Executive Development

Why organisations work with Heather Moyse She has competed at Olympic level in three sports she did not start as a child, including learning bobsleigh from scratch and winning gold in her first Games. That gives her a credible voice on rapid capability acquisition under high stakes. Her occupational therapy training (Master’s, University of Toronto) gives her a clinical frame for human performance rather than the standard motivational-athlete narrative. She talks about the mechanics of resilience, not the feeling of it. She is the first Canadian woman inducted into the World Rugby Hall of Fame and one of only two Canadians inducted. The credential is rare enough to anchor a senior audience that has heard many Olympic stories. She has worked with senior corporate audiences including CIBC, BMW, Sun Life Financial, Fidelity Investments, the Royal Canadian Mint, and the Canadian Armed Forces, so the translation from sport to commercial leadership is already calibrated. Biography highlights Two-time Olympic gold medallist in women’s bobsleigh (Vancouver 2010, Sochi 2014, pilot Kaillie Humphries). Four-time Olympian. World Rugby Hall of Fame, inducted 2016. First Canadian woman, second Canadian overall. Master’s in Occupational Therapy, University of Toronto. BSc (Honours Kinesiology), University of Waterloo. Author, Redefining ‘Realistic’ (2017), with foreword by John C. Maxwell. Order of Prince Edward Island (2014); inaugural Randy Starkman Olympian Humanitarian Award (2014). Biography Bobsleigh is not a sport you take up casually. Heather Moyse was recruited into the Canadian programme as an adult, learned the discipline from a standing start, and won Olympic gold in Vancouver in 2010 with pilot Kaillie Humphries. Four years later, in Sochi, the same pair defended the title. She is also a World Rugby Hall of Famer, one of two Canadians ever inducted, and competed internationally in track cycling after taking up the sport during a rugby injury recovery. Three sports, all picked up later than the orthodox path allows, all carried to international level. The story is not about innate talent. It is about how a person decides what is realistic. That decision sits at the centre of her work with organisations. Her keynote and coaching content draws on a Master’s in Occupational Therapy from the University of Toronto, which gives her a clinical vocabulary for performance most athletes do not have. She talks about how leaders narrow their own range of options under pressure, how recovery is engineered rather than waited for, and how the gap between current capability and the next required capability is closed in practice. Her book Redefining ‘Realistic’ sets out the argument in long form, with a foreword by John C. Maxwell. The corporate work, with audiences at CIBC, BMW, Sun Life Financial, Fidelity Investments, the Royal Canadian Mint, the Canadian Armed Forces and others, applies it to leaders who are being asked to recalibrate their assumptions about what their teams can do, and how quickly. Key speaking topics Self-leadership under pressure High-performance mindset and recovery Resilience as an operational discipline Goal-setting and capability acquisition Leading through uncertainty and setback Personal accountability and authentic leadership Ideal for Executive leadership teams facing prolonged change or post-restructure recovery Sales and commercial leadership audiences where sustained performance under pressure is the central question Senior women’s leadership programmes and high-potential development cohorts Conferences where the closing keynote needs an authority voice on composure and reinvention Audience outcomes A direct account of how elite performers manage themselves before, during, and after high-stakes moments A working definition of what counts as “realistic” and how that judgment limits or extends what teams attempt Specific tools for breaking large objectives into the next executable step under time pressure A clearer view of how recovery and preparation interact, drawn from Olympic-level practice rather than metaphor

Why organisations work with Richard Foster-Fletcher Brings a structured research practice, run through MKAI and Reality & Reason, that publishes instruments organisations can use to test the integrity of management information once AI is in the loop. Has examined AI’s effect on disclosure and decision processes through a study of 150 SEC 10-K filings across 50 US public companies, giving a quantitative spine to claims most AI keynotes leave at the anecdote. Advises across an unusually wide institutional surface: UK Parliament, the United Nations Environment Programme, governments including Tunisia, and Fortune 500 boards, so the perspective is not single-sector. Treats AI ethics as an operating problem for governance, audit, and the executive, rather than a values statement, which is the brief most boards now actually need. Holds standing as a Favikon UK Top 20 AI Researcher and Entrepreneur and a LinkedIn Top Voice in AI, both reflecting sustained public output rather than a one-off ranking. Biography highlights Founder and Executive Chair of MKAI.org, a global responsible-AI organisation established in 2019. Founder of Reality & Reason, publisher of the Management Information Integrity Addendum and