Mental Health in the Workplace

Why organisations work with Hayley Mulenda She has been booked into the rooms where retention strategy is set, including Microsoft HQ in Redmond, Unilever’s C-suite under Leena Nair, and Meta MENA’s leadership. Her TEDxLSE talk «The Danger of Being a Role Model» frames a specific argument about authenticity that translates directly into how organisations think about leadership visibility and reverse mentoring. She holds an active operating seat as Brand Board Member at Wagamama, so the inclusion and culture content is informed by board-level decision-making, not consultancy at arm’s length. Her work on the gap between C-suite intent and Gen Z lived experience addresses a problem most leadership teams can name but few can resolve. Her book «The ABCs to Student Success» and her TEDx platform give her a public body of work that buyers can read before booking. Biography highlights TEDxLSE speaker, «The Danger of Being a Role Model» Author, «The ABCs to Student Success» Brand Board Member, Wagamama Keynote and consulting work with Microsoft, Unilever, JP Morgan, Google, Meta MENA, Chanel, Bloomberg Media, Harrods, Clifford Chance, Cabinet Office UK Spoken at Wembley Arena, Oslo Spektrum, and the UK Houses of Parliament Named one of 25 Black entrepreneurs to watch in 2024, The Black Business Show x HSBC Biography The cost of failing to engage a younger workforce is now measured at executive committee level. Retention has become a leadership question rather than an HR one. Hayley Mulenda’s work sits at the point where mental health, inclusion, and generational change converge inside that question. She came to the work through her own experience. After a suicide attempt at 18, she rebuilt her life around the practical mechanics of mental health and self-worth, and turned that into a public body of work. Her TEDxLSE talk, «The Danger of Being a Role Model», argues that organisations and leaders default to curated personas when employees actually need authenticity, and that the difference is what determines trust. Her client list reflects how that argument lands inside large organisations. Microsoft brought her to Redmond. Unilever’s then Chief HR Officer Leena Nair, now CEO of Chanel, has worked with her. Meta MENA, JP Morgan, Bloomberg Media, Clifford Chance, Google, the Cabinet Office, and Teach First have all booked her on briefs covering wellbeing, inclusion, and reverse mentoring. Wagamama appointed her to its brand board. The «ABCs to Student Success» gives her a published framework. The board seat keeps the work close to operating decisions. Together, they explain why she is booked less as a wellbeing speaker and more as a translator between senior leaders and the workforce now reporting to them. Key speaking topics Mental health and wellbeing in the workplace Reverse mentoring and generational engagement Diversity, equity and inclusion Employee retention and the social contract of work Authentic leadership and personal branding Workplace culture across the MENA region Ideal for CHROs and people directors managing retention of Gen Z and millennial talent Inclusion and culture leads building reverse mentoring or ERG programmes Executive teams reviewing employee engagement and wellbeing strategy Conferences and offsites where leadership wants a credible voice on mental health rather than a generic one Audience outcomes A working language for the difference between leader visibility and leader authenticity, and why one drives engagement and the other does not A direct view of what younger employees actually want from senior leaders A reframing of mental health from a wellbeing programme into a retention lever Practical reference points for designing reverse mentoring that produces decisions, not optics

Why organisations work with Elaine Kasket She is one of the few cyberpsychologists in Europe who is also a clinically trained, HCPC-registered counselling psychologist, which means her advice on digital wellbeing is grounded in clinical practice, not commentary. Her work covers technology across the full lifespan, from “sharenting” to digital afterlife, which gives leaders a coherent framework for thinking about the employee, the customer, and the citizen as the same person. She wrote the definitive trade book on digital death and digital legacy, All the Ghosts in the Machine, and now leads on the psychology of AI companions and grief bots, an area few executive audiences have heard explained well. She has consulted to organisations including Netflix, Santander, Deloitte, the NHS and Hill & Knowlton Strategies, so the work translates from research into board-level conversations about AI, attention and surveillance. Her newest book, Reset, gives leadership teams a practical vocabulary for agency over technology rather than the usual digital detox framing, which most senior buyers find too thin for adult professional audiences. Biography highlights BPS-Chartered Psychologist and HCPC-Registered Counselling Psychologist; Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society Visiting Professor at the Centre for Death and Society, University of Bath; formerly Honorary Professor of Psychology at the University of Wolverhampton Author of Reset: Rethinking Your Digital World for a Happier Life (Elliott & Thompson, 2024) and All the Ghosts in the Machine (Robinson, 2019) TEDx Oxford speaker; featured expert in the Netflix documentary The Future Of: Life After Death Regular contributor to BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour, CNN, BBC Ideas, The Guardian, New Scientist, Psychology Today and Stylist Keynote engagements include Santander, Deloitte, the NHS, Royal Society of