Shabina Ahmed
Speaking

Keynotes that make people feel seen
and move them to act.

Resilience, Leadership and Wellbeing told from lived experience. Every talk is tailored, interactive and 20 to 60 minutes long.

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Why book me

Honest stories. Intentional tools.

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Relatable and relevant to your room

People tell me “you’re so relatable” more than anything. Every talk is then shaped around your people.

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Practical and inspiring

Audiences take part from the first minute. They leave with tools tested over nine years at MSP and one clear next step.

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Honest about the messy middle

I share the real story of rock bottom and rising. I speak from the scar, not the wound, so it moves a room and stays grounded.

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Keynotes

One signature talk. Three ways in.

Every talk is tailored and interactive and runs 20 to 60 minutes. Each one is also available as training for your team. Want more than a talk? Add a breakout session or a half-day workshop on the same day.

Signature Keynote · Resilience

The Loudest Place: Rock Bottom and Rising

Resilience isn’t something you find. It’s something you remember. I share my journey from teenage mum on the edge to charity founder and The Springback Method it taught me. Your people will find the resilience they already have and give themselves permission. They leave with one practical step towards the life they want.

Resilience isn't something you find. It's something you remember.

From teenage mum on the edge to charity founder: my story and the framework it taught me.

The Springback Method · Root · Remember · Rise

Attendees will learn

  • How to find the resilience they already have by collecting evidence of what they've already survived and conquered
  • Why the barrier is rarely skill but permission and how to give it to themselves
  • One practical next step towards the life they actually want
For: conferences · all-staff events · leadership teams · International Women's Day
Work–Life Balance

Excel Without Burnout

Stop doing it all and start doing what matters. I burned out juggling work and life and rebuilt with simple systems. Your people will learn to bring work and life together instead of chasing balance. They see rest as a performance strategy and leave with systems that still work in a busy week.

Stop doing it all. Start doing what matters.

I burned out running a charity and a business while raising three children. These are the simple systems I rebuilt with.

I burned out juggling work and life. These are the simple systems I rebuilt with.

Attendees will learn

  • How to integrate work and life instead of chasing balance
  • Why rest is a performance strategy
  • Systems that still work in a busy week
For: wellbeing weeks · leadership teams · busy professionals
Leadership & Motivation

Permission Unlocks Potential

You don’t lack ability. You lack permission. At MSP people rarely lacked talent. They lacked permission to name what they wanted. With The Permission Principle your people build confidence and get honest about what they really want. Leaders learn to give their teams the same permission.

You don't lack ability. You lack permission.

At MSP, people rarely lacked talent. They lacked permission to name what they wanted.

The Permission Principle · Permit · Prove · Progress

Attendees will learn

  • Why confidence comes before careers
  • How to get honest about what they really want
  • How leaders give their teams the same permission
For: talent & L&D · graduates & career changers · staff networks
Mental Health & Emotional Intelligence

You Can't Pour From an Empty Cup

Get your house in order and then build. Nobody builds a fulfilling career on empty. Your people complete a simple self-care audit and set boundaries that protect their energy without guilt. They learn emotional intelligence so their feelings guide them instead of running them.

Get your house in order, then build.

At MSP, every career workshop starts with self-care: nobody builds a fulfilling career on empty.

Attendees will learn

  • A simple self-care audit across body, mind, money and relationships
  • Boundaries that protect energy without guilt
  • Emotional intelligence: feelings that guide you, not run you
For: wellbeing events · schools & colleges · community forums
Tailored on Request

Specialist versions for your audience

For women's events and parent networks I bring in motherhood and female empowerment. Any talk can be adapted for employers supporting returners.

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Hear the room go quiet or light up with laughter and energy

An honest story that leaves people engaged, relieved and inspired.

Send people home inspired and with a workable plan

Practical steps, not a lift that fades by Monday.

See people take responsibility and make values-led choices

For themselves, their goals and each other long after the event.

What people say

"That first workshop moves the room more than any other."

That's what every MSP cohort says about my opening session, where I share how I built from nothing.

Shabina lit up the room when she entered… She’s a brilliant storyteller and really connects to the audience on a human level.

Shabina lit up the room when she entered. Her ability to connect with us, as she shared her story and what drove her to start Mothers' Springboard, left our club members in awe of both her hard work and passion for her mission. She opened our eyes to the myriad of challenges single mothers face when trying to find employment and inspired us by sharing how she is taking steps to change that. Shabina is a brilliant storyteller and really connects to the audience on a human level.

Allison English, Zonta Club of London
On Shabina's keynote to the Zonta Club of London

Shabina Ahmed was our fabulous guest speaker… She inspired everyone in the room with an energetic, engaging talk on resilience.

Shabina Ahmed was our fabulous guest speaker at City Ladies London in July 2026. She inspired everyone in the room with an energetic, engaging talk on resilience: an innate quality we all possess. Drawing on little-known historical accounts of the women left behind during the Second World War, she showed both their remarkable resilience and the power of women coming together. She delivered the talk with an obvious passion for her mission to support and empower women.

Julia Darlington, Senior Leadership Coach, City Ladies London
On Shabina's keynote at City Ladies London

The session was insightful, engaging and really relatable… The openness and honesty you brought to the conversation made the session feel very genuine and encouraging.

The session was insightful, engaging and really relatable. I appreciated how you spoke about leadership, balancing different aspects of life, resilience and the different ways we can navigate challenges both personally and professionally. It was lovely to see how engaged our members were throughout the session… The openness and honesty you brought to the conversation made the session feel very genuine and encouraging. Thank you for sharing your experiences and creating such a positive and empowering space for our members!

Ayomide, University of Law
On Shabina's professional development workshop

Shabina's talk left me realising I can choose a life I love as a mum, without guilt.

Event attendee

If Shabina can do it, so can I.

Participants, after every programme

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