James Peach

James Peach is an acclaimed businessman, who has forged a respectable career in branding and marketing. Also an avid adventurer, James is keen to draw parallels between scaling mountains and scaling businesses, dedicated to improving both the way in which we work and live. Having formerly worked for the likes of Vinted, Uber and Innocent Drinks, James is highly sought after to share his revered knowledge on branding, along with other subjects such as workplace resilience, maintaining high-performance teams, building brands that matter, effective leadership and people principles. When looking to leave guests inspired by your keynote speaker, don’t hesitate in hiring James Peach!

On a mission to live adventurously, James has spent the past 15+ years helping to build the World’s biggest brands, along with completing a variety of adventures – including completing a lap of the planet on a bicycle, 41000km across 38 countries! Leading a prosperous career, James’ career initially began as a Business Analyst for the Royal Bank of Scotland, before he realised his passion for branding and marketing, becoming the Head of Marketing for Escape the City in 2009. From then on, James continued to forge his expertise in branding, appointed as the Shopper Marketing Manager of Innocent Drinks in 2010. He has also worked as the UK Senior Brand Manager of Innocent Drinks, the Senior Campaign Manager and Campaign Lead of Uber, the Head of Brand & Campaign UKI for Uber and the Global Brand Director for Vinted.

Now a specialist marketing and branding consultant, James works tirelessly advising all manner of clients, mentoring startups from seed to sale. As well as completing a lap around the planet, James’ sense of adventure has also seen him hike across Argentina and Norway, trek a lap of Tenerife and cycle the length, kayak the width and climb the height of the UK non-stop. Comparing the human experience to adventure, James is now set to release his first book – Mattering to People: How to Build an Interesting Business and a Powerful Brand. Motivated by creative challenges and tough strategies, James is also now highly sought after as a keynote speaker, to share not only his successes as a businessman but the lessons he has learned from his fearless adventures.

Using his honest, personal style of storytelling, James shares the life lessons he has learned, empowering audiences to think differently about how they can approach both business and life as a whole. Encouraging people to look for adventure in all things, James is also a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, using his passion for the environment to fuel his stories of adventure. When hired as a speaker, James tailors his speech to each client and is known to cover topics of bringing the best version of yourself to work, leading and maintaining high-performance teams, individual and cultural benefits of adventure, enhancing individual and collective impact and how and why you should fail regularly. Previous clients of James include the likes of Vinted, Google, Innocent, Uber, Coca-Cola and the Royal Geographical Society. When looking for a speaker who will inspire your audience to find adventure in their personal and professional lives, hire James Peach today.