Health & Wellbeing

Why organisations work with Jen Sincero Her four Badass books have sold more than five million copies in over forty languages, which gives audiences immediate familiarity and a shared vocabulary before she takes the stage. She speaks directly to the part of an engagement and retention problem that policy cannot fix: what people privately believe about their own potential, their right to earn, and their capacity to change a habit. Her audiobook narration of You Are a Badass won the 2014 Audie Award from the American Audio Publishers Association, evidence that the delivery itself, not only the writing, holds an audience. She is a regular speaker at the Pennsylvania and Massachusetts Conference for Women, which gives her a track record at the scale and format most women’s leadership programmes commission. She is one of the few keynote names that consistently lifts attendance and registration for internal empowerment, mental fitness, and money mindset events without requiring topical reframing for each booking. Biography highlights Number-one New York Times bestselling author of You Are a Badass, with over five million copies sold and translation into more than forty languages Author of four titles in the Badass series, including You Are a Badass at Making Money, also a New York Times bestseller 2014 Audie Award winner from the American Audio Publishers Association for narration of You Are a Badass Featured speaker at the Pennsylvania and Massachusetts Conference for Women Media credits include the New York Times, Forbes, Fast Company, Bloomberg, The Dr. Oz Show, Oprah Magazine, Success Magazine, and The Howard Stern Show BA in English, Colorado College, 1987 Biography You Are a Badass became a slow-burn phenomenon after its 2013 release, climbing the New York Times bestseller list and staying there for years. The book reframed personal success as a problem of belief and habit rather than information. Jen Sincero wrote it, narrated it, and won the 2014 Audie Award from the American Audio Publishers Association for the audiobook. The Badass series now runs to four titles, including You Are a Badass at Making Money and Badass Habits, with combined sales of more than five million copies across forty languages. Sincero’s central argument is that the gap between what people say they want and what they do is held in place by inherited beliefs about money, worth, and what they are allowed to want. Closing that gap is the work of her books, coaching, and stage material. Her speaking practice is built for audiences inside organisations that have already tried policy answers to engagement and retention. She speaks at the Pennsylvania and Massachusetts Conference for Women, at corporate empowerment events, and at executive retreats where the brief is to shift what people privately believe is available to them. Her style is direct, comedic, and unapologetically practical, designed for action rather than reflection. Before the Badass books, Sincero was a freelance writer in Los Angeles and a workshop facilitator with the women’s entrepreneurial network Ladies Who Launch. She holds a BA in English from Colorado College. Her media credits include the New York Times, Forbes, Fast Company, Bloomberg, Oprah Magazine, The Dr. Oz Show, and The Howard Stern Show. Key speaking topics Money mindset and wealth psychology Self-limiting belief and confidence Habit formation and behaviour change Personal motivation and empowerment Women’s leadership and entrepreneurship Ideal for CHROs and people leaders running engagement, retention, and internal mobility programmes Heads of DEI and women’s leadership networks commissioning conference and ERG keynotes Sales, broker, and advisor conferences where money belief and personal confidence determine output Internal empowerment, mental fitness, and culture moments inside large organisations Audience outcomes A direct, named language for the beliefs that quietly limit individual performance Specific habit-change tools drawn from Badass Habits, applicable from the day after the event A money-mindset frame that connects personal earning beliefs to commercial behaviour Higher attendance and registration energy around internal empowerment programming A shared reference that people leaders can carry into one-to-ones and team conversations

Why organisations work with Clive Branson He gives wellbeing and safety teams something internal communications cannot produce: an unsentimental first-person account of suicidal crisis and psychiatric admission, delivered by someone who spent seventeen years on the employer side of workplace duty-of-care conversations. His professional background in Ministry of Defence industrial relations means he speaks the language of HR, health and safety, and line managers rather than clinical or motivational language. He carries three concurrent diagnoses, Motor Neurone Disease, Stage Two prostate cancer, and acute anxiety, and talks about functioning through them rather than recovering from them. Audiences dealing with long-term illness in colleagues recognise the reality he describes. He has been trusted inside HM Prison Service settings as well as corporate audiences such as Network Rail, Ecolab and Guy Carpenter, which tells a booker he holds a room across very different registers. Biography highlights Three years Royal Air Force service, followed by seventeen years in UK Ministry of Defence Industrial Relations. Founded and ran a health and safety consultancy before health challenges forced him to step back. Diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease in late 2017 and subsequently with Stage Two prostate cancer. Seven-week inpatient admission across two psychiatric hospitals for acute anxiety