Mental Health in the Workplace

Why organisations work with Georgia-Mae Fenton She has won the same individual event at consecutive Commonwealth Games, four years apart, the first gymnast in the discipline to do so. That is direct experience of defending a peak, which is harder than reaching one. Her team’s World Championship silver in Liverpool in 2022 was the best result by a British women’s artistic gymnastics team in the history of the World Championships. She can speak credibly to what changes inside a high-performing group at the moment the standard moves. She made her Olympic debut at Paris 2024 in her mid-twenties after several years of being the established figure in the squad. The arc is later than most assume, and that is the substance of her recovery and persistence material. East London based, comfortable in school, community and corporate audiences without changing register. Useful for organisations that want a high-profile athlete who reads the room. Biography highlights Commonwealth Games gold, uneven bars and team, Birmingham 2022. Commonwealth Games gold, uneven bars, Gold Coast 2018. World Championships silver, team, Liverpool 2022, with Great Britain. Team GB women’s artistic gymnastics, Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Trained from age five at South Essex Gymnastics Club; competes for Great Britain and England. Represented by Forte Model Management alongside her competitive career. Biography The uneven bars demand absolute composure inside an eight-second routine where one missed catch ends the competition. Georgia-Mae Fenton has stood on the top of the Commonwealth podium for that event twice, four years apart, in Gold Coast and Birmingham. That is a rare thing in any sport: holding a championship standard across a full Olympic cycle of injury risk, selection politics and shifting code requirements. The Liverpool World Championships in 2022 was the broader inflection point. Fenton was part of the five-woman Great Britain team that took silver, the strongest result a British women’s artistic gymnastics team has ever produced at a World Championship. That medal also booked the team’s quota place for Paris 2024. At Paris she made her Olympic debut as one of the more experienced figures in a young Team GB quintet that finished fourth, edged off the podium by Brazil in the final rotation. The arc from junior British champion at fifteen, to Commonwealth gold at seventeen, to Olympian at twenty-three, is the substance she draws on when she speaks about persistence and re-entry after long stretches of work with no obvious return. She works with corporate, school and community audiences from her base in East London. The material is grounded in what she has actually done: holding a routine when it counts, going back to the same event a second time after winning it once, and recovering form after the years when the medals do not come. Key speaking topics Composure under high-stakes performance pressure Defending a peak across long performance cycles Recovery and re-entry after setback Discipline and goal-setting in elite sport Team dynamics inside a high-performing squad Mental health and stress management for young performers Role models and visibility in women’s sport Ideal for Corporate audiences in sectors with high-pressure delivery cycles (sales, trading, professional services) HR and talent leaders programming on resilience, wellbeing and early-career performance Schools, universities and youth-facing organisations focused on aspiration and persistence Women’s networks and ERGs commissioning speakers on visibility in sport Audience outcomes A concrete view of what composure looks like inside an eight-second performance window, told by someone who has executed it on the world stage The mechanics of preparing to defend a title, which is different in kind from preparing to win one Honest material on the years when the medals do not come and the work continues A grounded perspective on managing public expectation as a young woman in elite sport

Why organisations work with Jade Jones She is the only athlete to have won Olympic taekwondo gold for Britain, and she did it twice, at 19 and at 23, against the world’s best Korean and Chinese fighters in their own sport. She speaks from a 13-year competitive career at the top of a sport with no margin for off-days, which gives weight when she talks about pressure, preparation, and the psychology of repeat performance. Her trajectory through Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024 first-round exits, then a complete sport change to professional boxing at 31, gives her a credible vocabulary on setback and reinvention that most decorated athletes do not have. Awarded both an MBE and an OBE by the Crown for services to taekwondo and sport, recognition that signals public-record stature rather than bureau framing. Biography highlights Olympic gold medallist, women’s 57 kg taekwondo: London 2012 and Rio 2016. World Champion, 57 kg, Manchester 2019. Three-time European Champion (2016, 2018, 2021). Two-time European Games champion (2015, 2023). Ten career gold medals across World Taekwondo Grand Prix events between 2014 and 2023. MBE (2013) and OBE (2020) for services to taekwondo and sport. Twice named BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year (2012, 2016); Flint