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Why organisations work with Erik Wahl A live speed-painting keynote that converts creativity from an abstract value into a visible act on stage, giving leaders a shared reference point they can take back into the business. A thesis grounded in two trade-published books, Unthink (Crown, 2013) and The Spark and the Grind (TarcherPerigee, 2017), that argues creativity is a discipline, not a personality trait. A client list that reads as validation for risk-averse buyers: Disney, Microsoft, AT&T, FedEx, ExxonMobil, Ernst and Young, XPrize, London Business School. TED2012 selection and a keynote slot at Ernst and Young’s World Entrepreneur of the Year, signalling that the content stands up in front of rigorous business audiences. A philanthropic record of over USD 1.5 million raised through art auctions, which gives the performance a credible backbone beyond corporate entertainment. Biography highlights Author of Unthink: Rediscover Your Creative Genius, Crown Business / Random House, 2013. Named CEO Reads Book of the Year. Author of The Spark and the Grind: Ignite the Power of Disciplined Creativity, TarcherPerigee, 2017. Selected speaker for TED2012: Full Spectrum. Keynote speaker at Ernst and Young’s World Entrepreneur of the Year and Entrepreneur Magazine’s Growth Conference. Clients include Disney, Microsoft, AT&T, FedEx, ExxonMobil, Ernst and Young, XPrize, London Business School. Raised over USD 1.5 million for charitable causes through art auctions including One Fund Boston, Linda’s Voice, and Miracle-Ear Foundation. Biography Creativity is the one capability most organisations claim to prize and systematically suppress. Erik Wahl spent eight years inside a corporate firm, rising to partner, before the dot-com collapse made that point unavoidable. He rebuilt his working life around the question: why is the thing everyone says they want the hardest thing for companies to actually do? The answer became a two-book argument. Unthink: Rediscover Your Creative Genius, published by Crown in 2013, took the position that creativity is a recoverable discipline, not a fixed trait, and was named CEO Reads Book of the Year. The Spark and the Grind, published by TarcherPerigee in 2017, extended the thesis into the operational layer: how leaders pair inspiration with the unglamorous work of sustained execution. The keynote is where the argument becomes legible. Wahl paints live on stage, usually a recognisable face such as Steve Jobs or Michael Jordan, while making the case that organisations need to rebuild the muscle their systems quietly erode. The format has carried him to TED2012 and to client rooms at Disney, Microsoft, AT&T, FedEx, ExxonMobil, Ernst and Young, XPrize, and London Business School. It is also how he has raised over USD 1.5 million for charity through auctioned work, including One Fund Boston and Linda’s Voice. What he gives a leadership audience is not motivation. It is a disciplined case for why the innovation strategy on the wall keeps failing, and a visible demonstration of the capacity the room has forgotten it has. Key speaking topics Disciplined creativity in large organisations Innovation capacity and execution Creative leadership Change and reinvention Peak performance and creative discipline Storytelling and business communication Ideal for CEO, COO, and strategy leaders running innovation or transformation mandates Sales and commercial leadership conferences opening a new growth cycle Talent and learning leaders building creative capability at scale Annual kick-off audiences where the brief calls for a sharp creative reset rather than a process lecture Audience outcomes A concrete argument for why creativity is a business discipline, not a personality asset Language and imagery leaders can reuse back in the business to frame innovation conversations A direct experience of what creative risk looks like when it is executed, not described A set of practical habits drawn from The Spark and the Grind for pairing ideas with sustained execution

Why organisations work with Erik Weihenmayer A first-hand operating model for making decisions without full visibility, drawn from summiting Everest and kayaking 277 miles of Grand Canyon whitewater rather than from theory A tested argument about rope-team leadership: how trust, role clarity, and communication protocols hold a team together when one member’s judgement has to carry the rest A named framework, the No Barriers Life, backed by a published book and a working nonprofit, not a single keynote built around a single mountain Credibility with audiences who have heard every generic resilience talk, because the proof points are specific, verifiable, and unusual: Everest, the Eight Summits, Leadville 100 on a tandem, Colorado River source to sea Biography highlights First blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest, May 25, 2001; featured on the cover of Time magazine that June Completed the Seven Summits in 2002 and the Eight Summits in 2008 with Carstensz Pyramid Kayaked the full 277 miles of the Grand Canyon on the Colorado River in 2014 Co-founder of No Barriers USA, serving people with