Health & Wellbeing speakers

Why organisations work with Shirley Ballas A live-television presence with nearly a decade on the Strictly judging panel, comfortable hosting awards nights, fundraisers and after-dinner sessions on the same scale as the corporate audiences in front of her. Forty years of performing at the highest level of competitive Latin dance, including ten US Latin American titles and three British Open World titles, gives her a credible voice on sustaining standards over a long career. A working ambassador for the Campaign Against Living Miserably and Suicide and Co, with a personal account of losing her brother to suicide that gives weight to mental health programming inside organisations. President of the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing, the institutional credential that distinguishes her from celebrity speakers without a substantive professional body behind them. Biography highlights Head Judge, BBC One Strictly Come Dancing, since 2017. Three-time British Open to the World Latin American Champion; ten-time United States Latin American Champion; 17-time British Open finalist. President of the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing. Author of Behind the Sequins: My Life (John Blake, 2020). Ambassador for the Campaign Against Living Miserably and Suicide and Co; Appeal Ambassador for Alder Hey Children’s Charity 7in10 Mental Health campaign. Inducted into the United States and Great Britain Dance Halls of Fame; three-time recipient of the Carl Alan Award. Biography Competitive Latin dance is a brutal long-game discipline. Most champions peak briefly and disappear. By 21, Shirley Ballas had already won nearly every major Latin title available, and she stayed at the top of the international circuit until retiring from competition in 1996. That career produced three British Open World Latin Championships, ten US Latin American titles, and 17 British Open finals across a single division. It also produced the credibility that took her into adjudication and coaching at the highest international level, and on into the President’s chair at the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing. Since 2017, Ballas has been the Head Judge on Strictly Come Dancing, the role Len Goodman vacated. The BBC seat is the live-television equivalent of her competitive career: scored every week by an audience of millions, with no margin for an off night. Her 2020 autobiography Behind the Sequins covers the cost of that life, including a working-class start in Wallasey, two marriages, and the loss of her brother David to suicide in 2003. That loss is the basis for her public mental health work. Ballas is an ambassador for the Campaign Against Living Miserably and for Suicide and Co, and an Appeal Ambassador for Alder Hey Children’s Charity’s 7in10 mental health campaign. Inside corporate rooms her draw is the combination of celebrity recognition and a serious, lived account of resilience and male-suicide awareness. Key speaking topics Resilience and recovery from personal loss Performance under pressure Mental health advocacy and male suicide awareness Sustained excellence across a long career Live broadcast and high-profile judgement Event hosting, Q&A and after-dinner Ideal for Awards nights, gala dinners and charity fundraisers seeking a recognisable host with a substantive personal story. Internal corporate events on resilience, wellbeing or mental health, particularly programmes addressing male mental health. Employee engagement and recognition events looking for a high-profile broadcast personality for Q&A or fireside formats. Audience outcomes A first-hand account of staying at standard across four decades of competitive performance and live television. A direct personal perspective on grief, suicide loss and the work of CALM and Suicide and Co. A Q&A or fireside conversation that lands with audiences who know her from Strictly Come Dancing. A glamorous and confident hosting presence for awards, gala or recognition formats.

Why organisations work with Shiulie Ghosh A live news anchor’s instincts on stage. Two decades fronting breaking coverage at the BBC, ITV, and Al Jazeera English means she handles a panel that has gone off-script the way she handled a rolling news studio. A working subject base in the topics global summits actually convene around: health, climate, sustainable development, food systems, and humanitarian affairs. She is not learning the brief on the train. Trusted repeatedly by the World Health Organization and UN bodies, including chair roles at the World Health Assembly, the World Heart Summit, and the UN World Investment Forum. A track record reporting from inside the stories that shape the room, from Kosovo and the Asian Tsunami through the Arab Spring, the killing of Bin Laden, and the death of Nelson Mandela. That experience reads in how she handles serious subject matter on stage. Biography highlights Launch anchor for Al Jazeera English when the channel went on air from Doha on 15 November 2006, then a senior anchor for the international channel until the end of 2015. Former Home Affairs Editor at ITV News and a former BBC News journalist, with a career in network television news that began as a BBC News trainee in 1990. Currently a presenter at TRT World’s London bureau and director of her own UK media services company, Aero Productions Ltd. Named Best Television News Journalist at the BT Ethnic Multicultural Media Awards in 2001, and won the Association of International Broadcasting’s Editor’s Choice Media Excellence Award for hosting Every Woman. Chair of high-level panels at the World Health Assembly, the World Heart Summit, and the UN World Investment Forum, with regular moderating work for WHO and UN agencies. Author of the Daughter of Kali urban fantasy trilogy, Kingdom of Salt, Mark of the Djinn, and Realm of Sirens, all published since 2018. Biography The hardest job at most senior summits is not being on the panel. It is running the panel. Whoever holds the chair decides whether four prepared statements turn into an actual exchange, whether a minister gets pressed or politely deferred to, and whether the audience leaves with a sharper view of the issue or a vaguer one. Ghosh has spent more than two decades inside that craft. She came up through British network television news. A BBC News trainee in 1990, then eight years at the BBC, then ITV News from 1998, where she rose to Senior Correspondent and Home Affairs Editor. In 2006 she became one