Employee Wellbeing speakers

Why organisations work with Julian Treasure He has run an operating consultancy, The Sound Agency, advising global brands on retail, office and public-space sound for two decades. The work has commercial outcomes attached, not theory. His TED catalogue is one of the most viewed of any speaker on any subject, which gives senior audiences a shared starting point before he steps on stage. He treats listening as a leadership capability with a teachable structure, and his book How to Be Heard sets out the model in detail. He covers the rarely combined territory of personal communication craft and the sonic design of physical workplaces, so he is credible with HR, brand and facilities audiences in the same room. Awards from Toastmasters International and the International Listening Association place him inside the formal communication and listening professions, not just the speaker circuit. Biography highlights Founder and chairman of The Sound Agency, audio branding consultancy Five TED talks; combined views above 160 million; “How to Speak So That People Want to Listen” is TED’s sixth most-viewed talk Author of Sound Business (2014), How to Be Heard (2017) and Sound Affects (2025) Toastmasters International Golden Gavel Award; International Listening Association Special Recognition Award Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts; Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Marketors Founded and sold UK customer magazine publisher TPD Group; former chairman of the UK Association of Publishing Agencies; PPA Chairman’s Award (2002) Biography Sound is the most underused operating variable in most organisations. Retailers play music chosen by the manager on shift. Offices design for visual brand and acoustic accident. Leaders speak without ever auditing how they are heard. The financial cost is real and the cultural cost is larger. The Sound Agency was built around that gap. Founded by a former publisher and musician with a Cambridge economics degree, the consultancy has spent two decades advising global brands on retail soundscapes, office acoustics and audio identity, with measurable effects on sales, wellbeing and behaviour. The argument is that sound is a commercial system, designed or accidental, and most organisations choose accidental. The communication work is the second half of the same proposition. Three books, Sound Business, How to Be Heard and Sound Affects, set out a structured model for speaking and listening as leadership skills rather than soft attributes. The TED catalogue, five talks above 160 million combined views, has made the speaking talk one of the most watched pieces of business communication content ever recorded. The Toastmasters Golden Gavel and the International Listening Association Special Recognition Award place him inside the formal disciplines, not adjacent to them. For senior teams, he offers something specific: a working theory of how attention, voice and environment shape commercial and cultural outcomes, and the operating experience to back it up. The Royal Society of Arts fellowship and the Worshipful Company of Marketors livery are part of a wider institutional footprint that signals durability rather than novelty. Key speaking topics Conscious listening as a leadership skill Powerful speaking and executive voice Audio branding and sonic identity Sound design in workplaces and retail environments Communication and engagement in distracted organisations Wellbeing effects of sound and noise Trust and credibility in senior communication Ideal for CMOs and brand leadership rethinking customer experience beyond the visual HR, internal communications and culture leads working on listening and engagement Retail, hospitality and property leadership designing customer-facing environments Senior leaders preparing for high-stakes speaking, board, investor or media Audience outcomes A working model for listening as a measurable leadership capability Specific techniques for executive voice, structure and presence in high-stakes settings A new lens on the commercial and cultural cost of accidental sound in workplaces and retail A shared vocabulary for communication quality across HR, brand and facilities functions Concrete next steps that connect personal communication craft to organisational outcomes

Why organisations work with Julie Montagu Four published wellness books with a major UK trade publisher, including Recharge: A Year of Self-Care to Focus on You (Little, Brown, 2018), give her wellbeing material a structured, tested foundation rather than a personal-anecdote frame. She runs a live teaching practice through Whole Self Yoga, including 200-hour teacher training, so the content she delivers to a corporate room is the same content she teaches week to week, not a keynote-only construct. Her cross-cultural vantage point, American by upbringing, English Countess by marriage, makes her an unusual host and after-dinner choice for events that need warmth and storytelling alongside subject expertise. She is an experienced broadcast voice, with royal and heritage commentary credits across BBC and CNN coverage of the Sussex wedding, the Platinum Jubilee, the Queen’s funeral and the Coronation, which translates directly into stage presence and live-event composure. Her academic work on American heiresses of the British Gilded Age, completed as an MA with Distinction at the University of Buckingham, gives her a serious second register for heritage, leadership history and women-in-power conversations. Biography highlights Author of Superfoods, Eat Real Food, Superfoods Superfast and Recharge: A Year of Self-Care to Focus on You, published by Little, Brown / Piatkus. Author of Secrets of an English Country House: A Year at Mapperton, published in 2024. Founder of Whole Self Yoga, including a 200-hour yoga teacher training programme. MA with Distinction in English Country House Studies, University of Buckingham, 2021. Royal and heritage commentator for BBC and CNN across the Sussex wedding, Platinum Jubilee, Queen Elizabeth II’s state funeral and the Coronation of King Charles III. Television credits including Bravo’s Ladies of London and Smithsonian Channel’s An American Aristocrat’s Guide to Great Estates. Co-custodian of Mapperton Estate in Dorset alongside Luke Montagu, 12th Earl of Sandwich. Biography Most corporate wellbeing programmes are built by people who have never