disabilities, veterans, youth, and caregivers Author of “Touch the Top of the World,” published in 9 languages, and co-author of “No Barriers: A Blind Man’s Journey to Kayak the Grand Canyon” with Buddy Levy Recipient of an ESPY Award, Nike’s Casey Martin Award, and the Helen Keller Lifetime Achievement Award Biography The path down Everest is more dangerous than the path up. On the descent in May 2001, Erik Weihenmayer, the first blind climber to summit the mountain, was moving on a rope team whose margin for error had effectively closed. The instruction he had been given by expedition leader Pasquale Scaturro on the way home set the next two decades of his work: do not let Everest be the greatest thing you ever do. What followed was not a sequence of stunts. It was the construction of an argument about how teams operate when the environment does not cooperate. The Seven Summits by 2002, Carstensz Pyramid in 2008, the Leadville 100 mountain bike race on a tandem in 2010, and in 2014 the full 277-mile kayak descent of the Grand Canyon with blinded Navy veteran Lonnie Bedwell. Each expedition is a case study in role assignment, communication discipline, and trust allocation under degraded information. The intellectual output sits alongside the physical one. “Touch the Top of the World” was published in twelve countries and nine languages and became the basis of a documentary that won first prize at 21 international film festivals. “No Barriers: A Blind Man’s Journey to Kayak the Grand Canyon,” co-written with Buddy Levy, took an Honorable Mention at the 2017 National Outdoor Book Awards and a 2018 Colorado Book Awards finalist spot. “The Adversity Advantage,” co-written with Paul Stoltz, moves the same material into an explicit business register. In 2005, Weihenmayer co-founded No Barriers USA, a nonprofit that now works with veterans, youth, people with disabilities, and full-time caregivers. It is where the speaking work connects back to a working practice: the No Barriers Life is not a slogan, it is the operating code the organisation teaches and the argument the book defends. Key speaking topics Decision-making under incomplete information Rope-team leadership and trust allocation The No Barriers Life as an organisational operating code Resilience as a team discipline, not an individual trait Innovation and problem-solving under constraint Inclusive leadership and diverse-ability teams Navigating reinvention after a defining achievement Ideal for Executive teams preparing for high-stakes decisions where the data will not be complete in time CHROs and culture leads building resilience and belonging into the organisational operating model, not bolting it on Leadership offsites for transformation, integration, or turnaround programmes Veteran-heavy, disability-community, or inclusion-focused audiences where lived authority matters Audience outcomes A working vocabulary for how to lead a mixed-ability, mixed-experience team through a decision with partial information Named protocols from expedition practice that transfer directly into executive decision rooms A sharper sense of the difference between individual grit and team discipline, and why resilience only compounds when it is built into the team Permission to treat constraint as a design input rather than a deficit A concrete reference point, the No Barriers Life, that leaders can carry back into their own language

Why organisations work with Dame Evelyn Glennie A first-hand demonstration of how attention works when sound is felt rather than heard, drawn from a 40-year career as the first full-time solo percussionist in musical history. A leadership argument grounded in lived practice: composure, recovery and attention as trainable behaviours, not personality traits. Author of “Listen World!” and Founder of The Evelyn Glennie Foundation, whose mission is to teach the world to listen across business, education, healthcare and the arts. Three GRAMMY recognitions, the Polar Music Prize (2015), the Leonie Sonning Music Prize (2023), Companion of Honour (2017) and DBE; credentials that earn the room before she opens it. Workshop and keynote formats road-tested with corporate teams on internal communication, customer responsiveness and team cohesion. Biography highlights First person in history to build and sustain a full-time career as a solo percussionist. Three-time GRAMMY recipient, including the 1989 award with Sir Georg Solti and Murray Perahia and a 2002 win with Bela Fleck. Companion of Honour (2017), DBE (2007), OBE (1993). First percussionist to receive a DBE. Polar Music Prize laureate, 2015. First percussionist to receive the Leonie Sonning Music Prize, 2023. Chancellor of Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen; President of Help Musicians. TED speaker (“How to truly listen”), author of “Listen World!”, and Founder of The Evelyn Glennie Foundation. Biography Most leaders treat listening as a courtesy. For Glennie it is a working method, developed across four decades of performing music she could not hear in the conventional sense. Profoundly deaf from childhood, she trained herself to read vibration through her hands, feet and body, and built a career as the first