the Residual Logic Scanner. Author of the weekly essay series “What Still Matters,” with a subscriber base of over 6,000 senior readers. Former AI and CX Director at Oracle; earlier career at the BBC. Member of the United Nations Environment Programme Resilience Frontiers Advisory Group. Lecturer at LSE, UCL, Oxford, Imperial College London, Cranfield, and Henley Business School. Named in the UK’s Top 20 AI Researchers and Entrepreneurs by Favikon; LinkedIn Top Voice in AI. Qualifications from MIT Sloan (Implications of AI for Business Strategy) and the University of Michigan (Data Science Ethics). Biography Most organisations now have generative AI inside their writing, analysis, and decision flows. Few have a clear view of what that is doing to the quality of the reasoning the board ultimately sees. That gap is the territory Foster-Fletcher works in. Through MKAI, the responsible-AI organisation he founded in 2019, and Reality & Reason, his editorial and research body, he publishes practical instruments for senior teams. The Management Information Integrity Addendum and the Residual Logic Scanner sit alongside a study of 150 SEC 10-K filings across 50 US public companies, looking at how AI-shaped language enters formal corporate disclosure. His advisory footprint covers UK Parliament, the United Nations Environment Programme Resilience Frontiers Advisory Group, governments including Tunisia, and Fortune 500 boards. He lectures at LSE, UCL, Oxford, Imperial College London, Cranfield, and Henley Business School, and earlier in his career held senior roles at Oracle and the BBC. The signature contribution is a framework on the structural dynamics of enterprise AI adoption, which sets out seven recurring patterns including private accumulation of capability, erosion of human capacity through routine offloading, and the narrowing of visible strategic alternatives under model-led framing. That framework is what senior buyers are usually responding to when they commission him. Key speaking topics Responsible AI governance for boards and executive teams AI strategy beyond pilots and proof-of-concept AI in management information, reporting, and disclosure The future of work in the age of generative AI AI ethics as an operating capability Decision-making and human judgement when models are in the loop Leadership in an AI-shaped organisation Ideal for Boards, audit committees, and CROs wrestling with AI as a governance and disclosure question CIOs, CDOs, and Chief AI Officers moving from experimentation to operating deployment CEOs and executive teams in regulated sectors where AI is entering decision processes Government and policy audiences responsible for AI regulation, public-sector adoption, or capability building Audience outcomes A working language for what AI is doing to the integrity of internal information and decision papers A clear map of recurring failure modes in enterprise AI adoption, drawn from the seven-pattern framework A defensible point of view on AI governance suitable for board, audit, and disclosure conversations Concrete next moves on where AI should and should not be in the reasoning chain A grounded sense of the future of judgement, expertise, and human capability inside AI-shaped organisations

Why organisations work with Zana Goic Petricevic Her SOUL Framework® is a registered trademark with a published book at its centre; not a proprietary slide deck, but a structured, repeatable model that organisations can extend through her books well after the engagement ends. She holds faculty standing at several executive coaching, team coaching and leadership development schools – CRR Global, Leadership Circle, and PwC’s Academy – operating inside the credentialing infrastructure of the field, not simply alongside it. It is a level of institutional standing most keynote speakers in this space never reach. She works as a leadership transformation expert within the leadership programmes of organisations including PwC’s EMEA network and Capgemini University, meaning her frameworks have been tested inside some of the most scrutinised professional development environments in the world. Her corporate background in the oil and gas and pharmaceutical sectors gives her a specific kind of credibility with executives who are impatient with leadership development that hasn’t been tested under commercial pressure. Named clients include TikTok, Capgemini, UniCredit, PwC, Sandoz, and Zalando – a spread that validates her capacity to work across sectors and leadership cultures, not just a single industry vertical. Biography highlights Founder of Bold Leadership Culture, an EU and UK-based leadership development and coaching consultancy Author of Bold Reinvented (built around the trademarked SOUL Framework®) and Leading on the Edge Faculty member of CRR Global; Leadership Circle Ambassador in Europe; Leadership Circle Profile certification coach Coach, tutor, and mentor within PwC’s EMEA coaching and leadership development programmes Named client engagements include PwC, Capgemini, TikTok, UniCredit Bank, and EU institutions Certified CPCC, ICF-PCC, and ORSCC; trained Immunity to Change facilitator Holds degrees from the University of Zagreb and Leeds Beckett University; corporate background in oil and gas and pharmaceutical sectors Biography Most