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Why organisations work with Lottie Hulme A working journalist inside one of the UK’s largest entertainment newsrooms, with daily access to celebrity stories, talent and the cultural conversation brands are trying to enter. Hosting credit on The Sun’s National Television Awards Winners Room, twice, plus the YouTube franchise Strictly Secrets, which gives clients an MC with a track record on the kind of stage they are trying to reproduce. A TikTok and Instagram following built specifically around showbiz commentary, which puts brand activations in front of the audience that already watches entertainment content. A podcast host (#NoFilter) and regular talk radio contributor, useful when a brief calls for long-form interview craft rather than autocue presenting. Equally comfortable on the red carpet, in the host chair and behind a microphone at a corporate event, which removes the usual gap between a presenter who looks polished and one who can actually carry a live room. Biography highlights Senior Showbiz Reporter at The Sun, delivering celebrity exclusives across the title’s digital and video platforms. Host of Strictly Secrets on The Sun’s YouTube channel. Hosted the National Television Awards Winners Room twice on behalf of The Sun. Former Showbiz and Lifestyle Reporter at OK! Magazine. Former Deputy Editor of The Handbook, a London luxury lifestyle magazine. Host of the #NoFilter podcast and a regular entertainment contributor on talk radio, including Petrie Hosken, David Bull and Fubar Radio’s Access All Areas. Biography The fastest route to a consumer brand moment in 2026 runs through showbiz coverage and social video, not press releases. Lottie Hulme works at that intersection professionally, as Senior Showbiz Reporter at The Sun, where she delivers celebrity news and exclusive interviews across the title’s digital and video platforms. Her route into the chair was deliberate. She began at i-on, Scotland’s biggest fashion and lifestyle magazine, moved to London as Deputy Editor of The Handbook covering high-end venues and events, then joined OK! Magazine as a Showbiz and Lifestyle Reporter before her current role at The Sun. The career has been built inside the publications that set the day’s entertainment agenda. The hosting work has been built in parallel. She has fronted the National Television Awards Winners Room twice for The Sun, presents the YouTube franchise Strictly Secrets, and contributes regularly to UK talk radio. Her #NoFilter podcast brings the same interview craft to long form. For brand clients, she is bookable as MC, awards host, red carpet interviewer and panel host, all delivered with a working journalist’s instinct for the story in the room. Outside the studio, the TikTok and Instagram channels function as their own distribution. Lottie’s showbiz updates reach hundreds of thousands of viewers, which makes her one of the rare presenters who arrive at a corporate event with an existing consumer audience already paying attention. Key speaking topics Entertainment journalism and the modern celebrity story Social media and TikTok for brand audiences Red carpet hosting and awards presenting Influencer marketing and creator partnerships Interview craft for podcasts and live events Luxury lifestyle and consumer brand storytelling Ideal for Consumer brand marketing teams briefing on social-first activation Awards organisers and corporate event leads needing an experienced MC or host Media, entertainment and lifestyle conferences Internal events where a journalist-host can chair panels and conduct on-stage interviews Audience outcomes A clearer read on how entertainment stories actually travel across The Sun, TikTok and broadcast in 2026. A working journalist’s view of what makes celebrity and brand collaborations land or fail. Practical reference points on building a social following around a specific editorial niche. A live demonstration of interview and hosting craft when Lottie chairs sessions on the day.

Why organisations work with Louie Gravance He authored core content for “Disney’s Approach to Quality Service” at the Disney Institute, the programme that taught Disney’s service operating model to outside corporate clients. Buyers get the curriculum source, not a second-hand interpretation of it. His post-Disney consulting work has produced named, large-scale service campaigns for Bank of America, ING Financial, Choice Hotels, Nikon and Microbac Technologies. The work has a commercial track record outside theme parks. He treats service as stagecraft. His frameworks (the P.L.A.N. model, the Ten Skills of the Service Superhero, the Seven Secrets for Crafting WOW Service Experiences) give frontline managers something to teach on Monday, not a philosophy to absorb. He continues to work inside live guest operations, including the Ollivanders Wand Experience at Universal Orlando’s Diagon Alley. The content is sharpened on a working stage, not refined in a slide deck. The book Service is a Superpower: Lessons Learned in a Magic Kingdom (Mascot Books, 2020) gives organisations a takeaway that travels into the team after the keynote ends. Biography highlights 25-plus years at the Walt Disney Company, including curriculum design at the Disney Institute in Orlando. Lead designer on Disney’s “Approach to Quality Service” programme for external corporate clients. Architect of multi-million-dollar service campaigns for Bank of America, ING Financial, Choice Hotels, Nikon, Microbac Technologies and the American Council of Independent Laboratories. Author, Service is a Superpower: Lessons Learned in a Magic Kingdom (Mascot Books, 2020). Opening team member for Harry Potter’s Diagon Alley at Universal Orlando from 2014; continues to perform at the Ollivanders Wand Experience. Recipient of Disney’s Partners in Excellence Award and the Spirit of Disney Award. Biography The hardest part of a service strategy is not writing it. It is the moment when a brand promise meets a tired employee at the end of a long shift. Disney’s operating answer to that problem was not a slogan. It was a curriculum, and Louie Gravance helped build it. Inside the Disney Institute in Orlando, Gravance was part of the team that turned the theme park’s service model into “Disney’s Approach to Quality