Inspiring Growth
Join us with inspirational speakers from Wisdom Builders, a platform where lived experiences at the heart of everything we do. We offer dramatized stories, panel, Q&A sessions, one-on-one interviews, workshops, and speaker events, all dedicated to uniting communities through truth. Each speaker brings their unique experiences, yet we share a common goal: to educate and inspire positive change. Together, we believe that Each One Teach One.
Wisdom Builders is a dynamic speakers’ agency based in the UK, representing individuals with lived experience of trauma, abuse, dissociative disorders, neurodiversity, and mental health. Our speakers are experts in their fields and are passionate about igniting powerful change through their personal stories.
We provide a platform for our speakers to share their lived experiences and expertise, aiming to bridge the gap between theory and lived reality. Our goal is to inspire and educate audiences, fostering understanding, empathy, and positive change.
Empower Growth
Wisdom Builders is more than a speakers’ agency - it’s a movement that transforms lived experience into powerful education. By giving voice to individuals who have endured trauma, abuse, mental health challenges, and neurodiversity, Wisdom Builders bridges the gap between professionals and those they serve. Through honest storytelling, performance-based learning, and real-world insight, we foster empathy, challenge outdated perceptions, and nurture inclusive, trauma-informed practice.
We empower growth on every level:
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For speakers, we offer mentorship, purpose, and a platform to turn pain into purpose.
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For professionals, we provide training that goes beyond textbooks - rooted in lived reality, with practical tools for compassionate engagement.
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For communities, we ignite conversations that lead to change, healing, and connection.
Our motto, “Each One Teach One,” reflects our belief that shared wisdom leads to shared growth. Whether in classrooms, boardrooms, hospitals, or public forums, Wisdom Builders creates space for stories that heal and voices that rise -empowering growth for all.
Added Value
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Led by survivors and service users with deep insight
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Empowers professionals to engage without fear or stigma
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Aligns with NHS England’s trauma-informed care priorities
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Can be tailored to local trust needs and community profiles
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Suitable for EDI, safeguarding, or mental health CPD programs
From Our Blog
Stay updated with the latest insights, news, and perspectives from our speakers and team. Discover thought-provoking content that challenges perspectives and promotes understanding.
Engaging with someone who has lived experience means listening with empathy, respect, and an open mind. Rather than focusing on their past through a lens of pity or assumption, it’s about valuing their insight as expertise. These individuals offer powerful, real-world perspectives that can challenge stereotypes, inspire change, and deepen our understanding of complex issues like trauma, mental health, or systemic injustice. Meaningful engagement creates space for healing, learning, and more compassionate practices both personally and professionally.
Learning from a survivor of trauma is important because they offer insights that textbooks and clinical training often miss. Their experiences reveal the real-life impact of systems, relationships, and responses both harmful and healing. Survivors can help professionals understand what supports recovery and what unintentionally causes further harm. By listening to their voices, we gain a deeper, more human understanding of resilience, triggers, trust, and what it truly means to feel safe. This knowledge can lead to more compassionate, effective support for others and help shape systems that truly empower, rather than re-traumatised.
Bridging the gap between theory and reality is where true learning happens and that’s the power of an impactful speaker with lived experience. While theory provides structure and knowledge, reality breathes life into it. A speaker who has walked through trauma doesn’t just teach; they illuminate. Their story makes abstract concepts tangible, revealing the emotional truth behind policies, diagnoses, and interventions. This connection fosters empathy, challenges assumptions, and inspires action. Booking such a speaker brings more than a voice, it brings transformation, helping audiences not just to understand trauma, but to feel its impact and become part of the solution.
About me Founder of Wisdom Builders
Jennie Grace and the Heart Behind Wisdom Builders
There was a time in my life when hope felt like a stranger-distant, unreachable, something meant for others but not for me. I was surrounded by labels, shaped by systems that misunderstood me, and silenced by trauma that ran deep. For many years, I didn’t see my story as something of value. I saw brokenness, not wisdom. I saw damage, not strength.
But as the years passed, and as I found my voice first in whispers, then in courage- began to understand something powerful: the very things that nearly broke me were also the things that shaped my resilience, compassion, and purpose. I didn’t just survive; I grew. And with that growth came a vision.
Wisdom Builders was born from that vision. It is more than an agency- is a movement of lived experience rising to meet the world with truth, vulnerability, and strength. As the founder, I created Wisdom Builders to be a home for voices like mine-voices that have been dismissed, overlooked, or misunderstood for too long.
Our agency represents individuals who have experienced childhood abuse, mental health challenges, neurodiversity, and trauma. Through powerful storytelling, drama-based presentations, and real-life education, our speakers bring insight to professionals, schools, universities, and workplaces. We do not come with polished credentials-we come with lived truth, and that matters. We speak so others can see differently, listen more deeply, and act with greater empathy.
Wisdom Builders is important to me because it’s living proof that stories can heal, and voices that once trembled can rise to lead change. It’s a space where pain becomes purpose, and where no one is too broken to be heard. My journey from hopelessness to leadership has not been easy, but it’s been worth every step to be able to say to others: Your story matters, and you are not alone.
Get in Touch
Connect with us to explore speaker engagements, collaborations, and partnership opportunities. Phone: 07927017899 |
Email: wisdombuilders@icloud.com
