Mental Health in the Workplace

Why organisations work with Annabell Fuller A live competitor’s account of decision-making under public pressure, drawn from major championship cuts at Carnoustie and a top-three finish at a USD 5 million LET event, not retrospective reflection from a retired career. Specific, sport-grounded language for what self-leadership looks like in the seconds before a high-stakes call, useful for leaders briefing teams on composure rather than wellbeing. A credible voice on the gap between physical preparation and competitive output, drawn from CrossFit-led conditioning work integrated into a professional golf schedule. A generational perspective on performing in public view at twenty-three, relevant to organisations thinking about early-career talent expected to operate under scrutiny. Biography highlights Ladies European Tour professional since 2024; tied 5th at LET Q-School to earn her card. 3rd place at the PIF Saudi Ladies International 2025, a USD 5 million LET event. Made the cut at the 2021 AIG Women’s Open at Carnoustie as one of only three amateurs that year. Three-time Curtis Cup player for Great Britain and Ireland (2018, 2021, 2022). Two-time European Ladies’ Team Championship gold medallist for England (2021, 2022). 2020 English Women’s Open Amateur Stroke Play Champion; University of Florida NCAA golfer 2020 to 2023. Biography A senior team will commit hundreds of hours of training to a decision that takes two seconds to execute in public. The question of what holds a performer together in that window is rarely treated as a discipline. Annabell Fuller has spent her career inside it. Fuller earned her Ladies European Tour card at Q-School in December 2023 with a tied-5th finish, then spent her rookie 2024 season learning to convert preparation into tour-level scoring. Her strongest result so far, third place at the PIF Saudi Ladies International in 2025, came at a USD 5 million LET event where the field included most of the tour’s established names. The amateur record behind her is the credential most useful to a board audience. She made the cut at the 2021 Women’s British Open at Carnoustie as one of only three amateurs, won the English Women’s Open Amateur Stroke Play Championship in 2020, and represented Great Britain and Ireland three times in the Curtis Cup. At the University of Florida she won the Florida Gator Invitational and reached the world’s top 25 in the amateur rankings. What sits underneath those results, and what she speaks about, is the conditioning behind composure: how a competitor builds a decision process that survives the moment a tournament tightens. The talks lean on CrossFit-integrated physical preparation, public accountability at twenty-three, and the specific discipline of recovering from a poor shot quickly enough to compete on the next one. Key speaking topics Composure and decision-making under public pressure Self-leadership in elite competition Physical preparation and performance conditioning Resilience after setback Team performance in individual sport Early-career performance under scrutiny Ideal for Sales leadership conferences focused on quota delivery under pressure Early-career and high-potential talent programmes inside large organisations Executive offsites built around composure and decision-making rather than strategy Employee networks and ERG events on women in performance environments Audience outcomes A working language for what composure under pressure actually involves, drawn from competition rather than coaching theory. A clearer picture of how physical conditioning links to mental performance in a demanding role. Specific examples of recovering from public setbacks fast enough to perform on the next attempt. A credible account of operating under public scrutiny at the start of a career.

