Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Why organisations work with Dunja Hayali A working anchor on ZDF’s flagship heute-journal and main presenter of ZDF-Morgenmagazin, which means boards and conference organisers are hiring the same journalistic judgement that reaches millions of German viewers every morning. Trained to interview politicians, CEOs and activists on live television without losing the thread, an asset when a panel includes genuinely opposing positions or a keynote speaker the room wants pressed. Carries public recognition for civic engagement, including the Bundesverdienstkreuz and the Goldene Kamera Integration award, which signals to international audiences that the chair on stage has standing beyond the broadcast booth. Works fluently in German and English, useful for DAX-30, EU-level and cross-border corporate forums that need a single moderator across languages. Author of “Haymatland” (Ullstein, 2018), a published argument on belonging, migration and social cohesion that she can draw on directly when a brief calls for substantive contribution as well as stage craft. Biography highlights Main presenter, ZDF-Morgenmagazin (since 2010); joined the heute-journal presenting team in 2023. Former host, “dunja hayali” talk show on ZDF (2017-2020), and co-presenter of das aktuelle sportstudio (2018-2023). Recipient of the Bundesverdienstkreuz (Federal Cross of Merit, 2018) for engagement against racism and online hate. Goldene Kamera 2016, Integration category. Author, “Haymatland: Wie wollen wir zusammenleben?” (Ullstein, 2018); co-author, “Ist’ was, Dog?” (Ullstein, 2014). UNICEF supporter and active with the initiative “Gesicht Zeigen! Fuer ein weltoffenes Deutschland”. Biography Live television is where reputations get made or broken in real time. For most of the last two decades, Dunja Hayali has been one of the German journalists entrusted with that responsibility, first on ZDF’s morning news strand and now also on the evening flagship heute-journal. That role is the anchor of her speaking work. When a corporate conference, political forum or industry gala books her, they are not buying a keynote lecture. They are buying the same interviewer who questions ministers before breakfast and the same composure that keeps a studio conversation on track when a guest tries to pull it elsewhere. Her publishing and civic work give that stage presence a specific edge. “Haymatland” (Ullstein, 2018) sets out her thinking on migration, belonging and social cohesion, drawing on her own Iraqi-German background. The Bundesverdienstkreuz followed in 2018 for her public stand against racism and online abuse, recognition anchored by her long association with Gesicht Zeigen! and UNICEF. The practical case for organisations is narrow and strong. When an event puts senior leaders, politicians or campaigners on the same panel and the room will not settle for bland, Hayali is one of the few moderators in the German market with the journalistic standing, bilingual reach and on-stage authority to run it cleanly. Key speaking topics Live event moderation and panel chairing Political and current affairs interviews Media, journalism and public discourse Social cohesion, integration and belonging Civic engagement and countering online hate Sport and public broadcasting Bilingual (German / English) corporate moderation Ideal for Corporate and industry conferences needing a senior moderator for keynotes, panels and plenaries with politicians, CEOs or regulators in the room. Award ceremonies, galas and anniversary events that require an anchor-grade host rather than an entertainer. CSR, DEI and civic-themed summits where the moderator’s own public record on integration and anti-racism adds credibility. Bilingual German / English forums in DAX-30, EU policy and cross-border corporate settings. Audience outcomes Conversations that stay on the agenda the organiser actually wanted, including the difficult questions. Senior speakers handled with the same level of preparation and follow-up they would expect from a flagship news interview. A neutral, credible chair presence that lets sensitive topics (migration, political polarisation, corporate controversy) be discussed without tipping into spectacle. Clear narrative threading across a multi-speaker programme, so that plenaries, panels and Q and A feel like one event rather than a sequence of slots.

Why organisations work with Jana Azizi Her live broadcast range covers hard news, live morning television, entertainment magazines, and lifestyle formats, so she can shift register inside a single event without the audience registering the adjustment. She presents professionally in German, English, French, Spanish, and Russian at television standard, which is unusually rare in a single moderator and genuinely useful for events with multiple language markets in the room. Her Sky Sport News role included editorial team work, not only on-screen presenting. She arrives as a journalist who has already researched the guests and anticipated the angles. Thousands of hours of daily live broadcasting, including live sport, guest drop-outs, and technical failures, mean she has already encountered most of what can go wrong in a live room. A business administration degree from Mainz University of Applied Sciences lets her absorb a corporate brief quickly and translate dense business content for mixed audiences. Biography highlights Presenter at Sky Sport News from 2017 to 2020, working on the editorial team as well as on-screen Presenter across RTL flagship formats including RTL aktuell, Punkt 12, Guten Morgen Deutschland, Extra, Explosiv, and Explosiv Stories Presenter of Deluxe, the n-tv lifestyle and luxury format, from October 2020 Business administration degree from Mainz University of Applied Sciences (Hochschule Mainz) Marketing communications training at Grey Worldwide, Dusseldorf; presenter training at Logo Institut, Frankfurt Works professionally in five languages: German, English, French, Spanish, and Russian Biography Seven years of daily live television at Sky Sport News, RTL, and n-tv shape a specific kind of professional. Jana Azizi reads a room mid-conversation, absorbs the unexpected, and keeps an audience with her through shifts the room never sees. Her Sky Sport News role ran from 2017 to 2020 and included editorial team work alongside on-screen presenting. That side of the job built a journalist’s instinct for interview structure and story preparation, rather than only camera presence. At RTL she presented across the broadcaster’s