Sabirul Islam Speaker | Teen Speakers & Enterprise

Sabirul Islam

Boardgame success led to Boardroom Entrepreneur

Founder of the Inspire1Million campaign - a global campaign where Sabirul spoke at 867 events in 29 countries worldwide spanning across a 4 year period. Empowering youth on self-development, entrepreneurship and financial education in developing nations.

Sabirul has been an author since the age of 17 with 3 self-help books which have gained international recognition in over 20 countries. He is founder of the popular Teen-Trepreneur game; a board game and a gaming app, delivering workshops at schools teaching young students about business and money management, bringing competitive business and trading to the classroom.

Sabirul is the producer and host of 2 international TV shows both respectively titled 'Face of Youth' and 'ekO.' These are shows which were filmed in Bangladesh, both of which were targeted at a youth audience, to broaden the mindset of youth, to prosper with wider career choices.

Sabirul has a huge portfolio of delivering motivational talks on an national & international level, spanning across the past 10 years since his age of 17. He has spoken at business and charity events, schools and universities and delivered keynotes at award ceremonies.

Through the art of narration and visuals, Sabirul shares his own personal journey growing up in a home that was at the centre of a local drugs scandal. He shares his story with powerful messages and emotions, on how he had to mature very young from the age of 8 to break his family free of abuse. He talks about resilience, breaking free from societal pressures and how even being diagnosed with epilepsy through this experience, still enabled him to rise above the childhood he had.

Testimonials from Teachers

“Truly incredible from beginning to end! His presentation was pitched perfectly for our students who sat in stunned silence listening intently to his amazing story. We really couldn’t have asked for a more passionate or inspirational speaker.”

– Lisa Green, National Enterprise Academy

“Sabirul was a brilliant speaker, who pitched his talk at just the right level for our students. They left with enthusiasm, self-belief and ideas. The students are still buzzing about it now.”

– Hilary Foster, City of Leicester College, Leicester

"Sabirul delivered an inspiring, dynamic and fast paced presentation to our audience of students and parents. His journey through life to date was a fascinating and exciting story which has provided encouragement and positivity to all those who heard him"

– Ercall Wood Technology College

"I just wanted to thank you for your contribution to our Year 10 enterprise event yesterday. The students enjoyed your presentation and I am sure that it will have helped to inspire them to strive to achieve their best."

– Marian Lynch, College VI, Assistant Director of Learning

"The workshop with Sabirul was wonderful. His motivational speech really inspired both pupils and staff and he was a very enthusiastic and engaging speaker. We all found his story interesting and extremely motivating.The board game was a huge success and all our boys loved playing it. We mixed up the age groups a little and it was rewarding to see everyone focused on learning about how to run a business and also having lots of fun with friends too. I have written to thank Sabirul and I will certainly recommend him to other colleagues and teaching friends."

– Linda Payne, Head of RSHE and Geography Year 7 Form Teacher, Solefield School