had to keep one going through a 70-hour week. Julie Montagu is not one of them. She trained and qualified as a yoga teacher and nutrition educator while raising four children, wrote four books with Little, Brown on plant-forward eating and structured self-care, and built Whole Self Yoga, a teaching practice that includes a 200-hour teacher training programme. Recharge, published in 2018, is the title that travels best into corporate rooms. It is built as a month-by-month framework rather than a lifestyle manifesto, which is why it lands with audiences who have heard the wellbeing pitch many times and want something they can actually use on Monday. The second register is heritage. Montagu lives at Mapperton Estate in Dorset, the seat of the Earls of Sandwich, and completed an MA with Distinction at the University of Buckingham on American heiresses of the British Gilded Age. That work fed Secrets of an English Country House: A Year at Mapperton, published in 2024, and a steady run of royal commentary for BBC and CNN across the Sussex wedding, the Platinum Jubilee, the Queen’s funeral and the Coronation. The result is a speaker who can hold a corporate wellbeing keynote with real depth, then host the dinner that follows it with the kind of cross-cultural ease most subject-matter experts cannot offer. For organisations that want both substance and presence, that combination is what makes the booking commercial. Key speaking topics Self-care and wellbeing for high-pressure careers Yoga, nutrition and sustainable energy management Resilience and burnout prevention Female leadership and personal reinvention British heritage, country houses and royal traditions Corporate event hosting and after-dinner speaking Ideal for Corporate wellbeing days and HR-led leadership offsites Women’s leadership networks and ERG events Executive retreats where wellbeing is the headline rather than a side track Awards dinners, hosted panels and after-dinner engagements requiring a heritage or transatlantic register Audience outcomes A clear, month-by-month structure for self-care that survives a real working calendar Practical anchors on nutrition, movement and recovery that do not require a lifestyle overhaul A more honest read on what burnout looks like before it becomes attrition An hour with a speaker who can carry both the substance of wellbeing content and the warmth of a strong host

Why organisations work with Justin Roethlingshoefer He brings the performance science used to keep professional hockey players on the ice into the language of P&L, calendar pressure and executive fatigue, with frameworks tested over a fifteen-year career across NCAA and NHL environments. His method starts from individual biological data, including bloodwork, HRV and DNA inputs, so the room leaves with personalised next actions rather than a generic wellness playbook. He has built and runs OWN IT Coaching, which means the content is informed by what is currently working with paying executive clients, not theory drawn from a former career. His book The Power of Ownership gives audiences a structured reference point after the keynote, extending the conversation beyond the event. Biography highlights Founder of OWN IT Coaching, a health and performance company serving founders, executives and corporate teams. Fifteen years in elite sport across NCAA and professional hockey, with strength and performance responsibilities tied to the San Diego Gulls and the Anaheim Ducks organisation. Author of four books, including The Power of Ownership, listed as a USA Today bestseller. Master’s in Human Development with a Sport Performance concentration; postgraduate work in HRV, sleep and recovery science. Host of The OWN IT Show podcast and a regular contributor on SimpliFaster and Muscle & Strength. Featured in Fox News, Esquire, USA Today, LiveScience and Well+Good. Biography The cost of high-performance leadership tends to show up in the body before it shows up in the numbers. Sleep degrades, recovery collapses, decisions get slower and shorter, and the wellbeing programme on the company intranet does not touch any of it. That is the gap Justin Roethlingshoefer’s work addresses. He spent fifteen years inside elite hockey, first in the NCAA and then in the professional system, with strength and performance responsibilities tied to the San Diego Gulls in the AHL and the Anaheim Ducks organisation. His job was to keep human beings playing at their physical ceiling across a punishing season, using data on load, fatigue, sleep and recovery. He brought that operating model out of the locker room and into the office. OWN IT Coaching, the company he founded, applies the same approach to executives, founders and corporate teams. The starting point is individual biology, bloodwork, HRV, wearables and DNA testing, with structured coaching on the back of it. His four books, including the USA Today bestseller The Power of Ownership, set out the underlying argument: health is an ownership decision, and senior leaders who treat it that way protect the asset their organisations depend on most. His sports-science training sits behind everything he says, which is what separates him from the wider wellness category. The case he makes to a senior audience is concrete: the same monitoring that keeps a Stanley Cup contender on the ice can keep a CEO sharp through a year that was not built for human pacing. Key speaking topics Executive health and performance Burnout prevention in senior leadership Sleep, recovery and HRV in high-pressure roles Wearables, biometric data and personalised health Ownership as a personal operating principle Health risk in founder-led and high-growth organisations Team performance and resilience Ideal for CEOs, founders and executive committees carrying sustained operational load CHROs and heads of people designing senior leader wellbeing and retention Leadership offsites and partner retreats in professional services Sales and high-performance teams working under structured pressure Audience outcomes A clear separation between generic wellness advice and the variables that actually move executive performance A working understanding of how sleep, HRV, recovery and load data translate into leadership capacity Personal next actions framed as ownership decisions rather than corporate programme tweaks Language to discuss executive health as an organisational asset with boards and HR A reference framework drawn from The Power of Ownership to extend the conversation after the event

