Health & Wellbeing speakers

Why organisations work with Peter Diamandis He has built the institutions that defined modern moonshot thinking. XPRIZE, Singularity University and the International Space University are his, not references he cites. Diamandis turned a USD 10 million prize into the catalyst for a private space industry now valued in the hundreds of billions. Boards get a practitioner view of how incentive design unlocks markets. His three New York Times bestsellers with Steven Kotler give executives a shared vocabulary, abundance, exponential, convergence, that travels easily into strategy offsites and board reviews. Through Abundance360 and BOLD Capital Partners he is in continuous contact with the founders building the next wave of AI, longevity and space companies, which keeps the content current rather than retrospective. He frames technology as a commercial and human opportunity, not a threat narrative, which lands with leadership teams that need their organisation to move from caution to considered ambition. Biography highlights Founder and Executive Chairman, XPRIZE Foundation, originator of the Ansari XPRIZE won by SpaceShipOne in 2004. Co-founder and Executive Chairman, Singularity University, with Ray Kurzweil. Co-founder, International Space University, 1987. New York Times bestselling author of Abundance, BOLD and The Future Is Faster Than You Think, with Steven Kotler. Named by Fortune in 2014 as one of the World’s 50 Greatest Leaders. Founder or co-founder of more than 25 companies across space, longevity, venture capital and education, including Planetary Resources, Human Longevity Inc, Celularity, Space Adventures and Zero Gravity Corporation. Holds degrees in molecular genetics and aerospace engineering from MIT and an MD from Harvard Medical School. Biography Most boards plan five years ahead while the technologies reshaping their markets are doubling in capability every eighteen months. The result is strategy that ages faster than it ships. This is the territory Peter Diamandis has spent three decades mapping, first as the entrepreneur who built XPRIZE to prove that private teams could reach space, then as the co-founder of Singularity University with Ray Kurzweil to teach leaders how to think about what compounds. The Ansari XPRIZE, announced in 1996 and won in 2004 by SpaceShipOne, was an early demonstration of his core thesis. A well-designed incentive can move a market faster than a government programme. That logic now sits behind the private space industry and a generation of XPRIZE competitions in fields from carbon removal to longevity. Boards meet a practitioner who has used the same mechanism repeatedly at scale, not a commentator describing it. His three bestsellers with Steven Kotler, Abundance, BOLD and The Future Is Faster Than You Think, give leadership teams a working language for AI, robotics, biotech and the convergence between them. Through Abundance360, his community of founders and investors, and BOLD Capital Partners, he keeps a direct line to the companies operationalising these technologies. The keynote draws on what he is funding and seeing now, not on case studies that have already cycled through the business press. His training is unusual for a futurist. Molecular genetics and aerospace engineering at MIT, an MD from Harvard Medical School, and the co-founding of the International Space University while still in medical school. That depth is what allows him to talk credibly to a healthcare board about longevity and to an industrials executive about space, in the same week, without the content collapsing into generality. Key speaking topics Exponential technologies and business strategy Artificial intelligence and convergence with robotics, biotech and energy Innovation, moonshot thinking and incentive prize design Future of work and leadership in accelerating environments Longevity, healthspan and the science of human performance Space, frontier industries and new commercial markets Entrepreneurship and the building of category-defining ventures Ideal for CEO and board audiences setting strategy under exponential technology pressure Innovation, R and D and corporate venture leaders rethinking how bets are made Healthcare, life sciences and longevity leadership teams Founders, scale-up CEOs and investors at private capital and family office gatherings Audience outcomes A working sense of which technologies are converging, on what timeline, and what that means for their industry A vocabulary for moonshot thinking and 10x targets that survives the trip back to the executive team Concrete examples of how incentive design and prize mechanisms have unlocked markets that traditional R and D could not A clearer view of where AI, longevity and space are creating new revenue categories rather than only disrupting existing ones Renewed appetite among senior leaders for ambition that is grounded in what is now technically achievable

