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Why organisations work with Megan Rossi A working academic at King’s College London, not a wellness commentator. Her recommendations are drawn from a research programme she actively leads, with over £3 million in funding and 50 plus peer-reviewed papers behind her. The Diversity Diet framework gives audiences a single behavioural target with named scientific provenance. Thirty different plants per week, tracked simply, anchored in microbiome research. A commercially proven communicator. Four Sunday Times bestsellers across UK, US, Australia and European markets, plus a consumer audience of roughly half a million followers, mean the messaging works on non-expert audiences. Connects gut health to the workplace metrics leaders already care about: focus, fatigue, mental health, immunity, IBS-related absence. Few speakers in this space hold both the clinical and the research credentials to do this credibly. Biography highlights Research Fellow, King’s College London, since 2015, leading studies on prebiotics, probiotics, the low FODMAP diet, plant-based diversity and food additives. PhD in gut health from the University of Queensland, awarded the Dean’s Award for outstanding research. Author of four Sunday Times bestsellers, including Eat Yourself Healthy, Eat More, Live Well and How To Eat More Plants, published by Penguin. Co-founder of Bio&Me, named Entrepreneur of the Year at the 2026 Grocer Gold Awards with co-founder Jon Walsh, where the brand also won SME Brand of the Year; also founder of The Gut Health Clinic (London and Manchester), The Gut Health Doctor, and the supplement range SMART STRAINS. 2017 BMJ Open Gastroenterology prize; British Nutrition Foundation Drummond Pump Priming Award presented by HRH The Princess Royal; 2020 Young Australian Achiever of the Year in the UK. Regular contributor to The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph and Stylist, with recurring appearances on ITV’s This Morning. Biography Sickness absence linked to digestive complaints, fatigue and low mood is one of the most expensive line items in any large workforce, yet most organisations treat each cause in isolation. The science of the gut-brain axis points to a shared biological root, and the corporate wellbeing market has been slow to catch up with what microbiome research now shows. That is the gap Megan Rossi works in. Since 2015 she has been a Research Fellow at King’s College London, leading studies on prebiotics, probiotics, the low FODMAP diet and dietary fibre. She has secured more than £3 million in research funding and published over 50 peer-reviewed papers, alongside a PhD in gut health from the University of Queensland that was awarded the Dean’s Award for outstanding research. The translation work matters as much as the research. Through four Sunday Times bestselling books published by Penguin, a clinic in London and Manchester, and consumer brands Bio&Me and SMART STRAINS, Rossi has built a public platform that takes microbiome evidence into everyday food choices. The signature idea is the Diversity Diet: 30 different plants per week, with named scientific provenance from the American Gut Project. Rossi and co-founder Jon Walsh were named Entrepreneur of the Year at the 2026 Grocer Gold Awards, where Bio&Me also won SME Brand of the Year. For employer audiences the value is specific. Energy, sleep quality, mental health, IBS-related absence and immune resilience are all areas where current microbiome research has direct, behavioural implications, and where Rossi can speak from her own clinical and academic work rather than a secondary summary of the field. Key speaking topics Gut-brain axis and workplace mental health Microbiome science and the Diversity Diet Nutrition, energy and cognitive performance IBS, bloating and digestive conditions at work Evidence-based workplace wellbeing programmes Prebiotics, probiotics and nutrition myths Ideal for CHROs and heads of wellbeing redesigning health benefits beyond gym subsidies and EAPs Healthcare, pharma and consumer health audiences seeking a credible microbiome voice Employer audiences in financial services, professional services and tech where cognitive performance and stress-related absence are commercial issues Customer-facing health and FMCG brands building science-led product or marketing positioning Audience outcomes A clear, evidence-grounded picture of how gut health affects mood, focus and immune function in working populations. The Diversity Diet as a single, trackable behaviour change individuals can begin the next day. A working separation between microbiome science and the supplement and wellness marketing built around it. Practical guidance on managing IBS, bloating and digestive issues that often go unspoken in workplace health conversations.

