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Why organisations work with Kirstie Allsopp Twenty-five years of unbroken primetime presence on Channel 4 means audiences arrive already familiar with her, which shortens the warm-up phase of any event and lifts the room from the first minute. She runs her own production company, Raise the Roof, and her own product range, so she briefs as a working businesswoman rather than as talent reading lines, and questions on retail, brand and property land with substance. Property, home and consumer behaviour are the core subjects she has covered on screen since 2000, which makes her a natural fit for property, housebuilding, retail, lifestyle, charity and DIY brand audiences without needing a forced bridge. A direct, unscripted on-stage style. She is comfortable with live Q and A, off-the-cuff interviewing of executives, and the kind of room where a guarded host would stall. Sustained ambassadorship of Home-Start UK gives her credibility with charity galas and corporate-foundation audiences where a frivolous host would jar. Biography highlights Co-presenter of Channel 4’s Location, Location, Location with Phil Spencer since the show’s launch in 2000. Co-founder of Raise the Roof Productions, the Glasgow-based independent television company behind Location, Location, Location, Love It or List It UK and the Kirstie’s craft series. Founder in 1996 of Kirmir, a high-end home search agency operating in central and west London. Author of Kirstie’s Homemade Home, Kirstie’s Vintage Home, Kirstie Allsopp Craft and Kirstie’s Christmas Crafts, all published by Hachette. Creator and presenter of the Kirstie’s craft franchise on Channel 4, including Handmade Britain, Vintage Home, Celebrity Craft Masters and House of Craft. Long-standing ambassador for Home-Start UK. Biography Location, Location, Location launched on Channel 4 in 2000. More than two decades and forty series later, it is still on air, still presented by the same two people, and still one of the most reliable property formats in British television. Kirstie Allsopp has been one half of that pairing since the first episode. The career around it is broader than the show. She founded Kirmir, a central and west London home search agency, in 1996, four years before the cameras arrived. She co-founded Raise the Roof Productions, the independent company behind Location, Location, Location, Love It or List It UK and the Kirstie’s craft series, and sits inside the business as co-owner rather than as on-screen talent. Her published work with Hachette covers homes, vintage interiors and craft, and her Channel 4 craft franchise has run alongside the property work for more than a decade. For corporate audiences, the relevance is practical. She has spent twenty-five years interviewing buyers, sellers, retailers and small producers in front of a national audience, and she has run her own businesses across property, production and product. That gives her a working vocabulary for retail, property, brand and consumer behaviour that most television hosts do not carry. On stage she is direct, fluent without a script, and at ease with live audiences, which is the qualification that matters most when an organisation hands a host the room for an evening. She is also a sustained ambassador for Home-Start UK, the family-support charity, and her fundraising work there gives her credibility in charity-led and corporate-foundation settings where a purely entertainment host would feel mismatched. Key speaking topics Awards hosting and corporate compering After-dinner presence Property and the UK housing market Consumer behaviour in home and lifestyle British craft and small-producer retail Building a brand alongside a broadcasting career Charity event hosting Ideal for Property, housebuilding, mortgage and estate agency conferences booking a recognisable host with subject fluency Retail, lifestyle, DIY and home-furnishing brand events and awards Charity galas and corporate-foundation evenings, particularly those with a family, home or community focus After-dinner slots and awards ceremonies for senior corporate audiences who want a familiar Channel 4 face Audience outcomes A confidently paced evening where transitions, awards reads and guest interviews land cleanly Authentic engagement with property, retail and consumer-brand themes when the brief calls for them Live, unscripted interviewing of executives, winners and panellists that adds energy rather than filler Warmth and access for charity audiences where a sincere host materially affects giving and mood

Why organisations work with Kirsty Lang She has interviewed at the highest level for BBC Radio 4 Front Row, BBC World News and Channel 4 News, which means she can pressure-test a CEO, minister or artist on stage without losing the room. Her foreign-correspondent grounding, including covering the 1989 revolutions and the Balkans wars from Budapest for the BBC World Service, gives her real authority on geopolitics, conflict and Europe. She brings governance credibility from the inside of major institutions: Chair of Global Witness, Chair of BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, and two full terms as a Trustee and Non-Executive Director of the British Council. She is fluent across two often-separated worlds, hard news and the arts, which makes her the right chair for philanthropy, soft power and cultural-diplomacy conversations that cross both. She has chaired and moderated for organisations including EY, IBM, the WHO, NICE, the Bosch Foundation and the British Medical Association, so the moderating brief is familiar territory rather than a stretch. Biography highlights Lead presenter, BBC Radio 4 Front Row, for 19 years (2003 to 2022). Host, BBC Radio 4 Round Britain Quiz, from 2022. Chair of the Board, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead. Chair of the Board, Global Witness, from January 2024. Trustee and Non-Executive Director, British Council, 2014 to 2020 (two full terms). Chair of judges, Orange Prize for Fiction, 2008. Visiting professor, Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs, 2012. Biography The Berlin Wall came down in November 1989. Kirsty Lang was the BBC World Service’s Central European correspondent in Budapest, reporting