Scamp News

This is our June 2026 speaker news round up this month featuring feedback on Adam Pearson, Mark Foster, and Matt Ellison; we welcome Elly Chapple and Hardeep Dhanjal to the website; we have new showreel from Adrian Webster, Derrick Mcmanus and Dominic Colenso and have new on a new book by Andrew Pain.

Our book of the month for June is “Diagnosis: Human: It’s Time to Flip The Narrative and Rewrite the Human Story”, by Elly Chapple – a Human First Catalyst, TEDx speaker, author and founder of the #FlipTheNarrative movement.

Diagnosis: Human is part memoir, part manifesto, and entirely necessary. It challenges the systems, stories and labels that reduce us – and invites us back to something truer, something we have always known but somehow forgotten.

This is not a book about disability. It is not a book about diversity and inclusion. It is a book about being human – a label every single one of us shares. It asks us to stop performing, stop categorising, and start meeting each other in the messy, magnificent middle where real connection lives.

We often have speakers ask how can we get on “your books” and on the website. As a smaller agency we tend to limit the number of speakers on our website to make it more manageable for us and to try and keep profiles updated as best we can. But as we state on the website the speakers listed are a just a selection of speakers we work with and you don’t have to be on the site to get booked.

These are just a few of the speakers we have worked with recently that might not be listed on the site but we have helped to book for clients.

A disappointing season has seen my team West Ham get relegated to the Championship. Whilst you can try to figure out the reasons why it all went wrong, the focus really needs to be on the future and how to rebuild and bounce back.

In this time of uncertainty organisations sometimes contact us to look for a speaker who can talk on the Future of Work and how to be better prepared and be more future ready.

These are just a few of the futurist speakers we work with if you are looking a speaker on the future of work.  

From time to time we get enquiries from clients who are looking for a speaker that has worked for one of the emergency services and to hear their experiences of working under pressure, decision making and how they work as a team.

These are just a few of of the speakers we work with that have worked for one of the emergency services and share their experiences.

Our book of the Month for May 2026 is “Go for Goosebumps: How to encourage yourself through life’s porridge and get more goosebump moments” by award-winning global entrepreneur, TEDx speaker and leadership expert, Helen Gibson MBE.

Now more than ever, we all need encouragement and are desperate to get help, inspiration, and more goosebump moments from wherever we can find them.

With red, amber and green signals for when to stop, get ready and go on your goosebump journey, ‘Go for Goosebumps!’ is a book to dip into when we need encouragement to help us through our struggles.

I am sure we have all had a moment of panic and experience a “fight or flight” response to stress or a problem you feel you cannot solve. However, according to verywellmind.com the response can also be helpful and by priming your body for action, you are better prepared to perform under pressure.

However there are ways to help calm down after it kicks in and we work with a number of speakers who speak on stress and anxiety and either talk on their own lived experiences or from an academic/medical perspective.

This is our May 2026 Speaker News Update this month featuring feedback on James Poulter, Anthony Bennett, Catherine Mayer, Cally Beaton and Dame Inga Beale; we welcome Sally Henderson to the website; we have updates from Erica Farmer, Geff Parsons, Winston Clements, Michael Maisey and Cath Knibbs; news on Helen Gibsons TEDx talk and a new showreel from Phil Olley.