Kelly Somers
Industries that have been male-coded for decades do not change because a senior team agrees inclusion matters. They change when the people in the room, in the studio, on the panel, start to look different and the institution learns to make that normal. The friction is rarely the policy. It is the everyday culture around it.
Kelly Somers is a BBC, Amazon Prime and Channel 4 football presenter who hosts corporate events for the Premier League, Barclays, The FA, EFL and LMA, and speaks on inclusion and communication in male-dominated industries.
Full Profile
Why organisations work with Kelly Somers
- A live host who has worked the biggest moments in English football, including becoming the sixth woman to present Match of the Day, and brings that calibre of broadcast craft to a corporate stage.
- A trusted facilitator for the sport ecosystem itself. The Premier League, The FA, EFL, LMA and Barclays use her on their own conferences, awards and leadership events, which is the strongest possible reference for any sponsor or partner of those bodies.
- A practitioner voice on gender inclusion in industries coded male for generations, drawn from her own working life across football broadcasting, not from secondary research.
- Interview range across elite athletes, managers and executives, with the discipline of live broadcast applied to panels, fireside chats and on-stage Q and A.
Biography highlights
- Sports presenter and reporter across BBC Sport, including Final Score, Football Focus, The Women’s Football Show and BBC 5Live.
- Sixth woman to present Match of the Day, covering the 2020 FA Community Shield.
- Match reporter and presenter at UEFA Euro 2020, the 2022 FIFA World Cup, UEFA Women’s Euro 2022 and UEFA Euro 2024.
- Presenter for Amazon Prime’s Premier League coverage and Channel 4’s UEFA Nations League output.
- Corporate event host for the Premier League, Barclays, The FA, EFL and LMA.
- Postgraduate in broadcast journalism, Nottingham Trent University, following undergraduate studies at Loughborough University.
Biography
Live football broadcasting is a discipline most corporate stages underestimate. The presenter has to absorb a fast-moving situation, keep multiple guests coherent, manage time to the second, and make the whole thing feel calm. Kelly Somers has done that across the BBC, Amazon Prime and Channel 4 for more than a decade.
Her CV inside the BBC includes Final Score, Football Focus, The Women’s Football Show and BBC 5Live, and reporting from England’s campaigns at UEFA Euro 2020, the 2022 FIFA World Cup, UEFA Women’s Euro 2022 and UEFA Euro 2024. In August 2020 she became the sixth woman in the programme’s history to present Match of the Day, covering the FA Community Shield.
That broadcast track record is what brings her into corporate work. The Premier League, Barclays, The FA, EFL and the League Managers Association use her to host their own conferences, awards and leadership events, which is the highest reference any sport-adjacent client could ask for. The same discipline travels to keynote stages outside sport, where boards and leadership teams need a host who can keep a complex programme moving without losing the audience.
When Somers speaks from the stage rather than hosting it, her subject is the one she has lived: how women earn credibility, hold a room, and change the everyday texture of a male-coded industry. She trained in broadcast journalism at Nottingham Trent University after Loughborough, started in the media department at AFC Bournemouth as the club rose into the Premier League, and built the broadcast career from there. The story is specific, not theoretical, and that is what makes it useful inside organisations trying to do the same work.
Key speaking topics
- Football broadcasting and live event hosting
- Gender inclusion in male-dominated industries
- Building a career in sports media
- Interviewing elite performers under pressure
- Communicating with multi-generational audiences in digital media
- Sport, sponsorship and brand storytelling
Ideal for
- Sponsors and partners of the Premier League, EFL, FA and LMA convening their own conferences, awards or hospitality programmes.
- Leadership teams in male-coded industries (financial services, engineering, construction, energy) running inclusion or women-in-leadership programming.
- Corporate awards, fireside chats and panels that need a broadcast-trained host rather than a celebrity name.
- Sport, media and broadcast businesses programming internal leadership and culture events.
Audience outcomes
- A live event that runs to broadcast standard, with a host who keeps the room with her and the programme to time.
- A first-person account of building credibility as a woman inside elite football broadcasting, with the practical detail intact.
- Useable language for talking about gender inclusion that does not collapse into policy or slogan.
- Interview craft transferred to internal stages: how to prepare a guest, structure a conversation, and read a room in real time.