Service,” the programme that exported the company’s frontline practice to outside corporates. That work sat on top of a longer Disney career: live entertainment design, cast training, and the daily craft of running guest experiences at scale. He spent over 25 years inside the company. The post-Disney work moves the same operating logic into industries where service is the product but the theatre is harder to see. His campaigns include Bank of America’s “Spirit” initiative, alongside named programmes for ING Financial, Choice Hotels, Nikon, Microbac Technologies and the American Council of Independent Laboratories. The book that distils this practice, Service is a Superpower: Lessons Learned in a Magic Kingdom (Mascot Books, 2020), is structured around what he calls the Ten Skills of the Service Superhero. He has not left the operational stage. Since 2014 he has been part of the team behind the Ollivanders Wand Experience inside Universal Orlando’s Diagon Alley, where the content he teaches to corporate clients is tested on real guests, several times a day. Key speaking topics Customer experience and service culture Employee engagement on the frontline Hospitality and member-services operating practice Service storytelling and brand moments Difficult customer interactions Disney-trained service design Ideal for CX, customer service and member-services leaders in financial services, retail, hospitality and healthcare CMOs and brand leaders whose customer promise depends on frontline delivery HR and L&D directors building service onboarding and engagement programmes Franchise, branch and field operations leaders running distributed service teams Audience outcomes A working definition of what a “WOW moment” is and how it is constructed, not described. Specific tools (P.L.A.N., the Ten Skills of the Service Superhero) that translate brand intent into frontline behaviour. A method for handling difficult customer interactions without scripting employees into rigidity. A clear separation between service performance and customer service technology, with the human craft restored to the centre. A model for treating employee engagement as the precondition for service quality, not a parallel HR programme.

Why organisations work with Lucrezia Millarini Fifteen years of live anchoring at ITV News, including the ITV News at Ten and the network’s breaking news announcement of the Duke of Edinburgh’s death, translates directly into composure on stage when a session goes off script. Background in law before journalism: a Bristol law degree and barrister training, useful when chairing panels on regulation, policy, or geopolitics, where the questioning needs to land precisely. Genuine breadth across hard news and softer territory. She has reported from the Grenfell inquiry coverage and co-hosted ITV’s Mental Health Special with Martin Lewis, so audiences trust her to handle difficult subject matter without slipping into either solemnity or gloss. Recognisable network face for UK audiences. Booking her signals to delegates that the event is serious enough to warrant a household-name anchor at the lectern. Biography highlights Anchor, ITV News: ITV Lunchtime News, ITV Evening News and ITV News at Ten. Presenter, ITV London evening bulletin; regular reporter for ITV’s documentary series On Assignment. Reported on the RTS award-winning ITV coverage of the Grenfell Tower Fire. Co-host, The Martin Lewis Money Show: Live Mental Health Special and Mortgage Crisis Special. Law graduate, Bristol University; barrister training; postgraduate diploma in Broadcast Journalism, City University, London. Patron, Dogs on the Street and Support Dogs; supporter of Alzheimer’s Society campaigns. Biography Live news anchoring is the closest analogue in television to chairing a senior conference. The host has a fixed window, a moving brief, contributors who may go long or off-piste, and an audience that expects clarity without theatrics. Lucrezia Millarini has done that work on ITV News for more than fifteen years, across the Lunchtime News, the Evening News and the News at Ten. Her route in matters. She read law at Bristol and trained as a barrister before moving to journalism via a postgraduate diploma at City University. That legal grounding shows up in how she questions panellists on regulation, policy and geopolitics, where loose framing produces loose answers. The range of stories she has handled on air is proof of the point for sensitive corporate sessions. She fronted ITV’s RTS award-winning coverage of the Grenfell Tower Fire, broke the news of the death of the Duke of Edinburgh in a special announcement in April 2021, and was part of ITV’s team at the Windsor wedding of Harry and Meghan. She has co-hosted ITV’s Mental Health Special with Martin Lewis, and reports for the network’s foreign affairs documentary strand, On Assignment. Corporate clients book her for conference chairing, panel moderation and award hosting. The recurring feedback is composure on stage, warmth with contributors, and a refusal to let a panel meander. For organisations putting a flagship event in front of customers, regulators or the board, those are the variables that actually decide whether the day lands. Key speaking topics Conference chairing and panel moderation Award ceremony and gala hosting Geopolitics and current affairs Mental health and wellbeing in the workplace Media, journalism and the modern newsroom Women in leadership and career conversations Ideal for Boards and CEOs commissioning a flagship customer, investor or industry conference where the chair has to hold the room. CHROs and internal communications leads running town halls or all-hands sessions on sensitive topics, including mental health and restructuring. Awards organisers and gala hosts want a recognisable UK broadcast face at the lectern. Audience outcomes A conference agenda that lands as a coherent argument rather than a sequence of unrelated talks. Panels in which the senior contributors are pushed on the points that matter without the session losing pace. Sessions on sensitive subjects, mental health, restructuring, and geopolitical risk, are handled with the steadiness audiences associate with live news. A day that delegates remember for the substance of the conversation, not for the moments that went wrong.

