Award-winning food entrepreneur and esteemed speaker: following surviving a life-threatening illness Claire Brumby founded a multi-award winning healthy snacking brand: her journey was a roller-coaster, and then some! Claire’s journey in retail has provided a bounty of experience both good and challenging; bringing a brand from a dream to conception and reality. Claire can cover any or all aspects of this within her talks, presentations and workshops, articulated not only through the eyes of an entrepreneur but also as a woman, wife and mum of three children.
Claire has many a tale to tell from how she found herself invited to St James Palace, to networking with royalty, to rubbing shoulders with celebrities, to pitching on Dragons Den and delivering real accounts of how each step of the business was a feat of its own. The success with which she brought her brand into the public eye and has encouraged growth and popularity prove Claire’s business acumen whilst her own personal determination and passion mark her as an inspirational and informative business speaker.
Following her exit from the brand, Claire now coaches and mentors’ entrepreneurs, her specialism remains in food, but has a huge passion for start-ups and their entrepreneurial spirit. Her debut book, The Winning Mix: Launch & Grow Your Food Business Without Selling Your Soul, is helping entrepreneurs from all walks of life in the UK and Worldwide, and reached best-seller ranks, and has also been shortlisted in the prestigious Business Book Awards.
Bringing her personal experience as a mother together with her professional experience Claire Brumby has become both a successful business owner and much sought-after speaker. With awards won for her retail brand, food products and her own business management, mentoring and marketing abilities Claire Brumby’s achievements span all of this, and swimming the English Channel in a relay team. Claire has also been given great praise for her work as a business speaker, appearing at conferences and after dinner speaker events across the UK Claire is applauded for her passion, tenacity, inspiration and enthusiasm for all she undertakes.
How to hire Claire Brumby
Contact the Champions Speakers Agency to provisionally enquire about hiring Claire Brumby for your next event, today. To get in touch, simply call an official booking agent on 0207 1010 553 or email us at [email protected] for more information.
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When she's at corporate events, Claire is known to cover the following topics:
- Is LOMO (Love of Missing Out) the New FOMO (Fear of Missing Out)
- Anything Is Possible If You’ve Got Enough Nerve
- Business Resilience & Change
- Mindset Mastery To Win
- Leadership In Todays’ World
- Performance & Productivity
- Working Outside your Comfort Zone
- Health & Well-being; is King
- Sales & Marketing for Impact and Growth
- Launching and Building a Brand
Official Feedback from In-Person & Virtual Events
"Claire delivered a fantastic keynote speech at our annual training day. It was really inspiring to learn about her journey, and she openly shared the lessons that she has learnt along the way. She provided practical tips for us on building our business as a whole and our careers as individuals. I can thoroughly recommend Claire as a professional motivational speaker." - Marie, Managing Partner, Richard nelson LLP
"Claire attended our event and was exactly the breath of fresh air we needed; it was a brilliant way to celebrate our programme. She was engaging, emotive and inspirational, leaving all our guests feeling empowered by the end of the session. I am so pleased that we chose to go with Claire, everything she said resonated with someone, and she really brought the key topics to life. An hour with her is not enough, Claire has so much to offer, and we would definitely want to see her again. a huge thank you from all of us." - Charlotte, ASDA
"We recently had Claire join us to share her very personal and authentic story as part of a motivational team day. Claire’s raw honesty connected with the audience and inspired the tone for the offsite with my management team. Claire ran an exercise with the team and then presented her inspirational Keynote which she tailored to our overall purpose; to enable high performing team play. I would highly recommend Claire as an engaging, funny and sincere motivational speaker." - Virgin Media O2
"I thought it was one of the best sessions, great to get an outside voice. Claire gave a lovely mix of professional and personal examples of challenges she faced and how she dealt with them. I particularly liked her “brag file”. She speaks very naturally and with such passion that it did bring tears to my eyes!" - Lucinda, National Account Manager, Kellogg Company ROI
"I found Claire’s session really useful. To hear from an external speaker was refreshing and Claire’s background and how she overcame the challenges she has faced, both professionally and personally, were really inspiring. Claire also shared some practical tips that help create the foundation for a positive mindset which I will be sure to implement myself." - Niamh, Category Manager, Kellogg Company ROI
"I thought hearing about Claire’s experience was very inspiring and also relatable. It was great to be hearing about resilience and a positive mindset from a businesswoman, as well as someone who is into extreme sports and also just from her perspective as a woman and a mother. As she was talking, what really resonated with me was who you surround yourself with (are they giving positive energy out or taking your energy from you) and how you want to show up to others. I’m sure there was a different message and take out for everyone because Claire’s talk was very thought-provoking." - Sarah, General Manager, Kellogg Company ROI
"As part of our Company Conference to both celebrate 2022, we ran behaviour sessions to help set our team up for success and to Thrive in 2023. As part of my session, Claire join me to facilitate “The Power of a Positive Mindset” stage, both Claire’s business and life experiences resonated and engaged with our audiences as both were very much related to our business, and given we ran the session four times in the afternoon, each session Claire captured their full attention! and I couldn’t have been happier with how these sessions went on the day, Many Thanks Claire." - David, Head of Field Sales, Kellogg Company ROI
"Our team thoroughly enjoyed listening to Claire's inspirational and motivational story. Many of the team could relate to the challenges and found 'Claire's Diamonds' provided useful and practical advice to help in business and in life." - Sean, Fine & Country
"Everyone really enjoyed Claire's speech! She was super interesting and her story is inspiring. Overall really enjoyed having Claire come along! Please send her our thanks" - Shalini, HR and L&D Advisor, Langham Hall UK Services LLP
