Corporate Culture speakers

Why organisations work with Zara Janjua She brings broadcast-grade interviewing into corporate rooms, drawing on more than 500 live hours of television and national news across BBC, ITV and STV. She is the host NatWest chose for its Women in Business podcast, its skills development series, and its internal What’s The Chat? podcast, which makes her a credible anchor for organisations building long-running internal communications platforms, not one-off events. She has chaired the Financial Alliance for Women Summit and the EBRD Conference on Skills Development in Central Asia, and has led onstage conversations with Karren Brady and Steven Bartlett, so she is trusted to handle senior figures and senior delegates at international level. She is an appointed member of NatWest’s Ethnicity Advisory Council, which gives her a working view of how a major institution actually moves on inclusion, not just how it speaks about it. She speaks on portfolio careers and reinvention as someone who has actually built one, from national news to comedy, television writing and documentary film, which reaches audiences facing their own career uncertainty in a way a career theorist cannot. Biography highlights BAFTA, NTA and RTS award-winning broadcaster; presents on BBC Radio Scotland and has fronted national news, daytime and comedy across BBC, ITV and STV. Delivered a keynote to an audience of around 16,000 in Melbourne for Rotary International. Led onstage conversations with Karren Brady and Steven Bartlett at the Women in Business and Tech Expo. Reporter for the New York Times Climate Hub at COP26, interviewing John Kerry and Al Gore. Host of NatWest’s Women in Business podcast and its internal What’s The Chat? podcast, and a member of its Ethnicity Advisory Council. Highly Commended finalist, Women of the Future Awards, sponsored by Oxford University and the Financial Times. Biography One career rarely runs from national news to stand-up comedy, television writing, and documentary film. Zara Janjua’s has, and each strand carries recognition: a BAFTA, NTA and RTS across her television work, a place in the BBC Comedy Writersroom won from more than four thousand applicants, and a Technical Award for her first documentary. That range is what makes her effective on a corporate stage. She interviews senior leaders without flattening them and holds a panel to its actual argument, drawing on more than 500 live hours of television and national news. She reported for the New York Times Climate Hub at COP26, securing interviews with John Kerry and Al Gore, and now presents on BBC Radio Scotland. NatWest shows how that translates inside an organisation. Janjua hosts the bank’s Women in Business podcast and its internal What’s The Chat? podcast, and sits on its Ethnicity Advisory Council. On larger stages she has led onstage conversations with Karren Brady and Steven Bartlett at the Women in Business and Tech Expo, and delivered a keynote to an audience of around 16,000 in Melbourne for Rotary International. Her keynote work has moved with her. The recurring subject is now the shape of a modern working life: portfolio careers, reinvention, resilience, and aligning work with purpose. The Women of the Future Awards, sponsored by Oxford University and the Financial Times, named her a Highly Commended finalist for building exactly that. The documentaries she produces in Nepal, Tanzania, and Guatemala for charitable partners are its clearest expression, and the reason a Rotary International president has publicly credited her fundraising impact. Key speaking topics Event hosting and moderation Panel chairing and interviewing Portfolio and multi-hyphen careers Career reinvention and resilience Future of work and careers Diversity, equity and inclusion Mental health in the workplace Storytelling and business communication Ideal for CHROs, internal communications leads and DEI directors anchoring long-running internal channels. Boards, summit organisers and awards committees commissioning a host for inclusion, women in business or skills conferences. Talent and early-careers leaders programming events on career reinvention, portfolio working and retention. Financial services, professional services and public-sector organisations briefing a moderator on senior international panels. Audience outcomes A panel or summit that lands its argument rather than drifting between speakers. An internal communications moment that employees actually listen to, anchored by a broadcaster they recognise as credible. Senior speakers drawn out on substance, not left to recite prepared lines. Sensitive subject matter on inclusion, mental health or women’s progression handled with editorial care. Audiences leave rethinking what a viable career can look like, prompted by someone who built one across news, comedy and film.