flagship formats including RTL aktuell, Punkt 12, Guten Morgen Deutschland, Extra, and Explosiv. From October 2020 she also fronted Deluxe, the n-tv lifestyle and luxury programme. Sport, hard news, morning television, entertainment, and lifestyle each demand a different register. A moderator who has worked across all five reads what a corporate audience actually needs in the moment. Azizi works professionally in German, English, French, Spanish, and Russian. The five-language range matters most for events that are genuinely multi-market in the room, not simply bilingual on paper. She holds a business administration degree from Mainz University of Applied Sciences, which gives her the vocabulary to move confidently through a corporate brief and carry dense content for a mixed audience. Key speaking topics Live event moderation and conference hosting Broadcast communication and on-camera presence Interview craft and panel facilitation Storytelling in a business context Multilingual event hosting Women in media and male-dominated industries Ideal for Corporate conferences and leadership summits requiring a professional moderator or host International events where facilitation in multiple languages is needed at broadcast standard Award ceremonies, galas, and high-profile company anniversaries Media, sport, and communications sector organisations that need a credible, broadcast-trained panel moderator Audience outcomes Events that run with broadcast-level control, professionally paced and clearly structured Panels and interviews driven by focused, well-prepared questions rather than generic facilitation Live sessions handled cleanly when guests go off-script, formats slip, or tech fails Multi-language audiences held by a moderator who moves between languages without losing authority

Why organisations work with Hasnain Kazim He has spent a decade testing, in public, what actually works when people shout at you. “Post von Karlheinz” turned his replies to hate mail into a national bestseller, and the method underneath it travels directly into how leaders and communications teams handle hostile audiences. He reports from inside the conditions most executives only read about. Six years as a Der Spiegel foreign correspondent in Islamabad and Istanbul, ended by the Turkish state refusing to renew his press credentials, gives him concrete material on authoritarian drift, migration and press freedom rather than abstract commentary. He speaks and writes in German and English with equal fluency, which matters for DAX and European-headquartered organisations briefing a single voice across jurisdictions on identity, integration and public discourse. He works as both author and moderator. The same person who wrote the argument can host the board dinner, chair the panel, or carry an awards night, which reduces briefing overhead for events that need a serious thinker on stage. His published rhetorical guide, “Auf sie mit Gebruell!”, is specifically about how to argue in public against populism without losing the room. That is a usable internal-comms and leadership-communication frame, not a lecture topic. Biography highlights Der Spiegel South Asia correspondent, Islamabad, 2009 to 2013. Der Spiegel Turkey correspondent, Istanbul, 2013 to 2016; left after the Turkish government refused to renew his press credentials. CNN Journalist Award winner, 2009. Bestselling author with Penguin Verlag, including “Post von Karlheinz” (2018) and “Auf sie mit Gebruell!” (2019). Studied political science in Hamburg; served as an officer in the German Navy, 1994 to 2000. Keynote speaker at re:publica 2022 on language in times of division; regular contributor to IPS Journal and Goethe-Institut publications. Biography The Turkish government refused to renew his press credentials in 2016, and with them his legal residency. Hasnain Kazim had been Der Spiegel’s Istanbul correspondent for three years. He moved his reporting on Turkey, and later on identity and migration across Europe, to Vienna. The work before and after that moment is unusually concrete. Four years as South Asia correspondent in Islamabad, three in Istanbul, a CNN Journalist Award in 2009, and a German Navy officer’s commission before any of that. For organisations trying to understand what authoritarian pressure, migration and press freedom actually look like on the ground, this is first-hand material rather than commentary. The second arc of the career is what makes him useful in a room of executives. Since 2018, as a full-time author with Penguin Verlag, he has built a public method for responding to hostility. “Post von Karlheinz” collected his replies to racist and abusive reader mail, became a long-running bestseller, and turned him into a case study for the Dangerous Speech Project. “Auf sie mit Gebruell!” followed, a rhetorical handbook for arguing with populists without surrendering the tone. That body of work gives him something most geopolitics speakers do not have: a practical grammar for how leaders, communications teams and frontline staff should actually speak in a climate where silence reads as complicity and escalation damages the brand. He writes and speaks in German and English, and works as both keynote speaker and moderator for events that need a single serious voice to carry the evening. Key speaking topics Counterspeech and responding to online hostility Language, polarisation and public discourse Migration, identity and integration in Europe Populism, extremism and democratic resilience Press freedom and authoritarian pressure Germany, Turkey and South Asia in geopolitical context Ideal for CHROs and internal-communications leaders dealing with polarisation inside the workforce. External communications, public affairs and brand teams briefing leaders on migration, identity and reputational risk. Boards and executive committees at European-headquartered organisations working through integration, DEI or social-cohesion questions in their markets. Conference organisers and awards committees looking for a serious bilingual moderator or host. Audience outcomes A concrete method for replying to hostile or abusive communication, drawn from a published and tested body of practice. A clearer read on how language choices in internal and external communication either defuse or deepen division. First-hand perspective on Turkey, South Asia and migration into Europe from someone who reported on them under pressure. A sharper sense of what leaders can say in public on contested social questions without conceding ground to populism.

