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Why organisations work with Leon Rolle A first-hand recovery story told by a working musician with a Grammy-nominated, BRIT-winning back catalogue, not a wellness practitioner reaching for cultural relevance. Credibility with younger employees and apprentice cohorts that traditional wellbeing speakers struggle to hold, built on Rudimental’s chart presence and his media profile. Physical proof behind the mental health argument: completion of Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins and the London Marathon, used to make the link between body and mind concrete rather than abstract. A voice that travels across audience types in one event, from an apprentice intake to a leadership dinner, because the source material is biography, not theory. Biography highlights Member of Rudimental, the British drum and bass band behind the UK number one single “Feel the Love” featuring John Newman. BRIT Award winner for British Single of the Year in 2014 for “Waiting All Night”. MOBO Award winner for Best Album in 2013 for the debut record “Home”. Former Arsenal FC academy footballer before moving full-time into music. Completed Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins, one of only two recruits to finish the selection process in his series. Soccer Aid participant in 2019, playing for Harry Redknapp’s Rest of the World team, and Celebrity MasterChef contestant in 2023. Biography Most workplace mental health conversations stall in the same place. The language is correct, the policies are in place, and the people the message is meant to reach quietly opt out. Locksmith is what changes the temperature in the room. He arrives with the credibility of a working career, a chart-topping band, and a recovery story that he has lived rather than studied. Leon Rolle came up through the Arsenal academy before music took over. As one third of Rudimental with Piers Aggett and Kesi Dryden, he is part of the group behind “Feel the Love” with John Newman, which went to number one in the UK in 2012, and the debut album “Home”, which took the 2013 MOBO Award for Best Album. “Waiting All Night” won the BRIT for British Single of the Year in 2014. The platform is real and the audience knows it. What he speaks about is the part the platform did not fix. Tour cycles, anxiety and the practical work of getting back to a functioning baseline sit at the centre of the keynote. Fitness is the mechanism he points to: training, running, and the long endurance commitments that gave him a way back. He completed Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins as one of only two recruits to finish his series, and has run the London Marathon. These are evidence points, not anecdotes. For corporate audiences the value is reach. Apprentice intakes and younger employees listen to him because of the music. Senior teams listen because the story is specific, structured and free of the wellness vocabulary that has worn thin in most organisations. Key speaking topics Mental health in the workplace Resilience and stress management Fitness and physical health as recovery infrastructure Motivation and inspiration for apprentice and early-career audiences Mental health storytelling for younger workforces After-dinner and entertainment speaking Ideal for HR, wellbeing and culture leads commissioning mental health programming for mixed audiences Apprentice intakes, graduate cohorts and early-career employee networks Internal town halls, conferences and away-days where the wellbeing slot needs to land rather than fill time After-dinner and entertainment briefs that also need a substantive personal story Audience outcomes A concrete account of what mental health recovery looked like for a working professional, not a clinical overview A working link between physical training and psychological resilience, evidenced by named endurance commitments Language that younger employees and apprentices recognise and respond to Renewed permission for senior teams to talk about their own pressures in workplace settings

Why organisations work with Lisa Snowdon She has spent two decades in front of national audiences on Capital FM, ITV and Sky, and brings that presence into a room that has never discussed menopause out loud before. Her advocacy is organised, not anecdotal. As a founding voice in Menopause Mandate alongside Davina McCall and Mariella Frostrup, she has helped move menopause from a private health issue into a policy and workforce conversation. Just Getting Started (HarperCollins, 2023) gives the talk a specific evidence base on perimenopause, HRT, and the lived realities of midlife, rather than a generic wellbeing pitch. She makes the topic accessible to mixed audiences, including male senior leaders who may never have heard the word “perimenopause” used in a professional setting. Her fashion correspondent role on This Morning and her We’re Not Getting Any Younger podcast keep her closely connected to how midlife women actually talk about their lives, which informs how she addresses them at work. Biography highlights Fashion correspondent, ITV This Morning. Author, Just Getting Started: Lessons in life, love and menopause, HarperCollins, 2023. Co-presenter, Capital FM Breakfast Show, London, 2008 to 2014. Show won Breakfast Show of the Year at the 2014 Sony Radio Academy Awards. Host, Britain’s Next Top Model, Living TV / Sky, 2006 to 2009. Celebrity MasterChef Champion, BBC, 2022. Founding voice in Menopause Mandate alongside Davina McCall, Mariella Frostrup and MP Carolyn Harris. Biography Most workplaces have a policy on parental leave. Very few have anything coherent on the decade that follows it. Menopause sits in that gap, and it is one of the most consistent reasons women leave senior roles in their late forties and fifties. Snowdon’s contribution is to make that conversation routine rather than uncomfortable. She came to it through her own experience and a national platform. After two decades modelling at the top of the industry, including the Gucci campaigns, she moved into broadcasting, co-hosting Capital FM’s London Breakfast Show for six years and presenting Britain’s Next Top Model on Sky. The Capital show won Breakfast Show of the Year at the 2014 Sony Radio Academy Awards while she was on it. The advocacy work is structured. Just Getting Started (HarperCollins, 2023) sets out what perimenopause actually feels like, what the treatment options are, and where the gaps in clinical and workplace support sit. Through Menopause Mandate, alongside Davina McCall, Mariella Frostrup and MP Carolyn Harris, she has pushed for changes to NHS prescribing, HRT availability and workplace policy. For organisations, the value is specific. Many internal menopause initiatives stall because the topic feels too clinical for HR and too personal for line managers. Snowdon’s sessions move the conversation past that block by giving people permission, vocabulary and a credible voice they recognise from their living rooms. Key speaking topics Menopause in the workplace Midlife women’s health Breaking workplace taboos Confidence and reinvention after forty Women, ageing and visibility Body image and self-image Ideal for HR, DEI and wellbeing leads designing menopause and women’s health policy Leadership audiences where the topic has not yet been opened Internal networks for women in midlife and their allies Industry events seeking a recognisable voice on midlife and longevity Audience outcomes A clear sense of how menopause shows up in performance, retention and engagement data Language that line managers can actually use without embarrassment Familiarity with the current UK policy and clinical landscape, including HRT access Honest, lived perspective from someone who has navigated the transition publicly A starting point for designing or strengthening a menopause-at-work programme

