Here at the Liberty Recruitment Group we are delighted to announce that Samantha Renke has confirmed her guest speaker slot at out HR Toget5her Conference on 3rd October! Samantha will be speaking on behalf of Toucan Diversity CIC – whose team will be present on the day – and will address issues around disability in the workplace.
Samantha is an actress, presenter, speaker, writer and disability rights campaigner who was named as number 3 in The Shaw Trust Power 100 List of 2020 – a list of the UK’s most influential disabled people.
Her credits include Morning Live and Sunday Morning Live on BBC One as well as Rip Off Britain, Celebrity Antiques Road Trip, Loose Women, Good Morning Britain, How To Beat Ageing on Channel 4 and Jeremy Vine’s show on Channel 5. She has contributed to numerous TV and radio documentaries and podcasts.
Samantha is a columnist for the Metro and Enable as well as having written for The Huffington Post and Pos’Ability, Lifestyle and Glamour magazine. She also featured in the highly successful series of adverts for Maltesers based on real-life experiences of disabled people and has collaborated with brands such as Amazon Prime Video, SHARK, Eurostar and WUKA.
She is an experienced speaker having spoken at events for an extensive range of organisations has resided as disability lead for Paramount (formerly VIACOM), UNLRN and the Diversity Trust and international Speaker for TLC Lions.
Samantha is also a Trustee for The Brittle Bone Society an ambassador for Scope, Ferne Animal Sanctuary and Undressing Disability for Enhance The UK. She is also Patron of Head2Head multi-sensory theatre company. She launched her campaign Don’t Want Our Cash to highlight the barriers Deaf, Disabled and Neurodivergent people face when accessing the highstreets and the importance of recognising the strength of the Purple Pound in 2018 and her debut book, You Are The Best Thing Since Sliced Bread, was published in July by Penguin Books under its Happy Place Books imprint which is curated by Fearne Cotton.
You can read more about Samantha’s remarkable achievements on her website (below) and can you connect with her on social media via these links:
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