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Why organisations work with Erica Dhawan Three named frameworks, each with a book behind it: Connectional Intelligence, Digital Body Language, and the Critical Thinking Intelligence argument in Use Your Brain, out from St Martin’s Press in January 2027. Thinkers50 ranked her among the world’s top management thinkers in 2025, having featured her in 2023 and 2021, and shortlisted her for its Digital Thinking Award in 2021. Real Leaders ranks her the number one female keynote speaker. Audiences leave with named tools they can run the next morning, including the Think Sandwich, the Friction Meeting, and a Decision Filter for what to automate and what to protect. The frameworks have been applied at the World Economic Forum, the US Army, Coca-Cola, FedEx, Goldman Sachs, Walmart and Cisco, across sector, hierarchy and culture. Biography highlights Author of Use Your Brain: Think Deeper in a World on Autopilot, St Martin’s Press, January 2027, on protecting judgment as AI accelerates everyday work. Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Digital Body Language, published in nineteen territories, and co-author of Get Big Things Done: The Power of Connectional Intelligence with Saj-nicole Joni. Ranked by Thinkers50 among the world’s top management thinkers in 2025, previously featured in 2023 and 2021, shortlisted for its Digital Thinking Award in 2021, and named to its Best New Management Booklist in 2022. Ranked number one female keynote speaker by Real Leaders; TED talk on connection across distance has passed two million views. Writing has appeared in Harvard Business Review, Fortune, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and Fast Company. Founder and CEO of Cotential, with degrees from Wharton (BS), MIT Sloan (MBA) and Harvard Kennedy School (MPA). Biography Most organisations adopted AI faster than they built any habit of questioning it. When a tool can draft the document and summarise the meeting in seconds, approving the output becomes the default. Erica Dhawan argues that the real cost falls on capable people who quietly stop thinking for themselves. Use Your Brain, out from St Martin’s Press in January 2027, is built for that problem. It hands teams three named rituals: a Think Sandwich that puts human judgment at both ends of any AI-assisted task, a Friction Meeting where one person is assigned to argue how the work is wrong, and a Decision Filter for what to automate, what to augment, and what stays human. The argument sits on more than a decade of research into how people actually work together. Digital Body Language, a Wall Street Journal bestseller now licensed in nineteen territories, decoded the cues that replace tone and eye contact when teams work across screens. Thinkers50 gave it a place on its Best New Management Booklist in 2022 and shortlisted her for its Digital Thinking Award the year before. Her earlier book with Saj-nicole Joni, Get Big Things Done, introduced Connectional Intelligence. Thinkers50 ranked her among the world’s top management thinkers in 2025, having featured her twice before, and Real Leaders has ranked her the number one female keynote speaker. She has briefed the World Economic Forum at Davos and the US Army, and worked with teams at Coca-Cola, FedEx, Goldman Sachs, Walmart and Cisco. Her November 2025 Fortune essay asked what happens to leadership when a generation grows up outsourcing its thinking. Key speaking topics Use Your Brain: judgment and human thinking in the age of AI High-performing teams in the age of AI Connectional Intelligence and cross-silo collaboration Digital Body Language and hybrid communication Trust and engagement across distributed workforces Multigenerational and cross-cultural communication Connectional Intelligence for sales and client relationships Ideal for CEOs and executive teams setting the tone for how AI is adopted across the organisation. CHROs and heads of culture building human capability alongside AI rollout. Learning and leadership development heads building judgment and collaboration at scale. Cross-functional and cross-geography teams that need to think and decide together, faster. Sales and client-facing leaders translating Connectional Intelligence into stronger customer relationships. Audience outcomes A shared language for using AI as an amplifier of human judgment rather than a substitute for it. Practical tools for recognising cognitive autopilot and interrogating what AI hands you. The Four Laws of Digital Body Language for cutting ambiguity and building trust across distance, channel and generation. A clearer read on where speed without judgment is quietly costing the organisation in decision quality. A sharper understanding of how AI changes, but does not replace, the work of human connection.

