Change Management

Why organisations work with Scott Lesnick He has spent 24 years inside Shaw Industries, a Berkshire Hathaway Fortune 500 business, before moving into speaking, so the change, retention and communication material is delivered from operating experience, not a consultancy framework. His multigenerational workplace content draws on a five-year practitioner survey and converts it into seven concrete strategies for recruiting, retaining and integrating Millennials, Gen Z and the incoming Generation Alpha. The Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) designation from the National Speakers Association, plus a term as Dean of the NSA Academy for Professional Speakers, is a credential of speaking craft, not of subject expertise, and it shows up in the quality of room-handling for plenary keynotes. The Kidjacked story (recovering his two children after international abduction) gives him a non-negotiable platform for keynotes on resilience and persistence under sustained pressure, used by clients including UPS Freight, US Bank, 7-Eleven and SHRM. Biography highlights 24 years in sales and management leadership at Shaw Industries, a Berkshire Hathaway Fortune 500 company. Certified Speaking Professional (CSP), National Speakers Association. Former Dean of the Academy for Professional Speakers, National Speakers Association. TEDx speaker, TEDx Oshkosh: “Limited Resources or Unlimited Resourcefulness”. Author of Kidjacked: A Father’s Story and Lifejacked: Life Lessons on Leadership. Named client list includes UPS Freight, US Bank, 7-Eleven, SHRM, the Financial Planning Association and the American Association of Orthodontists. Biography For the first time in working memory, five generations are sharing the same office, the same Slack channel and the same performance review system. Traditionalists are exiting, Generation Alpha is starting to arrive, and managers in between are running engagement playbooks built for a workforce that no longer exists. Scott Lesnick built his speaking practice on that problem. After 24 years leading sales and management teams at Shaw Industries, a Berkshire Hathaway Fortune 500 business, he moved into keynote work full time and built a multigenerational workplace programme around a five-year practitioner survey. The output is a set of seven concrete strategies for recruiting, retaining and integrating workers across Millennials, Gen Z and the incoming cohorts. The resilience material runs alongside it. Lesnick’s memoir Kidjacked tells the story of locating and recovering his two young children after they were abducted to the Middle East, and his second book, Lifejacked, collects interviews with people who came through serious adversity and went on to lead. Both feed into the change, burnout and persistence content he is most often booked for. He holds the Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) designation from the National Speakers Association, served as Dean of the NSA Academy for Professional Speakers, and delivered a TEDx talk on doing more with less at TEDx Oshkosh. Named clients include UPS Freight, US Bank, 7-Eleven, SHRM, the Financial Planning Association and the American Association of Orthodontists. Key speaking topics Multigenerational workplace strategy Leading through organisational change Employee engagement and retention Resilience and burnout Communication across generational cohorts Hybrid workplace dynamics Ideal for CHROs, talent and people leaders rebuilding engagement across a five-generation workforce. Sales and commercial leaders managing teams through restructure or market change. Healthcare, financial services and trade associations running practitioner conferences with mixed-cohort audiences. Internal leadership development programmes for newly promoted managers leading older and younger reports. Audience outcomes Seven practitioner strategies for blending and retaining multiple generations on the same team. A clearer read on what Millennials, Gen Z and Generation Alpha actually respond to in recruitment and engagement design. Specific tools for reducing burnout and protecting decision quality during periods of sustained change. A working vocabulary for inclusion and communication that is portable across the organisation.

Why organisations work with Claire Williams A rare first-hand credential: one of only two women to have ever led a Formula 1 team, with seven years of operational accountability across a 1,800-person organisation. She negotiated the 2020 sale of Williams Racing to Dorilton Capital, securing the team’s future at a point when commercial terms and the pandemic were squeezing independent teams out of the sport. A commercial track record with specific deals attached, including a reported £65M sponsorship with Unilever and the growth of what became WAE Technologies, later acquired by Fortescue. A demonstrable record on representation: during her tenure, the proportion of women at Williams reached 17.6%, the highest in the F1 paddock, and she gave Susie Wolff her first F1 race weekend drive by a woman since 1992. Currently a recurring expert analyst on Netflix’s Drive to Survive, which keeps her commentary connected to the races and decisions audiences already follow. Biography highlights Deputy Team Principal of Williams Racing, 2013 to 2020, with day-to-day operational control of the Formula 1 team. Led Williams to consecutive third-place finishes in the Constructors’ Championship in 2014 and 2015, the team’s best results since 2003. Officer of the Order of the British Empire for services to Formula 1, awarded in the 2016 Birthday Honours. Brand Ambassador for Fortescue WAE (formerly Williams Advanced Engineering), the green-technologies business she helped grow during her tenure. Vice President of the Spinal Injuries Association; founded the Sir Frank Williams Academy for spinal cord injury care in April 2023. Recurring expert analyst on Netflix’s Drive to Survive, including the 2024 and 2025 editions. Biography The Formula 1 paddock runs on non-negotiable deadlines and live public scrutiny. Every operational decision lands against a fixed calendar of race weekends, with 1,800 staff to align