of the launch anchors of Al Jazeera English, opening the channel’s broadcast from Doha and remaining a senior anchor until late 2015. Today she anchors at TRT World’s London bureau and runs her own media services company, Aero Productions, in Buckinghamshire. The work that takes her on stage now is moderation. She chairs panels at the World Health Assembly, the World Heart Summit, and the UN World Investment Forum, and works regularly with WHO and UN agencies on debates covering global health, climate, sustainable development, food systems, and humanitarian affairs. The reporting CV is part of why those organisations book her: she has filed from Kosovo, from the Asian Tsunami, from the Arab Spring, on the killing of Bin Laden, on the death of Nelson Mandela. Recognition has come from inside the industry. She was named Best Television News Journalist at the BT Ethnic Multicultural Media Awards in 2001 and picked up the Association of International Broadcasting’s Editor’s Choice Media Excellence Award for Every Woman, a series on women’s issues worldwide. Outside the studio she is also a published novelist, with the Daughter of Kali urban fantasy trilogy, Kingdom of Salt, Mark of the Djinn, and Realm of Sirens all in print since 2018. Key speaking topics Conference moderation and panel chairing Global health and the World Health Assembly agenda Climate, sustainability, and energy transition convening Humanitarian affairs and international development Food systems and food security Diversity in international broadcasting Ideal for CEOs, communications directors, and event leads commissioning a chair for an annual conference, AGM, or investor day Heads of public affairs at NGOs, multilaterals, and global health bodies running ministerial panels or donor convenings Sustainability and ESG leads running summits on climate, energy transition, or food systems Internal communications teams running senior leadership town halls or all-hands events that need a credible external host Audience outcomes A panel that produces actual exchange between speakers, not four parallel statements Tight stage timing across complex multi-stakeholder agendas, including ministerial slots Subject-literate questioning on health, climate, energy, and humanitarian topics, without primer-level explanation from the room A room that leaves with a clearer sense of where the speakers actually agreed and disagreed

Why organisations work with Stephanie Decker A first-person account of decision-making under conditions most leaders will never face, told without the polish of a manufactured story arc. A speaker whose post-event work, including testimony before the Kentucky Senate on prosthetic insurance reform and a foundation supporting child amputees, gives the keynote a verifiable second act beyond the survival narrative. National media recognition from ABC World News, Today, USA Today and People Magazine, alongside L’Oreal Paris 2014 Women of Worth honouree status, that travels with the booking. A message tuned to audiences carrying personal weight: cancer advocacy networks, senior management teams in pressured industries, sales teams running long campaigns. Biography highlights Survived an EF4 tornado in Henryville, Indiana on 2 March 2012, shielding her two children from collapsing debris; both legs subsequently amputated. Founder of the Stephanie Decker Foundation, established 2012, supporting child amputees with access to prosthetics and competitive sports. Named one of L’Oreal Paris 2014 Women of Worth honourees, selected from over 4,000 applicants. Awarded Daily Point of Light Award #5433 in March 2015. Testified before the Kentucky Senate in 2013 advocating for state-level prosthetic insurance reform. Featured nationally on ABC World News Tonight as Person of the Week with Diane Sawyer, The Today Show, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, USA Today, USA Weekend and People Magazine. Biography On 2 March 2012, an EF4 tornado destroyed a house in Henryville, Indiana. Stephanie Decker was inside, holding two children against her body while the structure collapsed. The children walked out without serious injury. Decker did not. Both of her legs were amputated. What followed is the part that matters for an audience. Within months of the event she founded the Stephanie Decker Foundation, focused on two narrow, concrete missions: access to competitive sports for children with prosthetics, and access to current prosthetic technology for those whose insurance does not cover it. In 2013, she testified before the Kentucky Senate in support of state-level reform on prosthetic coverage. In 2014, she was named one of ten L’Oreal Paris Women of Worth honourees, selected from more than four thousand applicants. In 2015, Points of Light recognised her with Daily Point of Light Award #5433. The keynote works because the speaker has done the thing she is talking about, and because she did not stop after the story ended. Audiences hearing the survival account are also hearing from someone who built and ran a national advocacy effort while learning to walk again. That is the substance behind the resilience claim. The relevance to a corporate audience is narrower than her bureau billing sometimes suggests. Decker is not a leadership theorist or a workplace researcher. What she offers is a specific reference point for composure under pressure that personal, that immediate, and that consequential, delivered by someone whose subsequent decade of work supports the message. Key speaking topics Resilience after sudden personal crisis Decision-making under extreme pressure Building advocacy organisations from personal experience Recovery and reinvention after life-altering injury Personal agency and adaptive mindset Family, courage and protective instinct Ideal for Sales conferences and annual kick-offs where audiences need an emotional and credible reset Cancer advocacy networks, healthcare communities, and patient-facing organisations Senior management teams in high-pressure industries looking for a non-business-framework keynote Charitable, women’s leadership and community-impact events Audience outcomes A concrete first-person reference point for composure and decision-making under extreme conditions A model of how a personal event can be translated into sustained advocacy and institutional change Renewed personal perspective on what counts as a meaningful obstacle at work A specific case for the connection between recovery and purpose