Why organisations work with George Randle He has run talent acquisition at the scale most organisations are trying to reach. His teams hired 85,000+ professionals and 2,000+ executives across 75+ countries inside Fortune 100 and Fortune 1000 firms. His framework is published and specific. The Talent War sets out an attribute-based selection model drawn from US Special Operations, applied to corporate hiring, with named predictors rather than personality archetypes. He brings Hogan certification (HPI, HDS, MVPI) and uses assessment data operationally, for executive selection and derailer identification, not as decoration in a keynote. He built one of the largest veteran hiring programmes inside a Global Fortune 50, which gives him a concrete answer to a problem most CHROs are still solving in PowerPoint. He still does the work he speaks about. As Managing Partner of Randall Partners, he runs executive search and advises leadership teams, so his talks come from current hiring decisions inside real companies. Biography highlights Co-author, The Talent War: How Special Operations and Great Organizations Win on Talent (Lioncrest, 2020), foreword by Jocko Willink. A new book, The Defining Hire, is forthcoming in 2026. Managing Partner, Randall Partners LLC; former Managing Partner at Talent War Group and EF Overwatch. 20+ years of Fortune 100 and Fortune 1000 HR and talent acquisition leadership, including head of talent acquisition roles at a Global Fortune 50 firm. Hogan Leadership Assessment certified coach across HPI, HDS, and MVPI instruments. Former US Army officer with operational assignments in Berlin, US CENTCOM, and III Corps, and deployments to Somalia, Kenya, Central America, and Guantanamo Bay. Biography Most large organisations hire the wrong people in the same way every year. They optimise for credentials and interview performance, then absorb the cost when those hires fail under real conditions. The Special Operations community solved that problem decades ago, by selecting on attributes that predict behaviour under stress rather than on resumes. That is the argument George Randle makes, with the standing to make it. He co-wrote The Talent War: How Special Operations and Great Organizations Win on Talent with former SEAL officer Mike Sarraille and Dr. Josh Cotton, with a foreword by Jocko Willink. The book sets out a selection model anchored in named attributes such as drive, resilience, adaptability, and integrity, and shows how to test for them in a corporate interview. A second book, The Defining Hire, follows in 2026. The credibility behind the argument is operational, not theoretical. Randle ran talent acquisition functions inside Fortune 100 and Fortune 1000 firms, and his teams hired more than 85,000 professionals and 2,000+ executives across 75+ countries. He built one of the largest veteran hiring programmes at a Global Fortune 50. He is Hogan certified across HPI, HDS, and MVPI, and uses the assessment data to surface candidates that interview processes routinely miss. He came to the work through the US Army, where he served as an officer with assignments at Berlin, US CENTCOM, and III Corps, and deployments across Somalia, Kenya, Central America, and Guantanamo Bay. The through-line of his career is the same question asked twice: in a high-stakes selection decision, what actually predicts performance. Key speaking topics Attribute-based talent selection Executive search and assessment Building high-performing teams Veteran hiring and transition programmes Talent strategy as competitive advantage Leadership under pressure Talent acquisition at scale Ideal for CHROs, Chief Talent Officers, and Heads of Talent Acquisition rebuilding selection processes CEOs and boards reviewing executive search and succession discipline Private equity operating partners assessing portfolio company leadership Senior HR and people leaders running veteran hiring or transition programmes Audience outcomes A named set of attributes to test for in executive and high-stakes hires, beyond competency interviews A working view of how Special Operations selection translates into corporate hiring decisions A clearer read on where assessment data, including Hogan, belongs in the selection process A sharper case to take back to the executive team for treating talent acquisition as a strategic function, not an administrative one

Why organisations work with Georgia-Mae Fenton She has won the same individual event at consecutive Commonwealth Games, four years apart, the first gymnast in the discipline to do so. That is direct experience of defending a peak, which is harder than reaching one. Her team’s World Championship silver in Liverpool in 2022 was the best result by a British women’s artistic gymnastics team in the history of the World Championships. She can speak credibly to what changes inside a high-performing group at the moment the standard moves. She made her Olympic debut at Paris 2024 in her mid-twenties after several years of being the established figure in the squad. The arc is later than most assume, and that is the substance of her recovery and persistence material. East London based, comfortable in school, community and corporate audiences without changing register. Useful for organisations that want a high-profile athlete who reads the room. Biography highlights Commonwealth Games gold, uneven bars and team, Birmingham 2022. Commonwealth Games gold, uneven bars, Gold Coast 2018. World Championships silver, team, Liverpool 2022, with Great Britain. Team GB women’s artistic gymnastics, Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Trained from age five at South Essex Gymnastics Club; competes for Great Britain and England. Represented by Forte Model Management alongside her competitive career. Biography The uneven bars demand absolute composure inside an eight-second routine where one missed catch ends the competition. Georgia-Mae Fenton has stood on the top of the Commonwealth podium for that event twice, four years apart, in Gold Coast and Birmingham. That is a rare thing in any sport: holding a championship standard across a full Olympic cycle of injury risk, selection politics and shifting code requirements. The Liverpool World Championships in 2022 was the broader inflection point. Fenton was part of the five-woman Great Britain team that took silver, the strongest result a British women’s artistic gymnastics team has ever produced at a World Championship. That medal also booked the team’s quota place for Paris 2024. At Paris she made her Olympic debut as one of the more experienced figures in a young Team GB quintet that finished fourth, edged off the podium by Brazil in the final rotation. The arc from junior British champion at fifteen, to Commonwealth gold at seventeen, to Olympian at twenty-three, is the substance she draws on when she speaks about persistence and re-entry after long stretches of work with no obvious return. She works with corporate, school and community audiences from her base in East London. The material is grounded in what she has actually done: holding a routine when it counts, going back to the same event a second time after winning it once, and recovering form after the years when the medals do not come. Key speaking topics Composure under high-stakes performance pressure Defending a peak across long performance cycles Recovery and re-entry after setback Discipline and goal-setting in elite sport Team dynamics inside a high-performing squad Mental health and stress management for young performers Role models and visibility in women’s sport Ideal for Corporate audiences in sectors with high-pressure delivery cycles (sales, trading, professional services) HR and talent leaders programming on resilience, wellbeing and early-career performance Schools, universities and youth-facing organisations focused on aspiration and persistence Women’s networks and ERGs commissioning speakers on visibility in sport Audience outcomes A concrete view of what composure looks like inside an eight-second performance window, told by someone who has executed it on the world stage The mechanics of preparing to defend a title, which is different in kind from preparing to win one Honest material on the years when the medals do not come and the work continues A grounded perspective on managing public expectation as a young woman in elite sport

Why organisations work with Giancarlo Fisichella Rare double credential: three Formula One Grand Prix wins across 14 seasons and two LMGTE Pro class victories at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Very few speakers have won at the front of both disciplines. First-hand experience of seven F1 constructors, from Minardi at the back of the grid to Ferrari, which gives a practical read on how resources, culture and leadership translate into on-track performance. Lived the shift from single-lap qualifying to 24-hour endurance racing, which makes him useful for audiences thinking about short-cycle intensity and long-cycle stamina in the same business. Delivers talks in English and Italian, which widens his reach for automotive, engineering and industrial audiences across Europe. Still an active Ferrari Competizioni GT ambassador, so his material is current rather than retrospective. Biography highlights 229 Formula One starts, three Grand Prix victories, four pole positions, 19 podium finishes between 1996 and 2009. F1 race wins at Brazil 2003 (Jordan), Australia 2005 (Renault) and Malaysia 2006 (Renault). Contributed to Renault’s back-to-back Constructors’ Championships in 2005 and 2006; career-best fourth in the 2006 Drivers’ Championship. Drove Force India to its first pole position and first podium at the 2009 Belgian Grand Prix. Two LMGTE Pro class wins at the 24 Hours of Le Mans (2012 and 2014) with AF Corse, partnered with Gianmaria Bruni and Toni Vilander. Ambassador Driver for Ferrari Competizioni GT and founder of Fisichella Motor Sport, which competed in GP2 from 2006 to 2009. Biography Formula One teams are built on thousands of decisions that never reach a television screen. The lap time is the visible output. Giancarlo Fisichella spent fourteen seasons inside that machine across seven different constructors, which is an unusually wide sample of how high-performance organisations actually operate. He won his first Grand Prix at Interlagos in 2003, in a Jordan, after a five-day timekeeping review handed him a result that had initially gone to someone else. Two further wins followed at Renault in 2005 and 2006, alongside Fernando Alonso, during the period when the team took consecutive Constructors’ Championships. At Force India in 2009 he delivered the team’s first pole and podium, at Spa, in a car that had been at the back of the field a year earlier. The second act has been Ferrari GT machinery at endurance level. He has twice won the LMGTE Pro class at the 24 Hours of Le Mans with AF Corse, in 2012 and 2014, with Gianmaria Bruni and Toni Vilander. He remains an Ambassador Driver for Ferrari Competizioni GT, which keeps his point of view current rather than nostalgic. The useful material for a business audience is what sits underneath those results: how a driver and a team stay honest about performance when a rival is faster, how trust inside a small group gets built over a season, and what happens to confidence when the car or the circumstances turn against you. Fisichella has lived all three, at the Minardi end of the grid and at the front with Renault and Ferrari. Key speaking topics Formula One and elite motorsport performance Competing under pressure at decisive moments Team dynamics in high-performance environments Endurance racing and long-cycle competition Recovery after setbacks and results loss Italian motorsport and the Ferrari Competizioni GT programme Ideal for Automotive, engineering and industrial audiences planning leadership offsites Sales and commercial teams operating in competitive, measurable environments Corporate events with an Italian or European audience where bilingual delivery is valuable Boards and leadership teams examining how elite teams sustain performance across multi-year cycles Audience outcomes A concrete view of how F1 teams prepare for decisive moments and what that looks like away from the racetrack A sharper sense of the difference between short-cycle intensity, such as a qualifying lap, and long-cycle stamina, such as a 24-hour race Specific examples of how trust is built inside a small, high-pressure team across a season A first-hand account of winning and losing at the highest level of a sport where margins are tenths of a second

Why organisations work with Graeme Hall He arrives with a specific, verifiable thesis: that the psychology of dog training produces better management results than most corporate training frameworks, making his core idea repeatable and memorable long after the event. His 21 years as an operations manager at Weetabix, running teams of 200+, grounds every analogy in real management experience. The dog training lens sharpens the insight; the corporate background makes it credible. The methodology he teaches: clear signals, consistent reinforcement, calm authority, is simple enough to apply the following day. Audiences leave with a model, not a reading list. As the presenter of seven series of a nationally broadcast Channel 5 show, he carries a recognition factor that drives audience engagement before he has said a word. His TEDxLeamingtonSpa talk has been viewed more than 37,000 times. His Sunday Times bestseller status confirms the core ideas have been tested and validated well beyond the speaking circuit. Biography highlights Master Dog Trainer, Guild of Dog Trainers (accredited since 2009); more than 5,000 dogs trained across the UK, Australia, and internationally Presenter, Channel 5’s Dogs Behaving (Very) Badly – seven series since 2017; also presenter of Dog Hospital with Graeme Hall (Channel 5); show distributed internationally to CBC (Canada) and Network 10 (Australia) Sunday Times bestselling author: All Dogs Great and Small (Penguin Books, 2021) and Perfectly Imperfect Puppy (Random House, 2022); further titles