full-time solo percussionist in musical history. That practice is what corporate audiences engage with. The Royal Academy of Music graduate has performed in more than 60 countries, commissioned over 200 new works, and led 1,000 drummers in the London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony directed by Danny Boyle. The technical achievement is unusual. The transferable insight is the discipline behind it: attention as a whole-body act, repeatable under pressure. Her authority on the subject is institutionally backed. Three GRAMMY recognitions, the Polar Music Prize, the Leonie Sonning Music Prize, a Damehood and the Companion of Honour sit alongside the Chancellorship of Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen and the Presidency of Help Musicians. The book “Listen World!” and The Evelyn Glennie Foundation, established in 2023, take the same argument into schools, hospitals, sport and business. In a leadership keynote she translates this directly. How a team senses what is happening before it can be measured. How a leader steadies a room. How sustained attention, not louder communication, is what shifts behaviour at scale. Key speaking topics Listening as a leadership discipline Attention and presence under pressure Resilience and reinvention after personal shock Communication and team cohesion Inclusive leadership and difference as capability Creativity, craft and sustained excellence Ideal for Boards and executive committees defining their own communication standards CHROs and culture leaders rebuilding internal listening practices Senior leadership offsites focused on composure, attention and decision-making Customer experience and frontline leadership audiences working on responsiveness Audience outcomes A working definition of listening as an active leadership behaviour, not a soft skill A more honest read of how attention is spent in their own meetings and decisions Specific cues from a non-verbal craft they can apply to communication with teams and customers A reframing of personal adversity and reinvention as repeatable practice A clearer view of how presence and composure shape what a team will follow

Why organisations work with Farah Nanji A working framework for high-pressure performance built from a decade inside Formula 1 culture and a decade as the touring artist NINJA, two domains where small lapses are publicly visible. A founder’s view of building a private leadership community, Regents Racing, that uses motorsport psychology as a development tool for executives and members. A rare first-person account of rewiring cognitive function around dyspraxia, delivered as a TEDx keynote at the Luxembourg Philharmonie and translated into practical lessons on neurodivergence at work. A reference network drawn from Mission Makers, the podcast she founded at the World Economic Forum in Davos, which has hosted leaders across music, motorsport and business. Biography highlights Founder and CEO of Regents Racing, a private leadership community using motorsport psychology, with roots at Regent’s University London. CEO of The Formula Mind, Regents Racing’s executive-facing subsidiary exploring Formula 1 as a lens for leadership and peak performance. TEDx speaker at TEDxLuxembourgCity, 2019, delivered at the Luxembourg Philharmonie. Producer and host of Mission Makers, a podcast launched at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Lecturer at Regent’s University London and Point Blank Music School. Performing artist as NINJA, with sets at Pacha Ibiza, Buddha Bar, Goodwood Festival of Speed, the United Nations in London and the World Economic Forum. Biography Formula 1 teams treat composure as an engineered system. Sleep, nutrition, debrief routines and pre-race protocols are sequenced so that the driver can make sound decisions when the cost of a wrong one is highest. Regents Racing was built to translate that discipline into a leadership setting, taking senior executives and members through experiences that pressure-test how they prepare, recover and decide. The organisation began in 2011 at Regent’s University London as a community of competitive drivers and has grown into a private network with programming around Formula 1 weekends in Monaco, Bahrain and Abu Dhabi, the Goodwood Festival of Speed and factory tours. Its executive-facing subsidiary, The Formula Mind, sits closer to senior leadership development. A second strand of the work comes from a personal record. Diagnosed with dyspraxia at 15, Nanji built a parallel career as the touring artist NINJA, with sets at Pacha Ibiza, Buddha Bar, the United Nations in London and the World Economic Forum. Her TEDx talk at the Luxembourg Philharmonie in 2019 set out how she rewired cognitive function around the condition, and that account is now a core part of her keynote work on neurodivergence and resilience. The third strand is Mission Makers, the podcast she launched during the World Economic Forum in Davos in 2020. The show has interviewed leaders across music, motorsport and business, and it doubles as her research engine: the conversations feed the frameworks she brings into the room when she speaks. Key speaking topics Leadership and