and investors watching results on Sunday. Claire Williams ran Williams Racing in this environment for seven seasons as Deputy Team Principal, from 2013 to 2020. She took over day-to-day operation from her father, Sir Frank Williams, in 2013. The team had just come through some of the weakest years in its history. She replaced the race drivers, restructured the engineering department, switched to Mercedes engines, and secured the sponsorship deals that funded the rebuild. Williams finished third in the Constructors’ Championship in 2014 and again in 2015, its best results since 2003. Fortescue WAE grew under her watch from an internal sustainability unit into a commercial R&D business later acquired by Fortescue. The proportion of women at Williams reached 17.6%, the highest in the paddock. In 2014, Susie Wolff drove a Williams in a practice session, the first F1 race weekend drive by a woman since 1992. The OBE followed in 2016, for services to the sport. The final chapter was the hardest to execute. Faced with commercial terms that favoured the top teams and the financial impact of the pandemic, she negotiated the sale of Williams Racing to Dorilton Capital in August 2020. She stepped down after the Italian Grand Prix the following month. The sale secured the team’s future under new ownership after more than four decades of Williams family leadership in the sport. Key speaking topics Leadership in high-pressure, high-scrutiny environments High-performance team culture at scale Elite decision-making and operational accountability Commercial turnaround and succession Women in leadership in traditionally closed sectors Safety, risk, and learning cultures Ideal for CEOs, executive committees, and boards running organisations under sustained public scrutiny Senior leadership teams in high-stakes or heavily regulated sectors (financial services, sport, energy, aerospace) CHROs and heads of talent building high-performance cultures or advancing gender representation in traditionally closed sectors Transformation leaders and programme sponsors running commercial rebuilds or succession-stage handovers Audience outcomes A first-hand view of leadership inside a Formula 1 team under constant competitive and commercial pressure Reference points from elite-sport operations on accountability and how high-performing teams handle failure at scale A sharper read on what a commercial rebuild followed by a distressed exit requires from the person at the top A credible account of how representation is built in a closed sector, told through named decisions and measurable results

Why organisations work with Willie Jolley Cavett Award winner, the National Speakers Association’s highest honour and an award given to one peer-elected member per year. Few keynote speakers active today carry that level of inside-the-profession validation. Worked with Ford Motor Company during its 2006 to 2009 turnaround period; former Ford CEO Alan Mulally endorsed the book that came out of that work. A named framework, Setback to Comeback, that gives leadership teams a shared language for how to behave when the business is under pressure, not just inspiration in the room. Sustained media platform on SiriusXM and Radio One puts him in front of senior business audiences weekly, so his frame is already familiar to many of the executives he speaks to. Equally credible with a senior executive room and a wider all-employee audience, which matters for clients running town halls, sales kickoffs and culture events off the back of restructure. Biography highlights Cavett Award, National Speakers Association, 2023; first African American man to receive it. Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award, January 2023, for sustained voluntary service. Inductee, NSA Speaker Hall of Fame (CPAE Council of Peers Award of Excellence). Author of five books including A Setback Is A Setup For A Comeback and Turn Setbacks Into Greenbacks, the latter endorsed by former Ford CEO Alan Mulally. Host, The Willie Jolley Wealthy Ways Show on SiriusXM Channel 141, with companion podcast distributed on iHeart Radio, C-Suite Radio, Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Engaged by Ford Motor Company during the Mulally era turnaround; corporate client list includes Walmart, Verizon, Marriott, Johnson and Johnson, Coca-Cola and Prudential. Biography Ford was burning through cash in 2006 when Alan Mulally arrived as CEO. The turnaround that followed is now a business school case. Jolley was inside that period as a regular speaker to Ford teams, and the work formed the spine of Turn Setbacks Into Greenbacks, a book Mulally went on to endorse. That engagement still defines how serious operators read his work: practical content for leaders managing pressure, not a stage act. His core proposition is a framework called Setback to Comeback. Across five books, including A Setback Is A Setup For A Comeback and An Attitude of Excellence, he treats resilience as a leadership discipline that can be taught, with named steps. Vision. Decision. Action. Desire. That gives leadership teams a shared vocabulary for how to behave when the numbers are bad and the workforce has stopped trusting the announcements. The credibility inside the speaking profession is unusual. In 2023 the National Speakers Association awarded him the Cavett, its highest honour, voted by peers and given to one member a year. He was the first African American man to receive it. The same year he received the Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award for voluntary service. Earlier in his career, Toastmasters International named him one of the outstanding five speakers in the world. The platform compounds the message. The Willie Jolley Wealthy Ways Show runs weekly on SiriusXM, interviewing business leaders and operators. By the time he walks on a corporate stage, the framework is already in circulation with the audience. Key speaking topics Resilience and recovery after organisational setback Leadership through change and restructure Attitude and performance in high-pressure teams Personal effectiveness and self-leadership Workplace culture and engagement Sales force motivation and renewal Excellence as an operating discipline Ideal for Leadership teams running restructure, integration or cost programmes that have fatigued the workforce CHROs and culture leads booking all-employee town halls or post-restructure resets Sales leaders running annual kickoffs where the team needs renewed conviction, not new product slides Public sector and faith-aligned audiences where a motivational frame is welcomed alongside leadership substance Audience outcomes A named four-step framework, Vision, Decision, Action, Desire, that leaders can apply to their own situation the same week A reset in how the audience reads setback inside their own organisation Specific behavioural moves a manager can take with a struggling team A lift in collective conviction at the moment a leadership team most needs it A shared reference point that survives past the event and into team conversations