Why organisations work with Liz Earle A 30-year track record as a trusted public voice on women’s health, built through ITV’s This Morning, more than 30 books, and the Liz Earle Wellbeing magazine and podcast Authorship of The Good Menopause Guide and the Sunday Times No. 1 bestseller A Better Second Half, giving her a defined body of work that women’s networks and ERGs already recognise Co-founder credibility from Liz Earle Beauty Co., a brand she built with Kim Buckland from 1995 and sold to Avon in 2010, is useful for entrepreneurship and women-led business audiences An MBE for services to business and ambassador roles with The Menopause Charity and The Soil Association, evidence that she is taken seriously beyond the consumer brand Hosting fluency that lets her chair panels, lead Q&A, and run on-stage conversations on health and sustainability, not only delivers a fixed keynote Biography highlights Co-founder, Liz Earle Beauty Co. (1995, sold to Avon in 2010) Founder, Liz Earle Wellbeing (magazine, podcast, digital platform) Author of more than 30 books, including The Good Menopause Guide and A Better Second Half (Sunday Times No. 1 bestseller) MBE for services to business; Honorary Doctorate of Laws, Portsmouth University and Staffordshire University Long-running broadcaster on ITV’s This Morning since the late 1980s; podcast host of the Liz Earle Wellbeing Show Ambassador, The Menopause Charity; founder of the LiveTwice charity Biography Most large employers now agree that menopause is a workplace issue. Far fewer have a credible voice that women in their forties and fifties will actually listen to. That is the gap Liz Earle has spent three decades filling on national television and in print, and increasingly inside corporate audiences. Earle co-founded Liz Earle Beauty Co. with Kim Buckland in 1995 and sold the business to Avon in 2010, by which point the brand had become a benchmark for botanical, ethically sourced skincare. She left the company in 2017 and built Liz Earle Wellbeing into a magazine, podcast and publishing platform focused on midlife women’s health. Her writing extends the same authority. The Good Menopause Guide became a defining popular reference on the subject, and A Better Second Half reached No. 1 on the Sunday Times bestseller list, with more than 30 books behind it on nutrition, beauty and women’s health. She holds an MBE for services to business and Honorary Doctorates of Law from Portsmouth and Staffordshire. For an audience of senior HR leaders, women’s network sponsors or wellbeing buyers, what Earle offers is rare in the speaker market: a public figure with the longevity, broadcast skill and named body of work to make a women’s health agenda land inside an organisation, rather than another clinical talk that the people most affected will not show up to. Key speaking topics Menopause and midlife women’s health Wellbeing and healthy ageing Women in business and entrepreneurship Nutrition and gut health Sustainable and ethical sourcing Building a consumer brand and a trusted public profile Ideal for CHROs, heads of DEI, and women’s network sponsors are building menopause and midlife policies Employee wellbeing leads and benefits buyers commissioning credible women’s health programming Female-leadership conferences, ERG summits, International Women’s Day platforms Consumer brands and retailers seeking a trusted host or panel chair on health, beauty or sustainability Audience outcomes A clearer view of menopause as a workplace and leadership issue, not only a personal health one Practical, evidence-grounded reference points on midlife health that audiences can act on without clinical jargon Confidence that women’s health content has been delivered by a voice their workforce already trusts A more honest conversation about ageing, energy, and performance for women in senior roles

Why organisations work with Luke Tyburski He talks about depression, eating disorders and suicidal ideation from the inside, which lets internal wellbeing leads open conversations that polished clinical content does not reach. He pairs the personal material with two named frameworks, K.E.N. for resilience and View-Think-Act for daily mindset, so audiences leave with a structure rather than a story. The 2,000km Morocco-to-Monaco Ultimate Triathlon is a documented world-first with an award-winning film attached, giving the proof point credibility that generic “extreme athlete” billing does not. He has been booked by national sporting teams, embassies and global companies across 16 countries, which signals he can read a senior corporate room as well as a sports audience. He is an accredited executive coach (ICF and EMCC), which means the resilience and mindset frameworks he delivers from stage are the same ones he uses in one-to-one work with senior leaders, not repackaged motivational content. Biography highlights Former professional footballer whose career ended after seven surgeries. Created and completed the world-first 2,000km Ultimate Triathlon from Morocco to Monaco in 12 days, filmed as the award-winning documentary “The Ultimate Triathlon” (2016) and recounted in his book “Chasing Extreme”. 