Health & Wellbeing

Why organisations work with Julie Montagu Four published wellness books with a major UK trade publisher, including Recharge: A Year of Self-Care to Focus on You (Little, Brown, 2018), give her wellbeing material a structured, tested foundation rather than a personal-anecdote frame. She runs a live teaching practice through Whole Self Yoga, including 200-hour teacher training, so the content she delivers to a corporate room is the same content she teaches week to week, not a keynote-only construct. Her cross-cultural vantage point, American by upbringing, English Countess by marriage, makes her an unusual host and after-dinner choice for events that need warmth and storytelling alongside subject expertise. She is an experienced broadcast voice, with royal and heritage commentary credits across BBC and CNN coverage of the Sussex wedding, the Platinum Jubilee, the Queen’s funeral and the Coronation, which translates directly into stage presence and live-event composure. Her academic work on American heiresses of the British Gilded Age, completed as an MA with Distinction at the University of Buckingham, gives her a serious second register for heritage, leadership history and women-in-power conversations. Biography highlights Author of Superfoods, Eat Real Food, Superfoods Superfast and Recharge: A Year of Self-Care to Focus on You, published by Little, Brown / Piatkus. Author of Secrets of an English Country House: A Year at Mapperton, published in 2024. Founder of Whole Self Yoga, including a 200-hour yoga teacher training programme. MA with Distinction in English Country House Studies, University of Buckingham, 2021. Royal and heritage commentator for BBC and CNN across the Sussex wedding, Platinum Jubilee, Queen Elizabeth II’s state funeral and the Coronation of King Charles III. Television credits including Bravo’s Ladies of London and Smithsonian Channel’s An American Aristocrat’s Guide to Great Estates. Co-custodian of Mapperton Estate in Dorset alongside Luke Montagu, 12th Earl of Sandwich. Biography Most corporate wellbeing programmes are built by people who have never had to keep one going through a 70-hour week. Julie Montagu is not one of them. She trained and qualified as a yoga teacher and nutrition educator while raising four children, wrote four books with Little, Brown on plant-forward eating and structured self-care, and built Whole Self Yoga, a teaching practice that includes a 200-hour teacher training programme. Recharge, published in 2018, is the title that travels best into corporate rooms. It is built as a month-by-month framework rather than a lifestyle manifesto, which is why it lands with audiences who have heard the wellbeing pitch many times and want something they can actually use on Monday. The second register is heritage. Montagu lives at Mapperton Estate in Dorset, the seat of the Earls of Sandwich, and completed an MA with Distinction at the University of Buckingham on American heiresses of the British Gilded Age. That work fed Secrets of an English Country House: A Year at Mapperton, published in 2024, and a steady run of royal commentary for BBC and CNN across the Sussex wedding, the Platinum Jubilee, the Queen’s funeral and the Coronation. The result is a speaker who can hold a corporate wellbeing keynote with real depth, then host the dinner that follows it with the kind of cross-cultural ease most subject-matter experts cannot offer. For organisations that want both substance and presence, that combination is what makes the booking commercial. Key speaking topics Self-care and wellbeing for high-pressure careers Yoga, nutrition and sustainable energy management Resilience and burnout prevention Female leadership and personal reinvention British heritage, country houses and royal traditions Corporate event hosting and after-dinner speaking Ideal for Corporate wellbeing days and HR-led leadership offsites Women’s leadership networks and ERG events Executive retreats where wellbeing is the headline rather than a side track Awards dinners, hosted panels and after-dinner engagements requiring a heritage or transatlantic register Audience outcomes A clear, month-by-month structure for self-care that survives a real working calendar Practical anchors on nutrition, movement and recovery that do not require a lifestyle overhaul A more honest read on what burnout looks like before it becomes attrition An hour with a speaker who can carry both the substance of wellbeing content and the warmth of a strong host

Why organisations work with Kate Silverton A trusted, recognisable broadcaster who can hold a room of senior leaders, run a Q&A with executives, and chair a panel without losing the thread, which is why McLaren, KPMG, Transport for London, NatWest, Lloyds, and American Express have used her at conferences and ceremonies. A qualified child therapist trained through Place2Be, with a BSc in Psychology and clinical practice, which makes her credible to parental-leave, family-benefits, and employee-wellbeing audiences in a way few broadcasters are. Author of two Sunday Times bestsellers on child development, including an instant Sunday Times number one, giving her a defined public thesis on how the developing brain shapes behaviour. Two decades of frontline reporting, including Iraq and Afghanistan for