Why organisations work with Carina Bruwer She draws on parallel high-performance careers in elite endurance sport, a SAMA-winning music business, and a technology platform she built and recently rebuilt, so the lessons on composure and decision-making land as operating principles a leadership team can apply. Her swims are credentialed by named bodies (WOWSA’s 2019 list of the World’s 50 Most Adventurous Open Water Women, and the Lewis Pugh Trophy for South Africa’s Outstanding Swim of the Year), which gives the resilience material a verifiable spine rather than motivational generality. Rebuilding Gigster, her events-technology platform, in 2026 put her back in the position of a beginner, which gives her reinvention material a current, first-hand reference point and not just a historical one. Through Swim For Hope, she has run a fifteen-year fundraising platform that has cleared R1 million for South African causes, which gives her credibility on values-led leadership without needing to reach for the language. She is one of the few keynote voices who can sit with a sales team in the morning and a leadership offsite in the afternoon and speak with first-hand authority in both rooms. Biography highlights Crossed the English Channel (36km) in 12h03 in 2005; held the female world record for the Strait of Gibraltar at the time and set numerous other records, including on iconic swims such as Robben Island, Cape Point, False Bay, Nelson Mandela Bay and Cape Agulhas. The only person to have completed a crossing of shark-infested Walker Bay, and the pioneer of a triple-country swim linking France, Monaco and Italy; the only person to have rounded both the northernmost and southernmost points of Africa. Featured on CNN; named in WOWSA’s 2019 list of the World’s 50 Most Adventurous Open Water Women; recipient of the Lewis Pugh Trophy for South Africa’s Outstanding Swim of the Year. Founder of Five Seasons Entertainment (2002), one of South Africa’s largest artist management agencies, and of the instrumental trio Sterling EQ (2007), winner of a South African Music Award in 2011. Founder of Gigster (2015), a live-events booking platform she rebuilt in 2026 as a technology marketplace with AI-assisted supplier tools. Founder of Swim For Hope (2014), which has raised over R1 million for beneficiaries including the Little Fighters Cancer Trust, Muzukidz and the Tribuo Fund. Biography The English Channel crossing in August 2005 took twelve hours and three minutes in unpredictable water. Carina Bruwer was twenty-three years into a competitive swimming life by then, and the swim placed her among a small group of South Africans who have completed the route. The records that followed are the spine of why senior audiences listen when she talks about preparation and composure. They include the female world record on the Strait of Gibraltar at the time, the only recorded crossing of shark-patrolled Walker Bay, and a triple-country swim linking France, Monaco and Italy. The swimming is only part of why a corporate room listens. While building the open water record, she founded Five Seasons Entertainment in 2002 and grew it into one of South Africa’s largest artist management agencies. In 2007 she launched the instrumental pop trio Sterling EQ, produced the live concert film that won a South African Music Award in 2011, and led the group through more than 2,000 performances across 20 countries. In 2015 she founded the live-events booking platform Gigster, and in 2026 rebuilt it from the ground up as a technology marketplace with AI-assisted supplier profiles and built-in quoting and contracting. The rebuild meant becoming a beginner again, an established performer and record-holder learning an unfamiliar discipline in public. It is the reason her reinvention material reads as current rather than retrospective: she is describing a choice she made this year, not a feat from the archive. The common thread is operating discipline under conditions that do not relent. The swimming supplies the language of preparation and composure; the businesses supply the language of building and rebuilding commercially, which is how she talks to leaders about the cost of staying decisive when conditions keep moving. Through Swim For Hope, founded in 2014, she has raised over R1 million for South African beneficiaries including the Little Fighters Cancer Trust and the Tribuo Fund. Key speaking topics Self-leadership under extreme pressure Resilience and recovery Composure and decision-making in volatile conditions High performance across parallel careers Entrepreneurship and creative enterprise Purpose, values and personal courage Goal setting and long-horizon execution Ideal for Senior leadership offsites and executive development programmes Sales kick-offs and high-performance commercial teams Conference plenaries on resilience, change and personal leadership Women’s leadership networks and ERG events Audience outcomes A concrete sense of what composure looks like as a practised skill, not a personality trait A clearer model for how to prepare for high-stakes performance moments inside the day-to-day calendar Permission to take ambitious personal goals seriously alongside the demands of a senior role A direct, lived case for how resilience is rebuilt after physical, commercial or emotional setback

