About this event
Two expert speakers. Two practical sessions. One evening packed with ideas to help you connect with more people—on stage and online.
Charlie Hart – Inclusive Speaking for All Kinds of Minds
Charlie Hart explores the concepts of neurodiversity and neurodivergence, candidly sharing her lived experience of being late identified as autistic and having ADHD.
Drawing on both personal experience and practical expertise, Charlie will share simple neuroinclusive techniques to help you design and deliver talks that are more inclusive, accessible and engaging for all kinds of minds.
Whether you’re speaking to a room of ten or a theatre of thousands, you’ll leave with practical ideas to help every audience member feel included and able to connect with your message.
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Mark Saxby – Social Media Thought Leadership: How to Become Worth Listening To
The audience will learn:
- A clearer understanding of what thought leadership REALLY is
- A practical framework for building authority on social media
- The confidence to share their own point of view
- A story-led approach to social media content
- A better way to create opportunities
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Whether you’re looking to create talks that resonate with every audience or build meaningful connections online, this evening will equip you with practical tools you can start using straight away.
Keynote speakers
Charlie Hart is a neurodiversity inclusion speaker with a 20-year career in HR Analytics. She is also a popular social media neurodiversity influencer under the name Ausome Charlie. Charlie is Autistic, ADHD, bisexual, and gender non-conforming, and her talks centre her neurodivergent lived experience and insights, underpinned with expertise in HR and inclusion best practice, and delivered with authentic quirkiness and humour. Charlie is an Associate Member of the CIPD, and a Professional Member of the Professional Speaking Association (MPSA).
The East Midlands Professional Speaker of the Year, Mark Saxby, is far more than ‘another social media expert’. A former award-winning BBC and ITV journalist, he went on to establish one of the UK’s first specialist social media agencies in 2011. Since then, Mark and his clients have generated more than £20.6 million in sales through social media.
Mark believes true success doesn’t come from simply knowing how the platforms work – it comes from knowing how to win over the people who use them.
He is also the founder of the Positive Social charity, which helps young people take back control of their lives from social media.
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