Panorama, which gives her real ballast when chairing serious conversations rather than purely celebratory ones. Ambassador roles with Place2Be, the Anna Freud Centre, NSPCC, and Trauma Informed Schools UK, which sit naturally alongside corporate ESG, mental health, and family-benefits commitments. Biography highlights Former BBC News presenter, including BBC News at One and BBC Weekend News, and Panorama reporter from Iraq and Afghanistan. BSc in Psychology; qualified child therapist trained through the Place2Be charity. Author of “There’s No Such Thing As ‘Naughty'”, an instant Sunday Times No.1 bestseller, and its follow-up “There’s Still No Such Thing As ‘Naughty'”. Conference and awards host for Transport for London, KPMG, NatWest, Lloyds, McLaren, the NHS, and American Express. Ambassador for Place2Be, the Anna Freud Centre, NSPCC, NHS Maudsley Foundation Trust, and Trauma Informed Schools UK. Contestant on BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing, Series 16, in 2018. Biography Most parenting advice is folklore. Silverton’s books are a deliberate counter to that, written by a journalist who went back to the science. “There’s No Such Thing As ‘Naughty'” reached number one on the Sunday Times bestseller list on release, and the follow-up volume covered the primary years on the same evidence base. The route to that work is unusual. Two decades inside the BBC, presenting BBC News at One and BBC Weekend News, and reporting from Iraq and Afghanistan for Panorama, gave her the public profile. A BSc in Psychology and a clinical retraining through the Place2Be charity gave her the substance. She qualified as a child therapist in 2023 and now combines clinical practice with writing and corporate work. For organisations, the value sits in two places. The first is hosting craft. Conferences and award ceremonies for Transport for London, KPMG, NatWest, Lloyds, McLaren, the NHS, and American Express trust her to chair senior conversations and run executive Q&As without losing rigour. The second is content. When the brief is wellbeing, working parents, or the emotional regulation that sits underneath leadership composure, she has a defined thesis grounded in clinical work and published research, not anecdote. Her ambassadorial work with Place2Be, the Anna Freud Centre, NSPCC, NHS Maudsley Foundation Trust, and Trauma Informed Schools UK keeps her connected to the front edge of children’s mental health practice in the UK, which is the source material her keynote draws on. Key speaking topics Children’s mental health and emotional development The science of parenting and behaviour Working parents and family-friendly workplaces Employee wellbeing and emotional regulation Conference hosting and panel moderation After-dinner speaking Ideal for Heads of HR, reward, and benefits leaders shaping parental and family wellbeing programmes Conference and event organisers needing a senior, calm, journalistically credible host Internal communications and leadership-development teams running wellbeing or working-parent strands Award ceremony and industry-event organisers seeking a trusted on-stage presenter Audience outcomes A clearer model of how brain development shapes the behaviour of children, and what that implies for parents inside the workforce Practical language for managers and HR leaders speaking to working parents on stress, regulation, and family pressure A grounded view of what employer-sponsored mental health and family support actually has to do to make a difference For hosted events, sharper executive Q&As, tighter panel discussions, and a credible on-stage thread between sessions

Why organisations work with Kate Garraway She brings the rare combination of a national household name and a serious, specific subject: the lived reality of being a working carer, drawn from her own years caring for her late husband Derek Draper. Her interviewing craft is honed on live national television. She handles unscripted rooms, sensitive subject matter and senior executives on stage with the same control she shows on Good Morning Britain. Three consecutive National Television Awards for her authored documentaries give her authority on duty-of-care and social-care themes that few corporate speakers can match. She moves credibly between hosting an awards night, anchoring a conference, conducting an on-stage CEO interview and delivering a personal keynote on resilience, without changing register awkwardly between formats. Her MBE for broadcasting, journalism and charity makes her a natural fit for client events that need a name guests recognise from their breakfast television. Biography highlights Main presenter on ITV’s Good Morning Britain since launch in 2014. Host of the weekday mid-morning show on Smooth Radio since 2014. Host of ITV’s Life Stories, succeeding Piers Morgan, from 2021. MBE in the 2022 New Year Honours for services to broadcasting, journalism and charity. Author of two Sunday Times bestsellers, The Power of Hope (2021) and The Strength of Love (2023). Winner of three National Television Awards for her ITV documentaries Finding Derek, Caring for Derek and Derek’s Story, plus a TRIC Special Award for her broadcasting career. Biography The hardest conversations in modern workplaces are not about strategy. They are about the colleague