decision-making under pressure Formula 1 psychology and peak performance Resilience and self-leadership Neurodivergence and dyspraxia at work High-performance teams Entrepreneurship and founding a community-based business Music, creativity and performance discipline Ideal for Senior leadership offsites and executive development programmes focused on composure and decision-making under pressure Boards and ExCo audiences exploring high-performance culture DEI, talent and HR audiences working on neurodivergence and inclusive performance Conferences seeking a hybrid keynote and live performance from a single artist Audience outcomes A working vocabulary for what high-performance preparation, recovery and debrief actually look like in Formula 1, and where the parallels to executive work hold A first-person account of building cognitive routines around dyspraxia, with direct application for neurodivergent talent in the workforce A clearer sense of how leaders sustain composure when the margin for error is thin A founder’s perspective on building a private community business that crosses motorsport, music and leadership

Why organisations work with Felipe Gomez A working framework, the Virtuoso Code, built on three pillars (Method, Attitude, Passion) that gives leaders a concrete vocabulary for what separates technical competence from sustained excellence. Operating credibility behind the metaphor: tripled revenue at Compass Group Colombia, built Farmacity Colombia from launch, and scaled an e-business consultancy across seven Latin American countries. A separate, codified entrepreneurial-mindset model (Attitude-E, six levers) published as a bestselling book in 2019, usable as a standalone keynote for growth and innovation audiences. A live grand piano performance integrated into the keynote, which makes the content memorable in a way a slide deck cannot replicate. Useful when the brief calls for emotional anchoring of a strategy message at a leadership conference or kick-off. Bilingual delivery in English and Spanish, with substantial reach across Latin American corporate audiences. Biography highlights MBA, IMD Lausanne; advanced training in Leading Digital Business Transformation. Author of Attitude-E (2019) and Bitácora De Una Pandemia En Quince Conversaciones (2020). Former Managing Director, Compass Group Colombia; founding president, Farmacity Colombia. Founder of Ink./Azurian, scaled to seven Latin American countries. Speaker at TED, Global Peter Drucker Forum, WOBI, World Business Forum, Oslo Business Forum. 1,000+ keynote engagements across 33 countries on five continents. Biography The habits that produce a virtuoso musician are remarkably specific. Hours of structured practice, an attitude toward error that treats mistakes as information, a relationship with a craft that survives long after the early thrill has gone. Felipe Gomez has spent the last decade arguing that the same habits produce sustained performance in business, and using a grand piano on stage to make the case. The argument has operating weight behind it. Before turning to speaking full time in 2014, Gomez ran Compass Group Colombia as Managing Director, tripling revenue and lifting operating profit 130%. He was founding president of Farmacity Colombia, opening twelve stores in twenty months. Earlier he had built Ink., later Azurian, into the first significant e-business consultancy in Latin America, with offices in seven countries. The Virtuoso Code, his current keynote framework, organises that experience into three pillars: Method, Attitude, Passion. Method is the discipline of consistent, rigorous practice. Attitude is the empathy and humility that make collaboration possible. Passion is the courage to keep going when the work stops being easy. Attitude-E, his 2019 book, applies the same lens to entrepreneurship through six levers: Envision, Energy, Endurance, Ensemble, Elasticity, Engagement. Gomez has presented at TED, the Global Peter Drucker Forum, WOBI, the World Business Forum, and the Oslo Business Forum, in 33 countries on five continents. He delivers in English and Spanish, and his Allegro non-profit brings live therapeutic music to hospital settings in Colombia. Key speaking topics Peak performance and sustained excellence Entrepreneurial mindset and operating discipline Leadership, empathy, and collaboration Innovation culture Active listening and communication Resilience under pressure Ideal for C-suite and senior leadership conferences anchoring a year-long performance or culture programme. Sales and commercial kick-off events where a leadership message needs emotional anchoring. Latin American and Hispanic corporate audiences requiring senior bilingual delivery. Entrepreneurship and scale-up forums where Attitude-E is the relevant frame. Audience outcomes A shared vocabulary, Method, Attitude, Passion, for what separates sustained performers from talented amateurs. The six Attitude-E levers as a working checklist for entrepreneurial behaviour inside a corporate setting. A specific, memorable anchor for a leadership or kick-off message, reinforced by live piano performance. Practical cues for active listening drawn from Gomez’s 5Ts approach.