the revolutions across the region and, soon after, the wars in the former Yugoslavia. That decade of foreign reporting, including a stint as Paris correspondent for The Sunday Times, sits underneath everything she does on a stage today. She moved into anchor roles at Channel 4 News between 1998 and 2002, then returned to the BBC to launch BBC Four’s evening news. For 19 years, from 2003 to 2022, she was a lead presenter of Front Row on BBC Radio 4, the network’s flagship arts and culture programme, interviewing writers, artists, film-makers and policymakers nightly. Since 2022 she has hosted Round Britain Quiz on the same network. Her governance record gives her an unusual second register. She chairs the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, served two full terms as a Trustee and Non-Executive Director of the British Council between 2014 and 2020, and in January 2024 became Chair of the Global Witness Board, the international NGO investigating environmental and human rights abuses linked to natural-resource exploitation. That mix is what organisations book her for. She moves between hard news, the arts, and institutional governance with equal command, which is why she is asked to chair conferences for clients including EY, IBM, the World Health Organization, NICE, the British Medical Association and the Bosch Foundation. Key speaking topics International affairs and Europe Soft power and cultural relations Philanthropy and the third sector The arts and cultural policy Storytelling and narrative Conference moderation and panel chairing Media interview craft Ideal for Boards and senior leadership convenings on international affairs, soft power or cultural diplomacy. Foundations, NGOs and cultural institutions running flagship donor, trustee or stakeholder events. Multi-stakeholder conferences in healthcare, professional services and policy that need a chair who can hold expert panels to account. Awards ceremonies, literary festivals and high-profile interview formats with named guests. Audience outcomes A conference programme that surfaces the actual argument, because the chair has read the brief and can press the panel. On-stage interviews that reach the difficult questions without alienating the guest. Audience engagement sustained across long-form sessions through pace, follow-up and editorial judgement. Cross-disciplinary conversations, including geopolitics with culture, or policy with philanthropy, kept coherent for a senior audience.

Why organisations work with Kirsty Wark Thirty-one consecutive years on BBC Newsnight, the highest-pressure interview chair in British current affairs, brings a discipline of questioning that few corporate moderators can match. BAFTA Fellowship (2025) and Royal Television Society lifetime achievement award (2024) signal a level of public recognition that lends weight to an event where the chair is visible alongside the principals. Long-established moderation credit with serious institutions including Deutsche Bank, Investec, Lloyds TSB, Procter and Gamble and the Cambridge MIT Institute, indicating a track record in commercially sensitive rooms. Comfortable holding senior political and business figures on the record without losing room temperature, a specific craft built across decades of live broadcast. Biography highlights Presenter of BBC Newsnight, 1993 to 2024, the programme’s longest-serving anchor. BAFTA Fellowship, 2025 British Academy Television Awards. Royal Television Society lifetime achievement award, RTS Journalism Awards, 2024. Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 2017. Honorary Doctor of Letters, University of St Andrews, 2023. Author of “The Legacy of Elizabeth Pringle” (Two Roads, 2014), shortlisted for the Saltire First Book of the Year. Founder of Wark Clements, the production company behind arts and current affairs strands including “Words With Wark” and “Restless Nation”. Biography Newsnight closed its desk on her in 2024 after thirty-one years. Few broadcasters in any market have sat in the same interview chair for that long, across that many political cycles, with that level of consistent editorial weight. The chair itself is the credential. Wark’s commercial value to corporate audiences sits in the same craft. She moderates, chairs and interviews at the level senior boards are used to seeing in flagship current affairs. The discipline of holding a principal on a single question, of moving a panel through a contested topic without losing the room, of taking an audience question and translating it back into something the speaker can usefully address, was built across decades on Newsnight, The Late Show and BBC Two arts programming. The public recognition is unambiguous. The BAFTA Fellowship in 2025 sits alongside the Royal Television Society lifetime achievement honour from 2024, Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and an honorary Doctor of Letters from the University of St Andrews. Her corporate moderation roster, Deutsche Bank, Investec, Lloyds TSB, Procter and Gamble, Statoil, the Cambridge MIT Institute and the Rolex Mentor and Protege Arts Initiative among them, indicates clients who book her for rooms where the chair has to carry the same authority as the speakers on stage. She also writes fiction. Her debut novel, “The Legacy of Elizabeth Pringle”, was published by Two Roads in 2014 and shortlisted for the Saltire First Book of the Year Award, a side credential that signals range and a working ear for narrative, useful in any room where the format moves between interview, panel and audience exchange. Key speaking topics Conference moderation and panel chairing Interview-format keynotes and fireside conversations Awards hosting and ceremonial presenting Media scrutiny and leadership communication UK political reporting and current affairs analysis Scottish public life, arts and culture Ideal for Annual leadership conferences and investor events requiring a moderator with broadcast-level authority Awards nights, gala dinners and ceremonial events with a principal-speaker line-up Fireside-format keynotes where a senior executive or external figure is interviewed on stage Sensitive panels on regulatory, political or reputational topics needing a chair the room will trust Audience outcomes A panel or interview that lands the substantive content rather than drifting into platitude Senior speakers handled with the same composure they would expect from a flagship broadcast interview Audience questions translated into useful exchanges, not lost to the room A ceremonial event that holds its pace and authority across the full running order

