Inclusive Leadership

Why organisations work with Rosie and Mollie Kmita They host with the fluency of working broadcasters. Both co-front Sky Sports’ Barclays Women’s Championship Show and the Broadcast Award-winning show The Dub, and bring the same standard to corporate stages, awards nights, and panels. They built The Powerhouse Project from inside the game. Not a sponsorship vehicle. A working leadership pipeline that has supported more than 60 women through the UEFA B Prep Programme since 2022, with Nike, the FA, and Google Pixel as operating partners. They speak credibly on representation because they are the data point. Rosie’s career as a British Asian professional footballer makes their advocacy specific rather than general. They convert lived industry experience into actionable talking points for HR, ED&I, and brand audiences who are tired of generic diversity content. Biography highlights Co-founders of The Powerhouse Project, a women’s leadership initiative in football and sports media, partnered with Nike, The FA, Football Beyond Borders, and Google Pixel Co-hosts of Sky Sports’ Barclays Women’s Championship Show Hosts of The Dub, the Sky Sports and Snapchat show that won a Broadcast Award Former professional footballers with playing time at Tottenham Hotspur, West Ham United, Brighton and Hove Albion, and others Regular contributors to Soccer AM, BBC One’s MOTDx, and Sky Sports News’ The Football Show Brand work with Nike, Google Pixel, FIFA, Pepsi, Expedia, Snapchat, SoccerX Biography Women’s football has changed faster in the last five years than in the previous fifty. The pipeline behind it has not kept pace. Coaching qualifications, broadcast access, media production roles, and senior executive routes remain structurally narrow, particularly for women from ethnically diverse backgrounds. The Kmita twins built The Powerhouse Project to widen that pipeline from inside the industry. Rosie and Mollie grew up in north London and played professionally at Tottenham Hotspur, West Ham United, Brighton and Hove Albion, and other clubs across the women’s pyramid. Rosie was one of two existing players retained when West Ham received their FA Women’s Super League franchise in 2018. Both retired into broadcasting and now co-host Sky Sports’ Barclays Women’s Championship Show and The Dub, the Sky Sports and Snapchat show that took a Broadcast Award. The Powerhouse Project, launched in 2021, is the substantive work. The UEFA B Prep Programme run with the FA and Nike has supported more than 60 women coaches since 2022. The Pixel FC Academy, run with Google, develops young women into sports media careers across broadcast, production, and written press. The partners are operating partners, not logo sponsors, and the cohort numbers grow each year. For corporate audiences they bring two things at once. Hosting craft built on national broadcast experience, and a substantive, working point of view on representation, female leadership, and how to actually move people through an industry pipeline rather than just talk about it. Key speaking topics Women’s leadership in sport and media Representation and ethnically diverse pathways in male-coded industries Building leadership pipelines through programme partnerships Female empowerment and career progression Awards hosting, panel moderation, and event facilitation Broadcasting and on-camera presence Ideal for ED&I, HR, and people leaders building representation pipelines beyond awareness campaigns Brand and marketing teams designing women’s sport and youth-facing activations Conference organisers needing a host or moderator with broadcast fluency on women’s leadership and sport panels Internal women’s network events and ERG showcases Audience outcomes A clearer view of what an operating leadership pipeline looks like compared to a sponsorship-led ED&I programme Direct industry perspective on the barriers women from ethnically diverse backgrounds face in sport and media, and what removes them A worked example of building an external initiative alongside a primary career Energy and craft on stage from two practitioners who host professionally for a living

Why organisations work with Sophie Morgan A founder credential rather than a commentator one. Morgan built Rights On Flights into the Assisted Air Travel Act, presented at the House of Commons in September 2023, after airline mishandling destroyed her wheelchair. Operator-grade media reach. Nearly a decade as a Channel 4 lead Paralympics presenter, NBC Paralympics host, Loose Women regular, and Conde Nast Traveller columnist gives her the platform to test what inclusion language actually lands. A production-company perspective on representation. Through Making Space Media, her first-look deal with Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine, she sits inside the commercial machinery of disability storytelling rather than commenting on it. A presenter who can host the room, not only speak from a lectern. Awards hosting, panel chairing and on-stage interview work are part of her core offer, useful when the brief is to run an event rather than fill a keynote slot. Biography highlights Lead presenter on Channel 4’s coverage of the Summer Paralympic Games for nearly a decade; presenter on NBC’s US Paralympics coverage. Author of Driving Forwards (Sphere/Little, Brown, 2022), a memoir on life after spinal cord injury. Founder of the Rights On Flights campaign; the Assisted Air Travel Act was presented at the House of Commons in September 2023. Co-founder of Making Space Media with Keely Cat-Wells, with a first-look unscripted deal with Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine. Regular panellist on ITV’s Loose Women; presenter of Living Wild, Fight to Fly, and Crufts; contributor to BBC Horizon, The One Show and Channel 4’s No Go Britain. Patron of Scope, Back Up and Human Rights Watch; voted into the UK’s Top 10 most influential people with a disability three years running. Biography A wheelchair was destroyed on a BA flight from Los Angeles to London in January 2023. The passenger was