Gabby Jahanshahi-Edlin

Gabby Jahanshahi-Edlin is a creative consultant, social entrepreneur, female business leader, and speaker on social and cultural change, specialising in bold branding and business growth. She helps inspire teams to be bolder and braver, to work with compassion, be daring and be fun. Gabby works with founders to nurture their brands for extraordinary and sustainable growth.

In 2016, she founded the first-of-its-kind charity, Bloody Good Period, and worked as CEO until 2022. Through her charity, she changed the way we talk about periods at home, in the workplace, and on a wider national level. Her entrepreneurial skills and charitable nature has seen her named one of London’s Most Influential People by The Evening Standard, a Top 50 Trailblazer in Gender Equality by We Are The City, and one of the 100 trailblazers redefining the creative art industry by recruitment website The Dots.

She has appeared on television shows, including The Last Leg, Sky News and BBC News. She has been featured in several written publications, including The Metro, The Sunday Times, Third Sector Magazine, Vogue, Stylist, The Evening Standard, and Glamour.

She is a much sought-after keynote speaker, having worked with brands such as Adidas, Apple, Disney, The Guardian, and the University of the Arts London.

Contact Great British Speakers today to book female social entrepreneur and business brand speaker Gabby Jahanshahi-Edlin for your next event.

Type Of Talent

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More About Gabby Jahanshahi-Edlin

In connection with Bloody Good Period, Gabby Jahanshahi-Edlin co-founded Bloody Good Employers in 2019, a programme which offered education about periods and menopause to employers. It would go on to release a groundbreaking report on periods in the workplace and be named one of NatWest’s SE100 2022 Top 100 Social Enterprises in the UK. As well as wanting equality for those menstruating, she demanded equality in invoices. In 2019, she co-founded ‘More Than Money’, an online community to help people engaged in social purpose work get the pay they deserve.

Now a business brand consultant, Gabby works directly with founders and growing companies help create a distinct brand personality that people will talk about lovingly, even when you’re not in the room.

Good branding is not as simple as just having a nice logo and a complimentary colour palette. Good branding means people will talk about you positively, and will be able to clearly understand what it is you offer. A good brand shows how much you value your employees, it represents you as a company, it aids the events you curate, and the products you produce.

Gabby Jahanshahi-Edlin – Writing and TV Work

She has also been a contributing writer for Moving Ahead’s Inclusion Edit, looking at diversity, inclusion and equality to create curated content that is easy to digest and successful in creating change. She has contributed several articles to publications, including Glamour (trans inclusion and antisemitism), Metro UK (Covid and periods, and period poverty), and Third Sector (abandon racist power plays), and has featured in the books It’s Not OK to Feel Blue (2019) by Scarlett Curtis, and Instructions for a Teenage Armageddon (2021) by Rosie Day.

As well as appearing on mainstream news programmes, Gabby has also appeared on several podcasts, including About Race, The Sunday Times’ Secrets of the Side Hustle, Protein’s Stories of Growths, Anthems, Founders For Good and Period Power. While most of Gabby’s work is directed at women, she has also provided information for men through her initiative ‘Stay in the Room’. This included her own podcast, where she invited male guests, including Dane Baptiste, Jordan Stevens and Nish Kumar.

Gabby Jahanshahi-Edlin – Speaking Topics

– Bold and Effective Brand

– Compassionate Leadership

– Turning Taboo Into Cool

– Sustainable Growth

– Entrepreneurial Thinking for “Nontrapraneurs”

Gabby Jahanshahi-Edlin – Keynote Topics

– How Not to Grow a Thick Skin: an honest and inspiring take on entrepreneur life, and why sensitivity is imperative to growth

– Turning Blood into Beer and Body Lotion: How to secure perfect partnerships and awesome ambassadors with killer branding

– 300 Pairs of Pants, Red Paint, and Parliament: How – and where – to be bold, for business growth

Gabby Jahanshahi-Edlin – Previous Speaking Topics

– Radical Kindness in Leadership

– Turning the Taboo into Cool

– Using Humour to Talk about Difficult Subjects

– Culture and Behaviour Change

– Female Health and Inequalities

– Starting and Sustaining a Movement

– Using Your Creativity and Authenticity to Make Change

– Being a Female Founder

– Periods and Menstruation

Gabby also provides a Creative Consultant service, providing a range of strategic and creative communications for social change companies, focussing on building and sustaining values and reputation. She also runs workshops, helping employees and leaders to get the most out of their branding.

Gabby Jahanshahi-Edlin – Clients:

Adidas, Allbright, Apple, Bacardi, BBC Woman’s Hour, The Body Shop, British Library, CoppaFeel, Disney, Global Witness, The Guardian, Liberty, Media Trust, Mystery Jets, Ogilvy, Reset – The Festival of Motherhood and Mental Health, Third Sector, UK Government, University of the Arts London, West Yorkshire Combined Authority, Women of the Worlds.

Call +44 1753 439 289 or email Great British Speakers now to book Entrepreneur and CEO, social change, and business branding speaker Gabby Jahanshahi-Edlin for your corporate event.

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Testimonials

Thanks for giving an excellent talk at the Central Saint Martins, Culture & Enterprise Symposium. You were incredibly engaging and you delivered a memorable talk, sharing your business expertise, entrepreneurial insights, and knowledge on sustaining impact.
University of the Arts London

Gabby gave an engaging and honest talk. She has an inspiring story and an incredible understanding of leadership and what it takes to run a social enterprise that matters. The team took a lot of take-aways from the talk and it will no doubt help to shape the work we do.
Love Her Wild

Gabby talked passionately and inspirationally about the successes of Bloody Good Period & Bloody Good Employer. I loved her personal stories and insights into how they achieve real impact through advocacy, partnership and a sparkly tampon. She really inspired me to think about how change happens, and the levers to pull to maximise impact.
Given Agency

Gabby balanced speaking about her own experiences with really tangible actions for how to be an activist. The students got loads out of it and found it really helpful to hear about what young people can do if they want to change something. All in all, just a really empowering and clear session. More schools need Gabby to speak to their students.
Castle Manor Academy