Why organisations work with Kait Borsay A working broadcast journalist on national radio, not a former presenter. Her interview craft is rehearsed live four nights a week on Times Radio, in front of a politically literate audience. Built and sold a media property. She co-founded The Offside Rule, took it to acquisition by The New York Times in 2022, and understands the commercial side of content from the inside. Comfortable across registers, from Invictus Games and the Boat Race to corporate town halls for PWC, Cisco, Capital One and BNY Mellon. She does not have a single mode. Recognised credibility with senior commercial brands as a podcast host, including P&G and EY, where the brief is sustained editorial conversation rather than one-off stage presence. A reporter’s instinct for the awkward question. Her Times Radio editorial agenda covers Long Covid, care home residents’ rights, children’s mental health and neurodiversity in women, themes that demand a host who can hold difficult material without flinching. Biography highlights Presenter, The Evening Edition, Times Radio, Monday to Thursday Co-founder, The Offside Rule, part-acquired by The New York Times in 2022 Former Drivetime host on talkRADIO, presenting alongside Eamonn Holmes Television news experience at Sky News, Reuters and ITN Began career in sports journalism at Sky Sports Corporate hosting clients include PWC, Capital One, Cisco, BNY Mellon, P&G and EY Live event credits include the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race and the Invictus Games The Offside Rule named in the Guardian’s top five sport podcasts; Vogue’s best football podcast of 2018 Biography The Evening Edition on Times Radio runs four nights a week, covering politics, health, education and social affairs. Kait Borsay presents it. The discipline of live national radio, where every interview is unscripted and audience tolerance for filler is zero, shapes how she works on every other stage she steps onto. Her broadcast career started in sport at Sky Sports, and ran through Sky News, Reuters and ITN before her move into long-form audio. In 2012, she co-founded The Offside Rule, a female-fronted football podcast that took ten years to build and was part-acquired by The New York Times in 2022. It featured in the Guardian’s top five sport podcasts and Vogue’s best football podcast list. The corporate work sits alongside the journalism. She hosts and moderates for PWC, Capital One, Cisco and BNY Mellon, and has run brand podcasts for P&G and EY. Live event credits include the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race and the Invictus Games, formats where the host has to carry hours of unscripted broadcast in front of a live audience. What she brings to a corporate stage is the same discipline she applies to Times Radio. A reporter’s prep, a willingness to push past the corporate answer, and a calm register that holds a room when the agenda slips, when a speaker overruns, or when a sensitive subject lands in the middle of the programme. Key speaking topics Event hosting and conference moderation Panel chairing for senior leadership audiences Awards ceremony presenting Live event hosting for sport and broadcast formats Corporate podcast hosting and brand audio Interview-led fireside conversations Mental health, wellbeing and women’s health in editorial conversation Ideal for Corporate communications and events leads commissioning a flagship conference, town hall or AGM Brand and marketing teams are developing a corporate podcast series or long-form audio CHRO and internal communications functions are running sensitive all-staff conversations on health and wellbeing Sports rights holders and sponsors running live broadcasts or hospitality formats Audience outcomes A live event that runs to time and holds executive audience attention across long sessions Panel conversations that move beyond rehearsed answers, with interventions calibrated to the room Sensitive editorial content, mental health, women’s health, lived experience, handled with broadcast judgement A presenter that the audience associates with national-quality journalism rather than generic compering

Why organisations work with Karen Carney She chaired the UK Government’s Independent Review into Women’s Football, a policy artefact whose recommendations were accepted by Government and now sit behind professionalisation standards across the WSL and Women’s Championship. That is named institutional credibility, not generalised sport authority. She speaks from 144 international caps and a 14-year career across Arsenal, Birmingham City, Chicago Red Stars and Chelsea, which gives her the right to talk about composure, recovery and team alignment with leaders who have heard the sport-to-business analogy too many times. She has worked publicly through depression, online abuse and the consequences of injury, which gives the mental health and resilience content specific personal reference points rather than generic advocacy. As lead female analyst across Sky Sports, ITV and TNT Sports, she is rehearsed in live communication under scrutiny, which is a useful asset for a moderator or panel chair as well as a keynote. Biography highlights 144 England caps, third-most capped Lioness; four FIFA Women’s World Cups and four UEFA Women’s Championships. Olympian, Team GB, London 2012. Chair, Future of Women’s Football Review for the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, 2022 to 2023; recommendations accepted by Government. MBE 2017 for services to football; OBE 2024 King’s Birthday Honours for services to association football. Inductee, National Football Museum Hall of Fame, 2021. Lead female football analyst, Sky Sports, ITV and TNT Sports; winner, Strictly Come Dancing 2025. Biography Most organisations talk about high performance and mean motivation. Elite sport means something more specific: a set of daily operating habits that hold up when the team is tired, beaten, or in public view. Karen Carney spent 14 years inside those habits at the top of international football and has spent the years since explaining what they actually consist of. She earned 144 caps for England between 2005 and 2019, making her the third-most capped Lioness of all time, with appearances at four World Cups, four European Championships and the London 