Health & Wellbeing

Why organisations work with Jeff Speck He has translated walkability from a planning preference into a measurable argument about carbon, healthcare costs, property values and downtown economic performance, set out in Walkable City and applied in master plans for Memphis, Grand Rapids, Lowell and Tampa. His General Theory of Walkability gives mayors, developers and corporate site selectors a single framework for evaluating the trade-offs in any street, block or downtown investment. He brings both sides of the table: ten years inside Duany Plater-Zyberk shaping the New Urbanism, four years running design policy at the National Endowment for the Arts, and almost two decades leading his own consultancy advising cities and the real estate industry. Walkable City is the best-selling urban planning book written this century, and his two 2013 TED Talks have passed six million views, which means audiences arrive already familiar with the argument and ready to discuss application. The 2022 Seaside Prize, awarded previously to Jane Jacobs and Christopher Alexander, places him in a small group of figures recognised for shaping how cities are now planned. Biography highlights Principal of Speck Dempsey, the urban design consultancy he has led since 2007. Director of Design at the US National Endowment for the Arts, 2003 to 2007, where he ran the Mayors’ Institute on City Design and founded the Governors’ Institute on Community Design. Former Director of Town Planning at Duany Plater-Zyberk and Company, a ten-year tenure inside the firm at the centre of the New Urbanism movement. Author of Walkable City and Walkable City Rules; co-author of Suburban Nation and The Smart Growth Manual. FAICP, FCNU, LEED-AP, Honorary ASLA. Master of Architecture with Distinction, Harvard Graduate School of Design. 2022 Seaside Prize, an award whose previous recipients include Jane Jacobs and Christopher Alexander. Ranked among the ten most influential urbanists of all time in Planetizen’s 2023 reader poll. Biography Most arguments about downtowns get stuck on aesthetics. The serious case is economic. Jeff Speck has spent twenty years showing public officials, developers and corporate leaders that the width of a lane, the placement of a parking lot and the design of a block decide whether a city captures investment, talent and tax base, or quietly loses it. Walkable City, published in 2012, set out the General Theory of Walkability and the ten-step process Speck uses to apply it. It became the best-selling urban planning book written this century, and his two 2013 TED Talks have since passed six million views. Walkable City Rules followed in 2018 as the operating manual for practitioners. The argument is built on three decades inside the work. Ten years as Director of Town Planning at Duany Plater-Zyberk and Company, the firm at the centre of the New Urbanism movement. Four years running design at the US National Endowment for the Arts, where he oversaw the Mayors’ Institute on City Design and created the Governors’ Institute on Community Design. Almost two decades leading Speck Dempsey on master plans and street designs for cities including Memphis, Grand Rapids, Lowell and Tampa. The 2022 Seaside Prize, awarded previously to Jane Jacobs and Christopher Alexander, recognises the small group of figures whose work has changed how American cities are now planned. For boards, mayors and developers wrestling with the future of downtown, Speck is the rare adviser who can move between climate strategy, real estate economics and the design of a single intersection without losing the thread. Key speaking topics Walkable cities and downtown economic performance The General Theory of Walkability Street design and the public realm New Urbanism and smart growth Cities, climate and public health economics Downtown revitalisation and real estate investment Transportation policy and the future of the car Ideal for Mayors, city managers, planning directors and downtown development authorities Real estate developers, REITs and corporate site selectors making place-based investment decisions Sustainability, ESG and climate leads in organisations linking property and emissions strategy Boards and senior teams in retail, hospitality and mixed-use real estate Audience outcomes A working definition of walkability as four conditions a street must meet, applicable to any block under review The economic case for walkable places, expressed in terms of property values, retail performance, healthcare costs and carbon A ten-step sequence for prioritising downtown investments when the budget will fund a fraction of what is on the wishlist A clear view of the trade-offs between car capacity, street life and downtown tax base, with named examples of cities that have got it right and wrong A shared vocabulary between planners, developers, finance teams and elected officials for the next set of decisions

Why organisations work with Kerry Daynes Twenty-five years assessing risk in prisons, secure hospitals and police investigations gives her workplace mental health content a substance that wellness-industry speakers cannot match. She translates clinical psychology into language line managers actually use, drawing on case material from homicide, stalking and serious violence work without sensationalising it. Sunday Times Top Ten bestselling author of “The Dark Side of the Mind”, with a second title longlisted for the Crime Writers Association Golden Dagger; her published thinking is on the public record, not bureau copy. Trustee of the Suzy Lamplugh Trust and patron of the National Centre for Domestic Violence, which makes her a credible voice on personal safety, stalking, and domestic abuse as workplace risks, not abstract HR topics. Biography highlights Consultant Forensic Psychologist, Chartered Psychologist, Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, HCPC-registered, Chartered Scientist Court-appointed expert witness in