Employee Wellbeing

Why organisations work with Anelia Uzunova A corporate operator’s read on wellbeing. She has run point for a CEO at Galderma and managed global innovation projects at Novartis, so the inner-leadership conversation lands as an executive discipline rather than a soft-skills add-on. Founder of the wellbeing community at the World Economic Forum, which gives her a credible vantage point on how peer organisations are actually structuring this work, not just how they describe it on their careers page. A structured method, the RISE Inner Leadership framework, that gives leadership teams something concrete to take back to their day-to-day, rather than a workshop afterglow. A bilingual, cross-cultural speaker with working experience across Switzerland, the US, and the UK, well suited to executive audiences in pharma, healthcare, and globally distributed corporate teams. INSEAD-trained executive coach who lectures on Leading for Wellbeing to its MBA audience, which translates into content that survives a sceptical senior room. Biography highlights Chief of Staff to the CEO, Galderma Global Leadership Fellow, World Economic Forum; founder of the WEF wellbeing community Former global digital innovation project lead at Novartis, Switzerland MBA and executive coaching certification, INSEAD Executive Masters in Global Leadership, World Economic Forum programme Lecturer to INSEAD MBA audiences on Leading for Wellbeing Biography Pharma is a useful test case for the limits of conventional wellbeing programmes. The work is high-stakes, the regulatory load is heavy, and the senior teams running global functions tend to be senior precisely because they absorb pressure for everyone else. That is the environment Anelia Uzunova has worked inside for most of her career, first at Novartis in Switzerland and then as Chief of Staff to the CEO of Galderma. Her shift from operating roles to coaching and speaking was not a reinvention away from corporate life. It was a decision to teach explicitly what she saw working at the top of complex organisations. The Global Leadership Fellows Programme at the World Economic Forum gave her a comparative view across industries; founding the WEF’s wellbeing community gave her a structured one. Both inform a body of work focused on the inner state of the leader as an operational variable. The teachable form of that work is the RISE Inner Leadership framework, organised around four stages: Root, Ignite, Surrender, Embody. It is used with executive audiences and with the INSEAD MBA cohort she lectures to on Leading for Wellbeing. The framing is not therapeutic. It is closer to executive coaching with a clear curriculum, designed for senior leaders who have already tried the surface interventions and want something that holds up under pressure. Her credentials sit across INSEAD, the World Economic Forum, and a fifteen-year corporate track record in pharma and healthcare. The reason this matters for serious organisations is straightforward: when wellbeing is treated as an HR programme, it stays peripheral. When it is treated as a leadership capability, it changes how people work. Uzunova argues, and demonstrates, that the second framing is the one that pays back. Key speaking topics Inner leadership and executive composure Wellbeing as a leadership capability Personal transformation and reinvention for senior leaders Leading through change and uncertainty Purpose and alignment in executive careers Mindful leadership for high-pressure industries Women in senior leadership Ideal for CHROs and Chief People Officers building wellbeing into the leadership agenda rather than the benefits stack C-suite and senior leadership offsites in pharma, healthcare, and other high-pressure regulated industries Executive development programmes and high-potential cohorts Women’s leadership and senior talent forums Audience outcomes A working definition of inner leadership that an executive team can use, not a wellness vocabulary The four-stage RISE framework as a reference structure for how senior leaders manage their own state A sharper view of how composure, alignment, and presence affect team performance and retention Practical anchors for executives navigating role transitions, restructure, or extended pressure A frame for treating wellbeing as a leadership discipline that boards and CEOs can sponsor with confidence

Why organisations work with Jeanette Bronée She treats self-care as a leadership discipline, not a wellbeing programme. Her Power-Pausing method is built for executives who cannot afford to slow down but cannot afford to decide badly either. She brings two decades of work with Fortune 500 organisations including Microsoft, BlackRock, HSBC, Siemens, and the U.S. Navy, and has presented at the United Nations. Her book The Self-Care Mindset (Wiley, 2022) gives clients a tested framework leaders can apply between sessions, not a speaker high that fades by Monday. She contributed the chapter on Power-Pausing in Thinkers50 and Wiley’s Connectedness, a recognition that places her work alongside the field’s most cited voices on human connection and leadership. Her Danish business background and US executive experience give her a register that travels comfortably across European and North American leadership audiences. Biography highlights Author, The Self-Care Mindset, Wiley (2022) Contributing author, Connectedness, Thinkers50 and Wiley, foreword by Rita McGrath Three-time TEDx speaker, including TEDxUNCPembroke Founder of Path for Life, established 2004 Former Board Member, National Speakers Association New York Speaking clients include Microsoft, BlackRock, HSBC, Siemens, eBay, McKesson, U.S. Navy, SHRM, and the United