2012 Olympics. Her club career took her through Arsenal’s 2006 to 2007 quadruple-winning side, Birmingham City, Chicago Red Stars and a Chelsea captaincy that ended in an FA Women’s Cup win. The work that has done most to shape her current credibility is the Future of Women’s Football Review, which she chaired for the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. Published in July 2023, the review set out professionalisation standards for the Women’s Super League and Women’s Championship, covering minimum operating conditions, mental and physical health provision, parental care and transition support. The Government accepted the recommendations and announced a 30 million pound investment to follow. She works the same material as a broadcaster. As lead female football analyst across Sky Sports, ITV and TNT Sports, she is on screen weekly through Premier League, WSL and major tournament coverage; in late 2025 she won Strictly Come Dancing, becoming the first footballer to do so. Her honours, MBE in 2017 and OBE in 2024, sit alongside induction to the National Football Museum Hall of Fame. Key speaking topics High-performance culture in elite sport and its operating analogues in business Leadership under public scrutiny Mental health and recovery in performance environments Inclusion and the commercial case for women’s sport Governance and professionalisation of women’s football Team alignment under fatigue and setback Ideal for Executive teams and boards working through cultural change, performance reset or post-restructure alignment HR, talent and DEI leaders building substantive inclusion strategy rather than messaging Sport, media, sponsorship and consumer brands engaging with the commercial growth of women’s sport Conference moderation and panel chairing where live broadcast discipline is an asset Audience outcomes A concrete picture of what elite-sport operating discipline looks like day to day, not as metaphor Language for talking about mental health and recovery in performance environments without slipping into wellness generalities A clearer read of the commercial and governance trajectory of women’s sport, drawn from her own review work A sharper view of how senior leaders hold composure when results, scrutiny or fatigue are working against them

Why organisations work with Kate Cook Twenty-five years running a Harley Street nutrition practice gives her a clinical evidence base that most wellbeing speakers do not have. Audiences hear from a practitioner, not a motivational presenter. A defined corporate proposition built around three named talks (Sugar Bites Back, Genes Load the Gun, Lifestyle Pulls the Trigger, Vibrant Energy) rather than a single generalist wellness keynote. Author of The Corporate Wellness Bible, a workplace-specific text that frames nutrition and energy as organisational concerns, not personal lifestyle advice. Track record with demanding employers, including Bank of England, JP Morgan, Shell, Accenture and GE Healthcare, where the audience is sceptical and time-poor. TEDx speaker for Fidelity International, with a media presence in The Sunday Express, Marie Claire and Red that gives her communication credibility outside the wellness echo chamber. Biography highlights Founder of The Nutrition Coach, Harley Street, since 2000. Trained at the Institute for Optimum Nutrition; Master’s in the Anthropology of Food; undergraduate degree from Royal Holloway, University of London. Author of The Corporate Wellness Bible, Get Healthy for Good and Be Incredibly Healthy (with Sally Brown). TEDx speaker for Fidelity International on workplace wellness. Corporate clients include Bank of England, JP Morgan, EDF Energy, Accenture, Shell, GE Healthcare and Pret a Manger. Columnist for The Sunday Express and Marie Claire; television appearances, including The Truth of Beauty. Biography Corporate wellbeing is one of the easier line items to fund and one of the harder ones to measure. Programmes proliferate, engagement stays patchy, and the link between workforce health and commercial output remains anecdotal. Kate Cook has spent twenty-five years working on that gap from the practitioner side. She founded The Nutrition Coach on Harley Street in 2000 and has since worked with more than 7,000 individual clients alongside an international corporate practice. The mix matters. Clinical work with senior professionals informs the corporate sessions; the corporate sessions stress-test what actually changes behaviour at scale inside a working week. Her writing reflects the same orientation. The Corporate Wellness Bible treats workplace nutrition, energy and stress as organisational concerns rather than personal projects. Get Healthy for Good and Be Incredibly Healthy, co-authored with Sally Brown, sit alongside columns for The Sunday Express and Marie Claire and a TEDx talk delivered for Fidelity International. The audience she is built for is an employer trying to make wellbeing operational. Clients have included Bank of England, JP Morgan, Shell, EDF Energy, Accenture and GE Healthcare, organisations where the standard for an external voice is high and the tolerance for generic wellness messaging is low. Key speaking topics Workplace wellbeing and productivity Nutrition and sustained energy at work Sugar, stress and behavioural change Lifestyle, genetics and long-term health Corporate wellness strategy and programme design Mental and physical health in high-pressure roles Ideal for CHROs, heads of wellbeing and culture leads are designing or refreshing corporate wellness programmes. Senior leadership offsites where energy, focus and resilience are part of the agenda. Employee conferences in high-intensity sectors such as financial services, professional services and energy. Health and wellbeing weeks where the brief calls for clinical credibility alongside accessible delivery. Audience outcomes A working understanding of how nutrition, sleep and stress interact to shape daily performance. Practical changes audiences can make the same week, drawn from clinical practice rather than wellness trend cycles. A clearer organisational case for why wellbeing investment should be measured against engagement and productivity, not participation. Specific tools for managing energy through long days, travel and high-cognitive-load periods. Confidence to challenge the sugar, caffeine and convenience defaults built into corporate working life.