Why organisations work with Khadra Sufi Fifteen-plus years of live television means she handles unscripted moments, technical hiccups, and difficult guests the way a working broadcaster does, not the way an event host learns to. Bilingual moderation in German and English at a professional broadcast standard, useful for DAX-listed companies and international brands running mixed-language audiences from a single stage. A QVC track record selling on live retail television, which translates directly to product launches, brand reveals, and live commerce formats where pacing and credibility matter more than polish. A Spiegel bestselling memoir and a UN Refugee Aid ambassadorship give her a separate, bookable keynote on resilience and reinvention when the brief calls for personal-story content alongside hosting. Biography highlights Author of “Das Madchen, das nicht weinen durfte” (Sudwest Verlag, 2010), a Spiegel bestseller about her family’s flight from Somalia and asylum in Germany. UN Refugee Aid (UNO-Fluchtlingshilfe) ambassador since 2012. Reporter for Bild in Cologne (2008-2010) and live reporter and author for WDR Lokalzeit Ruhr (2009-2012). Brand ambassador and presenter at QVC Dusseldorf, including her own clothing line. Guest on national German television including Markus Lanz (ZDF), Hartaberfair (ARD), Menschen bei Maischberger (ARD), Plasberg in Person (WDR), and ZDF Mittagsmagazin. Biography A corporate gala, a press conference, and a livestreamed product launch all need the same thing on stage: a host who can read a room, talk to a stranger on camera, and not flinch when the autocue fails. That is broadcast craft, and it is what Khadra Sufi has done professionally for more than fifteen years. Her route in is unusual. The daughter of a Somali diplomat, she grew up between Yemen, Zambia, Saudi Arabia, and East Berlin before her family fled the Somali civil war in 1990 and arrived in Germany as asylum seekers. She trained as a medical assistant, completed her secondary education in Germany, and moved into journalism via Bild in Cologne and WDR Lokalzeit Ruhr, working as a live reporter and author from 2009 to 2012. The on-camera work expanded into national appearances on Markus Lanz, Hartaberfair, Menschen bei Maischberger, and Plasberg in Person, and into commercial broadcasting through QVC Dusseldorf, where she is a long-running brand ambassador and runs her own clothing line. She moderates corporate events, panels, and product launches in German and English, and is based in Hamburg. Her 2010 memoir “Das Madchen, das nicht weinen durfte” became a Spiegel bestseller and reissued through Penguin Random House. Since 2012 she has been an ambassador for UN Refugee Aid (UNO-Fluchtlingshilfe), which is also the foundation for her keynote work on displacement, resilience, and reinvention when an organiser wants more than a host on the bill. Key speaking topics Event hosting and moderation Panel facilitation Live product launches and brand reveals After-dinner and awards hosting Resilience and personal reinvention Refugee experience and integration Ideal for Corporate communications and brand teams running bilingual German-English galas, conferences, or product launches Marketing and retail leaders booking live commerce, brand reveals, or QVC-style on-camera formats DEI, CSR, and employee engagement leads commissioning a personal-story keynote on displacement, resilience, and reinvention Audience outcomes An event that holds together across a long-format agenda, with a host who keeps senior guests sharp and the audience present A bilingual stage that does not lose energy when switching between German and English speakers For keynote bookings: a first-person account of statelessness, asylum, and rebuilding a working life in a new country, told without sentimentality A practical reference point for what employee-facing communication on refugee and integration topics can sound like when it is delivered by someone who has lived it

Why organisations work with Samantha Johnson Few presenters have actually conducted the FIFA World Cup Final Draw. Samantha has done it twice, including the 2026 ceremony at the Kennedy Center alongside Rio Ferdinand. She holds dual credibility across two registers organisations rarely find in one person: marquee sports broadcasting and substantive global current affairs. The same week she fronts a federation event, she can moderate a policy discussion at the United Nations. As the creator and presenter of Al Jazeera English’s Game Theory, Now You Know and Centre Stage, she runs her own editorial. She does her own research and writes her own questions. A British-Jamaican woman fronting the FIFA World Cup draw signals to a global audience that the organisation has actually changed who occupies authority on its biggest stage. That representation is part of what an organisation buying global visibility is actually paying for. Biography highlights Conductor of the Final Draw for the FIFA World Cup 2026 alongside Rio Ferdinand, at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington DC. Member of the conducting team for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 Final Draw in Doha, and presenter at The Best FIFA Football Awards 2022 in Paris. Presenter and producer at Al Jazeera Media Network, where she created and hosts Game Theory, Now You Know and Centre Stage. Former Sports Anchor at TRT World in Istanbul, fronting flagship programme Beyond the Game across seven years. Past on-air roles with Sky Sports News, beIN Sports, Eurosport and Chelsea TV. Moderator for United Nations policy discussions, including the launch of UN Women’s ‘Awake Not Sleeping’ initiative. Biography The Final Draw for the FIFA World Cup 2026 was conducted at the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington DC, in front of heads of state and a global broadcast audience. Samantha Johnson was the broadcaster on stage with Rio Ferdinand, leading the procedure that revealed the group-stage matchups for the first 48-team tournament. Few presenters have ever been trusted with that role. Even fewer have done it twice. The 2026 ceremony followed her work on the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 Final Draw in Doha and The Best FIFA Football Awards in Paris. Outside FIFA, she moderates UEFA conferences, anchors policy discussions at the United Nations, and hosted the launch of UN Women’s ‘Awake Not Sleeping’ initiative. The pattern is consistent. Federations and institutions that need a live moment to land at the level their audience expects come back to her. At Al Jazeera English she has built a body of work