and suicidal ideation. Featured speaker at CarFest in 2022 and 2023. Delivers talks voluntarily inside HM Prison Service and to corporate audiences including Network Rail, Ecolab, Intermediate Capital Group, Guy Carpenter and Tindall Riley. Biography Most corporate mental health content is written by people who have read the research. Branson sat on the other side of the table for nearly two decades. In Ministry of Defence industrial relations he handled the employer-side conversations about employment law, occupational health and the human condition at work, which is to say he knew the policy apparatus before he needed any of it. In late 2017 he was diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease. A Stage Two prostate cancer diagnosis followed. Surgery was ruled out because of the MND. Acute anxiety took over, and he was admitted to two psychiatric hospitals for a combined seven weeks after considering suicide. He lost his father, father-in-law and mother in the same stretch of years. What makes the talk useful to organisations is the combination of that experience with his prior role. He can describe, from the inside, what a line manager’s words actually landed as; why disclosure felt impossible; what policy language reads like to someone in crisis. He is not a clinician and does not claim to be. He is the employee that wellbeing policies are written for, who once wrote them. He works across corporate audiences including Network Rail, Ecolab, Intermediate Capital Group and Guy Carpenter, and volunteers inside HM Prison Service. He was a featured speaker at CarFest in 2022 and 2023 and has discussed resilience on BBC Radio Shropshire. The register adjusts to the room; the underlying account does not soften. Key speaking topics Workplace mental health Resilience under sustained adversity Suicide awareness and crisis disclosure Living and working with long-term illness Line manager communication in duty-of-care conversations Men’s mental health Grief and bereavement at work Ideal for CHROs, wellbeing leads and health and safety directors shaping workforce mental health programmes Line manager and people manager development audiences Employee resource groups focused on men’s health, long-term illness or cancer Organisations marking World Mental Health Day, Men’s Health Week or Mental Health Awareness Week with an internal keynote Audience outcomes A first-person account of what a suicidal crisis and psychiatric admission actually look like, from someone who once wrote workplace policy Specific language cues for line managers, on what helps and what closes a conversation down A reframing of vulnerability at work as something to surface rather than manage around Recognition of how long-term diagnosis reshapes an employee’s relationship with work, useful to colleagues and managers alike

Why organisations work with Anisha Joshi A clinician, not a wellness commentator. Osteopathic practice spanning over a decade, a multi-site clinic group, and a Penguin-published book on back pain give the room a credibility most workplace-wellbeing speakers lack. A clinical reading of burnout. She treats burnout as a physical process that accumulates in the body before it shows up in performance or absence data, which puts it on the risk register for HR and leadership. Named recognition: Principal of the Year from the Institute of Osteopathy (2019), and resident on-screen osteopath for ITV’s This Morning. The musculoskeletal cost of hybrid work, addressed specifically. Ergonomic assessment, posture, movement, and pain prevention applied to real desk and home-working setups. Changes employees can apply the same week, which is what HR and benefits teams need to see returned in engagement and absence data. Biography highlights Author of Heal Your Back: 4 Steps to a Pain-Free Life, Penguin (Vermilion), 2024. Principal of the Year, Institute of Osteopathy, 2019. Resident on-screen osteopath for ITV’s This Morning. Principal Osteopath and Clinic Director at Woodside Osteopathic Clinic, and co-founder of the Osteo Allies clinic group across London, Surrey, and Hertfordshire. Graduate of the British College of Osteopathic Medicine (BCOM), London. Clinical caseload spanning elite athletes, broadcasters, and senior executives alongside desk-based teams, with media commentary across The Telegraph, Vanity Fair, Women’s Health, and Hello!. Biography Back pain is the leading cause of disability among UK adults under 45, and hybrid work has turned desk-based musculoskeletal injury into an organisational problem rather than a personal one. The HSE counted 511,000 UK workers with a work-related musculoskeletal disorder in 2024/25, and 7.1 million working days lost to them. Most corporate wellbeing programmes still answer that with a gym subsidy and a leaflet. A graduate of the British College of Osteopathic Medicine, Anisha Joshi has practised osteopathy for over a decade and now directs the Osteo Allies clinic group across London, Surrey, and Hertfordshire. Her caseload runs from broadcasters and elite athletes to desk-based teams, which gives her a precise view of what separates the people who sustain high performance from those who break under it. Her book brings that clinical view into usable form. Heal Your Back: 4 Steps to a Pain-Free Life (Penguin, 2024) sets out a structured approach to managing back pain through movement, mindset, nutrition, and sleep, drawn from her own case files. The Institute of Osteopathy named her Principal of the Year in 2019, and she has been the resident on-screen osteopath for ITV’s This Morning. For corporate audiences she does something most wellbeing speakers cannot. She names what is physically wrong with the average hybrid workstation, and she treats