An experienced TV presenter, business owner, keynote speaker, event moderator, and host, Miriam Staley is a highly captivating professional. With experience in event design, event management, speaker coaching, and hosting, Miriam is the perfect choice to entice and engage with audiences.
Available for live, online, or hybrid events, Miriam has an infectious personality with a knack of ensuring that all audience members feel comfortable and inspired.
She has worked with clients across the world, from the US to Kuwait, France to Spain, India to Australia, and Spain to Sweden to Germany. With a talent for managing fast-paced events, Miriam has collaborated with industries including banking, technology, and pharmaceuticals.
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Miriam Staley has had a range of high-level jobs; for two years she was Company Director at Arpeggio Events, and Resident Manager for Le Petit Hotel. She spent five years at Lloyds TSB, first as their Head of Sponsorship and Hospitality, and then as Head of Partnership with the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. She left Lloyds in 2010 and became the Managing Director of client management company We Make Waves, and then CEO for the Thought Expansion Network. Since 2014, she has been a freelance keynote speaker, event host, MC, and coach.
Miriam’s love for business came to a head when she was 26 and took part in the first series of The Apprentice UK.
She has since gained an enviable reputation as an experienced and skilful event host, keynote speaker, professional coach, and creative designer. She is passionate about seeing other people achieve outstanding results, and does this by drawing on her extensive personal and professional experiences.
Some standout achievements in Miriam’s career include:
– Creating and hosting the first online annual kick-off conference for SANS Global
– Hosting the Open Xchange annual technology summits in Chicago, Madrid, and Washington D.C
– MC-ing the first Private Luxury Events two-day forum, introducing speakers, moderating panels and Q&A sessions, and linking all sessions together
She has also worked at the Global Angels Awards at the Roundhouse, the annual Royal Mail Chairman’s Awards, and the annual Urban Future Global Conference.
Miriam is a highly engaging, professional, and charismatic host for live, virtual, and hybrid events. she has the ability to bring together various themes and threads of an event and get the best out of her audience. Gaining Miriam’s expertise ensures that:
– Threads are brought together
– Continuity and Cohesion
– Event objectives are understood and met
– Sessions are kept relevant and on time
– Participants feel comfortable
Speaking in public is a skill that is often overlooked. Miriam is passionate about helping everyone learn how to communicate and present with power and persuasion and confidence. She focusses on:
– Increasing confidence
– Overcoming fears
– Putting together an impactful speech
– Building rapport and audience engagement
– Enhancing storytelling skills
– Building genuine connections with audience members
– Learning how to impact virtual audiences
She provides one-to-one bespoke sessions or group coaching to help anyone learn to speak and present with greater impact.
Miriam also offers corporate video work, including induction videos, conference openers, and promotional films; as well as voiceover work in audio books, advertising, and television.
Clients include Atos, Bupa, Deloitte, Grant Thornton, Marks & Spencer, Open-Xchange, the Royal Bank of Scotland, Royal Mail
I am so impressed by how much you managed to make the team and all the delegates feel comfortable and engaged. We really wouldn’t have been able to do it without you and you will definitely be invited to host all our future events. Everyone was saying how much they loved having you there.
CEO, Parkview Private Collection
Miriam Staley…the legend that is! I just wanted to say a huge thank you. You’ve been a total dream to work with, kept me calm in my agenda wobbles, and been a tech wizard. A thousand thank yous!
Head of Event Management, Worldwide Event
What can I say other than wow?! The way you hosted our first virtual event delivered exactly what we wanted. Your energy was incredible, and your professional moderation made all the panellists feel totally comfortable. We loved the pace of the session, the tools you used to make it interactive and fun, and also your planning support leading up to the event. Thank you!
Mathis Hampel, Programme Director, Urban Future
Thank you for all your help with the conference this year – your support was invaluable. From constant client hand-holding, last minute rescripting, endless extra rehearsals, to talent wrangling, you quickly understood how to ensure our content and messaging needed to be crafted so our event could deliver maximum impact.
Hannah Linder, Deputy Head of Events, Royal Mail Group
Miriam’s coaching support was pitched perfectly for us, and the experience was both enlightening and fun. We have all come away with an enhanced toolkit which will help us as communications professionals. I am particularly over the moon with our MD’s session on the day; your work with him really showed.
Juliet Scott, Head of Internal Comms, Bupa International
Following yesterday’s Leadership Academy meeting I would just like to say a massive thank you for your time. The feedback afterwards has been immense and I have not seen the team feeling quite so impassioned about the future for a long time: it was the perfect session at the perfect time. Please be safe in the knowledge that I am extremely grateful for the impact you are having on the team and many thanks again for your exceptional input.
Philip Atkins, CEO, Off To Work