managing a parent’s dementia, the senior leader whose partner has a long-term illness, the high performer whose home life has quietly become a second full-time role. Kate Garraway has spent the last five years living and reporting that reality in public. Most viewers know her from ITV’s Good Morning Britain, where she has been a main presenter since the programme launched in 2014, and from her weekday show on Smooth Radio. The wider broadcasting CV runs through GMTV, Daybreak and ITV’s Life Stories, the long-running interview series she took over from Piers Morgan in 2021. The TRIC Special Award and her 2022 MBE for services to broadcasting, journalism and charity sit alongside that work. The body of work that gives her something distinctive to say to corporate audiences is more recent. After her husband Derek Draper became one of the UK’s most seriously affected long Covid patients, she made three authored documentaries for ITV, Finding Derek, Caring for Derek and Kate Garraway: Derek’s Story, each of which won the National Television Award for Best Authored Documentary. Her two memoirs, The Power of Hope and The Strength of Love, were Sunday Times bestsellers and turned her into one of the country’s most quoted voices on caring, resilience and the social-care system. What she offers in a corporate room is a presenter who can hold a live audience for a full event and, when the brief calls for it, speak with first-hand authority on what it actually costs employees to look after someone they love while staying in their job. Key speaking topics Working carers and the hidden workforce Resilience and personal leadership through crisis Long-term illness and return-to-work Mental health and wellbeing at work Live event hosting and on-stage interviewing Awards hosting and conference moderation Broadcast journalism and media interviewing Ideal for Conferences and awards evenings looking for a household-name host with strong interview craft. HR, reward and benefits leaders building credible support for working carers and employees with long-term illness. Wellbeing, DEI and ERG events that need a public figure who can speak from experience rather than theory. Boards and leadership offsites running an on-stage CEO or guest interview where a trained journalist adds value. Audience outcomes A clearer view of what caring responsibilities look like inside their own workforce, and how often they go unspoken. Practical language for managers having difficult conversations with employees facing serious illness at home. A grounded perspective on resilience that does not flatten into motivational cliche. For hosted formats, a tightly run event with senior guests interviewed at the level they expect from national television.

Why organisations work with Jessica Ennis-Hill Her experience of performing as the public face of a home Olympics – carrying national expectation while managing injury recovery and a multi-discipline competition – gives leaders a concrete, pressure-tested model of composure under scrutiny that no training programme replicates. As founder of Jennis, she has applied elite athletic methodology to a commercial problem – closing the gender data gap in sport and exercise science – giving her credibility in conversations about evidence-based decision-making and innovation, not just personal achievement. Her perspective on women’s health and female performance, backed by clinical collaboration with physiologist Dr Emma Ross and a funded femtech business, adds substance to DEI and wellbeing conversations that goes well beyond lived experience. She has maintained a high-profile public platform post-retirement – BBC lead analyst across four Olympic cycles, Times columnist, podcast host – which means audiences arrive with recognition and trust already established. Her career narrative – career-threatening injury before Beijing 2008, gold in London 2012, return from maternity leave to World Championship gold in 2015 – gives her a specific, sequenced story about recovery and reinvention that senior leaders find directly applicable to organisational context. Biography highlights Olympic heptathlon gold medallist, London 2012; silver medallist, Rio 2016; three-time World Heptathlon Champion; European Champion; World Indoor Pentathlon Champion Appointed DBE in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to athletics BBC Sports Personality of the Year Lifetime Achievement Award, 2017 – second woman and first British woman to receive the award Founder of Jennis, a femtech platform using CycleMapping technology developed with women’s health physiologist Dr Emma Ross; raised £1M in pre-seed funding, 2021 Regular BBC athletics analyst: Olympic Games 2020 and 2024, World Athletics Championships 2019, 2022 and 2023, Commonwealth Games 2018 and 2022 Columnist for The Times; host of Gold Minds podcast (High Performance network); author of autobiography Unbelievable Psychology graduate, University of Sheffield Named in Forbes 30 Most Influential Under 30s in Europe, 2016 Biography Jessica Ennis-Hill won Olympic heptathlon gold at London 2012 as the publicly designated face of the Games – carrying a level of expectation that few athletes at any level have been asked to manage. That she delivered one of the most complete performances in the event’s history, having missed