burnout as a physical process that accumulates long before it surfaces in absence data. The practical question she leaves a room with is what to change before those numbers move. Key speaking topics Workplace ergonomics and musculoskeletal health Back pain prevention and management The physical accumulation of burnout Hybrid and remote-work wellbeing Physical sustainability in high performance The mind-body connection in pain and stress Posture, movement, and desk-based work Ideal for HR, people, and benefits leaders responsible for hybrid-work wellbeing and absence outcomes Health and safety, facilities, and workplace-design teams reviewing ergonomic standards Professional-services and finance firms with desk-bound, high-pressure workforces Women’s leadership programmes addressing the physical cost of sustained senior performance Audience outcomes A clinical, not anecdotal, picture of how hybrid working drives musculoskeletal injury Specific changes to workstation setup, posture, and movement that an employee can apply the same day The four-step approach to managing and preventing back pain from the Heal Your Back model How burnout builds physically before it shows in behaviour, and where to interrupt it A clearer line between psychological stress and physical symptoms, and what to do about both

Why organisations work with Amanda Hamilton A clinical nutrition practitioner who can hold a corporate audience. The combination of qualified therapist credentials and 25 years of mainstream BBC presenting is what allows her to land technical content on gut health, fasting and longevity without losing the room. Genuine subject authority on women’s mid-life health, an area most wellbeing programmes underserve. The Women’s Reset programme is built specifically around women aged 40+, the cohort employers are most often losing. A bestselling thesis on the gut-health-and-weight relationship, The G Plan Diet, that pre-dated the mainstream gut microbiome conversation and is still in print. Practical, non-dogmatic translation of biohacking, fasting and longevity science. Audiences leave with things they can actually do on Monday, not a manifesto. Biography highlights Nutritional therapist with 25+ years’ practice; member of the British Association of Nutritional Therapists and associate member of the Royal Society of Medicine. Co-host of the BBC’s Something for the Weekend with Tim Lovejoy and Simon Rimmer, and presenter on How to Live Longer, The Truth About… and The Spa of Embarrassing Illnesses. Author of The G Plan Diet (2017, with Hannah Ebelthite), Eat, Fast, Slim (Watkins, 2013), Life-Changing Weight Loss (Piatkus, 2008) and LifeDetox (Piatkus, 2007). Founder of The Women’s Reset, an app-based programme on nutrition, exercise, mindset and healthcare for women aged 40+. Currently pursuing an MSc in Obesity Science at Robert Gordon University. Past corporate and consulting work spans Marbella Club, MyFitnessPal, Nairns and OakNorth, alongside Harley Street longevity practice. Biography Most corporate wellness content fails the credibility test the moment a clinically literate employee asks a follow-up question. Amanda Hamilton has built a 25-year career on the opposite premise: that workforce audiences will engage seriously with nutrition, longevity and gut health, but only when the speaker can hold the science as well as the room. Her clinical grounding sits with the British Association of Nutritional Therapists and the Royal Society of Medicine, and she is currently pursuing an MSc in Obesity Science at Robert Gordon University. Her broadcast career, including years co-hosting the BBC’s Something for the Weekend and presenting How to Live Longer, taught her how to make that science conversational without watering it down. The G Plan Diet, published in 2017 with Hannah Ebelthite, brought the gut-weight relationship into the mainstream conversation before the microbiome became a wellness category in its own right. Earlier books with Piatkus and Watkins covered fasting, weight loss and detox protocols, work she has since extended through retreats, the Women’s Reset programme for women aged 40+, and Harley Street longevity practice. For corporate audiences this resolves a familiar problem. Wellbeing programmes lose authority when they over-promise; they lose engagement when they under-deliver. She works in the narrow band between clinical caution and practical usefulness, which is why she lands well with mid-life cohorts that have heard the generic version too many times. Key speaking topics Nutrition and gut health Longevity and healthspan Women’s mid-life health and menopause Corporate wellbeing and workforce vitality Fasting and metabolic health Biohacking and human optimisation Ideal for Heads of HR, reward and benefits, and wellbeing leads designing or refreshing employee health programmes Companies focused on retaining and supporting women aged 40+, including senior female talent Health, hospitality and wellness brands seeking a clinically credible voice on consumer-facing nutrition Audience outcomes A clearer view of which workplace health interventions are evidence-backed and which are not A practical understanding of how nutrition, sleep and fasting protocols affect energy and performance A more informed conversation about women’s mid-life health that goes beyond menopause headlines Specific, lifestyle-level changes employees can apply without needing a clinical referral

