The future of every organisation is in hands of their young talent. 

Yet, companies are struggling to retain the best talent for long enough to see a profit, the journey from onboarding to high performance is taking too long and young talent falls into the trap of doing just enough to get by.

Whilst our Education system is overwhelmed with Ofsted frameworks, a ridiculous teacher workload and declining engagement. 

So, I started Aim A Little Higher to fix that. We're on a mission to equip young people with the clarity, confidence and communication skills necessary to thrive in the real world and become an undeniable asset for their organisation.  

We've worked with amazing organisations such as HSBC, Siemens Energy, Goldman Sachs, Greenwood Dale Academies & The Sutton Trust to name a few. All working on the ground with their young talent and accelerate their journey from potential to high performance. 

Young talent should be excited to be part of the journey, contributing fresh ideas and become the largest asset in any organisation.

We help organisations in a number of ways
We put together programmes that increase employee engagement & company alignment.
Develop strategies that improve output and contribution from young talent by increasing confidence & skillset.
Build a road map that enables young talent to gain clarity, confidence and effective communication at an accelerated pace.

Ultimately, leading to a return on investment for employers, managers & educators alike.


I'm a Husband who married up, a Father figuring it out as I go and an Arsenal fan who has been convinced next year will be our year since I was 12. 
I went from coasting to 7A's & 2A*'s, crowned as Peter Jones' National Entrepreneur of The Year & was recently part of Lincolnshire's 30 under 30. 
Fresh Prince of Bel Air is my theme tune and if you borrowed my headphones you'd be met by Podcasts & Audiobooks.

Let's get your young people performing like the pro's!

Drop me a DM and we'll book a call to get started!

Kamal Ellis-Hyman

How do you make a boring, played out topic practical and engaging?
HSBC gave us the call...

'Communication & Leadership' 

HSBC's ET Team, invited us to level up leaders in their Early Careers Talent Council. 

⚠️ The challenge: Deliver a session that engages, shifts perspective & results in real behaviour change. 

⚠️ The problem: Leadership and Communication, are topics that have been HAMMERED. 

It's impossible that these young people have not already seen the TED talk, read the quotes & had the pep talks!

So the session had to be fresh. 

❌ We refused to deliver something off the shelf
❌ We didn't want quotes they'd seen on their feed for years 
❌ Attendees could not be passively learning

So Eliza Ellis- Hyman MSc , Jackson Ogunyemi  and I spent hours, discussing, debating and creating a fresh Leadership & Communication workshop!

We put young leaders in situations where they had to think fast, speak up, and take real risks. No room for passivity. 

We took them on a journey:

✅ Adopting the Entrepreneurs mindset, from within the company
✅ Understanding the power of a leader to engage or kill a room
✅ Frameworks to give their communication the competitive edge

Then it got real..

✅ We made it uncomfortable
✅ Put people on the spot
✅ Demanded honest feedback in the moment

Best of all... it worked!

This was confirmed by a comment at the end of the session, a young man shook my hand and said:

"I'm usually cynical about these kinds of sessions. But this was actually engaging and I found it helpful"

That's the point. Growth only happens when people feel pressure. If they're comfortable, nothing changes.

Credit to HSBC's ET Team Laura Anderson , Francis Reed , Elisha Kopec , Kiran Bhalla, Neve Savage , Vicky Benham for allowing us to approach this in our way. They supported, added context and let the silence sit when needed!

Real impact must be based on the brief, not recycled information. 
True transformation is personal. 
It's bespoke.

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Partnering with school leaders to advance student happiness and success by delivering powerful, entertaining workshops and seminars across UK schools.

Emerging Talent Development Lead | ISE Vice Chair, Board Director

Emerging Talent Undergraduate Programmes & Skills Strategy Lead at HSBC

Emerging Talent Events and Projects Lead

Emerging Talent Support Specialist

Emerging Talent Development Coordinator HSBC via AMS

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Your Early Career Cohort Has Potential. I Build Performance. 🟠 Founder @ Aim A Little Higher

This is what fantastic careers education looks like! ⭐
Last week I delivered the opening speeches for a series of school takeovers in partnership with HSBC and Zero Gravity!
 
Halls full of young people who came in unsure but left with something real.
 
I set the energy, got every student locked in, before they were introduced to the main challenge! 

As I walked around, I love what I saw!

✅ Real conversations, 
✅ Young people, genuinely curious about their futures.
✅ Gearing up for the big challenge!
 