Why organisations work with Rachel Clarkson She is a Health and Care Professions Council registered dietitian, not a nutritionist or wellness coach, which puts her workplace content inside the standard of evidence that clinical and benefits leaders can stand behind. Her nutrigenomics specialism, built through King’s College London training and a clinical partnership with Nutrigenomix at the University of Toronto, lets her translate gene-nutrient interaction into practical eating guidance for non-clinical audiences. The Eat The DNA Way framework gives corporate audiences a structured way to think about personalised nutrition, rather than the rotating list of trends that wellbeing programmes usually offer. Media credibility is established in outlets benefits and comms teams already trust, including BBC Future, The Guardian, Vogue and Healthista, which makes internal positioning of her sessions straightforward. She speaks as a clinician who runs a Harley Street practice, so audience questions on weight management, gut health, hormones and energy land with practical, individual-level answers rather than generic talking points. Biography highlights Founder of The DNA Dietitian, a Harley Street consultancy focused on nutrigenomics and personalised nutrition. MSc Nutritional Science and Postgraduate Diploma in Dietetics, King’s College London. Former Clinical Dietitian at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Trust, with rotational training across the Royal Marsden, Imperial College Healthcare and St Thomas’s. Guest Lecturer on the MSc programme at St Mary’s University, London. Clinical partner of Nutrigenomix, the genetic testing company founded at the University of Toronto. Featured in BBC Future, The Guardian, Vogue, Tatler, Cosmopolitan, Grazia, Women’s Health and Men’s Health. Biography Corporate wellbeing spend has risen for a decade, and most workforces still feel tired, distracted and unsure what to eat. The gap is not awareness. It is specificity. Generic nutrition advice cannot account for how different people actually metabolise caffeine, respond to saturated fat, or tolerate carbohydrate, which is why so much wellbeing content fails to translate into behaviour change. That is the gap nutrigenomics closes, and it is the territory Rachel Clarkson works in. Trained as a dietitian at King’s College London and clinically grounded through NHS rotations at Chelsea and Westminster, the Royal Marsden, Imperial College Healthcare and St Thomas’s, she now runs The DNA Dietitian from Harley Street. Her clinical partnership with Nutrigenomix, the testing company founded at the University of Toronto, sits behind a method she calls Eat The DNA Way. She holds a guest lecturing position at St Mary’s University, London, where she teaches nutrigenomics on the MSc programme, and she contributes to literature in the field. The combination, regulated clinical credentials plus a specialism most general nutrition speakers do not have, is what makes her credible to a board-level audience asking whether wellbeing budget can be made to do real work. In rooms of HR, benefits and people leaders, she translates a complex science into practical guidance her audience can act on the same week, with the same evidential standard she applies in clinic. That is rare in the workplace wellbeing market, and it is the basis on which her work has been picked up across BBC Future, The Guardian, Vogue and Healthista. Key speaking topics Personalised nutrition and nutrigenomics Corporate wellbeing programme design Workplace energy, focus and cognitive performance Weight management and cardiometabolic health Gut health, IBS and digestion Hormonal health across the working life Longevity and healthspan in the workforce Ideal for CHROs, heads of people and benefits leaders reviewing their wellbeing strategy Internal health, safety and wellbeing committees commissioning content for staff Professional services and finance firms with high-performance cultures and energy management questions Women’s networks and ERGs running hormonal health, menopause or energy programming Audience outcomes A working understanding of how nutrigenomics differs from generic nutrition advice and where it can usefully apply at work Specific, evidence-based answers to the questions employees most often ask about weight, energy, gut health and hormones A clinical frame of reference for assessing wellbeing vendors and content offered to the workforce Personal next steps each attendee can apply to their own eating pattern within the week

Why organisations work with Dr Ranj Singh Clinical authority on health and wellbeing, drawn from active NHS paediatric emergency practice and membership of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, not a wellness brand. A broadcast track record that translates into the room: five years as resident doctor on ITV’s This Morning, two BAFTA Children’s Awards for Get Well Soon, and a Sunday Times bestseller in Save Money Lose Weight. First-person credibility on LGBTQ+ inclusion as a Sikh-heritage gay clinician, recognised with the 2019 Attitude Award for advocacy on ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ representation. A communicator who has spent a career simplifying medical information for non-specialist audiences, including pandemic misinformation work, which means complex health and inclusion content lands with employees who would tune out a textbook talk. Biography highlights NHS clinician specialising in paediatric emergency medicine; member of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health since 2007. Resident doctor on ITV’s This Morning, 2016 to 2021. Co-creator and host of CBeebies’ Get Well Soon and Get Well Soon Hospital; winner of BAFTA Children’s Awards in 2016 and 2018. Sunday Times bestselling author of Save Money Lose Weight (Transworld, 2019); children’s titles with Oxford University Press and Hachette. Attitude Award winner, 2019, for representation of ethnic minorities and LGBTQ+ people in media. Honorary doctorate from Canterbury Christ Church