Why organisations work with Amy Thomson A founder who has actually built and sold in consumer markets twice, once in brand communications with Nike, Microsoft and Instagram as clients, and once in femtech with a venture-backed app and a Penguin-published book underneath it. Specific operating knowledge of category creation in stigmatised territory: how to position, fundraise, and market around hormonal health without the wellness-industry shortcuts that erode trust. A published Penguin title grounded in research from gynaecologists, endocrinologists and nutritionists, which means consumer health and pharma teams get a speaker with editorial credibility, not just a founder pitch. A first-person account of hormonal burnout as a CEO that resonates with leadership audiences, then connects to a commercial argument about why workforce health is being misread by employers. Biography highlights Founder and CEO, Moody Month, awarded “Top Female Health App” by Apple Author, Moody: A 21st Century Hormone Guide, Penguin Founder, SEEN brand agency, clients including Nike, Microsoft, RBS, Instagram and Diageo; sold to Captivate Group Co-founder, Future Girl Corp, with Sharmadean Reid, partnered with Google and Diageo Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London Keynote engagements include Apple HQ and Vogue Biography Most consumer health products built for women have been designed without a serious commercial thesis attached to female physiology. Thomson started Moody Month to close that gap, building a venture-backed app that tracks hormonal and mental health across the menstrual cycle. Apple named it “Top Female Health App” and featured it on the App Store Today Tab. Her route to femtech was operational. She founded SEEN at 23, a brand and content agency working with Nike, Microsoft, RBS, Instagram and Diageo, before selling the company to Captivate Group. A hormonal burnout, driven by years of high-intensity client work, forced her to stop. The decision to study what had happened to her body became the foundation for Moody and for her Penguin book, Moody: A 21st Century Hormone Guide, which draws on gynaecologists, endocrinologists and nutritionists rather than wellness orthodoxy. That dual track, agency exit then femtech category creation, gives her a particular usefulness to consumer health, FMCG and pharma teams trying to build credibly in physiology markets. She has co-founded Future Girl Corp with Sharmadean Reid, partnered Google and Diageo into that programme, and raised institutional capital around a product category most investors still find awkward to underwrite. The commercial argument she makes is concrete: hormonal health is a consumer market that has been mispriced by incumbents and underserved by wellness branding. For leadership audiences, the burnout story carries a sharper edge than the wellness circuit typically allows. It is told by a founder who walked away from a profitable agency, rebuilt around a physiological problem her own body forced her to take seriously, and then commercialised the answer. Key speaking topics Femtech and women’s health as a commercial category Consumer brand building in stigmatised markets Founder-led category creation Hormonal health, data and machine learning Raising venture capital as a female founder Burnout, physiology and executive performance Ideal for CMOs, brand directors and consumer innovation teams in FMCG, pharma and health Investor audiences in femtech, digital health and consumer technology Founder programmes and scale-up leadership networks Boards and leadership teams reviewing workforce health beyond standard wellbeing programming Audience outcomes A working commercial frame for women’s health as a consumer category, not a CSR line A founder’s account of fundraising in stigmatised markets, with the patterns that move investors A first-person view of hormonal burnout at CEO level and what it changed about her operating model A clearer read on why hormonal data is becoming a serious input for consumer product and workforce health

Meet Dr Yuvaraj S Lingappa Dr. Yuvaraj, a physician turned speaker, is an international inspirational, Motivational Speaker, Author, and corporate trainer. Dr. Yuvaraj’s educational background as a Physician, family counsellor, and peak performance strategist equips him to approach the subject of corporate stress from a broad perspective. He also offers stress counselling via Zoom webinars and seminars, apart from individual consultations. He has trained thousands of corporate executives, small and medium-sized businesses, and organisations worldwide in Corporate Stress Relief. Three internationally renowned psychologists trained him in the United States of America and the United Kingdom. He is passionate about educating and inspiring people to live their best lives and be the best versions of themselves. He is honoured to have assisted more than 24000 people across different areas of life. Apart from stress management, Dr Yuvaraj has extensive experience with weight loss management. He is passionate about teaching and has shared his knowledge with thousands of people in various countries. His programme is one-of-a-kind and is founded on scientific principles and practices. His life philosophy and commitment to ethics and others have endowed him with an uncommon level of integrity, enabling him to inspire others to live their best lives. He had the privilege of motivating more than 11,000 overweight and obese people to permanently lose weight. Dr Yuvaraj collaborated with 2 IT friends to develop a user-friendly weight loss app for Android, “SlimIsEasy”. The app is now available on the Android Play Store. The app is dedicated to 1.9 billion adults (190 Crores) in the world who are overweight or obese. The application serves as a platform for various services, including 24-hour phone consultation, free access to daily diet plans, a weight-tracking dashboard, a happiness index, calories/activity chart, convenient monthly goals, and daily motivational and weight loss tips.

