Holly Tucker

Holly Tucker MBE is the mastermind behind Not On The High Street, an exciting hub of small businesses and creatives, and founder of Holly & Co, an organisation that supports small businesses. Having dedicated her life to inspiring and advising budding entrepreneurs, Holly is the perfect speaker for corporate events, as her results-driven guidance leads to transformative results. Inspired by her success with Your Local Fair, a series of upmarket events for local sellers, Holly launched Not On The Highstreet in 2006. She grew the start-up to the award-winning, popular business it is today. Home to thousands of small businesses and even more unique products, Not On The High Street now employs hundreds of dedicated professionals. At events, Holly reflects on the process of building Not On The High Street from the ground up, covering topics like risk and change management.

As the UK Ambassador to Creative Small Businesses, she celebrates the hardworking entrepreneurs who are integral to Britain's corporate infrastructure. Holly herself has generated £1 billion for the economy, the process of which she reveals as a speaker. With her combined experience of finance and business, Holly can talk confidently on a wide range of corporate topics, including team management, creativity and funding your start-up. Aside from her businesses, Holly is also the author of ‘Do What You Love, Love What You Do’, a Sunday Times bestseller, and owns a business blog post called Instadvice. Holly uses her story to empower entrepreneurs and has inspired a new wave of exciting businesses. Holly is also passionate about good causes, having founded The Happy Bricks Foundation in 2013, to invest in disadvantaged children across the globe. From schools in Tanzania to a science laboratory in Windsor, called The Green Room, Holly has helped to build exciting institutions for children to grow, learn and develop. Such dedication makes Holly an impactful addition to corporate charity events.

From her start-up struggles to award-winning companies, dealing with self-doubt to being a woman in business, this speaker has been there, done that and won the awards to prove it. Holly has earned The Google Award for Women in Digital, Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year and an MBE for her services to small businesses. Additional accolades include being listed in the Media Momentum Top 50 and the Management Award: 35 Women under 35. Holly is also the host of the "Conversations of Inspiration" podcast, an iTunes Top 10 business podcast, on which she has interviewed countless inspirational entrepreneurs on their success stories. Prominent entrepreneurs who have featured on Holly's podcast include Jo Malone, sharing her story as the Founder of Jo Loves, Mo Gawdat, Founder of One Billion Happy, and Levi Roots, Founder of Reggae Reggae Sauce.

At events, Holly has the passion, experience and knowledge to leave audiences with a newfound drive to innovate - and Champions Speakers are honoured to be an official speaker agent for Holly Tucker, putting her forward to clients who seek a transformational entrepreneur to speak at their conference. She is the ideal addition to internal corporate events, as her insight into employee cohesion and management will motivate all in attendance. Equipped with her clear, creative vision, Holly empowers audiences of all industries and sectors to value their unique strengths. 

In honour of being a successful entrepreneur, Holly Tucker was recently named as one of the Best Business Speakers to Hire - discover why she was selected today!