Why organisations work with Kofi Smiles Brings the on-air discipline of a daily BBC Breakfast Show host to corporate stages: live timing, interview craft, and recovery when an agenda slips Steers difficult panels with humour, including conversations on inclusion, youth voice and culture, without lowering the tone Carries credibility with younger and culturally diverse audiences through his BBC No Filter work and youth broadcasting background Comfortable across formats: keynote interviewer, awards host, fireside chair, conference moderator, internal town-hall facilitator Biography highlights Host, BBC Radio Humberside Breakfast Show Presenter, BBC Radio 4 The Listening Project; has hosted Pick of the Week Selected as the BBC’s Face of Hull for UK City of Culture 2017, chosen from more than 200 candidates Co-winner, O2 Media Award for Digital Journalism (Hull 2017 coverage) Founder of BBC No Filter, a platform amplifying young voices Co-founder of CTK Media, producing political satire and pop culture content; University of Northumbria graduate Biography A live BBC Breakfast Show is unforgiving. The clock does not slip, the guests do not always show, and the host has to keep the listener with them through every link. Kofi Smiles has run that format every morning at BBC Radio Humberside, and the discipline travels into the rooms he chairs for corporate clients. He came to national attention as the BBC’s Face of Hull for the UK City of Culture 2017, chosen from more than 200 candidates and appearing across Radio 4, BBC One and the News Channel. The team coverage won an O2 Media Award for Digital Journalism. Since then he has hosted Radio 4’s The Listening Project and Pick of the Week, two formats that depend on getting a stranger to open up on tape. That interview craft is what he brings to the stage. He chairs panels, moderates leadership conversations, and hosts awards and conferences. He is comfortable with conversations about inclusion, culture and youth voice, having built BBC No Filter to amplify young people on the platform, and he can hold those conversations without flattening them. The work he does outside the BBC, including political satire and pop culture content through CTK Media, shows up in the room as range. He can switch register from a serious board panel to an evening awards host without dropping the thread. Key speaking topics Event hosting and moderation Conference and awards emcee Panel chairing on inclusion and youth voice Storytelling and broadcast interviewing Culture, media and pop culture commentary Internal town-hall and leadership Q&A facilitation Ideal for Corporate event organisers needing a credible broadcast host or moderator CHRO and DEI leads running internal events on inclusion, culture, or employee voice Brand and marketing teams hosting awards nights, customer conferences, or media launches Internal communications leads commissioning all-hands or leadership Q&A formats Audience outcomes A tighter, better-paced event with clean transitions between sessions Panels that surface a substantive point from each speaker, not just airtime Difficult topics handled with warmth, so the room stays with the conversation A host who lands the close, so the audience leaves on a note the organiser chose

Why organisations work with Kudzi Chikumbu He built TikTok’s creator marketing, education, and community functions from a small U.S. team into a global operation, so he speaks from inside the engine room rather than from the outside as a commentator. He teaches the operating logic of authenticity as a brand strategy, not as a values statement, with a specific framework brands can apply to product launches, executive presence, and creator partnerships. He carries dual credibility: a senior platform operator who has also built a personal creator brand (Sir Candle Man) at meaningful scale, with coverage in The Hollywood Reporter, WWD and The Economist. His perspective on diversity and representation is grounded in what actually moves engagement and trust on platform, which makes it usable for CMOs who need substance rather than signalling. He now teaches at Stanford Graduate School of Business, which gives a structured curriculum behind what could otherwise be presented as anecdote. Biography highlights Former Global Head of Creator Marketing at TikTok; longest-serving member of TikTok’s U.S. team. MBA, Stanford Graduate School of Business; current faculty at Stanford GSB. Began career as an accountant and management consultant at Deloitte. Author, Let It Burn: Illuminate Your Life with Candles & Fragrance (Chronicle Books). Creator of Sir Candle Man, featured in The Hollywood Reporter, WWD, NY Mag, The Economist, and on The Rachael Ray Show. Fortune 40 Under 40, The Hollywood Reporter Next Gen 35 Under 35, Variety’s Hollywood’s New Leaders, AdWeek Experiential Executive of the Year, ADCOLOR Innovator Award. Biography The shift in marketing power from media buyers to creators happened faster than most brand teams adjusted. The companies that responded well treated creators as an operating channel with its own logic. The ones that didn’t treated TikTok like a new ad placement and underperformed on both reach and reputation. Kudzi Chikumbu spent the years that defined that transition inside TikTok, where he built the creator marketing, education, partnerships and community functions as the platform scaled from new entrant to global infrastructure. He was the longest-serving member of TikTok’s U.S. team and rose to Global Head of Creator Marketing, working at the point where brand strategy, platform mechanics, and creator economics meet. His operating thesis is that authenticity functions as a commercial system, not a value statement. Audiences pay attention when a brand or executive shows up with a specific point of view, a clear identity, and a willingness to be legible as a person or a culture. He has tested that thesis on himself: as Sir