The HSBC volunteers were exceptional. 

✅ Enthusiastic
✅ Knowledgeable
✅ Completely invested in the young people in front of them. 

Not there to tick a box. There to make a difference. Fantastic to get such great pre-session clarity too from the team Katherine Bond, Luke Beresford, @Matthew hall, 
 
The Zero Gravity team were a pleasure to work alongside, as always! 
Organised, passionate, and fully bought into the mission. 
Nothing but positivity from the dream team Sophie Radford, @Izzy read, Rachel Harwood , Alex O'Connor 👌🏾
 
And Katherine Bond, sharing a stage with someone who cares that much just makes the whole thing better. 
She made it real, accessible and about the individual young people, not the company!
 
This is the standard. Real people, real insight, real impact.
 
What a couple of months it's been!

It has arrived!

National Careers Week 2026!

With the theme of ‘Own Your Future’, which in a time of mass distraction, manipulative algorithms and AI chat bots. 

Is so perfectly timed!

My two pence for a great National Careers Week…

1 - Do NOT be passive. 

Get stuck in. Be it a careers fair, virtual work experience, practice interviews, speeches. 
Get stuck in!

2 - Experiment constantly 

The best way to find out your best path; test a bunch until you find the thing that resonates. Happiness, fulfilment, capability - all great signs you’re on a solid path. 

3 - Ask more questions than feels comfortable 

Everything you need to know; on the other side of a question. 

One great answer, key insight or perspective shift can change everything. So ask, ask then ask again. 

Happy National Careers Week 🎉

Huge shoutout to the wonderful Sir nick newman, Stephen Logan  & the whole team making NCW happen!

Proud to be an ambassador for such a worthwhile organisation!

This National Careers Week...
The power of public facing part time roles!


My absolute superpower! What to search for...

✅ High footfall 
✅ Varied customers 
✅ The need to adapt on the fly

An absolute formula for real world preparation!

Look I know...

👉🏾 Tik Tok shop
👉🏾 Vinted
👉🏾 Etsy
👉🏾 Video Editing

You can make money without even leaving your bedroom. 

BUT. 


Do not underestimate the power & the opportunity to work face to face with the public!

Hogan Lovells invited us to launch their Pathways To Law programme with a bang!

If I could go back in time, I wouldn't change my career choices.
I'd change my level of exposure, so I know I'm making an Educated decision.

Career choice is not easy and far too often our decisions are made based on our circumstances, not our potential. 

So we loved joining forces with Hogan Lovell & The Sutton Trust to get this group of high potential young people, ready to take on the challenge and explore the new world of Law!

From the start we could see the apprehension. 

Of course!

How intimidating to be in a Law Firm for the very first time.
Sat at tables with people you've never met
Hearing from high performing Law professionals. 

So rather than diving into legal jargon and lectures, we hit pause. 

✅ Helped them understand they deserve to be in the room
✅ Broke down the skills, lessons and unique abilities they could bring to the table 
✅ Took them through a process to relieve the nerves and get stuck in
✅ Delivered our Potential to Performance framework so they could understand their journey in context
✅ Pushed them beyond their comfort zones, (better they learn with us than in their one shot at meeting a partner)

🤯 The before and after of this group... astounding. 🤯

👏🏾 Huge shout out to Anna Rutowicz , whose passion for young talent shines through and to Hogan Lovells & The Sutton Trust for making 'social mobility; more than just a buzz word!

If you work with young talent, don't just open the door. 
Pull up a chair and show them they belong.

Most people are terrified of public speaking!
Here are three ways to up your game!

1. Knowledge beats nerves.

We all get nervous, some way more than others. But believe it or not, nerves aren't actually the biggest barrier. In fact, most speakers who genuinely care about their audience feel nerves. 

They get through those nerves anyway, mainly because they know what they are speaking about. Do not step into a public speaking arena without knowledge of your topic. It's a recipe for disaster!

2. Silence, is your best friend. 

Stop fearing silence. It's not a sign of weakness, it doesn't make you look bad and it's not awkward... If used correctly. 

Silence is the ultimate tool to let a point land, to give your audeince time to chew on the information and give you a second to gather your thoughts. 

Rush to fill the silence and you're going to end up waffling!

3. Don't be them.

Too often we see a speaker we like and instantly steal their entire style. No no no, don't be them. Be you. 

You've got a way better chance of doing a good job being yourself. 