the Beijing Games entirely through injury four years earlier, is the foundation of everything she brings to a business audience. The comeback from a career-threatening stress fracture, the return from maternity leave to win the World Championship in Beijing in 2015, and the silver medal in Rio in 2016 give her career a specific structure – repeated reinvention under constraint – that organisations find more useful than a single triumph. The discipline behind those performances: meticulous preparation, managing uncertainty, performing at the moment that matters, is the substance of her speaking work. Post-retirement, she has built a second career with genuine intellectual weight. As founder of Jennis, she identified a specific commercial and scientific gap – most sport and exercise research is conducted on male subjects, leaving women without evidence-based training guidance – and built a femtech business to address it, in clinical partnership with physiologist Dr Emma Ross and backed by institutional investment. That work sits inside a broader argument about female performance and health that she has developed as a BBC analyst, Times columnist, and podcast host. For organisations, she represents something specific: a high-performer who has tested the connection between preparation, recovery, and execution across multiple high-stakes moments, and who has since applied that understanding to build a credible entrepreneurial venture. That combination – elite athletic credential plus founder experience plus sustained media presence – is what separates her from the broader field of sports motivational speakers. Key speaking topics Peak performance under pressure Resilience and recovery from setback Leading through reinvention and uncertainty Women’s health and the gender data gap in performance science Preparation, process, and high-stakes execution Entrepreneurship and building from elite expertise Mindset and mental performance Ideal for Senior leadership teams and executive conferences seeking a performance mindset frame grounded in real-world pressure CHROs and people leadership forums addressing female talent, wellbeing, and the conditions that enable sustained high performance Organisations navigating periods of change or recovery who need a credible, non-generic narrative around reinvention Boards and C-suite audiences where public recognition and media credibility matter alongside substantive content Audience outcomes A concrete, sequenced model of how elite performers build resilience – not as a trait but as a practiced discipline – that teams can apply to their own context Greater clarity on the specific role preparation and process play in sustaining performance under public scrutiny, with direct organisational parallels An evidence-based perspective on women’s health and performance science that gives HR and people leaders new language and framing for wellbeing conversations Sharper thinking on what recovery from setback actually requires, drawn from a career defined by structured comebacks rather than uninterrupted success A founder’s account of translating elite expertise into commercial impact – relevant to innovation, entrepreneurship, and growth conversations

Why organisations work with Janey Lee Grace She brings a national-broadcast voice to a workplace wellbeing topic most internal teams avoid raising: how alcohol shows up in meetings, client entertainment, conferences and team rituals. Her coaching method is built around grey area drinkers, the majority of working adults who are not clinically dependent but whose drinking quietly affects sleep, mood, decision-making and presenteeism. The Sober Club gives her a live evidence base of what actually shifts behaviour at scale, drawn from a community of members and an accredited coach training programme, not theory alone. She is credible to a senior audience: 25+ years on BBC Radio 2’s Steve Wright in the Afternoon, a TEDx talk on sobriety, and the Amazon No. 1 bestseller Imperfectly Natural Woman. She speaks about alcohol culture without moralising, which is the practical reason internal sponsors trust her in front of mixed audiences. Biography highlights Co-presenter for more than two decades on BBC Radio 2’s Steve Wright in the Afternoon Founder of The Sober Club, an online community and coaching business focused on alcohol-free living Host of the Alcohol Free Life podcast, 450+ episodes, ranked by the publisher in the top 5% globally TEDx speaker, Sobriety Rocks: Who Knew!, TEDxNorwichED, 2019 Author of Happy Healthy Sober, the Amazon No. 1 bestseller Imperfectly Natural Woman, and the memoir From Wham to Woo Founder of the Janey Loves Platinum Awards, an annual awards programme for the natural and wellbeing sector, in its tenth year Biography Most workplaces are quietly built around alcohol. It anchors networking events, end-of-quarter celebrations, client dinners and the social glue between teams. Wellbeing programmes rarely touch it, because the topic feels personal and the social cost of raising it feels too high. That gap is the territory Janey Lee Grace works in. Her route into the subject is unusually credible. She spent more than two decades as a co-presenter on BBC Radio 2’s Steve Wright in the Afternoon, one of the most listened-to shows in the UK, and built a parallel