Top inspiring female speakers for your team

Motivation holds up when people can see themselves improving, so give your team someone who leaves them with something to act on the next morning. Gallup’s engagement research puts highly engaged businesses at a 23% increase in profitability, a 43% decrease in turnover and an 81% decrease in absenteeism. If that sounds like something you would like to see in your team, PepTalk has a line-up of inspiring female speakers ready to reignite your team’s energy, drawn from our wider roster of motivational speakers.

Motivational and inspiring female speakers

Karen Allen

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A practical method for breaking negative thought cycles under pressure.

Create space away from negative thoughts and shift your team’s mindset with Karen Allen, mindset expert, TEDx speaker and founder of the 100% Human movement. As Karen puts it, more motivation usually starts with a mindset shift, or Stop + Shift. She developed the exercise after the unexpected loss of her husband, and it is now used worldwide as a simple, powerful technique for letting go of negative thought cycles and moving to more productive thinking.

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Roxie Nafousi

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A self-development session that gets people setting intentions and acting on them.

Help your team unlock the power of possibility with Roxie Nafousi, self-development coach and two-time Sunday Times bestselling author. Her debut book, Manifest: 7 Steps to Living Your Best Life, has achieved global acclaim and is widely regarded as the definitive guide to manifestation. Roxie’s approach helps people take ownership of their own development, fulfil their potential and spark motivation that lasts past the event.

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Resilient and inspiring female speakers

Higher levels of resilience mean your team can adapt to change and keep motivation high. These female motivational speakers know something about resilience, so who better to inspire your team?

Penny Mallory

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Building mental toughness in a team going through change.

Discover your inner mental toughness with Penny Mallory, former rally driver and motivational coach. Penny is about as resilient as they come. As a child she ran away from home and lived on the streets, then turned her life around to become a champion rally driver and the first and only woman to drive for Ford in the World Rally Championship. If you are motivating a team through change, Penny’s story of resilience, confidence and determination will steer them in the right direction.

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Hannah Cockroft CBE

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A high-performance mindset drawn from a career of Paralympic golds.

Learn what a champion mindset actually looks like with Hannah Cockroft CBE, record-breaking British wheelchair racer. Hannah holds world records in the T34 classification and Paralympic records over 100, 200, 400 and 800 metres, and she has won Paralympic gold at every Games from London 2012 through to Paris 2024, taking her career tally to nine Paralympic golds. Known for her ability to thrive under pressure, she delivers PepTalk keynotes on building a high-performance mindset, and she is one of our strongest keynote speakers on resilience, drive and determination.

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Empowering and inspiring female speakers

“When employees feel trusted and supported, they are more likely to be motivated to do their best work.”— Rajesh Natarajan

Mandy Hickson

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Better decisions under pressure, using RAF human factors and debriefing.

Learn how to empower your team to make better decisions and thrive under pressure with Mandy Hickson, former RAF fast-jet pilot and performance coach. Mandy flew operationally on a front-line Tornado squadron, a role long dominated by men, and she is candid about the challenges she met along the way.

She now works as a human performance coach, focusing on cultural change and debriefing, and brings that discipline to any team that needs to sharpen how it makes calls.

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Ebony Rainford-Brent

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Ambition and inclusion, told through a career of firsts in sport and broadcasting.

Empower and inspire women across your organisation with Ebony Rainford-Brent, Women’s Cricket World Cup winner. Since retiring from cricket, Ebony has become the first Director of Women’s Cricket at Surrey County Cricket Club, and she got behind the mic as a pundit and broadcaster on the BBC’s flagship radio programme Test Match Special.

She was one of the first female expert summarisers to commentate on men’s international cricket, and she hosted the motivational podcast The Art of Success. Today she is a keynote speaker who uses her stories of sporting prowess to get teams fired up for success.

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Elizabeth Day

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Reframing failure so teams learn faster and take smarter risks.

Give your team a new perspective on failure, learning and growth with Elizabeth Day, journalist, broadcaster and host of the hit podcast How to Fail. According to Stylist magazine, Elizabeth has revolutionised how we see failure.

Her guests have included Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Gloria Steinem, Andrew Scott and Lily Allen, and the series has become one of the most listened-to interview podcasts in the UK. If you want to motivate your team by making it safe to get things wrong, look no further than Elizabeth.

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💡 Would you like to bring one of these inspiring female speakers to your team? Let us know what you need, and we’ll find the perfect PepTalk expert for your organisation. Email us at hello@getapeptalk.com or send us a message via the chat. You can also call us on +44 20 3835 2929 (UK) or +1 737 888 5112 (US). Remember, it’s always a good time to get a PepTalk!