Why organisations work with Steven Laureys He brings the working brain into board-level conversations on performance and wellbeing, grounded in clinical neurology rather than wellness orthodoxy. He runs one of the few research groups in the world studying consciousness across coma, anaesthesia, sleep, hypnosis, and meditation, which gives audiences a single coherent framework for thinking about attention and recovery. His Francqui Prize and Canada Excellence Research Chair give a buyer hard evidence of scientific standing in a field crowded with popularisers. He has translated his research into a bestselling popular book on meditation, so audiences get a scientist who can talk to non-scientists without losing accuracy. He works in English, French, and Dutch, which makes him directly usable across European leadership audiences without an interpreter. Biography highlights Founder and head of the Coma Science Group, GIGA Consciousness, University of Liège. Canada Excellence Research Chair in Neuroplasticity, Laval University and CERVO Brain Research Centre. Research Director at the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research (FNRS). Winner of the Francqui Prize 2017 and the Generet Prize 2019. Author of The No-Nonsense Meditation Book, an international bestseller published by Bloomsbury and translated into multiple languages. TEDx speaker at TEDxBrussels and TEDxLiège, with research featured across major international media. Biography Most of what is sold to organisations as “wellbeing” is built on intuition. The brain that is meant to be helping is the most expensive and least understood asset on the payroll. Steven Laureys studies the brain for a living, and his work has spent two decades pushing the boundary of what can be measured in coma, sleep, anaesthesia, hypnosis, and meditation. He founded the Coma Science Group within GIGA Consciousness at the University of Liège in 2014, and now also holds the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Neuroplasticity at Laval University, based at the CERVO Brain Research Centre. He is a Research Director at Belgium’s FNRS and a clinical professor of neurology, board-certified in neurology and in palliative medicine. The Francqui Prize, Belgium’s highest scientific honour, was awarded to him in 2017 for his work on disorders of consciousness. His public reach is unusual for a clinician of this seniority. The No-Nonsense Meditation Book, published by Bloomsbury, became an international bestseller and made the case for meditation in the language of neuroimaging rather than spirituality. He has spoken at TEDxBrussels and TEDxLiège, and his research has been picked up across mainstream international media. For corporate audiences, he turns the same instruments he uses on coma patients and Buddhist monks toward the working brain: attention, stress, sleep, cognitive recovery, and the conditions under which people make good decisions. The argument he brings is simple. The science is now specific enough to act on, and most organisations are not yet using it. Key speaking topics Neuroscience of attention and focus Stress and cognitive recovery Sleep and performance Meditation and the brain Mental wellbeing in the workplace Human intelligence and artificial intelligence Consciousness, anaesthesia, and altered states Neuroplasticity and lifestyle interventions Ideal for CHROs and chief wellbeing officers are building credible mental health and performance programmes. Executive teams and boards are considering attention, sleep, and stress as performance variables. Leadership development audiences in healthcare, professional services, and high-stakes operating environments. Innovation and R&D leaders interested in the brain science behind creativity and cognitive load. Audience outcomes A clinician’s view of what neuroscience can and cannot yet say about attention, stress, sleep, and meditation. Specific, evidence-based practices that senior people can use on themselves and inside their teams. A clearer line between credible neuroscience and the wellness industry’s claims. Confidence to challenge wellbeing programmes that rest on intuition rather than evidence. A working mental model of the brain under load that maps onto real organisational decisions.

Why organisations work with Stuart Sandeman He turns a research-grounded physiological practice into something a CFO will actually use on a Tuesday morning, not a wellness add-on that lives outside the working day. His book “Breathe In, Breathe Out” reached the Sunday Times bestseller list and gives buyers a defensible reference point for the substance behind the session. He has run programmes inside Google, Nike, Spotify, Adidas, PwC and Warner Music, with the same framework adapted for Olympic athletes, UFC fighters and the England football squad at Euro 2024. The format pairs structured breathing protocols with curated music, drawing on his prior career as a DJ and producer. The room experience is part of the product, not a backdrop. BBC Radio 1’s “Decompression Session”, now in its sixth series, gives him a public platform that very few corporate wellbeing speakers can match. Biography highlights Founder of Breathpod, a breathwork and corporate wellbeing business with clients including Google, Nike, Spotify, Adidas, PwC, Warner Music, MediaCom and Merkle. Sunday Times bestselling author of “Breathe In, Breathe Out”, published by HarperCollins. Host of BBC Radio 1’s “Decompression Session”, a guided breathwork and electronic music programme now in its sixth series. Performance work with Olympic athletes, UFC fighters, the US rugby sevens team and the England team at the 2024 Euros. Former financial markets professional in the UK and Asia, music producer and DJ, and a Scottish national-level judo black belt. Featured in The Times, The Guardian and The Evening Standard. Biography Most corporate wellbeing programmes fail the same test. They are voluntary, optional and asynchronous, and the people who most need them never turn up. The result is a category of spend that boards struggle to defend when the next round of cost cuts arrives. Stuart Sandeman built Breathpod to sit inside the working day rather than outside it. Sessions are short, structured and physiological, designed for boardrooms, sales floors and athletic preparation rooms. The clients on the list, Google, Nike, Spotify, Adidas, PwC and Warner Music, repeat-book because the practice produces a measurable shift in state inside the meeting it is delivered in. His credibility as a practitioner