Sonya Barlow

Sonya Barlow is an award-winning founder of Inclusion Consultancy and Social Network The LMF Network, the Best-Selling author of "Unprepared to Entrepreneur," and BBC Presenter of "The Everyday Hustle." She is an international keynote speaker, emcee, and thought leader on technology, business, travel, and future trends.

Barlow is a neurodivergent British Pakistani woman with chronic migraines, ADHD and mental health conditions, and diversity, resilience, and neurodiversity are topics close to her heart when delivering keynotes. She is also a highly accomplished Moderator and Event MC, with official hosting duties for London Tech Week, Cogx Festival and Amsterdam Fintech Week.

Barlow has delivered 2 TED talks, a Keynote for the House of Commons, and was named UK Entrepreneur of the Year, Top 50 Women in Tech EU and a LinkedIn Changemaker. Sonya Writes for leading publications and Hosts an International Business & Travel Interview Talk Show: The Sonya Barlow Show, where she interviews global leaders on the stories behind their success, including royalty and footballers. Sonya Barlow is a Female Asian Entrepreneur with ADHD who started her Business and Media Career in 2020. Sonya has over 100,000 social followers.

She is the CEO of the LMF Network - Like Minded Females - a careers platform and inclusion consultancy bridging the skills gap and redefining workplace culture. She has written the popular book “Unprepared to Entrepreneur” and has been named among Europe’s Top 50 women in tech, as well as Marie Claire’s Future Shaper, UK Entrepreneur of the Year, and she was invited to Keynote at The House of Commons. 

Sonya’s background in technology, business and travel enables her to globally support businesses in diversifying their workforce, share innovative solutions and advocate allyship throughout the workforce. She has worked with household brands such as Lloyds banking group and Capital One on their tech podcast, led campaigns for HP, Rolls Royce, Logitech and Linkedin and delivered keynotes in Germany, Lithuania, Kenya, Pakistan, Amsterdam, France, the UK, Portugal and Mauritius, to name a few. 

Sonya's background includes leading technology solutions across Europe, building transformative infrastructures in fintech and banking and leveraging teams to support tech-based solutions in the energy, telecoms and retail sectors. She worked in technology as as senior consultant for 5 years in big data, machine learning, AI, insights and media across a number of industries before building her own tech based solution and app.