University, February 2025, for contributions to public life and medical science. Biography Most workforces have heard the wellbeing message before. They have sat through resilience modules, downloaded the meditation app, and still report record sickness absence. The reason is rarely the content. It is who is delivering it. That is the problem Singh’s profile is built to solve. He is a working NHS paediatric emergency doctor and a member of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, with the clinical grounding to talk about physical and mental health without slipping into the language of corporate wellness. Five years as the resident doctor on ITV’s This Morning, alongside two BAFTA Children’s Awards for Get Well Soon, gave him the rarer skill of making medicine intelligible to viewers who are not patients yet. The same mix shapes his work on inclusion. As a gay clinician from a Sikh background, Singh writes and speaks about LGBTQ+ representation with the authority of someone who has lived the question. The Attitude Award in 2019 recognised that body of media advocacy. His Sunday Times bestseller Save Money Lose Weight, columns for Attitude and NetDoctor, and his pandemic work countering health misinformation extend the same instinct into print and public health. In February 2025 Canterbury Christ Church University awarded him an honorary doctorate for his contribution to public life and medical science, a useful marker of how seriously the clinical and academic community takes the broadcast persona. Key speaking topics Employee mental health and wellbeing Health communication for non-clinical audiences LGBTQ+ inclusion and intersectional identity Burnout and pressure in high-stakes professions Public health, misinformation and trust Diversity, representation and lived experience Ideal for CHROs, heads of wellbeing and DEI leads building credible mental health and inclusion programmes Healthcare, life sciences and public-sector audiences seeking a clinician’s voice Internal conferences and employee networks marking Pride, Mental Health Awareness Week, or South Asian heritage moments Leadership audiences in regulated industries where trust and communication matter as much as policy Audience outcomes A clearer language for talking about mental and physical health at work, grounded in clinical reality rather than wellness slogans Sharper understanding of how identity, family expectation and culture shape who speaks up about health and who stays silent Practical reframes for managers on supporting LGBTQ+ employees and ethnic minority staff without performative gestures Confidence to address health misinformation in workforces, including on vaccines, diet and mental health A more honest conversation in the room about pressure, burnout and asking for help

Why organisations work with Ray Kurzweil A documented forecasting record stretching from 1990’s The Age of Intelligent Machines through to The Singularity Is Nearer in 2024, allowing leaders to test their own planning assumptions against predictions that have already been scored against reality. Foundational practitioner credibility: Kurzweil invented the first omni-font optical character recognition, the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, the Kurzweil 250 synthesiser, and the first commercially viable large-vocabulary speech recognition. He is a technologist who built the technology he describes. Thirteen years at Google leading work on natural language understanding, ending in 2025, give audiences direct insight into how today’s frontier AI labs actually think about machine intelligence. The Law of Accelerating Returns is the most cited framework for why technology trajectories defeat linear planning, giving boards a structured way to argue about long-range bets. Currently Chief AI Officer at Beyond Imagination, the humanoid robotics company he co-founded in 2018, which puts him inside the operating problems of deploying AI into physical industrial environments rather than at a remove from them. Biography highlights Recipient of the 1999 U.S. National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the highest U.S. honour in technology, awarded by President Clinton. 2001 Lemelson-MIT Prize ($500,000) and inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2002. Author of The Age of Intelligent Machines (1990), The Age of Spiritual Machines (1999), The Singularity Is Near (2005), How to Create a Mind (2012), and The Singularity Is Nearer (2024). Co-founder of Singularity University at NASA Ames Research Center; co-founder and Chief AI Officer of Beyond Imagination, valued at $500 million in its 2025 Series B. Director of Engineering, then Principal Researcher and AI Visionary at Google from 2012 to 2025, focused on natural language understanding. Named to the Time 100 AI list (2024); holds 21 honorary doctorates and a Technical Grammy Award. Biography By 2009, computers were supposed to be in our pockets, recognising speech well enough to take dictation and reading text aloud to blind users. They were. The predictions came from a 1999 book that struck many of its original readers as fanciful. The inventor who wrote it had already built the first three of those technologies himself. That inventor is Ray Kurzweil. His Law of Accelerating Returns, articulated in that 1999 book and elaborated in The Singularity Is Near in 2005, holds that information technologies progress along smooth exponential curves. As one paradigm exhausts itself, capital and