include Does My Dog Love Me? (2024) TEDxLeamingtonSpa speaker: “Why using dog training psychology to train people makes sense” (37,000+ views) 21-year career at Weetabix Limited as operations manager, leading teams of 200+; University of Hull graduate Described by The Daily Telegraph as “Britain’s best dog trainer”; monthly columnist, Country Living Magazine; featured on BBC Breakfast, ITV’s This Morning, and in The Yorkshire Vet (2025) Children’s debut The Ultimate Kids’ Guide to Dogs (2024) shortlisted for The Week Junior Book Awards 2025 Biography The hardest part of managing people is not knowing what good looks like, it is getting people to do it consistently. Most management frameworks address process and structure. Fewer address the simpler, less comfortable question: why do people change their behaviour, and why do they not? Graeme Hall spent 21 years as an operations manager at Weetabix, overseeing teams of more than 200 people. When he left to train dogs professionally in 2008, he found that the same principles he had been applying to people: clear communication, consistent reinforcement, calm authority, were precisely what made dog training work. The parallel was not decorative. It was functional. That observation became the foundation of his speaking work. His TEDxLeamingtonSpa talk, “Why using dog training psychology to train people makes sense,” made the case in public. His books All Dogs Great and Small (Penguin, 2021) and Perfectly Imperfect Puppy (Random House, 2022) both became Sunday Times bestsellers, drawing on a methodology grounded in behavioural science and tested across more than 5,000 training cases. As presenter of Channel 5’s Dogs Behaving (Very) Badly – now in its seventh series, with audiences across the UK, Australia, and Canada – Hall combines national media recognition with a management insight that is both immediately applicable and genuinely difficult to forget. The Daily Telegraph has described him as “Britain’s best dog trainer.” Organisations hire him when they want a session that is entertaining, practical, and still being talked about the following week. Key speaking topics Behavioural psychology applied to people management Communication, clarity, and consistency in leadership Motivation and behaviour change Team performance and getting the best from people Science-backed management and habit formation Storytelling and audience engagement Ideal for Line managers and team leaders seeking practical, immediately applicable tools for improving team behaviour and performance HR directors and people teams planning leadership development days, away days, or company-wide culture initiatives Conference and event organisers seeking a high-recognition keynote with crossover entertainment and business value SME owners and entrepreneurs managing growing teams and the communication challenges that growth creates Audience outcomes A simple, memorable model for communicating expectations clearly and reinforcing the behaviours they want – without conflict or complexity A reframe of everyday management challenges through behavioural science, making abstract concepts concrete and immediately actionable Practical techniques for addressing difficult team behaviours calmly and consistently, drawn from Hall’s 5,000-case training methodology Greater confidence in having direct conversations about performance and conduct A central idea – the dog training management parallel – that is memorable enough to repeat to colleagues and durable enough to apply over time

Why organisations work with Greg Rusedski A first-hand account of competing in a Grand Slam final under exceptional public pressure, the 1997 US Open played in the days after the death of Princess Diana, told by someone who was on the court. A 16-year tour career and 15 ATP titles, anchored by a serve that held the world record at 149 mph, giving him direct authority on the relationship between preparation, technique, and execution. Nearly two decades inside the BBC Wimbledon commentary box, which gives him a working analyst’s read on the modern game, useful for audiences who want sport informed by craft, not nostalgia. A confident, warm after-dinner presence, regularly booked for corporate dinners, hosting, awards, and tennis hospitality, where the brief is engagement rather than abstract leadership theory. Biography highlights 1997 US Open singles finalist; first Briton in the US Open final in more than 60 years. Career-high ATP World No. 4; British No. 1 in 1997, 1999, and 2006. 1999 Grand Slam Cup champion; 15 ATP singles titles. 1997 BBC Sports Personality of the Year and ITV Sports Champion of the Year. BBC Wimbledon commentator since 2008, with previous broadcast roles at Sky Sports and Eurosport. Ambassador for Borne, the medical research charity for premature birth. Biography Reaching a Grand Slam final is rare. Reaching one in the week after Princess Diana’s funeral, in front of a global audience expecting something more than tennis, is rarer still. The 1997 US Open final put Rusedski on Arthur Ashe Stadium against Pat Rafter, and made him the first British man in the US Open final in more than six decades. That season took him to ATP World No. 4 and to the 1997 BBC Sports Personality of the Year award. The serve, clocked at 149 mph, held the world record for years before Andy Roddick broke it. Across a 16-year career he won 15 ATP singles titles and the 1999 Grand Slam Cup, and was British No. 1 in 1997, 1999, and 2006. Since retirement in 2007, signalled live on the BBC alongside Sue Barker, he has been a fixture in the BBC Wimbledon commentary team, with earlier broadcasting at Sky Sports and Eurosport. The commentary work keeps him close to the technical detail of the modern game, which is what gives his speaking the texture of a working analyst rather than a retired pro. For corporate audiences his content is concrete: the preparation routines that kept him on tour for sixteen years, the small decisions inside a tight match, the experience of carrying national expectation, and the discipline of performing when the conditions are not the ones you trained for. Key speaking topics Performance under public pressure Elite tennis and the modern professional game Career longevity in individual sport Mindset and preparation in competition After-dinner sports storytelling Event hosting and corporate hospitality Ideal for Corporate dinners, awards nights, and client hospitality, particularly tennis-themed events around Wimbledon and the US Open. Sales and customer-facing teams that respond to first-hand sports performance content. Sponsor activations and partner events for brands in tennis, broadcasting, and premium hospitality. Audience outcomes A direct account of what it takes to compete in the late stages of a Grand Slam. Specific examples of how elite players prepare, recover, and reset between points and matches. A working commentator’s read on the current state of professional tennis. A confident, well-paced after-dinner experience built around real career moments rather than generic motivation.