Why organisations work with Kate Garraway She brings the rare combination of a national household name and a serious, specific subject: the lived reality of being a working carer, drawn from her own years caring for her late husband Derek Draper. Her interviewing craft is honed on live national television. She handles unscripted rooms, sensitive subject matter and senior executives on stage with the same control she shows on Good Morning Britain. Three consecutive National Television Awards for her authored documentaries give her authority on duty-of-care and social-care themes that few corporate speakers can match. She moves credibly between hosting an awards night, anchoring a conference, conducting an on-stage CEO interview and delivering a personal keynote on resilience, without changing register awkwardly between formats. Her MBE for broadcasting, journalism and charity makes her a natural fit for client events that need a name guests recognise from their breakfast television. Biography highlights Main presenter on ITV’s Good Morning Britain since launch in 2014. Host of the weekday mid-morning show on Smooth Radio since 2014. Host of ITV’s Life Stories, succeeding Piers Morgan, from 2021. MBE in the 2022 New Year Honours for services to broadcasting, journalism and charity. Author of two Sunday Times bestsellers, The Power of Hope (2021) and The Strength of Love (2023). Winner of three National Television Awards for her ITV documentaries Finding Derek, Caring for Derek and Derek’s Story, plus a TRIC Special Award for her broadcasting career. Biography The hardest conversations in modern workplaces are not about strategy. They are about the colleague managing a parent’s dementia, the senior leader whose partner has a long-term illness, the high performer whose home life has quietly become a second full-time role. Kate Garraway has spent the last five years living and reporting that reality in public. Most viewers know her from ITV’s Good Morning Britain, where she has been a main presenter since the programme launched in 2014, and from her weekday show on Smooth Radio. The wider broadcasting CV runs through GMTV, Daybreak and ITV’s Life Stories, the long-running interview series she took over from Piers Morgan in 2021. The TRIC Special Award and her 2022 MBE for services to broadcasting, journalism and charity sit alongside that work. The body of work that gives her something distinctive to say to corporate audiences is more recent. After her husband Derek Draper became one of the UK’s most seriously affected long Covid patients, she made three authored documentaries for ITV, Finding Derek, Caring for Derek and Kate Garraway: Derek’s Story, each of which won the National Television Award for Best Authored Documentary. Her two memoirs, The Power of Hope and The Strength of Love, were Sunday Times bestsellers and turned her into one of the country’s most quoted voices on caring, resilience and the social-care system. What she offers in a corporate room is a presenter who can hold a live audience for a full event and, when the brief calls for it, speak with first-hand authority on what it actually costs employees to look after someone they love while staying in their job. Key speaking topics Working carers and the hidden workforce Resilience and personal leadership through crisis Long-term illness and return-to-work Mental health and wellbeing at work Live event hosting and on-stage interviewing Awards hosting and conference moderation Broadcast journalism and media interviewing Ideal for Conferences and awards evenings looking for a household-name host with strong interview craft. HR, reward and benefits leaders building credible support for working carers and employees with long-term illness. Wellbeing, DEI and ERG events that need a public figure who can speak from experience rather than theory. Boards and leadership offsites running an on-stage CEO or guest interview where a trained journalist adds value. Audience outcomes A clearer view of what caring responsibilities look like inside their own workforce, and how often they go unspoken. Practical language for managers having difficult conversations with employees facing serious illness at home. A grounded perspective on resilience that does not flatten into motivational cliche. For hosted formats, a tightly run event with senior guests interviewed at the level they expect from national television.

Why organisations work with Kate Silverton A recognisable broadcaster who can hold a room of senior leaders and chair an executive panel or Q&A without losing the thread, which is why McLaren, KPMG, Transport for London, NatWest, Lloyds, and American Express have booked her for conferences and ceremonies. A qualified child therapist trained through Place2Be, with a BSc in Psychology from Durham and clinical practice, which makes her credible on emotional regulation and family wellbeing in a way few broadcasters are. Author of two Sunday Times bestsellers on child development, including an instant number one, which gives her a defined public thesis on how the developing brain shapes behaviour. Lived experience of recovery from complex childhood trauma, which she now speaks about openly, giving a whole-workforce audience a credible and human account of rebuilding resilience after adversity. A working relationship with the Princess of Wales’ Shaping Us campaign and ambassador roles with Place2Be, the Anna Freud Centre, and Trauma Informed Schools UK, which sit naturally alongside corporate wellbeing and ESG commitments. Biography highlights Former BBC News presenter, including BBC News at One and BBC Weekend News, and Panorama reporter from Iraq and Afghanistan. BSc in Psychology; qualified child therapist trained through the Place2Be charity. Author of two Sunday Times bestsellers, “There’s No Such Thing As ‘Naughty'”, an instant number one, and its follow-up “There’s Still No Such Thing As ‘Naughty'”. Conference