that runs deeper than presenting. Game Theory examines the politics, power and economics shaping world sport, from betting scandals in the NBA to Africa’s investment in football infrastructure. Now You Know is the network’s vodcast amplifying women’s voices across health, sport and technology. Centre Stage carries her long-form interviews with global change makers, including a recent conversation with Mozambique’s President Daniel Chapo. Born in Birmingham to a British-Jamaican family, she has built her career across London, Istanbul and Doha, where she now lives. Before Al Jazeera, she spent seven years anchoring TRT World’s flagship Beyond the Game programme, after starting out at Chelsea TV and moving through on-air roles with Sky Sports News, beIN Sports and Eurosport. The composure that comes from doing live television in three languages and three time zones is what makes her a natural choice for a federation board, an awards stage or a United Nations convening. Key speaking topics Live event hosting and moderation Diversity, representation and women’s voices Sport, politics and power Global storytelling and communication Cultural intelligence in international media Women in sport and broadcasting Ideal for Federations, awards bodies and global brands seeking a credible host for high-profile live moments DEI and Women’s Network leads commissioning conversations on representation and visibility International conferences requiring a moderator who can hold senior speakers and multilingual audiences Media, sport and policy organisations staging events where substance and signal both matter Audience outcomes A view from inside the highest-stakes moments in live global broadcasting, told by someone who has had to deliver them. A perspective on representation in sport and media built from doing the job on stage in front of millions. An honest account of working as a journalist across cultures, from London to Istanbul to Doha. Specific material on how senior figures get interviewed for global broadcast: the editorial preparation, the question design, the on-air control.

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 Vicky Pryce She has operated on both sides of the policy-commercial divide: as the senior government official responsible for UK productivity strategy at the Government Economic Service, and as Chief Economist and strategic adviser at KPMG and FTI Consulting. That combination is rare and difficult to replicate from outside it. Her book Women vs Capitalism (Hurst, 2019) makes a specifically economic case (not a social one) that gender inequality is a structural market failure with direct consequences for productivity and growth. It reframes inclusion as a strategic performance issue, supported by empirical evidence rather than advocacy. Her current position at CEBR means her economic analysis is grounded in live forecasting and modelling – not retrospective commentary or academic abstraction. She co-founded GoodCorporation, an advisory firm on corporate social responsibility and business ethics, giving her a rare combination of macro-economic credibility and applied governance insight. As the first woman to serve as Chief Economic Adviser at what is now the Department for Business, she brings direct experience of where the gap between policy intention and commercial impact typically opens: a perspective shaped by being inside the room when the policy was being made. Biography highlights Chief Economic Adviser and board member, Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) Former Joint Head of the UK Government Economic Service and Director General for Economics, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills First woman appointed Chief Economic Adviser at the Department for Trade and Industry (2002) Former Partner and Chief Economist, KPMG; Senior Managing Director, FTI Consulting; earlier career roles at Williams & Glyn’s Bank (RBS) and Exxon Europe Author of seven books including Women vs Capitalism (Hurst Publishers, 2019) and How to be a Successful Economist (Oxford University Press, 2022) Visiting Professor, Birmingham City University and King’s College London; Fellow, UK Academy for Social Sciences; Companion, British Academy of Management Co-founder, GoodCorporation (corporate social responsibility and business ethics advisory) Senior Member, British Chambers of Commerce Economic Advisory Council; Advisory Board member, OMFIF (central banking think-tank) Biography UK productivity has been the central puzzle of British economic policy for three decades. Vicky Pryce worked on it from the inside, first as the first female Chief Economic Adviser at what is now the Department for Business, then as Joint Head of the Government Economic Service, overseeing economic analysis and evidence across Whitehall from 2007 to 2010. That insider perspective shapes how she reads the policy landscape now. At KPMG, where she served as Partner and Chief Economist, and at FTI Consulting as Senior Managing Director, she translated government intent into commercial implication, helping large organisations understand what regulatory and fiscal shifts meant for their strategic position. Her current role as Chief Economic Adviser and board member at the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) keeps that analytical work live, grounded in ongoing economic modelling and forecasting. Her book Women vs Capitalism (Hurst, 2019) makes an argument that separates her from most economics commentators: gender inequality is not a social problem the market will eventually correct, but a structural market failure with direct consequences for productivity and growth. The case is economic and evidential. Greekonomics (Biteback, 2012), which was shortlisted for the Spear’s best business book award, applied the same forensic clarity to the eurozone crisis, and led to her appearing as an expert witness before the House of Lords cross-party subcommittee on economic and financial affairs. Pryce also co-founded GoodCorporation, advising organisations on corporate social responsibility and ethics. She is Visiting Professor at Birmingham City University and King’s College London, a Fellow of the UK Academy for Social Sciences, and a Senior Member of the British Chambers of Commerce Economic Advisory Council. Key speaking topics UK and global economic outlook Economic policy, fiscal strategy, and government reform Productivity, competitiveness, and long-term growth Political and regulatory risk for business Gender economics and labour market policy Corporate ethics and responsible business practice Manufacturing, industrial policy, and