talent flow toward whatever comes next, and the underlying curve continues. The authority comes from rare breadth. Kurzweil invented omni-font optical character recognition, the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, the Kurzweil 250 synthesiser, and the first commercial large-vocabulary speech recognition. President Clinton awarded him the 1999 National Medal of Technology. He spent thirteen years at Google leading work on natural language understanding, ending in 2025 as Principal Researcher and AI Visionary. The 2024 sequel The Singularity Is Nearer revisited those predictions in light of the AI advances of the preceding decade and concluded that human-level AI by 2029 still held. Since 2025 he has served as Chief AI Officer at Beyond Imagination, the humanoid robotics company he co-founded, which raised $100 million in Series B funding at a $500 million valuation that year. The work places him inside the operational reality of deploying AI into physical industrial environments. Key speaking topics Artificial intelligence and the path to AGI The Law of Accelerating Returns and exponential technology Long-range AI and computing forecasts Human-machine convergence and brain-computer integration Biotechnology, longevity, and the merging of biology with computation Innovation cycles and the economics of technological disruption Ideal for CEOs, CTOs, and chief strategy officers planning multi-year technology investments Boards and executive committees stress-testing long-range corporate plans Innovation, R&D, and AI leadership teams inside large enterprises Industry conferences on AI, future of technology, healthcare innovation, and technology strategy Audience outcomes An empirical map of how computing power, gene sequencing speed, and AI capability have actually doubled over recent decades, against which to test internal forecasting assumptions. Concrete forecast dates for human-level AI, brain-computer integration, and the Singularity, with the reasoning behind each. A view of which earlier Kurzweil predictions have been validated by the current AI moment and which remain open. Sharper instincts for spotting linear extrapolations sitting inside long-range corporate plans. A common reference point for boards and leadership teams arguing about long-range technology investment.

Why organisations work with Robert Winston A first-hand pioneer of in vitro fertilisation and the team that, with Alan Handyside in 1990, developed pre-implantation genetic diagnosis at Hammersmith Hospital. Few speakers can explain the genetic revolution from inside the laboratory that built it. Royal Society Michael Faraday Prize winner for communicating science, with three decades of presenting flagship BBC science series, including The Human Body, Child of Our Time and Walking with Cavemen. The translation skill is verified by the audience and by the Society. An active legislator on biomedical policy in the House of Lords, named Peer of the Year in 2008 for his work on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill. Buyers get the scientist, the broadcaster and the lawmaker in one room. Chairman of the Genesis Research Trust, which has raised more than £13 million to fund women’s reproductive health research at Imperial College London. The credentials are operational, not honorary. Biography highlights Professor of Science and Society and Emeritus Professor of Fertility Studies, Imperial College London. Life peer as Baron Winston of Hammersmith, 1995; Labour peer in the House of Lords; Peer of the Year, 2008. Royal Society Michael Faraday Prize, 1999, for the public communication of science. Presenter of BBC series Your Life in Their Hands, The Human Body, Child of Our Time, Walking with Cavemen and The Story of God; The Human Body won three BAFTAs. Chancellor of Sheffield Hallam University, 2001 to 2018; founder of Imperial’s Wohl Reach Out Lab for school-age science. Author of more than 20 books and over 300 peer-reviewed scientific papers on human reproduction and genetics. Biography Pre-implantation genetic diagnosis was developed at Hammersmith Hospital in 1990 by a team including Alan Handyside and Robert Winston. That single breakthrough redrew the moral and commercial map of reproductive medicine: it allowed embryos to be screened for inherited disease, and it forced a generation of legislators, ethicists and clinicians to argue out where the limits of human genetic intervention should sit. Winston was at the centre of that argument, and has stayed there. His credentials are unusually operational. He is Professor of Science and Society and Emeritus Professor of Fertility Studies at Imperial College London. He chairs the Genesis Research Trust, which has raised more than £13 million for reproductive health research at Imperial. As Baron Winston of Hammersmith, he sits as a Labour peer in the House of Lords and was voted Peer of the Year in 2008 for his work on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill, the legislation that defines what is and is not permissible in UK fertility science. The public face is just as substantial. The Royal Society awarded him the Michael Faraday Prize in 1999 for communicating science. Three decades of BBC science programming, including The Human Body, Child of Our Time and Walking with Cavemen, have given him an unusual ability to make complex biology comprehensible to non-specialist audiences. The Human Body alone won three BAFTAs. For organisations, the value is direct. Winston