and awards host for Transport for London, KPMG, NatWest, Lloyds, McLaren, the NHS, and American Express. Ambassador for Place2Be, the Anna Freud Centre, and Trauma Informed Schools UK, and a contributor to the Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood supporting the Princess of Wales’ Shaping Us campaign. Contestant on BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing, Series 16, in 2018. Biography Most parenting advice is folklore. Silverton’s books are a deliberate counter to that, written by a journalist who went back to the science. “There’s No Such Thing As ‘Naughty'” reached number one on the Sunday Times bestseller list on release. The follow-up, “There’s Still No Such Thing As ‘Naughty'”, covered the primary years on the same evidence base and also became a Sunday Times bestseller. The route to that work is unusual. Two decades inside the BBC, presenting BBC News at One and BBC Weekend News, and reporting from Iraq and Afghanistan for Panorama, gave her the public profile. A BSc in Psychology and a clinical retraining through the Place2Be charity gave her the substance. She qualified as a child therapist in 2023 and now combines clinical practice with writing and corporate work. For organisations the value sits in two places. The first is hosting craft. Conferences and award ceremonies for McLaren, KPMG, Transport for London, NatWest, Lloyds, and American Express have trusted her to chair senior conversations and run executive Q&As with rigour. The second is content, where she speaks on wellbeing, working parents, and the emotional regulation that underpins leadership composure, grounded in clinical practice and published research. Her ambassador work with Place2Be, the Anna Freud Centre, and Trauma Informed Schools UK, along with the Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood and the Princess of Wales’ Shaping Us campaign, keeps that content connected to current UK practice. There is a personal thread to the work as well. Silverton has spoken publicly since 2024 about recovering from complex childhood trauma, and she draws on that recovery when she speaks to a whole workforce about resilience. The science that explains a child’s behaviour also explains how adults carry and release early adversity, which is what makes her relevant beyond a parenting audience. Key speaking topics Children’s mental health and emotional development The science of parenting and behaviour Working parents and family-friendly workplaces Employee wellbeing and emotional regulation Conference hosting and panel moderation After-dinner speaking Ideal for Heads of HR, reward, and benefits leaders shaping parental and family wellbeing programmes Conference and event organisers needing a senior, calm, journalistically credible host Internal communications and leadership-development teams running wellbeing or working-parent strands Award ceremony and industry-event organisers seeking a trusted on-stage presenter Audience outcomes A clearer model of how brain development shapes the behaviour of children, and what that implies for parents inside the workforce Practical language for managers and HR leaders speaking to working parents on stress, regulation, and family pressure A grounded view of what employer-sponsored mental health and family support actually has to do to make a difference For hosted events, sharper executive Q&As, tighter panel discussions, and a credible on-stage thread between sessions

Why organisations work with Katherine Templar-Lewis She brings the science of uncertainty into the room with an evidence base, not a metaphor. The Uncertainty Experts, the programme she leads as chief scientist, was built with University College London and is one of the few interventions on the topic with published validation. Her material is designed to land on commercial teams, not academic audiences. She has translated the same research into work for Apple, LEGO, Nike, Volvo, Nestle and TikTok. Co-author of The Uncertainty Toolkit with Sam Conniff (Pan Macmillan), giving leaders a named, citable framework rather than a generic talk on resilience. A serious media operator: BBC, Sky News, NBC, CNN, Radio 4 and The Today Show, with coverage in The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Times and New Scientist. Boards get a communicator who can hold a stage and a camera. Co-founder of Kinda Studios, a neuroscience studio that runs applied research with UCL and Goldsmiths. The work she presents from the stage is the work she is doing with clients during the week. Biography highlights Cognitive scientist; co-founder and director of Kinda Studios, a creative neuroscience studio. Lead scientist and co-creator of The Uncertainty Experts, an interactive documentary developed with University College London and Sam Conniff. Co-author of The Uncertainty Toolkit, published by Pan Macmillan. Co-host and executive producer of Beyond 5 Senses, an Audible Originals neuroscience series. Research collaborations with UCL and Goldsmiths; programme research validated in association with The Royal Society and CIPD. Recurring science contributor on BBC, Sky News, NBC, CNN, Radio 4, The Today Show, The One Show and Start the Week. Speaker and consulting work with Apple, LEGO, Nike, Volvo, Nestle, Netflix and TikTok. Biography Most leadership advice on uncertainty stops at metaphor. Katherine Templar-Lewis works on the underlying mechanism, the cognitive and neurological systems that decide whether a senior team holds its nerve, narrows its focus or freezes. As co-founder of Kinda Studios and lead scientist on The Uncertainty Experts, she has built one of the few evidence-based programmes on the subject, developed with University College London and validated in association with The Royal Society and CIPD. The work has commercial reach because the science is translated, not diluted. The Uncertainty Toolkit, her book with Sam Conniff for Pan Macmillan, sets out the