In 1997, alongside her mother Sue, Victoria Humphries became part of the first all-female expedition to the North Pole. They faced many challenges along the way, including temperatures of -40°C, constantly shifting ice, and at even one point, they fell into the Arctic Ocean, finding themselves in a very real life or death situation. The expedition tested their resilience, their courage, and their ability to cope with a constantly changing environment.

Victoria’s keynotes are unusual in that she combines stories from her adventures and challenges, with her extensive commercial experiences, to create an inspirational and relatable story that can rise to the challenges of today’s workplace.

Avoiding complicated jargon, she focusses on helping workforces recognise that they live in a ‘non-linear’ world, instead they will go through constant change, they will fall, they will need to change direction, and they will realise they don’t have all the answers. She explains how resilience is not about being strong all the time, but about learning to pick yourself up again and try again.

When not challenging herself on mad challenges and generally being a bit bonkers, she has spent over 25 years in the education sector, as a teacher, governor, consultant, trainer, and managing director of an EdTech. She now works with global business across a range of sectors, giving keynote speeches and running resilience workshops. She aims to encourage delegates to use their own lived experiences to build their ‘resilience toolbox’.

Victoria Humphries Speaking Topics

– Overcoming Adversity

– Building Resilience

– Managing Change

– Motivation and Inspiration

– Self-Belief

– Women in Business

Victoria Humphries most popular talks

– Managing Change in a Changing World…One Step At a Time

– Be Bold, Be Brave, Be You

Victoria Humphries Talk Takeaways

– You will leave feeling inspired and believing you can achieve anything, both as an individual and as a team

– You will leave with an increased self-awareness which will better equip you to respond to the challenges of leadership and business

– You will leave thinking differently; you will challenge yourselves, you will be curious, you will take more opportunities, and you will learn how to break challenges into bite-sized chunks

– You will leave with an increased understanding of resilience and how your lived experiences can be transferred to the workplace environment

Why book speaker Victoria Humphries

Victoria Humphries’s talks have messages around overcoming adversity, leadership & teamwork and resilience along with encouraging curiosity, empowerment and a sense of perspective when things are tough; most importantly the talk is also full of humour and inspiration. She uses stories from her North Pole trip and other challenges to spread a message about how anyone can overcome their fears and how anyone can achieve anything – it’s all about taking one step at a time, being curious and saying yes!  Her talks are deliberately jargon free and fairly informal so as to put the audience at ease and allow them to really soak up the messages that I’m giving.

Victoria Humphries Recent jobs include:

– An inspirational talk at a sales conference for one of the world’s largest drinks companies

– An after-dinner speech for a £1bn turnover global sales business

– Keynote speeches for government departments

– A keynote speech opening a global education conference

– Regular training of graduate trainees on FMCG schemes

– Inspirational talks and a resilience workshop for one of the UK’s leading banks; an award-winning UK franchise network; and an international advertising and marketing agency

– An after-dinner talk at a large charity fundraising event

– An INSET day for all staff at a Worcestershire school

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