Medicine, Congreso Futuro, re:publica and the International Baccalaureate global conference Biography Most organisations talk about digital wellbeing in the language of the wellness industry: detoxes, screen-time apps, mindful breathing. The actual psychological problem is structural. Attention is being extracted, identity is being recorded, and the costs are showing up in engagement, retention and clinical mental health caseloads. That gap between the corporate vocabulary and the clinical reality is the space Elaine Kasket works in. She trained as a counselling psychologist before cyberpsychology was a discipline, and is registered with the HCPC alongside her chartered psychologist status with the British Psychological Society. That clinical grounding is what separates her commentary from the commentary economy around technology. She led the Doctorate in Counselling Psychology at Regent’s University London, was Honorary Professor of Psychology at the University of Wolverhampton for five years, and is now Visiting Professor at the Centre for Death and Society at the University of Bath. Her first trade book, All the Ghosts in the Machine (Robinson, 2019), opened a serious public conversation about digital legacy: what happens to your data, your accounts and your image when you die, and what that means for the people who outlive you. Reset: Rethinking Your Digital World for a Happier Life (Elliott & Thompson, 2024) extends the argument across the full lifespan, from “digital gestation” and sharenting to surveillance, AI relationships and the digital afterlife. For leadership audiences, she connects four conversations executives often run as separate problems: employee mental health, AI adoption, brand trust and data governance. Her recent keynotes for Santander, Deloitte, the NHS, the Royal Society of Medicine and Congreso Futuro have moved leaders away from “digital detox” framing and toward agency, the design question of how a workforce uses AI without losing the cognitive and relational ground organisations actually run on. Key speaking topics Cyberpsychology and digital wellbeing Psychology of AI adoption at work AI companions, grief bots and the future of human connection Digital legacy, data privacy and digital afterlife Attention, surveillance and the extractive attention economy Technology across the lifespan, from sharenting to digital afterlives Ideal for CHROs and Chief People Officers designing wellbeing, engagement and AI-readiness programmes Chief AI Officers and transformation leads embedding AI into employee experience and customer-facing tools Brand, marketing and communications leadership teams working on trust, privacy and AI narratives Boards and risk committees considering the human and reputational dimensions of data, surveillance and AI Audience outcomes A clinically grounded read on what technology is actually doing to attention, identity and relationships at work A vocabulary for talking about digital wellbeing that holds up in front of clinicians, regulators and senior employees A clearer view of where AI companions, grief bots and synthetic relationships intersect with workforce mental health and brand risk A practical sense of what individual and organisational agency look like in an extractive attention economy A framework that connects digital legacy, data governance and employee trust as one coherent leadership question

Why organisations work with Jill Payne A working method, not a mood-lift. Her Energy Management framework gives leaders and teams a shared language for how they move, what they focus on, and how they talk to themselves under load. Credibility with high-performance environments. She has coached the Canadian Women’s Olympic Rugby 7’s programme on mental conditioning and culture, and applies the same playbook inside companies. A book the field has rated. Be a Dime won Gold at the 2024 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards in the Self-Help category, published by Figure 1 Publishing. Range across sectors that demand precision. Named corporate clients include Google, NASA, McDonald’s, Sony, PepsiCo, Boeing, and Western Union. Tools audiences keep using. Her sessions hand over named practices, the Body, Focus, Dialogue (BFD) sequence among them, that leaders can take back into their week. Biography highlights Author of Be a Dime: Unleash Your Inherent Energy and Live Life More Joyfully (Figure 1 Publishing). Gold Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award, Self-Help, 2024. Master’s in Workplace Wellness / Employee Engagement & Workplace Performance; undergraduate degrees in Human Kinetics and Education. Mental Conditioning and Culture Coach to the Canadian Women’s Olympic Rugby 7’s programme. Former Team Canada athlete in Sprint Canoe and Rugby. Corporate clients include Google, NASA, McDonald’s, Sony, PepsiCo, Boeing, Western Union, NBC. Biography Most wellbeing programmes treat burnout as something to soften after the fact. Payne treats it earlier, as a question of capacity. How a leader moves through the day, what they choose to attend to, and the running dialogue they hold with themselves all sit upstream of how much pressure they can absorb before judgement slips. That logic became the Energy Management framework, now used inside organisations across North America. The method is built on three working levers, body, focus, and dialogue, which Payne treats as a single system rather than three wellness habits. Her book Be a Dime sets out the approach in long form and won Gold at the 2024 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards in Self-Help, published by Figure 1 Publishing. Her credibility comes from working inside environments