Take inspiration, acknowledge skill sets but take those and filter them back through your own lens. 


Which of the three have you struggled with in the past?

Why do we belittle ourselves so often?

Language is so important, I'm slightly obsessed with the words people choose to use. 

Your words tell me so much about you. 

Your world view.
Your intention.
Your feelings.

Worst than what they say to others about you...

YOU hear them too. 

Those internal conversations are dangerous and even something as subtle as the word 'just'. Can continually undermine you. 

Undermine your progress
Undermine your self-image
Undermine your sense of confidence. 

So next time you're describing yourself. 

Don't you DARE. Use the word "Just".

As National Careers Week comes to a close, three ingredients to truly 'Own Your Future'

  
Awareness, Questions & Action


Have a fantastic year ahead!

Perspective is everything. 

That’s why I’m climbing on the cieling like Spider-Man. 

“Change the way you look at things and the things you look at will change”

Real transformation begins with a shift in perspective. 

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On the search for positive male role models? 
Let me point you towards a Man, that I personally look towards as a fantastic example...

This week the world gave us:
⚠️ A documentary on the 'Manosphere', 
⚠️ A live debate where two ego's collided and a Wife was collateral damage. 
⚠️ A focus on men who think their power comes from a domination of women.

Today there's a man being honoured whom offers a slightly different version manhood. 

Today the Church celebrates the Feast of St.Joseph.

The Husband, Father and ultimate servant. 

Joseph, from the bloodline of a king, yet humble beyond measure. 

Provides for his Wife & Child even in circumstances that could lead to shame

Protects his Wife & Child at the warning of danger, regardless of his own desires

Raised and taught Jesus Christ... I mean... wow. 


So today I'd like to point towards a Man that I personally look towards as a fantastic example. 

In a world where noise & controversy wins - St.Joseph did not utter a word in the entire New Testament.

In a world where the value of Marriage is to be judged against 'who wins' - St.Joseph served his Wife as his absolute priority 

In a world where we want to be seen as clever, impressive & important - St.Joseph was simply described as a Righteous man. 

Following my Baptisim, I needed to choose my confirmation Saint. 

Not an easy choice.

Once I really, truly, understood the journey of St.Joseph, the choice was clear & simple. 

Happy Feast of St Joseph.

Pure class. 👌🏾 Communication is everything!

There's a way to disagree, here's a lesson on how not to...

LinkedIn can sometimes, be full of trolls, negative opinions and mostly lazy responses. 

Eliza posted about Burnout. 

👉🏾 The post warned, to be very careful when self-diagnosing yourself with 'Burn Out'. 

It challenged people, especially young people entering a career for the first time. 

Most people who claim burnout, aren't burnt out. There are simpler, easier to fix issues that can be addressed as a first port of call. 

💡 Sleeping enough?
💡 Managing your time effectively?
💡 Are you hydrating?
💡 Overcommitting to tasks?

There were a flurry of comments, questions and challenges. 

🧡 Beautiful, I love ideas being tried, tested and ensure that they stand on solid ground. 

👏🏾But this comment, took the cake. 👏🏾



Three absolutely beautiful elements I'd like to congratulate on:

1 - The tone, such a wonderful manner in speaking to Woman online and I hope one day to emulate such mastery. 

2 - Fantastic interpretation. You know, some would have read the post and understood that it's saying - before you self-diagnose, make sure you master the basics as you may not be experiencing the true definition of burnout.  Maybe even ask a question, share a challenge or open conversation where they explain a different viewpoint. 

This individual not only read between the lines of the actual post, but wrote some imaginary elements too! Masterful. 

3 - The ability to diagnose narcism. Phenomenal. Without conversation, question, meeting. Truly phenomenal. Many train years and years and still have to actually get to know and understand a patient before reaching diagnosis. So hats off 👏🏾 




I actually like LinkedIn, 
I LOVE debate,
I am happy to be corrected and learn. 

I have never, and will never insult. 
"ignorant" , "narcisist". Na. 

This could have been such a great conversation on burn out and introverts. 

But nope.

As a High Performance Coaches & Speakers, it's only right that we set ourselves new high performance goals..

So as January 2026 came round, we took the time to set a huge new goal.


⚠️ Deliver three, international speeches/workshops. ⚠️


Have we done it before.. nope. 

Did we have a plan on exactly how it would happen... not really.

Was it a scary goal, way outside our current comfort zone.. oh yes. 

