Graham Duff
Graham has flown as a display pilot in the Red Arrows and been fortunate enough to stand top of the world.
His uniquely broad experiences will captivate and inspire your audience. His achievements include flying the amazing RAF Typhoon on Quick Reaction Alert defending the UK airspace, active Operations overseas and being CEO of a software company.
He is able to tailor his presentation to fit or promote your agenda. His messages include topics like risk, motivation, teamwork, safety, success, excellence and achievement. He is best suited to live audiences although latterly he has had great success presenting to large audiences using Zoom and Microsoft Teams.
Focus
Graham has experienced the most dangerous of occupations that people are only able to read or dream about. Graham confidently speaks on how he defended the ‘no Fly Zone’ in Northern Iraq by piloting the ground-attack Jaguar GR3A and how he became one of the select few pilots on QRA (Quick Reaction Alert) protecting UK borders and flying the Typhoon over Syria and Iraq.
Never Give Up
When Graham wasn’t busy piloting MACH speeds in multi-role aeroplanes, he is also an accomplished mountaineer. Standing tall on the highest mountain in the world, Graham conquered Mount Everest, his toughest role yet. He's also climbed to the top of Africa, North and South America. Battling through the coldest of climates and pushing himself to the absolute limit has provided Graham the unique ability to help others achieve their goal in life.
Control
Graham, a firm believer in staying true to who you are, has accomplished many successes in life, which have all been achieved through taking control, staying focused and never giving up. Graham also talks openly about his own failures and knock backs making him a truly inspiring speaker.
Testimonials
Graham shared his inspirational stories, experiences and anecdotes with our UK cross functional teams and there was something for everyone. I had a lot of positive feedback, “takeaway actions” and thanks for a fascinating insight into a world few get to see. Most important was Graham’s ability to take our brief and shape his presentation around some key corporate themes as well as giving some practical tips for translating and implementing this into the corporate world.―Ben Hobkinson, Manager UK&I Hi-Tech Team, Forrester Research Ltd
Your involvement certainly helped attract a wide audience and the entire day was very well attended, even though we had to run it as a virtual event. Your keynote presentation was very well received and certainly hit the mark in helping deliver the key messages that my team wanted to get across to our people. I very much valued your contribution to this event as your personal perspective on your own experience generated a lot of interest and has got people discussing the subject, which was the intent.―Ministry of Defence: DE&S Director Engineering and Safety, Stephen Wilcock
Graham really rocked our Partner Kick-off 2020 in Frankfurt – his speech was mind-blowing, garnished with highly-interesting real-life stories and gave a clear message to the participants. By the way Graham´s speech was best-rated in the Event by the participants. It was a real pleasure!―Michael Reiserer, MD Sales, Easy Software:
Graham was the perfect speaker for our event. His tone and manner came across superbly, a calmness when speaking about events in his life that would have most people terrified! In particular his description of how, in the Red Arrows, their desire for improvement was paramount even after the ‘perfect’ display. It was a great inspiration and motivation for the team. His storytelling, laced with his humour of events across so many exciting activities held the audience totally and their reaction was great. I would definitely recommend Graham.―Kevin Gaughan, Director of Resourcing, Learning and Development for BT openreach
I wish to thank you personally for presenting a most interesting and informative after dinner speech at Nasmyth Group’s recent Pre-Budget Conference. My team was impressed with your photographic and video material. I liked your cool, reaction during your climb of Mount Everest and the spectacular and gruesome sights that you saw there. You came across as a Man’s man with a spirit of adventure, entrepreneurism and discipline. A model citizen who gives many pointers and motivates people such as my engineering teams’, to work hard and succeed. Thank you again on behalf of the Nasmyth management team for an exciting and involving speech suitable for male and female guests and providing an hour of maximised pleasure and thank you also for the other personal hours of involvement following your speech. I have taken the liberty of passing your contact details to [...] with my recommendation that you be considered for that organisation's next speaker slot.―Dr Peter Smith, Chairman and CEO, Nasmyth Group Ltd
Graham Duff was a superb addition to our event agenda. His light-hearted tone and excellent speech content were the prefect way to round off the day, and provided many interesting insights for our eager audience. The speech was thoroughly enjoyed by all, and proved to be the ideal combination of humour and interest. Thanks again Graham, and I do sincerely hope that our paths cross again in the near future.―Event organiser, Ironmongers Hall, London
I would have no hesitation in recommending Graham as an after dinner speaker. He was great to work with; very accommodating which always makes it easier from an organiser’s view point. Beyond that his talk was informative and really held the attention of our guests even after a long day of listening to commercial presentations. To be honest their only complaint was that we didn’t have him on for longer so I’m sure he would be a popular choice for someone looking for a day time speaker slot too! Graham shared a fascinating insight that our audience really appreciated and never thought they would receive first hand, it was a refreshing change from the standard motivational speaker which was thoroughly enjoyed by us all.―Sharron Cutler, Handicare International
From feedback I have had, everyone thought your talk was amazing, on both topics….Red Arrows and Everest. They are both sort of glamorous subjects, so it went down well and you were amazing! Loved you.―Margaret Cooper, Red Route Agency
Teaching the fundamentals of being a proper pilot. https://t.co/9y0VXKNH8Y
— Graham Duff (@SpeakerDuff) December 1, 2020
Now you come to mention it, you did look a bit worried through the cockpit window Dan!
— Bruce Hargrave (@BruceH830)July 10, 2020
(We got some great stills and video from the ground, right beside the dam!)#lowlevel#dambusters#derwentdam#SonyA9pic.twitter.com/N2c4dy3Zdd
— Graham Duff (@SpeakerDuff) June 28, 2019
Taking wrong turns :) https://t.co/GOPlauklnr
— Graham Duff (@SpeakerDuff) December 1, 2020
People of Sheffield!
— Dan Snow (@thehistoryguy)July 10, 2020
Duck.pic.twitter.com/1vCPXWmH13
Thanks so much to @RichHolmesPhoto for capturing us as we shot over the dam at 60 feet. pic.twitter.com/HJ0D4gxZmO
— Dan Snow (@thehistoryguy) July 11, 2020
Extreme low level down the Derwent.
— Dan Snow (@thehistoryguy) July 10, 2020
TERRIFYING pic.twitter.com/LddTiwM3Yy
Thankfully I had the card-carrying legend @SpeakerDuff at the helm.
— Dan Snow (@thehistoryguy) July 11, 2020
(His last filming gig was a Typhoon on Top Gun so I expect this was more glamorous.)
— Graham Duff (@SpeakerDuff) August 11, 2019
#FactOfTheDay - the UK have around 1,400 personnel supporting #counterDaesh operations in the wider region, including aircrew from @RoyalAirForce Typhoon Squadrons @CJTFOIR #83EAG pic.twitter.com/llBB1A1f7u
— Defence Operations 🇬🇧 (@DefenceOps) July 15, 2018