economic rebalancing Ideal for CFOs, strategy directors, and board executives navigating policy-driven economic risk Financial services, professional services, and public affairs organisations requiring independent economic analysis HR and talent leaders seeking an evidence-based, economic case for gender inclusion Senior leadership conferences with a UK or European economic policy dimension Audience outcomes A framework for distinguishing short-term economic fluctuation from structural policy shifts that require a strategic response Clearer understanding of how the UK’s persistent productivity challenge affects their sector and what policy instruments are actually in play An economic – not ideological – argument for why gender inclusion is a business performance issue, grounded in market failure analysis and labour market evidence Sharper contextual understanding of the regulatory and fiscal environment shaping their planning horizon Practical basis for scenario planning under conditions of domestic and international economic uncertainty

Why organisations work with Tracy Edwards A first-hand account of leading a crew that the sailing establishment, the press, and most sponsors had publicly written off, and bringing them home with two leg wins and a second in class. Specific decision-making material from a multi-month operation where every choice carried a real risk, useful for leadership audiences who normally talk about pressure in the abstract. A founder’s perspective on building The Maiden Factor Foundation, a working girls’ education charity with an active global tour, not a one-off cause attached to a speaking career. The subject of the Sony Pictures Classics documentary Maiden, which gives audiences shared visual reference points before the talk begins and lifts the room’s engagement from the first minute. A lived view of what gender exclusion does to a team’s operating conditions, drawn from inside a male-dominated sport in the late 1980s rather than from policy commentary. Biography highlights Skipper of Maiden, the first all-female entry in the Whitbread Round the World Yacht Race, 1989-90, second in class with two leg wins. First woman to win the Yachtsman of the Year Trophy in its 34-year history. Appointed MBE in 1990. Founder of The Maiden Factor Foundation, supporting community education programmes for girls globally. Subject of Maiden, the 2018 Alex Holmes documentary distributed by Sony Pictures Classics, 98 percent on Rotten Tomatoes. Author of Living Every Second, autobiography published by Hodder and Stoughton. Biography The 1989 Whitbread Round the World Race was supposed to settle a long-running argument in offshore sailing: whether women could complete one of the hardest endurance races in any sport. The Maiden crew, twelve women on a second-hand 58-foot yacht, finished second in class and won two of the six legs. The skipper, who had mortgaged her house to put the campaign together, was 26. The interest for senior leadership audiences is not the romance of that achievement but its operating reality. Sponsors had refused the project for two years. Sailing media openly predicted the crew would not finish the first leg. Tracy Edwards led a team that had to perform under the assumption it would fail, with finance, equipment, and reputation all running against it. The lessons translate cleanly to leaders running underdog projects inside large organisations. After the race, Edwards was appointed MBE and became the first woman in a 34-year history to receive the Yachtsman of the Year Trophy. She published the autobiography Living Every Second in 2001 and later founded The Maiden Factor Foundation, which uses the restored yacht as a working platform for girls’ education campaigns, with a focus on STEM access in developing countries. The 2018 documentary Maiden, directed by Alex Holmes and released by Sony Pictures Classics, brought the story back into the public conversation and gave a new generation of corporate audiences a shared reference point. The talk works because the underlying material is concrete: a crew, a boat, a race, a set of decisions taken under conditions most boardrooms will never see. Key speaking topics Leadership under pressure and resource constraint Building and holding a team that the market has written off Decision-making with limited information and irreversible consequences Inclusion and access in environments structurally hostile to outsiders Endurance and recovery across long-cycle projects Founding and running a mission-led organisation Risk and accountability in operational leadership Ideal for CEO and senior leadership offsites focused on resilience and team performance under sustained pressure Conferences for women in leadership, particularly in male-dominated sectors Organisations running underdog or turnaround projects that need a credible outside voice on holding morale through public scepticism After-dinner and main-stage slots where the brief is leadership content with narrative weight Audience outcomes A specific, non-corporate reference case for leadership decisions taken under genuine consequence Sharper questions about how a team holds together when external belief in the project is low A clearer view of what inclusion means as an operating condition, not a policy statement Renewed conviction that ambitious goals can be reached without conventional resources or backing

Why organisations work with Tania de Jong AM A working body of evidence that creativity is buildable inside an organisation, drawn from six businesses and four charities she has founded, including Creative Universe, Creativity Australia and The Song Room. Co-founder and Executive Director of Mind Medicine Australia, the organisation behind Australia’s 2023 rescheduling of psilocybin and MDMA for treatment-resistant depression and PTSD, the first national framework of its kind in the world. A keynote format that pairs argument with live performance, used at Thinkers50 European Business Forum in Denmark and the International Forum on Consciousness in the United States, and tested across more than 40 countries. Eight editions of the Creative Innovation Asia Pacific Global Forum, awarded Corporate Event of the Year at the global Eventex Awards, giving her direct exposure to how international leaders are framing innovation, AI, wellbeing and the future of work. A position on social inclusion through the With One Voice programme that is grounded in operating practice, not theory, having reached thousands of participants across community choirs in Australia. Biography highlights Co-founder and Executive Director of Mind Medicine