Why organisations work with David Woods Bartley Certified national trainer in QPR (Question, Persuade, Refer), with additional credentials in Mental Health First Aid (Adult and Youth) and safeTALK. Audiences leave with a named, repeatable protocol, not awareness. Lived experience of severe depression, a suicide attempt at the Foresthill Bridge, and recovery through electroconvulsive therapy. The story carries the stigma-breaking weight that clinical presenters rarely match. Named 2021 Mental Health Champion by the Steinberg Institute, a credential anchored to a recognised advocacy body rather than bureau superlatives. Two TEDx talks in active distribution, including “How connection saved my life” on TED.com, which gives programme leads a vetted preview of voice and content before booking. Works across corporate, public sector, healthcare, education, and law enforcement audiences. Material has been delivered to sheriff’s departments, universities, and veterans’ health services, not only corporate wellness events. Biography highlights 2021 Mental Health Champion, Steinberg Institute. Two TEDx speaker: “How connection saved my life” (TEDxLosGatos) and “How to save a life by sitting down” (TEDxFolsom). National QPR trainer; certified in Mental Health First Aid (Adult and Youth) and safeTALK. Member of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, International Association for Youth Mental Health, National Storytelling Network’s Healing Story Alliance, and Active Minds. Founder and former director of a nationally recognised animal sanctuary that housed up to 100 special-needs animals. Designer of “A Lesson in Mental Health,” a whole-school programme that trains students, teachers, and parents in a single day. Biography Most organisations have a mental health policy. Very few have trained the average manager to spot a colleague in distress and say something that helps. That gap is the work David Woods Bartley has been doing for over a decade, in more than 800 sessions across the United States, Canada, Central America, and India. His authority rests on two things that rarely appear together. The first is lived experience: a fight with treatment-resistant depression that took him to the edge of the Foresthill Bridge, and a recovery that included electroconvulsive therapy and the human connection that, in his telling, kept him alive long enough to get there. The second is formal training. He is a national trainer in QPR, certified in Mental Health First Aid for adults and youth, and in safeTALK. Audiences leave with a protocol they can use, not a feeling. The Steinberg Institute named him a 2021 Mental Health Champion. His two TEDx talks, “How connection saved my life” at TEDxLosGatos and “How to save a life by sitting down” at TEDxFolsom, are in active distribution on TED and YouTube. He is a member of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, the International Association for Youth Mental Health, the National Storytelling Network’s Healing Story Alliance, and Active Minds. What he gives a room is a practical shift. Bartley uses a framework he calls Whole Person Care, animal stories drawn from two decades running a sanctuary, and the blunt honesty of someone who has stood on the bridge. Managers walk out knowing how to sit down next to a colleague who is not alright, ask a direct question, and get them to the next step. Key speaking topics Suicide prevention and QPR training Workplace mental health literacy Psychological safety and supportive conversations Human connection and isolation Whole Person Care Lived experience of depression and recovery Mental health education for schools and communities Ideal for CHROs, heads of wellbeing, and people function leaders building mental health capability across a workforce Line managers, team leaders, and EAP programme owners responsible for early intervention Public sector, healthcare, and education leaders tasked with staff and community mental health Law enforcement, first responder, and veterans’ services leadership addressing occupational risk Audience outcomes A named protocol for asking direct questions when a colleague shows signs of distress, drawn from QPR training. Language for starting mental health conversations without fearing the wrong word. A clearer sense of what recovery actually looks like, from someone who has been through severe depression and ECT. Reduced stigma around suicide as a topic that can be raised at work, supported by specific recognition cues and response steps. A self-care and wellness planning frame managers can apply to themselves before applying it to a team.

