Health & Wellbeing

Why organisations work with Kevin Ahmaad Jenkins He grounds inclusion work in peer-reviewed research on bias and clinical outcomes, not in opinion or training-industry frameworks, which gives senior teams a defensible footing when DEI is contested. The RETINA Framework, his own intervention model, gives healthcare and high-regulation organisations a structured way to address how bias affects decisions, processes and outcomes. His Penn lectureship in Medical Ethics and Health Policy means he can hold a room of clinicians, executives and policy leaders with equal credibility. He has worked across more than 35 hospital associations and health systems, so the material is tested against operational reality, not just conference audiences. His delivery is calibrated for high-stakes rooms where the topic is uncomfortable, which is where most inclusion conversations now sit. Biography highlights Lecturer, Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. Developed the Racism-Focused Trauma Informed Care (RETINA) Framework, used in patient-provider settings. Fellow, Veterans Health Administration Office of Minority Health. Member, National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine Roundtable on Health Equity. National Minority Quality Forum 40 Under 40 Leader in Health, 2017. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation New Connections Award recipient. Biography Most inclusion content in circulation is built on values and training language, not on evidence about how bias actually shapes outcomes. That is the gap Jenkins’s work occupies. As a lecturer in Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine, he studies how racism functions inside clinical processes, from algorithmic decisions to the quality of patient-provider interactions, and translates the findings into something organisations can act on. The RETINA Framework, which he developed, is a patient-provider intervention that treats racism as a measurable variable in care delivery rather than a cultural sentiment. It has informed equity work across more than 35 hospital associations and health systems. His standing as a Fellow within the Veterans Health Administration’s Office of Minority Health and as a member of the National Academies’ Roundtable on Health Equity puts him inside the institutions that set the national agenda on this question. For non-healthcare audiences, the value is the operating model. Jenkins treats inclusion the way a clinician treats a diagnostic problem: define the mechanism, measure the effect, intervene with something specific. That posture is recognisable to executives in banking, insurance and consumer-facing organisations that need an inclusion conversation grounded in evidence rather than in slogans. The National Minority Quality Forum named him a 40 Under 40 Leader in Health in 2017; the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation backed his early research through its New Connections Award. What organisations get when they put him in front of a senior audience is a researcher who can hold the room on a topic most speakers reduce to platitudes. He is fluent in the politics of the current moment, but his authority is not political. It is built on what the data actually shows about how organisations include or exclude their people and customers. Key speaking topics Inclusion as an operating discipline Bias in decision-making and clinical processes Health equity and the business of healthcare Inclusive management practice Culture change in high-regulation organisations Difficult conversations in the workplace Algorithmic bias and equity in service design Ideal for CHROs and Chief Diversity Officers rebuilding inclusion strategy after political backlash. Healthcare boards, hospital association leadership, and clinical executives addressing equity in care delivery. Banking, insurance and consumer-services leadership teams needing an evidence-based inclusion conversation. Senior-team offsites and leadership development programmes where the brief is to raise the standard of internal dialogue on race and bias. Audience outcomes A working definition of inclusion that can be operationalised inside an existing management system. A view of where bias sits inside specific organisational processes, not as an abstract cultural risk. Language and structure for conducting hard conversations on race without producing defensive responses. A clearer line between equity work that is defensible to a board and work that is performative. For healthcare audiences, exposure to the RETINA Framework and its application to patient-provider interactions.

Why organisations work with Lisa Sanders She has spent two decades publicly working through cases that defeated other doctors, in The New York Times Magazine and on Netflix, which makes her unusually good at showing leaders how an expert actually reasons when the obvious answer is wrong. Her column is the documented inspiration for House M.D., and she served as a technical adviser on the show, so the diagnostic method she teaches is the one a global audience already recognises as serious. As Medical Director of Yale New Haven Health System’s Long COVID Consultation Clinic, she works every week on a condition with no clean test and no settled science, which is the closest analogue most executives will find to the ambiguity of their own strategic problems. She moved from an Emmy-winning CBS News career into medicine at Yale, which gives her a rare ability to translate clinical reasoning into language a board can use without dilution. Her books with Penguin Random House (Every Patient Tells a Story, Diagnosis) give the talk a citable spine and a body of work buyers can put in front of their leadership team before the date. Biography highlights Professor of Medicine at Yale School of Medicine and Medical Director of the Yale New Haven Health System Long COVID Consultation Clinic. Author of the New York Times Magazine «Diagnosis» column since 2002, the basis for the Netflix series Diagnosis (2019). Technical adviser on the Fox series House M.D., which was inspired by her column. Author of Every Patient Tells a Story (Penguin Random House, 2009) and Diagnosis: Solving the Most Baffling Medical Mysteries (Penguin Random House, 2019). Recipient of the John P. McGovern Award for Humanities in Medicine and the Black Pearl Written Media Award. Earlier career as a producer at CBS News, where she was part of an Emmy-winning team before entering medicine at Yale. Biography Most diagnostic errors are not caused by missing information. They are caused by a clinician who recognises a pattern too quickly and stops looking. That observation, drawn from twenty years of cases in The New York Times Magazine column «Diagnosis,» is the foundation of Lisa Sanders’ work with senior leaders. She is Professor of Medicine at Yale School of Medicine and Medical Director of the Yale New Haven Health System Long COVID