Why organisations work with Lucy Bloom She has run mission-driven organisations through real turnarounds, including a $7 million fundraising programme at Hamlin Fistula Ethiopia and a model shift from orphanage to community development at Sunrise Cambodia. Her leadership material is drawn from those decisions, not from theory. She is one of a small number of Australian leaders to appear on the global Top 30 #SocialCEOs list, which gives her credibility with audiences that care about purpose translated into delivery. She combines a long commercial career, two decades running a boutique advertising agency, with senior charity leadership. That cross-sector range lets her speak credibly to both corporate and not-for-profit rooms. As a HarperCollins-published author and frequent contributor to ABC, Sky News, the Australian Financial Review and CEO Magazine, she has the public communication craft to hold a senior audience for a full keynote. Biography highlights Founding CEO, Hamlin Fistula Ethiopia (Australia); raised over $7 million for hospitals and a midwifery school in Ethiopia. CEO, Sunrise Cambodia; led the transition from orphanage model to community-first programmes. First and only Australian named to the global Top 30 #SocialCEOs list. Two-time finalist, Telstra Business Woman of the Year Awards. Author of three books across three genres, including the HarperCollins memoir Get the Girls Out (2019). Speaking and writing platform spanning ABC, Sky News, Today, the Australian Financial Review, CEO Magazine and Australian Vogue. Biography Hamlin Fistula Ethiopia is a women’s health charity working in one of the most demanding operating environments in the world. It needed money, a credible Australian operation, and a leader who could hold both the cause and the donor relationships. Lucy Bloom was the founding CEO. Over a few years the Australian arm raised more than $7 million for hospitals and a midwifery school in Ethiopia. She was then headhunted by Sunrise Cambodia, a children’s charity that needed to move away from the orphanage model toward community-first development. She led that transition. She is the first and only Australian on the global Top 30 #SocialCEOs list, a recognition that tracks operating substance rather than profile. Before the charity sector she spent two decades building and running a boutique advertising agency. That commercial track record is why her material lands in corporate rooms as well as not-for-profit ones. Clients she has spoken to include Deloitte, Commonwealth Bank, ANZ, JP Morgan, Amazon Web Services, McDonald’s and Tourism Australia. She is the author of three books across three genres, including the HarperCollins memoir Get the Girls Out, and a regular contributor and interviewee in Australian national media. The throughline across the work is straightforward: how leaders convert conviction into results when the resources are tight and the stakes are real. Key speaking topics Creative leadership Values-based leadership and kindness at work Purpose-driven organisations Resilience and reinvention Storytelling and business communication Change leadership in mission-driven settings Ideal for CEOs and executive teams in mission-driven and purpose-led organisations Boards and leadership teams in not-for-profits and foundations Corporate leadership audiences working on values, culture and purpose Conferences with a women-in-leadership or social-impact track Audience outcomes A working account of how a charity CEO raises seven figures and rebuilds an operating model under constraint. Specific examples of values-based decisions made in real conditions, not as theory. A reframed view of creative leadership as a discipline that produces commercial and social results, not a personality trait. Practical communication craft from a published author and broadcast contributor.