Why organisations work with Stacey Ashley Direct experience coaching sitting CEOs on the personal practice of leadership, not the org-chart mechanics around it. A seven-book body of work on leadership published into the executive market, with each title addressing a specific capability gap rather than restating a single thesis. A coach-training programme, The Coaching Leader, that gives client organisations a way to scale her approach beyond the keynote. Recognition from credible third parties: 14 International Stevie Awards, Gold for Thought Leader of the Year at the 2023 Stevie Awards for Women in Business, twice on LinkedIn Top Voices, and Thinkers360 Global Top Voice in 2025. Holds the senior credentials of both the coaching and speaking professions: PCC with the International Coaching Federation and CSP with Professional Speakers Australia. Biography highlights Author of seven Amazon #1 best-selling leadership books, including Confluence, Big Leadership, First Lead Yourself, and The New Leader. 14 International Stevie Awards, including Gold for Thought Leader of the Year, Stevie Awards for Women in Business, 2023. LinkedIn Top Voices, 2018 and 2021; Thinkers360 Global Top Voice and APAC Top Voice, 2025. Professional Certified Coach with the International Coaching Federation; Certified Speaking Professional with Professional Speakers Australia; Fellow of CPA Australia and the Institute of Managers and Leaders. Founder of The Coaching Leader, a coach-training programme used to embed coaching capability inside client organisations. Has worked with leadership teams across organisations including ABC, ASX, Accor, Atlassian, Boeing Defence Australia, CSIRO, Engie, Hilton Hotels and SAAB. Biography Most CEOs are not short of advice. They are short of a structured place to think about how they lead, especially when the demands of the role keep expanding. Ashley’s coaching practice is built around that gap. Her core proposition, future proofing CEOs, treats senior leadership as a capability that has to be deliberately developed, not a status that follows from the job. The work has produced a body of writing rather than a single book. Confluence argues that the supply of real leaders is no longer keeping pace with what organisations need from them. Big Leadership extends the case into the CEO role itself. First Lead Yourself focuses on self-leadership as the foundation. The New Leader addresses the move from team member to people leader. You’re On Mute and Power Up cover visible leadership in distributed settings and the energy and wellbeing required to sustain senior roles. Each title is positioned at a specific point in the leadership journey, from individual self-leadership through to the macro question of where the next generation of leaders comes from. Recognition has come from coaching and speaking bodies that screen on substance: 14 International Stevie Awards, Gold for Thought Leader of the Year at the 2023 Stevie Awards for Women in Business, and the Professional Certified Coach designation from the International Coaching Federation. The Coaching Leader, her coach-training programme, gives organisations a way to extend the approach into their own management cohorts. What makes Ashley useful in a board or executive setting is that she works the practical edge of leadership: the meetings, the conversations, the decisions, the moments when composure becomes a strategic variable. The frameworks are built for application, and the writing is structured to be picked up by someone with twenty minutes between meetings. Key speaking topics Future proofing CEOs Self-leadership and executive presence Coaching as a leadership capability Leading through change and transformation Leadership energy, wellbeing and sustainability Visible and credible leadership in hybrid settings Building high-performing executive teams Ideal for CEOs and managing directors moving into larger or more complex portfolios C-suite teams and direct reports working through restructure or transition CHROs and chief people officers building a coaching capability inside the organisation Senior leadership cohorts on executive development programmes Audience outcomes A clearer view of what senior leadership actually requires of them, beyond the job description A practical method for self-leadership under sustained pressure The vocabulary and habits of a coaching leader, not just a directing one A sharper read on personal credibility and presence in senior settings A starting point for embedding coaching capability across their own teams

Why organisations work with Dr Ted James His concurrent roles – co-directing a Harvard Medical School executive programme and leading enterprise transformation across an 8-hospital health system – mean the frameworks he delivers are being tested in live operational conditions, not drawn from retrospective case studies. He holds a Master of Science in Healthcare Management from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health alongside a surgical oncology career, which means he translates between clinical and executive registers without simplifying either. His advisory work with biotech and medical device companies, including a fractional CMO role at Perimeter Medical Imaging AI guiding FDA strategy for AI-enabled surgical technology, gives him a vendor-facing perspective that most health system speakers cannot offer. He built an NIH-funded research portfolio while simultaneously holding senior clinical governance roles at a Harvard-affiliated academic medical centre. His Harvard Global Health Care Leaders Program draws participants from more than 200 countries, which means his analysis of healthcare leadership is genuinely comparative rather than US-centric. Biography highlights System Physician Executive, Endeavor Health Cancer Institute, leading clinical strategy and care transformation across an 8-hospital integrated health system Co-Director, Global Health Care Leaders Program, Harvard Medical School Executive Education which draws participants from more than 200 countries Faculty, Harvard Medical School; former Associate Professor of Surgery Former Chief of Breast Surgical Oncology, Vice Chair of Academic Affairs in Surgery, and Medical Director of the Breast Center, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Fractional Chief Medical Officer, Perimeter Medical Imaging AI, guiding medical and regulatory strategy for AI-enabled breast cancer surgery technology Master of Science in Healthcare Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Co-author, The OAS CAHPS Compendium: A Guidebook for Improving Patient Experience and Outcomes Across the Ambulatory Surgery Continuum Biography Ted James spent the first part of his executive career doing something most physician leaders are never asked to do at the same time: running a nationally accredited multidisciplinary breast programme, leading academic affairs for a surgery department, and building an NIH-funded research portfolio – all within a Harvard-affiliated academic health system. That compression of roles at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center is the biographical fact most relevant to why health organisations bring him in. He has worked the intersection of clinical governance, academic leadership, and service-line management