career as an author of bestselling books on natural health, including the Amazon No. 1 Imperfectly Natural Woman. In January 2018 she stopped drinking. The Sober Club, the coaching practice, the Alcohol Free Life podcast and the TEDx talk Sobriety Rocks: Who Knew! followed. What she offers organisations is not a personal story dressed up as a talk. It is a practical argument grounded in the concept of grey area drinking, the working population who are not dependent but whose drinking shapes how they sleep, recover, present and decide. She is a qualified Grey Area Drinking Coach, an NLP Practitioner and an EFT practitioner, and she trains other coaches through an accredited programme. The Sober Club gives her a continuous read on what shifts behaviour for working adults outside a clinical setting. The point for a senior audience is not abstinence. It is to make alcohol a legible part of a wellbeing strategy: visible in policy, visible in event design, visible in how leaders model the social contract of work. That is a conversation most organisations have not had, and she is one of the few public figures equipped to start it without the room going defensive. Key speaking topics Workplace alcohol culture and wellbeing strategy Grey area drinking and performance at work Sobriety, sober-curious living and behaviour change Mental health and the social contract of work Natural health and holistic wellbeing Personal reinvention and second-act careers Ideal for HR, wellbeing and culture leads designing post-pandemic wellbeing programmes DEI and employee resource group sponsors looking at inclusion of non-drinkers and recovering drinkers Internal communications and events teams rethinking the role of alcohol at company events Professional services and finance leaders where client entertainment culture is a live issue Audience outcomes A language for discussing alcohol at work that does not moralise or alienate drinkers The grey area drinking framework as a way to think about wellbeing risk in the working population Specific prompts for redesigning company events, client entertainment and team rituals A clearer view of how alcohol intersects with sleep, mood, presenteeism and decision quality Permission, for leaders who want it, to model a different default

Why organisations work with Gabby Logan She holds a live room when the stakes are highest. The BBC handed her the post-Lineker Match of the Day and the main presenting chair at the 2024 Paris Olympics because she steadies high-pressure, high-scrutiny broadcasts in real time, which is exactly the demand of a flagship corporate event. She interviews for a living. Two decades of live, unscripted conversation with athletes, executives, and public figures means she can run a fireside or onstage Q&A that gets past prepared answers, not just read autocue. She brings a second audience most sports broadcasters cannot. Through The Mid•Point and her menopace and women’s-strength advocacy, she reaches a midlife and women’s-health audience, which makes her credible for internal culture, wellbeing, and women’s-network events as well as sport. She has earned recognition outside the studio. An OBE in the 2026 New Year Honours for services to broadcasting and charity, following a 2020 MBE, signals a public reputation buyers can put their name next to. Biography highlights Lead presenter of BBC’s Match of the Day from the 2025/26 season, one of three hosts who succeeded Gary Lineker after his 26-year run Main BBC presenter at the 2024 Paris Olympics and lead anchor for the 2022 and 2025 Women’s Euros, both won by England Appointed OBE in the 2026 New Year Honours for services to broadcasting and charity; appointed MBE in 2020 for services to sports broadcasting and promoting women in sport Co-host of The Sports Agents podcast with Mark Chapman, launched by Global in 2024 as a sports extension of the chart-topping News Agents brand Host of The Mid•Point podcast and author of The First Half (2022 autobiography) and The Midpoint Plan Former international rhythmic gymnast for Wales at the 1990 Commonwealth Games; Law graduate of Durham University Biography The BBC spent a year deciding who could replace Gary Lineker on Match of the Day after 26 years. The answer was a rotating trio, and Gabby Logan was on it. That choice tells you what broadcasters value in her: she can carry a flagship programme through a fragile transition without the show feeling like it has lost its footing. Her career runs through almost every major event in British sport. She anchored the 2024 Paris Olympics for the BBC, led coverage of the 2022 and 2025 Women’s Euros as England won both, and co-presented the 2024 BBC Sports Personality of the Year. She began as a radio presenter in 1992, moved to Sky Sports in 1996, and was among the first women to front terrestrial football coverage, a position she held while the industry was still openly sceptical that she belonged in it. That experience of operating under scrutiny became its own subject. Her 2022 autobiography The First Half and her long-running podcast The Mid•Point opened a second platform on midlife, menopause, and reinvention, reaching an audience far beyond sport. As a Menopace ambassador and advocate for women’s strength training, she now speaks to questions of health, purpose, and staying in