Consultation Clinic, where her caseload is dominated by patients whose symptoms do not yet have a settled scientific explanation. That is also the practical setting for the method she teaches: how to hold a problem open long enough to investigate it properly, and how to recognise when confidence has run ahead of evidence. Her public reach is unusual for a working academic physician. The «Diagnosis» column has run in the NYT Magazine since 2002, was the inspiration for the Fox series House M.D., and became a Netflix docuseries in 2019. She is the author of Every Patient Tells a Story and Diagnosis, both with Penguin Random House, and a recipient of the John P. McGovern Award for Humanities in Medicine. Before medicine she spent more than a decade at CBS News, where she was part of an Emmy-winning team. That earlier career is why her sessions land with non-clinical audiences: she can take the structure of clinical reasoning, strip out the jargon, and make it operable for a board wrestling with a decision the data will not resolve on its own. Key speaking topics Diagnostic reasoning under uncertainty Decision-making when the data is incomplete Avoiding premature closure and confirmation bias Long COVID and the limits of medical evidence Communication between experts and non-experts Leadership lessons from clinical practice Ideal for Boards and executive teams making high-stakes calls on incomplete information. CEOs, CSOs, and transformation leaders working through ambiguous strategic problems. Healthcare systems, life sciences leadership, and clinical risk and quality functions. Professional services and investment firms whose work depends on judgement under uncertainty. Audience outcomes A practical sense of how expert diagnosticians slow down inference when the stakes are high. A clearer view of how pattern recognition becomes a liability in unfamiliar problems. Specific habits for surfacing a second hypothesis before a decision is locked in. A working vocabulary for talking about uncertainty with teams and boards without losing authority. A more honest read on the difference between confidence and accuracy in their own decision-making.

Why organisations work with Megan Rossi A working academic at King’s College London, not a wellness commentator. Her recommendations are drawn from a research programme she actively leads, with over £3 million in funding and 50 plus peer-reviewed papers behind her. The Diversity Diet framework gives audiences a single behavioural target with named scientific provenance. Thirty different plants per week, tracked simply, anchored in microbiome research. A commercially proven communicator. Four Sunday Times bestsellers across UK, US, Australia and European markets, plus a consumer audience of roughly half a million followers, mean the messaging works on non-expert audiences. Connects gut health to the workplace metrics leaders already care about: focus, fatigue, mental health, immunity, IBS-related absence. Few speakers in this space hold both the clinical and the research credentials to do this credibly. Biography highlights Research Fellow, King’s College London, since 2015, leading studies on prebiotics, probiotics, the low FODMAP diet, plant-based diversity and food additives. PhD in gut health from the University of Queensland, awarded the Dean’s Award for outstanding research. Author of four Sunday Times bestsellers, including Eat Yourself Healthy, Eat More, Live Well and How To Eat More Plants, published by Penguin. Co-founder of Bio&Me, named Entrepreneur of the Year at the 2026 Grocer Gold Awards with co-founder Jon Walsh, where the brand also won SME Brand of the Year; also founder of The Gut Health Clinic (London and Manchester), The Gut Health Doctor, and the supplement range SMART STRAINS. 2017 BMJ Open Gastroenterology prize; British Nutrition Foundation Drummond Pump Priming Award presented by HRH The Princess Royal; 2020 Young Australian Achiever of the Year in the UK. Regular contributor to The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph and Stylist, with recurring appearances on ITV’s This Morning. Biography Sickness absence linked to digestive complaints, fatigue and low mood is one of the most expensive line items in any large workforce, yet most organisations treat each cause in isolation. The science of the gut-brain axis points to a shared biological root, and the corporate wellbeing market has been slow to catch up with what microbiome research now shows. That is the gap Megan Rossi works in. Since 2015 she has been a Research Fellow at King’s College London, leading studies on prebiotics, probiotics, the low FODMAP diet and dietary fibre. She has secured more than £3 million in research funding and published over 50 peer-reviewed papers, alongside a PhD in gut health from the University of Queensland that was awarded the Dean’s Award for outstanding research. The translation work matters as much as the research. Through four Sunday Times bestselling books published by Penguin, a clinic in London and Manchester, and consumer brands Bio&Me and SMART STRAINS, Rossi has built a public platform that takes microbiome evidence into everyday food choices. The signature idea is the Diversity Diet: 30 different plants per week, with named scientific provenance from the American Gut Project. Rossi and co-founder Jon Walsh were named Entrepreneur of the Year at the 2026 Grocer Gold Awards, where Bio&Me also won SME Brand of the Year. For employer audiences the value is specific. Energy, sleep quality, mental health, IBS-related absence and immune resilience are all areas where current microbiome research has direct, behavioural implications, and where Rossi can speak from her own clinical and academic work rather than a secondary summary of the field. Key speaking topics Gut-brain axis and workplace mental health Microbiome science and the Diversity Diet Nutrition, energy and cognitive performance IBS, bloating and digestive conditions at work Evidence-based workplace wellbeing programmes Prebiotics, probiotics and nutrition myths Ideal for CHROs and heads of wellbeing redesigning health benefits beyond gym subsidies and EAPs Healthcare, pharma and consumer health audiences seeking a credible microbiome voice Employer audiences in financial services, professional services and tech where cognitive performance and stress-related absence are commercial issues Customer-facing health and FMCG brands building science-led product or marketing positioning Audience outcomes A clear, evidence-grounded picture of how gut health affects mood, focus and immune function in working populations. The Diversity Diet as a single, trackable behaviour change individuals can begin the next day. A working separation between microbiome science and the supplement and wellness marketing built around it. Practical guidance on managing IBS, bloating and digestive issues that often go unspoken in workplace health conversations.