speaks with the authority of a scientist who built the technology, the political experience of a legislator who has to govern it, and the practiced clarity of a broadcaster who has spent thirty years explaining it. Key speaking topics Genetics and the future of human reproduction Ethics of biomedical and reproductive technology Public understanding of science IVF, fertility and pre-implantation diagnosis Innovation in medical research Science policy and regulation Health, ageing and the human body Ideal for Boards and executive teams in pharmaceuticals, biotech, healthcare and medical devices. Healthcare and life sciences leadership conferences, clinical academies and research bodies. Innovation, R&D and technology strategy forums where biomedical ethics is on the agenda. After-dinner audiences at university, livery, professional society and corporate events. Audience outcomes A clear, non-technical account of how genetic science actually works, and where it is going next. Informed perspective on the ethical and regulatory questions that follow from genetic and reproductive technology. Direct exposure to the thinking of a scientist who has shaped both UK fertility law and frontline IVF practice. A sharper sense of how to communicate complex science to non-specialist boards, regulators and publics.

Why organisations work with Rory Cowlam His 2020 book The Secret Life of a Vet (Hodder & Stoughton) makes a specific structural argument: that mental health breakdown in demanding professions is driven by systemic design – appointment length, absence of emotional processing time, cultural silence – not individual weakness. This gives audiences a framework, not just a story. As Clinical Director and co-founder of Pickles Vets, he has built a wellbeing-first practice model from the ground up, which means his arguments about workplace culture come with operational proof, not just principles. His own experience of dyslexia – sustained across a high-stakes clinical career – gives him a credibility on neurodiversity that is qualitatively different from speakers who come to the topic from coaching or consultancy. His platform as Blue Peter’s resident vet and regular contributor to BBC Breakfast and ITV’s Lorraine demonstrates an unusual ability to translate clinical complexity into plain, accessible language – directly relevant for organisations communicating sensitive topics to broad internal audiences. As a co-founder of VidiVet, a digital platform designed to extend veterinary access and reduce pressure on overstretched clinical teams, he brings a practical, innovation-oriented lens to workforce sustainability. Biography highlights Clinical Director and co-founder, Pickles Vets, Fulham, London – an RCVS-registered, wellbeing-first membership veterinary practice Graduate of the Royal Veterinary College, London (BVetMed PgCert MRCVS), qualified 2015 Author of The Secret Life of a Vet (Hodder & Stoughton, 2020) – Amazon bestseller addressing mental health in clinical professions Lead talent and presenter, The Pets Factor, CBBC; resident vet, Blue Peter (BBC, since 2019); regular contributor to BBC Breakfast and ITV’s Lorraine Ambassador, British Dyslexia Association and StreetVet; RSPCA ambassador Co-founder, VidiVet – a digital veterinary advice platform designed to improve access and reduce workload pressure on clinical teams Nominated, Vet of the Year, Animal Star Awards (2018 and 2019) Biography The veterinary profession has one of the highest rates of burnout and mental health difficulty of any skilled workforce in the UK. Rory Cowlam has been arguing, publicly and with clinical authority, that this is not a coincidence – and not a personal failing. It is what happens when a system is designed around throughput rather than people. His 2020 book The Secret Life of a Vet, published by Hodder & Stoughton and an Amazon bestseller, made that argument in direct, first-person terms. It did not frame mental health as a welfare footnote; it placed it at the centre of what makes or breaks professional culture in high-pressure environments. As Clinical Director and co-founder of Pickles Vets in London, Cowlam has since built a practice model that tests those arguments in practice – longer appointments, staffed-to-capacity teams, and transparency on pricing as foundations for a working environment that retains talented clinicians rather than burning them out. His own dyslexia, navigated through a demanding clinical training and a broadcast career spanning The Pets Factor (CBBC), Blue Peter, BBC Breakfast, and ITV’s Lorraine, gives him a lived, professionally grounded perspective on neurodiversity that organisations rarely encounter from a speaker. He does not speak about dyslexia as a historical obstacle overcome; he speaks about it as a continuing factor in how he works, leads, and communicates. A graduate of the Royal Veterinary College and co-founder of VidiVet, a digital platform extending veterinary access, Cowlam sits at a distinctive intersection: practising clinician, published author, broadcast communicator, and operational founder. For organisations wrestling with retention, neurodiversity inclusion, and the gap between wellbeing policy and workplace reality, he offers something specific – a structural diagnosis, not a motivational remedy. Key speaking topics Mental health and burnout in high-pressure professions Neurodiversity and dyslexia in professional environments Wellbeing by design – structural approaches to workforce sustainability