Sophie Morgan. Within weeks she had turned that single incident into Rights On Flights, the campaign that produced the Assisted Air Travel Act, presented at the House of Commons in September 2023 alongside MPs, airline industry figures and a White House delegation. That sequence, personal injury to legislative draft, is the pattern of her work. Morgan was paralysed from the chest down in a car crash at eighteen and has spent the years since translating private experience into public infrastructure. She is one of a small number of presenters with a physical disability working at broadcaster scale: lead presenter on Channel 4’s Summer Paralympics coverage for nearly a decade, NBC’s US Paralympics host, regular Loose Women panellist, and front of Channel 4 series including Living Wild and Fight to Fly. Her 2022 memoir Driving Forwards (Sphere/Little, Brown) sets out the argument that runs through her advocacy: the goal is not to overcome disability but to design environments in which disabled people can live well. The same argument shapes Making Space Media, the disabled-led production company she co-founded with Keely Cat-Wells in 2023, which holds a first-look unscripted deal with Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine and is building a talent pipeline on both sides of the camera. For organisations, the value is sharper than awareness. Morgan brings a working knowledge of where inclusion policy fails on contact with a real customer, employee or passenger, and a track record of forcing the response to be specific. She is a patron of Scope, Back Up and Human Rights Watch, and a Conde Nast Traveller columnist on accessible travel. Key speaking topics Disability inclusion and accessibility in the workplace Authentic representation of disabled people in media and brand Accessible travel and consumer experience Resilience after life-changing injury Campaigning, advocacy and policy change Inclusive event design and audience access Ideal for CHROs and DEI leads designing accessibility into hiring, retention and physical workplace CMOs, brand and customer experience leaders responsible for disabled customers and audiences Travel, hospitality, aviation and live events businesses with disabled customer touchpoints Conference and awards organisers seeking a host with on-screen credibility and inclusion fluency Audience outcomes A sharper sense of where inclusion policy and lived accessibility diverge in their own organisation Concrete examples of how disabled customers and employees experience services, drawn from broadcast, travel and consumer brand contexts A working understanding of how the Rights On Flights campaign turned a single incident into policy, and what that model implies for corporate accountability Renewed confidence to commission, hire and represent disabled talent inside their own commercial pipeline

Why organisations work with Alex Beresford A live broadcaster used to high-stakes interviews and unscripted moments, including the March 2021 Good Morning Britain exchange with Piers Morgan that drew over 41,000 Ofcom complaints and ended in Morgan’s resignation. Direct lived experience of race in British media, used to open inclusion conversations that internal facilitators cannot host with the same credibility. A working journalist’s grasp of climate, extreme weather and current affairs, having reported in the field for ITV and produced Channel 4 documentaries on tornadoes and British weather extremes. Substantive ties to youth and social mobility through his role as ambassador for Empire Fighting Chance and his long-running schools and prisons tour on knife crime and media careers. A trusted morning television face who can chair a panel, moderate a town hall or anchor a conference day with the rhythm and composure of live broadcast. Biography highlights Lead weather presenter, ITV Evening News, and regular presenter on Good Morning Britain. Host of Channel 4’s The World’s Weirdest Weather and Britain’s Most Extreme Weather. Ambassador, Empire Fighting Chance, Bristol-based youth violence prevention charity. Selected for the UK government’s Reach Role Model Programme, 2008. Honorary Doctorate of Philosophy, University of Gloucestershire. Debut book Things We Should Talk About acquired by Sphere, Little, Brown. Biography The 9 March 2021 episode of Good Morning Britain ended with Piers Morgan walking off set. The presenter who pushed the conversation about Meghan Markle, race and what counts as fair comment was Alex Beresford, then ITV’s lead weatherman. Morgan resigned the same day. Ofcom logged over 41,000 complaints. The clip is still cited as a turning point in how British morning television talks about race. Beresford has been on ITV since 2004, first as a teleprompter operator at ITV West in Bristol, then as a regional weather presenter, then on the national network. He has fronted Channel 4 documentary series on extreme weather, flown into Oklahoma after the 2013 EF5 tornado for the film Super Tornado, and in March 2022 became the live weather presenter on the extended ITV Evening News. The work outside the studio is what carries weight with corporate audiences. He is an ambassador for Empire Fighting Chance, the Bristol charity that uses non-contact boxing to keep young people away from violence, and he has spent years touring schools, colleges and prisons talking about media careers and knife crime. The UK government named him a National Black Role Model in 2008. He holds an Honorary Doctorate of Philosophy from the University of Gloucestershire. His debut book, Things We Should Talk About, has been acquired by Sphere. For a corporate audience that wants an inclusion conversation hosted with broadcast composure rather than activist register, the offer is unusually concrete: a working journalist with lived experience, a track record of holding difficult ground on live television, and credibility with the youth communities the conversation usually leaves out. Key speaking topics Race and representation in British media Inclusion and difficult conversations at work Mental