where the cost of poor energy is immediate. As Mental Conditioning and Culture Coach with the Canadian Women’s Olympic Rugby 7’s programme, she applied the same method she now brings to senior teams at Google, NASA, McDonald’s, Sony, PepsiCo, Boeing, and Western Union. The academic spine is a Master’s in Workplace Wellness and Employee Engagement, layered on undergraduate work in Human Kinetics and Education. For an organisation absorbing change fatigue or watching engagement scores drift, Payne gives leaders a concrete operating practice, not another wellness initiative. The work is closer to mental performance coaching than to mindfulness, and it equips senior teams to keep showing up clearly when conditions tighten. Key speaking topics Energy management and personal capacity Burnout prevention and recovery Resilience under sustained pressure High-performance team culture Mental conditioning for leaders Joy and engagement at work Workplace wellbeing strategy Ideal for CHROs, CPOs, and heads of talent rebuilding engagement after sustained change Senior leadership teams managing performance under prolonged pressure Wellbeing and learning leads moving past surface-level wellness programming High-performance functions, sales, trading floors, clinical leadership, where capacity is the constraint Audience outcomes A working vocabulary for energy as an organisational capacity, not a private wellness concern The Body, Focus, Dialogue (BFD) sequence as a practice that leaders can apply that week A clearer read on the early indicators of burnout inside their own teams Specific practices for joy and recovery that are grounded in evidence, not slogans A reframe of resilience as a daily operating habit, taught and reinforced

Why organisations work with Kimberley Wilson She is dual-trained as a Chartered Psychologist and a nutritionist, which lets her connect food, sleep and stress to measurable cognitive and behavioural outcomes that HR and clinical leads both recognise. Her Whole Body Mental Health approach gives leaders a workable thesis: brain health is built, not gifted, and the inputs sit inside the working day. Her clinical track record is unusually serious for the corporate stage. She led the therapy service at HMP and YOI Holloway and served as a Governor of the Tavistock and Portman NHS Mental Health Trust. She has translated the science into two trade books, How to Build a Healthy Brain and Unprocessed, and a regular media platform that includes BBC Radio 4 and BBC Science Focus. She turns research into practice. Audiences leave with specific behaviours to adopt, not a general call to look after themselves. Biography highlights Chartered Psychologist with a Master’s degree in Nutrition, running a private practice in central London. Former Governor of the Tavistock and Portman NHS Mental Health Trust. Former Chair of the British Psychological Society’s Training Committee in Counselling Psychology. Led the therapy service at HMP and YOI Holloway, then Europe’s largest women’s prison. Author of How to Build a Healthy Brain (Yellow Kite, 2020) and Unprocessed (Penguin, 2023). Host of BBC Radio 4 podcast Made of Stronger Stuff; contributor to BBC Science Focus and Psychologies Magazine. Biography Mental health programmes inside organisations have stalled at the level of awareness. Awareness has not lowered burnout rates or improved cognitive performance, and senior leaders know it. The next conversation is about what physically builds and protects the brain at work. That is the territory Kimberley Wilson has spent her career in. She is a Chartered Psychologist with a Master’s degree in Nutrition, and she works at the point where psychology, food and physiology meet. Her clinical credentials sit in serious places. She was a Governor of the Tavistock and Portman NHS Mental Health Trust, chaired the British Psychological Society’s Training Committee in Counselling Psychology, and led the therapy service at HMP and YOI Holloway. Her published work makes the argument explicit. How to Build a Healthy Brain set out the lifestyle inputs, sleep, nutrition, movement, recovery, that protect cognitive function across a lifetime. Unprocessed pushed further, showing how modern diets are shaping mood, behaviour and decision quality at population scale. Both books are written for general readers, which is why they translate well to a corporate audience. On stage she is plain spoken, evidence led and useful. She gives leaders a framework for thinking about brain health as infrastructure, and gives employees specific things to change on Monday morning. For organisations spending real money on wellbeing without seeing the return, that combination is the point. Key speaking topics Whole Body Mental Health Brain health and cognitive performance at work Nutrition, mood and behaviour Stress, recovery and burnout prevention Sleep and high-performance teams Workplace mental health strategy Ideal for CHROs and Heads of People rebuilding wellbeing strategies that need to show measurable impact. Boards and executive teams concerned with cognitive performance, decision quality and senior leader burnout. Health, safety and wellbeing leads in high-pressure sectors such as financial services, professional services, healthcare and defence. Audience outcomes A clear thesis on how brain health is built, and where it can be protected or eroded inside the working day. Specific behaviours linked to sleep, nutrition, movement and recovery that audiences can apply immediately. A more accurate reading of the link between food, mood and decision-making at work. A sharper view of where wellbeing investment actually shifts performance, and where it does not.