organisations have leadership frameworks. What they frequently lack is leaders willing to operate inside the discomfort those frameworks require. Zana Goic Petricevic’s work starts precisely at that gap: between the leadership organisations articulate and the leadership they actually practise. Her approach is anchored in the SOUL Framework®, a trademarked model for leadership development introduced in Bold Reinvented: Next Level Leading with Courage, Consciousness, and Conviction. Her second book, Leading on the Edge, extends the argument, mapping the specific self-protective patterns – passivity, over-control, emotional distance – that cause high-capability leaders to default to safety over impact. Together, they form a coherent body of published work on why capable leaders underperform under pressure. Before founding Bold Leadership Culture, she held senior corporate communications and marketing roles in the oil and gas and pharmaceutical sectors – industries where the distance between stated and actual leadership behaviour carries a direct commercial cost. As a faculty member of CRR Global and Leadership Circle Ambassador in Europe, she operates inside the credentialing infrastructure of the leadership development field, not simply adjacent to it. She also works as a coach and programme contributor within PwC’s EMEA leadership network and Capgemini University. Her client base includes Capgemini, TikTok, UniCredit, PwC, Sandoz, and Zalando, alongside EU institutional programmes and professional services firms. The consistent thread is leadership teams with strong technical or commercial capability whose default behaviours – at the individual or collective level – are quietly limiting what the organisation around them can achieve. Based in the United Kingdom and working in English and Croatian, Zana partners with organisations across sectors including technology, professional services, banking, and pharmaceuticals. Key speaking topics Leadership capability in complexity and change Self-protective leadership patterns and how to shift them Bold leadership culture Change management and organisational transformation Relationship-centred and conscious leadership Executive development and coaching frameworks Scaling leadership capacity across teams Ideal for C-suite executives and senior leadership teams facing significant cultural or strategic transition CHROs and L&D leads designing or commissioning executive development programmes Leadership teams in professional services, banking, technology, and pharmaceuticals where risk-aversion or protective behaviours are limiting performance Organisations seeking a leadership development speaker whose work can be extended through structured frameworks and published material Audience outcomes A working understanding of the SOUL Framework® and how it applies to their specific leadership context Ability to identify the self-protective patterns – in themselves and their teams – most likely to undermine leadership effectiveness Practical language and models for initiating the bigger, bolder conversations that leadership teams typically avoid A reframe of change from an obstacle to be managed into a leadership context to be exploited Concrete approaches to developing others and building leadership capacity across the organisation rather than concentrating it at the top

Meet Jade Simmons Named one of the Best Keynote Speakers of 2019, 2020, and 2021, Jade Simmons is a creator of transformational experience designed to activate audiences into becoming the biggest, boldest version of themselves possible. The world-class concert artist has been called a “musical force of nature” with an “uncanny ability to connect with the sounds of today.” Jade is the CEO of Jade Media Global, a revolutionary live experience and global content distribution company specializing in 360° personal development and strategic transformation. Following an artistic epiphany, she pivoted from playing the piano to impress audiences, to using music as the vehicle by which to provide the inspiration, entertainment, and transformation that profoundly moves them instead. Nicknamed “Classical Music’s #1 Maverick,” her electrifying, genre-bending concert adventures span Rachmaninoff all the way to rap and include virtuoso storytelling, uncommon insights, and boundless inspiration. Today, Jade’s experiences not only delight concert audiences, but her dazzling, high-impact presentations are fast becoming the go-to fuel for the world’s superlative brands and organizations from financial services, biotech, entertainment, education, energy and beyond. The likes of Dell, Raytheon, NBC Universal, Pfizer, Intuit Quickbooks, Nationwide, Hershey’s, and the Royal Bank of Canada are bringing Jade in to power up their people. In her inimitable career as a concert pianist, Jade has remained committed to expanding the boundaries of Classical music. Simmons has toured the US extensively in recital and with orchestra highlighted by performances at venues as wide-ranging as Ravinia, the Chicago Sinfonietta in Symphony Hall, New York’s Town Hall, Detroit Institute of Arts, and the halls of the White House. She has been named one of the Best of South By Southwest and has also received the Sphinx Organization’s Medal of Excellence in a concert held at the US Supreme Court.