2023 TEDx speaker, “Generate Momentum With 1% Thinking”. Has spoken in 16 countries across five continents, including for national sporting bodies, embassies and global companies. Accredited executive coach (ICF and EMCC), working one-to-one with executives, founders and senior leadership teams. Featured on The Rich Roll Podcast and Michael Gervais’s Finding Mastery, and in The Guardian and The Huffington Post. Biography Most mental health content for executives lives in two registers: clinical advice from professionals who have not experienced what they describe, and motivational stories that stop at “I came through it.” Luke Tyburski works the gap between the two. He talks about his own depression, eating disorder and two moments standing on bridges in plain language, then turns the experience into corporate frameworks that wellbeing leads can use after he leaves the room. The platform for that work is unusual. A football career ending in seven surgeries pushed him into ultra-endurance, where he ran the Sahara, descended Everest, crossed a Chinese forest without food or water, and built a 2,000km, 12-day triathlon from Morocco to Monaco that became the basis of the 2016 documentary “The Ultimate Triathlon”. He wrote about the project in his book “Chasing Extreme”. The speaking work draws on that material but is structured around two named tools. As an accredited executive coach (ICF and EMCC), he uses the same frameworks in one-to-one work with executives and leadership teams that he brings to the stage. K.E.N. is his resilience framework for individuals and teams under sustained pressure. View-Think-Act, the spine of his “Mastering Mindset” keynote, breaks daily performance into how people read a situation, what they tell themselves about it, and what they do next. He presented the underlying ideas in a 2023 TEDx talk, “Generate Momentum With 1% Thinking”. The audience has widened well beyond sport. Over more than a decade he has worked with national sporting teams, embassies and global companies across 16 countries on five continents. The through-line is the same: a usable language for performance and mental health that does not collapse when the conversation gets serious. Key speaking topics Mental health and wellbeing in the workplace Resilience and recovery under sustained pressure Performance mindset and daily habits Self-leadership through setback and injury Lived experience of depression and suicidality Endurance and adventure as corporate metaphor Ideal for CHROs and wellbeing leads designing serious mental health programmes beyond awareness campaigns Sales and high-performance teams operating under sustained targets and travel pressure Leadership offsites where the brief includes resilience and personal sustainability Conferences in sport, insurance, finance and professional services that want a credible mental health voice Audience outcomes A clearer language for talking about mental health internally without it becoming a clinical or HR conversation The K.E.N. framework as a shared reference for how teams respond to setback and pressure View-Think-Act as a daily structure for individual performance Permission to acknowledge that high performers can be unwell, and a model for what to do about it A concrete account of what sustained recovery looks like from inside it

Why organisations work with Mallory Weggemann A first-person account of high-stakes performance after catastrophic setback, drawn from four Paralympic Games across sixteen years, not a single comeback story. A specific framework, Small Steps, Big Impact, that translates incremental progress into a leadership method teams can use the next week, including how to treat setbacks as team-building inputs rather than morale costs. Credibility on adaptation through repeated injury. The 2014 arm injury required two reconstructive surgeries and reshaped her training and competition method ahead of Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020. A media and production track record beyond athletics, including an Emmy-winning NBC Sports hosting role and co-leadership of TFA Group, which lends executive register to the resilience material. Author of Limitless (Nelson Books, 2021), which gives senior audiences a published, citable source for the ideas they will hear in the room. Biography highlights Four-time Paralympian for Team USA; seven-time Paralympic medallist across London 2012, Rio 2016, Tokyo 2020, and Paris 2024. Has held 15 world records and 34 American records in Para Swimming. Author of Limitless: The Power of Hope and Resilience to Overcome Circumstance (Nelson Books, 2021), with a film adaptation in development at Morning Moon Productions. Co-Founder and Co-CEO of TFA Group, a social impact agency and production studio. Emmy Award-winning broadcast host for NBC Sports, with correspondent and host roles across the 2018, 2022, and 2024 Games. ESPY Award winner; three-time USA Swimming Disabled Swimmer of the Year. Biography In January 2008, an epidural injection administered for back pain left an eighteen-year-old competitive swimmer paralysed from the waist down. Three months later, she was back in the pool. Inside two years, she had broken eight world records. The story matters not because it is dramatic, but because it set the operating pattern for everything that followed: progress measured in small, repeatable steps under conditions that would justify stopping. By the London 2012 Paralympic Games, Mallory Weggemann held fifteen world records and thirty-four American records. A 2014 arm injury required two reconstructive surgeries and forced a rebuild of her stroke and her training method. She returned to competition, medalled at the 2019 World Para Swimming Championships, and went on to win two golds and a silver at Tokyo 2020 and a further gold and silver at Paris 2024. Across four Games, the through-line is sustained recovery, not a single comeback. Outside the pool, Weggemann is Co-Founder and Co-CEO of TFA Group, a social impact agency and production studio. She is an Emmy Award-winning NBC Sports broadcaster, with correspondent roles at the 2018 and 2022 Winter Paralympics and a hosting debut at the 2024 Paris Olympics. Her 2021 memoir, Limitless: The Power of Hope and Resilience to Overcome Circumstance, is in development as a film with Morning Moon Productions. Her speaking work translates that pattern into a leadership method. The argument is that resilience is not character. It is a sequence of small, deliberate decisions made consistently under pressure, and a discipline that teams can adopt rather than admire. Key speaking topics Resilience and recovery after shock Self-leadership under sustained pressure Incremental progress as a leadership discipline Team behaviour after setback Inclusive leadership and disability in the workplace Peak performance under constraint Ideal for Executive teams and boards working through restructure, market shock, or sustained operational stress. CHROs and chief people officers rebuilding engagement and team resilience after repeated change cycles. Leadership development programmes for newly senior leaders learning to operate under pressure. Annual conferences and sales kick-offs that need a substantive resilience anchor rather than a generic inspirational keynote. Audience outcomes A working method for breaking down stalled or overwhelming goals into a sequence of executable steps. A more useful definition of resilience that senior leaders can apply to their own decision-making, not just attribute to others. A reframe of setbacks as team-formation inputs, with examples of how that has worked under elite-performance conditions. A citable example, drawn from Paralympic competition and broadcast media, that audiences can take back into board and team conversations.