Why organisations work with Ashley Rhodes-Courter A clinical credential behind the personal story. She is an LCSW running a mental health agency, the Foundation for Sustainable Families, which means her work on resilience and wellbeing is grounded in clinical practice, not motivational framing. A specific account of what trauma-informed care looks like in real institutions. Nine years across 14 foster placements gives her a rare credibility on systems that fail vulnerable people, and on what it takes to redesign them. Authority on schools, social services, and helping professions. Her talks for educators and frontline workers address abuse identification, burnout, and self-care with the precision of a practitioner, not a guest speaker. A New York Times bestselling memoir used in college curricula nationally, plus a published children’s book on a transgender sibling listed on the 2022 ALA Rainbow Book List. The body of work is taught, not just sold. Biography highlights New York Times bestselling author of Three Little Words (Simon & Schuster, 2008), with sequel Three More Words and the picture book Sam Is My Sister (Albert Whitman & Company, 2021). Licensed Clinical Social Worker. MSW from the University of Southern California; undergraduate degree from Eckerd College. Founder of the Foundation for Sustainable Families, a non-profit mental health agency providing trauma-informed care. Featured on CNN, Good Morning America, Today, The New York Times, USA Today, and Glamour, including selection as one of Glamour’s Top Ten College Women and to USA Today’s All-USA Academic Team. Profiled on NBC’s Women of Worth (December 2021). Sam Is My Sister included on the American Library Association’s 2022 Rainbow Book List. Biography Most public conversations about resilience treat it as a personal trait. In organisations that depend on people doing emotionally demanding work, teachers, social workers, healthcare staff, HR leaders, that framing breaks down. Resilience is built or eroded by systems, supervision, and the quality of care that workers themselves receive. Ashley Rhodes-Courter’s work begins from that point. She is unusual among speakers on this subject in holding the credential that matches the content. As a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with a Master’s from the University of Southern California, she runs the Foundation for Sustainable Families, a mental health agency providing trauma-informed care. The clinical work informs the talks, and the talks track current practice rather than stories from a decade ago. Her authority on the subject is also biographical. Three Little Words, published by Simon & Schuster in 2008, traces nine years across 14 foster placements in Florida. The book began as an essay in The New York Times Magazine, became a New York Times bestseller, and is now used in collegiate social work and education programs. Three More Words extends the account into adulthood and adoptive parenting. Sam Is My Sister, her 2021 picture book with Albert Whitman, was placed on the American Library Association’s 2022 Rainbow Book List. The combination matters for serious buyers. A leadership team that wants a substantive session on burnout, on what schools and social services actually need from staff, or on inclusion as a duty of care, gets a speaker who has lived inside failing systems and now treats people inside the current ones. The argument is not that adversity creates strength. It is that institutions decide whether the people inside them recover or break. Key speaking topics Trauma-informed leadership and organisational practice Burnout and self-care in helping professions Resilience after adverse experience Foster care, child welfare, and adoption Mental health in the workplace Inclusion and family diversity Educator and frontline-worker wellbeing Ideal for CHROs, heads of wellbeing, and people leaders designing trauma-informed support Education sector leaders, district superintendents, and school principals Healthcare, social care, and non-profit boards DEI and inclusion leads working on family diversity and lived-experience inclusion Audience outcomes A clearer working definition of trauma-informed practice and what it asks of managers Specific signals of burnout and abuse that frontline staff and leaders can act on A frame for resilience that holds institutions, not only individuals, accountable A more confident vocabulary for inclusion conversations involving family identity and lived experience

Why organisations work with Anthony Bennett His story is medically verifiable, not metaphorical. Twelve resuscitations, three weeks on ECMO at Great Ormond Street, a 10 per cent survival chance. Audiences leave knowing the platform is real. A four-year corporate role with Whitbread PLC put him alongside operational teams across the UK in support of the £7.5 million Great Ormond Street partnership. He understands how a workforce engages with a cause, not only how a stage receives a speech. Named on the Independent on Sunday’s 2015 Happy List, a credential anchored in a named publication rather than self-description. He is bookable as opening or closing keynote, healthcare audience or commercial team, school assembly or board offsite. Repeat clients include Network Rail, BT, CIPD, IQVIA, Janus Henderson and multiple NHS trusts. Biography highlights 2015 Independent on Sunday Happy List Played a central role in the Whitbread PLC and Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity partnership directed at the Premier Inn Clinical Building Repeat-booked across UK corporates and NHS trusts including Network Rail, BT, CIPD, IQVIA, Janus Henderson, Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust and University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust Three weeks on an ECMO machine at Great Ormond Street Hospital after contracting Strep Pneumonia, Influenza and Staphylococcus simultaneously in 2006 Resuscitated twelve times, given a 10 per cent survival chance, relearned to walk, talk and breathe Biography A school trip to Paris in 2006 ended with a UK teenager on an ECMO machine at Great Ormond Street Hospital, three viral infections in his system