Nations Biography Most leadership advice on pressure assumes the answer is more discipline. Bronée argues the opposite. The capacity to lead well under sustained load is built by what happens in the seconds before a decision, not by what happens after burnout has already arrived. Her Power-Pausing method, developed over twenty years of consulting work, treats that micro-pause as a metacognitive operating practice, not a wellness habit. The work has a specific origin. She built her first company at 23, ran a team of 50 by 25, and was diagnosed with the early markers of the cancer that had killed both her parents. She left the fashion industry, founded Path for Life in 2004, and spent the next two decades testing what actually changes when leaders rebuild their relationship to attention, stress, and trust. That research now sits in The Self-Care Mindset, published by Wiley in 2022, and in her contributing chapter to Connectedness, the Thinkers50 and Wiley volume on authentic human connection at work, with a foreword by Columbia Business School’s Rita McGrath. She has delivered three TEDx talks and worked with Microsoft, BlackRock, HSBC, Siemens, McKesson, the U.S. Navy, and the United Nations. The current emphasis is on trust and judgement in AI-saturated workplaces. As more cognitive load shifts to machines, the leadership variables that matter most are the ones that cannot be automated: the quality of attention a leader brings to a hard call, and the conditions that allow a team to disagree well. Bronée’s argument is that those variables are trainable. Key speaking topics Self-leadership under pressure Power-Pausing as a decision-making practice Building cultures of trust in AI-saturated workplaces The Self-Care Mindset for senior leaders Care-Driven Leadership Resilience and sustainable performance Human capacity in the age of AI Ideal for CEOs, CHROs and senior HR leaders rebuilding the social contract with their workforce Leadership development sponsors designing programmes for newly senior executives Organisations introducing AI tools and worried about the cultural cost of speed without judgement Conferences for women in senior leadership and executive transition programmes Audience outcomes A working definition of self-care as a leadership capability, separate from wellbeing programming The Power-Pausing practice as a tool for higher-quality decisions under time pressure A clearer view of how trust is built or eroded in the small interactions that precede big calls Language to use with their own teams about capacity, not just performance An honest read on where their current culture rewards urgency at the expense of judgement

Why organisations work with Kelly Mackin A research instrument leaders can actually use. The Motives Met Human Needs Assessment surfaces the 28 psychological, emotional, and social needs that drive a specific employee, team, or culture, replacing one-size-fits-all engagement scores with personalised data. A direct challenge to universal hierarchy thinking. Mackin’s research argues that Maslow-style and engagement-survey frameworks misrepresent how needs actually distribute across a workforce, and gives leaders a defensible alternative. Award-winning published work. Work Life Well-Lived is a Nonfiction Authors Association Bronze Award winner and an Amazon best-seller in its category, giving senior buyers a citable reference point. Practical depth beyond keynote theatre. Mackin trained as a cognitive behavioural coach and meditation teacher and runs assessments, workshops, and leadership accelerators, so the keynote connects to a delivery system the organisation can run after she leaves. Biography highlights CEO and co-founder, Motives Met, the workplace well-being platform behind her research. Author of Work Life Well-Lived: The Motives Met Pathway to No-B.S. Well-Being at Work (Greenleaf Book Group, 2024). Nonfiction Authors Association Bronze Book Award winner. Creator of the Motives Met Human Needs Assessment, identifying 28 motives that drive thriving at work. BA in Communications, Wittenberg University; certified cognitive behavioural therapy practitioner and meditation teacher. Host of DisruptHR San Diego; featured in Authority Magazine and the Human Capital Innovations webinar series. Biography Most workplace well-being programmes assume that everyone is motivated by the same things in roughly the same order. That assumption shapes every engagement survey, every wellness benefit, every “top reasons people quit” list. It is also wrong. Kelly Mackin’s research at Motives Met identifies 28 distinct psychological, emotional, and social motives, and shows that the ranking varies sharply between individuals, teams, and roles. The work sits inside Motives Met, the platform she co-founded and leads as CEO. Its core instrument, the Human Needs Assessment, surfaces an individual’s top motives and maps them against the conditions a manager or organisation is actually providing. The output is a usable diagnostic for leaders who have run out of patience with engagement scores that do not tell them what to do next. Her 2024 book, Work Life Well-Lived: The Motives Met Pathway to No-B.S. Well-Being at Work, became an Amazon category best-seller and won a Bronze Book Award from the Nonfiction Authors Association. The technical foundation comes from her training as a cognitive behavioural therapy practitioner and meditation teacher, which she pairs with quantitative research methods to keep the framework empirical rather than inspirational. For HR and culture leaders, the relevance is operational. Mackin gives them a vocabulary for the gap between what a workforce reports on a survey and what individual people actually