Why organisations work with Lucy Bullivant She has written the reference work on contemporary masterplanning. Masterplanning Futures (Routledge) won the Urban Design Group Book of the Year, and her thinking influences design review panels that approve real projects in London. She bridges urban planning critique and operational place strategy. Most speakers in this space do one or the other; Bullivant publishes peer-reviewed research, curates major exhibitions, and runs a working consultancy commissioned by clients. Her work on deep retrofit, hyperlocal media, and co-design gives organisations a vocabulary for participatory urbanism that goes beyond consultation theatre and connects to measurable place outcomes. She is an Honorary Fellow of RIBA who has curated exhibitions for Roca London Gallery, the Shenzhen Biennale, and The Building Centre, evidence that her authority is recognised across professional, academic, and cultural institutions. Biography highlights PhD in adaptive planning, London Metropolitan University; MA Cultural History, Royal College of Art Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (Hon FRIBA), elected 2010 Author of Masterplanning Futures (Routledge), winner of the Urban Design Group Book of the Year, 2014; and Masterplanning Futures: Agents of Change (Routledge, 2026) Co-author of Recoded City: Co-Creating Urban Futures (Routledge, 2015) with Thomas Ermacora Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Urbanista.org Curator of Urbanistas (Roca London Gallery), Remake-We Make (Shenzhen Biennale), and Phoenix Rising and Retrofit 23 (The Building Centre) Biography Masterplans rarely fail at the design stage. They fail at the point where ambition meets the politics, capital cycles, and community expectations of the neighbourhood or city the plan has to live inside. Bullivant’s career has been built around closing that gap, both as a critic of how cities get planned and as a practitioner working inside design review and consultancy. Masterplanning Futures, her Routledge book that won the Urban Design Group Book of the Year in 2014, set out a comparative reading of large-scale plans across cultures and remains a reference text for planning departments and architecture schools. Her follow-up, Masterplanning Futures: Agents of Change, is published by Routledge in autumn 2026. Recoded City, co-authored with Thomas Ermacora, extended the argument toward participatory and bottom-up regeneration, the territory all cities have to operate in. Her credibility comes from working across the professional stack at once. She is an Honorary Fellow of RIBA, founder of Urbanista.org, and a Design Council expert. She chaired the Lambeth Design Review Panel from 2019 to 2025, and has sat on review panels for Enfield and the London Legacy Development Corporation, the panels that shape which projects in London get approved and built. Her recent curatorial work, Phoenix Rising: Visions for Rebuilding Ukraine and Retrofit 23 at The Building Centre, and Urbanistas at Roca London Gallery, sits on the same axis: how to rebuild, retrofit, and reimagine cities under climate, conflict, and demographic pressures. The thread across her writing, consultancy, and curatorship is a single insistence, that liveability is the hard test of any urban strategy, and that planning systems still under-equip leaders and teams to meet it. Key speaking topics Adaptive planning and masterplanning Deep retrofit and adaptive reuse of existing building stock Liveable urbanism and place quality Co-design and participatory placemaking Design review and design governance Urban regeneration and post-conflict rebuilding Climate adaptation in city strategy Ideal for City and regional government leaders, planning directors, and chief design officers Property developers, masterplanning teams, and large-scale regeneration boards Architecture and engineering firm leadership commissioning urban strategy work Sustainability and ESG leads inside real estate, infrastructure, and built environment portfolios Audience outcomes A clearer reading of why masterplans succeed or fail, drawn from comparative international case material Specific principles for deep retrofit at scale rather than project-by-project A working vocabulary for participatory placemaking that goes beyond consultation A sharper view of how design review and governance shape long-term place quality Reference points from leading European, Asian, and post-conflict rebuilding programmes

Why organisations work with Lucy Cooke She brings primary-source evolutionary biology into leadership conversations that usually run on management frameworks, giving senior teams a different evidence base for talking about dominance, hierarchy and cooperation. Her Bitch thesis, that female biology has been systematically misread by science, gives organisations a serious, research-led entry point into conversations about gender and authority that often default to slogan. The Oxford zoology training under Richard Dawkins, the National Geographic Explorer designation and the Royal Society Science Book Prize shortlist for The Truth About Animals together establish a level of scientific credibility unusual on a corporate stage. She is a working broadcaster with credits across BBC, Channel 4, National Geographic, PBS, Animal Planet and Discovery, which translates into stage craft that holds large audiences on technical material without losing them. Biography highlights Master’s in zoology, New College, Oxford, studying under Richard Dawkins. National Geographic Explorer. Author of Bitch: A Revolutionary Guide to Sex, Evolution and the Female Animal, a New York Times bestseller and one of the Telegraph’s 50 best books of 2022. Author of The Truth About Animals, shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize. TED speaker; documentary presenter and producer for BBC, Channel 4, National Geographic, PBS, Animal Planet and Discovery. Founder of the Sloth Appreciation Society and regular contributor on BBC Radio 4 programmes including The Infinite Monkey Cage and Woman’s Hour. Biography The alpha leader, the lone silverback, the dominant male at the top of the troop: these are the images management writing has borrowed from animal behaviour for a century. Most of them turn out to be wrong. Newer evolutionary biology shows cooperation, female agency and flexible hierarchy doing more of the work that organisations actually want their leaders to do. Lucy Cooke is the speaker who carries that research into the boardroom. She trained as a zoologist at New College, Oxford under Richard Dawkins, became a National Geographic Explorer, and built a parallel career as a documentary maker and writer, with credits across BBC, Channel 4, National Geographic, PBS, Animal Planet and Discovery. Her book Bitch: A Revolutionary Guide to Sex, Evolution and the Female Animal, a New York Times bestseller and one of the Telegraph’s 50 best books of 2022, rewrites a great deal of received wisdom about female biology and what evolution actually selects for. The Truth About Animals, shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize, applies the same scrutiny to the popular myths organisations still tell themselves about wolves, alphas and pecking orders. On stage she works the gap between the popular story and the peer-reviewed one. Bonobo societies run on female coalitions and conflict resolution, not dominance displays. Wolf packs are family units, not tournaments. The science is sharper than the management metaphor, and a serious audience leaves able to defend a different model of leadership than the one they walked in with. Key speaking topics Leadership beyond the alpha model Evolutionary biology and human cooperation Gender, biology and authority Teamwork and collective intelligence in animal societies Science communication and storytelling Female leadership through an evolutionary lens Ideal for Senior leadership and executive team offsites where the brief is to reset assumptions about authority and dominance. HR, DEI and culture leads looking for an evidence-based external voice on gender and leadership that sits outside the usual frameworks. Conferences seeking a science-led keynote that lands with both technical and general audiences. Audience outcomes A fact-based critique of the alpha-leader model and why it does not hold up against current animal behaviour research. A new vocabulary for talking about cooperation, female authority and group decision-making at work, drawn from named species and named studies. Memorable case material from the animal kingdom that senior leaders can use in their own conversations and communications. A sharper, science-grounded view of what evolution actually selects for in successful social groups.