homicide, sexual assault and serious violence cases Author of “The Dark Side of the Mind” (Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller, Cassell 2019), “What Lies Buried” (Crime Writers Association Golden Dagger longlist) and “Is There a Psycho in Your Life?” “The Profiler” on Discovery’s “Faking It: Tears of a Crime”; documentary contributor for BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5, Netflix and the History Channel Trustee of the Suzy Lamplugh Trust; patron of the National Centre for Domestic Violence and Talking2Minds Former Lecturer in Applied Psychology, Manchester University Biography Most workplace conversations about mental health stop at awareness. They name the issue and offer a helpline. They rarely give managers the tools to interpret what they are actually seeing in a colleague, a candidate, or a customer. That gap is where Kerry Daynes works. Her grounding is forensic. Twenty-five years inside prisons, secure psychiatric hospitals and major police investigations, including work as a court-appointed expert witness in homicide, sexual assault and serious violence cases. She began her career at HMP Wakefield at twenty-one and went on to lecture in applied psychology at Manchester University. The published record carries the argument further. “The Dark Side of the Mind” was a Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller; “What Lies Buried” was longlisted for the Crime Writers Association Golden Dagger for non-fiction. As “The Profiler” on Discovery’s “Faking It: Tears of a Crime”, and through documentary contributions across BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Netflix, she has built a public body of work that takes clinical material seriously without flattening it into entertainment. For corporate audiences, she draws on that material to address how people actually behave under pressure, how risk presents before it escalates, and how organisations can build mental health and personal safety practice that does more than tick a box. Her roles with the Suzy Lamplugh Trust and the National Centre for Domestic Violence give her work on stalking, coercion and domestic abuse a credibility that translates directly into safeguarding and duty-of-care conversations. Key speaking topics Workplace mental health Behavioural risk and threat assessment Personal safety, stalking and coercive behaviour Psychology of motivation and human behaviour Resilience in high-pressure roles Communication and influence under stress Ideal for CHROs, heads of wellbeing and people directors building substantive mental health strategy Heads of security, risk and safeguarding addressing personal safety and threat behaviour Leadership teams in healthcare, policing, legal services and frontline professions exposed to vicarious trauma Conference audiences in HR, EAP, occupational health and corporate safety sectors Audience outcomes A clearer way to distinguish stress, distress and behavioural risk in colleagues and clients Practical language for managers who currently avoid mental health conversations A grounded view of stalking, coercion and domestic abuse as workplace safeguarding issues Insight into how forensic psychologists assess motivation, deception and threat, applied to everyday organisational life A more confident, less squeamish stance on the human realities behind wellbeing policy

Why organisations work with Luke Tyburski He talks about depression, eating disorders and suicidal ideation from the inside, which lets internal wellbeing leads open conversations that polished clinical content does not reach. He pairs the personal material with two named frameworks, K.E.N. for resilience and View-Think-Act for daily mindset, so audiences leave with a structure rather than a story. The 2,000km Morocco-to-Monaco Ultimate Triathlon is a documented world-first with an award-winning film attached, giving the proof point credibility that generic “extreme athlete” billing does not. He has been booked by national sporting teams, embassies and global companies across 16 countries, which signals he can read a senior corporate room as well as a sports audience. He is an accredited executive coach (ICF and EMCC), which means the resilience and mindset frameworks he delivers from stage are the same ones he uses in one-to-one work with senior leaders, not repackaged motivational content. Biography highlights Former professional footballer whose career ended after seven surgeries. Created and completed the world-first 2,000km Ultimate Triathlon from Morocco to Monaco in 12 days, filmed as the award-winning documentary “The Ultimate Triathlon” (2016) and recounted in his book “Chasing Extreme”. 2023 TEDx speaker, “Generate Momentum With 1% Thinking”. Has spoken in 16 countries across five continents, including for national sporting bodies, embassies and global companies. Accredited executive coach (ICF and EMCC), working one-to-one with executives, founders and senior leadership teams. Featured on The Rich Roll Podcast and Michael Gervais’s Finding Mastery, and in The Guardian and The Huffington Post. Biography Most mental health content for executives lives in two registers: clinical advice from professionals who have not experienced what they describe, and motivational stories that stop at “I came through it.” Luke Tyburski works the gap between the two. He talks about his own depression, eating disorder and two moments standing on bridges in plain language, then turns the experience into corporate frameworks that wellbeing leads can use after he leaves the room. The platform for that work is unusual. A football career ending in seven surgeries pushed him into ultra-endurance, where he ran the Sahara, descended Everest, crossed a Chinese forest without food or water, and built a 2,000km, 12-day triathlon from Morocco to Monaco that became the basis of the 2016 documentary “The Ultimate Triathlon”. He wrote about the project in his book “Chasing Extreme”. The speaking