👉🏾 Which is EVERYTHING we coach our high potential clients to do.

Well...




Some exciting news to share...

I help talent speak incredibly well under pressure.

Most of my clients have the same few challenges...

- They have high technical knowledge & are experienced in their field, but they know that their ability to communicate when the stakes are high lets them down.

Speaking and communicating was not a strength of mine, until I started intentionally working on it. Then, a new world of opportunities opened for me. The law of entropy states that when left alone, to it's natural state, eventually everything moves towards disorder - do you still want to leave your communication skills alone?

I have helped 7,000+ individuals just like you intentionally enhance their communication skills and the results have been staggering:

- Promotions
- 10x in sales 
- Jobs secured 
- 4000x on social media views 
- Over £250k raised in investment

These are real people, you can see their testimonials

I have been trusted by some of the biggest companies in the world to train their teams:

-Shell
-Government of the BVI
- BT
- Sky
- Stonewater
- Association of British Insurers 

If you want to maximise yours or your team's potential, use the 'Book appointment' link at the top of my profile to apply for help.

Frederick Afrifa

70 leaders. 2 days. Real transformation. 

We’ve just completed day two of our programme at the Royal Bank of Scotland building 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿. 

What an incredible couple of days!!! 🤯

Regional and local branch leaders walked into the room unsure, tentative and questioning themselves in certain high pressure moments.

They left confident. Clear. Composed. Ready.

Ready to lead from the front.
Ready to communicate with impact.
Ready to push towards their ambition of being number one for their customers.

And that’s what stood out to me most.

The aspiration to be number one for customers is not just a slogan. It’s a standard. And over the last two days, we saw a huge leap forward in how these leaders show up for their teams and for the people they serve.

Communication under pressure is not a nice to have in modern banking. It’s fundamental. When leaders communicate better, teams align faster, customers feel heard, and performance improves.

A huge thank you to Helen Bates for believing in us and bringing this group together. The trust means a lot.

Thank you to all the team. 

Believe In Greatness!

Jimmy Robertson, Dipesh Mistry, Terry Robb, Sean Bowman, Rachel Barbour, Leanne Hughes, FIONA EASTON,

I help leaders communicate with clarity, credibility & confidence under pressure | Global Keynote Speaker on Communication Skills in The AI Revolution

I just watched Piers Morgan’s interview with one of the biggest voices in the manosphere.

A WASTE OF TIME. AN OPPORTUNITY MISSED. 

If we’re serious about tackling these kinds of issues, we have to approach them properly.

Asking someone why they’re profiting from something they don’t necessarily believe in is not going to change anything. People understand the dissonance. They make money anyway. That question doesn’t move us forward.

Staff at Facebook don’t allow their kids anywhere near Facebook. 

C-suite McDonald’s guys never eat the food. 

Most drug dealers won’t touch the stuff their selling. 

Asking them to stop is not progressive, why would they listen? 

If anything, it does the opposite.

By putting these individuals on major platforms, we amplify their message. We give them more reach, more attention, more influence!!!

That’s not solving the problem. That’s scaling it.

If we really want progress, we need to focus on the source.

- We need to support young people.
- Equip parents and teachers to have better conversations.
- Bring in experts who understand behaviour, influence and development.
- Show real life examples of success that don’t rely on toxic narratives

My life is evidence that you can build a great life, achieve social mobility and succeed without going down that route… LET’S SHOW YOUNG MEN THAT THIS IS POSSIBLE. 

We need more of those stories.
More of those conversations.

If we keep platforming noise without offering solutions, we’re not helping.
We’re just making the problem bigger.

16 professionals, for 3 hours at Imperial College London which is ranked 2nd in the world!!! 🌍 

Today we delivered our first masterclass at Imperial College London.

Working with an institution ranked second globally is a proud moment for our company, but what made it even more powerful was the response inside the room.

Despite being one of the most advanced universities in the world, many participants said our approach to communication under pressure was something they had never formally explored before.

Several shared that it was some of the best communication training they have ever received. 

A few called it the best.

That matters.

Because it reinforces something I say often…

No matter how technically exceptional you are, communication is still the multiplier.

When knowledge is world class and communication matches it, that is when real influence happens.

Huge thank you to Gabriella Kerr-Gordon for the trust and to the 16 professionals who fully leaned into the session. 

Excited for the continued partnership with Imperial and what we are building together.

If your organisation wants its communication skills to match its technical excellence, let’s talk.

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