Veterinary practice and the realities of clinical leadership Communicating complex expertise to public audiences Animal welfare, charity engagement, and purpose at work Ideal for CHROs and people directors in healthcare, clinical, and high-pressure professional services organisations Wellbeing leads and occupational health teams Early careers and graduate development audiences in clinical and technical professions Diversity and inclusion leads focused on neurodiversity strategy Audience outcomes A reframing of mental health from individual issue to structural design question – with practical implications for how teams are built and managed Clearer language for discussing neurodiversity in professional settings, grounded in lived clinical experience rather than theory An understanding of what a wellbeing-first workplace model looks like operationally, drawn from Cowlam’s own practice at Pickles Vets Greater confidence in communicating specialist expertise to non-specialist audiences – a skill Cowlam models directly in his broadcast work Honest perspective on what high-pressure career paths actually demand, useful for early careers programmes and talent retention conversations

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 Sally Gunnell The only woman in history to have concurrently held Olympic, World, European and Commonwealth 400m hurdles titles plus the world record, which gives wellbeing and performance content a level of competitive proof very few speakers can match. Runs an ongoing corporate wellbeing programme rather than a single keynote, with a network of coaches, nutritionists and advisors that allows the message to be embedded inside a client’s existing health and engagement workstreams. Translates elite preparation into specific workplace habits around recovery, mental fitness, goal setting and pressure management, in language that lands with non-athlete employee audiences. Over a decade as a BBC Sport athletics presenter and four published books on fitness, wellbeing and self-fulfilment, which means she communicates to mixed corporate audiences with broadcast-trained clarity. A credible figure for senior sponsors of wellbeing and culture programmes who need an external voice their CEO will respect and their wider employee base will actually listen to. Biography highlights Olympic 400m hurdles gold medallist, Barcelona 1992. World record holder at 52.74 seconds, set winning the 1993 World Championships in Stuttgart. Only woman to have concurrently held Olympic, World, European and Commonwealth 400m hurdles titles plus the world record. Appointed MBE in 1993, OBE in 1998, and Deputy Lieutenant of West Sussex in 2011. BBC Sport athletics presenter for over ten years; co-hosted ITV’s Body Heat 1994 to 1996. Author of four books on health, fitness and wellbeing, including Be Your Best and Ten Hurdles in Life. Biography The gap between elite performance language and what actually changes behaviour inside a workforce is wider than most wellbeing programmes admit. Sally Gunnell’s corporate practice is built around closing it. She runs an ongoing wellbeing programme with a network of coaches, nutritionists and advisors, designed to sit alongside a client’s existing leadership, engagement and health agenda rather than land as a one-off keynote. The competitive record behind that work is unusual. At Barcelona 1992 she won Olympic gold in the 400m hurdles, becoming the first British woman to win an Olympic track gold since Ann Packer in 1964. The following year in Stuttgart she set a world record of 52.74 seconds to take the World Championship, and remains the only woman to have concurrently held Olympic, World, European and Commonwealth titles in the event plus the world record. Her communication base was built outside athletics. She spent over a decade with BBC Sport as an athletics presenter, co-hosted ITV’s Body Heat in the mid-1990s, and has written four books on fitness, wellbeing and self-fulfilment, including Be Your Best and Ten Hurdles in Life. That combined broadcasting and authorship background is why her sessions translate cleanly to mixed corporate audiences rather than reading as sports anecdote. She was appointed MBE in 1993, OBE in 1998, and Deputy Lieutenant of West Sussex in 2011. For organisations whose wellbeing and high-performance work has plateaued, she gives the agenda a credible external voice and a programmatic structure to attach it to. Key speaking topics Workplace wellbeing programmes Mental fitness and resilience High-performance habits Goal setting and personal accountability Sustained performance under pressure Health and lifestyle in the workplace Teamwork and motivation Ideal for CHROs and heads of wellbeing scoping multi-year mental health and performance programmes. Internal communications and engagement leads anchoring a company-wide wellbeing or culture campaign. Sales, operations and frontline leadership teams working on resilience and sustained performance. Conference organisers building a wellbeing or high-performance track for a mixed corporate audience. Audience outcomes A clearer model of what elite preparation, recovery and pressure management look like translated into office and frontline work. Specific habits to take into goal setting, mental fitness routines and managing setbacks. A shared organisational vocabulary linking individual wellbeing to team and business performance. Renewed motivation grounded in a verifiable competitive record, not generic inspiration.

