Kellie Maloney

Kellie Maloney is famed for her work as a British boxing promoter and advocacy for the LGBT+ community. After transitioning to a woman in 2015, Kellie brought transgender rights into the mainstream media. Testimonials of her previous speeches rave about her professionalism, sensitivity and inspiring story. Down to earth and a "great speaker", Kellie continues to raise awareness for diversity in sport and business.

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Kellie Maloney is a captivating keynote speaker, whose journey through gender realignment inspires a more accepting mindset in her audience. Prior to transitioning in 2015, she worked as a respected boxing promoter and was regarded as one of the most influential in the country. With a story like Kellie's, who has experienced both sporting success and emotional challenges, this keynote speaker is ideal for a wide range of events.

Born in London, Kellie was quickly defined by her confident, cockney persona, which she has since rewritten. She started boxing in school, before training athletes and planning amateur tournaments. Kellie was quickly respected in the sport, and began working with Frank Warren in the 70s. In the 1980s, she accepted the role of Lennox Lewis's manager, and started to promote professional fights. With her knowledge and natural insight, Lennox skyrocketed through the sport. Other successes include managing Rendall Munroe to winning the 2009 European Super Bantamweight.

Two years after retiring from boxing, Kellie announced that she had undergone complete gender reassignment surgery, as well as hormone therapy and voice coaching. Empowered as her new identity of Kellie, she now raises awareness for transgender rights and the LGBT+ community. Kellie learnt from her previous position in the controversial UKIP party, and has since become an important fixture of the LGBT community.

Audiences of Kellie benefit from her invaluable insight into transgenderism. As diversity and acceptance become increasingly valuable to the workplace, her speeches can help employees to understand the importance of LGBT+ rights. She is highly regarded as one of the most influential figures in sport, so Kellie's decision to openly transition has opened doors for other transgender people to confidently accept their true self.

"We have just finished working with Kellie on a large scale conference. The theme was around gender identity and stereotypes, and our audience was split between practitioners and members of the public. Kellie was an absolute joy to work with from the start. Kellie arrived early to conduct media interviews which she was incredibly professional at doing. Kellie spoke on a stage to 700 people for about 40minutes and absolutely captivated the audience throughout. I have had a lot of positive feedback since the event, all because of Kellie’s presentation, and the way she spoke about her personal experiences. Kellie has a true talent for public speaking, and is a great name to attract people to your event. My thanks also to team at Champions UK who were easy to work with, and always communicated with me promptly.”
Rhianon Greenslade – Safer Poole Partnership

“It could not have gone better. Kellie was brilliant very warm, open and interesting. She spoke without notes and told her story perfectly. We had a very diverse audience – there were Dentons staff and clients who are allies, LGBT+ staff and clients and several trans* people in the audience – and everyone really enjoyed it. While she was speaking, you could have heard a pin drop. Kellie also stayed and socialised afterwards, and you could see how much it meant to people to be able to talk directly to her. We are very grateful to Kellie for coming and making it such a successful event. Huge thanks to you and Kellie for all your work on this”. Sophie Palmer – Senior Associate, Dentons

“It was a great evening and Kellie was candid, down to earth and a great speaker for Evolving club. Please thank her enormously on our behalf.” Xavier –The Evolving club

‘It really was an amazing event, you guys and the BRG are amazing, impressive and courageous. Both Kellie and Gareth were so open and honest, we are really priveledged to have had them visit the office and share. Thank you so much.’ – CMAS

‘Well done to the Pride team in bringing Gareth and Kellie to ABZ. Their life stories were so, so thought provoking – huge learning for me . Utterly brilliant. Thanks.’ – CMAS

"I wanted to thank Kellie Maloney for the attendance of our event on Friday 7th of June 2019, Ms Maloney is an absolute dream to work with, Her presence at the event was a thrill for all who attended, and it was amazing how completely at ease she makes every feel, she is charming, personable, fantastic conversationalist, very witty and a remarkably clever and brave lady… I think that Kellie actually took it upon herself to make a real point of chatting to everyone at the event and this in itself is a tremendous skill. It was amazing to be helped and guided by yourself as well as an agency, we felt very supported in our booking and recommend Champions Speakers and Kellie Maloney to everyone." – Fine Art by Scarlett

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