Australia, the organisation behind the world-first 2023 rescheduling of psilocybin and MDMA in Australia for treatment-resistant depression and PTSD. Member of the Order of Australia (AM), 2008, for service to the arts and to music and arts enrichment programmes in schools and communities. Founder of Creativity Australia, Creative Universe, Creative Innovation Global, The Song Room, MTA Entertainment & Events, Dimension5 and Pot-Pourri. Keynote speaker at the Thinkers50 European Business Forum, Denmark, 2018, and the International Forum on Consciousness, United States, 2019; TEDxMelbourne speaker, “How singing together changes the brain”. Named in the Australian Financial Review 100 Women of Influence, Richtopia’s 100 Most Influential Australian Entrepreneurs, and Psychedelic Invest’s 100 Most Influential People in Psychedelics. Ernst and Young Australian Social Entrepreneur of the Year; Churchill Fellow; AGSE Entrepreneurs Hall of Fame, Swinburne University; Bachelor of Law (Honours), University of Melbourne. Special guest performer on Dr Bessel van der Kolk’s 2026 four-city Australian workshop tour for The Body Keeps the Score, presented with Mind Medicine Australia; speaker on psychedelic-assisted therapies at Dave Asprey’s BEYOND Biohacking Conference in Austin, Texas. Biography Australia became the first country in the world to reschedule psilocybin and MDMA for the treatment of depression and PTSD in 2023. Mind Medicine Australia, which de Jong co-founded with Peter Hunt and now runs as Executive Director, did the regulatory and clinical groundwork that made it possible. That outcome is the clearest statement of how de Jong tends to work: a long-running campaign to change a system that most assume cannot be moved. The same pattern runs through the rest of her record. Six businesses and four charities, including Creative Universe, Creativity Australia, The Song Room and Creative Innovation Global, each built around a specific argument about creativity, inclusion or social repair. The Song Room alone has reached over a million Australian students through music programmes in schools that would not otherwise access them. Her speaking work is unusual in form. She is a classically trained soprano who has performed in over 40 countries, and her keynotes weave argument with live singing. Thinkers50 invited her to keynote its European Business Forum in 2018, and in 2026 she performed as special guest on Dr Bessel van der Kolk’s Australian tour for The Body Keeps the Score. Her TEDxMelbourne talk on the neuroscience of group singing is often cited in workplace wellbeing writing. The substantive claim underneath all of it is that creativity and collective purpose are operating disciplines. The Creative Innovation Asia Pacific Global Forum, which she has run eight times and which won Corporate Event of the Year at the Eventex Awards, is the working venue for that argument across AI, leadership, wellbeing and the future of work. Key speaking topics Creativity as a strategic discipline Innovation culture and the future of work Entrepreneurship and social enterprise Mental health, wellbeing and the neuroscience of connection Diversity, inclusion and collective purpose Leadership in disruption and reinvention Storytelling and performance in business communication Ideal for CHROs and culture leads designing engagement, wellbeing and inclusion programmes that need to land beyond the slide deck. Innovation leads, transformation directors and strategy teams looking to move creativity from training programme to operating practice. CEOs and boards in sectors facing structural reinvention, where the soft conditions of change are as material as the hard ones. Conference organisers seeking a keynote that combines argument with live performance and high audience engagement. Audience outcomes A specific case for treating creativity as a leadership capability, not a workshop output. A working view of how social inclusion and collective practice change individual and team performance, drawn from the With One Voice programme and supporting neuroscience. An updated read on the global innovation agenda, informed by eight editions of the Creative Innovation Asia Pacific Forum. Exposure to one of the few global voices arguing for psychedelic-assisted therapy as a serious instrument of mental health policy, with evidence from the Australian rescheduling. A keynote experience that uses live performance to shift the energy of a room, useful for conferences that need a tonal lift alongside content.

Why organisations work with Suzy Walton Triple-chartered credentials (Chartered Director, Chartered Occupational Psychologist, Chartered Scientist) that few governance speakers in the UK can match, paired with active board service across more than fifteen organisations. Direct Whitehall experience, including the Ministry of Defence, the Cabinet Office, the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit, and a 2025 Cabinet Office policy appointment by the Prime Minister. Operational military psychology background, including PhD research on suicide within the Armed Forces and lecturing at NATO events on terrorist profiling and behaviour under extreme stress. Nearly a decade as the longest-serving board member of the Institute of Directors, now strategic advisor and chair of the IoD Accreditation and Standards Committee, giving boards a benchmark voice on director standards. A perspective on resilience grounded in real biographical fact: long-term widowhood, raising seven children, and a career rebuilt from West End stage through to Cabinet Office. Biography highlights Chartered Director, Chartered Occupational Psychologist and Chartered Scientist. PhD, Cranfield University, on suicide within the Armed Forces. Former senior civil servant: Ministry of Defence, Cabinet Office, Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit. Vice-President, Combat Stress; former Vice-President, Royal Society of Medicine (2019 to 2021). Longest-serving member on the Institute of Directors main board, 2013 to 2022; current strategic advisor. Honorary Doctor of Science, University of Hertfordshire, 2026; BSc (Hons) and MSc in Psychology from the same institution. Former West End actress (Children of a Lesser God), BBC Television presenter and Sky News reporter. Biography The standard governance speaker tends to come from one track: City, Big Four, executive search. Suzy Walton arrives from four. She is a Chartered Director, Chartered Occupational Psychologist and Chartered Scientist, qualifications usually distributed across three different professionals, and she has used all three in