need from their work, and a measurement layer they can act on across hybrid teams, multigenerational workforces, and post-restructure cultures. Key speaking topics Workplace well-being and the science of thriving at work Psychological needs and motivation at work Human-first leadership and management practice Stress, burnout, and work-life harmony Psychological safety and emotional inclusion Culture design for hybrid and multigenerational teams Ideal for CHROs and heads of people redesigning engagement and well-being strategy Culture, DEI, and talent leaders responsible for retention and inclusion outcomes Senior managers and team leaders running large or multigenerational teams Leadership development and L&D heads designing manager capability programmes Audience outcomes A working understanding of the 28 motives framework and how it differs from Maslow and engagement-survey models Specific questions leaders can ask their teams to surface individual motives, not just aggregate sentiment A diagnostic lens on where current well-being and engagement spend is misaligned with actual employee needs Language and structure for conversations on burnout, work-life harmony, and psychological safety A clearer link between well-being investment and performance outcomes leaders can defend internally

Why organisations work with Mel Abraham A practitioner’s view of personal finance, not a motivational one. Thirty years as a CPA advising founders and high earners sits behind every framework he teaches. Financial wellbeing translated into a workforce metric. His employee financial wellness sessions connect personal money stress directly to productivity, retention, and engagement numbers a CFO recognises. A published, repeatable system. Building Your Money Machine and its Wealth Priority Ladder give audiences a sequenced model they can act on the next morning, not a set of principles to remember. Credibility at the top of the speaker profession. The Certified Speaking Professional designation is held by fewer than one in ten working speakers, and Abraham earned it on top of the CPA qualification. A founder’s story buyers can verify. He built, sold, and reinvested through a cancer diagnosis and recovery, which is why the work avoids the abstract optimism that defines most personal-finance content. Biography highlights USA Today bestselling author of Building Your Money Machine (Hay House, 2024). International bestselling author of The Entrepreneur’s Solution. Certified Public Accountant with more than 30 years of advisory experience to founders and entrepreneurs. Certified Speaking Professional, National Speakers Association. Host of the Building Your Money Machine podcast and YouTube show, reaching around two million viewers. Has shared stages with Tony Robbins, Brendon Burchard, Arianna Huffington, Ed Mylett, and Amy Porterfield. Biography The gap between earning a high income and being financially free is wider than most professionals expect. Lifestyle absorbs salary growth, savings sit idle, and the moment when work becomes a choice keeps moving further out. Mel Abraham has spent three decades inside that gap as a CPA advising founders and high earners, and his work begins with the mechanics of closing it. Building Your Money Machine, his 2024 USA Today bestseller, sets out the sequence: earn, grow, protect. The book introduces the Wealth Priority Ladder and the Five Incomes, frameworks he uses to move audiences from a single salary to a portfolio of cash-producing assets. It followed The Entrepreneur’s Solution, an earlier international bestseller written for owner-operators trying to scale without trading their lives for the business. Inside organisations, Abraham translates the same material into a workforce argument. Personal financial stress shows up as distraction, presenteeism, and turnover, and his Financial Wellness, The Missing Link to Employee Wellness programme reframes it as a measurable productivity issue rather than a soft benefit. Buyers tend to be CHROs, founders, and benefits leads who want financial literacy treated with the same seriousness as physical and mental health. The Certified Speaking Professional designation, held by under one in ten working speakers, sits alongside the CPA credential. The combination is unusual, and it is what allows Abraham to take a stage at a sales kickoff of 20,000 or a boardroom of 10 and treat both as exercises in numerical precision. Key speaking topics Personal financial freedom and wealth-building systems Employee financial wellness and productivity Entrepreneurship and founder economics Wealth priority sequencing for high earners Legacy planning and intergenerational wealth Money mindset and behavioural finance Ideal for Sales conferences, founder summits, and entrepreneur networks CHROs and benefits leads building financial wellbeing into the employee proposition Wealth management, banking, and financial services events for client audiences Professional services firms and partnerships addressing partner and associate financial literacy Audience outcomes A sequenced model for converting earned income into income-producing assets A clearer view of which financial moves come first, second, and third Language for treating financial wellbeing as a measurable workforce outcome, not a benefit line item A founder’s account of building wealth through health crisis and business reinvention Tools drawn from a CPA practice rather than a motivational frame