Why organisations work with Zana Goić Petričević Her SOUL Framework® is a registered trademark with a published book at its centre, not a proprietary slide deck but a structured, repeatable model that organisations can keep using through her books long after the engagement ends. She holds faculty standing inside the institutions that credential the field itself: faculty member at CRR Global, Leadership Circle Ambassador in Europe, and a contributor to PwC’s coaching and leadership development programmes across EMEA. That places her inside the leadership-development industry’s credentialing infrastructure, a position most keynote speakers on leadership do not hold. She works as a coach and programme contributor within PwC’s EMEA leadership development network, meaning her frameworks have been tested inside one of the most scrutinised professional development environments in the world. Her corporate background in the oil and gas and pharmaceutical sectors gives her a specific kind of credibility with executives who are impatient with leadership development that hasn’t been tested under commercial pressure. Named clients include TikTok, UniCredit, PwC, Sandoz, Zalando, and Capgemini, whose University she has opened the Game Changers leadership programme for in two consecutive years, a spread that shows she works across sectors and leadership cultures rather than a single industry vertical. Biography highlights Founder of Bold Leadership Culture, an EU and UK-based leadership development and coaching consultancy Author of Bold Reinvented (built around the trademarked SOUL Framework®) and Leading on the Edge Faculty member of CRR Global; Leadership Circle Ambassador in Europe; Leadership Circle Profile certification coach Coach, tutor, and mentor within PwC’s EMEA coaching and leadership development programmes Named client engagements include PwC, Capgemini University, TikTok, UniCredit Bank, and EU institutions Certified CPCC, ICF-PCC, and ORSCC; trained Immunity to Change facilitator Holds degrees from the University of Zagreb and Leeds Beckett University; corporate background in oil and gas and pharmaceutical sectors Biography Most organisations treat change as something to survive. The harder truth is that the same conditions of volatility that expose weak leadership are also where the strongest leadership is built, and most teams never learn to use them that way. Zana Goić Petričević’s work starts at that gap: between the leadership organisations articulate under pressure and the leadership they actually practise. Her approach is anchored in the SOUL Framework®, a trademarked model for leadership development introduced in Bold Reinvented: Next Level Leading with Courage, Consciousness, and Conviction. Her second book, Leading on the Edge, extends the argument, mapping the specific self-protective patterns, passivity, over-control, emotional distance, that cause high-capability leaders to default to safety over impact. Together, they form a coherent body of published work on why capable leaders underperform under pressure. Before founding Bold Leadership Culture, she held senior corporate communications and marketing roles in the oil and gas and pharmaceutical sectors – industries where the distance between stated and actual leadership behaviour carries a direct commercial cost. As a faculty member of CRR Global and Leadership Circle Ambassador in Europe, she operates inside the credentialing infrastructure of the leadership development field, not simply adjacent to it. She also works as a coach and programme contributor within PwC’s EMEA leadership network. Her client base spans technology, banking, pharmaceuticals, retail, and professional services: TikTok, UniCredit, Sandoz, Zalando, PwC, and Capgemini University, alongside EU institutional programmes. The consistent thread is leadership teams with strong technical or commercial capability whose default behaviours, individual or collective, are quietly limiting what the organisation around them can achieve. Key speaking topics Leadership capability in complexity and change Self-protective leadership patterns and how to shift them Bold leadership culture Change management and organisational transformation Relationship-centred and conscious leadership Executive development and coaching frameworks Scaling leadership capacity across teams Ideal for C-suite executives and senior leadership teams facing significant cultural or strategic transition CHROs and L&D leads designing or commissioning executive development programmes Leadership teams in professional services, banking, technology, and pharmaceuticals where risk-aversion or protective behaviours are limiting performance Organisations seeking a leadership development speaker whose work can be extended through structured frameworks and published material Audience outcomes A working command of the SOUL Framework® and how it maps onto their own leadership context The specific self-protective patterns, control, distance, and pleasing, that cause capable leaders to retreat under pressure instead of stepping up, and how to interrupt them Why an organisation’s performance tends to track the consciousness of its leaders, and what that implies for how they develop their teams Language and models for the bolder leadership conversations that teams typically avoid A reframe of change from an obstacle to be managed into a position to lead from

