Charlotte Storey

About Charlotte Storey

As former West End actor, Charlotte Storey is a spellbinding presenter whose superb mastery of accents, physicality, and comic timing enlivens the topics she speaks about, which include self-mastery, audacious leadership, conquering fear not simply coping with it, and the lessons of disability.

In recounting how she helped the Royal Marines Band overcome performance anxiety in preparation for the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II, and the for the coronation of King Charles II, Charlotte Storey shares insights about mental and physical mastery in high- pressure environments, unity and diversity in team dynamics, and the primacy of a belief in talents.

Unique in her approach to mastering her own disability sufficiently to pilot an aircraft, an impressive list of organisations has worked with Charlotte Storey to gain her insights into human performance and the benefits of audacious self-leadership, these include HM Royal Marines Band, BBC, Disney, Nickelodeon, The Bank of England, Nat West Bank, Warburtons and Homebase.

As a disabled woman, Charlotte is able to advise and guide both small, high-performance teams, in addition to addressing the challenges faced by larger, more diverse organisations around the advantages of actively recruiting a diverse workforce, of the unique potential women leaders bring to previously male-dominated spaces, self-mastery and proactivity, transformational leadership as an antidote to transactional management, the importance of self-nurture and the benefits of preserving time within the working day for reflection and retreat, and resilience in adversity; strategies for conquering fear-based reactive behaviours.

Charlotte Storey embodies the successful outcomes of implementing these strategies learnt from overcoming the ‘catastrophe’ of her own disability.

Charlotte is currently working on a book about conquering adversity to reach the heights entitled, Not the Whole Storey, in which Charlotte gives a highly humorous account of the self-mastery techniques she developed in response to her own complex genetic illness; techniques that took her from long-term in-patient to London’s West End stage, from losing the use of her right arm, to becoming pilot in command of her own light aircraft. In this book and in her talks, Charlotte addresses the physical and psychological challenges that leaders face when integrating change, highlighting the need to both problem-solve using flow and bloom techniques, and to know that the best kind of self-leadership is when you discover something cannot be achieved and having the courage to communicate to the team the need for a fresh direction.

Charlotte is the driving force behind senior executives returning to the workforce better able to lead and inspire, knowledgeable about how to tease out the dormant potential within the team, more adept at embedding the skills for continued resilience, improved team cohesion, and collective mission.