operating moves leaders can make when conditions are unstable: how to read their own physiology, how to choose between options without false confidence, how to keep teams committed when the picture keeps changing. Apple, LEGO, Nike, Volvo, Nestle and TikTok have used the same material inside their own organisations. She is also a confident communicator outside the academic register. As co-host and executive producer of Beyond 5 Senses on Audible, and as a recurring contributor across BBC, Sky News, NBC, CNN and Radio 4, she has spent years turning research into language that an audience can use the next morning. New Scientist has called her approach radically optimistic, which is unusual in a field that tends toward warnings. What she gives an executive audience is a more accurate map of what their own brains are doing during a hard quarter, and a small set of tools that hold up when the data does not. Key speaking topics Decision-making under uncertainty Applied neuroscience for leaders Team performance and connection Cognitive resilience and recovery Neuroaesthetics, creativity and wellbeing Behaviour change and organisational learning Ideal for Executive teams and boards working through prolonged strategic uncertainty CHROs and people leaders rebuilding team resilience after sustained change Innovation, brand and customer experience leaders interested in neuroaesthetics Leadership development programmes for senior cohorts Audience outcomes A working understanding of how the brain handles uncertainty, and what that means for senior decisions Named techniques from The Uncertainty Toolkit that leaders can apply to their own routines Sharper recognition of the team behaviours that signal cognitive overload before performance drops A more confident posture toward ambiguity, grounded in research rather than mindset language

Why organisations work with Keira Walsh She has held the central midfield role in two winning European finals for England, including as Player of the Match at Wembley in 2022, which is a specific position about reading risk and keeping a team in shape under pressure. Her career carries the weight of a world-record transfer fee, which is a useful frame for any leader being asked to perform after a step-change in expectation, scrutiny or investment. She offers an inside account of an elite team culture, the Lionesses under Sarina Wiegman, that has now won back-to-back European Championships and reached a World Cup final. Her move from Barcelona to Chelsea in January 2025 is a recent, deliberate case study in choosing environment and ambition over comfort, told first-hand. Biography highlights MBE in the 2026 New Year Honours for services to association football. UEFA Women’s Euro 2022 final Player of the Match; UEFA Women’s Euro 2025 winner with England. World-record transfer fee in women’s football when Barcelona signed her from Manchester City in September 2022. Two UEFA Women’s Champions League titles with FC Barcelona. Chelsea midfielder since January 2025 on a four-and-a-half-year deal. Over 100 senior England caps; ever-present in Sarina Wiegman’s midfield through two winning European Championship campaigns. Biography Holding midfield in a winning international final is, in football terms, the most exposed leadership job on the pitch. It is the role that connects defence to attack, absorbs pressure when the opposition raises tempo, and decides which risks the team can afford in the last twenty minutes. Walsh has now done that job twice, at Euro 2022 and Euro 2025, in the two most scrutinised matches in the women’s game. The 2022 final at Wembley was the case study. England were level with Germany when Walsh produced the assist for Ella Toone’s opening goal and was named Player of the Match. UEFA’s technical observers noted that she “balanced the team throughout the game” and rarely lost possession. Three years later she was back in the starting line-up for the Euro 2025 final in Basel, helping England retain the title in a penalty shoot-out against Spain. Her club career has carried a comparable weight of expectation. Barcelona paid a reported 400,000 pounds for her in September 2022, a world record in women’s football, and she went on to win two UEFA Women’s Champions League titles and a domestic continental quadruple. In January 2025 she returned to England with Chelsea on a four-and-a-half-year contract, signed explicitly to help the club convert domestic dominance into European success. For corporate audiences, the substance is composure under exposure. Walsh is a working professional who has been the named senior player in a unit twice asked to win a continental final, and a transfer asset twice priced at the top of her market. The MBE awarded in the 2026 New Year Honours marks the public record. The more useful material is the operating detail behind it. Key speaking topics Composure and decision-making under pressure Elite team culture and cohesion Resilience after setback and injury Performing after a step-change in expectation Women’s sport and the commercial reset of the game Leadership in the holding role Ideal for Leadership teams preparing for a high-scrutiny year: post-IPO, post-acquisition, new mandate CHROs and culture leads building cohesion in senior teams under sustained pressure Conference audiences in sport, media and consumer brands engaging with the growth of women’s football Employee and partner events where the brief is human performance rather than technical content Audience outcomes A first-hand picture of how a winning international squad makes decisions in the final twenty minutes of a closely fought match. A working definition of composure that is usable by senior leaders, not motivational language. A concrete example of what changes when an individual is priced and expected to operate at the very top of their market. An honest account of leaving a winning environment for a harder one, and the reasoning behind it.