work draws on that material but is structured around two named tools. As an accredited executive coach (ICF and EMCC), he uses the same frameworks in one-to-one work with executives and leadership teams that he brings to the stage. K.E.N. is his resilience framework for individuals and teams under sustained pressure. View-Think-Act, the spine of his “Mastering Mindset” keynote, breaks daily performance into how people read a situation, what they tell themselves about it, and what they do next. He presented the underlying ideas in a 2023 TEDx talk, “Generate Momentum With 1% Thinking”. The audience has widened well beyond sport. Over more than a decade he has worked with national sporting teams, embassies and global companies across 16 countries on five continents. The through-line is the same: a usable language for performance and mental health that does not collapse when the conversation gets serious. Key speaking topics Mental health and wellbeing in the workplace Resilience and recovery under sustained pressure Performance mindset and daily habits Self-leadership through setback and injury Lived experience of depression and suicidality Endurance and adventure as corporate metaphor Ideal for CHROs and wellbeing leads designing serious mental health programmes beyond awareness campaigns Sales and high-performance teams operating under sustained targets and travel pressure Leadership offsites where the brief includes resilience and personal sustainability Conferences in sport, insurance, finance and professional services that want a credible mental health voice Audience outcomes A clearer language for talking about mental health internally without it becoming a clinical or HR conversation The K.E.N. framework as a shared reference for how teams respond to setback and pressure View-Think-Act as a daily structure for individual performance Permission to acknowledge that high performers can be unwell, and a model for what to do about it A concrete account of what sustained recovery looks like from inside it

Why organisations work with Sheree Murphy Two decades of live television presenting, including BBC One’s Yes Chef!, BBC Morning Live, ITV2’s British Soap Awards coverage and I’m A Celebrity spin-offs, translates into a host who controls a room without rehearsal. Public recognition as Tricia Dingle in Emmerdale, paired with a runner-up finish on I’m A Celebrity in 2005, gives organisers a name audiences already know and trust on stage. A natural fit for consumer, family, food and lifestyle brand events. Direct campaign work with Pampers, Cow and Gate, Hello Fresh, Birdseye and SMA Nutrition gives her credibility with these audiences before she opens the microphone. Comfortable across formats: awards hosting, panel moderation, after-dinner Q and A, in-conversation interviews and on-camera reporting. Biography highlights Played Tricia Dingle in ITV’s Emmerdale across 374 episodes (1998 to 2004); won the British Soap Award for Best Exit in 2004. Runner-up on I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here! (2005). Current presenter on BBC’s Morning Live; previously hosted BBC One’s Yes Chef! across 40 episodes. Hosted ITV’s British Soap Awards in 2015 and 2016; presented ITV2’s Soap Awards coverage in 2005 and 2006. Co-hosted the Sunday morning show on Hits Radio for six years. Recurring panellist on ITV’s Loose Women and finalist on Celebrity MasterChef (2015). Biography A weak host can wreck an awards night. The skill of standing on a corporate stage, holding a room of 800 people, running to time and making a sponsor feel looked after is craft, built over years of live broadcasting. Sheree Murphy has been doing it on UK television for more than two decades. She is best known to British audiences as Tricia Dingle in ITV’s Emmerdale, a role she played across 374 episodes between 1998 and 2004 and which won her the British Soap Award for Best Exit. Her runner-up finish on I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here! in 2005 moved her into mainstream presenting, with ITV2’s British Soap Awards coverage, the Soapstar Superstar spin-off and a long run as a Loose Women panellist. The presenting work has continued steadily since. She fronted BBC One’s Yes Chef! across forty episodes, co-hosted Channel 5’s Cowboy Builders, anchored Hits Radio’s Sunday morning show for six years and now reports for BBC’s Morning Live. Off-screen, her commercial work with Pampers, Cow and Gate, Hello Fresh, Birdseye and SMA Nutrition places her squarely in the consumer, family and lifestyle space. For organisers, that combination matters. She is a recognisable face, a working broadcaster and a host who can run an awards ceremony, moderate a panel or carry an in-conversation interview without needing the room to do the work for her. Key speaking topics Awards ceremony hosting Conference and corporate event MC Panel moderation and in-conversation interviews After-dinner hosting Consumer, family and lifestyle brand events Parenting, family nutrition and working motherhood Ideal for Marketing, brand and communications leads commissioning awards nights, brand launches and consumer events. Internal events teams running conferences that need a recognisable, broadcast-trained MC. Family, food, parenting and lifestyle brands seeking a host with direct campaign credibility in the category. Internal women’s networks or family-friendly employer events looking for an in-conversation guest on balancing a high-profile career with raising four children. Audience outcomes A live event run cleanly to time, with a host who manages the room rather than reading from it. Sponsors, winners and panellists handled with the warmth and timing of a working broadcaster. A recognisable on-stage presence that draws audiences and attracts press coverage for consumer-facing events. For panel and in-conversation formats: honest, accessible reflections on twenty-plus years in UK broadcasting and on raising a family alongside it.