Meet Tony Martignetti Tony Martignetti is a leadership advisor, best-selling author, podcast host, and speaker. He brings together over 30 years of business and leadership experience and extreme curiosity to elevate leaders and equip them with the tools to navigate through change and unlock their true potential. He has been recognized by Thinkers360 as one of the Top Voices in Leadership and by LeadersHum as one of the Biggest Voices in Leadership. Before becoming the founder and Chief Inspiration Officer of Inspired Purpose Partners, Tony was a finance and strategy executive with experience working with some of the world’s leading life sciences companies. Along his journey, he also managed small businesses and ran a financial consulting company. Tony hosts The Virtual Campfire podcast and is the author of Climbing the Right Mountain: Navigating the Journey to An Inspired Life and Campfire Lessons for Leaders: How Uncovering Our Past Can Propel Us Forward. He has been featured in many publications, including Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, Forbes, Life Science Leader, CEOWORLD, and CEO Today.

Mark Wilkinson, Life Remixed Looking Beyond The Dance To Face The Music As an international house music DJ and record producer, travelling the globe with a UK Top 10 Hit and a Ministry of Sound Residency, Mark was on top of the world living a dream life until one day, at only 33 years of age he unexpectedly collapsed in his London flat. The following 18 months wer`e absolute agony. As a result, he lost his livelihood, his income, his freedom, his fiancé, his home, his everything. In his talk Mark shares how he remixed his life from International DJ to HSE (Health, Safety & Environment) to become a Behavioural Safety Expert and Success Coach. He talks about the tools and lessons he acquired that helped to change his mindset and ultimately the course of his life, enabling him to go from bankruptcy to a six-figure salary and multiple business owner in just 3 years. Mark is now the best-selling author of his debut book LIFE REMIXED, endorsed by Bob Proctor and Marci Shimoff. Mark is a Fellow of the Institute of Leadership (FloL) and a Chartered Member of the Institute of Safety and Health (CMIOSH). He is also a Personality Diversity Coach, powered by E-Colours.