health and personal resilience Youth violence, knife crime and social mobility Climate, extreme weather and broadcasting Conference hosting and panel moderation Ideal for CHROs and inclusion leads commissioning sessions on race that need credibility outside the HR voice Conference organisers booking a host or moderator for a multi-stage event day ESG, sustainability and corporate affairs teams running internal events on climate and extreme weather Foundations, social mobility programmes and youth-facing organisations engaging schools and community partners Audience outcomes A franker conversation about race and representation than internal facilitators usually produce A working broadcaster’s view of how climate stories land with mainstream audiences A clearer picture of the real lives behind inner-city youth violence statistics A panel or town hall held together with the pacing and composure of live television

Why organisations work with Kerry Washington A globally recognised cultural voice on representation, civic participation and women’s rights, with a platform built over a decade of headline activism rather than borrowed celebrity Founder and principal of Simpson Street, a production company whose work, Confirmation, American Son, Little Fires Everywhere, treats race, justice and family as serious subjects for mainstream audiences Two-time Tony-nominated Broadway producer and a working creative executive, which means she speaks about storytelling, audience and influence from inside the industry, not as a commentator Author of Thicker than Water, a New York Times bestselling memoir, which gives her a personal narrative on identity and disclosure that lands with audiences far beyond fan culture Co-chair of Michelle Obama’s When We All Vote and a long-standing partner to grassroots civic organisations, which gives her a credible point of view on how institutions engage with democratic participation Biography highlights Star of ABC’s Scandal (2013-2020), the first Black woman to lead a network drama since 1974, with two Primetime Emmy nominations, a Golden Globe nomination, a SAG nomination and two NAACP Image Awards for the role Founder of Simpson Street (2016), the production company behind Confirmation (HBO), American Son (Broadway and Netflix), Little Fires Everywhere (Hulu) and the Gypsy Broadway revival Author of Thicker than Water: A Memoir (Little, Brown, 2023), a New York Times bestseller Co-chair of When We All Vote; former member of President Obama’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities Recipient of the NAACP President’s Award (2013), the GLAAD Vanguard Award (2015) and the ACLU Bill of Rights Award (2016); named to the Time 100 in 2014 Phi Beta Kappa graduate of George Washington University Biography The role of Olivia Pope on Scandal was the first time in nearly forty years that an American network drama had been led by a Black woman. Kerry Washington carried that show for seven seasons, while building a parallel career as a producer, author and civic organiser. The combination is what makes her interesting as a public voice, the platform is large, but the work behind it is specific. Simpson Street, the production company she founded in 2016, sits at the centre of that work. Its projects, Confirmation on HBO, American Son on Broadway and Netflix, Little Fires Everywhere on Hulu, are commercial properties that take seriously the politics of race, family and justice. As a producer, she is now a two-time Tony nominee, with credits including the recent Broadway revival of Gypsy. The company also runs a venture arm and an impact arm that funds grassroots civic organisations through the Movement Voter Project’s Vision Into Power Cohort. Her activism is similarly substantive. She co-chairs Michelle Obama’s When We All Vote, served on President Obama’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities, and has campaigned on voter access in Georgia, women’s health and violence against women. Her memoir, Thicker than Water, a New York Times bestseller, added a personal layer to that public profile, telling the story of learning in adulthood that the man who raised her was not her biological father. For a corporate audience, what she offers is a credible voice on representation, civic participation and the conditions under which institutions are expected to speak. She is most powerful in conversation formats and keynotes that address voice, values and storytelling, where her experience as a producer and activist gives her something specific to say, rather than as a content expert on a defined management discipline. Key speaking topics Activism, civic voice and public participation Representation in media and storytelling Women’s health and women’s rights Identity, family and personal disclosure Building purpose-driven creative businesses Voting access and democratic engagement Ideal for CEO and board events where the brief is values, voice and the conditions for taking a public position DEI, ERG and women’s leadership programmes seeking a recognised cultural figure with substantive activist credentials Investor, philanthropic or impact-led convenings on civic participation and democracy Fireside conversations or in-conversation formats with senior moderators, the format where her authority is strongest Audience outcomes A clearer view of how representation in media and culture shapes the expectations placed on institutions A grounded reading of what credible civic engagement looks like for a public figure or organisation, drawn from over a decade of activist practice A personal account of identity and disclosure that gives audiences a vocabulary for difficult conversations An inside view of how purpose and commercial production can sit inside the same business