Why organisations work with Marc Koska He built the commercial case for a life-saving innovation from first principles; price parity, existing tooling, no retraining required, so that institutional resistance had no rational hiding place. Few innovators have that level of strategic discipline documented at scale. His 2008 India campaign reached 508 million people and triggered a government mandate within months. That is a documented playbook for moving from public awareness to policy change at national scale, directly applicable to any organisation trying to shift entrenched behaviour. He holds The Economist Innovation Award for Social and Economic Innovation, a Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur of the Year designation, and an OBE; the kind of external validation that makes a business case credible in front of conservative institutional and government audiences. His ApiJect work, backed by US Department of Defense and HHS funding for pandemic response infrastructure, demonstrates how the same innovation principles apply to supply chain resilience and emergency preparedness. Unlike most entrepreneurship narratives, his story has a documented endpoint: a 2015 WHO global policy mandate requiring auto-disable syringes across the therapeutic sector, 30 years after the K1 was first conceived. Biography highlights Inventor of the K1 auto-disable syringe: locks after a single use, licensed to 14 global manufacturers, credited with saving over 10 million lives OBE awarded 2006 for contribution to global healthcare The Economist Innovation Award for Social and Economic Innovation; Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur of the Year 2015, World Economic Forum network Ashoka Fellow 2017; honorary doctorates from the University of Sussex and Brighton University Founder of Star Syringe (1996) and The SafePoint Trust, the UK registered charity whose advocacy helped drive the 2015 WHO global injection safety mandate Speaker at TED, Google Zeitgeist, Intelligence Squared, and the World Economic Forum Biography The K1 syringe was engineered to be as cheap as the one it replaced, to run on the same factory tooling, and to lock after a single use. Marc Koska designed it that way deliberately, because he understood that a safer product priced as a premium would never reach the patients who needed it most. Koska founded Star Syringe in 1996 to license the technology, and The SafePoint Trust as a registered UK charity to run commercial and advocacy strategies in parallel. His 2008 India campaign, press conferences in 14 cities, television, radio, and cinema, reached 508 million people and led the Indian Health Ministry to mandate auto-disable syringes across government hospitals. The WHO followed with a global injection safety mandate in 2015. The Economist recognised his work with its Innovation Award for Social and Economic Innovation. The Schwab Foundation named him Social Entrepreneur of the Year in 2015, integrating him into the World Economic Forum network. An OBE for services to global healthcare, an Ashoka Fellowship, and honorary doctorates from the University of Sussex and Brighton University reflect the breadth of institutions that have validated his contribution. His TED talks and appearances at Google Zeitgeist have brought the commercial logic of his approach to audiences well beyond the health sector. His more recent work through ApiJect, a blow-fill-seal prefilled injector developed with US Department of Defense and HHS backing for pandemic response, applies the same principle to national supply chain resilience: remove the systemic barriers that allow an inferior standard to persist. For leadership teams thinking about scaling innovation through complex regulatory environments, his three-decade arc from design brief to global standard is among the most instructive available. Key speaking topics Scaling innovation from invention to global adoption Navigating policy, procurement, and regulatory barriers Social entrepreneurship and mission-driven commercial design Stakeholder mobilisation and behaviour change at scale Public health risk and injection safety Pandemic preparedness and supply chain resilience Ideal for Senior leadership teams and boards navigating innovation adoption in regulated or institutionally resistant industries CEOs and commercial directors seeking a case study in displacing entrenched incumbents with a commercially competitive alternative Public health, pharmaceutical, and medical device executives responsible for global supply chain and safety standards Conference audiences focused on social entrepreneurship, purpose-driven business, and systemic change Audience outcomes A framework for identifying where institutional inertia – rather than product quality – is blocking innovation adoption Practical understanding of how to design innovations for price parity and manufacturing compatibility from the outset Insight into how multi-stakeholder campaigns can translate public awareness into government policy change A case study in running commercial and advocacy strategies in parallel without mission drift A concrete example of what it takes to move a proven innovation from proof of concept to a WHO-mandated global standard

Why organisations work with Maria Belon A first-person account of catastrophic crisis delivered with the clinical precision of a physician, not the drama of a motivational speaker. The audience leaves with vocabulary, not adrenaline. Clinical and psychotherapy training that gives her a working language for fear, dissociation, and recovery that translates directly into leadership conversations about teams under pressure. A reference point that senior audiences already know. The story behind The Impossible carries instant recognition; Belon uses that recognition as a way in, then takes the conversation somewhere serious. Credibility on both sides of the room. An ESADE MBA and a teaching record in Human Resources at ESADE Business School mean she speaks the language of executive audiences before she ever turns to her own experience. A clear point of view on values and human connection as the operating system that holds organisations together when systems fail, drawn from what she observed in herself, her family, and the strangers around them. Biography highlights Survivor of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami in Khao Lak, Thailand, with her husband and three sons; sustained life-threatening injuries and underwent a two-year recovery. Spanish physician with additional training as a Humanistic Gestalt psychotherapist. MBA from ESADE; former Human Resources instructor at ESADE Business School. Story formed the basis of The Impossible (2012), directed by J.A. Bayona, with