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Thought-provoking speaker on identity, courage & acceptance basing his keynotes on his own story as a transgender man

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Matt had the audience captivated with his own incredible and courageous personal story. I have to say it was one of the best sessions I have ever seen delivered at a Pharmacy Conference and I have been to many in my 24 years as a pharmacist professional.

Rachel Mackay

Associate Director of Medicines Management

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Reasons to book Matt Ellison

Educational Impact: Matt's dedication to educating people on transgender topics, from medical interventions to legal implications, enriches his keynotes. His insights into the Gender Recognition Act and personal experiences in a Q&A session provide valuable learning opportunities.
Personal Journey: Matt Ellison's story as a transgender man, filled with highs and lows, offers a compelling narrative that resonates with audiences. He shares his struggles with identity, making his keynotes relatable and impactful.
Business & Healthcare Benefits: Matt's speaking engagements benefit diverse organizations and his talks on diversity and inclusion improve workplace dynamics, enhance talent recruitment, and elevate the standard of care for transgender patients. Matt's journey inspires audiences to overcome fears, fostering personal transformation and professional growth.

Matt Ellison is a captivating transgender keynote speaker whose journey is a testament to resilience. With a compelling narrative of personal struggles and triumphs, Matt educates, inspires, and motivates audiences globally. From Fortune 500 companies like Fidelity International to leading educational institutions, his tailored keynotes on diversity, inclusion, and personal growth leave a lasting impact. Experience the power of Matt's transformative storytelling to unlock inspiration and drive positive change at your next event.

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Keynotes

KEYNOTE BY SPEAKER MATT ELLISON: Mental Health

Matt’s lived experience as a trans man brings (a) unique perspective to the conversation around mental health. Having faced profound mental health challenges himself, stemming from both society’s behaviour towards trans people, and as a result of this, his own internalised stigmas, there is much to be learnt by all walks of life from Matt’s courageous journey of transition to improved mental health.

In this keynote Matt will talk about:

Understanding external influences and how much they can affect others’ mental health.

Why ‘being yourself’ or ‘bringing your whole self to work’ is fundamentally important to good mental health.

Inspirational story overcoming mental health challenges.

Lived experience giving insight into profound mental health struggles, and how they were overcome - relatable to all walks of life.

Key points on how to help others overcome mental health struggles or prevent them developing.

Matt brings experience of having worked/delivered content within a high security psychiatric setting.

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KEYNOTE BY SPEAKER MATT ELLISON: Diversity & Inclusion

Matt uses his lived experience to demonstrate how diversity and inclusion can drive your company’s success. From recruiting more highly skilled staff, creating a welcoming environment, increasing productivity, and boosting staff retention, Matt highlights the tangible benefits of an inclusive workplace.

He offers practical advice on becoming more inclusive, initiating difficult conversations, developing best practices, and establishing effective company policies and procedures.

Using a powerful metaphor alongside real-life examples that resonate with the audience, Matt illustrates how and why the smallest actions can have the most significant impact.

In this highly relevant keynote, Matt will talk about:

How diversity and inclusion can help your company thrive, from recruiting more highly skilled staff to increasing staff productivity and boosting staff retention

Practical advice on how to be more inclusive, develop good practices and put together company policies and procedures.

How to be more dynamic with your diversity and inclusion policies and procedures, creating a higher degree of engagement, including with your non-LGBT staff

The UK Gender Recognition Act and how to avoid inadvertently committing criminal offenses

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KEYNOTE BY SPEAKER MATT ELLISON: Gender

In this keynote Matt will talk about:

What is gender?

Male, female and non-binary.

The difference between sex, gender and sexuality.

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KEYNOTE BY SPEAKER MATT ELLISON: Identity

In this keynote Matt will talk about:

Who do you identify as?

Internal and external factors – appearance and inner identity.

How aspects of identity may be in conflict or undergo change.

Identity, self-discovery and self-realization.