Why organisations work with Lucy Shepherd She has actually led teams through conditions where decisions carry physical consequence: a 50-day, 400km first-recorded crossing of Guyana’s Kanuku Mountains with an Indigenous Macushi and Wapishana team, captured in Channel 4’s Secret Amazon: Into the Wild. Her credentials sit inside the institutions that historically define exploration: Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society at 23, co-opted council member of the Scientific Exploration Society, with a Penguin Michael Joseph book, Into the Wild, that documents the thinking behind the expedition. She speaks credibly to mixed-team leadership in cultures and conditions she does not control, a closer analogy for senior leaders running global teams than the usual sports or military comparisons. She brings a current, on-camera profile, rather than a single-event story repeated for years. Each new expedition and broadcast updates the material she draws on. Biography highlights Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, appointed at age 23. Co-opted council member of the Scientific Exploration Society. Led the first recorded east-to-west traverse of Guyana’s Kanuku Mountains, a 50-day, 400km expedition with an all-Indigenous team. Author of Into the Wild, published by Penguin Michael Joseph. Star and self-shooting subject of Channel 4’s Secret Amazon: Into the Wild, a two-part series that aired in 2024. Described by The Times as «the most hardcore member of the new generation of British adventurers». Biography The first recorded east-to-west crossing of Guyana’s Kanuku Mountains took 50 days and roughly 400 kilometres on foot. Lucy Shepherd led it in 2021 with an Indigenous Macushi and Wapishana team, navigating jungle, river and uncharted terrain on outdated maps. Channel 4 turned the expedition into Secret Amazon: Into the Wild, broadcast in 2024. Shepherd’s credentials read like an older era of exploration. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society at 23 and co-opted onto the council of the Scientific Exploration Society, the bodies that have historically vetted serious British expedition work. The Times has called her «the most hardcore member of the new generation of British adventurers,» a line that travels because it is uncharacteristically literal about what she does. The keynote material draws on a decade of leading and joining expeditions across Arctic plateaus, high mountains, deep jungle and desert. The themes that recur are practical: composure when conditions degrade, trust built across cultural and language boundaries, decisions made on incomplete information, and the discipline of carrying on when the plan no longer applies. Her Penguin Michael Joseph book, Into the Wild, sets out the thinking behind those decisions in long form. Senior audiences tend to find the analogy useful because the field she works in is unforgiving in ways business rarely is. The leadership questions translate without softening, and the speaker bringing them has carried the consequences personally. Key speaking topics Expedition leadership in extreme environments Decision-making under physical and psychological pressure Leading mixed and cross-cultural teams Risk, preparation and the limits of planning Wilderness, biodiversity and environmental stewardship Resilience drawn from expedition fieldwork Ideal for Senior leadership offsites and partner conferences seeking a substantive keynote on judgment under pressure Teams coming through restructure, sustained change, or operational shock who need a renewed sense of composure and trust Sustainability, ESG and conservation-themed audiences who want a credible field voice rather than a policy speaker All-hands and inspirational anchor slots where the standard sports or military keynote has worn thin Audience outcomes A grounded sense of what real decision-making under pressure looks like, told through a specific 50-day expedition rather than abstract framework. A more honest reading of risk, preparation and the point at which planning stops being useful. A practical model for building trust across a team when language, culture and authority are not stable. A renewed argument for protecting wilderness and biodiversity, made by someone who has spent time inside it.