Why organisations work with Imran Rehman He runs a working team-measurement platform, Kokoro, so his sessions draw on live data from teams rather than abstract models. His thesis reframes the problem: fix the environment, not the individual. That shift gives HR and transformation leaders a more tractable lever than personality interventions. He combines executive coaching practice with product building, which gives senior teams a rare mix of one-to-one diagnostic instinct and systems thinking in the same room. He works fluently in English and German and operates across European corporate and multinational contexts, which suits international leadership audiences. His book “Sum of Many” gives the work a named, published argument leaders can reference after the session. Biography highlights Co-founder of Kokoro (Kokoro GmbH, Vienna), a real-time team and leadership analytics platform founded in 2018. Author of “Sum of Many,” featured on the Chapters Of My Life podcast (Life Book 45). Certified business and executive coach, European Business School (EBS). Bilingual working languages: English and German; based in Vienna, Austria. Signature talks include “The Science of Great Teams,” “The Myths of Measuring Humans,” and “Preventing Team Burnout: 6 Evidence-Based Actions for Success.” Professional coaching practice spanning multiple sectors and geographies, with a focus on senior leadership teams and organisational development. Biography Most teams are not underperforming because the people in them are weak. They are underperforming because the environment around them quietly punishes candour, overload is treated as a personal resilience problem, and the signals that matter are read too late. This is the terrain Imran Rehman works in. He is co-founder of Kokoro, a Vienna-based platform that measures psychological safety, belonging, and the conditions of healthy high performance in real time. Kokoro was founded in 2018, and the product sits behind his speaking: the data he references is the data his clients are generating, not borrowed survey research. His book “Sum of Many” argues the same point in long form. Stop trying to fix individuals. Build environments where ordinary people can do unusually good work together. It is a direct challenge to a lot of standard leadership development, and it gives his keynotes a single, testable claim rather than a list of tips. He is a certified executive coach through the European Business School and works fluently in English and German across European and multinational organisations. The coaching practice and the product are not separate lives. One informs the other, which is why his sessions land with HR directors and operating leaders who have already sat through the generic version of this topic. Key speaking topics Psychological safety in teams Belonging and team dynamics Data-informed team performance Healthy high performance and burnout prevention Leadership development and coaching Organisational development and culture Ideal for CHROs, CPOs, and heads of organisational development responsible for team effectiveness at scale Senior leadership teams preparing for a step-change in performance expectations Transformation and change leaders who need measurable people indicators alongside operational ones International and German-speaking leadership audiences in multinational corporate settings Audience outcomes A working definition of psychological safety that is specific enough to act on, not just reference A shift in framing from individual performance fixes to environmental design A view of what can and cannot be usefully measured in team behaviour, and why most surveys fail Evidence-based moves for preventing team burnout before it shows up in attrition figures A shared language for senior teams to diagnose their own dynamics in the weeks after the session

Why organisations work with James Cracknell He has won at the highest level twice in a four-person team, in Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004, with crews that included Steve Redgrave and Matthew Pinsent. The lessons on team selection, internal standards and competing with teammates are first-hand. He is one of very few senior speakers who has lived through a severe traumatic brain injury and rebuilt a public-facing career afterwards. Audiences get an honest account of recovery, identity and what high performance looks like when the baseline changes. At 46 he returned to elite rowing and won the 2019 Boat Race for Cambridge, the oldest competitor in the race’s 190-year history. The story maps directly onto conversations about late-career reinvention and standards under age, fatigue and doubt. He pairs athletic authority with an academic lens: an MPhil in Human Evolutionary Studies from Peterhouse, Cambridge, and a working programme for business teams (Muto, co-founded with James Tansey) built on elite-performance science. Biography highlights Olympic gold medals in the coxless four at Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004, racing with Steve Redgrave, Matthew Pinsent, Tim Foster, Steve Williams and Ed Coode. Six World Championship titles across coxless four, coxless pair and coxed pair. Appointed OBE in the 2005 New Year Honours for services to sport. MPhil in Human Evolutionary Studies, Peterhouse, University of Cambridge. Oldest rower in Boat Race history at age 46, winning for Cambridge in 2019. Co-author of “The Crossing” (Atlantic Books, 2006) with Ben Fogle and “Touching Distance” (Random House, 2012) with Beverley Turner; BBC and Discovery commentator for major rowing events. Biography Two Olympic golds in the coxless four, four years apart, against different crews in different conditions. That is the core achievement. Cracknell won in Sydney 2000 alongside Steve Redgrave, Matthew Pinsent and Tim Foster, and again in Athens 2004 with Pinsent, Steve Williams and Ed Coode. Six World Championship titles sit alongside those golds. What he offers corporate audiences is the working knowledge of those crews: how selection decisions were made, how standards were held when the crew was under-performing, how a team with