Candle Man, he built a luxury fragrance creator brand recognised by The Hollywood Reporter, WWD, The Economist, and Chronicle Books, which published his book Let It Burn. He now teaches at Stanford Graduate School of Business, the same institution where he earned his MBA after starting his career at Deloitte. The combination of platform operator, working creator, and faculty member is unusual, and gives him a vocabulary that translates between marketing teams, executive sponsors, and the creator partners they are trying to work with. Key speaking topics Creator marketing and partnerships Brand authenticity as a commercial discipline Niche communities and audience strategy The future of social platforms and digital content Diversity and representation in consumer brands Personal brand and executive presence online Career pivots and reputation strategy Ideal for CMOs, brand directors and marketing leadership teams rebuilding their creator and platform strategy Communications and corporate affairs leaders preparing executives for visible digital presence Consumer brand, retail and lifestyle businesses where culture and creator influence drive purchase DEI, talent and culture leaders working on representation as a commercial, not symbolic, lever Audience outcomes A clearer model of how creator partnerships actually create commercial value, beyond reach metrics Specific tests for whether a brand’s content is platform-native or simply repurposed advertising A practical view of what authenticity means in marketing decisions, from product to executive voice Sharper understanding of how niche communities convert into durable audience relationships Renewed perspective on personal brand and online presence for senior leaders and emerging executives

Why organisations work with Kunle Barker He runs a construction firm. Illustrious Homes has delivered thousands of residential refurbishments, school refits, and sports-centre projects since 2004, so his views on retrofit and net zero are grounded in what is actually buildable. He sits inside the policy conversation. He has advised the House of Lords and the Church of England on housing strategy and is the lead masterplan consultant on the Brent Cross Town regeneration scheme. He is a recognised voice on UK net zero in the built environment. He was the first Unlock Net Zero Ambassador and a CIOB Client Champion, with a regular column in the Architects’ Journal and frequent commentary on Sky News and Times Radio. He works comfortably at the front of a stage. Presenter and curator credits at Grand Designs Live with Kevin McCloud, plus Channel 4 and ITV property shows, mean he can host, moderate, and translate technical content for non-technical audiences. Biography highlights Founder of Illustrious Homes (2004), a construction and design management firm specialising in residential refurbishment, education and sports facility projects. Lead Masterplan Consultant on Brent Cross Town, the multi-billion-pound regeneration scheme led by Related Argent. 2022 inaugural Unlock Net Zero Ambassador; 2023 Unlock Net Zero Ambassador for Inside Housing. CIOB Client Champion for the Chartered Institute of Building. Broadcasting credits include ITV’s “Save Money: My Beautiful Green Home” and “Love Your Home & Garden” with Alan Titchmarsh, “Renovate Don’t Relocate” with Sarah Beeny, “Project Home” (Channel 4, 2023) with Nick Grimshaw, and presenter/curator at Grand Designs Live with Kevin McCloud. Regular columnist for the Architects’ Journal and Grand Designs Magazine; property commentator for Sky News and Times Radio. Biography UK housing accounts for roughly a fifth of national carbon emissions, and the country has more than 28 million existing homes. The retrofit problem is not abstract; it is a question of which walls, which boilers, which planning rules, and which budgets, on which streets. Kunle Barker has spent two decades inside that problem. He founded Illustrious Homes in 2004 and has since delivered thousands of residential refurbishments alongside school and sports-centre projects. That operating base gives his commentary on net zero, retrofit, and sustainable construction something most built-environment speakers lack: a working site to test the argument against. The advisory work followed. He has briefed the House of Lords and the Church of England on housing policy, sits on a round table on UK future housing strategy, and is the lead masterplan consultant on Brent Cross Town, the Related Argent regeneration scheme. He is the inaugural Unlock Net Zero Ambassador and a CIOB Client Champion, and writes regularly for the Architects’ Journal and Grand Designs Magazine. The broadcasting work is where most audiences first meet him. He has co-presented with Alan Titchmarsh and Sarah Beeny on ITV, fronted “Project Home” on Channel 4 with Nick Grimshaw, and presents at Grand Designs Live alongside Kevin McCloud. The reason that matters here, beyond profile, is that he can take a board-level argument about decarbonising housing stock and make it land with a non-specialist room without losing the technical substance. Key speaking topics Sustainable building and retrofit Net zero in the built environment UK housing policy and the housing crisis Urban regeneration and placemaking Future of housing and home design Construction industry transformation Ideal for Property, construction, and real-estate boards setting retrofit and net zero strategy Housing associations, developers, and local authority leadership teams working on regeneration or decarbonisation programmes ESG, sustainability, and building-products organisations needing a credible external voice on UK housing Conference and awards organisers who need a host or moderator who can carry technical built-environment content Audience outcomes A clearer sense of where UK net zero ambition collides with the reality of building, retrofitting, and financing housing. A practitioner’s view of which sustainable building practices actually scale on real projects and which stall. Familiarity with the policy and regeneration conversations shaping the next decade of UK housing. A confident framing of how organisations in property, construction, and adjacent sectors should talk about climate action with customers, residents, and regulators.