Why organisations work with Thomas Curran He owns the primary data. Curran’s 2017 meta-analysis with Andrew Hill, covering 41,641 participants across the US, UK and Canada, is the headline study that most current writing on burnout and generational stress traces back to. His translation of academic findings into operating language is sharp. Leaders leave with vocabulary for tensions their engagement data hints at but rarely names: socially prescribed perfectionism, fear of evaluation, the meritocratic treadmill. He sits inside a credible institution. LSE association means his framing of mental health risk carries weight with boards that discount wellness vendors. His public platform is rare for an academic. The TEDMED talk passed three million views; The Perfection Trap is a Sunday Times bestseller; HBR, TIME, NYT and the WSJ have published or covered him. He addresses the workforce most likely to leave. His research is specifically about the rising cohorts under 35, the population that boards are most worried about engaging and retaining. Biography highlights Associate Professor of Social Psychology, London School of Economics and Political Science Author of The Perfection Trap, Penguin UK (2023), Simon and Schuster US Lead author of the Psychological Bulletin meta-analysis on rising perfectionism, 1989 to 2016 TEDMED 2018 speaker, “Our Dangerous Obsession with Perfectionism is Getting Worse”, more than 3 million views Contributor to Harvard Business Review and TIME; research covered by NYT, WSJ, Economist, BBC, CNN BPS Chartered Psychologist; recipient of the APA Division 47 Dissertation Award Biography Perfectionism has risen sharply in the US, UK and Canada since the late 1980s, and it tracks closely with the same period in which workplace burnout and youth mental ill-health have climbed. That correlation is the centre of Curran’s academic work and the reason his findings have travelled well beyond psychology journals. His 2017 meta-analysis with Andrew Hill, published in the American Psychological Association’s Psychological Bulletin, pooled 164 samples and 41,641 participants. It found socially prescribed perfectionism, the belief that other people demand perfection from you, had risen 33 percent in a generation. The study is now the standard reference for almost every serious treatment of generational stress and engagement decline. The Perfection Trap, published by Penguin in 2023, sets that research into the cultures that produce it: meritocratic competition, social comparison at scale, and organisations that reward striving over sustainability. His TEDMED talk on the same theme has been viewed more than three million times. For corporate audiences, the value is in the precision of the diagnosis. Curran gives leaders language for the pattern they see in their own engagement and retention data, and a defensible account of where the pressure is coming from. His credentials are LSE faculty status, peer-reviewed authorship of the foundational dataset, and recognition from the American Psychological Association. Key speaking topics Perfectionism in the workplace Burnout and sustainable performance Mental health and wellbeing Self-criticism and imposter syndrome Generational shifts in workplace expectations The psychology of high-performance cultures Ideal for CHROs and chief people officers responding to rising burnout and attrition data Executive leadership teams setting performance and culture standards Wellbeing, talent and engagement leads briefing the board on mental health risk Professional services, finance and consulting firms with high-pressure delivery cultures Audience outcomes A clearer account of why perfectionism has risen and how it shows up in their workforce Specific vocabulary, drawn from peer-reviewed research, for tensions that engagement surveys hint at but rarely name A framework for distinguishing healthy striving from socially prescribed perfectionism Evidence-based approaches to self-compassion and self-criticism that leaders can apply personally and model in teams A more defensible view of what mental health support should look like inside a high-performance culture

Why organisations work with Duncan Goodhew His personal story is not simply inspirational. It is instructive. Two named conditions (alopecia universalis from age ten, dyslexia diagnosed at thirteen) that could have ended ambition became the foundation of a specific discipline: redefining success on individual terms rather than defaulting to external expectation. That argument is directly usable by organisations managing performance under pressure. His published thesis, developed in Sink or Swim (co-written with Victoria Hislop), is that success is an entirely individual matter; a claim with direct implications for how organisations set targets, evaluate performance, and retain people who do not fit a standard template. He co-founded the Youth Sport Trust in 1994 with Sir John Beckwith, securing £2 million in initial funding; the organisation now operates across every primary school in England. This is institution-building at scale, not just personal achievement. The corporate organisations that have engaged him; IBM, Microsoft, PricewaterhouseCoopers, American Express, and Barclays were not buying an Olympic story. They were working on a shared problem: how to maintain consistent human performance under commercial pressure. As President of Swimathon, which has raised more than £34 million for national charities, he brings direct experience of building and sustaining large-scale movements, not simply motivating individuals in a room. Biography highlights Olympic gold medallist, 100m breaststroke, and bronze medallist, 4×100m medley relay, 1980 Moscow Olympics Captain of the Great Britain swimming team, 1978-1980; three silver medals at the 1978 Commonwealth Games, Edmonton MBE awarded 1983 for services to sport Co-founder, Youth Sport Trust (1994), now active across every primary school in England President of Swimathon, which has raised more than £34 million for charity across its history Author of Sink or Swim and Fix Your Life – Now!, both co-written with Victoria Hislop Inducted into the Swim England Hall of Fame, 2019 Biography Duncan Goodhew won Olympic gold in Moscow in 1980, competing as a young man who had been bald since the age of ten and formally diagnosed with dyslexia at thirteen. His published work, developed in Sink