Zou Fragou operates professionally across the full spectrum of her expertise. She manages projects in culture transformation, employee training and development, business coaching, personal branding, public speaking, and writing for both private and corporate clients worldwide. She serves as a mentor for Women on Top, a feminist organization dedicated to workplace equality, and is a senior member of the Hellenic Institute of Coaching. Zou was recognized as the Best Career Coach at the Global Coaching Conference in 2021, ranked among the Top 15 Coaches in Athens in 2023, and is the number 7 global thought leader in coaching according to Thinkers360. Since September 2023, Zou has also been a consultant for WHO, focusing on leadership and mental health development for the organization’s executives.

Why organisations work with Dominique Gisin A first-hand account of nine knee surgeries followed by an Olympic gold, used not as a story arc but as material for how leaders sustain commitment when each new attempt carries diminishing odds. A rare combination of elite sporting pedigree with a scientific frame of reference: a Sochi 2014 gold medal alongside an ETH Zurich MSc in Physics, which lifts the conversation above motivational anecdote. Co-delivery with Dr Christian Marcolli, her long-time sports psychologist, gives organisations a paired performance-and-psychology view in a single keynote rather than a one-voice talk. Operational credibility outside sport: CEO tenure at Schweizer Sporthilfe and a current role as a commercial First Officer, both anchoring the talk in real decision environments. Bilingual delivery in German and English, with strong relevance to Swiss, German-speaking, and international corporate audiences. Biography highlights Olympic gold medallist, Alpine Skiing Downhill, Sochi 2014, in the first ever Olympic alpine tie for gold (with Tina Maze). Swiss Sportswoman of the Year, 2014. Member of the Swiss National Alpine Ski Team, 2007 to 2015, with multiple World Cup podiums in downhill and super-G. MSc in Physics, ETH Zurich, 2022. CEO of Schweizer Sporthilfe (Swiss Sports Aid Foundation) from October 2018. Commercial pilot licence holder; First Officer with Swiss airline Fly7. Biography The downhill at Sochi 2014 produced the first tie for gold in Olympic alpine history. Dominique Gisin shared the podium with Tina Maze on identical times to the hundredth, ending a thirty-year wait for a Swiss women’s downhill gold. The medal arrived after nine knee surgeries and a career that had been written off more than once. What gives the talk its weight is what happened after. Gisin retired from the World Cup circuit in 2015 and was admitted to ETH Zurich, completing an MSc in Physics in 2022. She qualified as a commercial pilot in 2019 and now flies as a First Officer for the Swiss carrier Fly7. Between 2018 and her later transitions, she served as CEO of Schweizer Sporthilfe, the foundation that funds Swiss athlete development. For senior audiences, the relevant content is not the medal itself. It is the discipline of repeated comeback under thin evidence, paired with a working understanding of how performance, physiology, and decision pressure interact. Her keynote “Making It Happen” is co-delivered with sports psychologist Dr Christian Marcolli, which moves the material beyond personal narrative into a structured account of how composure is built and rebuilt. The pairing of Olympic-level performance, scientific training, and operational responsibility in two further professions is unusual. It gives leadership audiences something specific to take away: a credible read on what it takes to keep deciding well when the body, the data, or the team are all giving reasons to stop. Key speaking topics Resilience after serious setback Composure and decision-making under pressure Elite performance psychology Career reinvention and second-act leadership Team trust and individual accountability Inspiration from elite sport for corporate audiences Ideal for Executive leadership offsites and board awaydays facing a turnaround or post-shock phase HR, talent and L&D leaders running senior development programmes on resilience and performance Sales and commercial conferences anchored on sustained motivation through difficult cycles Audience outcomes A concrete account of how elite athletes prepare for, absorb, and recover from setback, applied to leadership decisions Language for talking about composure as a built capability rather than a personality trait A working frame, drawn from sports psychology, for how individuals and teams stay committed when results are slow to arrive A second-perspective view through Dr Christian Marcolli when the keynote is booked as a duo

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.