Shakira Akabusi

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Shakira Akabusi is a dynamic multi-media presenter, speaker, women’s health expert and award-winning influencer working across television, radio, live events and digital formats. With specialist expertise spanning women’s health, hormones, postnatal exercise, perimenopause and wellbeing, Shakira combines knowledge with an energetic and highly accessible communication style.

Her breadth of presenting experience includes live in-studio presenting, fast-paced street reporting, chairing panel discussions and conducting personal one-to-one interviews. Comfortable across a range of formats and subjects, she brings a vibrant presence to conversations while making complex health and wellbeing topics easy for audiences to understand and engage with.

Shakira is the go-to fitness expert for popular television programmes including ITV’s Lorraine and BBC Morning Live. Her wider work includes partnerships with ITV’s This Morning, Good Morning Britain, Katie Piper’s Weekend Escapes, Warner Brothers Discovery, The Independent Media Group, Adidas Global, Amazon UK, EE Learn Live and BUPA.

Women’s health and wellbeing

Shakira specialises in postnatal exercise and perimenopause health and is an award-winning content creator and expert on women’s health, hormones and wellbeing. Her work is driven by a desire to empower women with useful information and challenge outdated ideas surrounding health, parenting and motherhood.

She created the StrongLikeMum brand based on her expertise in women’s health, with a particular focus on postnatal and perimenopause wellness. Through StrongLikeMum, Shakira has built a platform that speaks directly to the realities women and mothers face, combining expert guidance with an open and relatable approach.

In 2022, Shakira published her debut book, The StrongLikeMum Method, with Hachette Global. The book offers a powerful guide to redefining motherhood and wellbeing. The concept has since expanded into The Strong Like Mum YouTube platform in partnership with The Independent Media Group.

Shakira has also launched two series of the StrongLikeMum Podcast, where she shares expert advice and works to debunk outdated stereotypes surrounding health and parenting. Alongside this, she is the resident wellbeing expert on the BBC Make A Difference Radio Show.

Workplace talks and coaching

Alongside her television and media work, Shakira Akabusi delivers talks and coaching for women in the workplace. Her sessions bring together her expertise in women’s health with training in the body-mind connection, creating a practical approach to wellbeing that organisations can apply to everyday working life.

Her coaching explores how the relationship between body and mind can influence the way people feel and perform. Shakira provides techniques and pathways designed to help companies boost staff motivation and productivity by making better use of this powerful connection.

Topics and areas of expertise include:

• Women’s health, hormones and wellbeing

• Postnatal exercise and wellness

• Perimenopause health

• The body-mind connection

• Workplace motivation and productivity

• Motherhood, parenting and personal wellbeing

• Fitness and sustainable approaches to feeling well

Whether she is speaking to women navigating a new stage of life or helping organisations build greater awareness around wellbeing, Shakira approaches her subjects in a way that is informative, practical and engaging.

An experienced presenter

Shakira’s experience across live broadcast, radio and digital media gives her a natural ability to connect with different audiences. From the immediacy of live television and street reporting to thoughtful panel discussions and personal interviews, she understands how to keep conversations moving while creating space for meaningful insight.

Her work with major broadcasters, media groups and international brands demonstrates the versatility of her approach. She can communicate expert health information without losing the human stories behind it, making her particularly suited to events where wellbeing, women’s health, motivation and personal development need to feel relevant to a broad audience.

As a speaker, Shakira draws on this same combination of expertise and media experience. Her sessions are designed to give audiences information they can understand and practical perspectives they can take away, while opening conversations around subjects that have too often been overlooked or surrounded by outdated assumptions.

Shakira Akabusi and StrongLikeMum

Shakira’s work is also shaped by her own experience of motherhood. A proud mum of four, she brings personal understanding to her professional focus on women’s health and wellbeing. This combination helps her address motherhood, health and changing life stages with authenticity and a clear awareness of the demands women can face.

She is the daughter of renowned track and field athlete Kriss Akabusi and describes herself as a country bumpkin. Shakira lives with her husband and their lively family in the English countryside, alongside their chocolate Labrador. Away from her professional work, she enjoys cooking, home décor and exploring the countryside – preferably in bare feet.

Bilingual in German and English, Shakira is proud of her Nigerian and German heritage. She combines the influences of these strong cultures with her own personality and experience, bringing a distinctive and vibrant energy to her work across broadcasting, speaking, coaching and digital media.

Book Shakira Akabusi for your event to bring informed and engaging conversations about women’s health, hormones, postnatal wellbeing, perimenopause and the body-mind connection to your audience. With experience spanning television, radio, publishing, digital content and workplace coaching, Shakira delivers expertise with the warmth and energy needed to turn important health conversations into meaningful experiences.