or Swim (co-written with Victoria Hislop), makes a specific claim: sustained high performance depends on one insight above all others – success is an individual matter. People who perform consistently under pressure are almost always those who have stopped competing against someone else’s definition of what winning looks like. For organisations managing performance through disruption or change, that has practical implications for how targets are set and how people are evaluated. His record beyond the speaking circuit is equally concrete. He co-founded the Youth Sport Trust in 1994 with Sir John Beckwith, securing £2 million in initial funding; the organisation now operates across every primary school in England. As President of Swimathon, he has overseen an organisation that has raised more than £34 million for national charities. The organisations that have engaged him over the course of his career; IBM, Microsoft, PricewaterhouseCoopers, American Express, Barclays were working on a consistent underlying challenge: how to maintain human performance when conditions are difficult, stakes are high, and the outcome is not guaranteed. That is the question his work is designed to answer. Key speaking topics Resilience and performance under pressure Overcoming adversity and personal reinvention Individual definitions of success and goal-setting Mental toughness in high-stakes environments Leadership through uncertainty and change Team motivation and sustained engagement Youth sport, physical activity, and long-term wellbeing Ideal for Senior leadership and C-suite audiences navigating organisational change or sustained commercial pressure HR, talent, and people leaders responsible for employee engagement, resilience, and retention Sales, commercial, and operational teams where consistent performance in demanding conditions is a strategic priority Corporate conferences where a credible, evidence-grounded narrative around resilience and peak performance is the brief Audience outcomes A reframed understanding of what peak performance actually requires, and why individually defined success criteria outperform externally imposed targets Practical insight into how elite athletes manage sustained pressure, maintain motivation, and continue performing through extended adversity A clearer sense of how personal disadvantage or difference can be converted from liability into competitive foundation Reflection on whether their organisation’s definitions of success are genuinely motivating the people they most want to retain A memorable, evidence-backed narrative around resilience that individuals and teams can carry into their own work

Why organisations work with Elle Mace Her clinical stack is unusually deep for a workplace wellbeing speaker: Master Practitioner via the National Centre for Eating Disorders, ICF accredited NLP Practitioner, Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapist, Level 4 CBT and ILM Level 5 Coach and Mentor. Food Freedom, published by Vermilion in August 2026, gives audiences a named, citable framework on food, body image and the rise of GLP-1 weight loss medications, a topic most wellbeing programmes are not yet equipped to discuss. She runs her own clinic and two CPD-accredited training courses for practitioners, so the workplace material is grounded in active clinical caseload rather than recycled keynote content. Her recovery from 17 years of eating disorders and body dysmorphia gives the room a level of trust and disclosure that pure clinicians rarely achieve, without sliding into testimonial territory. As Executive Partner at Strategic Wellbeing, she works inside an operating consultancy, which means her keynote sits alongside follow-on training and 1:1 support rather than ending at the stage. Biography highlights Author of Food Freedom, Vermilion (Penguin Random House UK), August 2026 Master Practitioner in eating disorders, obesity and nutrition, National Centre for Eating Disorders ICF accredited NLP Practitioner, Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapist, Level 4 CBT, ILM Level 5 Coach and Mentor Executive Partner at Strategic Wellbeing Founder of her own clinic, with two CPD-accredited training courses for practitioners Host of the More to Life podcast on food, body and growth Biography Workplace wellbeing strategy still defaults to perks and posters when the harder issues sit further down: how people relate to food, to their bodies and to their own self-worth. Those issues quietly drive absence, presenteeism and burnout, and they rarely show up in engagement data. Elle Mace works at that level, where most wellbeing programmes do not reach. Her credentials are built for it. She trained as a Master Practitioner in eating disorders, obesity and nutrition through the National Centre for Eating Disorders, and holds qualifications as an ICF accredited NLP Practitioner, a Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapist, a Level 4 CBT practitioner and an ILM Level 5 Coach and Mentor. She runs her own clinic, hosts international retreats and has built two CPD-accredited training courses for other practitioners. Food Freedom, published by Vermilion, an imprint of Penguin Random House UK, in August 2026, codifies the argument. It pairs positive psychology and cognitive behavioural tools with a direct reading of diet culture and the new wave of GLP-1 weight loss medications now entering the wellbeing conversation. As Executive Partner at Strategic Wellbeing, she takes that material into corporate environments through keynotes, workshops and training. The lived backbone is 17 years of recovery from eating disorders and body dysmorphia. That experience is what allows her to talk about self-worth, body image and disordered eating in front of a corporate audience without losing either clinical authority or the room. Key speaking topics Psychology of food, body image and self-worth at work Eating disorders, disordered eating and body dysmorphia Workplace wellbeing and mental health Burnout, stress and resilience Positive psychology for performance Self-doubt, self-worth and imposter syndrome Mindful leadership and the mind-body connection Ideal for CHROs, wellbeing leads and EAP commissioners designing the next layer of mental health strategy HR directors and DEI leads addressing body image, self-worth and gendered wellbeing concerns Leadership teams in high-pressure sectors where burnout, food and body issues are showing up in engagement data Internal employee networks, ERGs and Mental Health Awareness Week or Wellbeing Week programmes Audience outcomes A clearer view of how food, body image and self-worth feed into workplace stress, presenteeism and burnout Practical positive psychology and cognitive behavioural tools employees can use without clinical supervision Confident vocabulary for line managers and HR on disordered eating, body dysmorphia and weight stigma Reference points from Food Freedom and her CPD-accredited training for follow-on organisational work A safer, more honest conversation in the room about issues most employees do not raise at work