Why organisations work with Lissie Mackintosh A live host who can move between the F1 paddock, a brand launch, an awards stage and a corporate panel without dropping register, with the trust of drivers, teams and sponsors built up since 2022. Direct reach into a young, global F1 audience through TikTok, Instagram, YouTube and the Going Purple podcast, useful for brands building presence with under-35 motorsport fans. A genuine working point of view on women in motorsport, grounded in three years of on-the-ground experience, not consultancy framing. Hosting credits at scale-events where the brief is unforgiving: the 2022 Autosport Awards, the 2023 UK premiere of Ferrari and multiple F1 team and car launches. Biography highlights Lead paddock presenter on Formula 1 broadcast and digital content since 2022, interviewing drivers including Charles Leclerc, Lando Norris, Carlos Sainz, George Russell and Jenson Button. Host of Going Purple, an F1 podcast launched in 2022 and distributed via Spotify and Apple Podcasts, with guests including Oscar Piastri, Jamie Chadwick and F1 Academy driver Abbi Pulling. Hosted the 2022 Autosport Awards and the 2023 UK premiere of Ferrari, plus multiple F1 team launches. Face of the 2023 Reiss x McLaren partnership alongside McLaren F1 drivers Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri. Brand work with Sky Sports, Scuderia Ferrari, Red Bull, Mercedes AMG Petronas, Aston Martin, McLaren, HSBC, NFL UK, PUMA, Tommy Hilfiger, Michael Kors, Elemis and Elizabeth Arden. Aligned with Females in Motorsport and a regular public voice on gender representation across F1, F1 Academy and the wider racing ecosystem. Biography Formula 1 sells access. For decades that access ran through the same narrow set of broadcast voices, and the audience that grew up on social video was largely left out of the conversation. Mackintosh started filling that gap from a phone in late 2021, with TikTok videos that moved fast and assumed the viewer was new to the sport. By 2022 she was in the paddock as one of F1’s lead presenters, working across the championship’s broadcast and digital output. She has interviewed Charles Leclerc, Lando Norris, Carlos Sainz, George Russell and Jenson Button, and hosted set-pieces including the 2022 Autosport Awards, the 2023 UK premiere of Ferrari and multiple team and car launches. Her podcast Going Purple, launched in 2022, sits alongside the broadcast work. Guests include Oscar Piastri on his first F1 win, F1 Academy driver Abbi Pulling and former W Series champion Jamie Chadwick on the pressure of being a female role model in racing. The podcast is open about being designed for fans who do not see themselves reflected in the existing motorsport media set. That is the throughline. Mackintosh’s working argument, made on stage and in interviews with Sky Sports and Females in Motorsport, is that motorsport’s growth depends on whether the sport is willing to put different people in front of the camera and the microphone. She has built her career inside that argument and is a credible voice for brands and organisations testing the same proposition. Key speaking topics Formula 1 and the future of motorsport media Women in motorsport and representation in sport Building community with Gen-Z sports audiences Content creation and the new sports broadcast model Personal brand and platform in a legacy industry Event hosting and panel moderation across motorsport, brand and awards Ideal for Brand and partner events inside motorsport, automotive and sports sponsorship looking for a credible live host Internal and external events for organisations targeting younger consumer audiences in F1, F1 Academy and adjacent sports Diversity and inclusion conferences and women-in-sport platforms seeking a working voice from inside the paddock Awards nights, premieres and product launches where the host needs to speak fluently to drivers, sponsors and fans in the same room Audience outcomes A first-hand account of how Formula 1 has changed its audience profile since 2022 and what brands inside the sport are doing about it A practical view of how content creators have shifted the sports broadcast model and what that means for sponsors and rights holders Honest perspective on the lived experience of being a young woman in a male-dominated sport, including the cost of public visibility A live host who lifts the energy of the room and keeps a panel of drivers, executives or sponsors on the brief

Why organisations work with Zing Tsjeng A working journalist’s instinct for what an audience actually wants to hear, sharpened across VICE, the BBC and the i newspaper, brought to corporate stages where most speakers sound rehearsed. A four-volume body of work in Forgotten Women that pulls 190 named historical women into business and cultural conversations, giving inclusion content that is specific rather than slogan-driven. Co-hosting Good Bad Billionaire with BBC Business Editor Simon Jack means she can interrogate wealth, power and ambition with a financial-journalism register, not a generic culture take. A presenter’s hosting craft tested on Question Time, Have I Got News For You and Front Row, useful when the brief is moderation, panel chairing or on-stage interview rather than a solo keynote. An Oxford visiting professorship in Creative Media gives the academic credential to anchor talks on media, narrative and identity for senior internal communications and brand audiences. Biography highlights Former Editor-in-Chief, VICE UK and VICE.com; launched Broadly in 2014. Co-host, Good Bad Billionaire, BBC Sounds, with Simon Jack. Author, Forgotten Women series, Octopus Publishing, anthologised by Brazen in 2022. Visiting Professor of Creative Media, University of Oxford, since 2022. Highly commended, British Journalism Awards 2020. Columnist for the i newspaper; contributor to British Vogue, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, Dazed. Biography Inclusion content inside large organisations has a credibility problem. Most of it is either statement-led or driven by external pressure, and very little of it is grounded in the actual content of the histories it claims to recover. That gap is where Tsjeng’s work begins. The Forgotten Women series is a four-volume project that profiles more than 190 women, scientists, leaders, artists, reformers, who shaped fields that later forgot