Why organisations work with Sally Penni She founded and chairs Women in the Law UK, the largest professional development network for women in the legal profession in the country, giving her firsthand evidence of what fair progression looks like when it is built as an institution rather than announced as a policy. Her authority on fair progression is grounded in active legal practice at Kenworthy’s Chambers, a Bencher position at Gray’s Inn, and appointment to the International Criminal Court list of counsel. The argument carries weight because the practitioner is real. Through the Talking Law podcast she has interviewed Lord Pannick KC, Jolyon Maugham KC, the Treasury Solicitor, and other figures at the top of the UK legal system, building a body of recorded conversation about leadership, culture, and reform inside one of the most conservative professions. Her board portfolio spans the Royal Exchange Theatre, Arawak Walton Housing Association, the Access to Justice Foundation, and a part-time judicial role at the Valuation Tribunal, so the perspective is informed by governance experience across cultural, housing, legal, and judicial settings. She was awarded an MBE specifically for diversity, social mobility, and law, a recognition of practical contribution rather than profile, and one that signals to senior buyers that the work has stood up to external scrutiny. Biography highlights Practising barrister at Kenworthy’s Chambers, Manchester, specialising in criminal, employment, public, and data protection law. Founder and chair of Women in the Law UK, the professional development organisation she established in 2012. MBE for services to diversity, social mobility, and law, Queen’s Birthday Honours 2020. Two honorary doctorates in law, from Manchester Metropolitan University (2022) and the University of Salford (2023). Bencher of Gray’s Inn. Appointed to the list of counsel for the International Criminal Court. Companion of the Chartered Management Institute (CCMI) and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA); author of the Talking Law book series; TEDx speaker. Host of two podcasts, Talking Law and The Law and Guidance Podcast. Talking Law features senior UK legal figures including Lord Pannick KC and the Treasury Solicitor. Non-Executive Director at the Royal Exchange Theatre and Arawak Walton Housing Association; Trustee, Access to Justice Foundation; part-time judge, Valuation Tribunal for England. Biography The legal profession is one of the most credentialled and slowest-moving institutions in British public life. It is also one of the places where the gap between stated values and lived experience is most visible. Sally Penni MBE has spent her career working that gap from the inside, as a practising barrister, an institution-builder, and a public voice on what it takes to widen access to a closed profession. She practises at Kenworthy’s Chambers in Manchester across criminal, employment, public, and data protection law, and sits as a part-time judge on the Valuation Tribunal for England. She is a Bencher of Gray’s Inn and on the International Criminal Court list of counsel. The institutional standing matters because it is the basis on which the rest of the work is taken seriously inside the profession. In 2012 she founded Women in the Law UK, now the country’s largest professional network for women in legal practice. Her Talking Law podcast, and a second show, The Law and Guidance Podcast, have built a record of conversation with senior figures of the bar, including Lord Pannick KC and the Treasury Solicitor. Through the same network she has built a substantial body of work on women’s health at work, including menopause, and the legal duties employers carry. Outside the law she sits on boards across theatre, housing, and access to justice, including the Royal Exchange Theatre, Arawak Walton Housing Association, and the Access to Justice Foundation. That work has been recognised on its own terms. An MBE in 2020 for diversity, social mobility, and law, honorary doctorates in law from Manchester Metropolitan University in 2022 and the University of Salford in 2023, and appointment as a Companion of the Chartered Management Institute. The recognition points at one thing: a body of work that has changed institutions rather than commented on them, recorded in the Talking Law books drawn from the same conversations that built the podcast. Key speaking topics Values-based leadership Women in leadership and the legal profession Social mobility and access to the professions Mentorship and talent development Governance and board-level standards Wellbeing and resilience in professional careers Law, regulation, and the future of the legal profession Women’s health, menopause, and the law at work Ideal for General Counsel, Chief Legal Officers, and