Ade Oladipo

Why organisations work with Ade Oladipo

• He brings live broadcast craft to corporate events: DAZN Boxing, talkSPORT and Amazon Prime Premier League coverage are all built on holding a live audience under pressure, which is exactly what large internal conferences and award nights demand.
• His career is a documented case of breaking a colour barrier in UK sports media, becoming the first Black presenter of a live Premier League match in December 2023. That is concrete material, not abstract DEI commentary.
• His speaking themes (adversity, mental health, working in media) are grounded in his own route through fostering, East London, sports trials and a non-traditional path into journalism, which gives the content specificity rather than slogans.
• He is equally credible as keynote speaker, panel moderator and awards host, which makes him useful for clients who need one booking to cover the whole evening.

Biography highlights

• Lead presenter for DAZN Boxing and host of “The DAZN Boxing Show”, covering Anthony Joshua, Canelo Alvarez, Gervonta Davis and KSI fights.
• First Black presenter of a live Premier League match in the UK, anchoring Amazon Prime’s coverage of Crystal Palace v Bournemouth in December 2023.
• Presenter across the talkSPORT network, including “The Social” on talkSPORT 2 and pundit work on “Kick Off Added Time”.
• Winner of the 2021 Audio Production Awards “Best New Voice”.
• Co-host of the 2023 ARIAS-nominated podcast “The Men’s Room”.
• Prior credits include Sky Sports News (Premier League and EFL transfer reporting), ESPN, Fox Sports and Arise News.

Biography

Live boxing on DAZN, Premier League football on Amazon Prime, weekly radio on talkSPORT. Three different audiences, three different production cultures, one presenter holding the room when the broadcast is live and the script has gone. That is the working life Ade Oladipo has built, and it is the material he brings into the corporate room.

In December 2023 he became the first Black presenter of a live Premier League match in the UK, leading Amazon Prime’s coverage of Crystal Palace against Bournemouth. The story behind that night runs through Brighton foster care, East London, Essex football and athletics, a Tottenham Hotspur Academy trial, and an entry into sports journalism in 2015 at Arise News. None of it was the standard route.

His speaking work draws on that route directly. The themes are adversity, mental health, and what it takes to keep doing the work when you are the only person in the room who looks like you. Awards include the 2021 Audio Production Awards “Best New Voice” and a 2023 ARIAS nomination as co-host of “The Men’s Room” podcast, evidence that the craft holds up alongside the story.

For corporate clients his most direct value is hosting craft: keynote, Q&A, awards, panel moderation, all delivered with the calm of someone who presents live boxing for a living. The keynote on adversity and mental health is the additional offer when the brief calls for it.

Key speaking topics

• Mental health and resilience in high-pressure work
• Adversity and non-linear career paths
• Race and representation in UK media
• Sports broadcasting and live presenting
• Event hosting and panel moderation
• Awards night MC

Ideal for

• Corporate event organisers needing a host who can carry a full evening: keynote, panel, awards.
• Internal CHRO and DEI leads commissioning content on lived experience rather than policy.
• Sports, media and entertainment industry conferences.
• Employee Resource Group events, particularly those focused on Black professionals in white-majority industries.

Audience outcomes

• A clear sense of what sustained mental health practice looks like for someone working under public scrutiny.
• A specific story of breaking into and breaking through a closed industry, used as material for their own career conversations.
• A sharper view of what genuine inclusion feels like from inside, beyond the slide deck.
• An event held together by a presenter trained on live broadcast, not a corporate stage.