strong personalities agreed on what mattered and what did not. He speaks about internal competition as a tool, not a threat. The OBE, awarded in 2005 for services to sport, sits inside that record. In July 2010, while cycling across Arizona in a Los Angeles to New York endurance attempt, Cracknell was struck by the wing mirror of a fuel tanker at 65mph. He spent around ten days in an induced coma in Phoenix. The brain injury that followed, and the long rebuild through epilepsy, changed sense of smell and taste, and an altered personality, is the subject of “Touching Distance”, written with Beverley Turner. He is honest about the years that followed and what they taught him about identity under damage. The late chapter is the one that surprises audiences most. At 46, already a father of three, he enrolled at Peterhouse, Cambridge for an MPhil in Human Evolutionary Studies and rowed in the 2019 Boat Race, becoming the oldest competitor in the event’s 190-year history and winning. He now runs Muto, an elite-performance programme for business teams co-founded with entrepreneur James Tansey, built on the argument that the mindset and habits of top athletes are learnable by senior professionals. Key speaking topics Peak performance and elite team habits Resilience and recovery after setback Team leadership under pressure High-performance culture and internal standards Mindset, motivation and reinvention Endurance, adventure and risk Ideal for Leadership teams holding delivery through a long, difficult programme or transformation CHROs and L and D leaders shaping high-performance and resilience programmes Sales, trading and operations teams where individual output and team trust both have to hold Board, executive and all-hands sessions that need a sharp, human anchor for a performance or culture message Audience outcomes A working picture of how a winning team actually selects, challenges and holds standards for each other An honest account of recovery from serious setback, usable by anyone leading through personal or organisational adversity Specific habits from elite sport that translate to corporate performance, drawn from the Muto programme Renewed appetite for late-career reinvention, grounded in the 2019 Boat Race and Cambridge MPhil

Why organisations work with James Haskell He is a genuine household name. Seventy-seven England caps, a British & Irish Lions tour, I’m a Celebrity, and one of the UK’s biggest sports podcasts mean the audience turns up before he has said a word. One booking flexes across formats, from after-dinner and awards hosting to in-conversation events with his Good, The Bad & The Rugby co-host Alex Payne. An event is not tied to a single register. His mental-health credibility is the real thing. He has worked with a sports psychologist since the age of 19 and co-founded the player-welfare campaign Progressive Rugby, so the serious content lands as lived rather than scripted. He can make a room laugh and then make it listen. The touring stories and the honesty about anxiety and lost identity come from the same person, on the same night. Biography highlights 77 caps for England, the third-highest tally by an England flanker, behind Lawrence Dallaglio and Joe Worsley. Toured New Zealand with the British & Irish Lions. Premiership and Heineken Cup winner with Wasps, with further spells in France, Japan, and New Zealand. Man of the Series in England’s 3-0 win in Australia, and part of the 2016 Six Nations Grand Slam side. Co-host of The Good, The Bad & The Rugby, among the UK’s most-listened-to sports podcasts. Sunday Times bestselling author of What A Flanker, with further books across memoir, fitness, and personal growth. Co-founder of Progressive Rugby, the campaign group pressing World Rugby to act on concussion and player welfare. Biography On the Saturday, he was James Haskell, England rugby player. By the Monday after he announced his retirement, by his own account, he no longer knew who James Haskell was. He has likened the loss to pulling the pin from a grenade and waiting for it to detonate. That candour is the part organisations tend not to expect. Behind the loud public figure is someone who has seen a sports psychologist since the age of 19. He talks about confidence, anxiety, and the pressures of a decorated career without varnish. The rugby record gives him standing to talk about pressure. He won 77 caps for England, toured New Zealand with the British & Irish Lions, and won Premiership and European titles before playing in France, Japan, and New Zealand. He was Man of the Series in England’s 3-0 win in Australia in 2016. Since 2019 he has built a second career with more reach than most playing ones. He co-hosts The Good, The Bad & The Rugby, one of the UK’s biggest sports podcasts, and wrote the Sunday Times bestseller What A Flanker. He also co-founded Progressive Rugby, the group pressing World Rugby to act on concussion and player welfare. Key speaking topics Mental health and emotional wellbeing Performing under pressure Resilience and reinvention Identity and life after elite sport High-performance team environments The toll of social media on wellbeing Ideal for Awards ceremonies, gala dinners, and client-entertainment evenings that need a host or after-dinner name with broad public recognition. Conferences that want a session on pressure, mental health, and life after a defining role, delivered with humour rather than as a lecture. CHROs and wellbeing leads building a mental-health programme that needs a credible male voice to open the conversation. Sales kick-offs and team events that want entertainment with a real message about performing under pressure. Audience outcomes Permission to talk about mental health, from someone a high-performance and often sceptical audience will actually listen to. A blunt account of how elite performers hide anxiety and pressure, and the price they pay for it. A sharper read on why people struggle when a defining role ends, where the problem is usually lost identity, not the change itself. An evening they remember, because the serious points land while the room is still laughing.