from the inside. He is now System Physician Executive for the Endeavor Health Cancer Institute, responsible for clinical strategy and enterprise-wide care transformation across eight hospitals. Alongside that operational role, he co-directs the Global Health Care Leaders Program at Harvard Medical School: a flagship executive education programme with a global participant base spanning more than 200 countries. His Harvard-based work focuses on the mechanics of how healthcare leaders design care models, adopt digital health technology, and lead transformation in systems that resist it. His commercial advisory work adds a third register. As fractional Chief Medical Officer at Perimeter Medical Imaging AI, he is helping advance AI-enabled surgical imaging technology toward FDA approval; work that gives him first-hand knowledge of how healthcare technology moves from clinical concept to operational deployment. It is a vantage point most hospital executives simply do not have. His co-authored book, The OAS CAHPS Compendium, anchors the academic dimension of his work in something measurable: patient experience and outcomes in ambulatory surgery. The through-line across all three roles is the same question: how do you build organisations in which clinical excellence and operational performance reinforce each other rather than compete? Key speaking topics Healthcare transformation and system leadership Physician and clinical leadership development Organisational culture in complex health systems Digital health strategy and technology adoption Cancer care innovation and oncology strategy Patient experience and quality improvement Clinician resilience and workforce performance Ideal for Hospital and health system CEOs, CMOs, and boards navigating transformation programmes Physician and clinical leaders developing executive capability Biotech, medical device, and digital health organisations seeking clinical strategic credibility Academic medical centre leadership teams managing the tension between research, education, and care delivery Audience outcomes A diagnostic framework for identifying where clinical culture is enabling or blocking organisational change Practical tools for developing physician leaders within complex, resource-constrained systems Clarity on evaluating and deploying digital health and AI-enabled technology against real clinical workflows An understanding of how academic, operational, and innovation goals can be aligned within a single leadership approach Approaches for addressing clinician burnout while maintaining performance standards

Why organisations work with Thomas Curran He owns the primary data. Curran’s 2017 meta-analysis with Andrew Hill, covering 41,641 participants across the US, UK and Canada, is the headline study that most current writing on burnout and generational stress traces back to. His translation of academic findings into operating language is sharp. Leaders leave with vocabulary for tensions their engagement data hints at but rarely names: socially prescribed perfectionism, fear of evaluation, the meritocratic treadmill. He sits inside a credible institution. LSE association means his framing of mental health risk carries weight with boards that discount wellness vendors. His public platform is rare for an academic. The TEDMED talk passed three million views; The Perfection Trap is a Sunday Times bestseller; HBR, TIME, NYT and the WSJ have published or covered him. He addresses the workforce most likely to leave. His research is specifically about the rising cohorts under 35, the population that boards are most worried about engaging and retaining. Biography highlights Associate Professor of Social Psychology, London School of Economics and Political Science Author of The Perfection Trap, Penguin UK (2023), Simon and Schuster US Lead author of the Psychological Bulletin meta-analysis on rising perfectionism, 1989 to 2016 TEDMED 2018 speaker, “Our Dangerous Obsession with Perfectionism is Getting Worse”, more than 3 million views Contributor to Harvard Business Review and TIME; research covered by NYT, WSJ, Economist, BBC, CNN BPS Chartered Psychologist; recipient of the APA Division 47 Dissertation Award Biography Perfectionism has risen sharply in the US, UK and Canada since the late 1980s, and it tracks closely with the same period in which workplace burnout and youth mental ill-health have climbed. That correlation is the centre of Curran’s academic work and the reason his findings have travelled well beyond psychology journals. His 2017 meta-analysis with Andrew Hill, published in the American Psychological Association’s Psychological Bulletin, pooled 164 samples and 41,641 participants. It found socially prescribed perfectionism, the belief that other people demand perfection from you, had risen 33 percent in a generation. The study is now the standard reference for almost every serious treatment of generational stress and engagement decline. The Perfection Trap, published by Penguin in 2023, sets that research into the cultures that produce it: meritocratic competition, social comparison at scale, and organisations that reward striving over sustainability. His TEDMED talk on the same theme has been viewed more than three million times. For corporate audiences, the value is in the precision of the diagnosis. Curran gives leaders language for the pattern they see in their own engagement and retention data, and a defensible account of where the pressure is coming from. His credentials are LSE faculty status, peer-reviewed authorship of the foundational dataset, and recognition from the American Psychological Association. Key speaking topics Perfectionism in the workplace Burnout and sustainable performance Mental health and wellbeing Self-criticism and imposter syndrome Generational shifts in workplace expectations The psychology of high-performance cultures Ideal for CHROs and chief people officers responding to rising burnout and attrition data Executive leadership teams setting performance and culture standards Wellbeing, talent and engagement leads briefing the board on mental health risk Professional services, finance and consulting firms with high-pressure delivery cultures Audience outcomes A clearer account of why perfectionism has risen and how it shows up in their workforce Specific vocabulary, drawn from peer-reviewed research, for tensions that engagement surveys hint at but rarely name A framework for distinguishing healthy striving from socially prescribed perfectionism Evidence-based approaches to self-compassion and self-criticism that leaders can apply personally and model in teams A more defensible view of what mental health support should look like inside a high-performance culture

