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Entertaining and insightful after dinner speaker

If you’re looking for a truly inspirational and engaging guest speaker for your event, or an after dinner speaker who will round up your evening in the right way, Matt fits the bill perfectly.

As a transgender male who’s navigated his fair share of fears, changes and challenges, Matt’s real-life story is shared with emotion, laughter and humility – taking the subject seriously, but not so much himself.

Don’t let that fool you though… Matt’s reputation as an entertaining and inspirational after dinner speaker has been earned through his innate ability to use his own experiences to connect with each individual audience member in a meaningful way.

With so much confusion and mystery surrounding the transgender topic, Matt is a guest speaker sure to pique interest, provoke discussion and provide insight that encourages positive change.

A light-hearted look at a sometimes painful personal journey, Matt will open your mind and answer many questions that you may never even have realised were important, until now.

Matt’s showreel

Matt, as seen on Channel 4 (Documentary)

Covering different ground to traditional guest speakers

All good guest speakers have their own take, their own energy and their own personal story… but what Matt brings is a unique delivery, using a rarely touched-upon subject to demonstrate the critical need to be yourself.

Life is already full of obstacles – but when you’ve lived in a stranger’s body for years, struggling to conform to what those around you think you should be, you learn a lot about what’s truly important to feel fulfilled.

Fascinating, candid, exposing and full of laughter (and frogs!), Matt’s trips through the highs and lows, delivered in a different way to more traditional after dinner speakers, will leave your audience more than just amused.

Having found the courage to make one of the biggest and most fundamental changes a person can make, Matt’s story of overcoming adversity – and becoming who he was always really meant to be -will inspire your attendees to make their own changes for the better too.

Book Matt as your guest or after dinner speaker

From appearing at smaller LGTBQ focused events, to inspiring leaders and employees at international companies such as Rolls Royce, KFC, Microsoft, Matt’s reputation as the guest speaker to choose is fast-growing, and for good reason. To hear what previous clients have to say, take a quick look through his numerous testimonials. 

If you’d like to book Matt as an after dinner speaker, or for any other type of event, please get in touch here.

Matt’s Clients include:

“Matt was fantastic. He brought great energy and delivered a personal, honest, inspirational story. We were very happy.“

MicrosoftJune 2022 - London

“One of the best talks I’ve ever heard at a conference!”

Robbie TurnerDirector For England, Royal Pharmaceutical Societyhttps://www.rpharms.com/about-us/how-we-are-run/our-executive-team/robbie-turner–https://www.rpharms.com/executive-team/robbie-turner

“The talk given by Matt Ellison as part of the 2021 Mars UK LGBTQ+ Pride Series was thought provoking and inspiring.

Matt’s honest and personal style of storytelling took the audience on an insightful journey into the experiences of transgender people.

Matt engaged the audience from start to finish and was open and supportive of questions.”

Mars - Global Food Manufactuer Virtual event, July 2021

“A big thank you for a very authentic and thought provoking session today, as part of our harnessing the power of diversity week. In speaking to a number of our senior leaders after the session they all said it made them stop and think, and everyone I spoke to has taken something away from your story. It’s a really great way to get a discussion going and the little frog analogy was very powerful – simple yet effective.”

Leonie GovanRolls Royce (Dreadnought Alliance), Organisational Effectiveness Lead - Virtual event, June 2021

“Pandemic or no pandemic, nothing can stop our Kentucky Fried pride celebrations.

To get the party started Matt Ellison joined us virtually to share his personal journey and experiences.

Buckets of love and gratitude to Matt for such an inspiring, authentic session.”

KFCVirtual event, July 2020

“Matt captured the attention of our audience from start to finish.  The GP’s really appreciated how open Matt was about his experience and were grateful for the insight he provided. His talk was excellent, I really wish we could have had him for longer.”

NHSRoyal Surrey Hospital

“We were very happy with and got great feedback from the audience.”

ToyotaJune 2022

“You are a fantastic and extremely uplifting speaker Matt, thank you for helping me increase my understanding”

HM Courts & Tribunals ServiceVirtual event, Sept 2021

“Matt is an eloquent and engaging speaker whose candid style and refreshing quick humour won over our audience. He speaks from the heart in an entertaining yet insightful manner. Matt’s personal journey is so inspiring that we are already planning on bringing him back.  If you get a chance to book Matt you will certainly not be disappointed.”

BroadridgeVirtual event, March 2021

“I learnt so much and even as a cis male your story really resonated with me so thank you again for helping me in my personal growth. You are truly inspirational”

Martin Jory, Snowfox GroupFeb 2022

Thank you, one of the most inspirational speakers I have heard for some time.

Government Agency Virtual event, May 2021

“Matt was incredible today and was a joy to work with start to finish!”

EpiqVirtual event, June 2021

Thank you so much Matt. You have such a knowledgable, relatable way of helping us (the listener) to understand all the issues around transgender. I think the ‘no pressure/little frogs’ message is so persuasive and will encourage more of us to be curious and get it right.

Government AgencyVirtual event, May 2021

Matt was recently invited to speak at the Lloyd’s Dive In Festival in Chatham.  Matt shared his life story and how the decisions he made throughout have affected him.  Matt was very engaging and his talk opened my eyes to the difficulties faced by Matt and others in similar situations.  Matt is obviously very passionate about helping others and telling his story, so others are confident in taking the first step to changing their lives.  Matt was able to share useful resources to the group and was keen to speak to members of the audience on a personal level after the talk.   A thought provoking talk.

Anne CooperLloyds of London
Matt had the audience captivated with his own incredible and courageous personal story. I have to say it was one of the best sessions I have ever seen delivered at a Pharmacy Conference and I have been to many in my 24 years as a pharmacist professional.
Matt has a natural ability to speak confidently and effortlessly to a large audience and has personality and speaker content to keep an audience hanging on his every word.
I cannot recommend Matt more highly.
Rachel MackayNHS - Associate Director of Medicines Management

“Thank you so much. Such a touching and illuminating discussion. I feel very lucky to have been here to hear your story.

Every workplace needs this presentation.”
Virtual event Sept 2020

What a brilliant, informative and inspiring talk.

Government AgencyVirtual event, May 2021

“Excellent. Matt is very empathic and speaks of his experiences with truth and emotion.”

Royal Birmingham ConservatoireVirual event, Sept 2021

“It [the session] was so inspiring and so informative. Matt’s human approach prompted really good questions and discussions and he got a lot of love in the comments!”

HM Courts & Tribunals ServiceVirtual event, Sept 2021
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