Why organisations work with Cameron Atlas He delivers the message through an unusual format. Original songs written for the keynote, an argument about human performance built around the music, and a setup that scales to the room, from solo piano or guitar to a full band or string quartet. It is one of very few keynote products where the medium itself reinforces the message. His TEDxRoma talk, “What Future Are We Creating?”, featured on TED.com, brought 80 musicians from 40 countries onto one stage. It is the cleanest public proof point of his ability to organise creative collaboration at scale. His content is built for leadership audiences in environments where change has become continuous. The talks address composure, clarity and decision-making, not abstract motivation. His content is already commissioned beyond the stage. The Edge of Possible Leadership Program runs with executive teams and one to one with founders and CEOs, so the keynote is drawn from work that organisations pay to implement, not from the conference circuit alone. He is a credible choice when a conference programme needs a closing keynote with emotional weight, where a conventional speaker would leave the room flat. Biography highlights Delivered the closing talk at TEDxRoma, “What Future Are We Creating?”, now featured on TED.com Host of The Edge of Possible, a top 100 self-improvement podcast on Apple Podcasts National Geographic Explorer Original songs heard across 195 countries; performs them live on grand piano and acoustic guitar during keynotes Runs The Edge of Possible Leadership Program, delivered to executive teams and as a private engagement for founders and CEOs Grew up on a farm in outback Australia in a graduating class of 11; now speaks internationally with live music as the keynote spine Biography Most leadership keynotes ask an audience to absorb an argument. A small number ask them to feel it. Cameron Atlas works in the second category. His keynotes are built around original music played live on a grand piano, with the argument about resilience, focus and decision-making woven into the performance rather than delivered alongside it. The substantive content is straightforward. After more than 15 years running The Edge of Possible Leadership Program with CEOs, founders and senior teams, he addresses what senior leaders actually need when they are running organisations through continuous change: composure, clarity, and the ability to make decisions when the conditions keep moving. The music is the carrier, not the point. His clearest public proof point is the TEDxRoma talk “What Future Are We Creating?”, now featured on TED.com, which assembled 80 musicians from 40 countries into a single collaborative performance. He has since taken the format to keynote stages internationally, and his songs have been heard across 195 countries. He hosts The Edge of Possible, which Apple Podcasts has ranked among the top 100 in self-improvement, and works with a roster of high-performing operators between speaking engagements. The category he belongs to is small. Most keynote speakers who use music use it as ornament. The format here is the product, and it earns its place because the audiences he serves, leadership teams that have heard every conventional resilience talk, tend to remember the room differently afterwards. Key speaking topics Resilience and decision-making under sustained change Composure and clarity for senior leaders Adaptability as a performance discipline Creative collaboration at scale The role of focus in distraction-heavy environments Live-music keynote experiences for leadership audiences Ideal for CEOs, founders and executive teams running through continuous restructure or strategic change Leadership conferences and annual summits looking for a closing keynote with emotional weight Sales kick-offs and partner events where audiences arrive saturated with conventional content HR and people-function audiences working on resilience, wellbeing and high-performance culture Audience outcomes A clearer language for what composure under pressure looks like in senior roles A reset on the difference between motion and focus when teams are exhausted by change A live demonstration of how creative collaboration can hold a room of unfamiliar people together A keynote experience that audiences remember and refer back to, which matters when the surrounding programme is dense

Why organisations work with Tony Martignetti He gives senior leaders a working method for staying composed under chaos, the 6Cs of Grounded Leadership, drawn from coaching thousands of executives through transition and reinvention. His work draws on a finance and strategy career inside life sciences, so the conversation with a CEO or CFO is operator-to-operator, not coach-to-client. He has built one of the most listened-to long-form leadership interview shows, The Virtual Campfire, and brings 200+ executive conversations into his keynotes as material rather than anecdote. He is published by Routledge on the use of personal narrative in leadership, with a third book on integrated, multidimensional leadership due in 2026, a depth of authorship rare in the resilience and purpose category. He is equally credible with a founder team mid-scale-up and a Fortune 500 leadership group mid-restructure, because the underlying problem, leading from grounded clarity, is the same. Biography highlights Founder and Chief Inspiration Officer, Inspired Purpose Partners, after a finance and strategy career across high-tech and life sciences. TEDx speaker whose talk “Don’t Check Yourself at the Door” has passed two million views. Author of “Climbing the Right Mountain” (2021) and “Campfire Lessons for Leaders” (Routledge, 2024), with “Illuminating Hidden Brilliance” forthcoming in 2026. Host of The Virtual Campfire podcast, 200+ episodes of long-form leadership interviews. ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC); MBA, D’Amore-McKim School of Business, Northeastern University. Writes a regular leadership column for Inc., and has appeared in Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, Forbes, CEOWORLD, and Life Science Leader; named a Top Voice in Leadership by Thinkers360. Biography Composure is now part of the senior leader’s job description. Decisions are sharper, cycles are shorter, and the people in the room read the leader for steadiness before they read the strategy. That is the territory Tony Martignetti works in. He came to it through operations, not theory. Before founding Inspired Purpose Partners, he spent a finance and strategy career across high-tech and life sciences companies, ran a financial consulting practice, and worked alongside founders and boards through capital events and reinvention. The coaching is shaped by that operator’s instinct for what actually moves a decision under pressure. His work runs on two linked ideas. The 6Cs