Why organisations work with Emily Rose Adams A working newsroom presenter, not a hire-by-day MC. Adams anchors live international news for TRT World and was a main presenter at TalkTV, which means she handles live unscripted moments the way a news desk handles breaking stories. NCTJ-qualified journalism training, which shows up in how she prepares: script, story selection, research, and interview lines done in-house rather than handed to a producer. Comfortable across registers. The same presenter who fronts a hard news bulletin has compered Canary Wharf Fashion Weekend, the Asian Banking Awards and the National Wedding Show Style Stage. Founder of Presenterly, an online platform, and host of The Health Review podcast. Useful when a brief needs a host who has been on the production side, not only the talent side. Biography highlights News anchor, TRT World, fronting international news programmes and live interviews. Former main news presenter, TalkTV (News UK). Newsreader, Virgin Radio (The Chris Evans Breakfast Show) and talkRADIO. Co-presenter, Capital FM South Coast breakfast show, 2018 to 2019. NCTJ-qualified journalist; enrolled in International Relations at the London School of Economics. Founder of Presenterly and host of The Health Review podcast. Biography A live news bulletin and a corporate awards night look nothing alike from the audience, but they share one variable: the person at the front has to keep time, hold tone, and recover instantly when something goes wrong. Emily Rose Adams works in both formats, which is unusual. Her primary work is news. She anchors international programmes for TRT World and was a main presenter on TalkTV after the channel launched under News UK. Before that came talkRADIO, Virgin Radio’s Chris Evans Breakfast Show, and the Capital FM South Coast breakfast slot. The training behind it is NCTJ, the standard route for working UK broadcast journalists, and she is studying International Relations at the London School of Economics. The hosting work runs in parallel. She has compered Canary Wharf Fashion Weekend, the Asian Banking Awards and the National Wedding Show Style Stage, and works regularly as an awards-ceremony host and panel moderator. The Health Review, her interview podcast, gives her a third register: long-form, subject-led conversation with specialists in medicine and wellbeing. Most bureau hosts come from one of these worlds. Adams comes from all three, which is why a brief that needs a host who can also conduct a credible on-stage interview tends to find its way to her. Key speaking topics Conference and awards hosting Panel moderation On-stage interviews Brand and corporate emceeing Virtual event hosting Red carpet and live reporting Voiceover and presentation Ideal for Heads of communications and marketing commissioning awards nights, brand launches and customer conferences Internal events teams running town halls, leadership summits and ceremony evenings Programme directors who need a moderator who can hold a panel of senior or technical guests Audience outcomes A room that stays on time and on tone for the full agenda Panels and interviews that produce usable lines rather than filler Sensitive or unscripted moments handled with newsroom composure A consistent host voice across pre-event, on-stage and post-event content

Why organisations work with Emma Ross She brings the operating knowledge of the person who ran physiology for Team GB across Olympic and Paralympic cycles, applied directly to corporate workforces rather than borrowed as metaphor. She co-founded The Well HQ, the consultancy that has delivered women’s health programmes inside Sport England, England Netball, the Lawn Tennis Association, Vitality, News UK and Barclays; her frameworks are already in production in serious organisations. The Female Body Bible gave her a mainstream platform and a Sunday Times bestseller, which means her language is already familiar to employees and journalists before she walks into the room. She closes the knowing-doing gap leaders struggle with most: turning evidence on menstrual health, menopause, pelvic health and breast health into specific policy, benefits and manager scripts. Her authority is independent and scientific. The Cardiff Metropolitan honorary doctorate and her Fellowship of the British Association of Sport and Exercise Science signal that the content is peer-respected, not opinion. Biography highlights Head of Physiology, English Institute of Sport, 2013 to 2021, across Rio and Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic cycles. Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer, The Well HQ. Co-author, The Female Body Bible, Sunday Times bestseller, 2023. Changemaker, The Sunday Times Sportswomen of the Year Awards, 2021. Honorary Doctorate, Cardiff Metropolitan University, 2025. Honorary Research Fellow, University of Brighton; Honorary Lecturer, University of Kent; Fellow of the British Association of Sport and Exercise Science. Biography Women make up roughly half of most workforces and a larger share of many consumer markets. Until recently, almost no corporate policy, product design or leadership development programme was built on evidence about how female bodies actually work. Emma Ross is one of the people rewriting that. As Head of Physiology at the English Institute of Sport from 2013, she supported Team GB athletes and coaches across the Rio and Tokyo cycles. Inside that system she saw how much of the playbook for elite performance had been written for men, and what happened when women were given training, recovery, nutrition and medical support designed around their physiology instead. In 2021 she co-founded The Well HQ with Baz Moffat and Dr Bella Smith. The