Naomi Watts nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal. Author of the illustrated children’s book Kokoro y el Mar, published by Editorial Libre Albedrio as the first title in her “Yo soy” collection. Speaker at international platforms including the World Business Forum and the Share Iuvare Business Convention. Biography The wave that struck Khao Lak on 26 December 2004 separated a family of five and gave one of them, a Spanish physician on holiday with her husband and three sons, two years of surgery and recovery before something like a normal life returned. Maria Belon now works with senior leaders on what that experience taught her about people under maximum pressure. Her professional background matters here. Belon trained as a physician and as a Humanistic Gestalt psychotherapist, and she holds an MBA from ESADE, where she later taught Human Resources. The combination is unusual. She can speak about the body’s response to trauma with clinical accuracy, and she can speak about organisations with the vocabulary executive audiences already use. What she offers a leadership team is not a survival story performed for effect. It is a precise account of what stayed intact when planning, control, and competence were all stripped away, and what that suggests for the way leaders prepare their people for the unplannable. She has tested the material across international audiences, including the World Business Forum and the Share Iuvare Business Convention. The work has continued in print. Her illustrated children’s book Kokoro y el Mar, published by Editorial Libre Albedrio, distils for a younger reader the same question that director J.A. Bayona once asked her, and that her keynotes return to: what do you bring back from the experiences that life forces on you. Key speaking topics Resilience under extreme adversity Crisis response and recovery Values and human connection in organisations Leadership in moments of breakdown Post-traumatic growth Wellbeing and the human side of performance Ideal for Executive teams and boards preparing for, or reckoning with, organisational crisis CHROs and people leaders building resilience and wellbeing into how their organisation operates Closing keynotes at senior leadership conferences where the brief is to leave the room changed, not informed Healthcare, emergency services and public sector leadership audiences whose work runs close to crisis Audience outcomes A working vocabulary for fear, loss, and recovery that leaders can use with their own teams. A sharper sense of which values actually carry weight when the systems of an organisation fail. An honest reference point for the difference between performance and presence in a crisis. Permission, often missing in senior rooms, to talk about the human cost of pressure without flinching.

Why organisations work with Maria Conceicao A first-person account of running a registered charity in Bangladesh for twenty years while financing it through endurance feats few professional athletes attempt. A specific lens on resilience as a long horizon discipline, drawn from summiting Everest and K2, completing the Explorers Grand Slam, and running ultramarathons across seven continents. Concrete material on starting with nothing: from working as a cleaner in Portugal to building an education programme that has served more than 600 children in Dhaka’s slums. A voice that lands with mixed corporate audiences, with keynote appearances at Harvard Alumni events, Mindvalley, and the John C. Maxwell annual event. A founder’s perspective on social impact that is operational, not aspirational. The Maria Cristina Foundation is registered in three jurisdictions and supports active enrolment in Dhaka schools. Biography highlights First Portuguese woman to summit Mount Everest (2013) and K2 (2024). First Portuguese person and 17th woman globally to complete the Explorers Grand Slam (2024). Ten Guinness World Records across ultramarathon, Ironman and endurance disciplines (2014 to 2023). Founder of the Maria Cristina Foundation, established 2005, registered in the UK, USA and Portugal. Author of A Woman on Top of the World (2022), Butterfly Stories Vol 1 and 2 (2023), Altered Path (2023) and The World Needs Superheroes (2024). Keynote speaker for Harvard Alumni events, Mindvalley summits and the John C. Maxwell annual event. Biography A routine layover in Dhaka in the early 2000s set the trajectory. Maria Conceicao was working as an Emirates flight attendant when she walked into the slums of Bangladesh. Within months she had sold her belongings, cancelled a planned trip and returned to set up a school. The Maria Cristina Foundation followed in 2005 and has supported more than 600 children since. Funding a registered charity from a flight attendant’s salary was never going to scale, so the endurance work began. She had no athletic background. She learned to climb, run and swim well enough to set ten Guinness World Records, summit Everest and K2, ski to both poles, and complete the Explorers Grand Slam as the first Portuguese person and the seventeenth woman in the world to finish it. The commercial proposition for corporate audiences is the discipline underneath those numbers. Twenty years of running a foundation in Dhaka through every cycle of regional disruption. Ten records earned without sponsorship infrastructure most professional athletes rely on. Four published books, all written while training and fundraising. Keynote appearances at Harvard Alumni events, Mindvalley and the John C. Maxwell annual event. Her early life is part of the credibility, not a footnote. She lost her adoptive mother Cristina at nine, worked as a cleaner in Portugal as a young woman, and built every credential from there. The foundation is named for Cristina. Key speaking topics Resilience under sustained pressure Self-leadership and composure Purpose-driven leadership Humanitarian entrepreneurship Endurance and goal setting Founder-led social impact Ideal for CHROs and people leaders rebuilding engagement after periods of fatigue or restructure Senior leadership offsites focused on resilience and self-leadership Conferences for purpose-led organisations, foundations and ESG functions Female leadership networks and emerging leader programmes Audience outcomes A first-hand account of decision-making at altitude, where margins are physiological and consequences are immediate. A working definition of resilience as a twenty-year practice, not a coping technique. Specific examples of operating a registered charity across three jurisdictions while funding it through personal endurance challenges. A reframing of what is possible from a starting point of no resources, no network and no formal training.

