Taz Thornton is an empowerment, confidence, personal branding and visibility coach, named the UK’s Best Female Coach. Having created her own personal and authentic brand, Taz now helps her clients to hone their own personal brands, grow confidence and skyrocket their businesses. Awarded with the One to Watch Speaker Trainer Award, Taz is booked by hundreds of clients to help find focus, passion and power and covers topics such as whose dreams are you chasing, future-proof yourself, walking away from soul-crushing safety, unleashing your awesome and more.
An award-winning coach, Taz has shared her expertise in confidence, empowerment and personal branding with hundreds of clients across the country. Her expertise has been collated to author Whispers From The Earth and Unleash Your Awesome, covering topics such as breaking through fears, harnessing untapped power, self-belief and more. She is also the founder of #UnleashYourAwesome, a series of empowerment events that enable corporate teams to break through barriers and find their true potential. Taz is also known as the co-founder of Tweeting Times and the founder of Firechild.
Passionate about helping people to unleash their awesome, Taz shares her own story of overcoming adversity. Having battled with depression, grief and breakdowns, Taz shares her story of breakDOWN to breakTHROUGH and encourages audiences to find the positive in challenges. Determined to follow a different path to the one that was making her so unhappy, Taz undertook Neuro Linguistic Programming training and also spent time training with shamans and medical professionals to develop her expertise in personal development, meditation and wellbeing.
Highly commended for her work as a coach, Taz has been recognised as Female Professional of the Year Central England 2020 and named on the 2019 DIVA Powerlist. She has also been a finalist at the UK’s Most Inspirational Businesswoman Awards and the DIVA Awards. Other prominent awards include being nominated for the Entrepreneur of Excellence Award at the National Diversity Awards, being named in the Top 50 Women in Marketing list and as one of the Top 100 Female Marketers to Follow.
Now booked to speak at a range of corporate events, Taz is a perfect speaker when looking for someone to cover personal branding, confidence, visibility and empowerment. A seasoned speaker, Taz has spoken for a variety of clients and has also delivered the TEDx talks A Dangerous Rainbow, Live and The Importance of Being Silly. Helping people to gain visibility, Taz empowers clients to build confidence and find their self-worth. A fantastic speaker, Taz Thornton is the perfect choice as an executive coach who is guaranteed to leave audiences with actionable changes to make in their personal and professional lives.
How to hire Taz Thornton
Contact the Champions Speakers agency to provisionally enquire about Taz Thornton for your event today. Simply call a booking agent on 0207 1010 553 or email us at [email protected] for more information.
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Taz's official speaking topics are listed below:
- Whose Dreams Are You Chasing?
- Your Management 'Why' Is Not Enough
- Get Yer Gumshield In
- This Time It's Personal
- Future-Proof Yourself
- Turn Up Your Volume
- Fire Walk With Me: Why Would Any Sane Person Walk on Hot Coals?
- A Leap of Faith: Walking Away From Soul Crushing Safety
- How Breaking My Back Led to Growing a Spine
- Breaking Down, Breaking Through
- Unleash Your Awesome
Taz is often booked as a speaker for corporate events, read her latest feedback below.
“An absolute powerhouse. EXCEPTIONAL. 10/10 – proper fired me up. I would field Taz on any UK stage.” - Brad, 4Networking Founder
“I would wholeheartedly recommend Taz. Post-event feedback has been VERY positive and we would love to welcome her back to a future event.” - Thomas, Beachbody UK
”Taz is one of the best speakers I’ve seen. She is motivational, inspirational and very, very real.” - Claire, CEO, Mental Health in Business
"Taz is enthusiastic, energetic, speaks with ease and passion and is truly an incredible woman.” - Leona, CEO, MIB International
“Dynamic, knowledgeable, refreshingly honest, challenging, passionate, high energy, witty, funny and insightful. Taz is like Tony Robbins with pink hair!” - Phil, Founder, Geeky Group & Experts Online
"In a world filled with ‘motivational’ speakers it’s good to happen across one of the good ones. I’ve known about Taz through her online presence for a while now and ended up by chance at one of her speaking gigs at a networking event. There’s a plain-spoken honesty about Taz. She doesn’t big herself up as ‘aspirational’, Taz takes you for a walk along from what was literally the car crash of her life to the awesome person she is today. Unafraid or unashamed to let you see the journey how it was, not just the sanitised highlights. A genuine and inspiring person.” - John, Production Director, Black Fire Films
“I heard Taz speak at a Marketing Event in Milan and I really loved her talk. It was inspiring because you felt it was true. She inspired me to go back to my startup and really put my face in it. Great speaker, great energy and great content!” - Chiara, CEO & Founder, OperatoriSalute.it
“The Pink Power House of public speaking is Taz Thornton, always engaging on tough topics in business and life. Taz will hold your attention and give you valuable life lessons and the inspiration to change. I would highly recommend for you to see Taz speak; I have sat through 14 different speakers in the last 28 years of business and she’s the only one I have chosen to pay and see more than 3 times in 12 months.” - Linda, Personal Travel Agent, Midcounties Co-Operative
“I was instantly impressed with this dynamic woman. Taz proved excellent to work with and on the day she delivered a very stimulating, thought-provoking and entertaining presentation… Feedback from the delegates was most complimentary and she was in much demand following the event. I would thoroughly recommend her to others.” - Isabel, Former CEO, The Giftware Association
“The main thing I like about hearing Taz speak is the fact she talks from the heart but in a way that is easy to relate to and make sense of. Not many people have the same experiences but to hear how she has overcome the most difficult of times, both health-wise and emotionally is a real inspiration. Her message is always loud and clear, if you don’t like something it’s down to you – change it! She’s a wonderful and powerful speaker, humorous and genuine and I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend Taz to anyone needing motivating to action.” - AnneMarie, Creative Services Director, Grafixbiz
- 2020 - Female Professional of the Year Central England
- 2019 - Finalist in the UK's Most Inspirational Businesswoman Award
- 2019 - One to Watch Speaker Trainer Award
- 2019 - Named on the DIVA Power List
- 2019 - Finalist at the DIVA Awards
- 2019 - Named as one of the Top 100 Female Marketers to Follow
- 2019 - Nominated for the National Diversity Awards Entrepreneur of Excellence Award
- Named as one of the Top 50 Women in Marketing, by Content Hacker
- Co-Host & Columnist for America Out Loud
- TEDx speaker- 'A Dangerous Rainbow', 'The Importance of Being Silly' & 'Live'