Why organisations work with James Lang He brings live, professional rugby experience of operating at fly-half, the position responsible for in-game decisions under crowd noise, time pressure, and immediate consequences. That is a useful analogue for senior teams that have to make calls quickly in front of an audience. His career spans Harlequins (79 senior appearances) and Edinburgh Rugby in the United Rugby Championship, with six Scotland caps. The credentials are specific, verifiable, and current. He works in concrete language: setbacks, dropped balls, missed kicks, recovery between phases. Audiences leave with examples, not generic motivation. Useful for sessions where the buyer wants athlete-translated content on pressure and team trust rather than a corporate leadership lecture. Biography highlights Senior debut for Scotland against Canada in Edmonton, 9 June 2018, starting at inside centre in a 48-10 win. Six caps for Scotland between 2018 and 2021. 79 senior appearances for Harlequins between 2016 and 2021. Signed for Edinburgh Rugby in 2021, playing in the United Rugby Championship. Early career with Welsh side Rygbi Gogledd Cymru (RGC1404) before returning to the Harlequins academy. Educated at St Mary’s University and Bangor University. Biography Fly-half is the most exposed position on a rugby pitch. Every decision is public, every kick is counted, and recovery has to happen between phases of play. Lang has spent his senior career in that role, including a Scotland debut against Canada in Edmonton in June 2018 and 79 senior appearances for Harlequins before signing for Edinburgh Rugby in 2021. His route to professional rugby is itself part of the content. He left the Harlequins schoolboy programme for Welsh side Rygbi Gogledd Cymru as a teenager, then returned to the Harlequins academy in 2016. The detour gave him competitive minutes that more conventional pathways do not provide, and it shapes how he talks about non-linear progression. On stage he focuses on the practical mechanics of pressure performance: preparation routines, handling mistakes mid-game, and the team trust that holds when results do not. The reference points are specific moments in named matches, which makes the content useful for internal team sessions, sales kick-offs, and events where the brief is high performance and recovery rather than strategic leadership. The honest framing for a buyer: this is athlete-experience content. It is most powerful when the room wants a credible voice on composure and team dynamics, paired with substantive business speakers for the strategic agenda. Key speaking topics Performance under pressure Team trust and collaboration Resilience and recovery from setbacks Self-motivation and elite habits Leadership in high-stakes moments Adversity and non-linear careers Ideal for Sales kick-offs and internal team conferences seeking an athlete’s voice on pressure and recovery. People and culture events focused on team trust and collaboration. Talent and graduate development programmes covering early-career resilience and non-linear progression. Audience outcomes A concrete picture of how elite athletes train composure rather than rely on it. Specific examples of recovery routines used between high-pressure moments. Language for talking about team trust that holds when results turn negative. A useful contrast between athlete preparation habits and typical corporate working patterns.

Why organisations work with James Whittle A first-person account of decision-making after 54 days of unsupported ocean rowing, three days on the wall of El Capitan, and a world-first Patagonia triathlon, drawn on directly rather than borrowed from research. A deliberate “started from zero” frame that lands with workforces who are tired of being shown ex-special-forces or Olympic-medallist case studies and find them remote. A track record of repeat work with Nike, Google, Microsoft, JP Morgan, Heineken and Airbnb, which gives buyers reassurance that the material survives a senior corporate audience. A second business, Dose, built around translating expedition lessons into ongoing workplace wellbeing programmes for clients including BNY Mellon and IBM, so the keynote sits inside a wider intervention rather than a one-off appearance. A speaking partnership with Tom Caulfield that allows two-handed delivery, useful for offsites and team experiences where a single-voice keynote would not hold the room. Biography highlights Co-founder, The Tempest Two, the speaking and adventure partnership with Tom Caulfield. Co-founder, Dose, a workplace wellbeing company working with Nike, BNY Mellon, IBM and Airbnb. Rowed the Atlantic unsupported, Canary Islands to Barbados, 3,000 miles in 54 days, with no prior rowing experience. World-first ultra-triathlon across Patagonia: 1,600km cycle, 65km mountain run, 100km stand-up paddleboard descent of the La Leona River. Climbed El Capitan in Yosemite, encountering Alex Honnold and Tommy Caldwell on the wall. Speaking client list includes Google, Nike, Airbnb, JP Morgan, Microsoft, Heineken, Red Bull and Vodafone. Biography The honest version of resilience is not a poster on an office wall. It is what someone does on day forty of an Atlantic crossing when the water-maker has failed and the next port is still two weeks away. That is the territory The Tempest Two have spent the better part of a decade walking into on purpose. The duo, James Whittle and Tom Caulfield, started with no rowing experience and crossed 3,000 miles of ocean in 54 days. They followed it with a world-first ultra-triathlon in Patagonia and three days on the granite face of El Capitan. The pattern is deliberate: pick a discipline neither of them has practised, give themselves