Why organisations work with Yuvaraj S Lingappa A clinician in the room, not a wellness commentator. Three decades of frontline medical practice sit behind every recommendation on stress, sleep and weight. Formal obesity-medicine credential from the World Obesity Federation (SCOPE Certified), which few corporate wellbeing speakers hold. Built and runs SlimIsEasy, a working consumer weight-management product, so the content is grounded in what actually shifts behaviour at scale, not workshop theory. Author of Easy Guide to Stress Relief, a short-form workplace stress book designed for time-poor corporate readers. Biography highlights Physician trained at Madras Medical College, Chennai. Over 30 years in clinical practice including paediatrics and family medicine at Victoria Hospital, St Lucia. SCOPE Certified by the World Obesity Federation, London. Author of Easy Guide to Stress Relief. Co-founder of the SlimIsEasy weight-management app. Speaker and corporate trainer on stress management, weight, and peak performance for executive and employee audiences. Biography Most corporate wellbeing programmes treat stress and weight as soft topics. The clinical reality is different. Both are measurable drivers of attention, decision quality, absence and attrition, and both respond to specific interventions rather than general encouragement. That is the territory Yuvaraj S Lingappa works in. He trained as a physician at Madras Medical College and practised for more than three decades, including a long tenure as a paediatrician and family practitioner at Victoria Hospital in St Lucia. The clinical grounding shapes the way he talks to corporate audiences: he treats stress as a physiological condition and obesity as a medical one, not as a motivational problem to be willed away. The obesity work carries a formal credential. He is SCOPE Certified by the World Obesity Federation in London, the international body’s professional standard for obesity care. Alongside the speaking and coaching practice, he co-founded SlimIsEasy, a consumer weight-management app, which gives him a live view of what behaviour change looks like outside the seminar room. His book Easy Guide to Stress Relief is written for corporate readers who will not finish a longer text. The same instinct runs through the speaking work: short, clinically grounded sessions that give an executive audience something to act on before the end of the week. Key speaking topics Workplace stress management Clinical approaches to weight and metabolic health Sleep, energy and executive performance Behaviour change at scale Health as a workforce productivity lever Peak performance for high-pressure roles Ideal for CHROs and heads of employee wellbeing reviewing the clinical substance of their wellness offer. Executive and leadership audiences where stress, sleep and weight are degrading performance. HR and benefits leaders in healthcare, professional services, financial services and high-pressure operating environments. Internal health and wellbeing weeks and leadership offsites that need a medically credentialed voice. Audience outcomes A clearer picture of how stress and weight actually affect workforce performance, from a clinician’s standpoint. Specific, low-friction techniques for managing stress that work inside a normal corporate day. A grounded view of what serious weight and metabolic intervention looks like, and what most workplace programmes miss. Practical steps individuals can take in the week after the session, rather than aspirational targets.

Why organisations work with Duena Blomstrom She names a specific, measurable liability most boards do not currently track. Human Debt sits underneath stalled transformations and lets a leadership team see why their roadmap keeps slipping for non-technical reasons. Her argument lands with engineering and product audiences who tune out conventional wellbeing language. Framing safety as a debt that compounds against velocity gives operators a vocabulary they will actually use. She built the diagnostic, not just the theory. PeopleNotTech turns the framework into measurement, which means a keynote can connect to real follow-on team data rather than ending at inspiration. Three books across Palgrave Macmillan, Bloomsbury Business, and Kogan Page give her argument continuity from FinTech culture (Emotional Banking) through team safety (People Before Tech) to enterprise transformation (Tech-Led Culture). She speaks publicly as a neurodivergent founder, which gives substance to inclusion conversations that are otherwise abstract for senior audiences. Biography highlights Author of Emotional Banking (Palgrave Macmillan), People Before Tech (Bloomsbury Business), and Tech-Led Culture (Kogan Page). CEO and co-founder of PeopleNotTech, a psychological safety measurement platform. Originator of the Human Debt concept and the Emotional Banking framework. LinkedIn Top Voice on leadership and psychological safety with a large newsletter readership. Former Forbes contributor; host of the “people AND tech” and “Tales from the FinTech Crypt” podcasts. Background spanning C-level roles in startups and major technology companies before founding PeopleNotTech. Biography Most digital transformation programmes do not fail on the technology. They fail on whether the team running them can disagree, recover from a bad decision, and tell the truth about a slipping deadline. That is the territory Duena Blomstrom has spent the last decade making operational. Her central concept, Human Debt, reframes psychological safety as a balance sheet item. Teams accrue interest every time a candid conversation is avoided, every time a senior leader rewards optics over honesty, every time fatigue is left unaddressed. Tech debt gets the spreadsheet. Human Debt rarely does, and the cost shows up in stalled roadmaps, attrition, and AI rollouts that never reach production. She built three books out of this argument. Emotional Banking (Palgrave Macmillan) treated culture as the missing variable in retail banking transformation. People Before Tech (Bloomsbury Business) made the case for safety as a precondition of high performance. Tech-Led Culture (Kogan Page) extended the work into enterprise change. Alongside the writing, she co-founded PeopleNotTech to turn the diagnosis into measurement, so the conversation about team health does not stop at the keynote. Audiences also get a founder who writes openly about being neurodivergent and what that means for leadership in practice. That makes inclusion a substantive thread in her work rather than a section header. Key speaking topics Psychological safety as a measurable team capability Human Debt and the hidden cost of low-trust teams Culture inside digital and AI transformation FinTech, retail banking, and Emotional Banking Neurodiversity and inclusive leadership Future of work and agile team practice Ideal for CHROs, chief people officers, and heads of organisational development running culture or engagement programmes alongside major technology change. CIOs, CTOs, and transformation leads whose roadmaps depend on team behaviour, not just delivery capacity. Banking, FinTech, and financial services leadership teams working through digital and AI rollouts. Boards and ExCos commissioning a serious conversation about why transformation programmes are underperforming. Audience outcomes A working definition of Human Debt that a leadership team can apply to its own organisation the next morning. A clearer line between team-level psychological safety and the commercial outcomes a board cares about. A vocabulary that lands with technical audiences who normally resist culture conversations. Specific signals to look for in teams where transformation, AI adoption, or restructuring is in flight. A frank account of what gets lost when neurodivergent leaders are managed for compliance rather than contribution.