Why organisations work with Jeff Salzenstein He brings a verified elite-performance credential into the executive room. ATP top 100, two NCAA team titles at Stanford, and a return to the top 100 at age 30 after two career-threatening injuries. The recovery story is not metaphor; it is the source material for the framework. The Own Your Zone of Excellence methodology is structured, not motivational. Four named pillars (rapid stress reduction, mindset shifts, emotional regulation, rest and recovery) that map onto the specific nervous-system and recovery decisions a senior leader can make inside a week. He is booked by organisations whose leaders are visibly under load: Duck Creek Technologies, U.S. Radiology Specialists, Weil Gotshal & Manges, Vistage chairs. The repeat work in private practice, healthcare, and legal services indicates the framework holds up in high-intensity professional settings. He runs Tennis Evolution, a coaching business with a 85,000-subscriber YouTube channel. He has built and scaled a teaching product, which is rare among speakers whose credibility rests on a past career. Biography highlights Former ATP top 100 singles player; career-high world No. 100 reached in June 2004, the oldest American to first crack the top 100 at that age. Two-time Stanford All-American, NCAA team champion 1995 and 1996, played No. 1 singles, team captain, coached by Dick Gould. Tennis Week magazine Rookie of the Year, 1997. Competed in the main draw of all four Grand Slams. Inducted into the Colorado Tennis Hall of Fame, 2005. Founder of Tennis Evolution, an online coaching platform with a YouTube channel exceeding 85,000 subscribers. Contributing author of “The Ultimate Success Guide” with Brian Tracy. Biography Most executive wellbeing programmes are designed for the workforce and ignore the layer under the most pressure. The leadership team gets a slide on resilience and a meditation app. The mechanics of how senior leaders actually regulate stress, recover, and stay sharp through compressed cycles rarely make it into the conversation. Salzenstein’s work starts where that conversation gives up. The credential is unusually concrete. He played No. 1 singles for Stanford under Dick Gould, captained back-to-back NCAA team championships in 1995 and 1996, and reached world No. 100 on the ATP tour. He then broke into the top 100 a second time, at 30, after two career-threatening injuries. Tennis Week named him Rookie of the Year in 1997. The Colorado Tennis Hall of Fame inducted him in 2005. The Own Your Zone of Excellence framework grew out of that arc and out of a family mental health and addiction crisis that ended his playing career. It is built around four operational pillars: rapid stress reduction, mindset shifts, emotional regulation, and rest and recovery. The content is closer to applied performance science than to motivational speaking, and it is structured so leaders can use it inside an ordinary working week. Organisations that book him tend to be in high-intensity professional settings where the executive layer is visibly under load. Duck Creek Technologies, U.S. Radiology Specialists, Weil Gotshal & Manges, Lightspeed Systems, The Mortgage Collaborative, and Vistage chairs have used him as keynote or coach. He also runs Tennis Evolution, an online coaching business with a YouTube channel of more than 85,000 subscribers, which makes him one of the few speakers in the performance space who has built and sustained a teaching product alongside his keynote work. Key speaking topics Executive resilience and burnout prevention Stress regulation and nervous system recovery Peak performance under pressure Mental and emotional health for senior leaders Mindset and focus for high-performing teams Sales team performance and pressure Culture and engagement for executive teams Ideal for CEOs and executive leadership teams running high-intensity cycles, particularly in professional services, healthcare, technology, and financial services CHROs and chief people officers building wellbeing programmes that include the senior layer, not just the broader workforce Sales leaders and revenue teams operating under sustained quota pressure Vistage chairs, peer-advisory groups, and leadership offsites focused on personal performance and recovery Audience outcomes A concrete set of practices for rapid stress reduction and nervous system regulation that senior leaders can use during the working day A vocabulary for talking about executive burnout and recovery inside the leadership team Specific techniques for reframing pressure moments without losing edge or focus A clearer sense of what rest and recovery look like at the executive level, beyond holiday and headspace apps

Why organisations work with Mike Bushell Twenty years of live national television experience on BBC Breakfast, which translates directly into the composure conferences and awards need from the person holding the room. A recognisable face from one of the UK’s largest morning audiences and a 2019 Strictly Come Dancing series, which adds warmth and recognition to internal events and client-facing nights. A genuine interactive format, Sport or Spoof, that he runs with corporate audiences using sports drawn from his on-air library, giving organisations a built-in entertainment slot rather than a generic keynote. An on-record body of work on activity, participation and trying-the-untried that lends a credible voice to wellbeing, engagement and active-lifestyle programmes inside organisations. Reporting experience from Olympics, Paralympics and multiple World Cups, which gives him native fluency on stage with athletes, sports federations and sponsorship audiences. Biography highlights Longest-serving sports presenter in BBC Breakfast history, joined the programme in 2006. Has personally tried and profiled more than 550 sports on BBC One, from Quidditch and shin-kicking to Kabaddi with the Indian national team at the Asian Games in