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Penny Haslam

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Former BBC business presenter and award-winning speaker on world-class communication and workplace confidence to further business success.

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Penny spoke for 90-minutes to our 100 sales team members at our off-site day. She brought us the boost we needed, with plenty of fresh and practical ideas for building self-belief and confidence at work. It was perfect for team building and I strongly recommend Penny. Highly entertaining too!

Adam Burt, VP Obesity Business Unit Head, Novo Nordisk See all references

Why you should book Penny Haslam for your next event

  • Penny Haslam’s career in national broadcasting at the BBC spans 20 years. As a result, Penny has a breadth of experience in world-class communication that is second to none.
  • She is now a multi-award-winning communication and confidence speaker for events and conferences. Clients and audiences alike love her for her engaging energy, humour, warmth and instantly actionable tools to help overcome barriers to success.
  • Penny has empowered thousands of individuals to boost their confidence and visibility, equipping them with the skills needed to excel in high-stakes environments
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Keynote speaker Penny Haslam is a well-known communication expert focusing on impact, visibility and confidence in the workplace. She is the MD-founder of Bit Famous and the author of two business communication handbooks. Her keynotes have helped 1000s of leaders and employees in some of the world’s biggest organisations. Book now to inspire change and drive growth through world-class communication!

Why you should book Penny Haslam for your next event

  • Penny Haslam’s career in national broadcasting at the BBC spans 20 years. As a result, Penny has a breadth of experience in world-class communication that is second to none.
  • She is now a multi-award-winning communication and confidence speaker for events and conferences. Clients and audiences alike love her for her engaging energy, humour, warmth and instantly actionable tools to help overcome barriers to success.
  • Penny has empowered thousands of individuals to boost their confidence and visibility, equipping them with the skills needed to excel in high-stakes environments

Penny Haslam began her career as a secretary at the BBC, eventually becoming a well-known business news presenter on the BBC’s flagship Breakfast show, its rolling news channel and national radio stations. Now, Penny is one of today’s most sought-after speakers on world-class communication and workplace confidence for businesses worldwide.

She founded Bit Famous, an L&D business that helps leaders and employees communicate confidently, share ideas fluently, role model behaviours and culture, and contribute to their organisation’s growth. Bit Famous is a finalist for Personnel Today’s L&D Supplier of the Year 2024, recognised for its programme that helps retain mid-tier women in the talent pipeline and narrows the gender pay gap through developing managers and leaders’ communication skills and self-belief at work.

Penny’s fresh approach to business communication and brand reach is featured in her books, Make Yourself a Little Bit Famous and Panel Discussions – The Ultimate Guide (a UK Business Book of the Year Award 2023 finalist). She excels as a keynote speaker with smart humour and storytelling, with one audience member dubbing her “the female Michael McIntyre who speaks to business”. And, as expected from a former live television presenter, she is a stellar performer online too.

Penny also impacts board and SLT levels, delivering interactive sessions and masterclasses for workplace networks and away days. She’s skilled at engaging and motivating even the most reticent audiences with powerful messages, practical tips, and warmth. Penny is a dream to work with and always goes the extra mile for her clients.

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Make Yourself A Little Bit Famous: How To Have More Impact, Influence And Confidence

Penny’s content is designed to resonate with professionals at any level, addressing common fears and aspirations related to self-promotion and visibility at work, and beyond.

  • Inspiration and practicality: Penny offers compelling reasons and practical strategies for developing a personal brand, making it easy for attendees to see the value of getting known both within their workplace and beyond. Her delivery is filled with relatable stories and immediately actionable advice.
  • Business-centric approach: Penny ensures her content is directly aligned with your organisation’s goals, making the session highly relevant and applicable to your teams.
  • Real outcomes: Attendees frequently report that this keynote has helped them advance their careers, forge important connections, expand their networks, and become more confident communicators.
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Workplace Confidence: Harnessing Self-Belief for Success - For You, Your Team and Organisation

Penny Haslam’s highly useful and entertaining keynote empowers individuals and teams to build their confidence at work. It gently encompasses increased anxiety, stress, burnout and isolation experienced by many in today’s work environments.

