The speakers Speaker Agency's UK clients have booked most since 2023, ranked by real bookings — not fame, and not where a speaker happens to live.
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This list is drawn from Speaker Agency's own confirmed UK bookings between 2023 and 2026, ranked by how many times each speaker has actually been booked by a UK client, not from editorial opinion, the way most "top speaker" round-ups are built.
That distinction matters: this list ranks who UK organisations have chosen to book, again and again, not where a speaker happens to live. Several names here are UK-based. Several are not: they are international speakers our UK clients keep coming back to. If you are looking specifically for speakers who are based in the UK, see our Top UK Business Speakers and Best Leadership Speakers in the UK lists instead. This page answers a different question: who do UK companies actually book.
Every name below is ranked by confirmed booking count with UK clients across 2023–2026, pulled from Speaker Agency's own records. We do not publish the individual booking counts, fees or revenue figures behind that ranking — that is commercially sensitive information we hold internally, and unlike fees, we do not even publish it as a category-level range. What you see below is the relative order alone: who UK clients have booked most, not how many times or in which years.
1. Dr Liz O'Riordan — a former consultant breast surgeon and three-time cancer patient, speaking on resilience, leadership and communication from both sides of the system. Watch: Watch Dr Liz in action.
2. Rachel Morgan-Trimmer — a neurodiversity consultant and award-winning TEDx speaker, bringing lived experience as an autistic and ADHD individual to building genuinely inclusive workplaces. Watch: Inclusion is selfish, TEDxWarrington.
3. Dr Ally Jaffee — a London-based NHS doctor and co-founder of Nutritank, speaking on psychology, mindfulness and workplace wellbeing. Watch: Dr Ally Jaffee – Co-Founder of Nutritank.
4. Dr Alexandra Adams — a disability advocate and final-year medical student on track to become the UK's first deafblind doctor, speaking on inclusion and resilience. Watch: Deafblind Doctor Says Colleagues Have Had a "Disappointing" Reaction to Her Disability, Lorraine.
5. Ella Podmore MBE — an engineer and IET Young Woman Engineer of the Year, speaking on women in engineering and STEM. Watch: Permission to be Imperfect, TEDxUniversity of Manchester.
6. Darren Edwards — an adaptive adventurer and resilience speaker, the first wheelchair user in the world to complete the 777 Challenge across seven continents. Watch: Darren Edwards Showreel 2025.
7. Cassie Kozyrkov — founder of the field of Decision Intelligence and Google's first Chief Decision Scientist, speaking on AI and decision-making. Watch: Is It All About the Data?, DLD 24.
8. Pascal Coppens — author and one of the most sought-after experts on China, speaking on global strategy and doing business with China. Watch: The West's Three Blind Spots when Dealing with China's Tech.
9. Greg van der Gaast — a reformed hacker turned security strategist, speaking on cybersecurity as an organisational challenge rather than a technical one. Watch: his profile reel at speakeragency.co.uk/speakers/greg-van-der-gaast.
10. Zack Kass — AI futurist and former Head of Go-To-Market at OpenAI, speaking on the future of AI in business and society. Watch his profile reel: speakeragency.co.uk/speakers/zack-kass.
11. Swan Sit — a digital transformation and marketing leader with roles at Nike, Revlon and Estée Lauder, speaking on consumer attention and brand growth. Watch: Swan Sit Sizzle Reel.
12. Megan Caywood Cooper — former Chief Product Officer at Barclays UK and Starling Bank, speaking on AI, big data and start-up leadership. Watch: Profiles in Leadership.
Half the names above are UK-based and also appear on our locational lists. The other half are not, and that is the point of this page: a "most booked" ranking and a "based in the UK" ranking answer different questions, and treating them as the same thing would mean either leaving strong, repeat-booked speakers off this list, or mislabelling an international speaker as British. We would rather be accurate about which claim we're making. Most published "top speaker" lists are a single curator's opinion, assembled once and rarely explained; this one is drawn from our own confirmed UK bookings, and we say so plainly rather than presenting an editorial pick as if it were a market fact.
If you want to book any of the speakers above, or want to know who else UK organisations in your sector are booking, get in touch and we will work from the same live data behind this page.
→ Talk to us about booking a speaker for your UK event
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No, and this list isn't meant to claim that. It ranks speakers by how many times UK clients have booked them between 2023 and 2026, regardless of where the speaker is based. Several are UK-based; several are international speakers UK organisations book repeatedly. If you specifically want UK-based speakers, see our Top UK Business Speakers and Best Leadership Speakers in the UK lists instead.
From Speaker Agency's own confirmed booking records with UK clients, counted between 2023 and 2026. It reflects actual bookings, not search volume, fame or fee.
We publish fee information as category-level ranges rather than figures tied to an individual speaker, because per-speaker pricing is commercially sensitive for both the speaker and our clients. The same applies to booking counts: how many times, or in which specific years, a named speaker has been booked is information we hold internally to build the ranking, not information we publish per speaker. What is public is the order itself, not the underlying numbers.
Yes, periodically, as booking data for new years comes in. The ranking will shift as more 2026 and future bookings are confirmed.
Yes. Contact us with your event details and we will confirm availability and next steps for any speaker above.
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