Daniel Chappell
Most service industries are full of skilled practitioners trapped inside fragile small businesses. They can deliver the work, but the economics of premises, admin, and client acquisition quietly erode the margin. The question for any founder entering a category like this is whether a better operating model can release the talent that is already there.
Daniel Chappell is the co-founder of UNTIL, a London-based members business for health and wellness professionals, and speaks from inside the build of a young, venture-backed company.
Full Profile
Why organisations work with Daniel Chappell
- A first-hand account of raising significant early-stage capital with no trading history, which is the situation most internal innovation teams quietly find themselves in when pitching new ventures to their own boards.
- A working operator’s view of UNTIL, a business that pairs physical premises in Soho, Liverpool Street and Marylebone with a digital membership model. Useful for any leadership team thinking about hybrid product-and-place propositions.
- An unusually honest voice on neurodiversity from a founder who runs a company while managing dyslexia and dyspraxia, rather than a clinical or HR-led perspective.
- A high-performance sports background that translates the language of marginal gains, recovery, and team standards into the running of a commercial business, without leaning on tired sporting metaphor.
Biography highlights
- Co-founder of UNTIL, a members business for freelance health, wellness and medical practitioners operating from three central London sites.
- UNTIL counts Steven Bartlett among its investors and co-founders, following a high-profile early funding round.
- MSc in Strength and Conditioning, Cardiff Metropolitan University.
- BSc in Sports and Exercise Science, St Mary’s University, Twickenham.
- Over a decade working inside high-performance sporting environments before launching his own ventures.
- Speaks publicly about dyslexia and dyspraxia, and treats neurodiversity as part of his founder identity, not a sidebar.
Biography
Service industries built on individual practitioners tend to share the same problem. The talent is excellent and the business model is fragile. UNTIL, the London business Daniel Chappell co-founded, was built around that gap: a members club and workspace that lets freelance health, wellness and medical professionals operate from premium premises in Soho, Liverpool Street and Marylebone without carrying the cost of their own.
The route in matters. More than a decade inside high-performance sport gave Daniel an instinct for how elite practitioners work, what they need around them, and where their time is wasted. An MSc in Strength and Conditioning from Cardiff Metropolitan University and a BSc in Sports and Exercise Science from St Mary’s University, Twickenham sit behind that view. The transition from working with athletes to building a company for the people who work with athletes is the spine of the story.
UNTIL has since attracted Steven Bartlett as an investor and co-founder, and has built a community of more than 300 practitioners across more than 40 disciplines. For a buyer, the value of the talk is not the milestone list. It is what the talk reveals about persuading investors with no trading history, building a founding team that can scale, and running a young company in public.
Daniel is also open about managing dyslexia and dyspraxia as a founder, and speaks to neurodiversity from the inside of a working business. That perspective is useful in any leadership conversation about how organisations actually get the best out of people whose minds are wired differently from the average hire.
Key speaking topics
- Entrepreneurship and founding-team dynamics
- Early-stage fundraising and investor relationships
- Building a business in the health and wellness sector
- High performance applied to commercial environments
- Neurodiversity in leadership and at work
- Team culture in young companies
- Resilience and personal performance for founders
Ideal for
- Leadership offsites for scale-ups and founder-led businesses
- Corporate innovation, ventures and intrapreneurship teams
- HR and people leaders building practical neurodiversity programmes
- Wellbeing, benefits and employee-experience conferences
Audience outcomes
- A clearer picture of what early-stage investors actually respond to when there is no trading history to point at.
- A practical framing of how a young founding team divides work, makes decisions, and survives the first eighteen months.
- A working model for treating neurodiversity as a commercial asset inside a team, with examples from a live business.
- Language for translating high-performance habits into a corporate or scale-up context without resorting to sports cliché.