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Charlotte Storey

Former West End Actor, Disabled Pilot, Inspirational Speaker

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Gender: Female
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Languages: English
Travels from: United Kingdom

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  • With over 30 years of experience in high-end performing arts and the corporate industry, Charlotte Storey is a renowned expert in empowering middle management professionals to secure the senior leadership positions they deserve. Despite losing her right arm in 2008 due to Ehlers-Danlos Hypermobility Syndrome, she overcame mental and physical barriers to career progress. Faced with reinvention, she chose to seize opportunities over challenges, discovering her disability’s inherent superpower. Her journey inspired a unique system of self-transformative techniques she now shares.

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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.

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Charlotte is an expert at developing gravitas through complete mastery of mindset, physical embodiment, and vocalisation. For those seeking to maximise impact, Charlotte shares techniques for taking and holding space, and for developing the aesthetics of confidence to scaffold the authority factors associated with senior leadership.

Charlotte solves this problem by telling powerful stories about the stage fright that blighted her career, in response to which she shares the self-mastery techniques she uses to successfully eliminate performance anxieties in elite individuals.

As a theatre director, adept at working with elite ensembles, Charlotte talks to disunified teams and their leaders about how to cultivate dynamic listening skills within the workforce. She highlights techniques that raise awareness about the importance of sensing without seeing and reading and reacting appropriately to non-verbal communication to maximise team cohesion.

Terrified of heights and determined not to become disabled in spirit as well as in body, Charlotte successfully executed the ultimate self-mastery challenge, when in 2021, she gained a pilot’s license. She remains one of the few people in the world to have mastered one-handed flight. Her story of becoming pilot in command of her reactions throws new light on resilience theories. Dissatisfied with the unreliable results that traditional coping strategies bring to anxiety management; she is living proof that consistent results come through surrendering to dread and building back. This talk is perfectly pitched for visionary leaders striking out into uncharted areas and looking to inspire their teams to problem solve at the highest level.

Unable to read a note of music and never having had a drama lesson, Charlotte achieved the heights as a professional performer and coach and encourages businesses to look beyond qualifications to see the value of experience over skills in building a high functioning team.

Charlotte talks about the challenges of growing up gay in a strict religious household, and of the need for better workplace training around collective intelligence to harness the skills of a wide-cross section of society.

Charlotte’s childhood was cancelled by her father’s spinal disability, and as a young carer, she struggled with social isolation, rage, and depression. She presents effective approaches to interpreting people’s non-verbal barriers to integration highlighting the need to embrace compassionate approaches to leadership.

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