Doha. Held a Guinness World Record for travelling across water in an inflatable ball, set for Sport Relief in 2012. Contestant on Strictly Come Dancing series 17 in 2019, partnered with Katya Jones. Has reported on the Olympics, Paralympics, Commonwealth Games and football, rugby and cricket World Cups. Author of Bushell’s Best Bits (2013), drawn from his sports-discovery slot. Career began at BBC Radio Solent in 1990, with earlier reporting roles at the Derby Evening Telegraph and the Windsor and Slough Observer. Biography Live sports presentation on BBC Breakfast is one of the more exposed jobs in UK broadcasting. The presenter takes the chair every Saturday morning, on national television, with no second take. Mike Bushell has held that chair longer than anyone in the programme’s history, joining BBC Breakfast in 2006 after starting his career at BBC Radio Solent in 1990. The on-air work is built around a simple proposition: every week, try a sport. The list now runs past 550 and includes shin-kicking, worm charming, Quidditch, swamp soccer, Rush hockey and Kabaddi with the Indian team at the Asian Games in Doha. The book that came out of it, Bushell’s Best Bits, was published in 2013. The format is the source of the interactive Sport or Spoof game he runs with corporate audiences. The wider reporting CV covers Olympics, Paralympics, Commonwealth Games and football, rugby and cricket World Cups. In 2019 he was a contestant on series 17 of Strictly Come Dancing with Katya Jones, which is the credit most internal-event audiences recognise on sight. For organisations, the offer is straightforward. Bushell hosts conferences, moderates panels, runs awards nights and gives after-dinner talks. When the brief calls for it, he also speaks on activity, participation and getting people off the sofa, drawn directly from the on-air body of work. Key speaking topics Event hosting and conference moderation Awards night presenting Active lifestyles and sports participation Workplace wellbeing through movement Resilience and trying the unfamiliar Sports broadcasting and the Olympic and World Cup beat Interactive audience formats including Sport or Spoof Ideal for Internal conferences, sales kick-offs and all-hands looking for a recognisable host Awards nights and sponsor evenings in sport, media and consumer sectors Wellbeing, HR and people-team programmes built around activity and participation Charity galas, fundraising dinners and sports federation events Audience outcomes A programme run cleanly from the front of the room, with live moments handled without losing the audience A shared moment of entertainment through the Sport or Spoof format, tuned to the audience in the room A direct, lived case for getting more active and the corporate-wellbeing argument that follows Behind-the-scenes anecdotes from Strictly, the Olympics, World Cups and 550 sports on national television

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 Marverine Cole She has anchored live news under pressure for Sky News, 5 News, ITV and the BBC, and brings that discipline to stage hosting where the running order changes in the moment. Her Mind Media Award for Journalist of the Year, won for the BBC Radio 4 documentary Black Girls Don’t Cry, gives her standing to chair sessions on mental health, race and representation without sounding rehearsed. An honorary doctorate from Birmingham City University and a four-year stint running its undergraduate journalism courses mean she can interview senior leaders and academics on equal footing. As Britain’s first Black female accredited beer sommelier and BBC Good Food columnist, she opens unusual commercial routes for brand and consumer events where culture, lifestyle and gender intersect. Biography highlights Newsreader on ITV1’s Good Morning Britain; previous news anchor roles at Sky News (World News and Business Report), 5 News, BBC Midlands Today and ITV Central News Journalist of the Year, Mind Media Awards 2019, for the BBC Radio 4 documentary Black Girls Don’t Cry Honorary doctorate from Birmingham City University; former Director of Undergraduate Journalism courses, Birmingham School of Media (2018 to 2022) Britain’s first Black female accredited beer sommelier; resident beer columnist for BBC Good Food magazine Co-presenter of BBC Radio 4’s Saturday Live; presenter on Classic FM; contributor to BBC Radio 1Xtra and BBC 5 Live Contributing essayist to Sir Lenny Henry’s 2021 book Black British Lives Matter; board member of Birmingham Royal Ballet and The Student View Biography Live broadcast craft is a narrow skill, and it sits at the centre of what flagship corporate events still need. Cole has spent more than two decades inside that craft, presenting news for Sky News, 5 News, ITV Central, BBC Midlands Today and now ITV1’s Good Morning Britain. Sky News audiences watched her front a five-hour overnight World News and Business Report bulletin, including coverage of the 2008 Mumbai attacks. The journalism is not a sideline. Her BBC Radio 4 documentary Black Girls Don’t Cry, on the disproportionate mental health pressures facing Black women, won Journalist of the Year at the Mind Media Awards in 2019. She has produced and presented further work for BBC Radio 4 and BBC 1Xtra on female gambling addiction and on women in UK rap, and contributed an essay to Sir Lenny Henry’s Black British Lives Matter in 2021. Birmingham City University, where she trained as a broadcast journalist, brought her back as Director of Undergraduate Journalism courses from 2018 to 2022 and later awarded her an honorary doctorate. That academic spell shows in her interviewing: she frames questions for senior leaders without losing the audience in the room. The