consultancy has built education and policy programmes for Sport England, England Netball, the Lawn Tennis Association and the Open University, and has moved into corporate workforces with Vitality, News UK and Barclays. The Female Body Bible, co-authored in 2023, landed as an instant Sunday Times bestseller and took the argument into the mainstream. Her credibility is underwritten by a PhD from Brunel, more than thirty peer-reviewed publications, a Fellowship of the British Association of Sport and Exercise Science, and an Honorary Doctorate from Cardiff Metropolitan University awarded in 2025. The practical value for a boardroom is simpler: she can tell a CHRO, in specific terms, what to change on Monday about benefits, line-manager training, menopause policy, return-to-work protocols and the data the organisation is not yet collecting. Key speaking topics Women’s health in the workplace Female physiology and high performance Menstrual health, menopause and pelvic health at work Policy and manager capability for women’s health Culture change in male-default organisations Lessons from elite sport for corporate performance systems Evidence-based wellbeing for women Ideal for CHROs, Chief People Officers and Heads of Reward designing benefits, menopause and family-health policy. DEI and ERG leads moving from awareness events to operational change. Executive teams in organisations with large female workforces or female consumer bases. Leadership programmes for senior women and their managers. Audience outcomes A clear read on where your current policies and manager behaviours fail women, and what to change first. Specific, evidence-based actions on menstrual health, menopause, pelvic and breast health that can be taken into HR and benefits. Language that line managers and male leaders can use without fear of saying the wrong thing. A framework for translating women’s health from a wellbeing initiative into an organisational performance lever. Confidence that the content is backed by elite sport science and peer-reviewed evidence, not opinion.

Why organisations work with Frankie Bridge She turns a wellbeing agenda into a conversation employees actually join. Lived-experience voices move audiences past the policy document in a way clinical presentations rarely do. Her two books, OPEN and GROW, are co-written with clinical psychologist Maleha Khan and psychiatrist Dr Mike McPhillips, which gives the material a structure beyond memoir and a reference employees can take home. She is a formal ambassador for Mind, the UK’s largest mental health charity, anchoring her advocacy in a named institution rather than personal testimony alone. Her platform reaches the employee demographic most corporate wellbeing programmes struggle to engage: women aged 25 to 45, working parents, and audiences outside the usual executive wellbeing circuit. Biography highlights Ambassador for Mind, the UK mental health charity, following hospitalisation in May 2012 for anxiety, depression and panic attacks. Author of OPEN: Why Asking for Help Can Save Your Life, a Sunday Times bestseller co-written with clinical psychologist Maleha Khan and psychiatrist Dr Mike McPhillips. Author of GROW: Motherhood, mental health and me, published 2021, again with Khan and McPhillips. Host of Open Mind with Frankie Bridge, a podcast running since 2019 across Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Global Player. Regular panellist on ITV’s Loose Women since 2021, speaking publicly on anxiety and women’s health. Former member of The Saturdays (2007 to 2014) and runner-up on BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing 2014. Biography A wellbeing programme only works when employees believe the people in front of them have been where they have. That credibility is hard to manufacture from a policy deck or a clinician’s slide set. Bridge built her audience on the opposite ground, by talking openly about her 2012 hospitalisation for anxiety and depression while still a member of one of the UK’s biggest pop acts. Her book OPEN: Why Asking for Help Can Save Your Life came out of that period and became a Sunday Times bestseller. It was co-written with clinical psychologist Maleha Khan and psychiatrist Dr Mike McPhillips, which is what separates it from a standard celebrity memoir. GROW, published in 2021, applied the same format to maternal mental health, again with Khan and McPhillips, and addressed anxiety in pregnancy and the early years of parenting. The advocacy sits inside a formal relationship with Mind, the UK mental health charity, where she is a named ambassador. Her Open Mind podcast extends the work across longer conversations with guests from public life, and her seat on ITV’s Loose Women keeps mental health vocabulary in mainstream women’s broadcasting. For a corporate audience, the specific value is reach into the employee groups that wellbeing programmes most often miss. Working women in their late twenties to mid forties recognise her from television, bookshops and podcasts, and listen differently because of it. That is the variable most internal mental-health campaigns cannot solve with budget alone. Key speaking topics Mental health in the workplace Maternal mental health Anxiety, depression and panic Employee wellbeing and lived experience Women’s health at work Reducing stigma in corporate mental health conversations Ideal for Employee wellbeing days, mental health awareness events and internal conferences where lived experience lands harder than clinical theory alone. HR, people and DEI teams building programmes for working parents, particularly women returning from maternity leave. Women’s networks and ERGs looking for a recognisable broadcaster who speaks credibly on anxiety and maternal mental health. Audience outcomes A clear reference point, anchored in two published books, for how to talk about anxiety and depression at work without defaulting to policy language. A direct look at how maternal mental health shows up in the early years of a career return, drawn from Bridge’s work with her clinical co-authors. Permission for employees to treat mental health conversations as normal rather than escalatory, which in turn lifts engagement with existing wellbeing resources. A concrete answer to the question most wellbeing programmes struggle with: what does asking for help actually look like in practice, from someone who has done it.

