PSA Virtual November 2025: Jet-Set Speaker Meets Connection Code

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Two powerhouse sessions. One inspiring evening. Get ready to transform how you connect — online and in person — to grow your speaking business and thrive in 2026.

Mark Saxby FPSA will show you how to achieve real results through social media without letting it take over your life, while Jackie Handy will reveal the secrets to building deep, profitable connections that last. Practical, insightful, and packed with strategies you can implement immediately, this is an event you won’t want to miss.

Mark Saxby FPSA – How To Get Results Through Social Media – Without It Taking Over Your Life

It’s not enough to know how to use social media; you also need to know how to win over those who use it. This hands-on, interactive workshop will show you how a more thoughtful use of social media will generate meaningful results for your speaking business, helping you to finally achieve the results you’ve always wanted – in less time!

You won’t come away from this session with the tricks and tips you’ve heard a hundred times before. Instead, you’ll be inspired to be different. You’ll leave determined to elevate your social media presence to a new level, making you stand out in a way you’ve never done before.

This is a social media workshop with a difference.

You’ll learn:

How raising your game will increase your success
How REALLY understanding your target audience will bring results
Why diving in for the kiss is not going to achieve your goals on social media
How seeing social media differently will mean better results in less time

Most speakers are spending hours on social media and not getting results. This talk will re-energise your social media and help you make good decisions on what you need to do to stop wasting your time on social media and use it properly

Jackie Handy – Cracking the Connection Code
Jackie Handy is the UK’s go-to voice on workplace connection, culture, and what it really takes to help people thrive. She’s a multi-award-winning speaker and storyteller, recently named Best Storyteller at the 2025 Speaker Awards, and her keynotes are already fuelling culture shifts and leadership breakthroughs across the globe.

In this session, Jackie will share powerful lessons from her solo 500-mile hike across Spain’s Camino de Santiago, and help you:

Discover the power of Moai in building a thriving speaking business
Use one simple word to deepen connection with clients and networks
Find Flow in both business and life

Jackie’s blend of humour, insight and real talk will leave you inspired, connected, and ready to build a more profitable 2026 — one relationship at a time.

Keynote speakers

Jackie Handy

Mark Saxby

Jackie Handy

Jackie Handy is a popular speaker, author and workforce culture specialist. She helps organisations build inclusive, connected and higher-performing teams, with increased performance and engagement.

With almost 30 years’ experience in executive recruitment, leadership development and inclusion strategy, Jackie combines professional expertise with personal narrative, inspiring behaviour change in high pressure businesses.

In 2023, Jackie solo-hiked the 800km Camino de Santiago, an experience that deepened her understanding of human connection, courage, resilience under pressure and blisters!

These insights, together with the latest research shape her engaging presentations, which have won her multiple awards across the PSA and Speaker Awards. A fellow of the PSA and described as a ‘master of taking the audience on a journey’, Jackie’s talks spark curiosity and unlock compassion. Not only will she have you on the edge of your seat, but she’ll leave you with practical tools for improving connection and productivity in your speaking business.

Mark Saxby

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.