active board service. Her doctorate, awarded by Cranfield University, was on suicide within the Armed Forces and was initially classified. As a serving military psychologist she designed Resistance to Interrogation training, built recruitment systems for classified roles, and lectured at NATO events on terrorist profiling and human behaviour under extreme stress. Senior civil service postings in the Ministry of Defence, the Cabinet Office and the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit followed, and in 2025 the Prime Minister appointed her to a fresh policy role in the Cabinet Office. In 2026 the University of Hertfordshire, where she took her BSc and MSc, awarded her an honorary Doctor of Science. The board record is long and substantive. She was the longest-serving member of the main board of the Institute of Directors, from 2013 to 2022, and now sits as strategic advisor and chair of its Accreditation and Standards Committee. She has held positions at ACCA, Birmingham Children’s Hospital, the Royal Society of Arts, the Royal Society of Medicine, the Internet Watch Foundation, the University of Westminster, the Independent Reconfiguration Panel, the Social Security Advisory Committee and the State Honours Committee. She is Vice-President of Combat Stress. What she draws on in front of a senior audience is the unusual width of that record set against an unusual personal one: a former West End actress in Children of a Lesser God, BBC and Sky News broadcaster, mother of seven, widowed for many years. Boards interested in honest governance and serious resilience tend to be the ones that book her. Key speaking topics Corporate governance and board effectiveness Director standards and chartered practice Resilience and behaviour under extreme stress Women on boards and inclusive governance Public service leadership and civil service strategy Veterans’ mental health and Combat Stress Multi-role careers and reinvention Ideal for Boards, NEDs and chairs raising the standard of director practice Senior civil service, regulatory and public-sector leadership audiences CHROs, talent and inclusion leads working on women into board roles Healthcare, professional body and charity leadership audiences Audience outcomes A clearer benchmark for what good director conduct looks like, drawn from a chartered framework. A direct view of how Whitehall actually makes policy decisions, from someone who has been in the room. A grounded model of resilience that is not motivational but operational, built from military psychology and personal biography. Practical reference points for boards trying to take women, diversity and governance standards seriously at the same time.

Why organisations work with Susie Wolff She is the only executive who has both experienced structural exclusion at the top of global motorsport as a competitor and then returned to redesign those structures, giving her an argument that runs deeper than advocacy. F1 Academy under her leadership secured the backing of all ten Formula 1 teams, partnerships with Charlotte Tilbury, American Express, TAG Heuer and The LEGO Group, and grew to become the second-most followed motorsport series after Formula 1 – these are not diversity metrics, they are commercial outcomes. Her work addresses a specific organisational failure that most DEI programmes miss: talent exclusion is not primarily a selection problem, it is a pipeline and development problem. She has built the operational case study. Her track record spans the full leadership arc – elite competitor, team principal, CEO, series director – giving her credibility in conversations about performance culture, high-pressure decision-making, and building organisations that win under scrutiny. Driven, her memoir, was an instant Sunday Times bestseller on UK publication by Hodder & Stoughton, and was released in the US by Henry Holt in April 2026 with a Booklist Starred Review and Lewis Hamilton endorsement, extending her reach beyond motorsport audiences into mainstream leadership conversations. Biography highlights Managing Director, F1 Academy (Formula 1’s all-female development series), appointed March 2023; reports directly to Formula 1 CEO Stefano Domenicali First woman to participate in a Formula One race weekend since 1992 – four FP1 sessions with the Williams F1 team, 2014–2015 Seven seasons in the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters (DTM) with Mercedes-Benz, 2006-2012 Team Principal then CEO, Venturi Formula E team, 2018-2022; took the team from the back of the grid to Formula E Vice-World Champions and oversaw its sale to Maserati on departure Founder, Dare To Be Different initiative (2016); merged with FIA Girls on Track (2019) Author, Driven (Hodder & Stoughton / Henry Holt) – instant Sunday Times bestseller; executive producer of Netflix docuseries F1: The Academy (2025) MBE (2017) for services to women in sport; Honorary Fellowship, University of Edinburgh (2013); CNBC Changemaker (2026) Biography Motorsport has long had a pipeline problem, not of talent, but of access. The structures that determined who made it to the top were built for a specific kind of competitor, and they were rarely questioned. Susie Wolff sat inside that system for over two decades: as a driver who pushed further into Formula One than any woman had in a generation, and then as the executive who went back to rebuild it. Her driving career ran from karting to the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters with Mercedes-Benz, then to Williams F1, where she became the first woman to participate in a Formula One race weekend since 1992 across four practice sessions in 2014 and 2015. When she retired from driving, she turned to the leadership side of the sport: first as Team Principal, then CEO, of the Venturi Formula E team. Over four seasons she took the team from the back of the grid to a Formula E Vice-World Championship finish, then oversaw its sale to Maserati before joining F1 Academy in March 2023. At F1 Academy, Wolff has built something that did not exist before: a commercially viable, Formula 1-integrated development series for female talent, which now carries the liveries of all ten F1 teams, holds partnerships with brands including Charlotte Tilbury, American Express, TAG Heuer and The LEGO Group, and has grown to become the second-most followed motorsport series after Formula 1. She executive produced the 2025 Netflix docuseries F1: The Academy alongside Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine. Her memoir Driven was an instant Sunday Times bestseller on UK publication by Hodder & Stoughton, and was