Why organisations work with Anna Baréz-Brown A track record at scale: the Shine programme has reached thousands of women across four continents and more than 75 nationalities, with named corporate clients including WPP, Channel 4, TikTok, Rothschild & Co, and Google. Her work is built around retention and progression metrics, not engagement scores. Clients commission her when the gender balance of their senior roster needs to change, not when they need an inspirational keynote. She frames inclusion as a commercial discipline. Her core argument, that diversity fails in most companies because it sits with people who lack decision rights and budget, lands credibly with COOs and CEOs as well as CHROs. A corporate operator before a coach: a former European Sales Director responsible for 12 countries and 85 employees, with credentials as a CTI Leadership Coach, NLP Master Practitioner, and qualified Organisational Relationship Systems Coach. She talks to men as well as women. The programme deliberately addresses allyship, micro-aggressions, and the part male leaders play in changing the system, which makes her workable for organisations nervous about polarised DEI framing. Biography highlights Co-founder of Shine (now We Are Shine), launched 2013 with Caroline Whaley. Former European Sales Director with responsibility for 12 countries and 85 employees. Earlier roles at Axel Springer Verlag and Bertelsmann. Programme has worked with thousands of women across more than 75 nationalities and four continents. Named clients include WPP, Rothschild & Co, TikTok, Channel 4, Google, Channel 4, ITV, and EasyJet. Credentialled as a CTI Leadership Coach, Neuro-Linguistic Master Practitioner, and qualified Organisational Relationship Systems Coach. Biography Most diversity work fails on the same fault line. Programmes sit inside HR, measured by sign-up rates and sentiment, while the senior roster keeps reproducing itself. Promotion patterns do not move. Mid-career women leave. The gap between stated values and lived experience widens. Shine, the organisation Anna Baréz-Brown co-founded with Caroline Whaley in 2013, was built to attack that fault line directly. The programme is delivered into companies including WPP, Channel 4, TikTok, Rothschild & Co, and Google, and is measured against retention, promotion, and the gender balance of senior teams. It has worked with thousands of women across more than 75 nationalities and four continents. The credibility behind that work is corporate, not activist. Before launching Shine, Baréz-Brown ran a sales business as European Director with twelve countries and eighty-five staff reporting in, after earlier roles at Axel Springer Verlag and Bertelsmann. She is a CTI Leadership Coach, an NLP Master Practitioner, and a qualified Organisational Relationship Systems Coach. Her argument to senior teams is commercial. Diversity stalls because the responsibility is delegated downward, the investment is underestimated, and the conversation polarises before any system actually changes. Her work treats inclusion as a leadership discipline that involves men and women, allies and sceptics, and the operating decisions of the business itself. Key speaking topics Gender balance in senior leadership Inclusive leadership and allyship Building corporate leadership pipelines Coaching cultures and feedback Personal energy and performance at work Influence, impact, and executive presence Courageous conversations and managing micro-aggressions Ideal for CHROs, Chief People Officers, and Heads of D&I designing senior pipeline programmes. CEOs and ExCo sponsors who want gender balance treated as a commercial outcome, not a comms initiative. Leadership development teams running cohort programmes for high-potential women and their managers. Male executives and line managers being asked to act as allies and sponsors in practice. Audience outcomes A clearer view of why most diversity programmes do not move the senior roster, and what does. Language and tools for courageous conversations across difference, including on micro-aggressions. Specific practices for women navigating senior career transitions: stakeholder management, brand, energy, narrative. A framing of inclusion that male leaders can act on, not just endorse. A diagnostic for where their own organisation’s pipeline is leaking and who needs to own the fix.

Why organisations work with Peter Nelson He has run the same flagship influence programme at Henley Business School for over fifteen years, which means executive cohorts arrive at a method that has been stress-tested across hundreds of senior leaders, not a workshop assembled for the brief. He pioneered the use of professional actors in corporate influence and pitching training, and built the rehearsal-led methodology now common across UK executive education before it was standard practice. His client base spans law firms, asset managers, oil majors, professional services, the European Commission and Army HQ, which gives him a working vocabulary for influence in highly regulated, technically complex and politically sensitive environments. He works at the level of behaviour and live performance, not frameworks: leaders rehearse the actual conversation, board moment or client pitch they will face, with feedback in the room. Biography highlights Executive