is reinforced by two adjacent platforms. “Breathe In, Breathe Out” reached the Sunday Times bestseller list and gave the field a serious mainstream reference book. BBC Radio 1’s “Decompression Session”, now in its sixth series, pairs guided breathing with curated electronic music for a national audience. The hybrid, scientific instruction inside a broadcast-quality sound experience is the same form he brings to corporate rooms. The route in is unusual. A career in financial markets in the UK and Asia, a parallel life as a DJ and producer, a Scottish judo black belt, then a turn to breathwork after losing his partner to cancer in 2016. Performance clients have followed: Olympic athletes, UFC fighters, the US rugby sevens team, and the England squad at Euro 2024. Key speaking topics Breathwork for stress and recovery Focus and performance under pressure Sleep and energy management Wellbeing inside high-performance cultures Emotional regulation and resilience Mental health in the workplace Ideal for CHROs, CPOs and wellbeing leads designing interventions that need to land with senior populations, not just with HR. Executive teams and leadership offsites where stress, sleep and focus are direct constraints on output. High-performance environments in sport, broadcast and creative industries where physiological state is part of the job. Sales, trading and consulting teams operating in sustained high-pressure cycles. Audience outcomes A small set of breathing protocols that audiences can use the same day, in meetings, before pitches and during recovery. A clearer mental model for how breath, nervous system and performance interact, drawn from research rather than wellness language. A shared room experience, structured breathing inside a curated soundscape, that resets state and shifts the energy of the day. Practical tools for sleep, focus and emotional regulation that do not depend on apps, kits, or further enrolment.

Why organisations work with Susan Greenfield She framed the question. Her “Mind Change” thesis treats prolonged exposure to digital technology as a force on human cognition comparable in scale to climate change, and has shaped a decade of mainstream debate on screens, attention and identity. The science behind the argument is hers. Two hundred peer-reviewed papers, mostly from her Oxford lab, sit beneath her claims about attention, empathy and identity in the digital age. As founder and CEO of Neuro-Bio, the Oxford biotech she launched in 2013 to pursue a novel theory of Alzheimer’s based on the T14 peptide, she speaks from inside an active research programme. She has spent decades translating brain science for senior non-specialist audiences. That includes twelve years leading the Royal Institution of Great Britain as its first woman director, and ten years as a Forum Fellow at the World Economic Forum at Davos. Biography highlights Founder and CEO of Neuro-Bio Ltd, the Oxford biotech developing a novel approach to Alzheimer’s based on the T14 peptide Senior Research Fellow at Lincoln College, Oxford, and former Professor of Synaptic Pharmacology, University of Oxford Director of the Royal Institution of Great Britain from 1998 to 2010, the first woman to hold the post; first woman to give the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures (1994) Author of Mind Change, The Private Life of the Brain, ID: The Quest for Identity in the 21st Century, and A Day in the Life of the Brain, published by Penguin and Random House Crossbench Life Peer in the House of Lords since 2001 as Baroness Greenfield, of Ot Moor Honours include CBE, Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur, Australian Society for Medical Research Medal, Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and 32 honorary degrees Biography In a 2009 House of Lords debate, a question was raised that the technology industry has never fully answered. If the human brain adapts to its environment, and the environment is now digital, what is happening to the brain at scale? The argument that grew from that question, developed across the next decade, has shaped how serious organisations think about screens and cognition. Greenfield’s standing to ask the question came from a long career in brain science. Two hundred peer-reviewed papers from Oxford, where she became Professor of Synaptic Pharmacology, sit behind it. So does her tenure as the first woman director of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, the post she held from 1998 to 2010, and the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures she delivered there in 1994. In 2001, she was created a Life Peer as Baroness Greenfield, of Ot Moor. Mind Change, published in 2014, set out the case. The technologies surrounding a young brain shape its development. This is uncontroversial neuroscience. What is contested is the scale of the effect when those technologies are engineered to capture attention and to be returned to. Greenfield’s argument is that the consequences show up in places leaders care about: in how people sustain focus, and in how they form empathy and construct identity. She still runs the science. In 2013, she founded Neuro-Bio, the Oxford biotech she leads as CEO, developing a novel approach to Alzheimer’s based on her research into a peptide called T14. Her lab has linked T14 to neurodegeneration upstream of the amyloid pathway, and is working on a saliva-based diagnostic test the company hopes will detect Alzheimer’s decades before symptoms appear. Key speaking topics The neuroscience of digital technology and the human mind Consciousness, identity and the physical basis of the mind Attention, empathy and the cognitive shift between digital generations The neuroscience of creativity Alzheimer’s, dementia and the future of brain health Women in science, engineering and technology Ideal for Boards and executive committees in financial services, technology, media and consumer-facing sectors CHROs and learning leaders are working on attention and digital fatigue in the workforce Strategy and innovation teams whose customers are the first generation to grow up entirely in a digital environment Education and policy audiences engaging with the science of cognition and the workforce of the future Audience outcomes A defensible vocabulary for what digital technology is doing to attention, empathy and identity A working distinction between what brain science actually shows and what is loosely attributed to “neuroscience” in popular commentary A view of where Alzheimer’s and dementia research is heading from a scientist actively pursuing a novel theory A perspective on the cognitive differences between digital natives and the workforce that came before them, grounded in published evidence