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 George King A first-hand account of decision-making at lethal stakes, not borrowed from sport or special forces analogy. King climbed The Shard at 19 without ropes; the consequence of error was death, not a missed target. A specific reframe of ADHD that audiences with neurodivergent colleagues or family members find usable. The argument is that hyperfocus and risk tolerance are trainable assets, not deficits the workplace must tolerate. Public credibility through the Channel 4 documentary “The Boy Who Climbed The Shard” and presenting work for the channel’s extreme sports output, which gives the booking immediate recognition with general audiences. A profile that travels well to younger and external-facing audiences: 1.6 million YouTube views on the documentary, an active public following, and a story that lands in the room before he speaks. Biography highlights First person to free-solo climb The Shard, July 2019, age 19. Subject of the 2020 Channel 4 documentary “The Boy Who Climbed The Shard”. Channel 4 presenter on extreme sports specials. Free-solo ascents of Lotte Tower, Seoul, and Stratosphere Tower, with BASE-jump descents. Featured in Time magazine, the Architects’ Journal, and Times Live. Speaks publicly about ADHD and fear management on platforms including the Minter Dial podcast. Biography In July 2019 a 19 year old climbed The Shard with no ropes, no safety equipment, and no permission. The ascent took 45 minutes. The legal aftermath took longer, ending in a custodial sentence at HMP Pentonville. George King was the climber, and the story is the foundation of every keynote he gives. What makes the talk useful to corporate audiences is not the climb itself but the preparation behind it. King describes fear as a system that can be trained, with named techniques he applies before each ascent: visualisation, breath control, and the specific mental routines that hold composure when the consequence of a mistake is fatal. The frame is recognisable to anyone who has briefed a board on a high-stakes decision, but the stakes are concrete rather than figurative. He also speaks openly about ADHD, which he treats as the cognitive asset that makes the climbs possible. His position is direct: hyperfocus, risk tolerance and pattern attention are not deficits requiring medication, they are trainable capabilities that produce performance when properly channelled. That argument has earned him a following among neurodivergent audiences and the parents and managers around them. King has presented two extreme sports specials for Channel 4 and was the subject of the channel’s 2020 documentary “The Boy Who Climbed The Shard”, which has passed 1.6 million views on YouTube. His climbs since The Shard include Lotte Tower in Seoul and the Stratosphere Tower, both with BASE-jump descents, and both covered in international press. Key speaking topics Fear management under high-consequence conditions ADHD and neurodiversity as performance Mental preparation and visualisation Risk assessment in extreme environments Resilience after public failure Peak performance Ideal for Internal employee events on neurodiversity and inclusion, particularly where the audience includes line managers of neurodivergent staff Sales kick-offs and motivational set-pieces where the brief is composure under pressure Youth-facing, education and apprentice audiences where reach and recognition matter as much as content Wellbeing and mental performance programmes looking for a non-clinical voice Audience outcomes A named set of techniques for managing fear before a high-stakes event, drawn directly from the climber’s own pre-ascent routine A reframe of ADHD that audiences can take back to neurodivergent colleagues, children or themselves A first-hand account of decision-making where the cost of error is final, useful as a reference point for less extreme corporate risk conversations A memorable headline story that gives the wider event a centrepiece audiences will retell

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.

Why organisations work with Mc’Dole Chigborogu He delivers regular facilitation inside NHS mental health settings through Genesis Impact, so the resilience and clarity work he brings to organisations is tested in one of the most demanding environments for it. He speaks to burnout and identity from inside the experience, not from a clinical or academic remove, which lands with audiences who are tired of corporate wellbeing scripts. His background sits across sport, sales, and entrepreneurship, so he reads commercial pressure environments and frames resilience in their language rather than therapy language. He is multilingual across English, Italian, Spanish, German, and Igbo, useful for organisations with mixed European and West African workforces who want a single voice rather than translation overlay. He reaches the capable people who quietly opt out of wellbeing programmes, the senior operators and high performers who carry the load and never raise their hand, which is exactly the group most organisations struggle to engage. Biography highlights Delivers regular facilitation in NHS mental health settings through his delivery partnership, Genesis Impact. Co-founder of Mane Might, a UK