off-news work fills out the brief. She is Britain’s first Black female accredited beer sommelier and BBC Good Food magazine’s resident beer columnist, presents on Classic FM, and co-presents Saturday Live on BBC Radio 4 with Reverend Richard Coles. For event organisers, that range translates into a host who can move from a board panel on workplace mental health to a brand showcase to a closing-night cultural conversation without changing register. Key speaking topics Event hosting, moderation and on-stage interviewing Awards ceremony presentation Mental health and Black women’s experience Race, representation and inclusion in media Women in broadcast journalism Consumer culture, lifestyle and the beer industry Birmingham, the Midlands and regional creative industries Ideal for Conference organisers commissioning a senior host for live, multi-track main-stage programmes DEI, wellbeing and ERG leaders running flagship internal events on race, mental health or women in the workplace Brand and consumer marketing teams hosting product launches, awards or media events Cultural and arts organisations seeking a credible chair for public conversations and panels Audience outcomes A live programme that holds energy through agenda changes, technical hitches and difficult guests Sharper, more candid contributions from senior panellists prompted by a journalistically trained interviewer A session on mental health or representation that lands with substance, drawn from her own reported work rather than secondhand framing A consistent on-brand voice across a multi-day event run by a single experienced anchor

Why organisations work with Lucrezia Millarini Fifteen years of live anchoring at ITV News, including the ITV News at Ten and the network’s breaking news announcement of the Duke of Edinburgh’s death, translates directly into composure on stage when a session goes off script. Background in law before journalism: a Bristol law degree and barrister training, useful when chairing panels on regulation, policy, or geopolitics, where the questioning needs to land precisely. Genuine breadth across hard news and softer territory. She has reported from the Grenfell inquiry coverage and co-hosted ITV’s Mental Health Special with Martin Lewis, so audiences trust her to handle difficult subject matter without slipping into either solemnity or gloss. Recognisable network face for UK audiences. Booking her signals to delegates that the event is serious enough to warrant a household-name anchor at the lectern. Biography highlights Anchor, ITV News: ITV Lunchtime News, ITV Evening News and ITV News at Ten. Presenter, ITV London evening bulletin; regular reporter for ITV’s documentary series On Assignment. Reported on the RTS award-winning ITV coverage of the Grenfell Tower Fire. Co-host, The Martin Lewis Money Show: Live Mental Health Special and Mortgage Crisis Special. Law graduate, Bristol University; barrister training; postgraduate diploma in Broadcast Journalism, City University, London. Patron, Dogs on the Street and Support Dogs; supporter of Alzheimer’s Society campaigns. Biography Live news anchoring is the closest analogue in television to chairing a senior conference. The host has a fixed window, a moving brief, contributors who may go long or off-piste, and an audience that expects clarity without theatrics. Lucrezia Millarini has done that work on ITV News for more than fifteen years, across the Lunchtime News, the Evening News and the News at Ten. Her route in matters. She read law at Bristol and trained as a barrister before moving to journalism via a postgraduate diploma at City University. That legal grounding shows up in how she questions panellists on regulation, policy and geopolitics, where loose framing produces loose answers. The range of stories she has handled on air is proof of the point for sensitive corporate sessions. She fronted ITV’s RTS award-winning coverage of the Grenfell Tower Fire, broke the news of the death of the Duke of Edinburgh in a special announcement in April 2021, and was part of ITV’s team at the Windsor wedding of Harry and Meghan. She has co-hosted ITV’s Mental Health Special with Martin Lewis, and reports for the network’s foreign affairs documentary strand, On Assignment. Corporate clients book her for conference chairing, panel moderation and award hosting. The recurring feedback is composure on stage, warmth with contributors, and a refusal to let a panel meander. For organisations putting a flagship event in front of customers, regulators or the board, those are the variables that actually decide whether the day lands. Key speaking topics Conference chairing and panel moderation Award ceremony and gala hosting Geopolitics and current affairs Mental health and wellbeing in the workplace Media, journalism and the modern newsroom Women in leadership and career conversations Ideal for Boards and CEOs commissioning a flagship customer, investor or industry conference where the chair has to hold the room. CHROs and internal communications leads running town halls or all-hands sessions on sensitive topics, including mental health and restructuring. Awards organisers and gala hosts want a recognisable UK broadcast face at the lectern. Audience outcomes A conference agenda that lands as a coherent argument rather than a sequence of unrelated talks. Panels in which the senior contributors are pushed on the points that matter without the session losing pace. Sessions on sensitive subjects, mental health, restructuring, and geopolitical risk, are handled with the steadiness audiences associate with live news. A day that delegates remember for the substance of the conversation, not for the moments that went wrong.

