Motivational speaker

‘Chris’s presentation was great – very moving, funny, interesting and ultimately the right input which we needed to motivate the team after all the tough messages around the current market turmoil and the challenges which are attached to it.’- Zurich Insurance

‘5 star presentation! Chris Moon is truly an inspirational speaker. His positivity is infectious.’ – IBM UK

A motivational speaker is someone who delivers a call to action to help people develop a certain attitude, exhibit specific desired behaviours, invigorate, or equip them to change. Chris has a passion for the process of achievement and has been a bespoke motivational speaker delivering to specific client briefs for ten years obtaining top feedback scores. In everything he says and does he challenges the concept of limitation. When his first ultra the Marathon Des Sables was covered around the world his words were quote of the week in Time Magazine: The biggest limits in life are those we impose on ourselves often without even realising it.

What do clients expect from a motivational speaker or inspirational speaker? Most want credible experience and somebody who walks the talk, has fought a good fight and continues to challenge limits. In life perhaps it’s what’s in our hearts, who and what we are, how we think and what we do that are truly important. Most of Chris’s clients want the audience to understand the principles and mindsets he shares and be enabled to use them in their own lives.


An inspirational speaker usually delivers warm and uplifting messages telling a personal story of overcoming great adversity of which Chris Moon has shed loads of experience. Surviving no win situations like being held prisoner by one of the most brutal guerrilla armies in history, being blown up in a remote minefield in East Africa and surviving against all odds. Then he completed his first marathon less than a year after leaving hospital, the world’s first amputee ultra-marathon runner. As an inspirational speaker Chris shares extreme credible experiences, mindsets and techniques which people can use to improve their performance and go beyond the point at which they feel they can go no further.

Some clients want a degree of profile, recognition and academic rigour. Chris has worked with psychologists and psychiatrists in the last ten years to understand the process behind his principles. Resilience and improving human performance are complex subjects. He’s been academically published and his autobiography One Step Beyond was published by Macmillan. Chris was awarded MBE for services to the HALO Trust clearing anti-personal landmines in 1996 and has Honorary Degrees from the Universities of Exeter, Leicester and Plymouth. He’s been given several awards for leadership in disability including PALM (American Physicians) and the Snowdon Award.

What’s most important to Chris Moon as a motivational speaker is understanding the challenges an organisation face so he can make his speech relevant. He’s always happy to discuss how he can add value.