hair growth and wellness brand. Director of MCDOLE CHIGBOROGU LTD, his speaking and coaching company registered at Companies House. Multilingual operator across English, Italian, Spanish, German, and Igbo. Background that crosses competitive football, UK sales management, and entrepreneurship. Panellist at the Power in Partnership event in London. Author of The Man Who Refused To Stay Invisible (2025). Builds a public audience on resilience and composure under pressure through YouTube and writing. Biography Most wellbeing programmes miss the people who need them most. The capable operators who hold teams together tend to opt out of anything that sounds clinical, then carry the cost of that silence into their decisions and the people around them. Access to support is rarely the problem. What matters is whether the person delivering the message reads as someone who has been there. Mc’Dole Chigborogu works in that gap. His path runs through competitive football, UK sales management, and the launch of Mane Might, a wellness brand he co-founded. He frames the problem as a loss of security under pressure, the point at which judgment and nerve begin to slip, and talks about it in terms sales leaders and founders recognise from their own week. His approach is less about insight and more about getting judgment and perspective back online before the pressure makes the call for them. His book, The Man Who Refused To Stay Invisible, sets out the same argument: that the people who look most in control are often the ones quietly losing their grip on it. He delivers the same material live in five languages, English, Italian, Spanish, German, and Igbo, which suits organisations with mixed European and West African workforces. He also does this work where it is hardest, inside NHS mental health settings, through his delivery partnership Genesis Impact. Key speaking topics Clarity and judgment under pressure Leadership under sustained stress Burnout and identity in high-pressure roles Resilience and composure Decision-making under stress Ideal for Sales leadership teams and high-pressure commercial functions Employee networks focused on men’s mental health Early and mid-career talent programmes addressing burnout Diversity and inclusion programmes seeking culturally and linguistically diverse voices Audience outcomes A frame for recognising burnout signals before they become performance failures Vocabulary for talking about mental health that does not rely on clinical or HR language A view of resilience as a daily practice tied to identity, not a one-off intervention Practical reflection points for leaders managing their own composure under sustained pressure

Why organisations work with Thomas Curran He owns the primary data. Curran’s 2017 meta-analysis with Andrew Hill, covering 41,641 participants across the US, UK and Canada, is the headline study that most current writing on burnout and generational stress traces back to. His translation of academic findings into operating language is sharp. Leaders leave with vocabulary for tensions their engagement data hints at but rarely names: socially prescribed perfectionism, fear of evaluation, the meritocratic treadmill. He sits inside a credible institution. LSE association means his framing of mental health risk carries weight with boards that discount wellness vendors. His public platform is rare for an academic. The TEDMED talk passed three million views; The Perfection Trap is a Sunday Times bestseller; HBR, TIME, NYT and the WSJ have published or covered him. He addresses the workforce most likely to leave. His research is specifically about the rising cohorts under 35, the population that boards are most worried about engaging and retaining. Biography highlights Associate Professor of Social Psychology, London School of Economics and Political Science Author of The Perfection Trap, Penguin UK (2023), Simon and Schuster US Lead author of the Psychological Bulletin meta-analysis on rising perfectionism, 1989 to 2016 TEDMED 2018 speaker, “Our Dangerous Obsession with Perfectionism is Getting Worse”, more than 3 million views Contributor to Harvard Business Review and TIME; research covered by NYT, WSJ, Economist, BBC, CNN BPS Chartered Psychologist; recipient of the APA Division 47 Dissertation Award Biography Perfectionism has risen sharply in the US, UK and Canada since the late 1980s, and it tracks closely with the same period in which workplace burnout and youth mental ill-health have climbed. That correlation is the centre of Curran’s academic work and the reason his findings have travelled well beyond psychology journals. His 2017 meta-analysis with Andrew Hill, published in the American Psychological Association’s Psychological Bulletin, pooled 164 samples and 41,641 participants. It found socially prescribed perfectionism, the belief that other people demand perfection from you, had risen 33 percent in a generation. The study is now the standard reference for almost every serious treatment of generational stress and engagement decline. The Perfection Trap, published by Penguin in 2023, sets that research into the cultures that produce it: meritocratic competition, social comparison at scale, and organisations that reward striving over sustainability. His TEDMED talk on the