Sarah Begum is a renowned international ambassador and explorer. She is globally recognised for her work in documenting human culture and environmental preservation. Her unique abilities in storytelling, adventure, and activism make her a highly sought after keynote speaker for a variety of corporate events. Sarah’s expertise lies in topics such as climate justice, STEM, women empowerment, and exploration.
Beginning her career at only 21 years old, Sarah embarked on an expedition to the Amazon Rainforest where she lived with the Huaorani tribe and became a real-life Amazon Warrior Queen. In her quest to spread their message about protecting their land, Sarah created her debut film, Amazon Souls. The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and was endorsed by Bear Grylls and David Attenborough. She is now also endorsed by Jane Goodall, Cylk Cozart, Kevin Hart, and others for her positive contributions to the world. Through her early career, Sarah continued to advocate for Indigenous rights and environmental preservation which lay the foundation for the rest of her career.
Throughout her later career, Sarah continues to explore and document cultures and issues like Native American struggles and mafia corruption in Sicily. She was made a STEM ambassador to inspire others into sectors that she believes are important. Further contributing to global research, Sarah is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. She also hosted Spaced Out! a TV show and Podcast dedicated to exploring space and innovation. Maintaining her strive to use her experience for the better of society, Sarah Founded Unlimited Futures. Unlimited Futures is developing projects to protect the planet and help humanity by uniting the world for various purposes to achieve commercial and meaningful success with a focus on climate justice and working with innovative technologies to solve world problems. Through Unlimited Futures, Sarah inspires an ideal future through relevant speaking engagements and educating others on STEM while leading the projects to create a positive future for all. Alongside TV Director Russ Malkin, she Co-Founded The Adventuress Club, the first female explorers club. She continues with her involvement in humanitarian efforts, often rebuilding villages and collaborating with refugees, establishing her as a true inspiration as a speaker.
Having extensive global achievements in media, exploration, and activism, Sarah is an exceptional speaker. Named by The Guardian's San Miguel Rich List as one of the World's Top Trailblazing Explorers for her impactful work helping others, her work is recognised widely. Sarah can connect deeply with audiences and offers valuable insights into global issues. If you are looking for an inspiring and knowledgeable individual on such, look no further than Sarah Begum!
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Sarah Begum's official speaker topics are listed below:
Love Can Save The World
Sarah talks about the science behind love, empathy and understanding, she promotes peace and unity with a focus on conflict resolution in all areas of life from personal relationships to the workplace including between nations at war. This talk is important to understand how to have healthy relationships with others despite differences, assumptions and misunderstandings.
Science Fiction is Reality - How Innovation in STEM is Shaping the Future
With a focus on STEM, Sarah explains how the uses of innovative technologies, scientific experiments, quantum solutions and state of the art engineering are creating the future with references to science fiction movies that have depicted similar concepts.
How the Space Sector is Benefitting Humanity on Earth
Sarah talks about the applications of various types of satellites, the scientific experiments aboard the International Space Station and how this impacts humanity on Earth. Included are clips from her podcast/ video series about the space sector showing interviews with experts in the space industry and NASA scientists about the future of humanity in space sharing how the body of astronauts are affected in microgravity to the purpose of studying Mars as a future colony for humanity.
The Importance of Adopting ESG in Companies
Sarah shares information about ESG (Environment, Social and Governance) and its implementation in organisations around the world to ensure they are sustainable, forward-thinking and inclusive of best practises that shape a healthy, diverse and people and planet-friendly workplace for individuals to thrive in.
Climate Action: Living With the Huaorani Tribe
Sarah talks about her resilience and leadership while leading alongside team of men as the only woman in her first adventure in the Amazon Rainforest in Ecuador to produce a documentary living with a remote indigenous tribe known as the Huaorani. During this expedition, Sarah was hunting with warriors, gathering with women, was made Queen to create an alliance and send their message about preserving their culture and promoting unity. The talk focuses on sustainability, climate justice, climate action and female leadership.
Official Feedback from In-Person & Virtual Events
Feedback from In-Person Events:
"Sarah Begum is such a passion driven, engaging speaker we were fortunate to have on our TEDx Accra stage. Her talk Dreams are made of Action was one of the best talks that was presented on the day. Her passion for environmental issues was clearly defined and her session was very educative. She the best I’ve ever worked with." - Daniel, TEDx
"Sarah is the next generation storyteller, using multiple channels to reach audiences who she befriends, enchants and empowers. World class and world changing." - Matthew, Navada Studios, Belfast Media Festival
"Sarah spoke about her Amazon Souls film at the Adventure Travel Film Festival and kept the audience entertained and enthralled with her stories." - Lois, Adventure Travel Film Festival
"Sarah came to the school to deliver an assembly based on her experiences journeying through the Amazon. Being an all-girls school the students could really connect to Sarah, and were inspired by the fact that someone they could relate to so closely could undertake such fantastic adventures. Your presentation really did engage with them and we all at Highbury Fields School wish you best for your future adventures!” - Rhys, Highbury Fields School
"Sarah is engaging and as interested in her audience as she was interesting. The time she spent with students at lunch after the lecture was the most popular lunch of the lecture series in the last 2 years - and the effort she made to question and advise each of them is a testament to her passion for people. She left all the girls better informed and more inspired." - Ciara, Godolphin & Latymer School
"Sarah gave a wonderful talk, remarkably full of insight into the different people she has met on her adventures. Her boundless enthusiasm shone through as she spoke about her motivation and concerns. It was particularly fascinating to hear of her experience living with the Huaoranis in Ecuador which launched her career." - Mike, Pegasus Network
"The team at Nari Diganta and audience most appreciated your work in that it brought home to women your ability to break free of stereotypical, sexual, cultural, religious bigotry to explore adventurously and achieve success as a woman. We would be pleased to have your presence again in order to empower and encourage women to do the same." - Piya, International Women’s Day 2015, Nari Diganta UK
- 2024 - Founded Unlimited Futures
- 2021 – Co-hosted Spaced Out! TV show and podcast
- 2021 – Appointed STEM Ambassador
- 2020 – Space Hero Insider, representing the space industry globally
- 2020 – Chief Correspondent & International Ambassador at Cures4Humanity
- 2018 – Speaker/Presenter for Past Preservers, bridging academia and media
- 2016 – Public Speaker for CSA Celebrity Speakers, delivering talks globally
- 2016 – Named a top trailblazer by The Guardian
- 2014 – Co-founded The Adventuress Club
- 2014 – Became a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society
- 2014 – TV Presenter at teleSUR English, covering international current affairs
- 2013 – Premiered Amazon Souls at Cannes
- 2010 – Lived with Huaorani tribe in the Amazon
- 2004 – Presenter for BBC's GCSE Bitesize Interactive series
