Lorraine Chapman
Speaker Topics
Business & Economics, Motivation & Performance, Diversity, Mental Health, Other
Locations Covered
South East
Fees
£150 - £500
Availability
1 Month Minimum, 3 Month Minimum
Profile Bio
Lorraine Chapman is the speaker behind the conversation that saves businesses and lives. For years she lived a double life: a respected school leader by day, quietly navigating shame and self-suppression by night. In 2016 she made the choice to stop hiding. That choice changed everything, and it's what she now helps others do too.
Lorraine works with organisations and audiences to get to the root of what's really holding people back. Not the surface stuff, not another wellbeing initiative that fades by Friday, but the silence, the disconnection, the burnout that no training day ever seems to fix. As an award-winning speaker and experiential facilitator, she goes where most speakers won't, using bold honesty, humour, and real audience interaction to unlock the confidence, communication, and leadership that shame keeps buried.
She calls it Unleash Your Fire, and it's built on The Sexcess System, her own framework for reconnecting people to the energy that drives how they lead, speak, and show up in the world. Her talks don't just inform. They shift how people think, feel, and operate, leaving them more honest, more alive, and ready to stop performing and start living.
Lorraine is a two-time number one bestselling author, a columnist for Expert Profile Magazine, and has been honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award and the Global Super Minds Award for Service to Humanity.
Talk Description
THE MISSING CONVERSATION
Why relationships, intimacy and communication are the conversations most organisations avoid – and what it is costing them.
What It Is
Every organisation talks about wellbeing. Very few talk about what actually drives it.
Relationships. Intimacy. Communication. The way people feel about themselves and each other. These are not soft topics. They are the foundation of every team, every culture and every performance conversation – and most organisations are avoiding them entirely.
Lorraine has the conversation nobody else will. And it changes everything.
What It Covers
Why the real issues in your organisation are never the ones on the agenda
How disconnection, shame and self-editing quietly destroy culture and performance
The link between how people feel in themselves and how they show up at work
What happens when organisations finally give people permission to be honest
Practical shifts that make communication real, not performative
How Your Audience Will Feel
Seen. Relieved. Honest with themselves for the first time in a long time. Ready to have the conversations they have been avoiding.
Who It’s For
HR Directors, People teams, leadership groups, corporate wellbeing days and conferences ready to go beyond the surface and do something that actually works
Other Talks
BREAK THE PATTERN - NOT YOU!
Rewrite the stories that hold your people back – with practical takeaways they use immediately.
What It Is
Your people are not underperforming because they lack skill. They are underperforming because they are running on outdated stories about who they are and what they are allowed to be.
This is the interactive keynote that changes that. In the room. On the day.
Not theory. Not motivation that fades by Monday. Real pattern interruption with practical tools your audience take straight back into their work and their lives.
What It Covers
How limiting beliefs form and quietly become identity
The be good, over-achiever and stay-safe patterns draining your culture
Fear of judgement and the need to be liked – and how it kills performance
How shame reinforces self-editing across teams and leadership
Practical, immediate ways to interrupt outdated thinking and show up fully
How Your Audience Will Feel
Clear. Grounded. Aware of their patterns without judgement – and equipped to do something about them. More self-trusting, more confident and more present from the moment they leave the room.
Who It’s For
Conferences, leadership days, corporate away days, wellbeing events and any audience ready to move beyond old patterns and step into a more authentic, high-performing version of themselves.