Why organisations work with Martina Navratilova Open Era record holder for Grand Slam titles, with the longevity to back any conversation about high performance held over decades, not a single peak. A genuine first-mover on visibility: came out in 1981 when the cost was immediate and financial, and stayed in the public conversation on equality for forty years. Distinctive credibility on the cost of conviction. Few speakers can describe trading endorsement income for a values stance from personal experience. A working broadcaster and commentator across Tennis Channel, BBC Wimbledon and Sky Sports, comfortable with live-format conversations, Q and A, and interview settings as well as keynote. Honorary Fellow at Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, and recipient of the ITF Philippe Chatrier Award, the sport’s highest honour for service beyond the game. Biography highlights 59 Grand Slam titles across singles, doubles and mixed doubles, the Open Era record. Nine Wimbledon singles titles, an all-time record for any player. 167 singles titles and 1,442 match wins, both Open Era records. Inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame; recipient of the ITF Philippe Chatrier Award and BBC Sports Personality Lifetime Achievement Award. Honorary Fellow, Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge. Author of “Martina Navratilova: Being Myself” and three published mystery novels. Biography Few athletes have had to decide whether to spend their earnings on a public position. In 1981, after a New York Daily News interview, Navratilova became one of the first global sports stars to be openly gay. The financial cost was immediate and measured in lost endorsements. She kept playing, kept winning, and kept the position. The tennis record itself is the foundation. 18 singles majors, 31 women’s doubles majors, 10 in mixed doubles, nine Wimbledon singles titles, 1,442 career match wins. She played her final match at the 2006 US Open, winning the mixed doubles a month short of her fiftieth birthday. The longevity is unmatched in the modern game. What she brings to organisations is the rarer asset behind that record: the discipline to hold a position publicly while continuing to perform at the highest professional level. She has spoken and written about the cost of that, including a public breast cancer diagnosis in 2010 and the decision to coach with the trans pioneer Renée Richards in the early 1980s. She is direct about what conviction costs and what it returns. Beyond the playing career, she is a working broadcaster across the Tennis Channel, BBC and Sky Sports, an author of fiction and non-fiction, an Honorary Fellow at Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, and the recipient of the sport’s Philippe Chatrier Award. The breadth is unusual; the consistency of the underlying argument across all of it is what serious audiences respond to. Key speaking topics Resilience and sustained high performance Conviction and visibility at professional cost LGBTQ advocacy and the history of athlete activism Peak performance and longevity in elite careers Health, recovery and return after illness Equality, diversity and inclusive leadership Ideal for Senior leadership audiences where a values-based message needs the weight of personal experience behind it DEI, Pride and ERG keynotes where credibility matters more than topical commentary Sales conferences, partner summits and incentive audiences where an iconic athlete anchor is the brief Boards and executive teams thinking about sustained performance under public scrutiny Audience outcomes A grounded sense of what conviction actually costs and what it builds over time A working frame for performance held over decades, not over a quarter Direct insight into the experience of being a first-mover on visibility in a hostile environment A renewed argument for equality and inclusion rooted in lived experience rather than policy language

Why organisations work with Matt Haig A first-person account of severe depression and suicidal crisis that has shaped public mental health conversation in the UK, told by someone whose books on the subject have topped national bestseller charts. A literary platform of unusual scale: The Midnight Library alone has sold over ten million copies and won the 2020 Goodreads Choice Award for Fiction, which means his name lands with employees and leaders before he opens his mouth. Notes on a Nervous Planet gives him a developed argument about anxiety and the digital environment that maps directly onto how work now feels for most knowledge workers. He sits outside the clinical and HR registers that dominate workplace wellbeing content. The voice is a working writer’s, which is why audiences listen rather than tolerate. Biography highlights Author of Reasons to Stay Alive, a number one Sunday Times bestseller that spent 46 weeks in the UK top 10 and won the 2016 Books Are My Bag Readers’ Award for Non-Fiction. Author of The Midnight Library, winner of the 2020 Goodreads Choice Award for Fiction and a New York Times bestseller with more than ten million copies sold worldwide. Author of the Sunday Times number one bestseller Notes on a Nervous Planet, on anxiety, social media, and modern life. Novelist whose adult fiction includes The Humans, How to Stop Time, The Radleys, The Comfort Book, and The Life Impossible. Children’s author whose Shadow Forest won the Nestle Smarties Book Prize Gold Award and whose A Boy Called Christmas was adapted into a feature film with Maggie Smith, Jim Broadbent, Sally Hawkins, and Kristen Wiig. Translated into more than fifty languages, with a public platform on mental health that reaches well beyond the literary audience. Biography The honest conversation about anxiety and depression inside organisations is harder than the policy version. Most employees