Fellow, Henley Business School; lead faculty on the “Influence and Impact” programme for over 15 years. Member of the Executive Faculty, Southampton Business School. Works with Cambridge Judge Business School, Warwick Business School and Duke Corporate Education on senior executive development. Pioneered the use of professional actors in business roleplay for influence and pitching training in the 1990s. Client roster includes Man Group, BP, BMW, Motorola, Allen & Overy, Baker & McKenzie, Barclays, Deloitte, ING, McLaren, the NHS, the European Commission and Army HQ. Signature programmes: Influence and Impact, Influencing and Negotiating, Business Pitching, Client Relationship Management, Team Effectiveness. Biography Most executive education on influence stops at the framework. Leaders leave with a model of stakeholder mapping or persuasion archetypes, then walk into a board meeting and revert to slides. The gap between knowing the theory and behaving differently in the room is the practical problem of senior communication, and it is the problem Peter Nelson has spent more than three decades working on. At Henley Business School, where he is an Executive Fellow, Nelson has led the “Influence and Impact” programme for over fifteen years. The same method now runs across Cambridge Judge Business School executive clients, Warwick Business School corporate cohorts, Duke Corporate Education and Southampton Business School, where he sits on the Executive Faculty. Cohorts include senior partners in global law firms, asset managers, professional services boards and policy leaders inside the European Commission and Army HQ. The methodology is distinctive in its mechanics. Nelson brought professional actors into corporate influence and pitching training in the 1990s, before it was standard, so leaders rehearse the actual conversation they will face: the regulator briefing, the new business pitch, the board update, the difficult client renewal. Feedback is delivered live, in the moment, on behaviour rather than theory. The result is a body of practice rather than a body of writing. Clients include Man Group, BP, BMW, Motorola, Allen & Overy, Baker & McKenzie, Barclays, Deloitte, ING and McLaren, and Nelson is most often booked when an organisation has identified that its senior people are technically excellent and commercially under-converting in the moments that matter. Key speaking topics Influence and persuasion at senior levels Executive presence and leadership impact High-stakes business pitching Negotiation skills Senior client relationships Presentation skills for leaders Team effectiveness Ideal for Partners and senior leaders in law, professional services and asset management preparing for client pitches and renewals Executive committees and boards developing presence and senior communication capability Sales, business development and relationship management leaders selling to sophisticated buyers HR and L&D heads commissioning executive development on influence, negotiation and leadership impact Audience outcomes A concrete sense of how senior audiences read presence, and what to change in the next conversation that matters Sharper command of the pitch, the board update and the negotiation set-piece, rehearsed against live feedback rather than discussed in abstract Specific tools for moving from technical credibility to commercial conversion in client-facing moments A working vocabulary for coaching their own teams on influence and impact after the session

Why organisations work with Andy Storch He has facilitated talent and leadership programmes for Salesforce, Oracle, Google, Toyota, Deloitte, EY, KPMG, Cisco, Sony, and Tiffany & Co., which means he has tested his career-ownership material against the most demanding corporate L&D functions in the market. He runs the room where his buyers meet each other. The Talent Development Think Tank conference, community, and podcast give him a working view of what CHROs and L&D leaders are actually trying to fix, before they brief a speaker. His thesis is concrete and actionable: career ownership is a learnable practice, not a slogan. Own Your Career Own Your Life breaks it into specific steps employees and managers can apply on Monday. His 2025 follow-up with Mike Kim, Own Your Brand, Own Your Career, gives organisations a practical handle on personal brand as a retention and internal mobility lever, not a LinkedIn exercise. He works equally credibly as a keynote, workshop facilitator, and community host. For talent functions running multi-day events, that flexibility is rare. Biography highlights Author of Own Your Career Own Your Life (2020) and co-author with Mike Kim of Own Your Brand, Own Your Career (2025). Founder and host of the Talent Development Think Tank podcast, conference, and community, sponsored by Advantage Performance Group. Has consulted, taught, or facilitated for Salesforce, Oracle, Google, Toyota, State Farm, Red Bull, Deloitte, EY, KPMG, HP, Sony, Cisco, and Tiffany & Co. MBA, USC Marshall School of Business (President of the MBA programme); BS, University of Florida. Host of three podcasts: The Talent Development Hot Seat, Own Your Career, and My NFT Journey. Workshop facilitator for global enterprises since 2011. Biography Career development inside large organisations has become a quiet contract