Celebrated annually on March 8th, International Women's Day is a celebration of the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women across the globe.
Now in its 115th year, International Women's Day has evolved into a movement powered by the collective efforts of all and serves as a call to action for continuing the fight for gender equality.
IWD 2026 Theme – Give To Gain
This year, the theme for International Women’s Day is Give To Gain. With the goal to encourage a mindset of generosity and collaboration, Give To Gain highlights that when people, organisations and communities give support through knowledge, resources, infrastructure, visibility, advocacy, education, mentoring, or time, women advance, and in turn, create a more supportive and interconnected world.
In booking an International Women's Day speaker, organisations demonstrate their commitment to fostering environments to spark meaningful conversations and improve diversity, equity and inclusion.
Diana Nyad - Resilience, Teamwork and High-Performance Mindsets
On September 2, 2013, 25 million people worldwide rooted for Diana Nyad as she reached the Florida shore, at long last achieving her 35-year-old quest of becoming the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida, without a shark cage.
In achieving this incredible feat, Diana demonstrated to the world the true power of collaboration and the human spirit.
Through her talks, Diana shares tangible examples of teamwork from her years-long pursuit of achieving her goal, while also discussing how to assemble a high-performance team and how to face challenges with a resilient mindset.
A unique and inspiring storyteller, Diana is living proof that it is never too late to accomplish our goals, no matter how big.
Candice Brathwaite - Diversity, Leadership and Cultural Impact
Critically acclaimed author, journalist and podcaster Candice Brathwaite first gained notoriety with her autobiographical book, I Am Not Your Baby Mother, a Sunday Times bestseller exploring conversations around motherhood, identity, personal development and representation.
The book established Candice as a vital contemporary voice for translating lived experience into cultural impact, a role she continues to nurture through her work beyond the page as an internationally recognised podcaster, speaker and cultural commentator.
Able to speak with authority and transparency on motivation, confidence, leadership, modern motherhood, personal brand building, diversity, equity and inclusion, Candice is an invaluable keynote speaker and event host to deliver strategic insight and real-world relevance.
Lucy Cooke - Collaboration and Lessons from the Natural World
Lucy Cooke is a New York Times best-selling author, award-winning documentary filmmaker, broadcaster and National Geographic explorer with a Masters in zoology from New College Oxford, where she studied under Richard Dawkins.
Using her knowledge and experience as a zoologist and naturalist, Lucy’s work focuses on what we can learn and understand from the unique biology and behaviour of animals and the animal kingdom, with her talks exploring what it really means to be female, the complexity of sex and gender, leadership, pack mentalities and sustainability.
Through her talks, Lucy gives a tour of cutting-edge research into the animal kingdom and explains how and why the most successful animal societies don’t thrive on dominance. She also draws on parallels with some of the world’s most successful and unsuccessful leaders, and shares the essential leadership lessons (honed by 3.5 billion years of evolution) to help you lead well and build successful teams.
Bonita Norris - Performance Under Pressure and Embracing Change
Bonita Norris is a record-breaking mountaineer and the youngest person ever to reach both the summit of Mount Everest and the North Pole.
Despite never having climbed a mountain before the age of 20, Bonita reached the summit of Everest at just 22 years old.
Showcasing the power of taking radical responsibility for our own mindset, for how we show up in our team and the importance of finding the resilience to keep moving forward in life’s toughest moments, Bonita is a mesmerising storyteller who delivers actionable lessons for teams of any size, in any industry, to claim their agency and take action.
Through her immersive keynotes, Bonita speaks on performance under pressure, growth mindset, learning from failures and embracing change.
Caroline Criado Perez - Data Bias and Systemic Change
A leading voice on equality and feminist issues in technology, health and the media, Caroline Criado Perez is an activist, best-selling author and recipient of the Liberty Human Rights Campaigner of the Year award.
In her book Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men, Caroline exposes the systematic biases behind data and the adverse effects on women caused by gender bias in big data collection.
As a campaigner, Caroline’s notable work includes getting a female historical figure on Bank of England banknotes; getting Twitter to introduce a “report abuse” button on tweets and getting the first statue of a woman (Millicent Fawcett) erected in Parliament Square.
Able to speak on what the gender gap means for organisations, building coalitions and delivering meaningful change, Caroline delivers thought-provoking keynote talks informed by real-world data.
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