of Grounded Leadership give senior leaders a frame for composure under sustained pressure. Multidimensional leadership, his own term, names a pattern he sees often: capable people fragment themselves to perform, and their sharpest thinking goes dormant. He developed both across two books, including “Campfire Lessons for Leaders,” published by Routledge in 2024, and more than 200 long-form interviews on his podcast, The Virtual Campfire. The audience is the senior leader who has the credentials, the team, and the strategy, and still needs a steadier internal frame to lead from. What they recognise is the substance: a clear, usable practice for leading well when conditions will not settle. That practice has travelled. He writes a regular leadership column for Inc., and his work appears in Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, and Forbes. Thinkers360 names him among its Top Voices in Leadership, and his TEDx talk “Don’t Check Yourself at the Door” has passed two million views. Key speaking topics Grounded leadership under chaos Composure and decision-making for senior leaders Multidimensional leadership Purpose and direction for executives in transition Personal narrative as a leadership instrument Reinvention for founders and senior teams Coaching culture inside leadership teams Ideal for C-suite teams working through reorganisation, integration, or strategic reset Founder and scale-up CEOs entering a new operating phase Senior leadership programmes inside life sciences, technology, and professional services Executive offsites where the brief is composure, clarity, and direction Audience outcomes A working method, the 6Cs of Grounded Leadership, that a senior leader can apply on Monday morning Sharper criteria for which decisions deserve the leader’s attention and which do not A clearer read on the leader’s own ambition, and whether the current mountain is the right one Practical use of personal story as a tool for trust, alignment, and team direction Language for steadiness that travels across the leadership team, not just the individual

Why organisations work with Marc Convey A first-hand account of post-traumatic growth that gives audiences permission to discuss adversity, fear, and visible difference without sliding into clinical or HR-policy register. Years as a campaigner for Changing Faces, the UK charity for people with visible difference, which informs how he handles inclusion and self-image conversations inside organisations. A working life that crossed live poker broadcasting, video production, and non-profit leadership, which gives him commercial fluency when speaking to corporate audiences. A track record on charged platforms, including a suicide prevention evening at Brighton Dome for Baton of Hope, where he has delivered a keynote that holds an audience through difficult material. Biography highlights Two-year voluntary campaigner with Changing Faces, the UK charity for people with visible difference. Keynote speaker at the Baton of Hope suicide prevention event at Brighton Dome. Client testimonial from Cristina Proietti, Head of Commercial Operations at WHSmith Travel. Former globally-travelled poker commentator across the live tournament circuit. Founder of his own video production business and operator of a non-profit focused on “working with purpose.” Writes the Substack “Making a Marc” and appears regularly on podcasts including “Man Up / Man Down.” Biography A fire at 14 left Marc Convey with burns that he carries today. The decision that followed shaped the rest of his life: refuse to be defined by the injury, and build the inner resources to face what came next. That choice now sits at the centre of his speaking work. Before turning to the stage, he spent years commentating on live poker tournaments around the world. He then ran a video production company and built a non-profit focused on what he calls “working with purpose.” Each of those careers fed the next, and gave him the commercial language to address corporate audiences without losing the personal core. His signature keynote, The Gift of Adversity, draws on that long road back. Audiences hear a specific story, not a generic message, and leave with a more grounded vocabulary for fear, recovery, and the meaning of difference. The work has reached charged platforms, including a Baton of Hope suicide prevention evening at Brighton Dome, and corporate floors at WHSmith Travel. Beyond the stage he writes the “Making a Marc” Substack and serves a two-year campaigner role with Changing Faces, the UK charity for people living with visible difference. That campaigning work is what separates his content from the wider motivational category: he is in active service to a population whose lived experience he shares. Key speaking topics Resilience and post-traumatic growth Adversity and recovery from setback Mental health and wellbeing at work Visible difference and self-image Fear, change, and personal transformation Authentic leadership and inner resources Team culture grounded in values Ideal for CHROs and HR leaders programming mental health, wellbeing, or culture events Internal communications and culture leads commissioning all-hands or away-day keynotes Charities, healthcare bodies, and public service audiences working on suicide prevention or visible difference Audience outcomes A direct first-hand account of trauma and recovery that gives audiences permission to talk honestly about adversity at work A more concrete vocabulary for fear, setback, and visible difference than wellbeing programmes typically offer Language and reference points that internal communicators can carry into culture and engagement conversations after the talk A confident sense that post-traumatic growth is achievable, anchored in a specific lived example rather than abstract claim