Pavilion Leisure Centre renamed in her honour. Professional boxing debut, 7 March 2026, Misfits Duel 2 in Derby; second-round knockout victory over Egypt Criss. Biography Team GB had never won an Olympic taekwondo medal of any colour when Jones walked into the ExCeL arena for the women’s 57 kg final at London 2012. She walked out at 19 as Team GB’s first taekwondo Olympic champion and the youngest member of that Games’ British gold cohort. Four years later in Rio, she defended the title against Spain’s Eva Calvo, beating her 16-7 to become the only British fighter ever to win two Olympic taekwondo golds. The two-Games haul is the headline. The career underneath it is the substance. She won her first World Championship in Manchester in 2019 against the defending champion. She holds three European titles and two European Games titles. She collected ten World Grand Prix golds across nearly a decade of competition, the kind of record that requires a person to be peaking on demand at three or four major events a year for most of their twenties. That record also includes the two losses that matter. First-round exits at Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024, after a year of training in her own garage during the pandemic and a second cycle as the marked favourite. The recovery vocabulary she uses on stage is not borrowed; it is what she did to keep competing after each of them. In March 2025 she retired from taekwondo and signed with former professional boxer Stephen Smith to train for a boxing career. Her stated target is to become a world champion in two sports. She made her professional debut at Misfits Duel 2 in Derby on 7 March 2026 and won by second-round knockout. The point for a corporate audience is the willingness to start again from the bottom of a different sport at 31 after one of the most decorated careers in British combat sport. Key speaking topics Performance under pressure at elite level Repeat peak performance across a long career Recovery and reinvention after public setback Mental health in high-stakes environments Long-term goal setting and focus Women in sport and underrepresented disciplines Career transition and starting again Ideal for Sales, trading and leadership teams whose performance is measured event by event Senior leadership offsites focused on resilience, succession, and renewal after a hard year Company-wide kickoffs and recognition events looking for credible Olympic-calibre proof of what discipline produces Diversity, women’s networks and ERG events where a high-profile woman in a male-dominated combat sport adds substance Audience outcomes A concrete sense of what daily discipline looks like over a decade of competitive peaks A working definition of pressure that comes from inside an Olympic final, not a metaphor Permission to treat setback as an operational fact rather than a personal failing A first-hand account of changing direction late, told by someone doing it now in public

Why organisations work with Adam Gemili A world title earned by a four-man relay quartet, not an individual final, gives him direct material on how teams hold technique together when one mistake ends the race. Fourteen years at the top of British sprinting, including European 200m gold and an Olympic 200m final, evidence a long performance arc rather than a single peak moment. His current role as sprint coach at Chelsea FC academy means his content on performance habits is being actively tested against developing professional athletes, not retold from memory. He is the first British man to run sub-10 in the 100m and sub-20 in the 200m, a credential that opens corporate audiences and supports the discipline-and-marginal-gains content many performance speakers claim without proof. Biography highlights World Champion, men’s 4x100m relay, IAAF World Championships London 2017 (37.47, national and European record). European Champion, 200m, 2014; three-time European Champion in the 4x100m relay. Olympic 200m finalist, Rio 2016, finishing fourth. First British male sprinter to run sub-10 seconds in the 100m and sub-20 seconds in the 200m. Sprint and speed coach, Chelsea FC academy, from 2026. Degree in Sports & Exercise Science with Human Biology. Biography The Great Britain men’s 4x100m team had spent years carrying the memory of a botched handover at London 2012. Five years later, in the same stadium, they ran 37.47 seconds and beat the United States to the world title. Gemili ran the second leg. That race is the strongest single anchor in his speaking material. It is also the most accurate frame for what he offers a corporate room: a story about four people executing a technical task in front of 60,000 spectators, where the result depends on the handover as much as the speed. His individual record runs in parallel. European 200m champion in 2014, Olympic finalist in Rio in 2016, fourth at the 2019 World Championships in Doha as the highest-placed European. He is the first British man to run sub-10 in the 100m and sub-20 in the 200m, a credential that signals range across both events rather than a single specialism. In March 2026 he retired from elite athletics and returned to Chelsea FC, where he had spent seven years as a youth player before switching codes, this time as a sprint and speed coach for the academy. The crossover gives