Why organisations work with Frederika Roberts An applied positive psychology MSc and doctoral research base, rather than the wellness-industry credentialling that dominates this space. Author or co-author of five published works on character education and whole-school wellbeing, including titles with Jessica Kingsley Publishers and Sage. European Representative for IPPAed, giving access to current global research on positive education before it filters into mainstream practice. Working content for both education sectors and workplaces, covering character strengths, psychological safety, and Appreciative Inquiry as a change method. Operates in English, Italian, French, and German, which matters for European multi-site organisations and international school groups. Biography highlights MSc in Applied Positive Psychology; doctoral researcher in Education focused on whole-school wellbeing. European Representative for IPPAed, the International Positive Psychology Association’s Positive Education division. Founder of Educate to Flourish CIC, a social enterprise embedding wellbeing into school communities. Co-author, “Character Toolkit for Teachers” (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2018) and “Character Toolkit Strength Cards” (2020). Co-editor, “The Big Book of Whole School Wellbeing” (2021); author, “For Flourishing’s Sake” (2020) and “Recipe for Happiness” (2013). Member of the Professional Speaking Association and the Global Speakers Federation; iPPL Expert Member. Biography Wellbeing has become one of the most over-claimed and under-delivered categories in organisational life. Initiatives proliferate; engagement and mental health indicators rarely move with them. The gap is methodological. Most wellbeing work is built on motivational content rather than on the published research that the field of positive psychology has produced over the last two decades. Roberts works inside that research base. She holds an MSc in Applied Positive Psychology and is completing doctoral research on whole-school wellbeing using Appreciative Inquiry, a change methodology that focuses organisational attention on what is already working and how to build from it. As European Representative for IPPAed, the International Positive Psychology Association’s Positive Education division, she connects practitioners with current academic findings before they reach the trade press. Her published output gives organisations a clear sense of how she translates evidence into practice. “Character Toolkit for Teachers” (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2018) and the “Character Toolkit Strength Cards” (2020) provide working tools rather than abstract frameworks. “The Big Book of Whole School Wellbeing” (2021), which she co-edited, sits across the major contributors in the field. “For Flourishing’s Sake” sets out how policy and practice can be redesigned to put flourishing at the centre. She founded Educate to Flourish CIC to take this work into schools as a social enterprise, and extends the same practice into workplaces, drawing on character strengths, psychological safety, and strengths-based approaches. The work is unusual in the wellbeing market for being explicitly research-grounded and equally credible in front of educators, HR leaders, and policy audiences. Key speaking topics Positive psychology in organisational and educational settings Whole-school and whole-organisation wellbeing Character education and character strengths Appreciative Inquiry as a change method Psychological safety and strengths-based culture Mental health and flourishing at work Ideal for HR and people leaders responsible for wellbeing strategy beyond surface-level programmes School leaders, MAT executives, and university leadership teams Conference audiences in education, public sector, and not-for-profit Boards or executives in family-owned and values-led organisations rethinking culture Audience outcomes A working understanding of what positive psychology research has actually shown about wellbeing and performance. Specific tools from character strengths, Appreciative Inquiry, and strengths-based practice that can be applied immediately. A sharper distinction between wellbeing programmes that produce change and those that do not. Language and a model for connecting individual flourishing to organisational outcomes.