Why organisations work with Sam Quek A first-hand account of how a team becomes the first British women’s hockey side to win Olympic gold, told from inside the defensive line that held the Netherlands in a penalty shootout final. Credibility on composure under pressure that comes from two careers, 125 international caps and a live broadcasting schedule across the BBC, Channel 5, and TNT Sports. A perspective on team culture shaped by a squad that won European gold, captained England with two broken ribs, and converted four years of preparation into a single result. Hosting and moderation experience suited to awards nights, conference panels, and high-profile event presentation, including the Eurovision 2023 opening ceremony. Biography highlights Olympic gold medallist, Rio 2016, women’s hockey, Great Britain. MBE, 2017 New Year Honours, for services to hockey. 125 international caps for England and Great Britain; captained England at the 2014 Champions Trophy. First permanent female team captain on BBC One’s A Question of Sport, alongside Ugo Monye. Co-host of BBC One’s Morning Live with Gethin Jones; co-anchor of BBC’s Olympic Breakfast for Tokyo 2020. Author of Hope and a Hockey Stick (2018) and Roar: A Celebration of Great Sporting Women (Allen and Unwin, 2024). Biography The British women’s hockey team had never won an Olympic gold medal until August 2016. They beat the Netherlands, the reigning world and Olympic champions, on penalties after a 3-3 draw in Rio. Quek played in the defensive line that kept the score close enough for the shootout to matter. Her playing career produced 125 international caps, a European Championship gold in 2015, and a stretch captaining England through the 2014 Champions Trophy with two broken ribs that she did not know she had until the tournament ended. The MBE followed in the 2017 New Year Honours. The second career began almost immediately. By 2021 she was the first permanent female team captain on A Question of Sport. In 2022 she joined Morning Live as co-host. The broadcasting roster now spans NFL on Channel 5, hockey on TNT Sports, football on Channel 4 and LFC TV, and a stint on BBC Radio 5 Live’s 606. She co-anchored BBC’s Olympic Breakfast for Tokyo and co-hosted the Eurovision 2023 opening ceremony. For corporate audiences, that combination provides something unusual. The Olympic experience is direct evidence of what high-performing teams do under terminal pressure. The broadcasting career adds the discipline of live performance, daily, without the option of a second take. Both feed the same material when she works with organisations on resilience, team culture, and composure when the stakes are visible. Key speaking topics Resilience and performance under pressure Team culture in high-stakes environments Olympic preparation and the four-year cycle Women in elite sport and broadcasting Career transition from athlete to broadcaster Self-leadership and composure Event hosting and panel moderation Ideal for Conference and awards hosting briefs requiring a recognised broadcaster. Sales kick-offs and all-hands events focused on team performance and resilience. Leadership programmes addressing composure and high-pressure decision-making. Diversity and women in leadership audiences seeking a senior sporting voice. Audience outcomes A specific account of what a winning team does in the hours and minutes before a terminal moment. A working sense of how composure is built before it is needed. Language for talking about team culture grounded in elite sport rather than business abstraction. Energy and credibility from a speaker comfortable in front of large rooms and television cameras.

Why organisations work with Ryan Thomas Recognition that opens a room. Sixteen years on Coronation Street, a Celebrity Big Brother win and a Dancing on Ice title give Thomas an audience-warmth most corporate hosts cannot manufacture. A credible voice on men’s mental health. His sustained work with CALM, including the ten-marathons-in-ten-days fundraiser, places him in the small group of UK television figures who speak about suicide prevention with substance. Hosting craft built on live television. Awards, gala dinners, internal recognition events and panel facilitation are his primary booking categories, and he can move between scripted hosting and unscripted audience interaction without losing pace. Cross-generational reach inside a UK workforce. Coronation Street and reality-format wins give him recognition across age brackets that a single-demographic celebrity rarely matches. Biography highlights Played Jason Grimshaw in Coronation Street from 2000 to 2016, returning to the role in 2025 Winner of Celebrity Big Brother (2018) and ITV’s Dancing on Ice (2024) Ambassador for CALM, the Campaign Against Living Miserably, a UK suicide prevention charity Walked ten marathons in ten days in 2021 to fundraise for CALM Co-host of the Mancs on the Mic podcast with brothers Adam and Scott Thomas Appeared on Celebrity Island with Bear Grylls (2017) and Celebrity MasterChef (2022) Biography Men’s mental health remains one of the most stubborn challenges inside UK organisations. Suicide is still the largest cause of death for men under fifty in the country, and the workforce demographics most affected, men in trade, sales, operations and middle management, are the hardest to reach with formal wellbeing programmes. CALM, the Campaign Against Living Miserably, works directly on that audience, and Ryan Thomas has been one of its most visible ambassadors. Thomas reached that audience through television, not through advocacy. He played Jason Grimshaw on Coronation Street for sixteen years, then won Celebrity Big Brother in 2018 and Dancing on Ice in 2024. The Coronation Street audience is the same demographic CALM is trying to reach, and his standing inside it gives him a credibility on the subject that policy-led speakers cannot easily replicate. In 2021 he walked ten marathons in ten days for the charity, a fundraising effort that reframed his public profile from soap actor to active campaigner. He co-hosts the Mancs on the Mic podcast with his brothers Adam and Scott, which has built a parallel audience inside the same demographic. For corporate clients, Thomas is most commonly booked as a host, awards presenter or after-dinner speaker, with the mental health content available as a substantive secondary anchor when the brief calls for it. Buyers commission him because the room recognises him before he opens his mouth, and because he can carry a conversation about suicide prevention without flattening it. Key speaking topics Men’s mental health and suicide prevention CALM advocacy and the male workplace Event hosting, awards presenting and MC work Resilience and reinvention in a public career Television, reality formats and public profile Brotherhood, family and the Mancs on the Mic podcast Ideal for Internal recognition events, awards dinners and conference plenaries seeking a recognised UK host HR, wellbeing and EAP leads commissioning men’s mental health content for predominantly male workforces Charity galas and fundraising events with a CALM, suicide prevention or men’s health angle Sales, trade and operations audiences where a soap-and-reality television profile lands harder than a policy speaker Audience outcomes A live conversation about men’s mental health that lands with audiences usually closed to the subject Permission to talk about suicide prevention at work, anchored by a recognisable advocate A confident, paced host or MC presence across awards, recognition and gala formats A first-hand account of the CALM ten marathons fundraiser and what motivated it