his content on performance, recovery, and team behaviour a current operational anchor, not just a competitive past. Key speaking topics High-performance teams under pressure Composure and execution in high-stakes moments Resilience after setback and injury Goal-setting and the long performance arc Mental health in elite environments Diversity and representation in sport Coaching and developing young talent Ideal for Sales and commercial leadership conferences focused on performance behaviours Employee engagement, kick-off and town hall events where a corporate audience benefits from a non-corporate voice HR and people leaders programming content on resilience and mental health for high-pressure teams After-dinner and awards programmes wanting a credible British sporting figure rather than a generic motivational slot Audience outcomes A specific account of how a four-person team won a world title where any single error ends the race A working definition of composure under public scrutiny, drawn from someone who lived it across major championships Honest material on setback, injury, and competitive disappointment from a fourteen-year career, not a highlight reel A credible, recent perspective on coaching and developing young athletes inside a Premier League academy

Why organisations work with Lauren LoGrasso She brings the operating logic of a working podcast producer to the question of creative leadership, having executive produced two of the highest-charting podcasts of the past five years, Unlocking Us with Brené Brown and We Can Do Hard Things with Glennon Doyle. She speaks to creativity as engagement infrastructure, not as inspiration, drawing on a body of work that has won the Webby, Signal, W3, Hermes Creative, People’s Choice, and Communicator awards through her own show. She gives event audiences a recognisable name from the podcast economy, paired with a keynote performer’s stagecraft as a SAG-AFTRA actor and working musician. Her perspective on self-expression at work is grounded in production craft: what gets people to show up with their fullest contribution, and what systematically silences them. Biography highlights Creator and host of Unleash Your Inner Creative, winner of the Webby, Signal, People’s Choice, W3, Hermes Creative, and Communicator awards. Vice President of Programming and Development at Audacy Podcasts. Executive producer credits on We Can Do Hard Things with Glennon Doyle and Unlocking Us with Brené Brown during her tenure at Cadence13. Named one of Podcast Magazine‘s 22 Unsung Heroes of Podcasting. Featured in People Magazine, Yahoo, and Business Insider; named by CEO Weekly as a top inspiring woman to follow. Singer-songwriter who has collaborated with Grammy-winning producer Jeff Bova, with songs placed in award-winning films. Biography Unlocking Us with Brené Brown launched at number one and was named Apple’s top new podcast of 2020. We Can Do Hard Things with Glennon Doyle did the same a year later. Lauren LoGrasso was an executive producer on both, working at Cadence13 to shape the editorial sensibility that made those shows resonate. The thread running through that work is now the thread running through her keynotes. Unleash Your Inner Creative, the podcast she creates and hosts, has won the Webby, Signal, W3, Hermes Creative, People’s Choice, and Communicator awards. The subject is creativity, but the working question is organisational: why people stop offering their best ideas, and what conditions bring those ideas back into the room. LoGrasso speaks to corporate audiences and university programmes on creative leadership and workplace engagement, with signature talks including “The Key to Creative Leadership” and “The Power of Unleashing Creativity in Your Workplace.” She currently serves as VP of Programming and Development at Audacy Podcasts and continues to perform as a singer-songwriter, with collaborations including Grammy-winning producer Jeff Bova. The substance of her contribution is the connection between self-expression and contribution at work, named by Podcast Magazine as one of 22 Unsung Heroes of Podcasting and consistently profiled by major outlets for the operating model behind her shows. Key speaking topics Creative leadership in the workplace Employee engagement and morale Self-expression and authentic voice at work Podcasting and audio storytelling for brands and leaders Mental health and creative wellbeing Innovation through creative practice Event hosting, moderation, and interview craft Ideal for Heads of People, Culture, and Employee Engagement designing programmes that move beyond wellness benefits. Innovation, marketing, and brand leaders looking to bring creative practice into commercial work. Internal conferences, leadership offsites, and women’s leadership programmes seeking a keynote with stagecraft. Universities and graduate business programmes hosting events on creative careers and purpose-led work. Audience outcomes A working definition of creativity as an organisational condition, not a personality trait. Specific practices for managers who want their teams to surface ideas earlier and more often. A clearer reading of why engagement scores stall in technically high-performing teams. An honest framing of the link between self-expression, mental health, and sustained contribution at work.