Why organisations work with Sir Gareth Southgate His England management tenure is the subject of a published case study at Harvard Business School – one of the few occasions in sport where a coaching approach has been formally codified as an executive leadership model. He rebuilt a national team culture from a position of public failure and sustained performance across four consecutive major tournaments. That track record gives his thinking on culture change and sustained delivery a foundation most leadership authors lack. Dear England: Lessons in Leadership (Sunday Times instant bestseller, 2025) sets out the specific reasoning behind his decisions under pressure – on accountability, psychological safety, selection, and standing behind unpopular choices – in a form directly applicable to organisational leadership. He led through personal, very public failure – the Euro ’96 penalty miss that defined a decade of his public identity – and through two consecutive tournament final defeats. His account of resilience starts from having lived the worst-case scenario, not from having studied it. During intense national debates on race, identity, and protest, he articulated a values position publicly and held a diverse squad together through that pressure. Organisations navigating social or political tension inside teams get a practitioner account of what that demands in practice. Biography highlights England men’s senior manager 2016-2024; 102 matches, 61 wins – more major tournament games won than any other England manager in history Only the second England manager to reach a major tournament final, after Sir Alf Ramsey in 1966; reached consecutive European Championship finals in 2021 and 2024 Knighted in the King’s New Year Honours 2025; previously appointed OBE in 2019 Visiting lecturer at Harvard Business School; his England tenure is the subject of a published HBS leadership case study Author of Dear England: Lessons in Leadership (Cornerstone, 2025) – an instant Sunday Times bestseller; delivered the 2025 BBC Richard Dimbleby Lecture on BBC One, joining Bill Gates, Christine Lagarde, and the Prince of Wales as past speakers in the series Two-time BBC Sports Personality of the Year Coach Award (2018 and 2021); playing career spanning over 500 appearances for Crystal Palace, Aston Villa, and Middlesbrough, with 57 England caps Biography When Gareth Southgate took charge of England in 2016, the national team had just been knocked out of the Euros by Iceland. Public confidence was at a low. Over eight years and four major tournaments, he rebuilt the team’s culture entirely. The result was consecutive European Championship finals and a record for the most major tournament games won by any England manager. His approach is now the subject of a case study taught at Harvard Business School. The method was deliberate cultural architecture rather than tactical adjustment. Southgate prioritised psychological safety, shared values, and a team identity that held under pressure. His open letter to England fans during COVID-19 inspired the award-winning West End play Dear England. It demonstrated how he treated transparency and personal vulnerability as leadership tools, not liabilities. Southgate delivered the 2025 BBC Richard Dimbleby Lecture on BBC One, joining Bill Gates, Christine Lagarde, and the Prince of Wales as previous speakers in the series. Dear England: Lessons in Leadership became an instant Sunday Times bestseller; the Guardian described it as articulating a moral vision that went beyond the reach of contemporary British politics. He was knighted in the King’s New Year Honours 2025 for services to association football. The fractured starting point, intense public accountability, and need to build individual and collective performance simultaneously – these are not challenges unique to sport. His insights are drawn from eight consecutive years at the sharp end of that problem, not from theory. Key speaking topics Leadership under sustained public scrutiny Culture transformation and team identity Values-based accountability Resilience and performance through failure Psychological safety and trust in high-stakes teams Inclusive leadership and diversity of thought Decision-making in high-pressure environments Ideal for Senior leadership teams and C-suite executives navigating cultural or strategic transformation CHROs and people leaders working on team culture, inclusion, and performance under pressure Board-level and executive leadership development programmes Organisations in high-scrutiny sectors – financial services, public institutions, large consumer-facing businesses – where leadership decisions carry public accountability Audience outcomes A concrete model for building values-led culture that outlasts individual results cycles First-hand perspective on decision-making under public pressure: how values, not tactics, determine outcomes over time Practical insight into what psychological safety looks like in a high-accountability, high-visibility environment A framework for holding team identity together through failure, scrutiny, and competing stakeholder demands An honest account of how personal and public setback can become the foundation of leadership credibility rather than a liability