released in the US by Henry Holt in April 2026 to a Booklist Starred Review. What Wolff offers corporate audiences is not a motivational narrative with a motorsport backdrop. It is a specific and replicable argument: that inclusive talent pipelines are not built by changing who you select, but by redesigning the conditions in which talent is identified and developed. She has built that case inside one of the world’s most commercially demanding sports, and has the results to prove it. Key speaking topics Inclusive talent pipeline design Leadership and performance under competitive pressure Organisational culture change in structurally resistant industries Executive leadership in high-performance sport Building commercial frameworks for underrepresented talent Resilience and ambition in elite environments Diversity as a strategic performance lever Ideal for C-suite and senior leadership teams working on talent strategy, diversity, or cultural transformation CHROs and People directors designing inclusive talent development programmes Leadership and strategy teams in automotive, engineering, technology, and financial services Sports business, sponsorship, and commercial leadership audiences Audience outcomes A clear framework for distinguishing between diversity as selection (reactive) and diversity as pipeline design (structural) with a real-world organisational example Understanding of how to build commercial buy-in for inclusion initiatives, grounded in F1 Academy’s partnership and broadcast growth Insight into high-performance decision-making and the leadership qualities required to build organisations under public scrutiny A more specific vocabulary for talking about talent exclusion as a performance problem rather than a compliance issue First-hand perspective on what resilience, ambition, and goal-setting look like at the elite level, and how these translate into organisational contexts

Why organisations work with Susan Cain A single, defensible thesis. Quiet sold over four million copies, spent multiple years on the New York Times bestseller list and translated into 40 languages, which gives a senior audience a shared reference point before she walks on stage. Operational, not theoretical. Through the Quiet Leadership Institute she has delivered corporate programmes at GE, LinkedIn, Procter & Gamble, NASA and the Dutch Air Force, and partnered with Steelcase to redesign office space around introvert-friendly workflows. Reframes inclusion in language that lands with sceptical executives. Personality bias is a talent and productivity argument, not a values argument, which makes the conversation possible in rooms where DEI has become contested. Cultural reach that pulls audiences in. The TED2012 talk has been viewed more than 30 million times and named by Bill Gates as a personal favourite, and Bittersweet was an Oprah’s Book Club pick in 2023. Biography highlights Honours graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School; former Wall Street negotiations attorney Author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, #1 New York Times bestseller, four million copies sold, 40 languages Author of Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole, #1 New York Times bestseller and Oprah’s Book Club selection TED2012 talk “The Power of Introverts” viewed over 30 million times; named by Bill Gates as a favourite TED talk Co-founder of Quiet Revolution and the Quiet Leadership Institute, with corporate programmes at GE, LinkedIn, Procter & Gamble, NASA and the Dutch Air Force Recipient of Harvard Law School’s Celebration Award for thought leadership and the Toastmasters International Golden Gavel Award Biography A third to half of the workforce is introverted, yet most companies are built as though everyone in the room is an extrovert. Hiring rewards the candidate who presents best in an interview. Meetings reward whoever speaks first. Open-plan offices reward visibility over depth of thought. The cumulative cost in lost ideas, attrition and shallow decision-making is significant, and rarely measured. That is the operational problem Quiet named in 2012. The book has sold over four million copies, sat on the New York Times bestseller list for years and been translated into 40 languages, which is why senior leaders tend to arrive at the keynote already inside the argument. The accompanying TED2012 talk has been viewed more than 30 million times and was named by Bill Gates as one of his favourites. The work since then has been practical. Through the Quiet Leadership Institute, founded with former West Point professor Mike Erwin, Cain has run corporate development programmes for organisations including GE, LinkedIn, Procter & Gamble, NASA and the Dutch Air Force. With Steelcase, she co-designed the Quiet Spaces office concept, a direct intervention into the open-plan trend. Her second book, Bittersweet, debuted at #1 on the New York Times nonfiction list and was selected for Oprah’s Book Club in 2023, broadening the conversation into how organisations handle emotion, longing and creativity at work. Her Princeton and Harvard Law training, and her earlier career as a Wall Street negotiator, show up in the way she argues. The case is a talent and productivity case before it is a values case, which is what makes it land in rooms where leaders are tired of the usual inclusion language. Key speaking topics The hidden strengths of introverted leaders Personality bias in hiring, meetings and promotion Workspace and office design for cognitive performance Talent strategy across the introvert and extrovert spectrum Creativity, deep work and the conditions for original thinking Inclusion framed as a productivity argument Emotion, longing and meaning at work (drawing on Bittersweet) Ideal for CHROs, talent leaders and heads of organisational development rethinking how they hire, promote and retain CEOs and senior executives whose workforce skews toward knowledge work, research, engineering or design Heads of workplace strategy and real estate teams designing the next generation of office space Learning and leadership development teams building inclusive leadership curricula that move beyond conventional DEI framing Audience outcomes A concrete vocabulary for the personality bias built into common hiring, meeting and performance practices Specific design choices to test, in meetings, workspaces and team rituals, to surface ideas from quieter staff A reframed argument for inclusion that survives executive scrutiny on commercial grounds A clearer view of where deep work and solitude belong in the operating model of a knowledge organisation