Why organisations work with Sylvia Marusyk A practising occupational therapist, not a wellness coach, which gives wellbeing content credibility with EHS, operations and unionised audiences who routinely dismiss soft programming. 30 years of clinical work translated into language that holds a room of utility engineers, nurses, municipal workers and aerospace technicians, not only an HR audience. A repeatable session catalogue covering stress, engagement, respectful conduct and self-health, with named talks that buyers can match to a specific workforce problem. Author of Testing Positive: 365 Days of Calm Through Chaos, written through her own cancer diagnosis, which gives the wellbeing material lived authority rather than borrowed theory. Track record across Manitoba Hydro, Great-West Life, City of Winnipeg, Transport Canada, Health Canada, StandardAero and the Manitoba Nurses Union, so buyers can see the work has held up across regulated, industrial and public sector environments. Biography highlights Founder and owner of MindBody Works Inc., a Canadian workplace health and wellness consultancy. Registered occupational therapist with more than 30 years of practice in health, safety and workplace wellbeing. Author of Testing Positive: 365 Days of Calm Through Chaos, a daily guide written after her cancer diagnosis during the pandemic. Former host of the Happy Hour with Sylvia! radio programme and a regular podcast guest on workplace health and safety. Speaking and training clients include Manitoba Hydro, Great-West Life, Transport Canada, Health Canada, City of Winnipeg, StandardAero, Reynolds Consumer Products, the Manitoba Nurses Union, and CAPPA. Signature programmes include Surviving to Thriving, Stressed to Kill, Happy Hour Begins at 9am, Respectfully, Up Yours and Rules of Engagement. Biography Wellbeing budgets have grown for a decade, yet absence, burnout and turnover keep rising. The problem is not awareness. It is that most workplace health content sits a long way from the physical and cognitive reality of the people actually doing the work, which is precisely the gap Sylvia Marusyk has spent her career closing. She trained as an occupational therapist and has practised in the field for more than 30 years. That clinical grounding shapes everything she does on stage: the body and the brain treated as a single working system, stress described in biochemical and behavioural terms, prevention framed as an operational discipline rather than a lifestyle choice. As founder of MindBody Works Inc., she has built a Canadian workplace health consultancy around that approach. Her session catalogue is unusually concrete for the wellbeing category. Stressed to Kill unpacks the physical, cognitive, emotional and environmental components of stress. Surviving to Thriving offers self-health tools that hold up under pressure. Respectfully, Up Yours turns psychological safety into a behavioural conversation, and Rules of Engagement tackles retention and engagement. Beyond keynotes, her S.H.O.P (Safety and Health for Organizations and People) programme takes leadership teams through a structured diagnostic and planning engagement, with a follow-up review some months later to test whether anything actually changed. The book Testing Positive: 365 Days of Calm Through Chaos, written through her own cancer diagnosis, supplies the personal spine to the clinical content. The credibility shows up in who books her. Manitoba Hydro, Great-West Life, Transport Canada, Health Canada, the City of Winnipeg, StandardAero, Reynolds Consumer Products and the Manitoba Nurses Union have all put her in front of audiences that are unforgiving of generic wellness talk: engineers, nurses, municipal staff, aerospace technicians. That is the market she has built her work for. Key speaking topics Workplace stress and burnout prevention Employee wellbeing and mental health at work Occupational health and injury prevention Respectful workplace culture and psychological safety Employee engagement and retention Resilience and self-health practices Workplace happiness and work-life conflict Ideal for CHROs, heads of wellbeing and EHS leaders rebuilding stress, absence and injury programmes Operations and safety leaders in utilities, healthcare, aerospace, manufacturing and municipal services Union and member organisations commissioning content for frontline and clinical workforces HR and culture leads addressing respectful conduct, engagement and retention in fatigued teams Audience outcomes A clinical understanding of how stress affects the body, brain and behaviour at work Specific self-health practices audiences can apply during and after the working day Language for naming and addressing disrespectful conduct without escalating it A sharper sense of where wellbeing programmes are working and where they are theatre Renewed energy and humour in rooms that often arrive defensive about wellbeing content

Why organisations work with Talya Miron-Shatz Trained directly under Daniel Kahneman at Princeton, with a research output of more than 60 peer-reviewed papers anchoring every commercial recommendation in published evidence. Translates behavioural science into specific design decisions on consent forms, patient journeys, adherence programmes and customer communications, not abstract nudges. Operating credibility with global pharma and consumer brands including Pfizer, Johnson and Johnson, Novartis, BMS, AbbVie, Boehringer Ingelheim and Samsung, where she has worked on advisory boards, customer outreach and behaviour-change programmes. Author of Your Life Depends on It (Basic Books, 2021), a book-length argument for why even motivated customers fail to act on the information they are given, and what producers of products and information can do about it. Biography highlights Full Professor, Ono Academic College, Faculty of Business Administration. Visiting Researcher, Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication, University of Cambridge. Postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University with Daniel Kahneman; former adjunct lecturer in consumer behaviour at the Wharton School. Author of Your Life Depends on It (Basic Books, 2021); over 60 peer-reviewed publications on decision-making and behaviour change. CEO