speeches and help drive change.”
Based on extensive research from hundreds of events shows that the top 20 speakers for Black Leaders Awareness day have been named as:
- Dame Kelly Holmes – Olympic gold medallist
- John Amaechi – founder of APS Intelligence
- Jean Tomlin – HR director for London 2012 and Sainsbury’s director
- Tim Campbell – first winner of The Apprentice
- Derek Redmond – former world and European champion athlete
- Colin Jackson – former world champion hurdler
- Nicola Adams – the UK’s most successful female boxer
- Jason Robinson – first black British captain of the England rugby team
- Maggie Alphonsi – former England women’s rugby star
- Piers Linney – entrepreneur and technology media commentator
- Kanya King – founder and CEO of the MOBO Awards
- Akala – rapper, poet and activist
- George The Poet – highly influential lyricist
- David Olusoga – professor of public history, Manchester University
- June Sarpong – former Loose Women panellist
- Briana Scurry – first female African American iducted into US Soccer Hall of Fame
- Simone Biles – Olympian and most decorated American gymnast
- Makaziwe Mandela – Nelson Mandela’s daughter
- Ade Adepitan – Paralympian, BBC and Channel 4 presenter
- Ansley Harriott – star of Ready Steady Cook
For more information, see: https://diversity-inclusion-speakers.com/news/general-news/trending-black-history-month-speakers/
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