Why organisations work with Valentini Konstantinidou A working scientist, not a wellness presenter. Her PhD work on Mediterranean diet and olive oil nutrigenomics is published in peer-reviewed journals including Nutrients, which makes the content defensible inside a medical or HR governance review. She translates nutrigenetics into corporate programme design. DNANUTRICOACH has been doing this commercially in Barcelona since 2015, including for B2B clients, so the operating model is tested. She gives wellbeing teams a way to talk about ESG that is grounded in measurable employee health, not narrative. The connection she draws between Mediterranean diet research, chronic disease prevention and productivity is specific and citable. Trilingual delivery in English, Spanish and Greek, with academic teaching credentials at UOC and TECH in Spain. Useful for multinational employers running pan-European wellbeing programmes. Biography highlights PhD in Biomedicine, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona (2010); MSc Biomedical Research, Pompeu Fabra (2007); degree in Human Nutrition and Dietetics, CEU San Pablo University, Madrid (2019). Founder of DNANUTRICOACH, Barcelona (2015), and of the first Nutrigenetic Centre in Athens (2020). Co-author of “Nutritional Genomics and the Mediterranean Diet’s Effects on Human Cardiovascular Health” (Nutrients, 2016). Ambassador, European Lifestyle Medicine Organization. Member, American Society of Nutrition since 2012. Collaborating professor at UOC and TECH universities; university lecturer accreditation by AQU Spain. Author of the first Greek-language book on nutrigenetics for a general audience (2021). Biography Most corporate wellness programmes assume one set of habits will work for an entire workforce. Nutritional genomics has spent two decades disproving that assumption. Valentini Konstantinidou’s research career, from Pompeu Fabra University to her current commercial practice, sits inside that disproof. She completed her PhD in Biomedicine at Pompeu Fabra in 2010, with research on the nutrigenomic effects of virgin olive oil polyphenols within the Mediterranean diet. She added a degree in Human Nutrition and Dietetics from CEU San Pablo University in Madrid in 2019, which makes her a registered dietitian-nutritionist in Spain as well as a published researcher. Her 2016 paper in Nutrients on Mediterranean diet and cardiovascular health remains one of the cited reference points in the field. In 2015 she founded DNANUTRICOACH in Barcelona, then opened the first Nutrigenetic Centre in Athens in 2020. The business translates genetic test results into specific dietary and lifestyle recommendations. The corporate arm applies the same model to employee wellbeing, designing programmes that connect nutrition science to chronic disease prevention and to ESG reporting on workforce health. For organisations, the practical value is a defensible alternative to generic wellness. Her work gives HR and benefits leaders a way to spend wellbeing budget on interventions with a published evidence base, delivered by a researcher with academic teaching posts at UOC and TECH and ambassador status with the European Lifestyle Medicine Organization. Key speaking topics Precision nutrition and corporate wellbeing Nutritional genomics and nutrigenetics Mediterranean diet and chronic disease prevention Sustainable nutrition in workplace programmes ESG and employee health metrics Behaviour change in dietary habits Extra virgin olive oil and healthy ageing Ideal for CHROs and benefits leaders designing or auditing employee wellbeing programmes ESG and sustainability leads building defensible workforce health metrics Heads of corporate health, occupational health and medical directors in multinational employers Leadership audiences at food, pharmaceutical, insurance and healthcare companies Audience outcomes A working understanding of how nutritional genomics differs from generic wellness advice, and where each is appropriate Specific examples of how Mediterranean diet research links to chronic disease prevention and productivity A framework for connecting employee wellbeing spend to ESG reporting in a way that holds up to scrutiny Practical entry points for piloting precision nutrition inside an existing wellbeing programme

Why organisations work with Michaela Strachan Recognised across forty years of British television, from 1980s Saturday morning audiences to current Springwatch viewers and the 2025 Dancing on Ice final. That cross-generational recognition is unusual for a single broadcaster. Decades of on-location wildlife filming with named conservation organisations including SANCCOB in South Africa, the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation and the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust. The specialism is built from fieldwork. BAFTA Best Children’s Presenter (2005) for Michaela’s Wild Challenge, with co-presenter status on BBC’s flagship Springwatch, Autumnwatch and Winterwatch since 2011 alongside Chris Packham. Live performance pedigree across formats most television presenters never touch. BBC live broadcasts, the 2018 Walking with Dinosaurs arena tour, and the 2025 Dancing on Ice final as the oldest contestant in show history. A genuine personal story for resilience and wellbeing briefs as a Breast Cancer Now ambassador, following her own 2014 diagnosis. Biography highlights BAFTA Best Children’s Presenter (2005) for Michaela’s Wild Challenge (Channel 5) Co-presenter, BBC Springwatch, Autumnwatch and Winterwatch (2011 to present), alongside Chris Packham Presenter, BBC Countryfile (1999 to 2009) Presenter, BBC’s The Really Wild Show (1993 to 2006) Presenter for Channel 5, National Geographic and Animal Planet, including Safari Live from Kruger National Park, Big 5 Little 5, Digging for Treasure