the game that resonate well outside a stadium. What a buyer is hiring is judgment under live pressure. An OBE in the 2026 New Year Honours and a 2020 MBE mark a public reputation, but the working proof is simpler: when the BBC needed someone to hold its most-watched football programme together through change, it chose her. Key speaking topics Sports broadcasting and live event hosting Women in male-dominated industries Midlife transition and reinvention Menopause and women’s health awareness Resilience and performing under public scrutiny Career longevity and reinvention Ideal for Conference organisers needing an experienced host or moderator for a flagship multi-day event or awards ceremony Women’s networks and internal culture leads programming around midlife, menopause, and career longevity Leadership and all-staff events wanting an onstage interviewer who can run a credible fireside or Q&A After-dinner and gala audiences wanting a recognisable broadcaster with warmth and live-room control Audience outcomes A flagship event held together by a host who keeps energy and coherence across a full programme Onstage interviews that reach beyond rehearsed answers to something the audience remembers A frank account of building and sustaining a career in an industry that resisted her presence A candid, practical perspective on midlife and menopause that an audience leaves talking about

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

Key speaking topics Breathwork for stress management Emotional regulation through breathing practices Focus and performance optimisation Sleep and recovery strategies Wellbeing in high-pressure environments Resilience and personal reset Ideal for Senior leaders and executives operating in high-pressure environments HR and wellbeing leaders seeking practical mental wellbeing tools Corporate teams navigating sustained stress or change Organisations integrating wellbeing into performance strategy Audience outcomes Practical breathing techniques to manage stress in real time Greater understanding of how breath influences focus and emotional state Tools to support sleep and recovery Strategies to reset after pressure or disruption Increased awareness of personal stress responses Why organisations work with Stuart Sandeman Combines breathwork practice with experience in financial markets and performance environments Delivers structured, practical sessions suitable for corporate audiences Integrates music and guided breathing to create immersive learning experiences Brings broadcast and publishing credentials that reinforce professional credibility Biography Stuart Sandeman works with organisations and leadership teams to translate breathwork into a practical tool for managing stress, improving focus and supporting emotional regulation in high-pressure environments. His approach is grounded in structured breathing practices designed for real-world corporate settings, from senior leadership forums to large-scale conferences. He is the founder of Breathpod, a breathwork and music-led wellbeing business that delivers keynotes, workshops and coaching programmes. His sessions integrate guided breathing with curated music to create immersive experiences that help teams reset, refocus and recover. Stuart is the author of Breathe In, Breathe Out, published by HarperCollins, and the host of BBC Radio 1’s Decompression Session. These platforms have established him as a recognised voice in the field of breathwork and wellbeing, extending his reach beyond the conference stage into broadcast and publishing. Before moving into breathwork full-time, Stuart worked in financial markets in the UK and Asia. He also worked as a DJ and music producer, experience that informs the distinctive rhythm and structure of his live sessions. He holds a black belt in judo and has competed at national level, bringing a performance mindset to his work with corporate audiences. Drawing on experience across performance, media and high-pressure professional environments, Stuart delivers commercially relevant sessions that equip organisations with practical tools to support resilience, focus and sustainable performance.

Robert Holden’s background Robert Holden, Ph.D., is Director of success Intelligence and The Happiness Project. His innovative work on Success and happiness has been featured on Oprah, Good Morning America, a PBS special Shift Happens! and in two major BBC-TV documentaries, The Happiness Formula and How to Be Happy. His services as a keynote speaker, consultant and coach are employed worldwide by organizations and brands such as Dove & the Real Beauty Campaign, Unilever, the Body Shop, IBM, Google and Virgin. Robert has presented two TEDx talks on Destination Addiction and The Tea Meditation. He has given over 100 keynotes to industry and 50 keynote talks for I CAN DO IT! conferences worldwide. Robert is a New York Times bestselling author of 10 books, including Happiness NOW!, Authentic Success (formerly titled Success Intelligence), Shift Happens!, Loveability, Holy Shift! and Life Loves You (co-written with Louise Hay). He is an official contributor to Oprah.com and for the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, hosts a weekly show on Hay House Radio called Shift Happens! He posts daily on  his facebook and official website.