of CureMyWay, advising pharmaceutical companies, insurers and digital health firms on patient and customer behaviour. Senior Fellow, Center for Medicine in the Public Interest, New York. Biography Most customer decisions are not made the way product strategy assumes. People skim consent forms, default to inaction, misread probabilities and disengage at the precise points a business model depends on them showing up. Closing that gap is the practical job of behavioural science in commercial settings, and it is the question Talya Miron-Shatz has spent two decades answering. Her research training came from inside the field that defined the question. After a PhD in psychology at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, she spent four years at Princeton as a postdoctoral fellow under Daniel Kahneman, then taught consumer behaviour at the Wharton School. She is now a full professor at Ono Academic College and a visiting researcher at the Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication at Cambridge, with more than 60 peer-reviewed publications on decision-making, risk communication and patient comprehension. The applied work matters as much as the academic record. As CEO of CureMyWay she has advised Pfizer, Johnson and Johnson, Novartis, BMS, AbbVie, Boehringer Ingelheim and Samsung on how to design products, communications and customer pathways that line up with how people actually process information. Her 2021 book Your Life Depends on It (Basic Books) sets out the underlying argument: even highly motivated customers fail to act when the choice architecture is wrong, and the responsibility sits with the organisation that designed it. What this gives a leadership team is a behavioural lens with operating teeth. Pricing, product, marketing and customer experience decisions get tested against published evidence on attention, comprehension and choice, and the recommendations come back as specific design changes a team can ship. Key speaking topics Behavioural economics in commercial decision-making Choice architecture and customer experience Risk communication and information design Patient and consumer behaviour in healthcare Decision-making under uncertainty Behaviour change and adherence Wellbeing and the science of life satisfaction Ideal for Pharmaceutical, medtech and health insurance leadership teams designing patient and physician journeys CMOs, CX leaders and product heads in regulated consumer markets Strategy and innovation teams using behavioural insight to shape pricing, communication and service design Boards and executive committees commissioning customer behaviour-change programmes Audience outcomes A working vocabulary for diagnosing where customer decisions break down and why Specific design moves to apply to communications, consent flows, choice menus and adherence programmes A clear separation between behavioural insight that holds up in published research and the looser claims of the broader nudge industry Evidence-based ways to align product, marketing and operations around real customer cognition rather than assumed rationality

Why organisations work with Tim Harris He speaks from inside the problem. Twenty-five years in commodities, ending as Global Head of Fuel Oil at PVM Oil Associates, gives him fluency with the pressures executive audiences actually face. He carries a formal coaching credential. ACC accreditation with the International Coaching Federation puts substance behind the lived experience. He has worked at the sharp end with organisations that test psychological content rigorously, including the Royal Marines, the Royal Navy, the NHS, Thames Valley Police and Google. The Atlantic row is more than a story. Fifty-two days at sea, 3,000 miles unassisted with one teammate, raising around £160,000 for teenage mental health, gives him a concrete reference point for talking about sustained pressure and recovery. He addresses suicide ideation directly. Few corporate speakers can hold that subject in front of a senior audience with honesty and without flinching. Biography highlights Twelve years as Global Head of Fuel Oil at PVM Oil Associates, capping a 25-year City career Completed the Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge with Simon Calver, rowing 3,000 miles in 52 days Raised approximately £160,000 for teenage mental health charity through the row ICF Associate Certified Coach (ACC) Keynote and coaching clients include Google, the Royal Marines, the Royal Navy, the NHS, Thames Valley Police and The Times HMS Warrior keynote endorsed by Vice Admiral Martin Connell CBE as “a masterclass in self-awareness and resilience” Biography Burnout among senior performers rarely announces itself. It shows up as quiet resignations, eroded judgement and capable people stepping back from work they used to run. The organisations that take it seriously want speakers who can talk about it without the soft-focus vocabulary of the wellness industry. That is the space Tim Harris occupies. After 25 years in the City, the last twelve as Global Head of Fuel Oil at PVM Oil Associates, he left the industry having lived through severe depression and suicide ideation under sustained corporate pressure. His response was unusual. With Simon Calver, he rowed unassisted across the Atlantic, 3,000 miles in 52 days, raising around £160,000 for teenage mental health charity. He has since trained as an Associate Certified Coach with the International Coaching Federation and built a coaching and keynote practice working with the Royal Marines, the Royal Navy, the NHS, Thames Valley Police, Google and The Times. Vice Admiral Martin Connell CBE described his HMS Warrior keynote as “a masterclass in self-awareness and resilience.” What he offers a corporate audience is the rare combination of credible coaching content and a lived reference point most rooms cannot match. He talks about burnout, recovery and sustained performance without the platitudes, and he talks about suicide directly when the brief calls for it. Key speaking topics Burnout in high-performance environments Mental resilience and recovery Stress management for senior leaders Suicide ideation and mental health honesty at work Self-leadership under sustained pressure Endurance and decision-making under fatigue Teamwork in extreme conditions Ideal for CHROs and heads of wellbeing designing serious mental health interventions for senior populations Leadership teams in high-pressure sectors (financial services, energy, defence, healthcare) Frontline and uniformed services audiences where psychological honesty is a credibility test Sales, trading and other commission-driven environments with elevated burnout risk Audience outcomes A clearer view of what burnout actually looks like inside senior teams, before it becomes attrition Practical language for talking about mental health at work without sentimentality A coaching practitioner’s perspective on stress and recovery, grounded in personal experience Greater comfort engaging with subjects most executive audiences avoid, including suicide