Why organisations work with Gary Cohen He has demonstrably moved an entire sector. Under his leadership, U.S. medical waste incinerators fell from around 5,600 to fewer than 70, and mercury was effectively removed from U.S. medical devices, contributing to the global Minamata phase-out. He brings a network, not just a perspective. Health Care Without Harm operates with hospitals and health partners in more than 50 countries and convenes ministries of health, group purchasing organisations and major hospital systems. His credibility is recognised by the bodies that matter to senior buyers: MacArthur Fellow (2015), Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship (2006), and White House Champion of Change for Climate Change and Public Health (2013). He talks to executives in their own operating language. Procurement, capital projects, energy contracts, waste contracts, supply chain risk, not abstract sustainability narrative. He has spent nearly four decades inside the toxics and environmental health field, including running the National Toxics Campaign Fund and co-founding the Military Toxics Project, so he understands regulation, litigation and corporate response from multiple sides. Biography highlights Co-founder and president, Health Care Without Harm, since 1996. President, Practice Greenhealth, the U.S. membership organisation for sustainable healthcare. MacArthur Fellow, 2015. Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, 2006; Frank Hatch Award for Enlightened Public Service, 2007. White House Champion of Change for Climate Change and Public Health, 2013. Co-author, “Fighting Toxics” (Island Press, 1990); former executive director, National Toxics Campaign Fund. Biography Hospitals exist to heal, yet the global health sector is responsible for around 4.5 percent of greenhouse gas emissions and remains a significant source of toxic chemical exposure. Reconciling that contradiction has been Gary Cohen’s working life for almost four decades. He co-founded Health Care Without Harm in 1996 after a period running the National Toxics Campaign Fund and co-founding the Military Toxics Project. The organisation began as a response to the use of dioxin-emitting incineration, mercury thermometers and toxic plasticisers in routine medical care. It now works with hospital systems, ministries of health and purchasing organisations in more than 50 countries. The track record is concrete. Mercury has been substantially eliminated from U.S. medical devices, with the work feeding into the Minamata Convention. Medical waste incinerators in the United States fell from roughly 5,600 in the late 1990s to fewer than 70 by 2006. Practice Greenhealth, the U.S. membership arm Cohen leads, gives hospital executives a structured way to act on procurement, energy and waste rather than restate intentions. Recognition has followed the substance: a MacArthur Fellowship in 2015, the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship in 2006, the Frank Hatch Award in 2007, and a White House Champion of Change designation for climate change and public health in 2013. What that record gives a senior audience is unusual: someone who can speak to climate, toxics and supply chain risk as an operator who has already redesigned a regulated sector at scale. Key speaking topics Climate change as a public health issue Decarbonising the healthcare sector Toxic chemicals and supply chain redesign Sustainable procurement in regulated industries Hospital infrastructure, energy and waste Environmental health and community resilience Coalition building across regulators, providers and purchasers Ideal for Boards and executive teams of health systems, hospital networks and pharmaceutical companies setting climate and chemical safety strategy Chief sustainability officers, chief procurement officers and capital planning leads in regulated, asset-heavy sectors Public sector health leaders, ministries of health and group purchasing organisations ESG, impact and philanthropic investors looking at health and climate intersections Audience outcomes A clear view of where healthcare’s environmental footprint actually sits, by procurement category, energy use and waste stream A working model of how a sector moves from commitment to operating change, drawn from a redesign that has already happened Specific reference points on mercury elimination, incineration reduction and supply chain detoxification that translate to other regulated industries A more honest conversation about ESG substance versus ESG narrative, grounded in measurable sector outcomes

Why organisations work with Gemma Oaten A credible front-of-house voice on eating disorders specifically, an area most wellbeing programmes underserve because it is hard to discuss without either trivialising or distressing audiences. Operational charity leadership at SEED, which means her content reflects what families, sufferers, and clinicians actually report, not generic resilience messaging. Broadcast craft from BBC Radio and BBC Morning Live work, useful when a wellbeing event also needs an experienced host or interviewer in the room. A TEDx talk and named corporate clients including Samsung, Towergate Insurance, and Health Assured, which gives HR and wellbeing leads a defensible reference list. Biography highlights CEO of SEED Eating Disorder Support Services. Played Rachel Breckle in Emmerdale, 2011 to 2015. TEDx speaker on eating disorders and recovery. Hosted the British Safety Council International Safety Awards Gala Dinner, 2024. BBC Radio presenter across Humberside, Lincolnshire, York, and Leeds; BBC Morning Live contributor. Drama Studio London graduate. Biography Eating disorders are the mental illness most likely to