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 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 Owen O’Kane A clinical record that buyers can trust. Former NHS Clinical Lead for a London mental health service, with twenty-five years of frontline practice across palliative care and psychotherapy. That credential separates substantive mental health work from the wellness market. Four Sunday Times bestsellers, including Addicted to Anxiety and Ten to Zen, give him a body of public-facing work that audiences have already read. Sessions land faster because people arrive with context. A method built from CBT, mindfulness, psychotherapy and EMDR, condensed into practical daily techniques people use the same week. Not aspirational, usable. Broadcast fluency from his role on BBC One’s Change Your Mind, Change Your Life and resident slot on BBC Radio 5 Live. He communicates clinical content to non-clinical audiences without losing the substance. Credibility with sceptical workforces. The combination of an Irish working-class background, openness about his own mental health, and a clinician’s vocabulary lets him reach senior leaders and frontline staff in the same room. Biography highlights Former NHS Clinical Lead for mental health in London; previously Palliative Care Lead and Cognitive Psychotherapist, West Middlesex Hospital Sunday Times bestselling author: Ten to Zen, Ten Times Happier, How to Be Your Own Therapist (HarperCollins/HQ), and Addicted to Anxiety (Penguin, 2025) Featured psychotherapist on BBC One’s Change Your Mind, Change Your Life with Matt and Emma Willis Resident expert on BBC Radio 5 Live; former Attitude magazine columnist Corporate clients include Vodafone, Virgin Atlantic, BBC Worldwide and Universal Content Group Trained across cognitive psychotherapy, mindfulness, CBT and EMDR Biography Workplace mental health has become a budget line, not a result. Engagement scores stall, sickness absence climbs, and the most loaded staff quietly disengage. The honest question for senior leaders is whether the support on offer would actually help someone in real distress, or whether it is reassurance theatre for the people commissioning it. Owen O’Kane has spent twenty-five years working at the harder end of that question. Trained as a cognitive psychotherapist after early years in palliative care, he went on to lead clinical mental health services inside the NHS, including roles at West Middlesex Hospital and within the London mental health system. The clinical training underwrites everything that follows. His books, Ten to Zen, Ten Times Happier, How to Be Your Own Therapist and Addicted to Anxiety, are all Sunday Times bestsellers and share a single discipline: take the evidence base from CBT, mindfulness, psychotherapy and EMDR, and translate it into something a busy person can use in ten minutes. Addicted to Anxiety, published by Penguin in 2025, treats chronic anxiety as a learned habit rather than a permanent state, which is the argument he brings into corporate rooms. He is one of four therapists featured on BBC One’s Change Your Mind, Change Your Life, hosted by Matt and Emma Willis, and a resident expert on BBC Radio 5 Live. That broadcast fluency matters in keynotes: he can hold a room of senior leaders and a room of frontline staff with the same material, without diluting the clinical content for either. Key speaking topics Workplace anxiety and burnout Mental health for leaders and high-pressure teams Practical psychotherapy techniques for daily use Resilience and emotional regulation Stress management and recovery Building cultures that support genuine mental health Ideal for CHROs and heads of people designing mental health and wellbeing strategy beyond box-ticking provision Executive teams and senior leaders carrying chronic decision pressure High-pressure functions including legal, finance, sales, clinical and frontline operations Internal wellbeing leads who need a credentialed clinical voice to anchor a campaign or summit Audience outcomes A clear distinction between everyday stress and the clinical signals that need different action A short daily practice drawn from CBT, mindfulness and psychotherapy that people can run inside ten minutes Permission for senior leaders to name anxiety and pressure out loud, supported by evidence rather than slogans Language for managers to have better conversations about mental health with their teams A more honest internal assessment of whether existing wellbeing provision matches the level of distress staff actually carry