them. Octopus published the books between 2018 and 2019; Brazen reissued the anthology in 2022. The work is research, not advocacy, and it gives senior audiences a vocabulary for inclusion that does not collapse the moment scrutiny arrives. She runs a parallel journalism career that gives her a working register most cultural speakers do not have. As Editor-in-Chief of VICE UK she managed teams across the US and UK, launched Broadly, and oversaw video work that drew tens of millions of views. With Simon Jack on the BBC’s Good Bad Billionaire she now interrogates wealth, power and ambition for a mainstream business audience, with the show topping UK audio charts in 2024. The credential anchor is real. Oxford appointed her Visiting Professor of Creative Media in 2022; she lectures in journalism at City, University of London; she was highly commended at the British Journalism Awards 2020. Question Time, Have I Got News For You and Front Row have all used her as a contributor, which is why corporate clients including SXSW, Web Summit, Netflix and Sky tend to book her to chair, moderate or interview at the moments where the room expects a working broadcaster, not a motivational voice. Key speaking topics Hidden histories of women in business, science and leadership Wealth, power and the lives of billionaires Media, journalism and the modern news industry Inclusion, identity and cultural narrative LGBTQ+ representation in public life On-stage hosting, moderation and panel chairing Ideal for CHROs, heads of DEI and internal communications leaders briefing audiences on inclusion with substance Brand, marketing and editorial leaders working on culture-led storytelling Conference programmers needing a senior journalist to chair, moderate or interview on the main stage Leadership teams hosting International Women’s Day, Pride or cultural anniversary events that need a credible voice rather than a generic one Audience outcomes Specific historical reference points that make inclusion content land with executive audiences A clearer view of how wealth, power and ambition are reported and judged in mainstream media today Confidence in handling identity and cultural topics from a journalist’s evidence base, not a political register Practical reading on how stories travel in modern media, drawn from VICE, the BBC and national press A sharper sense of what audiences want to hear from leaders speaking about inclusion and culture

Beatrice Ngalula Kabutakapua is an inspiring trainer and genius storyteller who speaks on a range of topics including leadership, business storytelling, employee engagement and story-based communication with incredible energy. Having been an award-winning international journalist, Beatrice has the great ability to train people in how to tell better stories even if they have never done it before so that they can enhance communication and be inspiring. Her unique approach to business storytelling is innovative because she focuses on internal stories within organisations to foster a positive company culture. Using her coaching skills, knowledge of human behaviour, and empathy, Beatrice doubles employee’s confidence in writing stories that are targeted to specific audiences. People who have worked with her shared that their ability to apply stories to their workplace as well as training people in storytelling has increased exponentially. Her clients in DEI, People and Culture, L&D departments have referred to her work as being “thought-provoking”, “genius” and “empowering”. Through her content, speeches and training, Beatrice has reached more than 10,000 people from Los Angeles to Istanbul and in three different languages: French, English and Italian. Beatrice is currently working on her first book on leadership and storytelling, which is a guide to help leaders transform their lived experiences into their leadership superpowers.

Why organisations work with Jeanette Kwakye A working national broadcaster, not a former athlete trading on past results. Buyers get a host who runs live BBC Sport and ITV current affairs every week, with the on-stage instincts that come with it. Rare credibility on women in sport and media. She broke a 24-year drought as a British woman in the Olympic 100m final, then became the first Black female UK presenter to front a terrestrial boxing production. Hosting and moderation experience with Google, Nike, BMW, the IOC and World Athletics, which translates into clean panel craft for senior leadership audiences. Direct, unsentimental on the transition from elite sport to a second career. Useful for talent, learning and DEI conversations that have grown tired of the standard sportsperson keynote. Biography highlights Sixth place in the 100m final at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, the first British woman in that final since 1984. Silver medallist over 60m at the 2008 IAAF World Indoor Championships, equalling the British record of 7.08. BBC athletics trackside reporter; host of BBC Radio 5 Live’s Football Daily podcast; co-host of BBC Radio 5 Live Weekend Breakfast. Co-host of The Martin Lewis Money Show on ITV1. First Black female UK TV presenter to lead a boxing production on a terrestrial channel, on Channel 5. Appointed MBE in the 2021 Birthday Honours for services to sport and sports broadcasting. Loughborough University graduate in Politics and Economics; author of the children’s book Femi the Fox. Biography A British woman had not reached an Olympic 100m final for twenty-four years when Jeanette Kwakye ran 11.14 in Beijing in 2008 and finished sixth. The earlier rounds, not the final, are the part that matters. She trained at Loughborough, came through British championships in both the 100m and 200m, and took silver over 60m at the World Indoors that same year, equalling the British record of 7.08. The second career has the same shape. After retiring in 2014 she went through an NCTJ qualification, started in local BBC radio, and built outwards. She is now a BBC athletics trackside reporter, hosts the Football Daily podcast on BBC Radio 5 Live, co-hosts