at once and a 10 per cent survival chance. He was resuscitated twelve times. He had a seizure while comatose. He came out of it and had to relearn how to walk, talk and breathe. That is the platform Anthony Bennett works from. The story is unusual not because survival stories are rare on the speaker circuit, but because this one is medically specific and independently documented at a named institution. The post-recovery chapter explains why corporate buyers, not only schools and healthcare audiences, book him. He spent four years working with Whitbread PLC on the partnership with Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity, which directed funds toward the Premier Inn Clinical Building. The Independent on Sunday named him on its Happy List in 2015. Repeat clients include Network Rail, BT, CIPD, IQVIA, Janus Henderson and multiple NHS trusts. What he delivers in a keynote is a perspective reset, not a framework. Audiences leave with a sharper read on how teams sustain morale under pressure, how individuals rebuild after acute setback, and what mental health support actually looks like at the human end of the equation. Key speaking topics Resilience and recovery after acute setback Mental health in the workplace Team morale and cohesion Motivational keynote for wellbeing and engagement events Patient voice in healthcare settings Corporate charity partnerships and employee fundraising engagement Ideal for HR, internal communications and wellbeing leads commissioning a keynote moment inside a broader engagement or mental health programme NHS trusts and healthcare organisations seeking a credible patient voice for staff conferences All-hands events, kick-off conferences and after-dinner slots where a perspective reset is the outcome being bought Schools and youth audiences working on resilience and mental health Audience outcomes A perspective reset on what counts as a setback and what does not Renewed willingness to engage with workplace mental health conversations A clearer view of how individuals and teams sustain themselves under sustained pressure A memorable opening or closing moment that anchors the rest of the event

Why organisations work with Andy Cole A Premier League Hall of Fame career inside one of football’s most demanding dressing rooms, used to ground sessions on standards, feedback and accountability with detail rather than slogan. Five Premier League titles and the 1999 Champions League final, including a goal tally of 121 for Manchester United, give his team-performance material the weight of evidence. Personal authority on resilience through a 2017 kidney transplant and the founding of the Andy Cole Fund with Kidney Research UK, used in sessions on recovery, mental health and the cost of carrying on. Active Manchester United Ambassador and broadcast pundit, comfortable in moderated panels, post-dinner Q and A and corporate hospitality formats where the audience expects fluency under questioning. Biography highlights Premier League Hall of Fame inductee (2024). 187 Premier League goals; Premier League Golden Boot winner 1993/94 with 34 goals in a 42-game season. Five Premier League titles, FA Cup honours and the 1999 UEFA Champions League with Manchester United. 15 senior England caps; PFA Young Player of the Year, 1994. Author of “Fast Forward: The Autobiography”, Hodder & Stoughton, 2020. Founder of the Andy Cole Fund with Kidney Research UK, launched 2020 with a personal pledge of £250,000. Biography The 1999 Manchester United dressing room is the most studied team environment in English football. Andy Cole spent six years inside it, scoring 121 goals and winning five league titles, an FA Cup and the Champions League final that completed the Treble. The standards inside that group, and the cost of meeting them, are the raw material he draws on when he speaks to senior teams. His Premier League career produced 187 goals across Newcastle, Manchester United, Blackburn, Fulham, Manchester City and others, the Golden Boot in 1993/94 with 34 goals in a 42-game season, and induction into the Premier League Hall of Fame in 2024. The numbers matter for credibility, but the more useful content is what they describe: a working life judged in public, every week, for nineteen years. In 2015 he was diagnosed with focal segmental glomerulosclerosis. By 2017 his kidney function had fallen to seven per cent and his nephew donated the organ that saved his life. He has since spoken openly about the mental health collapse that followed, founded the Andy Cole Fund with Kidney Research UK, and pledged £250,000 of his own money toward research into transplants and patient wellbeing. His 2020 autobiography “Fast Forward” set out the same arc in print: standards, friction, recovery. For corporate audiences, the offer is reflective rather than instructional. He works best in conversation, in moderated panels, and in after-dinner formats where senior leaders want a serious account of performance and recovery from someone who has lived both. Key speaking topics Elite team performance and standards Resilience and recovery after serious illness Mental health in high-pressure careers Manchester United, the Treble and the Premier League era Motivation and team spirit Mentorship and life after sport Ideal for Sales and commercial leadership conferences seeking a credible voice on standards, accountability and team performance. HR, wellbeing and employee engagement events where a personal account of recovery and mental health adds weight to internal programmes. Corporate hospitality, awards dinners and partner events tied to sport, sponsorship or Manchester United audiences. Charity, healthcare and patient-experience events on kidney health, transplant and donor advocacy. Audience outcomes A close-range account of what high standards inside a championship-winning team feel like in practice, not in theory. A direct view of the mental and physical cost of carrying on after a major health shock, told without hedging. A reset on what resilience actually means for individuals working under sustained scrutiny. A confident, honest Q and A with a senior leader who has lived the material on stage and in print.