Why organisations work with Tobias Lynes He works from one named behavioural model, the Tiny Habits® method developed at Stanford by BJ Fogg, rather than a buffet of wellbeing content. Audiences leave with a single mechanic they can apply on Monday. His content is built around the B=MAP equation, giving managers and HR teams a shared vocabulary for why wellbeing interventions fail when they target motivation alone. He frames fitness, nutrition, and energy as habit design problems for time-poor professionals, which lands better with sceptical corporate audiences than aspirational lifestyle messaging. He has run the coaching business he draws his material from since 2020, so the stories are first-hand client work, not borrowed case studies. Biography highlights Founder of 360Coaching, an online coaching business serving busy professionals. Tiny Habits® Certified Coach, trained in the methodology developed by BJ Fogg at the Stanford Behavior Design Lab. Works from the B=MAP model (Behaviour = Motivation, Ability, Prompt) as the core analytical frame for his keynotes. Personal training and coaching practitioner since 2015. Speaks at corporate wellbeing events, leadership offsites, and education settings, virtually and in person. Biography Most corporate wellbeing initiatives fail at the same point. People sign up in January, drift in February, and the programme quietly disappears by spring. The reason is not lack of motivation. It is that the behaviours being asked for are too large, too vague, or unhooked from anything already happening in the day. Tiny Habits, the method developed by BJ Fogg at the Stanford Behavior Design Lab, was built to fix exactly that problem. Its underlying equation, B=MAP, treats behaviour as the product of motivation, ability, and a clear prompt. When a habit does not stick, one of those three variables is wrong. Tobias Lynes is a certified coach in that method and uses it as the spine of his work with corporate audiences. He runs 360Coaching, the practice he founded in 2020 after several years as a personal trainer. The business focuses on busy professionals trying to manage body composition, energy, and nutrition inside a demanding work life. That client base shapes the keynote material: the failure modes he names are the ones HR teams already see, and the remedies are calibrated for people who cannot add another hour to their day. His commercial range is mid-market corporate wellbeing rather than senior leadership platforms. The value he gives audiences is narrow and specific. One framework, applied well, with a vocabulary leaders and managers can use after he leaves the room. Key speaking topics Habit formation and behaviour change in the workplace The Tiny Habits® method and the B=MAP model Sustainable approaches to employee health and wellbeing Energy, nutrition, and fitness habits for busy professionals Why corporate wellbeing programmes fail to stick Building resilience through small daily behaviours Ideal for HR, People, and wellbeing leads designing employee health initiatives Corporate wellbeing weeks, mental health awareness events, and team offsites Leadership groups looking for practical behavioural tools rather than aspirational content Education and early-career audiences building work-readiness habits Audience outcomes A working understanding of the B=MAP behavioural equation and how to apply it to a personal or team habit A method for designing a habit that is small enough to survive a bad week A frame for diagnosing why an existing wellbeing programme is failing A shared vocabulary HR and managers can use to talk about behaviour change after the session

Why organisations work with Tom Clark He works inside one of the most demanding performance environments in elite sport, around 250 days a year on the road with an F1 driver, and brings that operating reality directly into the room. His doctoral research at Liverpool John Moores University on jet lag and travel fatigue in F1 gives him a defensible scientific position on a topic most peak-performance speakers handle anecdotally. He has been part of a Hungarian Grand Prix victory at the level of preparation and recovery, so the marginal-gains argument is grounded in a specific outcome rather than a general claim. He translates Hintsa Performance methodology, the system that shaped modern F1 conditioning, into language and tools senior leaders can apply to their own travel and decision schedules. Biography highlights Head of Performance for Esteban Ocon at Alpine F1, since 2020. Professional Doctorate in Applied Sport and Exercise Science, Liverpool John Moores University, focused on jet lag and travel fatigue in elite motorsport. MSc Athletic Development and Peak Performance, Solent University; BSc Health and Exercise Science, First Class Honours, Solent University. Former performance coach at Hintsa Performance, the consultancy behind much of modern F1 athlete development. Worked alongside Esteban Ocon at his maiden Formula One race win, the 2021 Hungarian Grand Prix. Adapted the LJMU Jet Lag Questionnaire into a digital monitoring platform used across an F1 season. Biography A Formula 1 season runs to roughly two dozen races across five continents. The driver is expected to perform at the limit of human reaction time on each one, often within forty-eight hours of landing. Tom Clark is the person who designs the conditions under which that is possible. As Head of Performance for Esteban Ocon at Alpine F1, Clark is responsible for the sleep, training, nutrition, and recovery system that holds a driver’s output steady across a calendar engineered for fatigue. He came into the sport through Hintsa Performance, the consultancy that built the modern playbook for F1 conditioning, and joined Alpine as Senior Performance Coach in 2020. He was part of the team at the 2021 Hungarian Grand Prix, Ocon’s first Formula One race victory. His doctoral research at Liverpool John Moores University, supervised