Why organisations work with Jose Manuel Calderon Fourteen NBA seasons across seven franchises, each requiring a different role, system, and relationship with coaching staff. Few speakers can describe reinvention at that frequency from inside the experience. Captained the Spain national team through its most decorated era, winning the 2006 FIBA World Cup, the 2011 EuroBasket, and three Olympic medals across 2008, 2012, and 2016. Holds the NBA single-season free throw record at 98.05 percent. The story behind that statistic is a precise account of preparation, repetition, and composure that translates directly to high-stakes performance. Now operates inside the business of sport as Special Advisor to the Cleveland Cavaliers, strategic advisor to technology firm Sngular, and co-founder of sport technology venture OWQLO. The post-playing view is operational, not nostalgic. Biography highlights 14 NBA seasons with Toronto Raptors, Detroit Pistons, Dallas Mavericks, New York Knicks, Los Angeles Lakers, Atlanta Hawks, and Cleveland Cavaliers. NBA single-season free throw record holder at 98.05 percent (2008-09, Toronto Raptors). 2006 FIBA World Cup champion and 2011 EuroBasket champion with Spain. Three Olympic medals with Spain: silver in 2008, silver in 2012, bronze in 2016. Special Assistant to the Executive Director at the National Basketball Players Association from 2019. Special Advisor to the Cleveland Cavaliers, strategic advisor to Sngular, co-founder of OWQLO, UNICEF Ambassador. Biography Fourteen seasons in the NBA is not a tenure. It is seven different working environments, seven coaching philosophies, and a constant negotiation of role. Across Toronto, Detroit, Dallas, New York, Los Angeles, Atlanta, and Cleveland, the work was the same every season: arrive, read the room, and become useful to a group of people who did not pick you. That career line is the substance behind Jose Manuel Calderon’s speaking. He captained the Spain national team through the most decorated period in its history, winning the 2006 FIBA World Cup, the 2011 EuroBasket, and three Olympic medals across 2008, 2012, and 2016. The Spanish “golden generation” is studied because it sustained excellence across more than a decade, with changing coaches, ageing key players, and rising rivals. Calderon was a central figure in how that group held together. The detail that travels well into corporate rooms is his free throw record. In 2008-09 he made 151 of 154 attempts, a 98.05 percent season that still stands as the NBA’s highest. The talk that emerges from it is about repeatable performance, not natural talent, and it lands cleanly with audiences who are measured on consistency rather than peaks. After retiring, Calderon moved directly into the business of sport. He served as Special Assistant to the Executive Director of the NBA Players Association from 2019, advises the Cleveland Cavaliers, sits on the advisory board of Spanish technology firm Sngular, and co-founded sport technology venture OWQLO. He is also a UNICEF Ambassador. The result is a speaker who can speak to senior teams in the language they use, drawing on a playing career that is genuinely rare at the level it reached. Key speaking topics Leadership under sustained pressure Team performance across changing line-ups High-stakes decision-making Captaincy and standards Inclusion and identity in elite sport Reinvention across cultures and systems The business of professional sport Ideal for Senior leadership teams under prolonged performance pressure CHROs and people leaders building cohesion across changing structures Sales and commercial leaders who manage on consistency rather than peaks Board and executive offsites looking for a credible outside voice on team dynamics Audience outcomes A practical account of how elite teams hold standards through line-up change, coaching turnover, and external scrutiny. A clear picture of what daily preparation looks like at the level that produces records, not anecdotes about motivation. A working language for captaincy, the responsibility of senior players inside a team, and how that maps to senior leaders inside an organisation. A perspective on inclusion built from a long career across multiple national, cultural, and locker-room contexts.

Why organisations work with Stef Reid A medal record, not a metaphor: triple Paralympic medallist, 2017 long jump world champion and five-time world record holder, with 18 years of evidence on what holds performance together when conditions change. Sharp specificity on the moment after the plan fails. Her material is built around what teams actually do in the hours and weeks after a setback, not the rhetoric of bouncing back. A working argument on inclusion that does not collapse into compliance language. Reid speaks about disability and difference as performance variables, drawing on her TEDxLondonWomen talk on accessible design and her public campaign that pushed Nike on single-shoe retail for amputee customers. Boardroom credibility built outside the speaking circuit: Vice President of British Athletics, broadcaster for Channel 4 and the BBC, MBE for services to Paralympic sport. Clients including BP, Sky, Bloomberg, Visa, McLaren, Barclays and Procter & Gamble, where the brief was leadership under pressure, not an inspirational set piece. Biography highlights Triple Paralympic medallist (Beijing 2008, London 2012, Rio 2016) and 2017 World Para Athletics long jump champion. MBE, 2018 New Year Honours, for services to Paralympic sport. Biochemistry graduate, Queen’s University, Kingston, on a full academic scholarship. Vice President of British Athletics and The Leprosy Mission UK; ambassador for London Air Ambulance and British Ice Skating. Broadcaster across Channel 4, BBC and CBC, including the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics, the Invictus Games and the 2025 World Athletics Championships; Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Sports Host. TEDxLondonWomen speaker on accessible design; first British amputee to walk a London Fashion Week catwalk. Biography A boating accident at fifteen ended one version of Reid’s life and made the next one a question of design rather than recovery. The medical answer was amputation. The harder question, asked over the eighteen years that followed, was how to build a system, training, mindset, team, that turned a body operating under new constraints into one capable of winning at the highest level of world sport. She did. Three Paralympic medals across