Weekend Breakfast on the same station, and co-presents The Martin Lewis Money Show on ITV1. In 2020, she became the first Black female presenter on a terrestrial UK boxing production. Her hosting and moderation portfolio outside broadcast covers Google, Nike, BMW, the International Olympic Committee and World Athletics. Senior audiences hire her because she runs a room cleanly, pushes panellists, and brings a working journalist’s instinct to questions of representation and performance rather than a retired-athlete reflection. She was appointed MBE in 2021 for services to sport and sports broadcasting. She is also the author of the children’s book Femi the Fox. Key speaking topics Representation in sport and media Women in broadcasting and elite sport High-performance mindset Career transition from elite sport Olympic preparation and selection Sports broadcasting and journalism Resilience after injury Ideal for Conference and summit organisers needing a host or moderator with senior on-stage credibility DEI, talent and people leaders running events on representation and women’s progression Sports industry, federation and rights-holder events Internal kick-offs and leadership offsites looking for an Olympic-finalist perspective on performance under pressure Audience outcomes A clearer picture of what representation actually changes inside elite environments, told from inside two of them A working definition of high performance that survives contact with injury, deselection and reinvention Practical ground for talent and DEI leaders considering how the pipeline into senior visible roles really moves A panel or fireside that lands cleanly, with a host who keeps senior speakers honest

Why organisations work with Yael Leibovitz Tannenbaum She has spent two decades inside the hiring rooms of financial and technology organisations, so her recommendations target the specific points where bias enters a recruitment process. Her work with Mekorot’s Committee for the Advancement of Women and Haredi Women In Tech gives her a track record on one of the harder workforce integration problems: bringing ultra-Orthodox women into mainstream Israeli technology employment. Co-developed “The Double-Glass Ceiling” with Chani Zisman, a talk delivered at the European Parliament that translates the secular and ultra-Orthodox divide into terms a mixed audience can act on. Trains hiring managers in practical interview redesign, not abstract awareness, which means HR teams leave with changes they can put into a process the following week. Biography highlights Twenty-plus years in HR and recruitment across financial services and technology Staff training delivery at SCE Shamoon College of Engineering Manager preparation programmes at Israel Electric Corporation Work with Mekorot’s Committee for the Advancement of Women Co-delivered talks at the European Parliament and the Women and Economy conference in India Active engagement with the Haredi Women In Tech community Biography Most diversity programmes are built around the wrong question. They ask how an organisation describes itself to candidates, when the harder question is how the organisation reads candidates in the room. Yael Leibovitz Tannenbaum has spent two decades on the inside of that problem, working with financial and technology employers whose recruitment processes were quietly filtering out the people they said they wanted to hire. Her training is in HR and recruitment. Her practical reputation comes from a specific seam in Israeli workforce policy: bringing ultra-Orthodox women into secular technology and financial sector employment, where neither side of the table has been trained to read the other. Her work with Mekorot’s Committee for the Advancement of Women and with Haredi Women In Tech operates directly on that translation problem. The signature output of this work is “The Double-Glass Ceiling,” co-developed with Chani Zisman and delivered at the European Parliament, the Women and Economy conference in India, and to the Prague Jewish community. The talk makes the secular-religious workplace divide legible to audiences who have no working knowledge of it, then identifies the specific decisions through which mixed teams either close the gap or reinforce it. Alongside the keynote work, she trains hiring managers and HR teams in interview redesign and conscious decision-making. The format is closer to a workshop than a lecture, and the result is process change rather than a refreshed values statement. Key speaking topics Inclusive recruitment and interview design Unconscious bias in hiring decisions Cross-cultural workforce integration Storytelling for career advancement Decision-making under organisational complexity Workforce participation of underrepresented groups Ideal for CHROs and heads of talent acquisition reviewing hiring processes DEI leads designing programmes that survive the interview stage Hiring managers and interview panels in technology and financial services Boards examining workforce participation across underrepresented communities Audience outcomes A clearer view of where bias enters the recruitment funnel and which interventions actually move the numbers Practical interview tools that hiring managers can apply in the next round of recruitment A working understanding of the cultural and linguistic frictions that block integration of underrepresented groups Sharper instincts for the difference between cultural fit and capability when assessing candidates