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KEYNOTE BY SPEAKER MATT ELLISON: Change & Motivation

Having made life changes more fundamental than most people are faced with, Matt Ellison brings his insights to the issues of blocks, facing the unfaceable and redefining your life for the positive.

After nearly four decades being too fearful to go through the changes that he needed to be happy, he finally found the answers that made the scariest challenges of his life feel easy and effortless. What he learned can help others to also overcome fears that are often exaggerated, and to increase their motivation to achieve their goals in life.

In this keynote, Matt will give you tools and strategies to increase motivation and overcome fear!

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KEYNOTE BY SPEAKER MATT ELLISON: Courage & Inspiration

Matt knows what it’s like to risk everything. He feared he could have lost his family, friends and business & been branded a ‘freak’ by society, yet none of those things happened.

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KEYNOTE BY SPEAKER MATT ELLISON: Trans Awareness & Acceptance

In this keynote Matt will talk about:

Raising awareness of transgender issues.

How best to support staff, clients, students etc. who are undergoing or are around those undergoing gender transition.

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KEYNOTE BY SPEAKER MATT ELLISON: Equality & Rights

The UK’s Gender Recognition Act: a British perspective on the right to be respected and to be accepted whatever one’s gender identity, sexuality, race etc.

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Customer Reviews

Rachel Mackay Associate Director of Medicines Management

Matt is obviously very passionate about helping others and telling his story, so others are confident in taking the first step to changing their lives. Matt was able to share useful resources to the group and was keen to speak to members of the audience on a personal level after the talk. A thought provoking talk.

Anne Cooper Lloyds of London

“I have no hesitation in recommending Matt to speak at any event across any industry vertical. I think his stories around transformation and change, and the bravery and courage in personal journey, is something that is applicable to any type of person in any type of industry”

Jonathan MacDonald Sunday Times Best Seller and International Speaker

Matt Ellison

Educating & inspiring keynotes about gender, identity & diversity

Matt Ellison is a highly sought-after, entertaining and thought-provoking transgender speaker. His life experience as a trans man has fascinated and inspired audiences of all kinds in both private and public sectors in the U.K. and internationally. His insights on change, as someone who has made such a huge and fundamental change himself, apply to everyone in all areas of professional and personal life.

Organisations who have invited Matt to speak include Microsoft, eBay, Mars, Toyota, Lacoste, Disney, KFC, NHS, Lloyds of London, City of London Corporation, Fidelity International, HM Courts and Tribunals, and many more.

Matt has been consulted and interviewed on many occasions. He was recently seen on TV in the high-profile Channel 4 documentary ‘Me and My Penis’, which broke many taboos, covering sex, psychology and men’s mental health issues.

Tailored towards the audience, Matt has something to offer all audiences, including healthcare professionals, businesses, educational institutions, emergency services, political and religious groups, plus more. Depending upon requirements he can delve deep into the mind of what it feels like to be transgender with a story full of highs, lows and humour. He can educate the audience around such things as the medical interventions, social aspects, safe practices for service providers and employers, as well the legal implications of the Gender Recognition Act and the popular Q&A if requested gives the opportunity to answer all those burning questions.

With an increasing number of trans folk having the courage to transition, yet with so many still facing discrimination and ignorance, transgender issues and diversity & inclusion, are currently more relevant than ever.

Blog posts by Matt Ellison

Strategies for Corporate Change: Insights from Gender Transition

In general people usually opt for familiarity over change. Think how you feel when an app, or website suddenly changes their layout, all the tabs have moved and, at least initially, navigating is just that much harder. I’m sure most of us have experienced the frustration of this.Yet as we know, corp

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Airport Scanners – A Major Fear For Trans Travelers

One fear for many trans people is flying, specifically getting through airport security. Without fail, every time I fly I have anxiety about whether today will be the day I am asked to go through a body scanner at security and will be picked out due to an anomaly because of my trans body.If (or most

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