Sam Jones is a Gen Z speaker and the founder of several companies and applications (All In, TwentySomeone, TIME Score, Jetbrek) in the area of mental wellbeing and has been a personal coach for over 400 clients, including many young celebrities, influencers and entrepreneurs.

After being on Jobseekers Allowance at 21, Sam now works with a range of global brands and individuals to help them feel better and perform better. He also created a public community of over 7,000 members where he could provide on-the-ground learning experiences and workshops for modern-day twenty and thirty year olds.

Gen Z speaker Sam’s mission is to change the way young people attain mental wellbeing and life direction through simple, down-to-earth support. He reaches over 30,000 people a week on Instagram, mainly 20-35 year olds in the UK and US, and has led research projects into understanding mental wellbeing in young people which reached five continents in just 12 months.

He has worked with the likes of ASOS, News UK, P&G and Unilever, from coaching their staff, helping them to understand millennials and helping build new brand strategies.

Gen Z speaker Sam’s expertise, gained through the mentoring of pioneering emerging-adulthood researcher Jeffrey Arnett, ensures that he creates unique, tailored keynotes and group-learning experiences from the perspective of young people.

He has presented over 100 keynotes and workshops, from audiences as small as 10 and as big as 250 people, and his laidback style makes him a great, relatable speaker for many types of events.

Sam’s expertise and authority, gained through the mentoring of pioneering researcher Jeffrey Arnett, in the millennial and emerging adult area ensure that he creates unique tailored keynotes and group learning experiences from the perspective of young people. He can provide speeches and workshops covering topics including confidence, leadership, mental health, mentoring, millennials, social media and young people.

A Chat with Sam Jones

As part of our ‘Chat with…’ podcast series at Great British Speakers, our director Jane Farnham sat down with Sam to talk about how technology has adapted the way we communicate, how living in a culture of instant-access via our phones has changed our own psychology and how this impacts the thoughts and feelings of the younger generation. Watch the full interview HERE.

SAM JONES SPEAKING TOPICS

A personal growth strategy for millennials in work:

Sam guides you through a workshop – whether you are a millennial or manage them – research-backed exercises to help coach, mentor and develop in the workplace.

Coaching Gen Z to great wellbeing in work and home:

Gen Z speaker Sam Jones is answering organisations’ challenges by helping their young talent thrive in the working environment. Many coaching techniques and practical strategies can be used by Gen Z and their managers to bring their best into the organisation.

From top 100 business schools to benefits, and back:

Sam shares his entrepreneurial journey in an all too common tale of grand expectations and harsh reality. He gives a brutally honest insight with practical tips to how he went from benefits post-university to setting up several platforms that are tackling the UK wellbeing problem.

Social media:

Sam has a unique insight into the psychology of social media and how young people can use it to thrive instead of falling into negative traps like low self-esteem.

What working with the 1% teaches you about life:

Stories from working as a life coach to celebrities. What we can learn about the pursuit of success and happiness and what really goes on behind the scenes of the people we admire.

Building core confidence and assertiveness in work:

A practical sessions where people build an in-depth plan to master the layers of confidence in their work. It helps people speak up, perform better and lead from the inside out.

A practical guide to wellbeing in a busy world:

Social media, never-ending work access and comparison play a major part in how we see ourselves. This workshop delves deep into the role this plays on our wellbeing and uses applicable strategies to work with the modern world.

AI and the workplace:

AI is changing the employment landscape, and is on the same level as social media in terms of how it will impact our personal and professional lives. Sam talks about how organisations can use AI for good, how to use to in order to evolve your company and thrive, as well as the bad that inevitably comes with it.