have read the wellbeing email. Far fewer have heard a senior voice describe what panic actually feels like at three in the morning, or why the always-on environment makes recovery slower than it should be. That is the gap Matt Haig’s writing has been filling for a decade. Reasons to Stay Alive, his memoir of a near-fatal breakdown at twenty-four, was a number one Sunday Times bestseller and stayed in the UK top ten for forty-six weeks. It won the 2016 Books Are My Bag Readers’ Award for Non-Fiction and changed how a generation of British readers spoke about depression. Notes on a Nervous Planet followed in 2018 with a sharper argument: that the texture of modern life, especially digital life, is a major part of why so many people feel ill. Both books are short, plain, and unguarded, which is why they have travelled. Alongside the memoirs is a serious fiction career. The Midnight Library won the 2020 Goodreads Choice Award for Fiction, became an instant New York Times bestseller, and has sold over ten million copies worldwide. The Humans, How to Stop Time, The Radleys, The Comfort Book, and The Life Impossible sit alongside it. Children’s titles include Shadow Forest, a Nestle Smarties Gold winner, and A Boy Called Christmas, adapted in 2021 into a feature film with Maggie Smith, Jim Broadbent, Sally Hawkins, and Kristen Wiig. For organisations, the value is straightforward. Haig is not a clinician and does not pretend to be. He is a working writer with a global readership who has thought longer and more publicly about anxiety, depression, and modern overload than almost any non-specialist alive. Audiences listen because he has earned the subject, and because the language is recognisably his own. Key speaking topics Mental health in the workplace Depression and anxiety in modern life Digital overload and always-on culture Resilience and recovery Storytelling and the language of wellbeing Creativity under pressure Ideal for CHROs and heads of wellbeing programming a serious-register keynote on mental health. Internal events tied to World Mental Health Day, Mental Health Awareness Week, or wider EVP and culture moments. Leadership offsites where the brief is to model open conversation about anxiety, burnout, and pressure rather than to brief on policy. Employee audiences in high-intensity sectors (finance, professional services, media, tech) where always-on working is part of the culture. Audience outcomes A first-person account of severe depression and recovery that gives employees permission to talk about their own experience. A clearer argument for why digital life and modern work conditions amplify anxiety, drawn from Notes on a Nervous Planet. Practical anchors for managing low moods, panic, and the social media environment, in language that does not sound like a wellness pamphlet. A reminder, useful for leaders, that the most credible communications about mental health do not sound like communications. Permission to treat mental health as a normal subject of adult conversation rather than a compliance topic.

Why organisations work with Michaela Strachan Recognised across forty years of British television, from 1980s Saturday morning audiences to current Springwatch viewers and the 2025 Dancing on Ice final. That cross-generational recognition is unusual for a single broadcaster. Decades of on-location wildlife filming with named conservation organisations including SANCCOB in South Africa, the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation and the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust. The specialism is built from fieldwork. BAFTA Best Children’s Presenter (2005) for Michaela’s Wild Challenge, with co-presenter status on BBC’s flagship Springwatch, Autumnwatch and Winterwatch since 2011 alongside Chris Packham. Live performance pedigree across formats most television presenters never touch. BBC live broadcasts, the 2018 Walking with Dinosaurs arena tour, and the 2025 Dancing on Ice final as the oldest contestant in show history. A genuine personal story for resilience and wellbeing briefs as a Breast Cancer Now ambassador, following her own 2014 diagnosis. Biography highlights BAFTA Best Children’s Presenter (2005) for Michaela’s Wild Challenge (Channel 5) Co-presenter, BBC Springwatch, Autumnwatch and Winterwatch (2011 to present), alongside Chris Packham Presenter, BBC Countryfile (1999 to 2009) Presenter, BBC’s The Really Wild Show (1993 to 2006) Presenter for Channel 5, National Geographic and Animal Planet, including Safari Live from Kruger National Park, Big 5 Little 5, Digging for Treasure and Extreme Conservation for BBC World News Author, Michaela Strachan’s Really Wild Adventures (2013) Finalist, ITV Dancing on Ice (2025), oldest contestant in the show’s history Biography Springwatch is one of British television’s most enduring nature programmes. Strachan has co-presented it since 2011 alongside Chris Packham, on location at reserves including Slimbridge and Wild Ken Hill. The role demands what few broadcasters can sustain over fifteen years: holding an audience through serious conservation content without losing either the science or the warmth. Before Springwatch came ten years on BBC’s Countryfile and thirteen years on The Really Wild Show, the BBC1 children’s wildlife series that ran until 2006. Earlier still, the breakthrough roles in 1980s Saturday morning television. Wide Awake Club and Wacaday with Timmy Mallett, then late-night music as the ‘Her’ in The Hitman and Her with Pete Waterman. The presenting craft is BAFTA-validated. She won Best Children’s Presenter at the 2005 British Academy Children’s Awards for Michaela’s Wild Challenge on Channel 5. International filming with SANCCOB, the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation and the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust gives her the