senior in-house legal teams setting standards on culture and how the firm develops its people Chief People Officers, CHROs, and heads of talent designing culture and progression strategy for professional and regulated workforces Boards, NEDs, and chairs reviewing governance standards on culture, social mobility, and access Senior partners and managing partners at law firms, chambers, and professional services firms Employers and people teams developing menopause and women’s-health policy under employment-law obligations Audience outcomes A clearer view of what values-based leadership requires when the organisation is regulated, conservative, and resistant to change Direct reference points from inside the legal profession on building durable institutions for under-represented talent A sharper standard for telling genuine culture change apart from communications Practical perspective on mentoring, sponsorship, and progression at senior levels A grounded view of employers’ legal duties around menopause and women’s health at work, from a practising barrister rather than a consultant

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 Sean Conway He has lived the extreme version of the problem most leadership teams face: producing output every day, for months, while conditions degrade. The lessons translate because they were earned under measurable load. His 105-Ironmans-in-105-days record is a documented case study in pacing, recovery design and decision-making under fatigue, not a metaphor for one. He is one of a handful of people who hold multiple unsupported world records across disciplines, which gives him standing to speak on consistency over years, not single-event peak performance. Practical content for leaders: how to set targets so ambitious that conventional planning breaks, then build the operating rhythm to hit them anyway. Biography highlights World record: 105 consecutive full-distance Ironman triathlons in 105 days, 2023. World record: longest triathlon, 4,200 miles around the coast of Britain, 2016. World record: fastest unsupported solo cycle crossing of Europe, Portugal to Russia in 24 days, 18 hours, 39 minutes, 2018. First person to swim the length of Britain, 900 miles, 2013. Author of seven books, including Hell and High Water (Penguin Random House). Featured on Rich Roll, BBC, 220 Triathlon and national press for endurance records. Biography The hardest problem in endurance is not the peak day. It is the eighty-fourth day, when the body is broken, the conditions are worse than forecast, and the decision is whether to continue at all. Conway has solved that problem more times than almost anyone alive. In 2023 he completed 105 full-distance Ironmans in 105 days, beating the previous world record by four. The achievement matters less than the operating system behind it: a daily structure of swim, bike, run, eat, sleep, repeat, designed so that performance held when motivation could not. He has applied the same discipline to swimming the length of Britain, cycling unsupported across Europe faster than anyone before him, and circumnavigating Britain by swim, bike and run. His route to this work is unusual. He arrived in the UK from Zimbabwe with limited means, built a corporate photography business, sold it for £1 to fund a first round-the-world cycle, and has worked as a full-time endurance athlete and writer ever since. Seven books, published by Penguin Random House and others, document the practical content of how the records were built. What he gives senior audiences is the engineering of long-haul output: how to set targets that conventional planning would reject, how to design recovery so it produces capacity rather than guilt, and how to make decisions cleanly when the body and the conditions are voting no. Key speaking topics Ultra-endurance performance Resilience under prolonged stress Goal setting beyond conventional limits Recovery and pacing as performance disciplines Decision-making under fatigue Mindset for sustained output High-performance habits Ideal for Leadership teams running multi-year transformation or turnaround programmes Sales, operations and delivery functions facing extended high-output periods Executive offsites focused on resilience, performance and ambition setting Conferences seeking a credible peak-performance keynote with verifiable record-breaking achievements Audience outcomes A working model for sustaining output across long periods, drawn from a documented 105-day case. A sharper view of how recovery and pacing produce performance, rather than restrict it. Concrete techniques for decision-making when fatigue and conditions are working against you. Permission and a method for setting targets the rest of the planning system would reject.

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.