Beijing, London and Rio. A world long jump title in 2017. Five world records. An MBE in 2018 for services to Paralympic sport. The proof points sit on a single shelf, but the content she now brings to senior audiences sits underneath them, in the specific habits and decisions that allowed an athlete to keep performing through injury, classification changes and the routine collapse of plans. That material translates because organisations face the same problem in a different vocabulary. Reid works with leadership teams on the practical question of what high-performing groups actually do in the moment a strategy stops describing reality. Her talks for BP, Sky, Bloomberg, Visa, McLaren, Barclays and Procter & Gamble take the same arc, with frameworks built from elite sport science and her own career, not from generic motivational structure. The second strand of her work is inclusion as a performance question. Her TEDxLondonWomen talk argued that accessible design serves everyone, not a category. Her public campaign pressing Nike to sell single shoes to amputee customers made the same point in retail terms. As a broadcaster for Channel 4, the BBC and CBC, and as Vice President of British Athletics, she carries that argument into rooms where DEI language has otherwise lost its edge. Key speaking topics Adaptive mindset and team performance under pressure Resilience and recovery after setback High performance habits in elite sport and business Inclusion and disability as performance variables Mental health and sustained excellence Diversity as a competitive lever, not a compliance line Ideal for Senior leadership teams entering restructure, integration or a period of sustained pressure DEI, talent and culture leads briefing the board on inclusion as capability rather than reporting High-performing commercial, sales and trading teams operating under volatility Sales kick-offs, leadership offsites and all-hands moments where the audience needs a credible voice on adapting when the plan stops working Audience outcomes A clearer view of what a team’s actual response to setback says about its performance ceiling Practical habits drawn from elite-sport preparation that translate to operating decisions under pressure A sharper, less political vocabulary for inclusion that frames difference as a performance variable Renewed conviction at senior level that adaptive capacity is a leadership skill, not a personality trait

Why organisations work with Dean Leak A working language for productive disagreement at the top of the house, captured in his “3 A’s” method (Absorb, Acknowledge, Ask), that teams can use the day after the session Direct operating experience inside Olympic gold-medal environments at Great Britain Taekwondo, British Canoeing, and British Shooting, not theory borrowed from sport A mentorship lineage to Professor Steve Peters and the Chimp Management model, applied with discipline to executive behaviour rather than repackaged as motivation Comfort moving between board rooms, military commanders, and elite athletes, which translates into a sharper read of how senior leaders actually behave under load Biography highlights Worked directly with Olympic gold medallists including Jade Jones and Joe Clarke Held senior leadership roles at Great Britain Taekwondo, British Canoeing, and British Shooting Mentored by Professor Steve Peters, author of The Chimp Paradox, over a five-year period Graduate of UK Sport’s leadership programme Corporate clients include L’Oreal, IBM, Microsoft, LinkedIn, PwC, Baker McKenzie, Specsavers, Mars Group, Air New Zealand, the BBC, and the British Government Author of the “3 A’s” disagreement framework and the “Human iOS” model of behaviour change Member, Association for Coaching Biography Gold medals are not won by teams that agree with each other. They are won by teams that can disagree, in the room, on the day, without the relationship breaking. That observation is the foundation of Dean Leak’s work with senior leadership teams. Leak spent more than a decade inside Olympic programmes, in roles that combined psychological skills coaching with operational leadership. He worked under Professor Steve Peters using the Chimp Management model, then took senior positions at Great Britain Taekwondo, British Canoeing, and British Shooting. The athletes he supported include Olympic gold medallists Jade Jones and Joe Clarke. The corporate work followed the same logic. Boards and executive teams behave like elite squads under pressure: they need composure, role clarity, and a way to surface friction without retreating into politeness. Leak’s “3 A’s” method (Absorb, Acknowledge, Ask) gives teams a reusable structure for disagreeing well. His “Human iOS” framework treats change as a problem of biology and attention, not slogans, which is why his sessions tend to stick with operators who have already heard the standard transformation script. Clients include L’Oreal, IBM, Microsoft, LinkedIn, PwC, Baker McKenzie, Mars Group, Air New Zealand, the BBC, and the British Government. He is a member of the Association for Coaching and a graduate of UK Sport’s leadership programme. Key speaking topics High-performance culture Productive disagreement and healthy conflict Leadership under pressure Change leadership Team performance Psychological safety Imposter syndrome at senior levels Ideal for Executive teams and boards working through restructure, integration, or strategic disagreement CHROs and chief people officers redesigning culture around performance, not engagement scores Leadership development directors briefing partner-track or senior management cohorts High-pressure operational environments (legal, professional services, elite teams) where stakes are personal and decisions are time-bound Audience outcomes A shared vocabulary for naming and routing disagreement instead of avoiding it A clearer read on the behaviours that distinguish gold-medal teams from competent ones The 3 A’s method as a portable practice for senior conversations the next week A sharper view of where the team’s culture rewards comfort over accuracy Practical handles for managing personal composure under sustained pressure