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Stef Sword-Williams

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Transform workplace confidence with Stef Sword-Williams, speaker, self-promotion expert, and personal branding strategist. Stef empowers professionals to embrace their achievements and build impactful personal brands, reaching audiences in 50+ countries for Apple, Google, and Microsoft as a Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree.

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Confidence and personal branding expert
Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree in Europe
Author of F*ck Being Humble and Career Comedown

Stef Sword-Williams is a TEDx speaker, founder, and two-time author, best known for founding F*ck Being Humble, a global movement and consultancy empowering people to own their achievements and overcome the fear of self-promotion. Recognised as a Forbes 30 Under 30 honouree for Europe, Stef has been named among the Top 50 Workplace Leaders in the UK, Start Up Magazine’s 22 Most Influential Women, and twice in The Dot’s 100 Women Changing the Creative Industry. Stef has also been recognised as one of the Top 100 women changing the creative industry, won the LinkedIn Future Is Female Award, and is a LinkedIn Top Voice. Stef’s talks have reached audiences in over 50 countries and have been booked by global brands including Apple, Unilever, Google, Nike, Adidas, Microsoft, and the BBC. Her TEDx Talk on redefining humility and self-promotion has cemented her reputation as a leading voice in confidence, personal branding, and social impact. Stef's debut book, F*ck Being Humble: Why self-promotion isn’t a dirty word, has sold over 10,000 copies, with her second book continuing to expand the conversation around visibility, confidence, and career empowerment. With a community of over 170,000 people online, Stef’s work has been featured in Forbes, Grazia, Vogue, BBC World News, and the Financial Times. In recognition of her contribution to social impact, she was invited to become a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Stef continues to reinvest profits and time into community initiatives, inspiring people worldwide to embrace their worth and celebrate their successes boldly and unapologetically.

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Managing Imposter Syndrome

For many people, imposter syndrome and self-doubt can be the biggest barrier to achieving career goals. Through her talk, Stef Sword-Williams aims to challenge limiting beliefs, enable talent to recognise their potential and empower them to reach current goals and future ambitions.

Networking Internally

With more teams working remotely, the opportunity toconnect and build relationships with the people we work with has reduced. Thatmeans it’s even more important to actively invest in growing mutually beneficialrelationships, raising our profile virtually and exploring the best ways to providevalue to co-workers.

Pitching And Presenting

Public speaking can be intimidating for many which is whyStef makes it her mission to help people feel more confident with presenting.Whether it’s for a pitch, internal meeting or to a large audience, Stef will share allthe techniques you need to captivate your viewers and make them remember you.

Making Your Ideas Heard

Got an idea but not sure how to present it or make itheard by the right people? Stef will share tools and preparation techniques that willhelp empower individuals to use their voice, share their ideas without fear andunderstand how build a business case for implementing it.

Feedback Matters

Giving and receiving feedback doesn’t need to be a challenging experience if you handle it with care. In this talk, Stef will guide you on the best ways to gather, deliver, and implement feedback that could significantly impact your career/client relationships.

Why we recommend booking Stef

Book Stef Sword-Williams as a speaker to empower your team to embrace their achievements unapologetically and conquer the fear of self-promotion. With a proven track record of inspiring global audiences and top brands, her insights on personal branding and self-empowerment are transformative. Recognised by Forbes and featured in top publications, Stef's impactful message will elevate your team's confidence and drive.

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Testimonials

Stef's content spoke perfectly to the audience, she led with relatable and personable themes which when matched in combination with her motivating and upbeat presentation style, lent itself to a wonderfully engaging conversation. I cannot recommend Stef enough, she nails brand, she engages audiences, she's brilliant.

Squarespace

Stef's content was incredibly current and engaging. Our audience of both women and men commended her on the relatability of the workshop material and the many actionable takeaways shared. Due to high demand and the immense amount of positive feedback Stef received, we have asked her to come back to deliver more workshops to our other UK offices.

Unilever

Having gained some fantastic insights from attending one of Stef's webinars, l invited her to speak to BBC Creative. It was a really well attended talk and has been widely held up to be the most useful session we've had. It was hugely inspiring, honest and - as usual with Stef-tremendously galvanising, with loads of positive action points to implement.

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Stef delivers inspiring, practical talks that empower audiences to embrace self-promotion and confidence. Her engaging style motivates people to celebrate achievements and build visibility in their careers.

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Stef Sword-Williams specialises in discussing self-promotion, personal branding, self-empowerment and more.

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