Charlie Whyman has enjoyed a decorated career, branching industries of aviation, engineering, tech, healthcare and sports. Currently the Managing Director of TGIS Aviation Ltd, Charlie is also a professional keynote speaker who focuses on topics of leadership, change and business growth. Few speakers combine leadership, technical expertise, and real-world business growth like Charlie, who, as an engineer by background and a sales and marketing expert by accident, has spent almost two decades coaching clients to better themselves and their operations.
From making award-winning olive oil in Sardinia, as the Company Director of Sardinian Fine Foods, to running multi-million-pound businesses, Charlie is proof that to be successful isn’t about having all the answers – instead, it is about courage in motion. As one of the youngest and few female MDs in aviation, having worked as the MD and a Commercial Advisor for TGIS Aviation Ltd, Charlie has broken glass ceilings in male-dominated fields, pushed past fear and obliterated self-doubt. Formerly the Founder of The Curious Marketing Club and B2B Marketing Specialist of Curious B2B Marketing by Charlie Whyman, Charlie not only helped her clients generate great success in sales and marketing, but she also helped them break free from limiting beliefs and build confidence.
As a university dropout with no formal qualifications, Charlie openly shares her journey as an entrepreneur, emphasising that fear doesn’t have to hold you back. To further spread her message, Charlie previously hosted the podcast The Curiosity Key, and was a meeting facilitator, energiser and momentum builder for LinkedInLocal Nottingham. Other prominent roles of Charlie’s have included being the Regional Vice President and Regional President of the Professional Speaking Association East Midlands – a role in which she nurtured a community of experienced and aspiring speakers in the East Midlands.
When hired as a keynote speaker, Charlie helps leaders and aspiring leaders to rethink how they approach challenges, break free from limitations and build confident teams. Having developed a series of keynote speeches that focus on tackling real-world problems, Charlie encourages audiences to stop overthinking, start acting and build unstoppable progress. Charlie’s most recent speaking engagements include the National Sales Conference 2024, the Professional Speaking Association Spring Conference 2023 and a variety of International Women’s Day events. If you are looking for a speaker who can help reframe challenges, rethink fear, move forward with courage in motion and work with multigenerational, multicultural and neurodiverse teams, hire Charlie Whyman today.
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Charlie Whyman's official speaking topics are listed below:
Daring to Try - Choosing Courage Over Confidence:
In the fast-paced, competitive world of tech, fear can quietly keep us stuck—whether it’s holding back from asking for a promotion, not speaking up in important meetings, or hesitating to pursue that next big career step. We’re often told we just need more confidence, but what if confidence isn’t the solution? This talk challenges the myth of confidence and shifts the focus to courage—the real key to moving forward. Courage is about taking action despite fear and uncertainty, and it’s what helps you get unstuck, dream bigger, and go after what you truly want in your career.
Key Takeaways:
- The Confidence Myth: Why confidence isn’t the missing piece we’ve been led to believe and why courage is more essential to overcoming fear.
- Understanding and Recognising Fear: How fear shows up—whether it’s fear of failure, rejection, or judgement—and how it holds you back from achieving more.
- Courage vs. Confidence: Why courage is about daring to act despite fear, while confidence often comes after you’ve taken the first step
3R's to Help You Get Off Your Arse When You Feel Stuck:
How long does it take for those niggly fears and destructive thoughts around self-doubt to sink in after you’ve set a goal or decided to do something? How often do you find yourself in a negative train of thought which leaves you stuck or doing nothing? Are you the sort of person that has lofty goals and aspirations but you’re sick of people telling you that your thoughts will just go away or that you just have to ‘feel the fear and do it anyway?
What if there’s another way to help you manage these thoughts and fears and learn ways to reduce their power whilst doing the things you need to do to work towards your goals? This talk is aimed at anyone who wants to achieve big things but keeps finding themselves stuck in pursuit of their goals or totally paralysed and can’t get going again.
Key Takeaways:
- Discover how to ReThink challenges that keep you stuck to explore new opportunities
- Learn skills to ReFrame negative thinking in positive thinking that inspires action
- Understand what to do to ReTrain your brain to manage the fears and self-doubt that crop up so that they don’t keep you stuck for long
Courage in Motivation: How Courage Fuels Confidence & Systems Drive Success:
In leadership, business, and life, we often hear that confidence is the key to success. But what if confidence isn’t something you need to wait for? What if success is built by taking courageous steps forward, even when fear or doubt try to hold you back?