Why organisations work with Luke Jones He brings the live-broadcast discipline of BBC Radio 4’s PM, The World at One, and The World Tonight to corporate stages, where the brief is to keep a panel of senior leaders specific and on the clock. He is a working political and current-affairs interviewer. He has put questions to Foreign Secretaries, Shadow Cabinet ministers, and Health Ministers on air, and that experience translates directly to chairing fireside conversations with senior executives. As host of The Times’ daily podcast The Story, he reads a story, finds the line that matters, and lands it with an audience. That is the same job a conference chair does for a leadership offsite. He writes The Pitcairn Trials, an investigative podcast nominated for Best Host at the British Podcast Awards. Long-form investigative work is what makes a moderator credible when the on-stage subject becomes uncomfortable. Biography highlights Host of The Story, The Times’ daily news podcast. BBC Radio 4 presenter: PM, The World at One, The World Tonight, Saturday Live, Profile, Front Row, Broadcasting House, Any Questions. BBC World Service presenter: OS, Newsday, Weekend, The Newsroom. Former Times Radio Breakfast presenter (Fridays and weekends, two years). Writer and host of The Pitcairn Trials (2025), nominated for Best Host at the British Podcast Awards; The Times five stars. 2017 ARIAS nomination for Best New Presenter; theatre critic for the Daily Mail; contributor to The Times and Sunday Times. Biography A live two-way on Radio 4’s PM gives a presenter about 90 seconds to set up the issue, ask the sharp question, and get the answer the audience needs before the next item. That is the discipline Luke Jones works in every week, across PM, The World at One, The World Tonight, and Times Radio Breakfast. It is also why organisations book him to chair their stages. He hosts The Story, The Times’ daily news podcast, and presents OS, Newsday, and Weekend on BBC World Service. He has interviewed Foreign Secretaries, Shadow Cabinet ministers, Health Ministers, and the scientists who shaped the UK’s COVID response. The interviewing register he uses on air, polite, persistent, briefed, is what conference organisers want when a CEO sits down for a fireside or a panel needs a chair who will press past the prepared answer. His recent investigative work, The Pitcairn Trials, was rated five stars by The Times and earned a Best Host nomination at the British Podcast Awards. The series is the work of a journalist who can hold a long, difficult story together. That long-form muscle is what separates a competent moderator from one a board will trust with a sensitive on-stage conversation. He is the kind of presenter senior audiences listen to without being told to. The 2017 ARIAS Best New Presenter nomination came early in his career; the body of work since, daily news, podcasting, theatre criticism in the Daily Mail, has been built on the Radio 4 standard. Key speaking topics Conference chairing and on-stage moderation Fireside interviews with senior executives Panel chairing on politics and current affairs UK and US politics Economics and current affairs Investigative journalism and storytelling Media, broadcasting, and the news cycle Ideal for CEO conferences, leadership offsites, and town halls needing an experienced on-stage interviewer CHRO and communications leadership events on internal storytelling and message discipline Industry conferences requiring a panel chair who can press senior figures on policy, economics, or geopolitics After-dinner interview formats where the brief is a credible name and a steady hand Audience outcomes A panel that stays on the question, with senior speakers pressed past their prepared lines A fireside conversation that gets to the substantive answer rather than the corporate one An on-stage interview shaped to the audience in the room, not the speaker’s preferred script A conference programme that holds together because the chair has read the brief and the room

Why organisations work with Lydia Rodford She holds a live room the way a national radio host holds an audience of millions: keeping pace, energy and timing under control when the running order slips. She brings a Capital FM broadcast voice to corporate and brand stages, giving an event the production polish of national radio rather than the feel of an internal meeting. She works comfortably across formats, fronting awards ceremonies, moderating panels, and recording voiceover for the same campaign, so one talent covers on-stage, on-camera and on-air needs. She has fronted brand activations for Chelsea FC, Amazon and Wild, translating corporate messages into content the public actually engages with. Biography highlights Full-time Capital FM presenter, currently hosting the national weekend early-breakfast show on Saturdays and Sundays. Began her broadcast career at BBC Local Radio, presenting music and talk programming across multiple stations alongside TV trails. Voiceover artist for commercials, digital content and broadcast projects. Live event and awards host, emcee and panel moderator for corporate and brand audiences. Brand-campaign presenter for Chelsea FC, Amazon and Wild across digital launches. Hosted the M+C Saatchi Talent Speaker Showcase in London. Biography Most corporate events live or die on pacing. The agenda can be strong, the speakers credible, and the room still goes flat if no one keeps the energy moving between moments. That is the gap Lydia Rodford fills. She is a full-time Capital FM presenter, currently hosting the national weekend early-breakfast show, after starting her career at BBC Local Radio across music programmes, talk segments and TV trails. National radio is unforgiving on timing and tone, and that discipline is what she brings into a live room. Her work reaches beyond the studio. As a voiceover artist she records for commercials and broadcast projects, and as a host she has fronted brand campaigns for Chelsea FC, Amazon and Wild, turning corporate messaging into content the public responds to. When M+C Saatchi Talent ran its London Speaker Showcase, she guided the morning from the front. That range is the point. An organisation booking Lydia gets a broadcast-grade voice for the stage, the panel and the campaign, with the on-air polish that makes an event feel produced rather than improvised. Key speaking topics Live event hosting and emcee Awards ceremony hosting Panel moderation Broadcast and radio presenting Voiceover and brand campaign presenting Audience engagement and energy On-stage and on-camera communication Ideal for Corporate event and conference organisers needing a confident host to anchor the agenda. Brand and marketing teams running product launches, activations or campaign content. Awards ceremony and gala organisers wanting broadcast-grade presenting. Event producers needing a moderator who can keep panels paced and engaging. Audience outcomes A live event that runs at pace, with energy sustained across transitions and sessions. Panels and Q&A that stay sharp and on time rather than drifting. Brand messages delivered in a voice audiences actually engage with. A produced, broadcast feel that lifts the room above a standard internal event.