Why organisations work with Kwame Onwuachi He has built an inclusive kitchen at the top of fine dining, an industry structurally hostile to it, and can speak to the practical mechanics of who gets hired, who gets mentored, and who stays. His entrepreneurial track record is concrete: multiple restaurant openings, public failure with Shaw Bijou, and the rebuild that produced Tatiana, named #1 in New York by The New York Times two years running. The Family Reunion, his annual hospitality industry summit with Salamander and Sheila Johnson, gives him standing as a convenor of the diversity conversation in food, not just a participant in it. Two best-selling books with Penguin Random House, a James Beard Rising Star Chef award, and a Food & Wine executive producer role mean his narrative is documented and credible to a corporate audience. Biography highlights James Beard Foundation Rising Star Chef of the Year, 2019. Chef and owner of Tatiana at Lincoln Center, named #1 Restaurant in New York by The New York Times in 2023 and 2024, and “One to Watch” by World’s 50 Best Restaurants. Author of “Notes from a Young Black Chef” (2019) and “My America: Recipes from a Young Black Chef” (2022) with Penguin Random House. Founder of The Family Reunion, an annual hospitality diversity event in partnership with Salamander Hotels & Resorts. Contributing executive producer at Food & Wine; named one of Food & Wine’s Best New Chefs. Trained at The Culinary Institute of America, Per Se, and Eleven Madison Park; Top Chef finalist. Biography The fine-dining industry has spent decades discussing diversity without changing very much about who runs its kitchens. Onwuachi is one of the few chefs operating at the top of that industry who can describe, from the inside, why that gap exists and what it takes to close it. Tatiana, his Lincoln Center restaurant, has been named the number one restaurant in New York by The New York Times for two consecutive years. His route there was not linear. He sold candy on subway platforms in the Bronx to fund a catering business, cooked on a boat serving the Deepwater Horizon clean-up crews, trained at the Culinary Institute of America, and worked the line at Per Se and Eleven Madison Park. His first solo restaurant, Shaw Bijou in Washington DC, closed within months. The James Beard Foundation named him Rising Star Chef of the Year in 2019, the year his memoir “Notes from a Young Black Chef” was published. The substance of his corporate work sits in what he built next. The Family Reunion, his annual industry event with Salamander Hotels & Resorts, brings together chefs and hospitality leaders to address representation in food. His cookbook “My America” reframes the question of what American cuisine actually is by tracing the Caribbean, African, and southern Black culinary lineages that produced it. As a Food & Wine contributing executive producer, he sits inside the editorial conversation rather than outside it. For a corporate audience, the value is specific. He has hired, trained, and retained an unusually diverse senior team in an industry where attrition for those workers is severe. He talks about the operational decisions that produced that outcome, not the ideology behind it. Key speaking topics Inclusion and culture in fine dining and hospitality Entrepreneurship through failure and recovery The food of the African Diaspora as American cuisine Storytelling, identity, and brand Building creative teams in exclusionary industries Ideal for CHROs and DEI leads facing pressure to move beyond programmatic inclusion Hospitality, food, and consumer brand leadership teams Founder and entrepreneur audiences working through scale and reinvention Off-sites and conferences seeking a credible voice on culture without corporate framing Audience outcomes A concrete account of what inclusive hiring and retention look like inside a high-pressure operating environment A founder’s view of public failure and the discipline required to rebuild A more honest reading of what American food culture actually is and who built it Renewed appetite for cultural specificity as a commercial asset, not a compliance category

Why organisations work with Kyle Walker He is on air every week. The hosting reflexes are current, not remembered. He has fronted live football output for Sky Sports, the Premier League, and the BBC. Few corporate hosts bring that calibre of live-television experience. His range covers brand activations (EA Sports, Puma, JD Sports), federation work (The FA, FIFA), and financial-services events (Barclays). He hosts industry awards at scale, including the Grounds Management Association Industry Awards 2025. He started at Manchester City TV and built outward through BBC and Sky. The career is earned, not handed over from a playing background. Biography highlights Sky Sports presenter and reporter: The Transfer Show, The ePremier League Show, Saturday Social, The Early Kick Off Show, Sky Sports News. Premier League Productions reporter, delivering matchday and behind-the-scenes content for a global audience. Former BBC contributor: BBC Football Focus, Match of the Day, BBC 5 Live’s Talking Balls, BBC Radio Manchester’s The Dead Good Show. Covered the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar and Good Morning Euros during UEFA Women’s Euro 2022. Trained at the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts. Nominated for the SJA British Sports Journalism Award, Ones to Watch (On-Air), 2021. Biography A bad host turns a strong agenda into a long afternoon. A good one keeps a senior audience in the room, moves a panel forward without dominating it, and recovers when a speaker overruns or a microphone fails. The craft is built on live air, not in a green room. Walker works in live television every week. He presents Sky Sports flagship football output, including The Transfer Show, The ePremier League Show, Saturday Social, and The Early Kick Off Show, and reports for Premier League Productions on matchday content for a global audience. He began at Manchester City TV and built outward through the BBC, contributing to Football Focus, Match of the Day, and BBC 5 Live’s