Why organisations work with Kellie Maloney A first-hand account of coming out inside professional boxing, one of the least forgiving commercial environments in sport, given by someone who managed a world heavyweight champion. A direct, unsanitised perspective on suicide, depression and recovery in the LGBT+ community from someone who has lived it and chosen to talk about it publicly. Credibility on female participation in sport grounded in actual commercial activity, having returned to promotion in 2020 to back female boxers at the start of their careers. Public profile built through Celebrity Big Brother, two documentaries and a published autobiography, giving the story reach beyond a corporate audience. Biography highlights Managed Lennox Lewis to the undisputed world heavyweight title between 1989 and 2001. Guided four further fighters to world titles plus British, European and Commonwealth champions. Named Transgender Champion at the 2015 Glamour Women of the Year Awards. Author of Frankly Kellie: Becoming a Woman in a Man’s World, Blink Publishing, 2015. Subject of Amazon Prime documentary From Frank to Kellie (2020) and feature documentary Knock Out Blonde: The Kellie Maloney Story (2025). Returned to boxing promotion in 2020 with a focus on female fighters at the start of their careers. Biography Professional boxing is not where most people would expect a public gender transition to begin. Kellie Maloney spent nearly three decades inside it, managing Lennox Lewis from 1989 to 2001 to the undisputed world heavyweight championship and steering four more fighters to world titles. Her standing in the sport was earned in a culture that did not make room for what came next. In August 2014 she announced publicly that she would live as Kellie. The decision was effectively forced by tabloid pressure rather than chosen on her own timing, a detail that matters when organisations talk about psychological safety. The aftermath included Celebrity Big Brother, the 2015 Glamour Women of the Year Transgender Champion award, the autobiography Frankly Kellie: Becoming a Woman in a Man’s World, and a period of severe depression that culminated in a suicide attempt and recovery. She now speaks about identity, mental health and inclusion from inside the experience, not from theory. The Amazon Prime documentary From Frank to Kellie and the 2025 feature Knock Out Blonde: The Kellie Maloney Story give the material a reach most corporate speakers do not have. Her audience is HR, DEI and wellbeing leaders who want a session that lands emotionally and tells the truth about what inclusion costs the people it is aimed at. In 2020 she returned to boxing promotion with a stated commitment to female fighters at the start of their careers. That detail closes the circle. The story is not only about transition; it is about going back into the same hard commercial environment as a different person and changing what it is willing to back. Key speaking topics Identity and transition in commercial environments LGBT+ inclusion in male-dominated cultures Mental health, depression and suicide prevention Resilience after public exposure Female participation in sport Personal courage and reinvention Ideal for HR, DEI and ERG leads designing inclusion programmes that have to work in practice Wellbeing and mental health leads building suicide prevention and crisis support content Sports, security, construction, manufacturing and other traditionally male-dominated sectors Internal events tied to Pride, Mental Health Awareness Month, or International Women’s Day Audience outcomes A clearer picture of what inclusion policies look like from the perspective of the person they are written about. A direct, lived account of depression, suicidal crisis and recovery in the LGBT+ community. An honest read on how hard cultures can change, and what individuals inside them carry when they do. Renewed willingness to ask colleagues about mental health rather than assume.

Why organisations work with Dame Kelly Holmes A first-hand account of competing, and winning, at the highest level while concealing identity for fear of personal and professional consequence, a story directly relevant to inclusion, wellbeing, and retention agendas. Operational credibility on mental health: trained Mental Health First Aider and Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, not a generic wellness presence. A track record of building a durable institution beyond sport. The Dame Kelly Holmes Trust has paired retired elite athletes with disadvantaged young people since 2008, giving her practical, not theoretical, content on mentoring and transition. Cross-format flexibility for major corporate moments: keynote, after-dinner, awards host, panel chair, in-conversation interviewee, television-grade on stage. Biography highlights Won 800m and 1500m gold at Athens 2004; first British woman to win two golds at the same Olympic Games. Appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2005; MBE in 1998 for service in the British Army. Served almost a decade in the British Army, including as an HGV driver and Physical Training Instructor, before turning fully professional in athletics. Founded the Dame Kelly Holmes Trust in 2008, mentoring disadvantaged young people through retired elite athletes. Author of “Unique: A Memoir” (2023), shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2024. Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (2024) and a trained Mental Health First Aider. Biography Winning two Olympic gold medals in the same week, at 34, is rare. Doing it while hiding a private fear that began in the British Army, where being gay was illegal until 2000, is the part of the story that matters most to organisations now. That is the spine of Holmes’s public work today. Her sporting record is well documented. Athens 2004, 800m then 1500m, made her the first British woman to win two golds at a single Games and the oldest woman to win either distance at the Olympics. The MBE in 1998 recognised her army service. The Damehood followed in 2005. The substance of her speaking comes from what happened next. In 2008, she founded the Dame Kelly Holmes Trust, an institution that pairs retired elite athletes with disadvantaged young people, now nearly two decades old. She trained as a Mental Health First Aider and was made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 2024, anchoring her wellbeing work in something more rigorous than personal testimony. In June 2022, she came out publicly through an ITV documentary, “Kelly Holmes: Being Me”, and a year later published “Unique: A Memoir”, shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2024. The book traces 34 years of concealment, including standing on the Athens podium in fear of being outed. For a corporate audience it is unusually specific evidence of what hidden identity costs a high performer, and how that cost compounds under pressure. Key speaking topics Mental health and wellbeing in high-performance environments Resilience and performance under pressure Identity, belonging, and the cost of concealment at work Mentoring and the transition out of elite careers Inclusion and LGBTQ+ visibility in regulated and uniformed settings Goal-setting and sustained motivation across long careers Ideal for HR, CPO, and CHRO audiences responsible for wellbeing, mental health, and inclusion programming Leadership conferences where peak performance and personal resilience are central themes DEI and ERG events, particularly around LGBTQ+ inclusion in regulated, military, or traditional sectors Awards dinners, anniversary moments, and major town halls requiring a recognisable keynote presence with substantive content Audience outcomes A direct, named example of what concealing identity costs senior performers over a career Practical language for talking about mental health at work without slipping into wellness cliche A clear account of how mentoring, structured rather than informal, changes outcomes for young people and post-career athletes An honest read on how high performers actually manage pressure, injury, and self-doubt over time