  • Engaging and practical content: Penny’s presentations are not only humorous and inspiring but also deeply relatable, offering three practical strategies to reduce negative thinking, eliminate limiting beliefs and enhance self-awareness.
  • Building confident teams: By equipping individuals with tools to boost their self-confidence, Penny helps cultivate teams of resilient, innovative and inclusive colleagues. These confident teams drive cohesion and supercharge business success.
  • Real outcomes: Audience members feedback they’re relieved to learn that they’re ‘not the only one’ experiencing self-doubt at work; they found it “enlightening, hilarious and life-changing”; that they wished they’d heard it years ago!
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Be Seen, Be Heard: The Value of Visible Leadership

Penny shows leaders who know that increasing their visibility is the path for greater success, ways of achieving that. She shares strong motivational examples of how being seen and heard has a direct impact on business success.

  • Visibility that aligns with business goals: Penny’s approach links a leader’s visibility directly to workplace success. Leaders who are seen and heard can role model ideal culture and behaviours, share ideas, gather information and foster a culture of openness.
  • Practical strategies: Penny addresses common anxieties about ‘being in the spotlight’ and offers straightforward tips and relatable stories that make being visible feel more achievable. With plenty of original success stories of leaders with whom Penny has worked.
  • Results that matter: Leaders who’ve worked with Penny report greater confidence, stronger networks and career progression. Beyond the role, when representing the brand externally, profits have been positively impacted – through attracting more and better quality candidates, being seen as trustworthy thought leaders and building strategic relationships with key stakeholders
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Be a Yeti - The Power of Yet

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Penny Haslam - Make Yourself a Little Bit Famous

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Visible leadership: The coffee strategy

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Penny spoke for 90-minutes to our 100 sales team members at our off-site day. She brought us the boost we needed, with plenty of fresh and practical ideas for building self-belief and confidence at work. It was perfect for team building and I strongly recommend Penny. Highly entertaining too!

Adam Burt

VP Obesity Business Unit Head, Novo Nordisk

Once again Penny delivered a first-class session on developing communication skills for the team. The feedback was amazing, they all embraced the tasks set and took Penny's expert tuition on board, managing to perform very impressively in just one day. They spoke passionately about their experience and how much they had learnt. We continue to work with Penny, as she is simply the best at what she does.

Sara Palmer

Distribution Director, The Mortgage Lender

Penny Haslam’s remote session for our EMEA leaders was sensational and they’ve gone on to use what they learnt to great effect. What was also highly impressive was how she engaged them through the camera and held their attention from start to finish. The feedback has been fantastic.

Tabitha Brear

Industry Engagement Lead, EMEA, Google

Penny Haslam absolutely lived up to her reputation! She delivered a ‘Make Yourself a Little Bit Famous’ 90-minute session for Adobe Women - and the feedback has been amazing. She's fun and engaging, she makes you think and people left with tangible actions. I highly recommend.

Tara Rule

(Formerly) Senior Director of Commercial Strategy & Operations, Adobe

It's been the best workshop I've ever attended, hands down. I left feeling energised and confident that the skills and tips Penny shared with us are achievable and realistic, rather than pie-in-the-sky theories that would be nice 'if only I had the time'. I've taken the learning for my work life and personal life too. I definitely recommend her!

Steph Nelson

Comms and Engagement Manager, NHS

I've been trained on most things in my career, but never on confidence - which is ridiculous because once you have ideas about how to build your confidence, you can pretty deal with anything life throws at you! Penny's keynote showed CIPFA members some incredibly valuable ideas to navigate the bumps in the road and how to be more resilient in the future.

Kelly Watson

Former Regional Head, CIPFA
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5 out of 5 stars

Penny spoke for 90-minutes to our 100 sales team members at our off-site day. She brought us the boost we needed, with plenty of fresh and practical ideas for building self-belief and confidence at work. It was perfect for team building and I strongly recommend Penny. Highly entertaining too!

Adam Burt, VP Obesity Business Unit Head, Novo Nordisk See all references

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