Why organisations work with Zing Tsjeng A working journalist’s instinct for what an audience actually wants to hear, sharpened across VICE, the BBC and the i newspaper, brought to corporate stages where most speakers sound rehearsed. A four-volume body of work in Forgotten Women that pulls 190 named historical women into business and cultural conversations, giving inclusion content that is specific rather than slogan-driven. Co-hosting Good Bad Billionaire with BBC Business Editor Simon Jack means she can interrogate wealth, power and ambition with a financial-journalism register, not a generic culture take. A presenter’s hosting craft tested on Question Time, Have I Got News For You and Front Row, useful when the brief is moderation, panel chairing or on-stage interview rather than a solo keynote. An Oxford visiting professorship in Creative Media gives the academic credential to anchor talks on media, narrative and identity for senior internal communications and brand audiences. Biography highlights Former Editor-in-Chief, VICE UK and VICE.com; launched Broadly in 2014. Co-host, Good Bad Billionaire, BBC Sounds, with Simon Jack. Author, Forgotten Women series, Octopus Publishing, anthologised by Brazen in 2022. Visiting Professor of Creative Media, University of Oxford, since 2022. Highly commended, British Journalism Awards 2020. Columnist for the i newspaper; contributor to British Vogue, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, Dazed. Biography Inclusion content inside large organisations has a credibility problem. Most of it is either statement-led or driven by external pressure, and very little of it is grounded in the actual content of the histories it claims to recover. That gap is where Tsjeng’s work begins. The Forgotten Women series is a four-volume project that profiles more than 190 women, scientists, leaders, artists, reformers, who shaped fields that later forgot them. Octopus published the books between 2018 and 2019; Brazen reissued the anthology in 2022. The work is research, not advocacy, and it gives senior audiences a vocabulary for inclusion that does not collapse the moment scrutiny arrives. She runs a parallel journalism career that gives her a working register most cultural speakers do not have. As Editor-in-Chief of VICE UK she managed teams across the US and UK, launched Broadly, and oversaw video work that drew tens of millions of views. With Simon Jack on the BBC’s Good Bad Billionaire she now interrogates wealth, power and ambition for a mainstream business audience, with the show topping UK audio charts in 2024. The credential anchor is real. Oxford appointed her Visiting Professor of Creative Media in 2022; she lectures in journalism at City, University of London; she was highly commended at the British Journalism Awards 2020. Question Time, Have I Got News For You and Front Row have all used her as a contributor, which is why corporate clients including SXSW, Web Summit, Netflix and Sky tend to book her to chair, moderate or interview at the moments where the room expects a working broadcaster, not a motivational voice. Key speaking topics Hidden histories of women in business, science and leadership Wealth, power and the lives of billionaires Media, journalism and the modern news industry Inclusion, identity and cultural narrative LGBTQ+ representation in public life On-stage hosting, moderation and panel chairing Ideal for CHROs, heads of DEI and internal communications leaders briefing audiences on inclusion with substance Brand, marketing and editorial leaders working on culture-led storytelling Conference programmers needing a senior journalist to chair, moderate or interview on the main stage Leadership teams hosting International Women’s Day, Pride or cultural anniversary events that need a credible voice rather than a generic one Audience outcomes Specific historical reference points that make inclusion content land with executive audiences A clearer view of how wealth, power and ambition are reported and judged in mainstream media today Confidence in handling identity and cultural topics from a journalist’s evidence base, not a political register Practical reading on how stories travel in modern media, drawn from VICE, the BBC and national press A sharper sense of what audiences want to hear from leaders speaking about inclusion and culture

Why organisations work with Zoe Fragou She brings a clinical psychologist’s diagnostic discipline into corporate culture work, which most coaches and consultants in this space cannot. Her doctoral research at EU Business School Geneva is specifically on corporate culture psychometrics, giving organisations a measurement frame rather than a values poster. She actively trains public health leaders for the WHO Regional Office for Europe, including in Kazakhstan and Ukraine, so her leadership content is tested in the hardest operating conditions, not only corporate ones. Her work covers burnout, psychological safety, feedback culture and inclusion as connected mechanisms inside the same system, rather than as separate wellness initiatives. Recognised externally as a credible coaching authority, ranked No. 7 globally on Thinkers360 for coaching and named Best Career Coach at the 2021 Global Coaching Conference. Biography highlights Organisational psychologist with a clinical psychology licence and an MSc in Human Resources Management from Athens University of Economics and Business. Doctoral candidate at EU Business School Geneva, researching the psychometrics of corporate culture. Trainer for the WHO Regional Office for Europe on the Public Health Leadership course since September 2023. Ranked No. 7 Global Thought Leader on Coaching by Thinkers360; featured on the Top 50 Coaching rankings for 2024 and 2025. Voted Best Career Coach at the Global Coaching Conference 2021; named Top 15 Coaches in Athens 2023. Founder of Fragoulous Minds, an Athens-based consulting collective working with private and corporate clients globally; mentor with Women On Top, 100mentors and Lean In. Biography Most wellbeing programmes are designed to manage symptoms. They sit alongside the operating model that produced the burnout in the first place. The work of changing the underlying culture sits with people who rarely have a clinical lens to see what is actually happening inside teams under pressure. Zoe Fragou occupies that gap. She is a licensed clinical psychologist who works at the organisational level, holding an