kill the person who has one, and they remain one of the hardest topics for an HR team to handle in front of staff. Gemma Oaten developed anorexia at ten and lived with it, and with bulimia, for thirteen years. SEED, the charity her parents founded to support other families through it, is now the organisation she runs. That dual position, lived experience and charity leadership, is what makes her useful to corporate audiences. She is not describing recovery as a metaphor for resilience. She is describing what eating disorders look like in a workforce, what triggers them, what helps, and what managers tend to get wrong when an employee is visibly struggling. Her broadcast work runs alongside the charity. She has presented across BBC Radio Humberside, Lincolnshire, York, and Leeds, contributed to BBC Morning Live, and hosted the British Safety Council International Safety Awards Gala Dinner in 2024. Her acting credits include four years as Rachel Breckle in Emmerdale, with Best Newcomer nominations at the British Soap Awards and TV Quick Awards. For wellbeing leads commissioning a keynote that staff will actually remember, the value is the specificity. She speaks from inside a charity that takes the calls, and from inside a recovery she nearly did not survive. That is a different proposition from a clinician explaining the science or a coach selling a framework. Key speaking topics Eating disorders awareness and recovery Mental health in the workplace Employee wellbeing Resilience after long-term illness Bullying, body image, and self-worth Lived experience of anorexia and bulimia Hosting and moderation for wellbeing events Ideal for CHROs, wellbeing leads, and HR directors building substantive mental health programmes Health, safety, and wellbeing conferences, particularly in regulated sectors Schools, universities, and NHS audiences working on body image and eating disorders Internal events that need a credible host as well as a keynote voice Audience outcomes A clearer picture of what eating disorders look like in a working population, beyond the stereotypes Practical language managers can use when an employee shows signs of being unwell A frank account of long-term recovery from someone who runs the support charity Renewed permission inside the room to talk about mental health without flinching

Why organisations work with Hannah Cooper-Dommett A working ITV presenter who has co-hosted a network series and panel slots, so she handles live cues, interviews and unscripted moments without losing the room. Front-of-camera credibility built across M&S, GHD, Barbour, Boux Avenue and Macy’s campaigns, useful for brand-led events where the host is part of the visual product. Co-host of the Never Have I Ever podcast, a long-form conversational format that translates directly into on-stage interviews, fireside chats and panel moderation. Brain Tumour Support ambassador since 2021, which gives a substantive thread for charity galas, fundraising dinners and wellbeing-led internal moments. Marie Claire fashion writer, useful for retail, beauty and lifestyle brand audiences where the host needs to speak the category fluently. Biography highlights Co-hosted the ITV series At Home With Joel Dommett in 2020. Co-host of the Never Have I Ever podcast. Commercial campaigns for M&S, GHD, Barbour, Boux Avenue and Macy’s. Online fashion writer for Marie Claire. Brand ambassador for Brain Tumour Support since 2021. BA in Fashion Management and Marketing, University for the Creative Arts (2012). Biography A corporate awards night runs for three hours, has nine sponsor mentions, twelve category winners and a senior audience that has had a long week. The host has to make all of that feel like a single evening, not a running order. That is presenter craft, and it is the core of what Cooper-Dommett does. She built that craft on ITV, co-hosting At Home With Joel Dommett during the 2020 lockdown, and through guest slots on Loose Women, Saturday Kitchen, Celebrity Gogglebox and The Chris & Rosie Ramsey Show. The Never Have I Ever podcast, co-hosted with Joel Dommett, gives her a long-form conversational instinct that maps onto fireside interviews and panel moderation. The commercial side reinforces the booking case. Campaigns for M&S, GHD, Barbour, Boux Avenue and Macy’s, plus a Marie Claire fashion column, sit her credibly inside retail, beauty and lifestyle audiences. For charity and wellbeing-led events, her work as a Brain Tumour Support ambassador since 2021 is a genuine throughline rather than a borrowed cause. The booking is the host, not the keynote. Buyers who need a presenter who can carry a script, work a room and protect the rhythm of an evening get a working broadcaster with a brand-friendly profile and a real charitable association behind her name. Key speaking topics Awards ceremony hosting Corporate event hosting Panel moderation and on-stage interviews Fashion, beauty and lifestyle audiences Wellbeing and mental health advocacy Brain Tumour Support ambassadorship Personal branding and media presence Ideal for Awards ceremonies and gala dinners needing a TV-trained host Retail, fashion and beauty brand events and product launches Charity fundraisers, particularly in the health and wellbeing space Internal conferences and town halls needing a warm, non-corporate presenter for fireside chats and panels Audience outcomes An evening that holds its energy from welcome to close, with sponsor moments handled cleanly. Panel conversations that move, with guests drawn out rather than read at. A brand-aligned host presence for retail, beauty and lifestyle audiences. A credible, non-performative voice on Brain Tumour Support and wellbeing themes when the brief calls for it.