Why organisations work with Maeva Morelle Hosts awards ceremonies, conferences and virtual events with the on-screen presence of a working broadcast presenter, not a corporate moderator reading from a brief. Bridges the gap between senior leadership stages and Gen Z and millennial audiences, drawing on her own podcast and YouTube channel built for that demographic. Runs her own podcast, Chit Chat & Tings with Maeva, giving her live interview range across guests, formats and topics that translates directly to panel chairing. Comfortable across TV, radio, online and live event formats, which makes her a single host who can carry hybrid programmes end to end. Biography highlights TV presenter, event host and MC represented by Riva Media Ltd. Creator and host of the fortnightly podcast Chit Chat & Tings with Maeva. Owner-operator of her own YouTube channel focused on music and contemporary culture. Works across awards hosting, conference and virtual event hosting, moderating, TV, radio and online presenting. Biography The hardest job at any major event is the one nobody notices when it is done well. The host has to open the room, hold the energy through transitions, make senior speakers feel set up rather than exposed, and close on time. Maeva Morelle works that role for awards ceremonies, conferences and virtual events. She built her own platform first. Chit Chat & Tings with Maeva is her fortnightly podcast, where she interviews guests across music, culture and social issues. Her YouTube channel runs in parallel, aimed at the same Gen Z and younger millennial audience that most corporate communicators struggle to reach. That self-built audience matters commercially. Brands and organisations booking her to host an awards night or chair a conference panel get a presenter who already speaks the language of the audience they are trying to reach, not a generic MC adapting on the fly. She is represented by Riva Media Ltd and works across TV, radio, online and live event formats. Key speaking topics Awards ceremony hosting Conference and event hosting Panel moderation Virtual and hybrid event hosting Podcast and on-camera interviewing Reaching Gen Z and younger millennial audiences Marketing and branding for younger consumers Ideal for Marketing, brand and communications leads programming events targeted at Gen Z or younger millennial audiences. Event organisers and internal communications teams looking for an awards host or conference MC with broadcast presence. Sponsors and producers of virtual or hybrid events who need a single host across multiple formats. Audience outcomes An event that runs on time, with clean transitions, a held room and senior speakers set up well on stage. A presenting voice that lands with younger audiences without sounding scripted or corporate. Live interview and panel chairing that pulls specific answers from guests rather than letting them drift into talking points.

Why organisations work with Maggie Aderin-Pocock She has built optical instruments that flew on ESA satellites and sit inside major ground-based telescopes, so her authority on STEM careers comes from doing the work, not commenting on it. She is one of a small group of scientists who can hold a prime-time television audience, which is why The Sky at Night has kept her on air since 2014. Internal communications teams use her to make technical strategy land with the rest of the business. The Institute of Physics awarded her the 2020 Kelvin Medal for public engagement, the first time a Black woman has received a gold medal from the IoP. That credential gives diversity and inclusion programmes a credible scientific anchor. Through Science Innovation Ltd she has run STEM outreach for more than 350,000 students, giving her practical evidence about what actually moves under-represented young people into technical careers, not just theory. She speaks openly about being diagnosed with dyslexia at eight and the assumptions teachers made about her, which lets leadership audiences hear an inclusion argument grounded in lived experience rather than policy language. Biography highlights BSc in Physics and PhD in Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London. Honorary research associate, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London. Chancellor of the University of Leicester. Co-presenter of BBC’s The Sky at Night, the world’s longest-running television science programme. Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE), 2024, for services to science education and diversity. 2020 William Thomson, Lord Kelvin Medal and Prize from the Institute of Physics. Author of The Sky at Night: Book of the Moon, A Guide to Our Closest Neighbour (Penguin / BBC Books). Biography The instruments that measure wind from space, or split starlight into its component frequencies on a Chilean mountaintop, are built by small teams of engineers most people will never hear of. Maggie Aderin-Pocock has spent her career inside those teams. She managed the observation instruments for the European Space Agency’s Aeolus satellite at Astrium, and led a group of seventeen engineers building a high-resolution spectrograph for the Gemini telescope in Chile. That hands-on instrumentation career sits underneath everything else she does. It is why a BBC commissioner trusted her with The Sky at Night, the longest-running television science programme in the world, and why universities and government bodies treat her science communication as substantive rather than decorative. Imperial College trained her as a physicist and mechanical engineer; University College London hosts her as an honorary research associate; the University of Leicester appointed her Chancellor in 2023. Public engagement is the second strand of the work, and it has been institutionally recognised. The Institute of Physics awarded her its 2020 Kelvin Medal for exceptional services to science education and physics communication. She was the first Black woman to receive a gold medal from the IoP. Through her social enterprise Science Innovation Ltd she has run hands-on STEM outreach for more than 350,000 students, much of it in inner-city schools that conventional pipelines do not reach. She talks publicly about being diagnosed with dyslexia at eight and being assumed to be heading for a career other than science. That is not autobiography for its own sake, it is the evidence base for how she argues about inclusion: leaders who want a wider technical pipeline have to look at where the system filters people out, not only where it lets them in. She was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2024 for services to science education and diversity. Key speaking topics Diversity and inclusion in STEM Science communication for non-specialist audiences Space science, satellites, and astronomy The future of space exploration STEM education and the technical talent pipeline Curiosity and creativity in technical organisations Ideal for CHROs and heads of talent building technical and STEM pipelines Heads of internal communications translating engineering or science strategy to general audiences DEI leads working on retention and progression of under-represented technical staff Leaders running large customer or employee events that need a credible science voice Audience outcomes A clearer view of where standard recruiting and education pipelines filter out under-represented technical talent, and what actually changes that. Practical language for explaining complex technical work to non-technical colleagues, customers, or boards. A current picture of where space science and satellite technology are heading and what that means for adjacent industries. Renewed conviction among technical staff that their work matters beyond the lab, told through someone who has built instruments that flew.

