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- Pride of BritainAward winner, 2018
- National TVBBC Breakfast, GMB, Channel 4 News
- Hachette authorBreakthrough, Amazon Top 100
- Oxford University PressFeatured in a criminology textbook
As seen and heard on
Recent conversations and coverage.
The High Performance Podcast, E179
With Jake Humphrey and Professor Damian Hughes: "Stop looking up to people and start looking into them."
Listen to the episodeTEDxCoventry: Reignite
A TEDx talk on reinvention, and why most people die at 25 but aren't buried until 75.
See the eventBreakthrough: From the Streets to Success
Published by Hachette. An Amazon Top 100 bestseller in its first week.
See the bookBBC Breakfast, Good Morning Britain, Channel 4 News and Insider
Interviewed on national television and featured by Insider, plus a case study in The Oxford Textbook on Criminology.
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What I talk about.
Reinvention after rock bottom
Homeless at eighteen, rebuilt, then rebuilt again. What actually changes a person, and why motivation is never enough.
Leadership without the title
Why people follow people who show up for them, and how leaders build influence through empathy.
The story you tell yourself
How the narrative in your head drives your performance, and a simple way to rewrite it.
Entrepreneurship from the street up
From selling sweets in the playground to building businesses, and what the street teaches you about sales.
Young people, belonging and knife crime
What pulled me in, what got me out, and what schools, parents and communities can do differently.
Questions hosts love to ask.
What did HM King Charles III say to you at Clarence House?
The story behind the moment I found out I'd won a Pride of Britain Award, and what he told me when everyone else had left the room.
You were turned down for more than 75 jobs. What did you do next?
How rejection pushed me into selling, from market stalls to a meal prep business that went from five orders to 400 meals in a weekend.
Why would anyone walk away from a successful business?
Choosing change while it's still comfortable to stay, and why that's the hardest kind.
How did you speak on stage with a stutter?
The tricks I used as a kid, and how the thing I was most ashamed of became my career.
What does twenty years of Sufi self-mastery teach you about change?
Watching yourself in real time, and why discipline beats motivation.
What do leaders get wrong about influence?
Titles, control and the feelings people take away from every conversation.
What would you say to the young person who's where you were at fifteen?
Belonging, environment and the one person who believed in me.
What does high performance actually mean?
Doing well in all three areas of life, not excelling in one while the others fall apart.
Other ways to work together.
Beyond keynotes, I partner with brands, charities and organisations whose work fits my mission of helping people change.
Brand and campaign partnerships
Ambassador roles, sponsored content and campaigns on resilience, opportunity and young people.
Hosting, panels and fireside chats
Chairing a panel, hosting an awards night or an in-conversation session at your event.
Education and youth programmes
Programmes and campaigns for schools, colleges and youth organisations.
Bios, photos and the one-pager.
Official bios in three lengths, approved photos and a host introduction are on the press page, ready to use.
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