Why organisations work with Gary Foote He is a current F1 Chief Information Officer, now at GM Performance Power Units, building the technology function for the Cadillac F1 power unit programme from the ground up. He ran the IT and digital operation at Haas F1 for a decade, taking the team from a start-up entry in 2016 to a competitive, data-driven constructor with global infrastructure. His remit at Haas covered IT, digital, facilities, operations, ESG and business continuity, which gives boards a realistic view of how sustainability and technology intersect inside a performance business. He has been named in the UK CIO 100 for five consecutive years and is a Fellow of the British Computer Society, so the credibility holds up in a room of sitting CIOs. His track record spans Cosworth, Honda Racing F1, Brawn GP and Mercedes Grand Prix, covering six motorsport world championships, which lets him speak to high-performance culture without leaning on abstract frameworks. Biography highlights Chief Information Officer, GM Performance Power Units, the General Motors and TWG Global company delivering the Cadillac F1 power unit. Former CIO and Director of Sustainability at MoneyGram Haas F1 Team, a role held for approximately ten years. Earlier senior technology roles at Mercedes Grand Prix, Brawn GP, Honda Racing F1 and Cosworth Technology. Fellow of the British Computer Society. Named in the UK CIO 100 five years running, 2021 to 2025. Trustee at Tove Learning Trust and active advocate for STEM education. Biography Haas F1 arrived on the grid in 2016 with two cars, a lean headcount and a blank technology estate. Gary Foote built the IT and digital backbone that made that entry possible, then spent a decade scaling it into the stack of a competitive constructor. His brief at Haas eventually covered IT, digital, facilities, ESG and business continuity, which is a wider surface than most corporate CIO roles carry. That is the frame he brings to boards: technology strategy shaped by the realities of logistics, carbon reporting, risk and culture inside one business. Today he is CIO at GM Performance Power Units, the General Motors and TWG Global company set up to build the Cadillac F1 power unit. He is doing again what most CIOs never get the chance to do once, which is stand up an elite-sport technology function from a clean sheet while the competitive clock is already running. The credentials back the story. He is a Fellow of the British Computer Society and has been listed in the UK CIO 100 five years in a row. He writes and speaks in named industry outlets including Computer Weekly, Infosecurity Magazine and Celonis, and he sits on the board of Tove Learning Trust. Key speaking topics Technology leadership in high-performance sport Artificial intelligence and data strategy in Formula 1 Cybersecurity in time-critical operations Digital transformation inside elite teams Sustainability and ESG in motorsport Scaling an IT function from start-up to championship contender High-performance culture and cross-functional operations Ideal for CIO, CTO and CDO audiences looking at AI, data and infrastructure investment decisions Boards and executive teams benchmarking their operating model against high-tempo performance businesses Sustainability and ESG leaders in industrial and logistics-heavy sectors Audience outcomes A working picture of how a Formula 1 team uses data, AI and cloud infrastructure to compete race by race. A sharper view of how technology, facilities and ESG sit inside one leadership remit rather than separate silos. Practical reference points for scaling an IT function quickly without accruing legacy risk. A candid read on cybersecurity and business continuity in an environment where downtime is visible to the world.

Why organisations work with George King A first-hand account of decision-making at lethal stakes, not borrowed from sport or special forces analogy. King climbed The Shard at 19 without ropes; the consequence of error was death, not a missed target. A specific reframe of ADHD that audiences with neurodivergent colleagues or family members find usable. The argument is that hyperfocus and risk tolerance are trainable assets, not deficits the workplace must tolerate. Public credibility through the Channel 4 documentary “The Boy Who Climbed The Shard” and presenting work for the channel’s extreme sports output, which gives the booking immediate recognition with general audiences. A profile that travels well to younger and external-facing audiences: 1.6 million YouTube views on the documentary, an active public following, and a story that lands in the room before he speaks. Biography highlights First person to free-solo climb The Shard, July 2019, age 19. Subject of the 2020 Channel 4 documentary “The Boy Who Climbed The Shard”. Channel 4 presenter on extreme sports specials. Free-solo ascents of Lotte Tower, Seoul, and Stratosphere Tower, with BASE-jump descents. Featured in Time magazine, the Architects’ Journal, and Times Live. Speaks publicly about ADHD and fear management on platforms including the Minter Dial podcast. Biography In July 2019 a 19 year old climbed The Shard with no ropes, no safety equipment, and no permission. The ascent took 45 minutes. The legal aftermath took longer, ending in a custodial sentence at HMP Pentonville. George King was the climber, and the story is the foundation of every keynote he gives. What makes the talk useful to corporate audiences is not the climb itself but the preparation behind it. King describes fear as a system that can be trained, with named techniques he applies before each ascent: visualisation, breath control, and the specific mental routines that hold composure when the consequence of a mistake is fatal. The frame is recognisable to anyone who has briefed a board on a high-stakes decision, but the stakes are concrete rather than figurative. He also speaks openly about ADHD, which he treats as the cognitive asset that makes the climbs possible. His position is direct: hyperfocus, risk tolerance and pattern attention are not deficits requiring medication, they are