Inspiration and insight

Guest speaker

Name: Alchemize
Price range: $

If you're looking for a way to wake up a room, inspire your guests and leave them wanting more, then we can help. Steve promises to ensure every audience is engaged, craving change and ready to take action.

Fresh perspective

More than a keynote speech

Alchemize also offers Stephen as a guest speaker for growing businesses, with two ways to bring his experience to your event. As a keynote speaker, he delivers a practical, memorable talk that sets the tone for your leadership away day, team event or conference. In a fireside chat, he joins your host or leadership team for an open, candid conversation that gets to the heart of what your people want to know. Explore communication, culture, leadership, resilience and team harmony.

Audiences leave with fresh clarity on their next stage of growth, real-world lessons from the highs and the lows, and the motivation to act on them. Each session can be tailored to your team's challenges, so what you hear is relevant to where your business is right now.

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About Alchemize

Our story

Alchemize is the brainchild of founder/owner turned hybrid coach and mentor, Stephen O'Brien. Having built, scaled, sold and exited several multi-million pound businesses over a diverse forty year career, Stephen decided it was time to use what he knows to help businesses and owners that need someone in their corner. Building on his own lived experience, he completed an internationally recognised Accredited Award in Coach Training (AACT) programme to support him in driving positive change for other businesses and leaders, globally. The hybrid Alchemize approach ensures action beyond theory, clarity derived from real insight, and actionable progress that demands accountability. Above all though, Alchemize is human; we all get anxious, overwhelmed and get in our own way, with our support, that ends here!

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Guest speakers are booked for everything from large public conferences down to small, intimate gatherings. Common settings include leadership away days, team off-sites, annual conferences and industry summits, sales kick-offs, and client or investor events. On the smaller end, they're also booked for fireside chats, breakfast briefings, internal lunch-and-learns, mastermind groups, small business networking meetups, and even one-off sessions for a handful of founders or a single leadership team. Smaller formats tend to be more conversational and interactive, while larger events favour a structured keynote, but both offer real value, often it's the smaller, more personal sessions that leave the deepest impact.
A guest speaker is someone businesses invite to share their experience and insight with an audience at an event, conference, or away day. Steve is the ideal speaker for your event if you are seeking real, lived experience and someone who can speak credibly on topics like leadership, growth, culture, or resilience, offering practical lessons, relatable insights and go beyond theory! His outside perspective and fresh energy will engage the room, whether through a structured keynote or a more conversational fireside chat. Each event leaves audiences with something they can genuinely take away and apply.
As your guest speaker Steve will work with you to tailor his content to your event style and type. Usually the topics are focused on leadership and management, communication, culture and team dynamics, resilience and overcoming setbacks, growth and scaling a business, and change or transformation. The best sessions are those focused on a team's specific challenge, and we will always be sure to include practical takeaways you can apply straight away.