Charlotte Nichols is a powerful PR speaker who has spent the vast majority of her career navigating the world of brand building and audience communication. For over 20 years – 16 of which occupied by her role as Managing Director of Harvey & Hugo PR – she’s been motivating businesses to bolster their branding in new and inspired ways. Whether she’s integrating advice taught through her PR, social media, and content marketing school Hugoversity, or sharing insights as host of “PRsonal” and “The Pocket-Size PR” podcasts, Charlotte is a dedicated PR perfectionist.
Such drive didn’t develop overnight, however. Charlotte has had far from an easy life – between personal struggles with chronic conditions and infertility to becoming a single mother, her adversity is what has taught her how to overcome any obstacle. Thus, she transformed these experiences into usable lessons that echo through each of her keynote speeches. Partnered with her time spent as a school governor, charity trustee, enterprise ambassador, water polo player, and start-up mentor, Charlotte encourages organisations to face their challenges, seize their opportunities, and grow into businesses with solid branding and PR processes.
Since kickstarting her career as a keynote speaker, Charlotte has had the opportunity to share her invaluable insights with all kinds of audiences. Having hosted at the likes of TechJam, Innovation Central, and TEDxTeesside Women, she’s enlightened businesses on how to amplify their presence in such a competitive landscape. Professionalism and personability collide to create a one of a kind PR speaker who’s skilled in every avenue needed to uplift and empower audiences. No matter the subject, Charlotte excels at exploring the details that are often overlooked – a talent born from her extensive experience in building brands and teaching organisations how to foster meaningful relationships with their clients.
From start to finish, Charlotte’s presentations captivate and amaze. Once she steps on the stage, she enriches the environment with experience-driven speeches that focus on the development of audiences’ brands. PR is Charlotte’s passion, and she demonstrates this with each and every talk, making her one of the most sought-after voices currently on the scene. To benefit from the branding experience of one of PR’s greatest minds, hire Charlotte Nichols via Champions Speakers today!
Charlotte Nichols' official speaking topics are listed below:
- Business
- Entrepreneurship
- PR
- Branding
- Business Ownership & Motherhood
- Being a Single Mother in Business
- Water Polo
- Swimming
Official Feedback from In-Person & Online Events:
“Charlotte did a brilliant job as host of TechJam last year. She brought passion, energy and enthusiasm to the room to keep the audience engaged as well as asking the guests considered questions. As panel host, she was able to involve everyone in a relaxed, but professional manner and summarise key points raised for the audience. As well as creating the host script, she kept the event flowing and was able to think on her feet to make any adaptations needed on the day. I would highly recommend hiring Charlotte to host your event or panel as I can’t speak highly enough of her.” - Shak, CEO, LikeUs
“Charlotte has been a fantastic host and presenter for our Growth Lab events at Innovation Central, our business centre in Darlington. She has a natural ability to put both the panel and audience at ease, creating a relaxed and engaging space where real, honest business conversations can happen. As an experienced business owner herself, Charlotte always does her research and brings a practical, down to earth approach to every session. She keeps discussions lively, relevant and fun, while making sure the audience gets value from the insights shared. Her warmth, professionalism and talent for getting the best out of people have made a huge difference to our events. We’d highly recommend Charlotte to anyone looking for a skilled and engaging host or presenter.” - Lilla, Special Projects Manager, BIC
“What I love about Charlotte’s style of hosting and podcasting is that she creates this really safe space for people to feel comfortable opening up about some of the deepest, darkest and most challenging things that have happened to them and situations that they have been through getting to the heart of how they navigated tough situations and how they overcome them.
What I really love about that style of hosting is that it allows for people to be real and it’s that real talk and connection that we’re all looking for and often missing when we’re listening to podcasts and at events. Sometimes I think it’s just too surface level and I think Charlotte has a brilliant way of diving deeper, getting to the root of people’s backgrounds, experiences and things that they’ve been through and I think we all take a lot of learning from that style of hosting but also the level of content that Charlotte creates with her podcast guests.
In terms of TEDx, we were absolutely delighted to invite Charlotte and the PRsonal Podcast to do a live episode at last year’s TEDxTeessideWomen in 2024 and what the audience really got from that was a deep dive conversation into the guest’s background, her experience, the things she had been through and overcome. I think that really shone a spotlight on just how powerful women are in our area to go against some of the stereotyping, the terrible data and negative research about Teesside, they’re showing up and committed to making a difference and I really feel that the audience got a sense of that. So thank you to Charlotte for creating that and being different - it was literally the first time a live podcast was done at TEDx stage and it was a really unique experience for audience.” - Michael, Founder of Opportunity Global and TEDxTeessideWomen Organiser
- 2023 – Created and hosted the PRsonal Podcast
- 2022 – Became a Board Trustee for The Russ Devereux Headlight Project
- 2018 – Joined the board of Darlington Partnership
- 2018 – Became PR and Marketing Director at Wag & Company
- 2017 – Launched Hugoversity
- 2015 – Became a Mentor for Transmit Start-Ups
- 2013 – Joined Darlington Cares
- 2010 – Won Star Radio's Business Person of the Year Award
- 2010 – Voted the Face of Entrepreneurship by ‘If We Can You Can'
- 2009 - Founded Harvey & Hugo
How to hire Charlotte Nichols
Contact the Champions Speakers Agency to provisionally enquire about hiring Charlotte Nichols 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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