Penny Haslam - Motivational Speaker
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Biography

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Penny Haslam is a former BBC business journalist, who regularly presented on live TV and radio in the UK including BBC Breakfast, the News Channel, Panorama and Radio 4.

She is an experienced award-winning motivational speaker on the topics of communication and confidence, as well as working with working with large organisations as a coach and trainer.

Penny has written two business books: Make Yourself a Little Bit Famous - How to power up your profile and get known for what you do, and Panel Discussions - The Ultimate Guide (finalist, Business Book of the Year Award 2023).

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Penny Haslam is a former BBC business journalist, who regularly presented on live TV and radio in the UK. Credits include BBC Breakfast, the News Channel and Panorama. She also enjoyed a 20-year career producing and presenting on national radio stations, BBC Radio 4 and Radio 5 Live.

She is a multi-award-winning motivational speaker on the topics of communication and confidence – her content is useful and entertaining, with one audience member describing her as “the female Michael McIntyre who speaks to business!”.

Through her training and coaching business, Penny works with leaders and managers in large organisations to enable them to communicate with confidence.

She has written two business books: Make Yourself a Little Bit Famous - How to power up your profile and get known for what you do, and Panel Discussions - The Ultimate Guide (finalist, Business Book of the Year Award 2023).

Penny is currently writing her third book for individuals and their organisations to build greater self-belief and develop a culture of confidence.

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Penny Haslam - Panel Discussions - Award

Make Yourself a Little Bit Famous - By Penny Haslam

Session content: Personal brand profile and communicating with impact

Description of talk for event marketing and publicity

Suggested talk title: Make Yourself a Little Bit Famous - How to power up your personal brand profile and get known for what you do.

Unless you want to be a best-kept secret, the importance of getting exposure for what you do cannot be understated.

Having been under the radar herself, with no clue as to how to ‘get out there’, former BBC business presenter Penny Haslam has worked hard to communicate with impact and feel confident in doing so.

She now supports others to showcase what they do, without feeling like a show-off. With thought-provoking stories and plenty of practical advice, Penny challenges you to:

Increase your visibility, or that of your team or organisation, and make it part of your job
Be seen by the people that matter as someone with expertise, on your terms
Communicate with impact, brevity and confidence (so you don't feel like an idiot!).

This session is for you if you want to progress your career, the profile of your team or organisation and be more visible in order to engage your colleagues, clients, candidates, suppliers and stakeholders.

How to introduce Penny 'on the day'

Please hand this to the person who will introduce Penny at your event. It is specific to the personal brand profile and communicating with impact session content.

Our first/next/guest speaker is a former national broadcaster, presenting the business news on BBC Breakfast, the News Channel and on Radio 5 Live.

She now works with leaders and emerging talent to be more visible and communicate with confidence.

And she is the author of the business books, Make Yourself a Little Bit Famous and Panel Discussions – The Ultimate Guide.

Today she’s going to help YOU power up your personal brand profile and get known for what you do.

Please welcome Penny Haslam.

Session content: Confidence

Description of talk for event marketing and publicity

Suggested talk titles: Penny Haslam's Confidence Reset (or) Make Yourself a Little More Confident - Three steps for building confidence for yourself, your team and your organisation (or) Building Confidence & Self Belief.

Penny Haslam had fulfilled her lifelong ambition of becoming a live TV presenter, but she had a problem that no-one else could see – out of control nerves and a lack of self-assuredness, that regularly threatened to take her under.

Penny has now distilled her experiences into three steps that help others build their confidence – so they can navigate the future, ride out uncertainty and the bumps in the road - and set a course for personal and organisational success.

In this empowering, practical and entertaining talk, you will find out:

Why talking to yourself is bad for you and how to stop it in its tracks
The action you can take to accelerate your confidence
And the foundation stones for rock solid esteem, no matter how you’re feeling.

Confidence may seem like a personal issue to deal with and something you ‘work on’ in your own time. But Penny’s take is that confidence is required at all levels and by whole organisations. Which is why it’s so important, especially now, to learn ways to build confidence, for you and your colleagues.

How to introduce Penny 'on the day'

Please hand this to the person who will introduce Penny at your event. It is specific to the confidence session content.

Our first/next speaker is a former business journalist and presenter on BBC Breakfast – as well as the News Channel, Radio 4 and Radio 5 Live.

She’s now an award-winning speaker and author of two business handbooks, Make Yourself a Little Bit Famous and Panel Discussions.

Her business “Bit Famous” (because she was, ‘a bit famous’) helps leaders and managers in large organisations to communicate with confidence.

So, it’s fair to say she’s had to be incredibly self-assured to achieve all of that! But has she always had loads of confidence? Well, let’s find out...

Please welcome Penny Haslam.