Why organisations work with Eleanor Mills She has built the most detailed evidence base in the UK on ABC1 women aged 45 to 60, including partnership research with HSBC on midlife female entrepreneurs and with Accenture on the economic power of women over 45. She names a category most boardrooms still treat as a footnote, the “Queenager”, and gives employers and brands a working vocabulary for talent retention, marketing strategy and product design aimed at this group. She has 22 years of editorial authority at The Sunday Times, including running the magazine when it won Supplement of the Year at the 2018 Press Awards, which gives her communications work with senior leaders genuine craft behind it. Her book, Much More to Come (HarperCollins, 2024), turns midlife transition into a leadership story about reinvention after redundancy, divorce and caring responsibilities, the same pressures organisations are failing to design around. She convenes a 50,000-strong community at Noon, which means her insight is continually refreshed by the audience itself, not drawn from a one-off study. Biography highlights Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Noon (noon.org.uk), launched 8 March 2021. Former Editorial Director of The Sunday Times and Editor of The Sunday Times Magazine, 1998 to 2020. Chair of Women in Journalism, 2013 to 2021. Author of Much More to Come (HarperCollins, 2024), a Sunday Times bestseller; co-editor of Cupcakes and Kalashnikovs (2005). Recipient of the International Alliance for Women World of Difference Award (2012); editor of the Press Awards Supplement of the Year (2018). Research partnerships with HSBC (Fearless and Thriving) and Accenture (The Rise of the Queenager). Biography The most economically active female demographic in Britain is also the one most likely to leave senior roles before reaching the top. Women aged 45 to 60 hold disposable income, household decision-making power and decades of operating experience, yet employers and consumer brands consistently underestimate both their commercial weight and their willingness to stay. This is the gap Eleanor Mills has spent the last five years documenting. After 22 years at Times Newspapers, including running The Sunday Times Magazine when it won Supplement of the Year at the 2018 Press Awards, she left in March 2020 and founded Noon on International Women’s Day 2021. Noon is now a 50,000-strong community and a research platform, with partnership studies for HSBC on midlife female entrepreneurs and Accenture on the economic power of women over 45. Her book Much More to Come (HarperCollins, 2024) extends that argument into the territory of reinvention. It draws on her own redundancy and the pressures her readers describe: menopause, divorce, empty nests, caring for elderly parents, second careers. The book reframes midlife as a productive stage organisations should design around, not write off. For a senior buyer, the value is precise. She gives a board the vocabulary, the data and the editorial sharpness to act on a workforce and consumer segment most strategy decks treat as a rounding error. Key speaking topics Women in midlife as a talent and consumer category Retention of senior women through menopause and caring years Reinvention after redundancy and career disruption Marketing and brand strategy for women over 45 Personal storytelling in leadership communication Resilience in transition Ideal for CHROs and talent leaders designing retention strategies for senior women CMOs and brand leaders targeting the over-45 female consumer Boards reviewing DEI and culture beyond entry and mid-career pipelines Leadership programmes for women navigating career and life transitions in their forties and fifties Audience outcomes A working definition of the Queenager category and what makes it commercially distinct Specific intervention points where organisations lose senior women, and what changes the curve Evidence drawn from named partnership research with HSBC and Accenture, not generic DEI argument A reframing of midlife transition as a leadership and reinvention story rather than a wellness theme

Why organisations work with Elia Gourgouris Eighteen years of private clinical psychology practice behind the keynote. When he talks about mental health and workplace wellbeing, the substance is clinical experience translated for a corporate audience. A named framework in 7 Paths to Lasting Happiness, now published in Mandarin, Cantonese and Greek editions. Audiences leave with a structured model they can put into operational practice the following week. A dedicated crisis playbook in 7 Keys to Navigating a Crisis, co-written with Konstantinos Apostolopoulos for pandemic-era and crisis conditions. Useful when leaders need wellbeing guidance that still works when the ground is moving. Active across the US and Europe, with recent keynotes at KPMG’s 25 HR Symposium and the Hellenic Institute of Customer Service in Greece. A practical option for organisations with European operations that want a speaker fluent in both Anglo-American and Greek corporate cultures. Works with leaders between events, not only from the stage. An active executive coaching practice means the keynote is grounded in current client work, and follow-up coaching is available when an organisation needs more than a one-off session. Biography highlights President of The Happiness Center, a positive psychology practice focused on corporate wellness and personal success. Founding Partner at The Global Institute of Thought Leadership. Author of 7 Paths to Lasting Happiness, Amazon bestseller translated into Mandarin, Cantonese and Greek. Co-author with Konstantinos Apostolopoulos of 7 Keys to Navigating a Crisis: A Practical Guide to Emotionally Dealing with Pandemics and Other Disasters. Keynote engagements include KPMG’s 25 HR Symposium, the Hellenic Institute of Customer Service, and sessions for Bank of America audiences. BA in Psychology from UCLA, followed by MA and PhD in psychology, and eighteen years in private clinical practice before moving into executive coaching and keynote work. Regular contributor to Thrive Global; co-host of The Kindness and Happiness Connection podcast. Biography Workplace wellbeing programmes often fail at the join between clinical insight and operational reality. Clinicians know what changes