Talking Balls. Tournament coverage includes the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar and Good Morning Euros during UEFA Women’s Euro 2022. His corporate hosting roster sits across federation, brand, and financial-services work: The FA, FIFA, EA Sports, Puma, JD Sports, and Barclays. In 2025 he fronted the Grounds Management Association Industry Awards. The training is formal. Walker is an Academy of Live and Recorded Arts graduate, and was nominated in 2021 for the SJA British Sports Journalism Award, Ones to Watch (On-Air). Organisations book him for the same reason production teams keep him on air: he holds the room, keeps the pace, and lets the content do its work. Key speaking topics Live event hosting Awards-night hosting Panel moderation Conference moderation Brand activation hosting Sports and broadcast Q&A Corporate interviewing and on-stage discussion Ideal for Awards ceremonies and industry recognition events Brand activations and consumer launches Conference and summit moderation for sports, media, and consumer organisations Senior leadership offsites needing a professional host across multiple sessions Audience outcomes An event that runs to time without feeling timed Panels that produce a usable exchange rather than four parallel monologues On-stage interviews that draw a real answer from a senior guest A close that sends the room out engaged rather than relieved

Why organisations work with Larry Jacobson A source experience that is independently documented and book-published. The six-year voyage, the 40 countries, the tsunami in Thailand, the pirate threat in the Gulf of Aden are not rhetorical devices, they are a verifiable record audiences can read after the keynote. Direct translation between an extreme personal undertaking and the corporate context he left to begin it. Jacobson ran a company before he sailed, and speaks to commercial audiences with the cadence of someone who has carried a P&L. A specific argument that fear is a workable variable, not a problem to be removed. Audiences leave with a clearer sense of how to act while still afraid, rather than waiting for the fear to subside. A track record with mainstream corporate and financial-services audiences, including Northwestern Mutual, Investment & Wealth Institute, and Retirement Coaches Association, alongside two TEDx platforms. Biography highlights Six-year circumnavigation by sailboat, 40,000+ nautical miles, 40 countries visited. Author of The Boy Behind the Gate, an Amazon best-seller and award-winning memoir of the voyage. Two-time TEDx speaker: TEDx Golden Gate (“Passion Trumps Fear”) and TEDx Youth (“Passion, Priorities, and Perseverance”). Additional books include What’s Your Encore? A Step-by-Step Guide to Retiring with Purpose and Fulfillment, Beyond the Meeting Room: A Practical Guide to Mastering Communication in a Remote World, and Navigating Entrepreneurship: 11 Proven Keys to Success, with companion video programmes (Sail Into Retirement, Navigating Entrepreneurship) hosted at Buoy Training. Certified World Class Speaking Coach, the credential awarded through the 12-week certification programme run by 1999 World Champion of Public Speaking Craig Valentine. Keynote and coaching clients include Northwestern Mutual, Investment & Wealth Institute, Retirement Coaches Association, InVision, The Henderson Group, Hill Physicians, CASE District VII. Biography Most leadership content is written for the crisis. The harder problem is the long stretch in between, when conditions stay difficult, fear becomes ambient, and the easy decision is to retreat or wait. Jacobson’s material is built for that stretch. He spent six years sailing around the world after running World Class Incentives, a corporate incentive and meeting planning business. The voyage covered 40,000 nautical miles and 40 countries, and included the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and a transit through the Gulf of Aden during a live piracy threat. The book that followed, The Boy Behind the Gate, became an Amazon best-seller and the spine of his speaking practice. The argument he builds from that experience is practical. Fear is a workable variable in any sustained undertaking, not an obstacle to be removed before starting. Audiences hear how to make decisions while afraid, how to sustain conviction over months rather than minutes, and how to finish a long commitment that no one else can see the end of. He has spoken twice on the TEDx platform and works regularly with corporate, financial-services, and association audiences, including Northwestern Mutual, Investment & Wealth Institute, and the Retirement Coaches Association. His retirement work extends beyond the keynote into What’s Your Encore?, a step-by-step retirement guide, and Sail Into Retirement, the structured video programme advisers use with clients. His other books include Beyond the Meeting Room on remote-world communication and Navigating Entrepreneurship. He is a Certified World Class Speaking Coach, a credential earned through the programme run by 1999 World Champion of Public Speaking Craig Valentine. Key speaking topics Resilience and decision-making under sustained pressure Fear management in leadership Perseverance through long commitments Personal reinvention and career transition Goal-setting and execution Retirement and second-career planning Communication and presentation skills for senior audiences Ideal for Sales kick-offs and annual corporate off-sites where the brief is morale and conviction, not analytical content Financial-services and wealth-management association audiences working on client retirement and life-stage conversations Leadership teams entering a long restructuring or turnaround, where the work will outlast the initial mandate Audience outcomes A direct, named framework for acting while afraid, rather than waiting for confidence to arrive first. A clearer view of what sustains conviction over months of difficult conditions, drawn from a six-year first-person example. Permission to take a personally difficult decision they have been deferring, supported by a specific story rather than abstract encouragement.