and Extreme Conservation for BBC World News Author, Michaela Strachan’s Really Wild Adventures (2013) Finalist, ITV Dancing on Ice (2025), oldest contestant in the show’s history Biography Springwatch is one of British television’s most enduring nature programmes. Strachan has co-presented it since 2011 alongside Chris Packham, on location at reserves including Slimbridge and Wild Ken Hill. The role demands what few broadcasters can sustain over fifteen years: holding an audience through serious conservation content without losing either the science or the warmth. Before Springwatch came ten years on BBC’s Countryfile and thirteen years on The Really Wild Show, the BBC1 children’s wildlife series that ran until 2006. Earlier still, the breakthrough roles in 1980s Saturday morning television. Wide Awake Club and Wacaday with Timmy Mallett, then late-night music as the ‘Her’ in The Hitman and Her with Pete Waterman. The presenting craft is BAFTA-validated. She won Best Children’s Presenter at the 2005 British Academy Children’s Awards for Michaela’s Wild Challenge on Channel 5. International filming with SANCCOB, the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation and the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust gives her the fieldwork credentials behind the broadcasting craft. Audiences from forty years of British television recognise her on stage. That reach is unusual. Sustainability and conservation briefs benefit from a host with subject knowledge to back the warmth. Resilience and wellbeing programmes can draw on her work as a Breast Cancer Now ambassador after her own 2014 diagnosis. Few television presenters span Wide Awake Club, Springwatch and the Dancing on Ice final. Key speaking topics Wildlife and conservation Climate and sustainability communication Hosting and moderating live events Personal resilience and reinvention Breast cancer awareness and recovery Television and broadcasting craft Ideal for Sustainability conferences, climate events and ESG forums needing a credible host who is comfortable with the subject matter Wildlife festivals, conservation fundraisers and environmental charities Awards ceremonies, gala dinners and corporate emcee briefs that benefit from a familiar British television voice Health, wellbeing and women’s events drawing on personal cancer recovery and resilience themes Audience outcomes A grounded picture of what conservation actually looks like behind the camera, from Borneo orangutan rescues to penguin colonies in South Africa Stories of professional reinvention across forty years on television, useful for audiences thinking about long careers and second acts A clear, generous account of life through a breast cancer diagnosis and recovery Behind-the-scenes detail on how Springwatch and other live nature broadcasts are actually made

Why organisations work with Kerry Washington A globally recognised cultural voice on representation, civic participation and women’s rights, with a platform built over a decade of headline activism rather than borrowed celebrity Founder and principal of Simpson Street, a production company whose work, Confirmation, American Son, Little Fires Everywhere, treats race, justice and family as serious subjects for mainstream audiences Two-time Tony-nominated Broadway producer and a working creative executive, which means she speaks about storytelling, audience and influence from inside the industry, not as a commentator Author of Thicker than Water, a New York Times bestselling memoir, which gives her a personal narrative on identity and disclosure that lands with audiences far beyond fan culture Co-chair of Michelle Obama’s When We All Vote and a long-standing partner to grassroots civic organisations, which gives her a credible point of view on how institutions engage with democratic participation Biography highlights Star of ABC’s Scandal (2013-2020), the first Black woman to lead a network drama since 1974, with two Primetime Emmy nominations, a Golden Globe nomination, a SAG nomination and two NAACP Image Awards for the role Founder of Simpson Street (2016), the production company behind Confirmation (HBO), American Son (Broadway and Netflix), Little Fires Everywhere (Hulu) and the Gypsy Broadway revival Author of Thicker than Water: A Memoir (Little, Brown, 2023), a New York Times bestseller Co-chair of When We All Vote; former member of President Obama’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities Recipient of the NAACP President’s Award (2013), the GLAAD Vanguard Award (2015) and the ACLU Bill of Rights Award (2016); named to the Time 100 in 2014 Phi Beta Kappa graduate of George Washington University Biography The role of Olivia Pope on Scandal was the first time in nearly forty years that an American network drama had been led by a Black woman. Kerry Washington carried that show for seven seasons, while building a parallel career as a producer, author and civic organiser. The combination is what makes her interesting as a public voice, the platform is large, but the work behind it is specific. Simpson Street, the production company she founded in 2016, sits at the centre of that work. Its projects, Confirmation on HBO, American Son on Broadway and Netflix, Little Fires Everywhere on Hulu, are commercial properties that take seriously the politics of race, family and justice. As a producer, she is now a two-time Tony nominee, with credits including the recent Broadway revival of Gypsy. The company also runs a venture arm and an impact arm that funds grassroots civic organisations through the Movement Voter Project’s Vision Into Power Cohort. Her activism is similarly substantive. She co-chairs Michelle Obama’s When We All Vote, served on President Obama’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities, and has campaigned on voter access in Georgia, women’s health and violence against women. Her memoir, Thicker than Water, a New York Times bestseller, added a personal layer to that public profile, telling the story of learning in adulthood that the man who raised her was not her biological father. For a corporate audience, what she offers is a credible voice on representation, civic participation and the conditions under which institutions are expected to speak. She is most powerful in conversation formats and keynotes that address voice, values and storytelling, where her experience as a producer and activist gives her something specific to say, rather than as a content expert on a defined management discipline. Key speaking topics Activism, civic voice and public participation Representation in media and storytelling Women’s health and women’s rights Identity, family and personal disclosure Building purpose-driven creative businesses Voting access and democratic engagement Ideal for CEO and board events where the brief is values, voice and the conditions for taking a public position DEI, ERG and women’s leadership programmes seeking a recognised cultural figure with substantive activist credentials Investor, philanthropic or impact-led convenings on civic participation and democracy Fireside conversations or in-conversation formats with senior moderators, the format where her authority is strongest Audience outcomes A clearer view of how representation in media and culture shapes the expectations placed on institutions A grounded reading of what credible civic engagement looks like for a public figure or organisation, drawn from over a decade of activist practice A personal account of identity and disclosure that gives audiences a vocabulary for difficult conversations An inside view of how purpose and commercial production can sit inside the same business