Why organisations work with Dean Ashton A first-person account of how an elite career ends without warning, and what it takes to construct a credible second one from scratch in a watched, public arena. Direct experience of performing under scrutiny, from Premier League football and an FA Cup final to live broadcast on talkSPORT, Sky Sports, ITV and Quest, is useful to leaders whose own work has become more publicly observed. A grounded, unvarnished voice on mental health, injury and identity loss, drawn from being told at 26 that the work he had trained his life for was over. An after-dinner presence that lifts the energy of a room, with material a sports-literate UK audience recognises immediately: Crewe academy, Norwich, the £7.25m move to West Ham, the 2006 cup final, the England debut against Trinidad & Tobago. Biography highlights Capped by England at the senior level; made his debut against Trinidad & Tobago on 1 June 2008. Signed by West Ham United from Norwich City in January 2006 for a then club-record £7.25m fee. Scored in the 3-3 FA Cup final against Liverpool in May 2006. Career ended in December 2009 at age 26 following a long-term ankle injury sustained in England training in August 2006. Product of the Crewe Alexandra academy under Dario Gradi; scored 74 goals in 177 appearances for the club. Now a pundit and co-commentator across talkSPORT, Sky Sports, ITV, Premier League TV and The EFL Show on Quest. Biography Ashton was a £7.25m centre-forward, an FA Cup final scorer, and an England international by the time he was 24. By 26, he was retired. The ankle injury sustained in an England training session in August 2006 never fully healed, and in December 2009, West Ham confirmed publicly what he had been trying to outrun for three years. The interesting part of the story for organisations is what came next. The default path for a player in that position is a quiet drift out of public life. Ashton instead built a second career inside the same scrutiny he had been performing in as a player, this time as a broadcaster, working as a pundit and co-commentator across talkSPORT, Sky Sports, ITV, Premier League TV and The EFL Show on Quest. That arc is the substance of his speaking work. The material is not abstract resilience theory. It is a specific account of identity loss at 26, the practical mechanics of rebuilding professional credibility in a new field, and the discipline of performing under live scrutiny when the result is judged in public. He talks honestly about mental health, public pressure and the version of yourself you have to construct when the original plan is gone. For a UK corporate audience, Ashton sits at the intersection of after-dinner sports speaker and credible voice on dealing with career shock. The football material gives the room an immediate point of entry. The reinvention material is what a leadership audience actually takes away. Key speaking topics Resilience after career-ending shock Reinvention and second careers Performing under public scrutiny Mental health and identity in elite performance environments Team culture and high performance in professional sport After-dinner sports speaking and Premier League punditry Ideal for HR, leadership and wellbeing conferences where the brief calls for an honest first-person voice on resilience and mental health. Sales kick-offs, awards dinners and partner events are looking for a UK sports-literate after-dinner speaker with substance behind the anecdotes. Internal leadership offsites addressing change fatigue, role loss after restructure, or the reset that follows a strategic shock. Audience outcomes A grounded sense of what resilience looks like in practice when the original plan is no longer available. A more honest internal vocabulary for talking about mental health, identity and pressure at senior levels. A reference point for thinking about career reinvention as a deliberate, constructed process rather than a recovery story. An engaged, sports-literate room, set up well for the rest of the agenda.

Why organisations work with Ade Oladipo He brings live broadcast craft to corporate events: DAZN Boxing, talkSPORT and Amazon Prime Premier League coverage are all built on holding a live audience under pressure, which is exactly what large internal conferences and award nights demand. His career is a documented case of breaking a colour barrier in UK sports media, becoming the first Black presenter of a live Premier League match in December 2023. That is concrete material, not abstract DEI commentary. His speaking themes (adversity, mental health, working in media) are grounded in his own route through fostering, East London, sports trials and a non-traditional path into journalism, which gives the content specificity rather than slogans. He is equally credible as keynote speaker, panel moderator and awards host, which makes him useful for clients who need one booking to cover the whole evening. Biography highlights Lead presenter for DAZN Boxing and host of “The DAZN Boxing Show”, covering Anthony Joshua, Canelo Alvarez, Gervonta Davis and KSI fights. First Black presenter of a live Premier League match in the UK, anchoring Amazon Prime’s coverage of Crystal Palace v Bournemouth in December 2023. Presenter across the talkSPORT network, including “The Social” on talkSPORT 2 and pundit work on “Kick Off Added Time”. Winner of the 2021 Audio Production Awards “Best New Voice”. Co-host of the 2023 ARIAS-nominated podcast “The Men’s Room”. Prior credits include Sky Sports News (Premier League and EFL transfer reporting), ESPN, Fox Sports and Arise News. Biography Live boxing on DAZN, Premier League football on Amazon Prime, weekly radio on talkSPORT. Three different audiences, three different production cultures, one presenter holding the room when the broadcast is live and the script has gone. That is the working life Ade Oladipo has built, and it is the material he brings into the corporate room. In December 2023 he became the first Black presenter of a live Premier League match in the UK, leading Amazon Prime’s coverage of Crystal Palace against Bournemouth. The story behind that night runs through Brighton foster care, East London, Essex football and athletics, a Tottenham Hotspur Academy trial, and an entry into sports journalism in 2015 at Arise News. None of it was the standard route. His speaking work draws on that route directly. The themes are adversity, mental health, and what it takes to keep doing the work when you are the only person in the room who looks like you. Awards include the 2021 Audio Production Awards “Best New Voice” and a 2023 ARIAS nomination as co-host of “The Men’s Room” podcast, evidence that the craft holds up alongside the story. For corporate clients his most direct value is hosting craft: keynote, Q&A, awards, panel moderation, all delivered with the calm of someone who presents live boxing for a living. The keynote on adversity and mental health is the additional offer when the brief calls for it. Key speaking topics Mental health and resilience in high-pressure work Adversity and non-linear career paths Race and representation in UK media Sports broadcasting and live presenting Event hosting and panel moderation Awards night MC Ideal for Corporate event organisers needing a host who can carry a full evening: keynote, panel, awards. Internal CHRO and DEI leads commissioning content on lived experience rather than policy. Sports, media and entertainment industry conferences. Employee Resource Group events, particularly those focused on Black professionals in white-majority industries. Audience outcomes A clear sense of what sustained mental health practice looks like for someone working under public scrutiny. A specific story of breaking into and breaking through a closed industry, used as material for their own career conversations. A sharper view of what genuine inclusion feels like from inside, beyond the slide deck. An event held together by a presenter trained on live broadcast, not a corporate stage.