behaviour under pressure. Boards know what gets funded. Most corporate well-being work lives in the first category without translation to the second. Eighteen years as a clinical psychologist in private practice sit behind Dr. Gourgouris’s current work as an executive coach and keynote speaker. His 7 Paths to Lasting Happiness framework, published in 2015 and now available in Mandarin, Cantonese, and Greek editions, is the practitioner synthesis of that clinical career. The second book, 7 Keys to Navigating a Crisis, co-written with Konstantinos Apostolopoulos, extends the framework to acute conditions. It was written during the pandemic and has since been used across corporate transitions and personal adversity. Recent corporate keynotes include KPMG’s 25 HR Symposium, the Hellenic Institute of Customer Service, and sessions for Bank of America audiences. Outside the corporate practice, Gourgouris was Executive Producer of the reality series Cash Cowboys and is developing a new series, The Kindness Givers. He contributes regularly to Thrive Global and co-hosts The Kindness and Happiness Connection podcast. The media work reaches audiences that the HR briefing rarely does, and carries the same clinical argument across. Key speaking topics Positive leadership Corporate wellbeing and mental health Workplace culture and trust Resilience and agility Crisis navigation and recovery Employee engagement and retention Ideal for CHROs and people leaders are rebuilding culture after a period of change or organisational distress. CEOs and senior leadership teams where burnout and retention have become board-level issues. Wellbeing and mental health function leaders looking to add clinical credibility to in-house programmes. Corporate audiences in Greece and wider Europe, where a speaker fluent in both Anglo-American and Greek corporate cultures adds value. Audience outcomes The 7 Paths to Lasting Happiness model is applied to personal practice and to how a team is run. Language and evidence to argue for wellbeing and mental health as measurable business inputs. Specific techniques for building team resilience and trust that can be used in the next team meeting. A clinical perspective on what actually changes behaviour under pressure, and what tends to fail.

Why organisations work with Elizabeth Day A single, named thesis built over hundreds of long-form interviews on How to Fail, applied to the specific cultural problem of how teams talk about setbacks. Journalistic credibility from a decade at The Observer and a Young Journalist of the Year award, which gives her the interviewing range to draw substance out of senior internal speakers and panel guests. Literary authority confirmed by a Royal Society of Literature fellowship and a Sunday Times No. 1 bestseller, which lifts her above the standard wellbeing-speaker field. A direct corporate track record with Google, Facebook, HSBC, JP Morgan, Netflix and Barclays, so the material has been tested on senior commercial audiences. Equally strong as keynote, fireside interviewer, or awards host, which makes her useful for events that need one trusted voice across multiple formats. Biography highlights Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, elected 2024. Host and creator of How to Fail with Elizabeth Day, with guests including Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Kate Winslet, Malcolm Gladwell and Gloria Steinem. Winner, Rising Star Award, British Podcast Awards 2019. Winner, Young Journalist of the Year, British Press Awards 2004; Highly Commended Feature Writer, 2012. Author of How to Fail, Failosophy, Friendaholic and Magpie, with Friendaholic entering the Sunday Times charts at No. 1. Host of BBC Radio 4’s Open Book since 2021; co-host of Sky Arts Book Club Live. Biography Most workplaces still treat failure as an event to be hidden. Elizabeth Day has spent years arguing, in print and on air, that the more useful question is what setbacks teach the people who admit to them. How to Fail, the podcast she launched in 2018, has built that argument into one of the most listened-to interview shows in the UK. Her credibility for the topic is not motivational. It is journalistic. She trained on the Evening Standard’s Londoner’s Diary, moved to The Sunday Telegraph as a news reporter, and won Young Journalist of the Year at the 2004 British Press Awards. From 2007 to 2016 she was a feature writer at The Observer, picking up a commendation in the Feature Writer category at the 2012 Press Awards. The literary record sits alongside the broadcasting one. Her novel Scissors Paper Stone won the Betty Trask Award; The Party became a Richard and Judy Book Club pick; Friendaholic entered the Sunday Times charts at No. 1. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2024 and hosts BBC Radio 4’s Open Book. For corporate audiences, the value is the translation. Google, Facebook, HSBC, JP Morgan, Netflix and Barclays have booked her to put failure, friendship and candour onto the table as workplace concerns rather than personal anecdotes. The interviews have produced a working vocabulary that senior teams can actually use when something goes wrong. Key speaking topics Failure as a method for learning and recovery Workplace candour and psychological safety Storytelling and interview craft for senior leaders Friendship, connection and the social fabric of teams Vulnerability as a professional capability Resilience after setback Women, work and visibility Ideal for CHROs and people leaders rebuilding engagement and trust after restructure or underperformance. Communications and internal events teams looking for a host who can interview senior leaders on the record without flattening them. Leadership development programmes for high-potential cohorts working on candour, feedback and self-awareness. Awards evenings and flagship conferences that need one credible voice across keynote, panel and host roles. Audience outcomes A working vocabulary for naming and discussing setbacks at work without defensiveness. Specific, repeatable interview and conversation techniques drawn from years of long-form journalism. A clearer view of how candour and vulnerability function as team capabilities, not personality traits. Permission, modelled from named public figures, to treat early-career mistakes as data rather than damage.