enough runway to learn it, and put the result in front of a corporate audience as material on how ordinary people make hard decisions under load. That positioning is what gives the work its commercial weight. Most adventure speakers come from a military or elite-sport background that audiences quietly discount as unreachable. The Tempest Two reject that framing on principle, which is why their keynote travels into rooms at Nike, Google, Microsoft, JP Morgan and Heineken without losing the audience halfway through. Whittle’s second business, Dose, takes the same lessons and converts them into structured workplace wellbeing programmes for clients including BNY Mellon, IBM and Airbnb. The keynote is the front door; the operating model behind it is closer to a sustained intervention on team energy and recovery than a one-time motivational booking. Key speaking topics Resilience under sustained pressure Decision-making in degraded conditions Team performance on long-duration projects Risk and the comfort zone Wellbeing as a performance variable Adventure-led leadership development Ideal for HR and people leaders running offsites focused on team energy and recovery Sales and commercial leadership conferences where the brief is grit and momentum, not strategy content Programme leads on long-duration transformations who need to address fatigue head-on Senior all-hands events that need a non-corporate voice to shift the register Audience outcomes A concrete picture of how a small team makes decisions when the original plan has stopped working A vocabulary for resilience that does not collapse into platitude A reset on the difference between high-effort discomfort and actual risk A reason to look at recovery and energy management as a leadership concern, not a personal one

Why organisations work with Jamie Andrew He speaks from a lived reinvention most audiences will never encounter: five nights trapped on Les Droites, the loss of all four limbs, and a decade of returning to elite mountaineering, including a Matterhorn summit. His story gives wellbeing and resilience programmes something concrete to anchor to, rather than another framework slide that no one remembers after the offsite. He writes as well as he speaks. Life and Limb won the Banff Mountain Book Festival Prize for Literature, which places him in a different category from most adventure-circuit speakers. He has delivered in more than 40 countries for audiences at Microsoft, Vodafone, Roche, PepsiCo, Procter and Gamble, Toyota and Tetra Pak, which means he reads corporate rooms and adapts to them. Biography highlights Author of Life and Limb (Portrait, 2004), winner of the Banff Mountain Book Festival Prize for Literature and shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Prize. First quadruple amputee to summit the Matterhorn (2016), climb Mont Blanc (2002) and Kilimanjaro, and to complete the London Marathon (2001) and an Ironman triathlon. Keynote experience in more than 40 countries across five continents, with clients including Microsoft, Toyota, Vodafone, Roche, Danone, Procter and Gamble, PepsiCo and Tetra Pak. Appointed OBE for services to charity. Biography In January 1999, a storm pinned two climbers to the north face of Les Droites in the French Alps for five nights. One did not come home. The survivor, severely frostbitten, reached hospital in septic shock and lost both hands and both feet. That survivor later walked up Blackford Hill in Edinburgh, learned to run on prosthetics, and then went back to the mountains. The practical point for organisations is not the drama of the accident. It is what happened afterwards. Jamie Andrew has climbed Mont Blanc, Kilimanjaro and the Matterhorn as a quadruple amputee. He finished the London Marathon in 2001 and an Ironman triathlon. Each of those took years of structured relearning, and each required a different approach to preparation, risk, and what a team can reasonably be asked to carry. The written record matters here. Life and Limb, published by Portrait in 2004, won the Banff Mountain Book Festival Prize for Literature and was shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Prize. It is a careful book by someone who has examined what actually held him together through rehabilitation and what did not. Andrew’s audiences tend to be in the middle of something hard: a restructure, a performance reset, a wellbeing programme that is not landing. He gives those rooms a point of reference that is not abstract. The stories are specific, the lessons are tested against a life that kept going, and the register is matter-of-fact rather than inspirational in the usual sense. Key speaking topics Resilience and recovery under extreme pressure Team performance in high-stakes conditions Risk, judgement and decision-making Goal setting across long time horizons Motivation and sustained effort Change and personal reinvention Leadership through adversity Ideal for CHROs and wellbeing leads designing resilience, mental health and engagement programmes that need a credible human anchor Leadership teams navigating a major change, restructure or performance reset Sales, operations and frontline audiences where motivation and long-horizon effort are the performance issue Employee conferences, kick-offs and offsites that need a keynote the room remembers the following Monday Audience outcomes A concrete reference point for what resilience looks like when the stakes are real, not rhetorical A clearer sense of what teams owe one another when conditions deteriorate Language for talking about recovery, setbacks and reinvention without resorting to slogans A sharper view of the difference between motivation that lasts and motivation that fades by the following week