Stef Sword-Williams
Transform workplace confidence with Stef Sword-Williams, speaker, self-promotion expert, and personal branding strategist. Stef empowers professionals to embrace their achievements and build impactful personal brands, reaching audiences in 50+ countries for Apple, Google, and Microsoft as a Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree.
London, United Kingdom
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Recognised as a Forbes 30 Under 30 honouree for Europe, Stef has been named among the Top 50 Workplace Leaders in the UK, Start Up Magazine’s 22 Most Influential Women, and twice in The Dot’s 100 Women Changing the Creative Industry. Stef has also been recognised as one of the Top 100 women changing the creative industry and won the LinkedIn Future Is Female Award.
Stef’s talks have reached audiences in over 50 countries and have been booked by global brands including Apple, Unilever, Google, Nike, Adidas, Microsoft, and the BBC. Her TEDx Talk on redefining humility and self-promotion has cemented her reputation as a leading voice in confidence, personal branding, and social impact.
Stef's debut book, F*ck Being Humble: Why self-promotion isn’t a dirty word, has sold over 10,000 copies, with her second book continuing to expand the conversation around visibility, confidence, and career empowerment.
With a community of over 170,000 people online, Stef’s work has been featured in Forbes, Grazia, Vogue, BBC World News, and the Financial Times. In recognition of her contribution to social impact, she was invited to become a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Stef continues to reinvest profits and time into community initiatives, inspiring people worldwide to embrace their worth and celebrate their successes boldly and unapologetically.
Topics, Sessions And Talks
For many people, imposter syndrome and self-doubt can be the biggest barrier to achieving career goals. Through her talk, Stef Sword-Williams aims to challenge limiting beliefs, enable talent to recognise their potential and empower them to reach current goals and future ambitions.
Understanding emotional intelligence in theworkplace is an essential skill to help you reach your professional goals. Stef willshare the core emotional intelligence skills and tactics that will help to improveprocesses and productivity and enable you to use your own skills more effectively.
Got an idea but not sure how to present it or make itheard by the right people? Stef will share tools and preparation techniques that willhelp empower individuals to use their voice, share their ideas without fear andunderstand how build a business case for implementing it.
Public speaking can be intimidating for many which is whyStef makes it her mission to help people feel more confident with presenting.Whether it’s for a pitch, internal meeting or to a large audience, Stef will share allthe techniques you need to captivate your viewers and make them remember you.
With more teams working remotely, the opportunity toconnect and build relationships with the people we work with has reduced. Thatmeans it’s even more important to actively invest in growing mutually beneficialrelationships, raising our profile virtually and exploring the best ways to providevalue to co-workers.
Giving and receiving feedback doesn’t need to be a challenging experience if you handle it with care. In this talk, Stef will guide you on the best ways to gather, deliver, and implement feedback that could significantly impact your career/client relationships.
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