Why organisations work with Sonny Kalar Three decades of Metropolitan Police service, including five years as a counter-terrorism control room supervisor at Heathrow Airport, give him direct authority on what sustained operational pressure asks of people. Personal recovery from sepsis, multi-organ failure, and two episodes of temporary blindness gives him a concrete reference point for workplace mental health that does not sit at a remove from the experience. Lands credibly in environments where polished corporate wellbeing language tends not to, particularly frontline and blue-light teams. Available for one-to-one coaching alongside speaking, which suits clients who want a follow-up engagement rather than a single event. Biography highlights Served 30 years in the Metropolitan Police, retiring in 2023 with the rank of sergeant after an unblemished service record. Five years as a Counter-Terrorism National Ports control room supervisor at Heathrow Airport, with prior service in SO15 and blue-light response. Earned an MSc while serving on the front-line. Self-published author of more than 20 books across fiction and personal development. 2nd Degree Black Belt in Kung Fu and former Chief Instructor of his own clubs. Runs three YouTube channels with a combined audience above 150,000 subscribers, focused on motivation and coaching content. Biography Most workplace wellbeing programmes are written for office workers. They land less well in environments where critical incidents are the working day, not the exception. Sonny Kalar spent three decades on that side of the gap. Kalar joined the Metropolitan Police at nineteen and retired in 2023 as a sergeant. He spent five years as a counter-terrorism control room supervisor at Heathrow Airport, having previously worked in SO15 and on blue-light response teams. He completed an MSc while serving. Outside the uniform, Kalar has lived through what most resilience speakers describe second-hand. He survived sepsis and multi-organ failure with CRP markers far above the level that usually proves fatal, recovering after weeks in hospital. He lost his sight on two separate occasions following severe eye infections, and continued to compete in tournament squash with stage-four bone-on-bone knee damage. That history is the basis for his current work. He speaks to organisations on workplace mental health and sustained performance under pressure, and offers one-to-one coaching alongside the keynote. Audiences in frontline and operational settings respond to the credibility of someone who has done the job and lived the consequences. Key speaking topics Workplace mental health Resilience under sustained operational pressure Recovery from physical and mental health setbacks Personal motivation and mindset under adversity Performance and wellbeing in frontline and high-pressure roles Ideal for Frontline and blue-light services addressing workforce mental health and retention HR and wellbeing leads in operational sectors where standard programmes fail to land Public sector leadership teams responsible for sustained-pressure workforces Conferences and team events centred on personal resilience, recovery, and motivation Audience outcomes A first-hand account of what sustained operational pressure does to people over decades, useful as a reference point for leaders trying to address it. Greater confidence to open conversations about mental health in environments where the topic is usually treated as a weakness. Specific examples of how he kept showing up through illness, recovery, and the demands of frontline policing. A view of recovery that does not assume the option of stepping out of the pressure.

Why organisations work with Janie Frampton She has lived the problem leaders are trying to solve. As the second woman to referee in men’s professional football in England, she knows exactly how institutions react to someone who does not fit their template, and what it takes to stay. FIFA chose her as one of eight Women Referee Instructors worldwide, a credential that signals international standing in a governance body that rarely hands that status to outsiders. She moves credibly between elite sport, government counter-extremism work, and community programmes for under-represented young people. Few speakers in the inclusion space carry that range of institutional experience. She founded two organisations that deliver, not advocate: Ref Support UK for officials under pressure, and Team You for young people in socially deprived communities. The OBE and Deputy Lieutenancy of Dorset are not decorative. Both were awarded for the same body of work she speaks about, which gives audiences an uncommon alignment between platform and proof. Biography highlights OBE for services to equality in football, awarded in the 2024 New Year’s Honours. Deputy Lieutenant of Dorset. Second woman to referee in men’s professional football in England; qualified as a referee in December 1991. FIFA Referee Instructor from 2005 to 2015, working as Technical Instructor, Observer and Match Delegate across multiple World Cup cycles. Former FA Regional Referee Manager and National Manager for Education and Training of Referees. Vice President of the International Federation for Sports Officials; Patron of Muslim Women’s Network UK; Ambassador for Women in Football; co-founder of Ref Support UK and Team You. Biography Football was not built for women when Janie Frampton qualified as a referee in December 1991. The Football Association did not formally recognise the women’s game until 1994. She became the second woman to officiate in men’s professional