"Claire delivered an inspiring speech for Amazon's UK 3P internal event, Women's Away Day. The speech consisted of Claire's life story and survival through difficult times, and how she overcame those, resulting in interesting audience engagement Q&A. Out of the 6 sessions we had on the same day, 1 in 5 of our attendees said that Claire's speech was their favourite session on our event. Thank you, Claire!" - Hanna, Amazon
"What a great talk from Claire this week to celebrate International Women's Day. Claire had the workforce fully engaged for the hour session; this woman has such an amazing & inspirational story to tell. Claire talked us through her life journey and lessons which have been learnt along the way. The team very much loved Claire's very wise 'Claire's Diamonds' 'Innovation plus positive disruption = the best chance of success'. Amazing woman! Thank you, Claire" - Kerry, Dairy Consumer Foods
"Wow! - Inspiring! - Outstanding presentation! - What a powerful story. These are just a few of the messages we recently had from a presentation Claire did for us at one of our annual sell-out events... Over the last five years, I have had the pleasure of working closely with Claire on her journey to becoming a powerful, knowledgeable, inspirational professional speaker and coach in her own right. It's been a genuine privilege to see her grow and develop as a coach and business speaker. Claire's incredible back story is delivered with style, passion, intelligence and relevance. Her pace, content and key messages are all delivered professionally and most importantly with the audience in mind. If you are looking for a professional, inspiring, qualified business speaker for your business event, expo or conference I highly recommend you get in touch with Claire Brumby. We will most certainly be inviting her back. Highly recommend" - Ian Dickson, Speaker & Coach
"Claire’s story of choice, chance and change was very inspirational and motivating for the team. It certainly met with our brief and I highly recommend Claire and Champions!” -Nick, Oakwood Merchandising
“Would definitely recommend Claire to any business wanting a motivational speaker. Claire’s story is based around her own personal journey so was very credible and came from the heart. Claire is an inspiring speaker who left us with a lot of food for thought” -Deborah, Arla Foods
“Doncaster Chamber invited Claire Brumby to speak about ‘The Terrifying Lows and Ecstatic Highs of Creating a Hugely Successful Food Brand’ at a well-attended Women in Business lunch. She was entertaining and gave an honest yet humorous account of how she grew her healthy snack food brand by being “disruptive” to get recognised. Guests described Claire as “inspiring” and “amazing” and appreciated her encouragement with their own business ventures.” - Rebecca, Doncaster Chamber
"Claire was amazing. Very inspiring, very knowledgeable, realistic, honest. It was a good day! Learned a lot". - Simon, Accelerator, part of London Metropolitan University
"A huge thank you to Claire. Her journey is a story of inspiration, determination and resilience told with passion and enthusiasm, very engaging and thought provoking." - Jonathon, & Doncaster Chartered Management Institute
"We invited Claire to come and speak at one of our seller events to our food producers and we're thrilled we did. Claire manages that rare feat of delivering a talk that is both inspirational and practical, which was ideal for our audience of small food businesses. Like any great talk it left us all with a fresh perspective, new ideas and renewed energy for our businesses." - Katie, Founder, Yumbles
"Claire is such an inspirational speaker and coach. She brings so much energy to every talk she does, sharing her experience as a business owner herself but also from her years of coaching other entrepreneurs. She inspires, motivates and uplifts our audience after each talk and it’s such a joy to work with her. I would 100% recommend her!" - Jess, Events Manager, Enterprise Nation
Once again, a huge thank you from all of us for today. It was a brilliant way celebrate our programme and really inspired so many women who attended today. I am so pleased that we chose to go with you, everything you said resonated with someone and you really brought the key topics of the feedback we'd had to life. - Charlotte, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Manager, ASDA
"Claire's inspirational presentation was the perfect end to a sales conference. I left feeling inspired, exhilarated and ready for anything.” Fantastic to hear from someone who has built a business from a dream and a gut feeling and harnessed the learnings along the way to guide and inspire others.
“Very inspiring, how she fought back from illness and debt the way she did, and being able to build a business on the back of it was so impressive."
"Really good few hours and gave me plenty of food for thought."
"An impactful yet very relatable, humble lady who followed her dream; meeting Claire will help drive me to achieve goals both in my personal life & in business."
"I found the presentation from Claire inspiring and helpful."
"It was great to hear her journey and the challenges she faced and overcome."
"Also Claire has given us food for thought on how to drive our brand awareness which has challenged our way of thinking."
“Inspiring, resilient and heart-warming.”
"Thank you, Claire, for speaking at our recent event ‘KTP Yorkshire: Collaborate to Innovate’, you really inspired the crowd and got people thinking! Claire has been a pleasure to work with, really listened and understood the brief and made sure we were happy with everything, well in advance of the event. This scoping exercise really helped deliver a fantastic session which has had 100% positive feedback. If you are looking for a professional speaker, who can hold an audience’s attention and deliver with a little humour and sense of realism – Claire is your lady. Absolutely brilliant! Thank you again." - Michelle, Leeds Beckett University
"I can't thank you enough for being a keynote speaker at the HUB network. Your presentation was absolutely fantastic and provided our guests with such valuable and insightful content. It was a real hit!" - Charlotte, Kao Salon Division, KPSS UK Ltd
"Attended Claire’s seminar at ASDA house as part of the allyship programme. Was so inspired to go after what I want and step out of my comfort zone. Claire reminded me that even when you fell you do not have a choice, you certainly do. I took control of my life again, created my A/B/C goals and within 3 weeks I have moved to another city with a promotion and trust me I’m raring to go. It’s time to focus on me – my career and my health and what’s truly important. I remind myself daily of Claire’s words, what do I want my history to say? Can not thank Claire enough!" - ASDA