Why organisations work with Elle Mace Her clinical stack is unusually deep for a workplace wellbeing speaker: Master Practitioner via the National Centre for Eating Disorders, ICF accredited NLP Practitioner, Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapist, Level 4 CBT and ILM Level 5 Coach and Mentor. Food Freedom, published by Vermilion in August 2026, gives audiences a named, citable framework on food, body image and the rise of GLP-1 weight loss medications, a topic most wellbeing programmes are not yet equipped to discuss. She runs her own clinic and two CPD-accredited training courses for practitioners, so the workplace material is grounded in active clinical caseload rather than recycled keynote content. Her recovery from 17 years of eating disorders and body dysmorphia gives the room a level of trust and disclosure that pure clinicians rarely achieve, without sliding into testimonial territory. As Executive Partner at Strategic Wellbeing, she works inside an operating consultancy, which means her keynote sits alongside follow-on training and 1:1 support rather than ending at the stage. Biography highlights Author of Food Freedom, Vermilion (Penguin Random House UK), August 2026 Master Practitioner in eating disorders, obesity and nutrition, National Centre for Eating Disorders ICF accredited NLP Practitioner, Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapist, Level 4 CBT, ILM Level 5 Coach and Mentor Executive Partner at Strategic Wellbeing Founder of her own clinic, with two CPD-accredited training courses for practitioners Host of the More to Life podcast on food, body and growth Biography Workplace wellbeing strategy still defaults to perks and posters when the harder issues sit further down: how people relate to food, to their bodies and to their own self-worth. Those issues quietly drive absence, presenteeism and burnout, and they rarely show up in engagement data. Elle Mace works at that level, where most wellbeing programmes do not reach. Her credentials are built for it. She trained as a Master Practitioner in eating disorders, obesity and nutrition through the National Centre for Eating Disorders, and holds qualifications as an ICF accredited NLP Practitioner, a Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapist, a Level 4 CBT practitioner and an ILM Level 5 Coach and Mentor. She runs her own clinic, hosts international retreats and has built two CPD-accredited training courses for other practitioners. Food Freedom, published by Vermilion, an imprint of Penguin Random House UK, in August 2026, codifies the argument. It pairs positive psychology and cognitive behavioural tools with a direct reading of diet culture and the new wave of GLP-1 weight loss medications now entering the wellbeing conversation. As Executive Partner at Strategic Wellbeing, she takes that material into corporate environments through keynotes, workshops and training. The lived backbone is 17 years of recovery from eating disorders and body dysmorphia. That experience is what allows her to talk about self-worth, body image and disordered eating in front of a corporate audience without losing either clinical authority or the room. Key speaking topics Psychology of food, body image and self-worth at work Eating disorders, disordered eating and body dysmorphia Workplace wellbeing and mental health Burnout, stress and resilience Positive psychology for performance Self-doubt, self-worth and imposter syndrome Mindful leadership and the mind-body connection Ideal for CHROs, wellbeing leads and EAP commissioners designing the next layer of mental health strategy HR directors and DEI leads addressing body image, self-worth and gendered wellbeing concerns Leadership teams in high-pressure sectors where burnout, food and body issues are showing up in engagement data Internal employee networks, ERGs and Mental Health Awareness Week or Wellbeing Week programmes Audience outcomes A clearer view of how food, body image and self-worth feed into workplace stress, presenteeism and burnout Practical positive psychology and cognitive behavioural tools employees can use without clinical supervision Confident vocabulary for line managers and HR on disordered eating, body dysmorphia and weight stigma Reference points from Food Freedom and her CPD-accredited training for follow-on organisational work A safer, more honest conversation in the room about issues most employees do not raise at work

Why organisations work with Emilie Bellet She has built one of the UK’s largest women-focused financial education communities from scratch, which gives her a live read on what employees actually ask, avoid and misunderstand about money. She pairs a Lehman Brothers and Trilantic private equity background with a mass-market book and weekly podcast, so she can move between a CFO audience and a shop-floor audience without shifting register. Her work gives employers a concrete way to connect financial wellbeing, pay equity and retention of senior women, three agendas that are usually owned by different teams and rarely joined up. She is a named voice in the UK financial media (Financial Times, The i Paper, Vogue, BBC), which makes her credible to finance services clients where brand risk around money content is high. Biography highlights Founder and CEO of Vestpod, a financial education platform and community for women. Author of “You’re Not Broke, You’re Pre-Rich” (Octopus / Little, Brown) and contributor to “The WealthTech Book” (Wiley). Host of “The Wallet”, a weekly personal finance podcast. Columnist for the Financial Times and The i Paper; featured in Vogue, Forbes, BBC, The Guardian, Stylist and Courier. Former private equity professional at Lehman Brothers Merchant Banking and Trilantic Capital Partners, London. Named in the Women in FinTech Powerlist (Rising Stars) and shortlisted for Disruptor of the Year at the Women in Finance Awards. Biography Most financial education inside large