football in England by working inside a system that had not designed a place for her, and then refused to leave it. From that starting point she moved into the infrastructure of the game. Between 2001 and 2012 she worked as an FA Regional Referee Manager and later as National Manager for Education and Training of Referees. FIFA appointed her as a Referee Instructor in 2005, and for the next decade she travelled as Technical Instructor, Observer and Match Delegate across World Cup cycles. She is one of only eight women globally to hold FIFA instructor status. The work outside the whistle is the part organisations buy. She co-founded Ref Support UK, the first charity in England focused on the welfare and development of football officials, and Team You, a social enterprise running leadership and life-skills programmes for young people in under-represented communities. She is Vice President of the International Federation for Sports Officials, Patron of Muslim Women’s Network UK, and an Ambassador for Women in Football. The 2024 OBE was awarded specifically for long-standing service to equality in football, locally and nationally. She was appointed Deputy Lieutenant of Dorset the same year. Audiences get someone whose inclusion work has been recognised by the institutions she was once excluded from, told in the voice of a referee: direct, unhedged, and used to making decisions people will argue with. Key speaking topics Gender equality in male-dominated institutions Inclusive leadership and culture change Resilience and decision-making under pressure Supporting under-represented talent in sport and business Governance and integrity in elite performance environments Mental health and the welfare of officials Values-based leadership Ideal for CHROs and DEI leads confronting the gap between inclusion policy and day-to-day culture. Boards and executive teams in sport, governing bodies and federations. Leadership programmes for women moving into senior roles in male-dominated sectors. Organisations working with young people, education bodies, and community outreach functions. Audience outcomes A clearer view of what structural inclusion looks like inside institutions that were not designed for it. Specific tactics for staying, deciding and leading when you are the first or only one in the room. A frank account of how elite sport handles pressure, welfare and accountability, translatable to corporate performance cultures. Direct examples of building organisations, Ref Support UK and Team You, that deliver measurable outcomes for the people they serve.

Meet Thomas Curran A distinguished professor of psychology at the London School of Economics, and author of the international bestseller The Perfection Trap (2023), Dr. Thomas Curran has garnered worldwide acclaim for his research into the rising tide of perfectionism and its implications for well-being and productivity. Focussing on evidence-based strategies and actionable insights, Tom also helps: organisations recognise the hidden costs of perfectionism and adopt strategies for sustainable success, and provides audiences with tools and methods to counter unrealistic standards, reduce burnout, and encourage creativity. Tom’s TED Talk on perfectionism has reached over three million viewers, and his work has been featured in leading publications such as The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, and TIME.

Why organisations work with Robin Ince Sixteen years co-hosting The Infinite Monkey Cage with Brian Cox gave him a working method for translating serious ideas into language a general audience can act on. Few speakers have practised that craft at that scale. His account of late-diagnosed ADHD in Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal is one of the most widely read first-person treatments of adult neurodiversity from a recognisably high-functioning public figure. That makes him useful to leadership audiences who do not see themselves in standard neurodiversity training. He brings genuine comedy timing to material that is usually delivered flat. Boards and senior leadership offsites can absorb difficult content from him that they would resist from a clinical speaker. He carries credentials that survive scrutiny in any room: Honorary Fellow at UCL, honorary doctorate from Royal Holloway, Fellow of the British Science Association, Booksellers Association Author of the Year. Biography highlights Co-host of BBC Radio 4’s The Infinite Monkey Cage with Professor Brian Cox, 2009 to 2025; the show won the 2011 Sony Gold Award for Best Speech Programme. Honorary Fellow of University College London and honorary Doctor of Science of Royal Holloway, University of London. Author of I’m a Joke and So Are You, The Importance of Being Interested, Bibliomaniac, and Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal: My Adventures in Neurodiversity; co-author with Brian Cox of How to Build a Universe. Booksellers Association Author of the Year, 2022; Time Out Outstanding Contribution to Comedy, 2006; multiple Chortle Awards including Best Compere. Co-founder of the Cosmic Shambles Network and creator of Nine Lessons and Carols for Curious People, the annual science variety show that has run since 2008. Public advocate on adult ADHD and neurodiversity following his own late diagnosis, anchoring his current touring show The Universe and the Neurodiverse. Biography The Infinite Monkey Cage ran on BBC Radio 4 for sixteen years and won the Sony Gold Award for Best Speech Programme along the way. Robin Ince co-presented it with the physicist Brian Cox throughout, and the working method he developed there sits at the centre of what he now offers organisations: serious science, philosophy and literature delivered in language a general audience will actually use. That method has produced four solo books and one co-authored with Cox. The Importance of Being Interested and Bibliomaniac established him as a writer on curiosity and reading culture. Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal, published by Macmillan in 2025, did something different. Following his own late ADHD diagnosis, he wrote a first-person account of adult neurodiversity that has been unusually well received by readers who do not see themselves in standard workplace material on the subject. The credentials behind the work are real. He is an Honorary Fellow of University College London and an Honorary Doctor of Science of Royal Holloway. He is a Fellow of the British Science Association and was Booksellers Association Author of the Year in 2022. He co-founded the Cosmic Shambles Network and has curated the Nine Lessons and Carols for Curious People science variety show every December since 2008. For corporate audiences the proposition is specific. He is useful when a leadership team wants to talk seriously about neurodiversity and curiosity without flattening either into HR language, and he is one of very few speakers who can take a room from a research finding to a usable insight to a genuine laugh in the same minute. Key speaking topics Adult neurodiversity and late ADHD diagnosis Scientific curiosity as a habit of mind Communicating complex ideas to non-specialist audiences Humour and humanity Reading culture and the value of attention Science, music and comedy as a single conversation Ideal for Leadership teams and HR directors building neurodiversity work that goes beyond policy Boards and senior offsites looking for substantive content delivered with comedy timing Innovation, R&D and learning functions who want to reset what curiosity looks like in practice Conference organisers programming a science, culture or curiosity strand Audience outcomes A working vocabulary for talking about adult ADHD and neurodiversity in senior settings A clearer sense of why attention, not information, is the scarce resource in their organisation Specific examples from sixteen years of putting scientists in front of general audiences, with the lessons that translate Permission to be more interested in their own work, which most leaders need more than they admit

Why organisations work with Anelia Uzunova A corporate operator’s read on wellbeing. She has run point for a CEO at Galderma and managed global innovation projects at Novartis, so the inner-leadership conversation lands as an executive discipline rather than a soft-skills add-on. Founder of the wellbeing community at the World Economic Forum, which gives her a credible vantage point on how peer organisations are actually structuring this work, not just how they describe it on their careers page. A structured method, the RISE Inner Leadership framework, that gives leadership teams something concrete to take back to their day-to-day, rather than a workshop afterglow. A bilingual, cross-cultural speaker with working experience across Switzerland, the US, and the UK, well suited to executive audiences in pharma, healthcare, and globally distributed corporate teams. INSEAD-trained executive coach who lectures on Leading for Wellbeing to its MBA audience, which translates into content that survives a sceptical senior room. Biography highlights Chief of Staff to the CEO, Galderma Global Leadership Fellow, World Economic Forum; founder of the WEF wellbeing community Former global digital innovation project lead at Novartis, Switzerland MBA and executive coaching certification, INSEAD Executive Masters in Global Leadership, World Economic Forum programme Lecturer to INSEAD MBA audiences on Leading for Wellbeing Biography Pharma is a useful test case for the limits of conventional wellbeing programmes. The work is high-stakes, the regulatory load is heavy, and the senior teams running global functions tend to be senior precisely because they absorb pressure for everyone else. That is the environment Anelia Uzunova has worked inside for most of her career, first at Novartis in Switzerland and then as Chief of Staff to the CEO of Galderma. Her shift from operating roles to coaching and speaking was not a reinvention away from corporate life. It was a decision to teach explicitly what she saw working at the top of complex organisations. The Global Leadership Fellows Programme at the World Economic Forum gave her a comparative view across industries; founding the WEF’s wellbeing community gave her a structured one. Both inform a body of work focused on the inner state of the leader as an operational variable. The teachable form of that work is the RISE Inner Leadership framework, organised around four stages: Root, Ignite, Surrender, Embody. It is used with executive audiences and with the INSEAD MBA cohort she lectures to on Leading for Wellbeing. The framing is not therapeutic. It is closer to executive coaching with a clear curriculum, designed for senior leaders who have already tried the surface interventions and want something that holds up under pressure. Her credentials sit across INSEAD, the World Economic Forum, and a fifteen-year corporate track record in pharma and healthcare. The reason this matters for serious organisations is straightforward: when wellbeing is treated as an HR programme, it stays peripheral. When it is treated as a leadership capability, it changes how people work. Uzunova