trainable capabilities that produce performance when properly channelled. That argument has earned him a following among neurodivergent audiences and the parents and managers around them. King has presented two extreme sports specials for Channel 4 and was the subject of the channel’s 2020 documentary “The Boy Who Climbed The Shard”, which has passed 1.6 million views on YouTube. His climbs since The Shard include Lotte Tower in Seoul and the Stratosphere Tower, both with BASE-jump descents, and both covered in international press. Key speaking topics Fear management under high-consequence conditions ADHD and neurodiversity as performance Mental preparation and visualisation Risk assessment in extreme environments Resilience after public failure Peak performance Ideal for Internal employee events on neurodiversity and inclusion, particularly where the audience includes line managers of neurodivergent staff Sales kick-offs and motivational set-pieces where the brief is composure under pressure Youth-facing, education and apprentice audiences where reach and recognition matter as much as content Wellbeing and mental performance programmes looking for a non-clinical voice Audience outcomes A named set of techniques for managing fear before a high-stakes event, drawn directly from the climber’s own pre-ascent routine A reframe of ADHD that audiences can take back to neurodivergent colleagues, children or themselves A first-hand account of decision-making where the cost of error is final, useful as a reference point for less extreme corporate risk conversations A memorable headline story that gives the wider event a centrepiece audiences will retell

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 Gopi Krishnaswamy He teaches the Search Inside Yourself method, the emotional-intelligence curriculum built and validated at Google, as one of the first certified SIY teachers in India. Audiences leave with a tested practice they can repeat, not a motivational hour on mindfulness. He reframes burnout as a flaw in how performance is designed. That shift hands senior teams a wellbeing problem they can act on, rather than one they quietly feel guilty about. His years as a managing director at IDEO let him speak to executives in the language of performance and judgement. That earns him a hearing with audiences who are usually sceptical of anything labelled wellness. His Inner OS framework gives leaders a repeatable model for holding composure under pressure. The session ends with a method they can keep using, built around his 3-5-5 model and SCORE protocol. Biography highlights Author of The Monk in the Corner Office (Penguin Business, 2025) and Creativity Unleashed (Bloomsbury), with a third book, The Inner OS, forthcoming in late 2026 Former Managing Director at IDEO, the Silicon Valley design firm behind Apple’s first mouse One of the first certified teachers in India of Search Inside Yourself, the emotional-intelligence programme developed at Google MBA from INSEAD Founder and CEO of Llama, a corporate mindfulness and wellbeing training organisation Has trained more than 100,000 people across five continents at organisations including Deloitte, BCG, McKinsey, and the Aditya Birla Group Biography IDEO built its reputation on designing how things work, from Apple’s first mouse onwards. One of its managing directors left that world to train in the Zen tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh, and returned with a different design problem: the inner life of the people running organisations. That managing director is Gopi Krishnaswamy. He now trains senior leaders in what he calls the Inner OS, the mental and emotional system that governs how a person holds attention and judgement when the demands do not stop. It is the subject of his next book, The Inner OS, due in late 2026. His core claim is blunt. Burnout among capable leaders is usually a design problem, and almost no one trains the inner capacity that would hold performance together. Behind this sits a tested method. He is one of the first certified teachers in India of Search Inside Yourself, the emotional-intelligence programme developed and validated at Google, and he has taught its practices to more than 100,000 people across five continents. His clients include Deloitte, BCG, McKinsey, and the Aditya Birla Group. He makes the case in The Monk in the Corner Office, his 2025 Penguin book, which he positions as a performance manual for serious leaders. The conviction is personal. After an accident, doctors told him he would never ride a motorcycle again. He went on to become one of the first riders of a Harley-Davidson when the brand launched in India. Key speaking topics Sustainable high performance Leadership under pressure Emotional intelligence Mindfulness for leaders Resilience Mental conditioning for senior leaders Burnout prevention Ideal for CEOs, founders, and senior executives carrying sustained, high-stakes responsibility Leadership teams heading into intense periods such as restructures or rapid scaling CHROs and people leaders tackling executive burnout and retention at the most senior levels Conference and offsite audiences who want a substantive session on performance and wellbeing with a method behind it Audience outcomes A working model from the Inner OS framework for holding composure and clarity when the pressure does not let up Specific Search Inside Yourself practices for emotional regulation that leaders can use the same week The case for treating burnout as a fixable design problem, and the language to raise it with their own teams The methods elite performers use to train their minds, adapted for the demands of senior leadership