Why organisations work with Matthias Schmitt He has scaled and exited the companies his audience is still inside. wealthpilot reached over 100,000 European customers under his co-founding, and Skigaudi became Germany’s leading student winter festival brand. His Expansion State Method is a named, proprietary coaching framework, not a borrowed model. It is designed specifically for founders navigating the gap between commercial success and personal meaning. He addresses burnout from inside the experience, having walked out of his own companies after hitting it. The credibility with senior operators is earned, not theoretical. He works in the territory most leadership programmes avoid: nervous system regulation, identity after exit, and the practical mechanics of sustaining decision quality under sustained pressure. Entrepreneur Asia Pacific named him to its Top Five Life Coaches to Watch in 2024, which gives the work external editorial validation in a category usually short of it. Biography highlights Co-founder of wealthpilot, a Munich-based FinTech SaaS serving over 100,000 European customers Co-founder of Skigaudi, Germany’s leading winter festival brand for students Founder of the Expansion State Method, a proprietary coaching framework for post-exit founders Named to Entrepreneur Asia Pacific’s Top Five Life Coaches to Watch in 2024 Trained in NLP, behavioural science, nervous system regulation, and meditation as applied to executive performance Works publicly under the title “Chief Fulfillment Officer,” focused on post-exit founders and conscious leaders Biography The exit is supposed to be the win. For many founders, it is also the moment the architecture they built their identity on disappears. The high-performance habits that scaled the company keep firing into an empty room. Matthias Schmitt co-founded wealthpilot, a Munich FinTech that scaled past 100,000 European customers, and Skigaudi, the leading German winter festival brand for students. He exited and hit burnout. The recovery became the work. Today he coaches post-exit entrepreneurs and senior leaders through that transition, using a proprietary framework he calls the Expansion State Method. The practical content draws on NLP, behavioural science, nervous system regulation, and meditation, applied to the specific problem of how senior operators sustain decision quality and meaning after the pressure that organised their lives lifts. Entrepreneur Asia Pacific named him to its Top Five Life Coaches to Watch in 2024. The recognition matters because the category he works in, founder coaching, is crowded with generalists. The differentiator here is operational time served at the level his clients are leaving. Key speaking topics Burnout recovery for founders and senior operators Post-exit identity and purpose Peak performance without collapse Nervous system regulation for high-pressure leadership Sales leadership and revenue performance Purpose-led business building Ideal for Founder communities, scale-up CEO peer groups, and post-exit networks Sales leadership offsites where revenue performance and team wellbeing are both on the table Private wealth and family office audiences working with HNW and UHNW founders Executive development programmes addressing sustained performance and burnout risk at senior levels Audience outcomes A clearer read on where current performance habits are producing diminishing returns Specific practices for nervous system regulation under sustained executive pressure A language for the post-exit transition that senior operators rarely have available Permission to treat fulfilment as a performance variable, not a soft topic

Why organisations work with Madison Butler She works inside the people function as a practitioner, not as an outside commentator. Her perspective comes from running employee experience as Chief Experience Officer at GRAV and as a fractional people ops consultant. She has built a structural intervention into her own industry. The Black Speakers Collection was created to close the speaker pay gap for Black speakers, and is now a working directory used by meeting planners. Her book “Let Them See You” (Wiley, 2025) gives buyers a published thesis on authenticity at work that they can hand to a leadership team before the keynote. She speaks credibly on mental health, trauma and psychological safety in workplace settings without softening the operational implications for managers. Named a LinkedIn Top Black Voice and a DivInc Austin Rising Star, with sustained media presence in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Business Insider and Rolling Stone. Biography highlights Author, “Let Them See You: Empowering Change Through Authenticity” (Wiley, 2025) Founder, Black Speakers Collection, a directory created to address pay equity for Black speakers Founder, Blue Haired Unicorn, an HR and DEI consultancy advising on psychological safety and culture design Chief Experience Officer at GRAV, based in Austin, Texas Named a LinkedIn Top Black Voice; named DivInc Austin Rising Star, 2021 Featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, Yahoo and Rolling Stone Biography The employee experience is the part of the company most leaders do not own. HR runs onboarding, operations runs the systems, leadership sets the tone, and the actual lived experience falls between them. Butler works in that gap. As Chief Experience Officer at GRAV and through her consultancy Blue Haired Unicorn, she designs how a workforce actually moves through the organisation, from joining to leaving. Her published thesis sits in “Let Them See You: Empowering Change Through Authenticity”, released by Wiley in 2025. The argument is that performative culture work fails because it asks people to keep their full selves out of the building. Butler treats authenticity as an operating condition for trust, engagement and retention, not as a value statement. The Black Speakers Collection is her clearest demonstration of how she thinks. Faced with persistent pay inequity for Black speakers in the bureau industry, she built a directory rather than writing a position piece. It is now used by meeting planners as a working resource, profiled by PCMA and Prevue Meetings. Her media presence reflects the breadth of her audience. The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, Yahoo and Rolling Stone have carried her commentary on workplace culture, mental health and