Why organisations work with Lars Sudmann He brings Fortune 500 operating weight to leadership work. A former P&G CFO and Business Unit Strategy Leader speaks to executive committees in their own language. His self-leadership framework, drawn from his TEDx talk that has crossed 1.9 million views, gives senior leaders a usable model for the personal habits that determine whether strategy actually lands. The Spaghetti Principle, the thesis of his book on innovation, gives organisations a structured way to run more experiments without losing strategic discipline. He is a 6-time Belgian and 2-time European Champion of Public Speaking. Executive presence and communication craft are not a sideline; they are a discipline he can teach. As Council Director at The Conference Board, he convenes CFOs and strategy leaders across Europe and the Gulf, so the room he walks into is one he already understands. Biography highlights Former CFO Belgium and Business Unit Strategy Leader at Procter & Gamble. Principal of Sudmann & Company, advising Fortune 500 leadership teams on strategy execution and change. Council Director at The Conference Board (Strategy & Transformation, Finance Transformation, Gulf councils). Lecturer on leadership and innovation at RWTH Aachen, Braunschweig University, and Lüneburg University. Author of “Innovation that Sticks: Reach Success as a Leader in your Field with the Spaghetti Principle”. Multiple TEDx talks on self-leadership and innovation, with combined viewership in the millions. 6-time Belgian and 2-time European Champion of Public Speaking. Featured in BBC, Fast Company, Inc., The Washington Post, and Manager Magazin. Biography Most leadership content treats execution as a structural problem. Sudmann treats it as a personal one. His TEDx talk on self-leadership, now past 1.9 million views, argues that the daily behaviour of senior leaders is what determines whether strategy moves through the organisation or stalls in the slide deck. The argument carries weight because of the chair he sat in. Sudmann was CFO Belgium at Procter & Gamble and led business unit strategy inside the same group. He has run the numbers, owned the plan, and watched what actually happens when a leadership team is asked to change while still hitting the quarter. That experience now shapes Sudmann & Company, his consulting and training practice, and his role as Council Director at The Conference Board, where he convenes strategy and finance leaders across Europe and the Gulf. He lectures on innovation and leadership at RWTH Aachen, Braunschweig, and Lüneburg, and his book “Innovation that Sticks” sets out the Spaghetti Principle: a disciplined way to run small experiments and keep only what holds. The communication craft is its own credential. Six Belgian and two European public speaking titles mean a Sudmann keynote is not a polished version of corporate decks. It is built to land, with senior audiences, on the first hearing. Key speaking topics Self-leadership and executive habits Strategy execution under pressure Change leadership in complex organisations Innovation discipline and the Spaghetti Principle High-performance leadership teams Executive communication and presentation craft Ideal for Executive committees and senior leadership teams entering a major strategic shift. CFOs, strategy leaders, and transformation leads accountable for execution. Boards and leadership development programmes seeking a credible voice on self-leadership and high-performance behaviour. Conferences with audiences of senior corporate leaders across finance, strategy, and operations. Audience outcomes A working model of self-leadership that senior leaders can apply on Monday morning. A sharper read on why their current strategy is or is not moving through the organisation. The Spaghetti Principle as a method for running more disciplined innovation experiments. Concrete language and structure for executive communication, drawn from competitive speaking craft. A vocabulary for leadership behaviour their team can adopt collectively, not just individually.

Why organisations work with Laura Whitmore Live-television fluency. Six years fronting Love Island, plus stints on I’m a Celebrity NOW!, This Morning and Celebrity Juice, mean she handles unscripted moments, audience energy and tight cues without visible effort. Journalistic credibility on the topics organisations now have to host. She wrote, presented and associate-produced Laura Whitmore Investigates for ITVX, covering incel culture, rough sex and cyber-stalking in detail. A second register beyond entertainment hosting. The Laura Whitmore Show on BBC Radio 5 Live and her current BBC podcast Murder They Wrote demonstrate she can hold a long-form, substantive conversation, not only a stage handover. Public record on women’s safety and online harm. Her 2018 Huffington Post piece on upskirting and the #MeToo campaign was shared globally, and she went on to support the UK upskirting bill on national television. Range across formats. West End theatre (2:22 A Ghost Story), national radio, ITV documentary and primetime ITV2 hosting; clients booking her for an awards night, an internal town hall and a panel get the same person. Biography highlights Host of ITV2’s Love Island, series 6 to 8 (2020 to 2022). Presenter and associate producer of Laura Whitmore Investigates, ITVX, 2023. Former presenter of The Laura Whitmore Show on BBC Radio 5 Live. West End debut as Jenny in 2:22 A Ghost Story at the Criterion Theatre, 2022 to 2023. Spent seven years at MTV Europe after winning the network’s Pick Me MTV contest in 2008. Author of No One Can Change Your Life Except For You; viral 2018 Huffington Post piece on upskirting and the #MeToo movement. Biography A live audience reads a host within thirty seconds. Whitmore has stood in front of one almost every working week since 2008, first at MTV Europe, then on ITV’s Love Island, I’m a Celebrity NOW! and Celebrity Juice. The bookable quality is composure on a live mic, not screen credits. Her journalism degree from Dublin City University is doing more work than is typical for a presenter of her profile. She wrote, fronted and associate-produced Laura Whitmore Investigates for ITVX in 2023, a three-part documentary series on incel culture, rough sex and cyber-stalking. The series ran on the back of reported cases of cyber-stalking rising 300 per cent, and she sought therapeutic support during production. That work is a usable credential when a brief asks for serious handling of online harm or violence against women. She has carried similar substance into