fieldwork credentials behind the broadcasting craft. Audiences from forty years of British television recognise her on stage. That reach is unusual. Sustainability and conservation briefs benefit from a host with subject knowledge to back the warmth. Resilience and wellbeing programmes can draw on her work as a Breast Cancer Now ambassador after her own 2014 diagnosis. Few television presenters span Wide Awake Club, Springwatch and the Dancing on Ice final. Key speaking topics Wildlife and conservation Climate and sustainability communication Hosting and moderating live events Personal resilience and reinvention Breast cancer awareness and recovery Television and broadcasting craft Ideal for Sustainability conferences, climate events and ESG forums needing a credible host who is comfortable with the subject matter Wildlife festivals, conservation fundraisers and environmental charities Awards ceremonies, gala dinners and corporate emcee briefs that benefit from a familiar British television voice Health, wellbeing and women’s events drawing on personal cancer recovery and resilience themes Audience outcomes A grounded picture of what conservation actually looks like behind the camera, from Borneo orangutan rescues to penguin colonies in South Africa Stories of professional reinvention across forty years on television, useful for audiences thinking about long careers and second acts A clear, generous account of life through a breast cancer diagnosis and recovery Behind-the-scenes detail on how Springwatch and other live nature broadcasts are actually made

Why organisations work with Miguel Luengo-Oroz He held the inaugural Chief Data Scientist role at the United Nations for six years, applying AI to conflict prevention, refugee response, epidemics and human rights. That is a vantage point no consultant or academic alone can replicate. He runs Spotlab, an operating AI company in clinical diagnostics. His commentary on AI risk is grounded in shipping production systems, not theoretical governance. He has published more than 100 articles in venues including Nature and MIT Technology Review, and has briefed governments in Europe and the United States, including the Global Partnership on AI. He invented MalariaSpot, a crowdsourced game that turned thousands of citizens into diagnostic contributors. He is fluent in both AI ethics doctrine and what it looks like when humans and AI actually share work. Biography highlights First Chief Data Scientist of the United Nations, UN Global Pulse, Executive Office of the Secretary-General, 2016 to 2022. Founder and CEO of Spotlab, an AI platform for clinical research and universal diagnosis. Professor at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid; PhD (special prize) from the same institution; additional MSc from EHESS and École Normale Supérieure, Paris. Obama Foundation Leader (Europe 2023), Ashoka Fellow, MIT Technology Review TR35, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, EU Responsible Research and Innovation Award. More than 100 scientific articles, policy briefs and op-eds; featured in Nature, MIT Technology Review, The Guardian and The New York Times. Inventor of MalariaSpot.org, a crowdsourcing video game for malaria diagnosis. Biography The United Nations created its first Chief Data Scientist post in 2016, and Miguel Luengo-Oroz held it for six years. The brief was to put AI and data science to work on problems that do not forgive errors: epidemic response, refugee movements, hate speech detection, conflict prevention, climate. That experience shaped a working philosophy that responsible AI is not a values statement, it is an operating discipline. Today he runs Spotlab, an AI platform for clinical research and diagnostics, built around smartphones, AI models and 3D printing to bring quality diagnostics to diseases largely absent from the digital health economy. He is also a professor at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, where his research spans generative AI, collective intelligence and systems biology. His commentary draws on more than 100 publications across Nature, MIT Technology Review, The Guardian and The New York Times, and on advisory work with governments in Europe and the United States and the Global Partnership on AI. Recognitions include the Obama Foundation Leaders programme, an Ashoka fellowship, MIT TR35, the EU Responsible Research and Innovation Award, and a fellowship of the Royal Society of Arts. For senior leaders, the value is the combination: someone who has set AI policy inside the most scrutinised public institution in the world, and who currently ships AI products into regulated medical environments. He speaks about AI risk and opportunity with the specifics of someone doing the work. Key speaking topics Responsible and ethical AI AI governance and public-interest technology AI in healthcare and diagnostics AI for sustainable development and humanitarian response Generative AI: applications, risks and limits The future of AI policy and regulation Data science inside multilateral institutions Ideal for Boards and executive committees setting AI governance and risk posture CTOs, Chief Data Officers and Chief AI Officers operationalising responsible AI Healthcare, life sciences and pharma leaders deploying clinical AI Public sector, multilateral and NGO leadership teams using AI in policy and operations Audience outcomes A clear view of where AI risk actually sits in deployment, beyond policy statements Specific examples of AI applied to high-stakes problems inside the UN and in clinical settings A working framework for distinguishing responsible AI as discipline from responsible AI as branding Sharper questions to put to internal AI programmes, vendors and regulators Realistic perspective on what generative AI changes for organisations over the next two to three years