Why organisations work with Lisa Snowdon She has spent two decades in front of national audiences on Capital FM, ITV and Sky, and brings that presence into a room that has never discussed menopause out loud before. Her advocacy is organised, not anecdotal. As a founding voice in Menopause Mandate alongside Davina McCall and Mariella Frostrup, she has helped move menopause from a private health issue into a policy and workforce conversation. Just Getting Started (HarperCollins, 2023) gives the talk a specific evidence base on perimenopause, HRT, and the lived realities of midlife, rather than a generic wellbeing pitch. She makes the topic accessible to mixed audiences, including male senior leaders who may never have heard the word “perimenopause” used in a professional setting. Her fashion correspondent role on This Morning and her We’re Not Getting Any Younger podcast keep her closely connected to how midlife women actually talk about their lives, which informs how she addresses them at work. Biography highlights Fashion correspondent, ITV This Morning. Author, Just Getting Started: Lessons in life, love and menopause, HarperCollins, 2023. Co-presenter, Capital FM Breakfast Show, London, 2008 to 2014. Show won Breakfast Show of the Year at the 2014 Sony Radio Academy Awards. Host, Britain’s Next Top Model, Living TV / Sky, 2006 to 2009. Celebrity MasterChef Champion, BBC, 2022. Founding voice in Menopause Mandate alongside Davina McCall, Mariella Frostrup and MP Carolyn Harris. Biography Most workplaces have a policy on parental leave. Very few have anything coherent on the decade that follows it. Menopause sits in that gap, and it is one of the most consistent reasons women leave senior roles in their late forties and fifties. Snowdon’s contribution is to make that conversation routine rather than uncomfortable. She came to it through her own experience and a national platform. After two decades modelling at the top of the industry, including the Gucci campaigns, she moved into broadcasting, co-hosting Capital FM’s London Breakfast Show for six years and presenting Britain’s Next Top Model on Sky. The Capital show won Breakfast Show of the Year at the 2014 Sony Radio Academy Awards while she was on it. The advocacy work is structured. Just Getting Started (HarperCollins, 2023) sets out what perimenopause actually feels like, what the treatment options are, and where the gaps in clinical and workplace support sit. Through Menopause Mandate, alongside Davina McCall, Mariella Frostrup and MP Carolyn Harris, she has pushed for changes to NHS prescribing, HRT availability and workplace policy. For organisations, the value is specific. Many internal menopause initiatives stall because the topic feels too clinical for HR and too personal for line managers. Snowdon’s sessions move the conversation past that block by giving people permission, vocabulary and a credible voice they recognise from their living rooms. Key speaking topics Menopause in the workplace Midlife women’s health Breaking workplace taboos Confidence and reinvention after forty Women, ageing and visibility Body image and self-image Ideal for HR, DEI and wellbeing leads designing menopause and women’s health policy Leadership audiences where the topic has not yet been opened Internal networks for women in midlife and their allies Industry events seeking a recognisable voice on midlife and longevity Audience outcomes A clear sense of how menopause shows up in performance, retention and engagement data Language that line managers can actually use without embarrassment Familiarity with the current UK policy and clinical landscape, including HRT access Honest, lived perspective from someone who has navigated the transition publicly A starting point for designing or strengthening a menopause-at-work programme

Why organisations work with Jodie Kidd A recognisable on-camera presenter with two decades of live broadcast experience, including Channel 5’s The Classic Car Show and ITV’s coverage of the Isle of Man TT, equally at home with a live audience and a camera. Genuine credibility in automotive, motorsport and lifestyle briefs: a former Maserati Trofeo Series driver, Mille Miglia competitor, and Top Gear “Star in a Reasonably Priced Car” series leader. An operating entrepreneur, not a name on a brand. Owner since 2017 of The Half Moon in Kirdford, an AA 2-Rosette gastropub featured at Tom Kerridge’s Pub in the Park; co-owner of beauty brand Skin & Tonic. A reinvention story with substance behind it: Vogue covers and the McQueen debut runway, then a Maserati seat, then a working pub through the post-pandemic hospitality squeeze. Useful when a brief calls for a panel voice on backing yourself outside a single career lane. Polished, warm, unflappable on stage. The kind of host clients rebook for the second year because the first one ran on time. Biography highlights International fashion model from age 15. Vogue covers, opened for John Galliano, walked Givenchy and Alexander McQueen’s debut runway show. Maserati Trofeo Series racing driver. Competed in the Mille Miglia for Jaguar. Top Gear “Star in a Reasonably Priced Car”: topped the leader board across an entire series, becoming a long-running Top Gear reference point. Co-presenter, Channel 5’s The Classic Car Show, and ITV’s coverage of the Isle of Man TT. Strictly Come Dancing (BBC One, 2008) and Celebrity MasterChef finalist. Owner since 2017 of The Half Moon, Kirdford, a Grade II listed gastropub holding AA 2 Rosettes four years running and featured at Pub in the Park from 2019 to 2022. Author of Balance Your Life (2019); co-owner of beauty brand Skin & Tonic; host of YouTube automotive channel Kidd in a Sweet Shop. Biography Television careers built on a single specialism are easier to write about than ones built across several. Jodie Kidd has