Keynote SpeakersMichelle Dewberry hosts her daily show on GB News.
Plain-speaking and straight-talking, Michelle’s show, Dewbs & Co, is her take on the day’s news.
Michelle is a truly inspirational woman who shot to national fame when she beat competition from over 15,000 people to become the winner of the second series of the hit BBC show The Apprentice.
Lord Sugar summed her up by calling her “hardworking, very focused, organised and committed” and acknowledging that she has “worked her way up to achieve great things.”
Before entering ‘The Apprentice’, Michelle had carved out a successful city career as a self-employed consultant. She was earning a salary well over £150k before the age of 25.
Michelle Dewberry’s story is one of true grit, determination and achieving success against all the odds.
Coming from a deprived background, Michelle ignored school and chose to get ‘real world’ business experience and started working in local businesses at 13.
As a teenager, Michelle found herself off the rails. She had few qualifications, her partner was in prison, and her social life consisted of doing everything she shouldn’t.
At the age of 17, Michelle suffered a devastating blow when she lost her older sister in tragic circumstances. The tragedy spurred Michelle to turn her life around and make a true success of herself.
She returned to learning, completing an apprenticeship to gain skills and qualifications and enrolling in night schools to gain the qualifications she had missed in school.
To financially support herself, she worked three jobs each Saturday.
At 18, Michelle Dewberry took one of Hull’s major employers by storm after cold-calling them and requesting a job as a manager. She was offered a junior post in the IT department but swiftly engineered her progress through the ranks until, by the age of 21, she was managing the company’s biggest account.
Michelle’s career went from strength to strength as she created opportunities to work for some of Europe’s biggest Telecom/ISP companies.
At 24, Michelle saw an opportunity to use her skills freelance and became a self-employed consultant. This saw her working at board level, delivering several multi-million pound Business Transformation programmes.
Michelle Dewberry delivers a range of coaching and motivational programmes to businesses to help individuals and teams achieve their potential.
Michelle loves to give back and supports several charities. She is an Ambassador of The Prince’s Trust, Patron of the Youth Enterprise Programme, and heavily involved with the NSPCC.
Her inspiring autobiography ‘Anything is Possible’ was released on 1st March 2007.
Michelle Dewberry – Inspirational Speaker:
Michelle is an experienced, passionate, engaging motivational speaker, always receiving great client feedback.
- Anything Is Possible – Motivating, uplifting insights into Michelle’s story and how to overcome adversity and achieve success.
- Mental Health – Michelle recently publicly discussed her battle with depression and suicidal thoughts. She speaks on the importance of mental wellbeing and how to become (and remain!) “Mentally fit”.
- Domestic Violence – Michelle was affected by domestic abuse throughout her whole childhood & now speaks about how to break the chain of abuse and how to re-establish life after leaving an abusive relationship.
- Business Start-Up: Michelle has worked as a mentor to a number of individuals and start-up businesses.
- Brexit – Michelle is a prominent Brexiteer and can speak on the opportunities Brexit presents.
- Business Transformation – Michelle has worked as a transformation consultant for many years and can speak on how to transform, which pitfalls to avoid, etc.
- North/South Divide – Michelle is a Yorkshire girl passionate about the North and its prosperity.