argues, and demonstrates, that the second framing is the one that pays back. Key speaking topics Inner leadership and executive composure Wellbeing as a leadership capability Personal transformation and reinvention for senior leaders Leading through change and uncertainty Purpose and alignment in executive careers Mindful leadership for high-pressure industries Women in senior leadership Ideal for CHROs and Chief People Officers building wellbeing into the leadership agenda rather than the benefits stack C-suite and senior leadership offsites in pharma, healthcare, and other high-pressure regulated industries Executive development programmes and high-potential cohorts Women’s leadership and senior talent forums Audience outcomes A working definition of inner leadership that an executive team can use, not a wellness vocabulary The four-stage RISE framework as a reference structure for how senior leaders manage their own state A sharper view of how composure, alignment, and presence affect team performance and retention Practical anchors for executives navigating role transitions, restructure, or extended pressure A frame for treating wellbeing as a leadership discipline that boards and CEOs can sponsor with confidence

About Kelly Mackin Kelly Mackin is a workplace well-being innovator, human behavior researcher, culture consultant, and the best-selling author of the book “Work Life Well-Lived.” She is the CEO of Motives Met, a platform that empowers people to create their best work life and workplace. Through her no-B.S. approach to well-being and groundbreaking research that challenges the status quo, she helps create thriving cultures where people can be well and perform well at work. Kelly’s journey from ill-being to well-being ignited her passion and dedication for helping people cultivate health and happiness in their lives. Her research shows only 16% of people are thriving at work, her mission is to change that. Her expertise spans mindfulness and meditations to fostering psychological safety, from meaningful team workshops to leadership coaching. As a researcher, she gains insights into significant parts of our lives like values, stress, and emotions to develop frameworks to better understand the world and ourselves to make positive change. When asked about her proudest moments, Kelly would tell you it was standing at the top of Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa and at Mount Everest Base Camp. Hailing from sunny San Diego, California, you can often find her soaking up a sunset, playing beach volleyball, or sparring in the boxing ring.

Why organisations work with Mel Abraham A practitioner’s view of personal finance, not a motivational one. Thirty years as a CPA advising founders and high earners sits behind every framework he teaches. Financial wellbeing translated into a workforce metric. His employee financial wellness sessions connect personal money stress directly to productivity, retention, and engagement numbers a CFO recognises. A published, repeatable system. Building Your Money Machine and its Wealth Priority Ladder give audiences a sequenced model they can act on the next morning, not a set of principles to remember. Credibility at the top of the speaker profession. The Certified Speaking Professional designation is held by fewer than one in ten working speakers, and Abraham earned it on top of the CPA qualification. A founder’s story buyers can verify. He built, sold, and reinvested through a cancer diagnosis and recovery, which is why the work avoids the abstract optimism that defines most personal-finance content. Biography highlights USA Today bestselling author of Building Your Money Machine (Hay House, 2024). International bestselling author of The Entrepreneur’s Solution. Certified Public Accountant with more than 30 years of advisory experience to founders and entrepreneurs. Certified Speaking Professional, National Speakers Association. Host of the Building Your Money Machine podcast and YouTube show, reaching around two million viewers. Has shared stages with Tony Robbins, Brendon Burchard, Arianna Huffington, Ed Mylett, and Amy Porterfield. Biography The gap between earning a high income and being financially free is wider than most professionals expect. Lifestyle absorbs salary growth, savings sit idle, and the moment when work becomes a choice keeps moving further out. Mel Abraham has spent three decades inside that gap as a CPA advising founders and high earners, and his work begins with the mechanics of closing it. Building Your Money Machine, his 2024 USA Today bestseller, sets out the sequence: earn, grow, protect. The book introduces the Wealth Priority Ladder and the Five Incomes, frameworks he uses to move audiences from a single salary to a portfolio of cash-producing assets. It followed The Entrepreneur’s Solution, an earlier international bestseller written for owner-operators trying to scale without trading their lives for the business. Inside organisations, Abraham translates the same material into a workforce argument. Personal financial stress shows up as distraction, presenteeism, and turnover, and his Financial Wellness, The Missing Link to Employee Wellness programme reframes it as a measurable productivity issue rather than a soft benefit. Buyers tend to be CHROs, founders, and benefits leads who want financial literacy treated with the same seriousness as physical and mental health. The Certified Speaking Professional designation, held by under one in ten working speakers, sits alongside the CPA credential. The combination is unusual, and it is what allows Abraham to