Why organisations work with Aoife Mannion She has rebuilt her career twice from ACL ruptures, including a 16-month layoff after a Champions League injury, and can describe the rehab discipline that goes with it without losing the room. Her mental-health work is institutional rather than personal commentary: she sits on FIFPRO’s Mental Health Taskforce, the global players’ union body that shapes player welfare standards. She holds back-to-back PFA WSL Team of the Year selections from her Birmingham City years, a peer-voted credential rather than a media one. She represents the Republic of Ireland after a long youth career in the England system, and can speak credibly to identity, belonging and late-career reinvention without trading on clichés. Biography highlights Centre-back for Newcastle United Women and the Republic of Ireland senior squad Former Manchester United, Manchester City, Birmingham City, and Aston Villa player 2024 Women’s FA Cup winner with Manchester United PFA WSL Team of the Year 2017-18 and 2018-19 Member of FIFPRO Mental Health Taskforce Senior Ireland debut on 22 February 2023 versus China Biography Recovery from a serious ACL injury takes around twelve months on a clean run, longer when the second one arrives before the first is fully behind you. Aoife Mannion has done both. The first rupture came during a 2019 Champions League tie against Atletico Madrid and kept her out for sixteen months. The second came in March 2022, eight months into her Manchester United contract. She was a peer-voted selection for the PFA WSL Team of the Year in two consecutive seasons at Birmingham City, then won the Women’s FA Cup with Manchester United in 2024 after that second comeback. She now plays for Newcastle United Women in the WSL2 and the Republic of Ireland senior squad, having made her international debut in February 2023 after a long youth career inside the England system. The mental health work is structural. Mannion sits on FIFPRO’s Mental Health Taskforce, the global players’ union body that sets welfare standards across professional football, and has spoken through FIFPRO on what long injury layoffs do to identity and to a person’s relationship with the work that defines them. The argument she makes to corporate audiences is the one she had to make to herself twice: composure is a discipline you build before you need it, and the conversation around the setback is the part that reduces the suffering. She speaks for organisations dealing with people in long, uncertain recoveries of their own, whether after restructure, after public failure, or after the kind of personal setback that does not respect the working week. Key speaking topics Resilience after a serious setback Rehabilitation discipline and the long return Mental health in high-performance environments Self-leadership under prolonged pressure Identity, belonging and dual nationality Feedback and honest performance conversations Ideal for CHROs and people leaders building resilience programmes that go beyond wellbeing branding Executive teams and leadership offsites where the brief is composed under sustained adversity Organisations in or after restructure where the workforce is dealing with prolonged uncertainty Networks for women in sport, performance and corporate leadership Audience outcomes A clearer language for what real recovery from a setback looks like over months, not weeks A practical view of how mental health support works inside elite teams, drawn from FIFPRO’s policy work Honest reference points for separating identity from role when the role is interrupted Reasons to take rehabilitation, recovery and feedback seriously as leadership disciplines, not soft skills

Why organisations work with Sarah Moshman Her documentary Nevertheless is in active use as a sexual harassment prevention tool by employers and educators through distributor Indieflix, giving HR and DEI leads a piece of external content that has survived independent review. The Empowerment Project has been screened more than 700 times for corporate and education audiences and has been picked up as programming by Nordstrom, American Girl, Microsoft and Charles Schwab, which is a working track record for women’s leadership events rather than a speculative pitch. She brings a regional Emmy in the Human Interest category and a NASA CineSpace first-place win for UNBOUND, which gives her credibility as a maker, not only as a speaker telling stories about her own life. She has been booked into difficult rooms, including a US Air Force women’s symposium at Hill Air Force Base and the opening keynote at the PEI Women Conference, where the audience is not the converted. Her commercial film work for SPANX, Samsung, AT&T and Mattel means she understands the brief from a marketing buyer’s side and can speak credibly to internal communications and brand teams about storytelling that performs. Biography highlights Emmy Award winner, NATAS Chicago/Midwest Chapter, 2013, for Growing up Strong: Girls on the Run. Director of three feature documentaries: The Empowerment Project (2014), Losing Sight of Shore (Netflix, 2017) and Nevertheless (2020). UNBOUND won First Place at NASA’s CineSpace Global Short Film Competition. Author of Empowered Filmmaking: How To Make a Documentary On Your Own Terms (2020). Branded content work for SPANX, Samsung, AT&T and Mattel. Featured on CNN, Good Morning America, Marie Claire, Upworthy and PBS; TEDx speaker; adjunct professor in documentary film. Biography Compliance-led harassment training is the work environment most employees have come to mistrust. The films Sarah Moshman has made for the same audience take the opposite route. Nevertheless, her 2020 feature documentary, follows seven survivors across industries from a tech CEO to a 911 dispatcher, and is now distributed by Indieflix as part of structured prevention education in workplaces and schools. That outsider craft is what organisations