Lauren Rowles

Official Feedback from In-Person and Virtual Events

Feedback from In-Person Events:

"Lauren's session was incredibly inspiring, and it created a lot of interaction and inspirational conversation, during and after her session. Lauren talked candidly about her experiences, being authentic throughout, allowing people to connect with her and resonate with some of the challenges faced. Lauren provided some fantastic advice on allyship, which attendees greatly valued. Overall, an incredibly valuable session and lovely to have the opportunity to connect with Lauren, she is truly inspirational." - Sarah, Assoc. CIPD EEDI & Development Coordinator, UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

“As an NHS Trust we feel it is really important to celebrate the hard work and dedication of our staff and having Lauren there to present the awards to our staff made the evening that extra bit special. She made time to speak to everybody and we know how inspiring our staff found her story. Thanks so much for helping to make the evening a success.” - Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust

“Lauren was great and received and standing ovation. Her speech was truly inspirational and her incredible story worked really well within our programme. She touched everyone in the room and we received so much praise on the event due to her. Thanks so much Lauren again, it was an honour to have you as our guest speaker” - Sarah, London Borough of Barking and Dagenham

"We booked Lauren to be the keynote speaker at a high profile Council event to celebrate our top achieving GCSE students. Lauren not only spoke passionately about her experiences of the ability to overcome the most profound challenges to achieve your dreams, but pitched her speech perfectly to appeal to and inspire both young people and parents. She serves as incredible role model for young people in particular, being both relatable and yet extraordinary in her achievements at the same time. I would have no hesitation at all in recommending Lauren as a speaker for any event." - Erik, London Borough of Barking and Dagenham

"Yes she was fab and really hit the mark both in terms of connecting with the audience and the topic we were discussing. So much so it caused a bit of change to the agenda for the second day! Would you mind passing on our thanks once again for her attendance at the event and the experiences she shared with us." - Aimee, Programme Manager, BAE Systems

"Lauren was so inspiring. Her story was heartfelt, and really moved me. We need more Laurens in the world. I liked that this was primarily an LGBT+ event but also touched on disability and other issues - sometimes presentations can feel a bit 1-dimensional when they are linked to a specific event. The Q&A opportunity was also really positive" - Catherine, People Potential Support Officer, Committee Member of MoJ SPIRIT Network

"The event wit Lauren with fabulous and she did an amazing job – we could not have asked for anything more to help support the launch of our employee disability network. She came across amazingly and there wasn’t a dry eye in TW by the end of her talk!" - Stephen, Senior HR Business Partner, Taylor Wimpey

Feedback from Virtual Events:

"I just wanted to pass on to Lauren how much we all enjoyed and appreciated her talk today. I was totally blown away by her energy (in a good way) and her story and was on the verge of tears more than once during her talk. Such an amazing woman and she was able to highlight the struggle of dealing with the stigma of being disabled and then the stigma of being gay, and she’s overcome it all. She was a perfect speaker for our audience, and we’ve gotten a lot of positive comments and feedback." - Renée, PMO Lead, Opus Energy Limited

"The team really enjoyed spending time with Lauren and got lots of great soundbites. Thanks again" - Amy, Pepsico

"The event was fantastic! Lauren was an amazing speaker, the feedback from our team members has been great. We had a few technical hiccups to begin with on our end and Lauren remained completely calm. Just some of the feedback we received: 'That was inspirational! What an amazing life story to listen to at 10 am on a Tuesday. Puts a whole lot in perspective & reminds you what is achievable', 'She's so inspirational!', 'Amazing story, just incredible!', 'Incredible!', 'Wow, simply speechless', 'Just wanted to send some feedback I thought the talk was phenomenal and so inspiring. I really appreciated Lauren's honesty with her struggles and it really does make you think that anything is possible when you put your mind to it and have people behind you to support. Just want to thank you for spending time talking through your journey!' and 'That was incredible, thank you!'. As this was such a success, I will be in touch soon about hiring some other speakers for internal talks" - Chemayne, Head of Wellbeing, Virgin Active 

"Pass on a message to Lauren from all of us at ING UK and thank her for her time this afternoon. I'm getting inundated with messages from colleagues to say what an inspirational and amazing speaker she is and she truly was incredible- a huge thank you to Lauren, honestly we are so grateful that she shared her story with us and all her tips for building a more diverse and inclusive workplace!" - Victoria, ING UK

"We just wanted to drop you a note to say that Lauren was absolutely fantastic yesterday and we thoroughly enjoyed her talk. We’ve had really positive feedback from those who attended and there were some really good questions asked at the end which Lauren answered perfectly. Lauren absolutely met our brief and it was incredible to hear her story – we loved that she was so relatable and provided really valuable advice and tools for people to take away and use to help build their resilience, and these were completely transferrable from Lauren’s experience as an athlete, to anyone regardless of their career. She is an inspiration to all and I think her words have made a real impact on those who attended." - HR & CSR Administrator, DAS UK Group

"Lauren was fantastic. She had some of our lot pretty much in tears. Really good speaker and a great story to tell. Thanks very much." - Peter, ROCC

"I just wanted to let you know that we very much enjoyed the session with Lauren. I have just spoken to some people of the team and all were very impressed. Please thank Lauren once again (she did very well and the talking was at the right speed) For sure, the Aspel team will follow her on her journey to the Olympics. Thank you also for taking care and making this happen." - Marko, Aspel Group

"Thank you for your help with arranging Friday’s call with Lauren. It was a huge success and we have received nothing but positive feedback. Can you please also pass on our thanks to Lauren her story was inspiring and just her overall drive for success is amazing. Wishing her all the best in her next adventures to Tokyo, she has just inherited a company full of supporters" - Kelly-Ann, Insurance & Risk, Primeline Group

"The talk was ace yesterday! Thanks so much for the help organising." - Charlotte, Kin and Carta