employers stops at pensions and payroll. It rarely answers the questions people actually carry into Monday morning: how to invest a first bonus, whether to buy, how to talk about money with a partner, what to do with a redundancy package. Vestpod was built to close that gap, and it has become one of the UK’s most engaged communities on women and money. The founder’s route in is unusual. Emilie spent seven years in private equity at Lehman Brothers Merchant Banking and Trilantic Capital Partners in London before leaving the buy-side to build a platform she felt the market was not serving. That background matters for corporate audiences because she is not a lifestyle commentator, she is a former investor who now translates institutional finance into language a general workforce can use. The work has two sides that employers buy together. “You’re Not Broke, You’re Pre-Rich”, published by Octopus, codified the personal finance curriculum; the weekly newsletter, The Wallet podcast and Money Matters festival keep it current. Inside companies, that content becomes workshops on investing basics, the gender wealth gap and financial confidence, delivered for names including Amazon, BCG, Coutts, NatWest and Palo Alto Networks. Her media footprint is the credibility backstop. Regular columns in the Financial Times and The i Paper, plus coverage in Vogue, Forbes, BBC and The Guardian, put her in front of the audience senior HR and DEI teams are trying to reach, and give risk-sensitive financial services clients a known name they can put on a programme. Key speaking topics Women and wealth Financial wellbeing in the workplace The gender wealth and investment gap Personal finance and investing fundamentals Financial confidence and money mindset WealthTech and financial inclusion Entrepreneurship and building a consumer brand Ideal for CHROs and heads of reward designing financial wellbeing into benefits strategy DEI and women’s network leads who need content beyond mentoring and panels Financial services and WealthTech firms running client-facing events for women investors Internal International Women’s Day, Financial Wellness Month and employee festival programmes Audience outcomes A clear picture of where the gender wealth gap comes from and which levers an employer can actually pull Specific language and frameworks employees can use to take the next step on saving, investing or debt Renewed confidence to engage with pension, share scheme and investment decisions that many defer by default A sharper internal case for treating financial wellbeing as part of retention and inclusion strategy, not a standalone perk

Why organisations work with Emily Rose Adams A working newsroom presenter, not a hire-by-day MC. Adams anchors live international news for TRT World and was a main presenter at TalkTV, which means she handles live unscripted moments the way a news desk handles breaking stories. NCTJ-qualified journalism training, which shows up in how she prepares: script, story selection, research, and interview lines done in-house rather than handed to a producer. Comfortable across registers. The same presenter who fronts a hard news bulletin has compered Canary Wharf Fashion Weekend, the Asian Banking Awards and the National Wedding Show Style Stage. Founder of Presenterly, an online platform, and host of The Health Review podcast. Useful when a brief needs a host who has been on the production side, not only the talent side. Biography highlights News anchor, TRT World, fronting international news programmes and live interviews. Former main news presenter, TalkTV (News UK). Newsreader, Virgin Radio (The Chris Evans Breakfast Show) and talkRADIO. Co-presenter, Capital FM South Coast breakfast show, 2018 to 2019. NCTJ-qualified journalist; enrolled in International Relations at the London School of Economics. Founder of Presenterly and host of The Health Review podcast. Biography A live news bulletin and a corporate awards night look nothing alike from the audience, but they share one variable: the person at the front has to keep time, hold tone, and recover instantly when something goes wrong. Emily Rose Adams works in both formats, which is unusual. Her primary work is news. She anchors international programmes for TRT World and was a main presenter on TalkTV after the channel launched under News UK. Before that came talkRADIO, Virgin Radio’s Chris Evans Breakfast Show, and the Capital FM South Coast breakfast slot. The training behind it is NCTJ, the standard route for working UK broadcast journalists, and she is studying International Relations at the London School of Economics. The hosting work runs in parallel. She has compered Canary Wharf Fashion Weekend, the Asian Banking Awards and the National Wedding Show Style Stage, and works regularly as an awards-ceremony host and panel moderator. The Health Review, her interview podcast, gives her a third register: long-form, subject-led conversation with specialists in medicine and wellbeing. Most bureau hosts come from one of these worlds. Adams comes from all three, which is why a brief that needs a host who can also conduct a credible on-stage interview tends to find its way to her. Key speaking topics Conference and awards hosting Panel moderation On-stage interviews Brand and corporate emceeing Virtual event hosting Red carpet and live reporting Voiceover and presentation Ideal for Heads of communications and marketing commissioning awards nights, brand launches and customer conferences Internal events teams running town halls, leadership summits and ceremony evenings Programme directors who need a moderator who can hold a panel of senior or technical guests Audience outcomes A room that stays on time and on tone for the full agenda Panels and interviews that produce usable lines rather than filler Sensitive or unscripted moments handled with newsroom composure A consistent host voice across pre-event, on-stage and post-event content