MSc in Human Resources Management from Athens University of Economics and Business and pursuing a doctorate at EU Business School Geneva on the psychometrics of corporate culture. Her practice covers culture transformation, executive coaching, feedback culture and psychological safety for private and corporate clients across Europe, Asia and Africa. Since 2023 she has trained public health leaders for the WHO Regional Office for Europe on its Public Health Leadership course, working with cohorts from countries including Kazakhstan and Ukraine. That work places her leadership material in genuinely fragile operating environments, not only in well-resourced corporates, and informs how she frames resilience, decision-making and team dynamics for senior audiences. External recognition reflects the same focus. Thinkers360 ranks her at No. 7 globally on Coaching and lists her on its 2024 and 2025 Top 50 Coaching rosters. She was voted Best Career Coach at the 2021 Global Coaching Conference and named among the Top 15 Coaches in Athens in 2023. Through Fragoulous Minds, the practice she founded, she leads culture and leadership engagements for organisations that want to treat burnout and engagement as a system problem rather than a perks problem. Key speaking topics Corporate culture transformation Burnout and psychological safety at work Feedback culture and growth mindset Leadership development under pressure Diversity, equity and inclusion Mental health in the workplace Women’s leadership Executive coaching and personal development Ideal for CHROs and Chief People Officers rebuilding culture after restructure or rapid growth Boards and executive teams accountable for engagement, attrition and wellbeing metrics Public sector and global health leaders operating in high-pressure or fragile contexts Senior leadership groups in regulated, professional services or post-merger organisations Audience outcomes A clinical reading of how burnout actually develops inside teams, and which organisational levers shift it A working definition of feedback culture that connects to growth mindset rather than performance management ritual A more honest frame for DEI work, anchored in psychological mechanisms of bias and belonging Language for senior leaders to talk about psychological safety without slipping into wellness platitudes A clear view of where wellbeing programmes stop working and culture redesign has to start

Why organisations work with Zoe Harrison A current, contracted international whose authority on performance under pressure is live, not retrospective. She kicked four conversions in the 2025 World Cup final the same year she walked into the room. The fly-half perspective on team performance: the position responsible for game management, tempo and the next decision after a mistake. Translated for senior leaders who own the equivalent calls inside their organisations. Saracens-era discipline was brought into a corporate setting. Two consecutive Premier 15s titles and the dominant club culture of that period sit behind her view of what a winning team actually looks like day to day. A serious England career built through visible setbacks, including a period out of the starting side before returning to win the World Cup. Useful for audiences whose recent story is recovery, not uninterrupted success. Biography highlights 65 caps for England; 242 international points. Starting fly-half for England at the 2025 Women’s Rugby World Cup, won by the Red Roses against Canada (33-13). Saracens Women regular since 2016-17; Players’ Player of the Season in her first senior year. Started the 2018 and 2019 Premier 15s finals, scoring two tries in the 2019 final. 2019 Six Nations Grand Slam winner with England; full-time England contract from January 2019. Trained through the Hartpury AASE Girls Rugby Programme; Sports Rehabilitation and Exercise studies at Middlesex University. Biography The Red Roses won the 2025 World Cup at Twickenham against Canada. Zoe Harrison started at fly-half and kicked four conversions in the final. That detail matters because the fly-half is the position that runs the game, sets the tempo, and makes the next call after a mistake. It is the closest on-field equivalent to the role a senior leader plays inside their organisation. Harrison has been a Saracens first-team regular since 2016-17, named Players’ Player of the Season in her debut senior year. She started both the 2018 and 2019 Premier 15s finals and scored two tries in the 2019 win. England honoured her with a full-time contract in January 2019 and a Six Nations Grand Slam followed that year. Across 65 caps, she has scored 242 international points. Her authority for corporate audiences is built on a specific kind of experience. She has held the playmaker role in a sustained winning culture at Saracens, lost and regained the England starting shirt, and stood over the kicking tee in a World Cup final. That arc is more useful to senior teams than an uninterrupted highlight reel, because most boardrooms now operate after a setback rather than before one. She is most credible on what a fly-half actually does: read pressure, pick the next play, hold the team’s composure when the score has just moved. Translated for a leadership audience, that is the practical content of self-leadership and team behaviour in moments where the cost of the wrong call is public. Key speaking topics Performance under pressure Team behaviour in high-stakes environments Composure and decision-making in the next moment Elite team culture and standards Resilience after setbacks Women in elite sport and the changing professional game Ideal for Senior leadership teams entering a high-visibility year (IPO, restructure, public scrutiny) Sales and commercial conferences where the audience owns the next-call decisions All-company kickoffs anchoring a year on standards, behaviour and pace Networks and ERGs centred on women in leadership and performance environments Audience outcomes A clear picture of what composure looks like in practice, drawn from the position on the pitch responsible for it. Specific language for the moments inside a team where the next decision sets the tone, and how an elite environment handles them. A working definition of standards in a winning team that is not generic, drawn from a sustained Saracens and England culture. An honest account of losing form and regaining it at the highest level, useful for teams whose recent story is recovery.