inclusion. LinkedIn named her a Top Black Voice; DivInc named her Austin Rising Star in 2021. Key speaking topics Psychological safety and workplace culture Authenticity and human-centred leadership Employee experience design Inclusion as operating practice Mental health and trauma at work Future of work and the people function Personal branding and self-presentation at work Ideal for CHROs and chief people officers designing employee experience end to end Heads of DEI and inclusion leads looking for operating substance over signalling Founders and CEOs of scaling companies under cultural strain Internal leadership programmes for managers responsible for psychological safety Audience outcomes A clearer view of where the employee experience is breaking inside their own organisation A sharper distinction between performative culture work and operating culture work Language for managers to discuss mental health, trauma and authenticity at work without flinching Practical reference points from a practitioner running these problems day to day A published thesis (“Let Them See You”) to extend the conversation after the room

Why organisations work with Ivelyse Andino She runs a revenue-generating company built inside the communities most health strategies talk about but rarely reach, so her recommendations are tested against real outcomes, not theory. She holds a seat on the American Medical Association’s External Equity and Innovation Advisory Group, which gives her a direct read on how the largest US physician body is attempting to embed equity into clinical innovation. She has built and commercialised an AI product, Radical Relay, that prepares patients for clinical visits, so she can speak credibly to boards about the operational gap between AI hype and AI that earns community trust. She has translated health equity from slogan to structure by founding the first Latina-owned-and-operated Benefit Corporation in New York City, offering a concrete model for mission-aligned commercial design. Her fellowships with the Roddenberry Foundation and the Aspen Institute, alongside Crain’s Whole Health Heroes recognition, signal that her perspective is taken seriously by institutional and philanthropic funders shaping the next decade of health policy. Biography highlights Founder and CEO, Radical Health, the first Latina-owned-and-operated Benefit Corporation in New York City. Member, American Medical Association Center for Health Equity External Equity and Innovation Advisory Group. 2022 Aspen Institute Health Innovators Fellow and 2019 Roddenberry Foundation Fellow. Former Commissioner, New York City Commission on Gender Equity. Recognised in Crain’s New York and Empire BlueCross BlueShield Whole Health Heroes, and reported on Rock Health’s Top 50 in Digital Health Luminaries. Featured in Washington Post, Forbes, Nasdaq and Crain’s New York; speaking credits include Aspen Ideas Festival, Harvard Intercollegiate Business Convention, and TEDx Bronx. Biography Health equity is one of the most heavily cited commitments in corporate and clinical strategy, and one of the least operationalised. Radical Health was built to close that gap from the bottom up. The company, founded and led by Ivelyse Andino, combines kitchen-table community organising with AI-enabled tools that help patients walk into clinical visits prepared, informed and able to advocate for themselves. Andino came to this work through the health technology industry, not around it. She spent her early career launching digital health products, including a mobile prescribing platform, and working with clients such as NHS London and Kaiser Permanente. When her mother was diagnosed with cancer, the limits of that system became personal, and the distance between clinical knowledge and community access became the problem she decided to solve. Radical Health is a Benefit Corporation, legally structured to hold commercial performance and community outcomes together. Its flagship product, Radical Relay, has been described as a “know your rights” app for healthcare, using peer-informed prompts and natural language tools to reduce the information asymmetry patients face in clinical settings. That product design sits alongside workshops and training that surface the social determinants of health inside workforces and provider networks. Her institutional standing reinforces the field work. She serves on the American Medical Association’s External Equity and Innovation Advisory Group, helping shape how the largest US physician body directs investment toward equitable innovation. She is a 2022 Aspen Institute Health Innovators Fellow, a 2019 Roddenberry Foundation Fellow, a former Commissioner on the New York City Commission on Gender Equity, and a recipient of the Obama Foundation’s My Brother’s Keeper grant for work on social determinants of health in NYC Community Schools. Key speaking topics Health equity as an operating discipline Community-led design in healthcare and employer wellbeing AI and digital health products that earn community trust Benefit Corporation models for mission-aligned growth Social determinants of health inside workforces and benefits design Women, Latina and founder-of-colour perspectives on health innovation Patient self-advocacy and health literacy at scale Ideal for CHROs and heads of benefits rebuilding employee health, wellbeing and maternal health programmes around underserved populations. Healthcare, payer and life sciences executives who need a credible outside voice on equitable AI deployment and community trust. DEI, ESG and impact leads accountable for measurable outcomes in health-related commitments. Foundation, public health and policy audiences working on health system reform and social determinants of health. Audience outcomes A clear view of where current health equity and wellbeing strategies are failing the people they claim to serve, and why. A working model for how a commercial organisation can hold mission and margin together through benefit-corp structure and community governance. A grounded assessment of how AI is being used in health settings today, which uses build trust and which erode it. Language and frameworks that CHROs, benefits leaders and clinical teams can use to reset conversations with marginalised employee and patient populations. Named examples from Radical Health, the AMA advisory work, and NYC community programmes that leaders can adapt for their own context.