are actually booking. The Empowerment Project, her 2014 feature on women in leadership across the US, has been screened more than 700 times for audiences from corporates to schools, and has carried sponsorship from Nordstrom, American Girl, Microsoft and Charles Schwab. Losing Sight of Shore (Netflix, 2017) follows four women rowing more than 8,000 miles across the Pacific and gives her a second register: endurance and team performance under conditions where every easy out has been removed. The credentials behind the work are specific. A regional Emmy in 2013 for Growing up Strong: Girls on the Run. First place at NASA’s CineSpace competition for the short UNBOUND. A book, Empowered Filmmaking, that documents how the films were funded, made and licensed to Netflix. Branded content commissions from SPANX, Samsung, AT&T and Mattel that confirm she can produce inside a marketing brief, not only on her own terms. In a room, she works from her own footage. The PEI Women Conference opened with her in 2019, the US Air Force hosted her at the Hill women’s symposium, and her TEDx delivery is on public record. The result is the rare speaker on these topics whose primary asset is film that an organisation can keep using long after the keynote ends. Key speaking topics Workplace sexual harassment prevention Women’s leadership and the next generation pipeline Storytelling for brand and internal communications Inclusion and allyship after #MeToo Courage and risk-taking in early careers Documentary craft and the business of independent film Ideal for CHROs, DEI leads and ER teams running harassment prevention or culture programmes Internal communications and employer brand leaders looking for narrative content Women’s leadership networks and ERG anchor events CMOs and brand teams interested in long-form storytelling as a commercial asset Audience outcomes A documentary screening or curated clips package that gives employees a shared piece of content to discuss, rather than a slide-led training A clear account of how the Nevertheless survivors describe what allyship looked like in practice, including from peers and managers Specific examples of how women profiled in The Empowerment Project moved into senior roles, useful as case material for internal mentoring conversations A working method for using story to make uncomfortable workplace conversations possible without defensiveness

Why organisations work with Trent Shelton He reaches audiences that corporate wellbeing programmes typically cannot. With a global digital following built over a decade, he speaks to employees in a register HR initiatives rarely achieve. His three books, including “Protect Your Peace” (Hay House, 2023) and “The Greatest You” (HarperCollins Leadership, 2019), give him a coherent published body of work on mindset, boundaries, and personal resilience. He brings a former professional athlete’s framing of preparation and pressure, applied to ordinary working life rather than elite performance abstractions. He has built and run RehabTime, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, since 2011, giving him operational experience of the message he speaks on, not only the message itself. Biography highlights Former NFL wide receiver: Indianapolis Colts, Washington Redskins, Seattle Seahawks Baylor University, BA Speech Communications, 2007 Founder and president, RehabTime Organization (501(c)(3) nonprofit, established 2011) Author of “Protect Your Peace” (Hay House, 2023), “The Greatest You” (HarperCollins Leadership, 2019), and “Straight Up” Host of “The Trent Shelton Podcast” (launched 2019) Built one of the largest personal-development digital audiences in the United States Biography Most wellbeing programmes inside large organisations are not working. Employees skip the workshops, the engagement scores stay flat, and the language of resilience starts to feel like another corporate initiative. The audiences that need the message most are often the ones least willing to receive it from HR. Trent Shelton built a following of millions by speaking past that wall. After a short NFL career with the Colts, Redskins, and Seahawks ended sooner than he wanted, he founded RehabTime in 2011 as a Christian-based nonprofit focused on personal development and recovery from setback. The organisation obtained 501(c)(3) status in 2013, and the work has continued for more than a decade. The published body of work followed. “The Greatest You” (HarperCollins Leadership, 2019) and “Protect Your Peace” (Hay House, 2023) lay out his arguments on self-worth, boundaries, and intentional living. His podcast, launched in 2019, has produced nearly 200 episodes and reaches a wide global audience. For organisations, his value is reach and register. He speaks the language of employees who have stopped trusting institutional wellbeing language, and he does so with a personal story of setback and rebuild that lands without needing translation. Key speaking topics Employee wellbeing and burnout Mental health in the workplace Resilience and recovery from setback Self-leadership and personal accountability Mindset and peak performance Motivation and inspiration Ideal for Employee-wide all-hands and culture events where the audience extends well beyond senior leadership CHROs and wellbeing leads commissioning content on burnout, mental health, and engagement Sales, retail, and frontline workforces where personal motivation and resilience drive performance Faith-based and community-oriented organisations seeking values-aligned content Audience outcomes A direct, plain-language case for protecting attention, energy, and personal boundaries at work Specific principles from “Protect Your Peace” applied to the realities of modern working life A re-anchoring of personal accountability and self-worth as the foundation of sustained performance A narrative of setback and rebuild from professional sport that lands across seniority levels