
Debra Searle MVO MBE
Specialism:
Motivational, Gender Parity, Unsconscious Bias, Resilience & Wellbeing, Women in Leadership
Debra Searle MVO MBE
A bit about Debra...
Debra Searle MVO, MBE is a truly inspirational woman; a professional adventurer, author, BBC presenter and gender equality advocate, Debra is also a keynote speaker par excellence and has addressed 1,000+ corporate audiences.
She was a finalist for Role Model of the Year Award for both the European and National Diversity Awards and in 2020 was voted into the World's Top 30 Motivational Speakers.
Debra first hit the headlines when she set out to row across the Atlantic with her husband, as described in her TEDx Talk. Unfortunately he had to be rescued so Debra, a novice rower, continued alone and rowed 3000 miles from Tenerife to Barbados. Debra’s story was front page news yet she is positive that had she been rescued and her husband completed the race, little notice would have been taken by the press. This, combined with Debra being the only woman on the board of a Royal charity, sparked her awareness of gender parity, leading to her join the 30% Club and co-found MIX.
In 2015 Debra got to combine her passions for gender parity and adventure, leading the LeasePlan Women’s Arctic Challenge. Debra took 12 ordinary businesswomen from the car industry and turned them into Arctic explorers as part of a wider project about unconscious bias & stereotyping.
Debra is the perfect choice if you are looking for a truly inspirational speaker, a speaker for a women’s event or someone to provide a story-telling all company introduction to Diversity & Inclusion and Unconscious Bias.