failure. Employees assume their employer will plot the path; employers assume employees will take initiative; the middle is where engagement and retention disappear. Storch built a practice around closing that gap from both sides. His book Own Your Career Own Your Life sets out a step-by-step approach to career ownership for individual contributors and managers. The 2025 follow-up with Mike Kim, Own Your Brand, Own Your Career, extends the argument into personal brand as an internal-mobility and retention lever rather than an external marketing exercise. Both books are direct and operational, not motivational. The proof point most relevant to corporate buyers is who he works with. Salesforce, Oracle, Google, Toyota, Deloitte, EY, KPMG, Cisco, Sony, and Tiffany & Co. have used him to facilitate leadership and talent programmes. He has been running these workshops since 2011, which is what allows the keynote material to land in language a senior L&D function recognises. The Talent Development Think Tank, his podcast, conference, and community, gives him an unusual position in the market. He is not commenting on the talent development field from outside it; he is the convener inside it. For a CHRO or head of L&D, that means the speaker on stage has heard, in private, the same problems they are trying to solve. Key speaking topics Career ownership and employee development Talent development strategy Personal brand and internal mobility Leadership for managers of professionals Employee engagement and retention Future of work and talent trends Ideal for CHROs, heads of L&D, and talent development leaders running enterprise development programmes Annual talent and leadership offsites for managers of professionals Employee resource groups and internal high-potential cohorts Sales and account leadership conferences focused on retention and growth of top performers Audience outcomes A working definition of career ownership that managers and employees can apply to weekly conversations Specific tools to make personal brand work as an internal mobility and retention asset A clearer line between what the employer owes the employee and what the employee owes their own career Language to frame development conversations that does not collapse into performance review template A view of where talent development practice is heading, drawn from a sitting community of CHROs and L&D leaders

Why organisations work with Tom Clark He works inside one of the most demanding performance environments in elite sport, around 250 days a year on the road with an F1 driver, and brings that operating reality directly into the room. His doctoral research at Liverpool John Moores University on jet lag and travel fatigue in F1 gives him a defensible scientific position on a topic most peak-performance speakers handle anecdotally. He has been part of a Hungarian Grand Prix victory at the level of preparation and recovery, so the marginal-gains argument is grounded in a specific outcome rather than a general claim. He translates Hintsa Performance methodology, the system that shaped modern F1 conditioning, into language and tools senior leaders can apply to their own travel and decision schedules. Biography highlights Head of Performance for Esteban Ocon at Alpine F1, since 2020. Professional Doctorate in Applied Sport and Exercise Science, Liverpool John Moores University, focused on jet lag and travel fatigue in elite motorsport. MSc Athletic Development and Peak Performance, Solent University; BSc Health and Exercise Science, First Class Honours, Solent University. Former performance coach at Hintsa Performance, the consultancy behind much of modern F1 athlete development. Worked alongside Esteban Ocon at his maiden Formula One race win, the 2021 Hungarian Grand Prix. Adapted the LJMU Jet Lag Questionnaire into a digital monitoring platform used across an F1 season. Biography A Formula 1 season runs to roughly two dozen races across five continents. The driver is expected to perform at the limit of human reaction time on each one, often within forty-eight hours of landing. Tom Clark is the person who designs the conditions under which that is possible. As Head of Performance for Esteban Ocon at Alpine F1, Clark is responsible for the sleep, training, nutrition, and recovery system that holds a driver’s output steady across a calendar engineered for fatigue. He came into the sport through Hintsa Performance, the consultancy that built the modern playbook for F1 conditioning, and joined Alpine as Senior Performance Coach in 2020. He was part of the team at the 2021 Hungarian Grand Prix, Ocon’s first Formula One race victory. His doctoral research at Liverpool John Moores University, supervised by Dr Ben Edwards, focuses on jet lag and travel fatigue in elite motorsport. With LJMU colleagues, Clark adapted the university’s Jet Lag Questionnaire into a digital tool used across the F1 season, turning a clinical instrument into operating data. That research connects directly to what senior business audiences face: cumulative time-zone shifts, compressed sleep, and the gap between feeling capable and being capable. What distinguishes him from the wider peak-performance category is the specificity. He is not a former athlete reflecting on a finished career. He is an operator describing a system he runs