Brad Burton

Brad Burton is a four time best-selling business author, a motivational leader, and the founder of the multi million pound organisation 4Networking. He is known for high energy talks filled with humour and honesty that help people rethink what is possible. His biggest achievement is building a national business from nothing and becoming one of the UK’s leading motivational business speakers. Brad’s delivery blends raw experience with real warmth, giving audiences practical tools they can use immediately.

Brad’s early story shaped everything that came later. He grew up on a Salford council estate and left school with no qualifications, spending years on benefits while trying to find a way forward. He battled addiction twice and, at 21, survived being shot at. By 31, he was delivering pizzas while carrying £25,000 of personal debt. Those years forced him to start again and commit to a different future. When he finally made the decision to change, it set him on a path that transformed his life and laid the foundations for the speaker and business leader he is today.

His achievements since then are striking. At 36, he built a £1 million national business and scaled 4Networking to run more than 5,000 events a year, totalling over 68,000 meetings across the UK. His four books have ranked as best sellers on Amazon, earning him the reputation of the platform’s highest rated business author. Brad built Motivational Leader, a speaking and mentoring brand he now leads across the world. His career has taken him onto stages for global companies and into national media, including appearances on BBC Panorama, ITV, and Channel 4, where his resilience story and his experience with a rare Crown Court stalking case have been widely covered. He continues to work with organisations of every size, helping teams shift their thinking and move forward with confidence.

People hire Brad because he gives audiences something rare: belief, momentum and clarity. He covers mindset, resilience, leadership, decision making, sales and confidence, using lived experience rather than theory. These topics matter because uncertainty, low morale and stalled progress affect every business at some point. Brad’s talks help people cut through noise and reconnect with the best version of themselves. A good example came when he helped a company unlock six months of indecision in a single day simply by shifting the team’s perspective. His sessions combine humour, truth and real life lessons that stay with people long after the event.