Why organisations work with Andy Ayim He works with leadership teams where the brief is not a keynote but a measurable shift in how the team makes decisions, handles conflict and holds each other to account. His track record sits on both sides of the table: senior product roles at WorldFirst and Zilch, then Managing Director at Backstage Capital running accelerators on three continents. He has been the executive being coached and the investor pushing portfolio leaders to grow. His MBE, awarded in 2020 for services to diversity in the technology industry, signals a substantive record on inclusion rather than a stated commitment. Clients booking inclusive-leadership work get an external voice the room cannot dismiss as marketing. Through the Angel Investing School he has trained over a thousand new investors and built the curriculum used by 100 senior Google executives who went on to raise a $70m fund. He brings that operator’s view of capital, ownership and opportunity into corporate rooms that rarely hear it. Biography highlights MBE for services to diversity in the technology industry, awarded 2020 (London Gazette, Issue 63135). Founder of the Angel Investing School, which has trained 1,000+ new angel investors and produced the Open Angel platform. Former Managing Director at Backstage Capital, helping run accelerator programmes in Detroit, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and London. Senior product roles at WorldFirst (acquired by Ant Financial for $700m) and Series C fintech Zilch. Trained 100 senior Black executives at Google who formed the Black Angel Group and raised a $70m fund. Named in the Financial Times Top 10 Most Influential BAME Leaders in Tech; HSBC and UK Black Business Show Top 25 Black Entrepreneurs to Watch. Biography Most senior teams are not short of intelligence or ambition. They are short of safety. People hold back the disagreement, the bad news, the half-formed idea that might change the decision. Andy Ayim’s work begins there. He is hired by leaders at Google, Stripe, Uber, Diageo, Novartis and Tesco to do the harder thing: change how a team behaves with each other in the room. His authority is built on doing the job, not describing it. He held senior product roles at WorldFirst before its $700m acquisition by Ant Financial, then at Series C fintech Zilch. In 2018 he joined Arlan Hamilton as Managing Director at Backstage Capital, designing accelerator programmes for underrepresented founders in Detroit, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and London. The pattern is consistent: operator credibility first, advisor work second. The inclusion record is documented. He was appointed MBE in 2020 for services to diversity in the technology industry, gazetted by the Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood. In the same year he founded the Angel Investing School, which has since trained over a thousand new angel investors and built the curriculum that produced the Black Angel Group, 100 senior Google executives who went on to raise a $70m fund. What that means for a client is straightforward. When Ayim walks into a leadership offsite, he is not a consultant translating a theory. He is a former executive and active investor who has seen the same trust and capital problems from inside companies, inside portfolios and inside an honours system that has recognised the work. Key speaking topics Human-centred leadership Inclusive leadership and team performance Psychological safety in senior teams Diversity and inclusion in technology Angel investing and ownership Future of work and hybrid team design Talent and the next generation of leaders Ideal for CHROs and Chief People Officers commissioning inclusive-leadership and culture work for senior populations. ExCo and board offsites where the brief is honest conversation, trust and decision quality, not a standard keynote. Heads of Diversity and Inclusion looking for an external voice with a credentialled record rather than a generic DEI speaker. Investor and founder audiences inside corporate venture, accelerators and innovation functions. Audience outcomes A clearer picture of the specific behaviours that produce psychological safety in senior teams, and the ones that quietly destroy it. Language for naming the inclusion problems leaders are nervous to name, with examples drawn from operator and investor experience. A view of inclusion as a leadership capability tied to performance, not a compliance function bolted onto HR. An informed perspective on angel investing, ownership and wealth creation for audiences that rarely get it from a credible practitioner.

Why organisations work with Eric M. Bailey He turns cognitive neuroscience into 22 named tools managers can use the next morning, not a worldview to adopt over time. The methodology is called the Principles of Human Understanding. His client list spans Google, the US Air Force, Los Angeles County, and the Phoenix Police Department. Few communication speakers translate across that range of cultures. The Cure for Stupidity gives an organisation a shared vocabulary for irrational workplace behaviour. Once a team has read it, conflict conversations get shorter. He works the room across analytical and emotional registers. Engineering audiences and frontline service teams both come away with the same takeaways, which is rare. Biography highlights President of Bailey Strategic Innovation Group, a communication and organisational development consultancy. Bestselling author of The Cure for Stupidity: Using Brain Science to Explain Irrational Behavior at Work. Creator of the Principles of Human Understanding methodology, used in keynote, facilitation, and coaching engagements. Master’s in Leadership and Organizational Development, Saint Louis University. Client work with Google, US Air Force, Los Angeles County, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, City of Phoenix, Phoenix Police Department. Media features on CNN, Forbes, and HuffPost. Speaker on the Workhuman Live conference programme. Biography Most conflict at work is not about the issue on the table. It is about two people running different software on the same conversation. Bailey has built a career mapping that mismatch and giving leaders a way to talk about it without making anyone feel stupid. His book The Cure for Stupidity: Using Brain Science to Explain Irrational Behavior at Work sets out the argument. Irrational behaviour is usually rational once you understand what the brain is protecting against. The book seeded a methodology, the Principles of Human Understanding, which now anchors his keynote and consulting work through Bailey Strategic