other formats. The Laura Whitmore Show on BBC Radio 5 Live demonstrated long-form interview range; her 2018 Huffington Post article on upskirting and the #MeToo and #TimesUp campaigns was shared widely and she publicly supported the UK upskirting legislation on Lorraine. Her current BBC podcast with Iain Stirling, Murder They Wrote, sits in a similar register. The West End run of 2:22 A Ghost Story at the Criterion Theatre placed her on a stage with a different kind of audience for four months in late 2022. Buyers booking her for an awards night, a women’s network event or a moderated panel on online safety are buying the same person across each of those formats. Key speaking topics Hosting and event moderation Awards ceremony presenting Panel facilitation Women’s safety and online harm Mental health in public life Media, journalism and broadcasting Live event presenting and emcee work Ideal for Internal conferences, town halls and awards nights needing a confident broadcast host Women’s network events, IWD programmes and gender-equity panels Wellbeing, mental health and employee-engagement events where a credible non-clinical voice is needed Brand activations and media-industry events where on-camera fluency matters Audience outcomes An event held together by a host who reads the room and lands the cues Panel conversations that move, with follow-up questions that come from journalism, not a running order Sensitive topics, including online harm and mental health, handled without slipping into either tabloid or training-video tone Audience attention sustained through the dips of a long agenda

Why organisations work with Lauren Ducrey Seven years inside Google as a senior UX content strategist, writing the conversational personality of Google Assistant and Bard/Gemini. When she talks about what AI can and cannot do with language, she is describing a system she helped build. The Humanifesto is a six-stage method that runs from 45 minutes to half a day, at a 25-person Google Cloud offsite or a 500-person UNOi México keynote, in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese. Every session produces a written piece per attendee and a gallery of those pieces the internal comms team can publish afterwards. Tongues Tied (2021), the EP Cordes sensibles with Paris guitarist Hadrien Remy (2022), and laureate of the 2022 Moving Words competition for “The Second Cactus”. She also writes bespoke opening and closing pieces to a client’s brief. Indeed programmed her Humanifesto session as an interactive breakout at FutureWorks in Phoenix, September 2026, where it carries SHRM recertification credit. At AXA, the session sold out fast enough that the team ran it again the same week. Biography highlights Senior UX content strategist at Google for seven years, designing the conversational personality of Google Assistant and, later, Bard and Gemini Author of Tongues Tied (2021) and creator of Cordes sensibles (2022), an EP of poetry set to guitar with Paris musician Hadrien Remy, and laureate of the 2022 Moving Words competition Interviewed by Le Monde, Bloomberg QuickTake and The Huffington Post on the Assistant’s personality, which she was then leading for French-speaking markets Sessions delivered for Meta Creative Shop, Google Cloud, AXA, PepsiCo, Renault, Squarespace and Editora Moderna in Brazil Has taught and performed at Columbia University, IRCAM Paris, The Shed in New York and Maison de la Conversation in Paris HEC Paris graduate, with master’s degrees in literature and social innovation, and a former political speechwriter Biography Someone had to decide how the Google Assistant apologises. For seven years that was part of Lauren Ducrey’s job as a senior UX content strategist at Google, writing conversational personality into the Assistant and later into Bard and Gemini. Every phrasing was a design decision, worked out with psychologists and tested against how people actually talk to machines. That work left her treating language as operating infrastructure. Before she left, she was running workshops inside Google that used poems to practise listening and productive disagreement. A leader who cannot describe their own contribution has little to defend when the restructure arrives. One of Google Cloud’s Partners leaders put the condition to her plainly at an offsite: no time to reflect, multitasking as a permanent fact of the job. The format she built for this is the Humanifesto, six stages from an opening poem to a send-off. In the middle, everyone spends fifteen minutes using AI to draft a statement of what they bring that a machine cannot. Meta Creative Shop gave it the closing slot of a full-day global offsite, and volunteers queued to read their pieces aloud to 130 colleagues. At Editora Moderna’s product launch in Brazil, it held 150 school directors past 7:30pm on a Monday. Tongues Tied came out in 2021, followed in 2022 by Cordes sensibles, an EP of poems set to guitar; her piece “The Second Cactus” took the 2022 Moving Words award. She has read at The Shed in New York and taught at Columbia University and IRCAM in Paris. In September 2026, Indeed placed her Humanifesto session on the FutureWorks programme in Phoenix, where it carries SHRM recertification credit. Key speaking topics Human capability in an AI-enabled workforce Language as organisational infrastructure Emotional intelligence and leadership under automation Generative AI as a reflection tool Employee engagement at offsites, all-hands and leadership summits Creativity and expression inside technical teams Poetry as a workplace practice Ideal for CHROs and heads of L&D rebuilding employee development around AI capability Internal communications and culture leads running offsites, all-hands and leadership summits with AI-heavy agendas Conference programmers who need one booking to cover a panel, a workshop and the opening and closing slots Creative, marketing and product directors whose teams are questioning their own value against generative tools Audience outcomes A written Humanifesto: a short personal statement of what each person contributes that AI cannot reproduce One concrete use for generative AI they can apply immediately, prompting it to reflect their own thinking back to them rather than to write on their behalf Shared language for what a team does well, drawn from what people in the room actually wrote Vocabulary for naming what they are experiencing during restructures and AI rollouts, which is the precondition for raising it with a manager A gallery of attendee-written pieces the organisation can publish internally afterwards