by Dr Ben Edwards, focuses on jet lag and travel fatigue in elite motorsport. With LJMU colleagues, Clark adapted the university’s Jet Lag Questionnaire into a digital tool used across the F1 season, turning a clinical instrument into operating data. That research connects directly to what senior business audiences face: cumulative time-zone shifts, compressed sleep, and the gap between feeling capable and being capable. What distinguishes him from the wider peak-performance category is the specificity. He is not a former athlete reflecting on a finished career. He is an operator describing a system he runs every weekend, with a named driver, in measurable conditions, and grounding it in published science. Key speaking topics Performance science in elite motorsport Jet lag and travel fatigue in high-stakes environments Circadian rhythms and sleep as performance variables Marginal gains and Formula 1 preparation methodology Mental resilience under continuous competition Routine design for sustained executive output Ideal for C-suite leaders and senior executives whose schedules involve frequent long-haul travel and sustained decision load Sales and commercial leadership teams operating across multiple time zones High-performance teams in finance, professional services, and global operations where output cannot drop with the calendar Leadership development programmes drawing on elite-sport methodology Audience outcomes A working understanding of how circadian disruption affects judgement, mood, and reaction time, and what the data actually shows Specific protocols used inside an F1 team to manage jet lag, sleep, and recovery across long-haul travel A clearer line between preparation and performance, drawn from Formula 1 race weekends rather than business analogy Practical adjustments to routine, light exposure, training, and nutrition that senior leaders can apply inside an existing schedule An honest sense of where marginal gains move the needle and where they do not

Why organisations work with Tom Solomon He has run the UK research response to Ebola, Zika and COVID-19 through the NIHR Health Protection Research Unit he founded in 2014, giving boards a direct line into how national systems actually react under pressure. He translates frontier infectious-disease science into the language of operational risk, capital allocation and continuity planning, which is rare among clinicians at his level. His role as Director of The Pandemic Institute means he sees the next wave of biosecurity, antimicrobial resistance and zoonotic threats before they reach the public-policy conversation. He carries the institutional weight of CBE, FMedSci, the Academy of Medical Sciences vice presidency and the Royal College of Physicians academic vice presidency, which earns him a hearing in rooms that would discount commentators. He communicates with the clarity of a science journalist and the authority of a clinician, a combination senior audiences pick up on within the first ten minutes. Biography highlights Professor of Neurology, University of Liverpool, and Director of The Pandemic Institute Founding Director, NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Emerging and Zoonotic Infections Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE), 2021 Birthday Honours Vice President (International), Academy of Medical Sciences; Academic Vice President, Royal College of Physicians Author, Roald Dahl’s Marvellous Medicine (Liverpool University Press, 2016) Royal College of Physicians Moxon Medal for outstanding observation and research in clinical medicine Biography Pandemic and emerging-infection risk has stopped behaving like a tail event. Ebola, Zika, COVID-19 and a steady stream of zoonotic threats have made it a recurring exposure for organisations whose operations depend on movement, contact and supply. Tom Solomon has been inside the national response to each of these. He founded the NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Emerging and Zoonotic Infections in 2014 and now directs The Pandemic Institute at the University of Liverpool, a coordinated hub bringing infectious-disease science, public health and policy into one operational picture. He chaired government research funding committees during COVID-19 and advised the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency on vaccine safety. The brief was practical, not theoretical. The scientific work runs in parallel. His Liverpool Brain Infections Group has secured more than £25 million in research funding from the Medical Research Council, Wellcome Trust and NIHR for work on Japanese encephalitis, enterovirus 71 and meningitis, with field programmes across Asia, Africa and Latin America. He has held the Vincenzo Marcolongo Memorial Lectureship and the RCP Moxon Medal, and was elected to the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2021. What makes Solomon useful to leadership audiences is that he speaks the language of risk and decision-making, not the language of the clinic. He writes regularly for The Guardian, The Independent and The Conversation, and his book Roald Dahl’s Marvellous Medicine, based on his time treating Dahl as a junior doctor at the John Radcliffe in Oxford, demonstrated early that he could translate clinical material for a general reader. Boards looking for an authoritative voice on biosecurity find a clinician who is fluent in both registers. Key speaking topics Pandemic preparedness and biosecurity risk Emerging and zoonotic infectious disease Antimicrobial resistance Brain infections and neurological disease Lessons from the COVID-19, Ebola and Zika responses Science communication and public trust in expertise Global health and one-health systems Ideal for Boards and risk committees adding pandemic and biosecurity exposure to the standing risk register Chief Risk Officers, Chief Medical Officers and continuity leads in pharma, insurance, logistics and global manufacturing Government, regulatory and policy audiences shaping pandemic preparedness frameworks Senior teams in life sciences, public health and global development Audience outcomes A clearer view of which emerging-infection threats matter most over the next five to ten years and why A working vocabulary for treating pandemic risk as a board-level exposure, not a medical externality Insight into how the UK national response was organised, what worked, and what did not A frame for evaluating biosecurity, AMR and zoonotic risk against other forms of systemic exposure