Why organisations work with Malaika Vaz She has gone undercover inside wildlife trafficking networks across India, Myanmar and China, and can speak to environmental crime as a live operational and reputational risk, not a policy abstraction. Her documentary Sacrifice Zone, made in association with the National Geographic Society, reported pollution exposure across New Delhi, Dhaka, Baton Rouge and La Guajira, giving boards a concrete picture of what fenceline impact looks like in four very different jurisdictions. She has built Untamed Planet into a production house whose work reaches National Geographic, BBC, Sky, Al Jazeera, PBS and ARTE France audiences in more than 150 countries, which means her storytelling is calibrated for global, non-specialist viewers, not insiders. The credentials are independently verified: Wildscreen Panda Award for On-Screen Talent (2024), Forbes 30 Under 30 North America 2025, Earthshot Prize Advocate, and UNEP recognition as one of six environmentalists changing the world. For a sustainability or risk audience used to consultants, she offers something different: a reporter who has been in the room with traffickers, regulators and affected communities, and can connect those scenes to the decisions executives are making. Biography highlights National Geographic Explorer and presenter; films broadcast on National Geographic, BBC, Sky, Al Jazeera, PBS and ARTE France in more than 150 countries. Co-founder and creative director of Untamed Planet, an independent documentary production company. Wildscreen Panda Award for On-Screen Talent, 2024 Wildscreen Festival, Bristol, for Sacrifice Zone. Forbes 30 Under 30 North America 2025, Media category. Earthshot Prize Advocate; named by UNEP as one of six environmentalists changing the world. Presenter of On the Brink (Discovery Channel and Animal Planet) and Living with Predators (National Geographic), and lead reporter on Peng Yu Sai, a Green Oscar-nominated investigation into the illegal manta ray trade. Biography Manta rays were disappearing from the waters off the coast of Goa. Tracing why led Malaika Vaz, on camera and undercover as a seafood trader, from Indian fishing vessels to the Indo-Myanmar border and into the wildlife trafficking hubs of Hong Kong and Guangzhou. The resulting documentary, Peng Yu Sai, was nominated for a Green Oscar and aired on National Geographic India. That is the kind of reporting Vaz does. As a National Geographic Explorer and co-founder of the documentary production company Untamed Planet, she has built a body of work focused on environmental crime, industrial pollution and the human-wildlife interface. Her films have been broadcast on National Geographic, BBC, Sky, Al Jazeera, PBS and ARTE France, reaching audiences in more than 150 countries. Her 2024 documentary Sacrifice Zone, produced with the National Geographic Society, examined the human cost of industrial pollution in New Delhi, Dhaka, Baton Rouge and La Guajira. It won the Wildscreen Panda Award for On-Screen Talent at the 2024 Wildscreen Festival in Bristol. She has also presented Living with Predators, a three-part National Geographic series on coexistence with India’s big cats, and On the Brink for Discovery Channel and Animal Planet. Forbes named her to its 30 Under 30 North America list in 2025, in the Media category. She is an Earthshot Prize Advocate and was named by the United Nations Environment Programme as one of six environmentalists changing the world. For an executive audience, the value she brings is specific: an investigator who has stood inside the trafficking routes, fenceline communities and ecosystems that sit underneath their environmental and supply chain risk reports. Key speaking topics Environmental crime and illicit wildlife trade Industrial pollution and frontline community impact Supply chain exposure to environmental risk Investigative environmental journalism Biodiversity and human-wildlife coexistence Documentary storytelling for non-specialist audiences Field reporting in fragile and high-risk environments Ideal for Chief Sustainability Officers, ESG leads and risk committees responsible for environmental and supply chain exposure Boards and executive teams setting climate, biodiversity and human rights priorities Communications, brand and public affairs leaders translating environmental commitments into credible external narrative Investor and asset management forums focused on natural capital, biodiversity and climate-related disclosure Audience outcomes A clearer picture of how wildlife trafficking and environmental crime intersect with global supply chains Specific case material from frontline reporting in India, Myanmar, China, the United States and Latin America A sharper sense of where ESG narratives diverge from on-the-ground reality, and what that means for credibility A working model for using storytelling and visual evidence to move non-specialist stakeholders Renewed urgency, grounded in named places and named systems, not abstract climate framing