take a stage at a sales kickoff of 20,000 or a boardroom of 10 and treat both as exercises in numerical precision. Key speaking topics Personal financial freedom and wealth-building systems Employee financial wellness and productivity Entrepreneurship and founder economics Wealth priority sequencing for high earners Legacy planning and intergenerational wealth Money mindset and behavioural finance Ideal for Sales conferences, founder summits, and entrepreneur networks CHROs and benefits leads building financial wellbeing into the employee proposition Wealth management, banking, and financial services events for client audiences Professional services firms and partnerships addressing partner and associate financial literacy Audience outcomes A sequenced model for converting earned income into income-producing assets A clearer view of which financial moves come first, second, and third Language for treating financial wellbeing as a measurable workforce outcome, not a benefit line item A founder’s account of building wealth through health crisis and business reinvention Tools drawn from a CPA practice rather than a motivational frame

Why organisations work with Rashmi Airan She has lived the failure she now teaches against. A Columbia-trained lawyer who served six months in federal prison for bank fraud is a different category of voice on ethics from a consultant or compliance specialist. Her RISE Through It and Dharma Leadership frameworks give leadership teams a structured language for the moments when pressure starts to distort judgement, not generic values posters. She speaks to boards, law firms, and Fortune 100 leadership teams with first-person authority on the cultural conditions that produce ethical drift, including ambition, fear, and the silent encouragement of senior peers. Her work bridges ethics, resilience, and mental health, which makes her useful to organisations dealing with leaders under sustained pressure rather than only to compliance functions. Biography highlights Columbia Law School graduate, with honours, and former Wall Street investment banker. Served six months in federal prison for bank fraud tied to the US housing crisis. TEDx speaker on ethical blind spots and decision-making under pressure. Creator of two named frameworks used in corporate leadership programmes: RISE Through It and Dharma Leadership. Board director, Overtown Youth Center and Alonzo Mourning Foundation; Ambassador for The Key Clubhouse. Cited media appearances on ABC, PBS, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. Biography Most ethical failures in business are not committed by bad people. They are committed by competent, ambitious leaders inside cultures that quietly reward the wrong things. Rashmi Airan knows this because she was one of them. A Columbia Law School graduate and former Wall Street investment banker, she built a successful US legal practice before being convicted of bank fraud during the housing crisis and serving six months in federal prison. That experience is now the foundation of her professional work, not a footnote to it. She has spent more than a decade studying the conditions under which good judgement breaks down, and translating that into something senior leaders can actually use. Her RISE Through It process and Dharma Leadership framework give executives a structured way to recognise the early signals of ethical drift inside their own decisions and teams. She speaks to boards, law firms, professional services partnerships and Fortune 100 leadership groups, often to audiences who assume this kind of thing happens to other people. Her contribution is to dismantle that assumption with specifics. She names the pressures, the rationalisations, and the cultural cues that precede a serious lapse, drawn from her own collapse and from years of working inside organisations on culture, compliance and resilience. Beyond keynotes, she serves on the board of the Overtown Youth Center and the Alonzo Mourning Foundation, and acts as an Ambassador for The Key Clubhouse, work focused on mental health and second-chance opportunity. Her published writing and TEDx appearances have made her a credible voice for organisations that want ethics treated as a leadership capability rather than a training module. Key speaking topics Ethical decision-making under pressure Values-based leadership Resilience after professional setback Culture and the conditions for ethical drift Mental health and senior leadership Women, voice and authority in leadership Risk awareness for boards and executive teams Ideal for Boards, general counsel and compliance leadership setting the ethical operating standard for the organisation. Partner groups in law, accounting, banking and professional services where individual judgement carries firm-wide risk. Senior leadership development programmes inside Fortune-scale companies focused on values-based leadership and resilience. Women’s leadership forums and emerging-leader cohorts where authority, voice and self-knowledge are central. Audience outcomes A clearer language for the early signs of ethical drift inside teams and individual decisions. A more honest account of how pressure, ambition and culture combine to produce serious lapses in otherwise capable leaders. A practical framework, RISE Through It, for recovering judgement and decision quality after setback or sustained strain. Permission to discuss mental health, fear and self-doubt as leadership issues rather than personal weaknesses. A first-person reference point that leaders carry back into their own teams when the pressure starts to rise.