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Laurie Williams
Disability Awareness
Diversity and Inclusion
LGBTQ+
Transform inclusion and resilience strategies with Laurie Williams, Paralympic wheelchair basketball player and disability advocate. Laurie empowers organisations to build truly inclusive environments and redefine elite performance, drawing from her four Paralympic Games experience and partnerships with Adidas, Waitrose and PwC.
Paralympics
Athlete
Basketball
Inspirational Female
Sport
Celebrity
BBC
Laurie Williams is a four-time Paralympian and wheelchair basketball player whose career spans over a decade of elite international competition for Great Britain.
Laurie has represented Great Britain at four Paralympic Games, including Paris 2024, and was part of the team that achieved a record second-place world finish. She is also a disability model and known for her role on the CBBC show Desperados. Off the court, she has worked with brands including Adidas, Waitrose and PwC.
Laurie's talks draw on a lifetime of navigating the world as a full-time wheelchair user, from competing at the highest level of sport to pregnancy, parenting and modelling. She campaigns for greater understanding of what wheelchair users can achieve, challenging assumptions with real stories from her own life. Alongside her partner, fellow Paralympian Robyn Love, she speaks on equality, resilience and leadership, grounded in the couple's experience as LGBT+ parents raising their daughter while competing internationally.
Audiences leave Laurie's sessions with a clearer understanding of how to build inclusive environments, practical insight into what resilience looks like under genuine pressure, and a shifted perspective on disability that moves beyond sympathy to respect. Her talks resonate because they are rooted in lived experience rather than theory.
Book Laurie to bring honest, first-hand perspective on inclusion, resilience and redefining what elite performance looks like.
Laurie brings four Paralympic campaigns and a world silver medal into conversations about resilience and inclusion, with particular credibility on building environments where difference drives performance. Her lived experience as an elite athlete, LGBT+ parent and full-time wheelchair user translates directly into practical frameworks that shift workplace culture beyond policy into genuine respect.
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Laurie Williams structures her talks around personal narrative drawn from lived experience, using real stories from her life as a full-time wheelchair user, elite athlete, parent and model to shift audience perspectives on disability from sympathy to respect.
Laurie Williams speaks on disability inclusion, resilience under pressure, LGBT+ equality, high performance, and parenting as a full-time wheelchair user competing at elite level. She is a four-time Paralympian with Great Britain's wheelchair basketball team, having competed at Paris 2024 and contributed to the team's record second-place world finish.
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