every weekend, with a named driver, in measurable conditions, and grounding it in published science. Key speaking topics Performance science in elite motorsport Jet lag and travel fatigue in high-stakes environments Circadian rhythms and sleep as performance variables Marginal gains and Formula 1 preparation methodology Mental resilience under continuous competition Routine design for sustained executive output Ideal for C-suite leaders and senior executives whose schedules involve frequent long-haul travel and sustained decision load Sales and commercial leadership teams operating across multiple time zones High-performance teams in finance, professional services, and global operations where output cannot drop with the calendar Leadership development programmes drawing on elite-sport methodology Audience outcomes A working understanding of how circadian disruption affects judgement, mood, and reaction time, and what the data actually shows Specific protocols used inside an F1 team to manage jet lag, sleep, and recovery across long-haul travel A clearer line between preparation and performance, drawn from Formula 1 race weekends rather than business analogy Practical adjustments to routine, light exposure, training, and nutrition that senior leaders can apply inside an existing schedule An honest sense of where marginal gains move the needle and where they do not

Why organisations work with Sam McAlister She is the negotiator who landed the 2019 Newsnight interview with Prince Andrew on the Epstein scandal, after almost a year of patient access work with Buckingham Palace. Few speakers can teach reputational negotiation from inside a case at that altitude. She teaches negotiation as a Visiting Senior Fellow in Practice at the LSE Law School, which gives the methodology academic structure, not just war stories. Her book Scoops, published by Oneworld in 2022, was adapted as the Netflix film Scoop in 2024 with Billie Piper. The material has been stress-tested by film, television and law school audiences. Two careers, criminal defence at 25 Bedford Row and a decade as a Newsnight booker, mean her toolkit covers cross-examination, hostile interview preparation, and the negotiation tactics that actually work when the counterparty has every reason to walk away. Biography highlights Visiting Senior Fellow in Practice, London School of Economics Law School, teaching negotiation. Former BBC Newsnight interviews producer for approximately ten years; left in 2021 after voluntary redundancy. Trained criminal defence barrister, 25 Bedford Row chambers, London. Author of Scoops: Behind the Scenes of the BBC’s Most Shocking Interviews (Oneworld Publications, 2022). Subject of the 2024 Netflix film Scoop, portrayed by Billie Piper. Secured the 2019 BBC Newsnight interview with Prince Andrew on the Epstein scandal; the programme received a 2020 BAFTA Television Award nomination for News Coverage. Biography The BBC Newsnight interview with Prince Andrew aired in November 2019 and ended his public life. The booker who spent close to a year negotiating that access was Sam McAlister, then a producer on the programme and previously a criminal defence barrister at 25 Bedford Row. That career sequence matters. Cross-examination teaches a particular discipline: prepare the question for the answer you actually want, do not flinch when the room shifts, do not concede the frame. Booker work at a national news programme adds a second discipline, the patient, repeated conversation with a reluctant counterparty who can leave the table at any moment. McAlister now teaches that craft formally. She is a Visiting Senior Fellow in Practice at the LSE Law School, where her remit is negotiation. Her 2022 memoir Scoops, published by Oneworld, became the source material for the 2024 Netflix film Scoop, with Billie Piper in the lead. The Newsnight programme that anchors both was nominated at the 2020 BAFTA Television Awards in the News Coverage category. What this gives a corporate audience is rare: a working method for the conversations leaders most often delegate or duck. How to keep a reluctant counterparty in dialogue. How to prepare for an interview where every answer is reputationally live. How a calm, prepared, well-briefed presence wins access that money and seniority cannot. Key speaking topics High-stakes negotiation Crisis communication and reputational risk Persuasion and influence Media interviews and executive preparation Composure under public scrutiny Access and relationship-building with reluctant counterparties Ideal for CEOs, board chairs and general counsel facing reputational scrutiny or media exposure Heads of corporate affairs, communications and investor relations Senior leaders preparing for hostile interviews, regulatory hearings or contested negotiations Women’s leadership programmes and executive development cohorts focused on persuasion under pressure Audience outcomes A working frame for negotiating access and agreement when the counterparty has every reason to refuse. A practical method for preparing executives for high-pressure interviews, including the questions they hope no one asks. A read on what reputational risk looks like from the journalist’s side of the table, before it lands on yours. Tools for staying composed and on-message when the room turns adversarial.