Innovation Group. The client list is the proof. Google, the US Air Force, Los Angeles County, the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, the City of Phoenix, and the Phoenix Police Department have all brought him in. These are organisations with very different tolerance for soft language, which forces the material to do real work. The Master’s from Saint Louis University in Leadership and Organizational Development is the academic underpinning. The 22 tools are what audiences actually leave with. What sets Bailey apart from other neuroscience-of-work voices is that he writes for the manager who has eleven things to do today, not for the reader who wants a theory of mind. The framework is built to be used inside a difficult conversation, not admired from a distance. Key speaking topics Brain science of workplace communication Generational dynamics and intergenerational friction Diversity, equity and inclusion under contested conditions Change management and the neuroscience of resistance Team trust and functional team design Leadership development for first-line and mid-level managers Ideal for CHROs and people leaders dealing with persistent team conflict and engagement decay Heads of L&D commissioning manager development at scale DEI leads who need a frame for inclusion that lands with sceptical audiences Public sector and uniformed leadership teams (law enforcement, military, municipal government) needing communication training that travels across rank Audience outcomes A shared vocabulary for naming the cognitive patterns that drive workplace friction Specific tools, drawn from the Principles of Human Understanding, that can be used in a difficult conversation the same week A reframe of irrational behaviour as predictable, not personal, which lowers the temperature of recurring conflicts A working model for how the brain interprets change, status, and difference, applied to current team dynamics

Why organisations work with Tim Campbell A founder’s view of what early-stage capital, mentoring and access actually do for people who do not start with networks, drawn from supporting more than 750 start-ups through the Bright Ideas Trust A senior commercial perspective on inclusion that connects diversity to talent acquisition and business outcomes, informed by his strategic adviser work in global recruitment Public recognition that opens doors at executive and audience level: MBE for Services to Enterprise Culture, two decades of broadcast presence on The Apprentice, and a seat on the Windrush Commemoration Committee A practitioner’s read on what makes a small business survive its first three years, codified in his co-authored book with Paul Humphries published by Headline Biography highlights Winner of the first series of BBC’s The Apprentice in 2005, hired by Sir Alan Sugar as Project Director of Amstrad’s Health and Beauty division Co-founder of the Bright Ideas Trust, which raised over GBP 3m and supported more than 750 start-ups from disadvantaged backgrounds Appointed MBE in 2012 for Services to Enterprise Culture Co-author of “What’s Your Bright Idea? The Journey to Starting Your Own Business” (Headline, 2010) Member of the UK Government’s Windrush Commemoration Committee Returned to The Apprentice as Lord Sugar’s permanent advisor from Series 18 onwards Biography The Apprentice in 2005 was the first time most British viewers had watched a hiring decision broadcast as entertainment. Tim Campbell, a senior planner at London Underground, won the series and took the GBP 100,000 job at Amstrad as Project Director of a new Health and Beauty division. The interesting work began two years later. In 2007 Campbell co-founded the Bright Ideas Trust with Paul Humphries and Richard Morris. The model was specific: equity-style early-stage capital and structured mentoring for 16 to 30 year olds who could not raise money through conventional networks. By the time the trust had matured, it had raised more than GBP 3m and supported over 750 start-ups. The work earned an MBE in 2012 for Services to Enterprise Culture and a co-authored book with Humphries, “What’s Your Bright Idea?”, published by Headline. The second arc of his career moved that founder perspective into large organisations. Campbell has held senior roles in talent acquisition and inclusion strategy, advising on diversity, equity and social mobility inside global recruitment, and sits on the UK Government’s Windrush Commemoration Committee. He returned to The Apprentice as Lord Sugar’s aide and now holds the role permanently from Series 18. The throughline is the gap between organisational claims about entrepreneurial culture and inclusion, and what actually happens to people inside the business and outside it. Campbell has worked both sides of that gap, as a founder building a vehicle for capital flow into underrepresented entrepreneurs, and as a senior adviser inside companies that have to decide whether their inclusion language is reflected in who gets hired, funded and promoted. Key speaking topics Entrepreneurship and early-stage business Inclusive talent acquisition and social mobility Resilience in a founder’s career Diversity and inclusion as commercial strategy Leadership through change Personal and organisational reinvention Ideal for Boards and executive teams reviewing the commercial logic of their inclusion strategy CHROs and talent leaders rethinking pipelines into underrepresented communities Founders, scale-up leaders and intrapreneurs inside corporate environments Audiences at staff conferences and ERG events seeking a credible voice on enterprise and inclusion Audience outcomes A clearer view of what early-stage entrepreneurial support looks like when it is built around access, not just funding A practical sense of how diversity commitments translate into hiring, promotion and supplier decisions A founder’s perspective on resilience, drawn from a public career and a charity built and run for over a decade A reframing of inclusion as a commercial discipline tied to talent and growth, not a separate values conversation