covered fashion, motorsport, lifestyle and food on BBC, ITV and Channel 5 over more than two decades, and the through-line is the live work: a host who can carry an awards room, a paddock interview, a cookery final or a panel on hospitality. The starting point was modelling. Discovered at 15, she was on the cover of British Vogue at 17, opened shows for John Galliano and walked Alexander McQueen’s debut runway. The pivot into broadcast came through cars. She raced in the Maserati Trofeo Series, competed in the Mille Miglia for Jaguar, and topped the Top Gear leader board for an entire series, which translated into long-running automotive presenting on Channel 5’s The Classic Car Show and ITV’s Isle of Man TT coverage. In 2017 she took on The Half Moon in Kirdford with two business partners, learning the gastropub business from the kitchen out. The pub holds AA 2 Rosettes four years running and has appeared at Tom Kerridge’s Pub in the Park. She co-owns the beauty brand Skin & Tonic and wrote Balance Your Life, a six-week diet and exercise book published in 2019. For event organisers, the value is straightforward. A senior buyer hiring Kidd is hiring an experienced live broadcaster with genuine subject footing in automotive, lifestyle and small-business hospitality, and a calm hand on a long evening. She works as host, awards presenter, panel moderator and panellist, and as a speaker on her own reinvention across fashion, motorsport and entrepreneurship. Key speaking topics Awards hosting and event presenting Panel moderation Automotive, motorsport and the classic car world Hospitality and independent pub ownership Entrepreneurship and brand-building outside a primary career Reinvention across industries Health, wellbeing and lifestyle Ideal for Brand and consumer events in automotive, lifestyle, fashion and hospitality Industry awards evenings looking for a recognisable, experienced live host Conference panels on entrepreneurship, small-business hospitality, or career reinvention Internal leadership or sales conferences wanting an after-dinner speaker with a broad public profile Audience outcomes A live event that runs on time, with an audience that stays in the room Panel conversations that draw out senior speakers without drifting A first-hand account of building and running a working hospitality business through a difficult market A frank reinvention story across modelling, motorsport, broadcasting and small business For automotive and motorsport audiences, an interviewer who knows the subject

Why organisations work with Julie Gautier A first-hand discipline of working under physiological pressure that few keynote speakers can credibly claim. Two French records in constant weight freediving, minus 68 metres on a single breath, are evidence of a practice, not an anecdote. A creative body of work that translates the discipline into something an audience can feel. Ama, shot in a single breath in the world’s deepest pool, has reached a wide international audience and has become a reference point for how breath, focus and stillness are cultivated. Direct relevance to leadership audiences asking how to stay composed under public scrutiny, scrutiny markets, board pressure or crisis. The mechanism she describes is concrete: how the breath is trained, how attention is held, how panic is metabolised before it becomes decision. A second register of value for organisations working on creativity, environmental purpose, or the relationship between people and the natural world. Her films sit inside that conversation rather than next to it. Biography highlights Two French records in constant weight freediving, minus 65 metres (2006) and minus 68 metres (2007). Co-founder of Les Films Engloutis, the production label behind her underwater work. Writer and director of Ama, performed in a single breath in the Y-40 deep pool, Italy. Co-director and writer of the underwater music video for Beyoncé and Naughty Boy’s “Runnin’ (Lose It All)” (2015). Director of One Breath Around the World, featured in National Geographic’s Short Film Showcase. TEDxLausanneWomen speaker, December 2019, “Inspiration in the Absence of Breath”. Biography Holding the breath is a trained skill, not a held-back reflex. Gautier worked on it for nine years as a competitive freediver, including two French national records in constant weight, before stepping out of the sport in 2009. The discipline she learned, working with the breath rather than against it, is the substance she now brings to leadership audiences. Her second career has been as a director and performer in underwater cinema. With Guillaume Néry, she co-founded Les Films Engloutis, the label behind films including Narcose, Ocean Gravity and One Breath Around the World, the last of which was carried by National Geographic’s Short Film Showcase. She also co-directed and wrote the underwater music video for Beyoncé and Naughty Boy’s “Runnin’ (Lose It All)”. Ama, released on International Women’s Day in 2018, is the work that brought the practice into the cultural conversation. It is a single-breath performance in the Y-40 deep pool in Italy, choreographed and performed by Gautier herself. It has been read as a piece on grief, on women’s resilience, on the management of pressure, on the value of stillness. It is not a metaphor for any of those things. It is the discipline made visible. For a corporate audience, the relevance is direct. Senior leaders are working in conditions where composure has become a performance variable. Gautier’s contribution is not motivational language. It is a description of how a person who has practised breath and attention under real physiological constraint actually does it, and what transfers when the audience walks out of the room. Key speaking topics Breath, focus and composure under pressure Self-leadership and emotional regulation Creativity drawn from natural environments Personal discipline and long-form practice Ocean storytelling and environmental purpose Ideal for Senior leadership offsites where composure under public pressure is a stated theme Cultural and inspirational segments of conferences for boards, executive committees and partner audiences Wellbeing, performance and people-function summits looking for substantive content on breath and attention Brand, creative and sustainability events where ocean storytelling has natural anchor Audience outcomes A concrete account of how breath is trained as a tool for focus, not as a wellness motif A vocabulary for talking about composure as a learned practice rather than a personal trait Visual material, drawn from her films, that audiences continue to discuss after the session A working frame for how stillness, patience and humility translate into professional performance