Courage in Motion explores how embracing courage, reframing failure, and designing simple systems can unlock hidden potential, reduce mental fatigue, and create momentum for achieving your biggest goals. This talk empowers female leaders and entrepreneurs to redefine success on their terms, approach challenges with curiosity, and find innovative ways to move past "no" and into action.
Key Takeaways:
- The Confidence Within: Confidence isn’t something you lack—it’s something you unlock. Discover how courage allows you to tap into the confidence already inside you.
- Reframing Failure: Learn why failure is an essential part of growth and how reframing it as a learning opportunity will fuel your long-term success.
- Courage Over Perfection: Explore how courage isn’t about knowing the answers but about being willing to ask questions, seek solutions, and take the first step.
- Systems for Success: Understand how creating simple systems and processes can free up mental energy, helping you focus on the work you love and the goals that matter most.
- Owning Your Uniqueness: Embrace your "weirdness" and use it to innovate, solve problems differently, and lead authentically.
Clear the AIR: Reduce Overwhelm & Focus on What Matters in Business:
You’re a business leader and you have a responsibility to bring in sales and get your marketing working - but you’re overwhelmed and you keep putting off these activities because they aren’t fun and you don’t think you know what you’re doing. You’re frustrated because you know you need to do this stuff but there’s more interesting and important things to do with your time. Things need to change but how?
In this session you’ll discover:
- Why you find sales and marketing so overwhelming and what to do about it
- Tips on how to make sales and marketing fun for YOU so that you actually do it - and it works!
- How to avoid wasting money on agencies, freelancers and consultants and how to get results from them instead.
Key Takeaways
- A simple 3-step process to help you get unstuck and moving forwards
- A different way of thinking about sales and marketing that will make it feel fun instead of a burden
- This talk will give you practical tools and takeaways to focus on commercial activities that will actually help your business grow without you feeling icky or like you’re wasting time.
Official Feedback from In-Person & Virtual Events
"Charlie spoke at not one, but THREE of my Salesforce Women in Tech events because she is such a brilliant, effortlessly engaging public speaker with tons of personality and helpful learnings to share. I learned a lot from her marketing talks – advice I still use in my career to this day! Couldn’t recommend her enough, she really gets you thinking out of the box!" - Emily, Women in Tech Event Coordinator, Salesforce
"Charlie has spoken on our weekly webinar a number of times now, she provides so much value, we just keep inviting her back! Our weekly webinars are attended by hundreds of accountants and their feedback is always really positive. Charlie's presentation style is conversational and informative. It’s always a real pleasure to have her speak for us." - Shane, Technical Director, Added Value Solutions Ltd
"Charlie was given the brief to come up with something marketers could actually use and she hit the nail on the head. Her practical frameworks were just the kind of thing our audience of marketers love. Charlie is a wonderful warm soul ready to offer value with no expectation of anything in return. She's also a really nice person to hang out with which makes the whole experience of working with Charlie that much better!" - James, The Marketing Meetup
- 2024 - Managing Director of TGIS Aviation Ltd
- 2023 - Commercial Advisor for TGIS Aviation Ltd
- 2023 - Regional President of the Professional Speaking Association East Midlands
- 2022 - Regional Vice President of the Professional Speaking Association East Midlands
- 2022 - Member of Pavilion
- 2020 - Founder, Marketing Mentor & Strategist for The Curious Marketing Club
- 2019 - Advisory Board Member of Compare Your Footprint.com
- 2018 - Meeting Facilitator, Energiser & Momentum Builder for LinkedInLocal Nottingham
- 2018 - B2B Marketing Podcast Host of The Curiosity Key
- 2018 - Business Mentor of TECH MANCHESTER
- 2017 - Professional Speaker on Business Growth & Overcoming Fear at Curious B2B Marketing by Charlie Whyman
- 2017 - B2B Marketing Specialist, Fractional CMO, B2B Business Growth Strategist & LinkedIn Trainer of Curious B2B Marketing by Charlie Whyman
- 2016 - Interim Head of Marketing for Martek Marine Ltd
- 2011 - Global Sales & Marketing Manager for 3D Laser Mapping
- 2010 - Membership Secretary of the Nottingham Rowing Club
- 2010 - Regional Innovation Fund Administrator for NHS East Midlands
- 2009 - Regional Grants Officer of Sport England
- 2005 - Company Director & Owner Palmavera Ltd - Sardinian Fine Foods