same theme has been viewed more than three million times. For corporate audiences, the value is in the precision of the diagnosis. Curran gives leaders language for the pattern they see in their own engagement and retention data, and a defensible account of where the pressure is coming from. His credentials are LSE faculty status, peer-reviewed authorship of the foundational dataset, and recognition from the American Psychological Association. Key speaking topics Perfectionism in the workplace Burnout and sustainable performance Mental health and wellbeing Self-criticism and imposter syndrome Generational shifts in workplace expectations The psychology of high-performance cultures Ideal for CHROs and chief people officers responding to rising burnout and attrition data Executive leadership teams setting performance and culture standards Wellbeing, talent and engagement leads briefing the board on mental health risk Professional services, finance and consulting firms with high-pressure delivery cultures Audience outcomes A clearer account of why perfectionism has risen and how it shows up in their workforce Specific vocabulary, drawn from peer-reviewed research, for tensions that engagement surveys hint at but rarely name A framework for distinguishing healthy striving from socially prescribed perfectionism Evidence-based approaches to self-compassion and self-criticism that leaders can apply personally and model in teams A more defensible view of what mental health support should look like inside a high-performance culture

Why organisations work with Georgia Harrison A first-hand voice on intimate image abuse with a direct line to legislative outcome. Her decision to waive anonymity during the Stephen Bear prosecution and her work with government produced amendments inside the Online Safety Act 2023, which is rare evidence of citizen campaigning translating into statute. Credibility with the people most affected. Harrison reaches young employees, customers, students and frontline staff in a register a senior policy speaker cannot match, which matters for internal wellbeing programmes, customer-facing safeguarding training and brand purpose work. Operational experience of consent and online safety campaigning. Named partnerships with Thames Valley Police (“Consent Conversations”) and Superdrug (“You before Yes”) give her a track record of building education programmes for adult and young-adult audiences. A working broadcaster and author on the subject. Her ITV documentaries Revenge Porn: Georgia vs Bear and Porn, Power, Profit, and her 2024 memoir Taking Back My Power, give the talk a body of public-facing work behind it rather than a single anecdote. A clear, current public profile. MBE recipient, BBC 100 Women 2023, Glamour Women of the Year 2023, which gives the booking external visibility and helps drive internal turnout. Biography highlights MBE awarded in the 2025 King’s Birthday Honours for services to the prevention of violence against women and girls and for campaigning on online privacy and cyber crime. First Love Island contestant to receive an MBE. Campaigning contributed to amendments to the Online Safety Act 2023 on intimate image abuse. Listed on BBC 100 Women 2023; Glamour Women of the Year 2023 (Activist Award). Author of Taking Back My Power (Dialogue / Hachette, 2024). Fronted ITV documentaries Revenge Porn: Georgia vs Bear (2023) and Georgia Harrison: Porn, Power, Profit (2025). Named campaigns with Thames Valley Police (“Consent Conversations”) and Superdrug (“You before Yes”); has interviewed Tony Blair, Sir Keir Starmer, Lord Hague and Sadiq Khan in policy interview work. Biography In December 2022 Stephen Bear was sentenced to 21 months in prison for voyeurism and for disclosing private sexual images. The complainant in that case had waived her anonymity to speak publicly. That decision turned a personal harm into the most-covered intimate image abuse prosecution in UK media and forced the issue out of the safeguarding column and into the policy column. The campaigning that followed contributed to amendments inside the Online Safety Act 2023, including the move away from requiring prosecutors to prove an intent to cause distress. That is a substantive legislative outcome traceable to one person’s public testimony and to sustained work with government, the Crown Prosecution Service stakeholders and victim groups. Georgia Harrison MBE has since built the public-facing apparatus around that work. Two ITV documentaries, Revenge Porn: Georgia vs Bear and Porn, Power, Profit, examined the legal and commercial mechanics of image-based abuse and the deepfake economy. Her 2024 memoir Taking Back My Power, published by Hachette’s Dialogue imprint, sets out the case story and the campaigning arc. Named partnerships with Thames Valley Police on consent education and with Superdrug on the “You before Yes” campaign extend the work into school and high-street audiences. For corporate buyers, the value is specific. Boards, HR teams and customer-facing brands are being asked to take positions on online safety, deepfakes and consent that they were not asked to take five years ago. Harrison brings a lived voice on those issues that policy expertise alone cannot supply, alongside the public profile of an MBE, a BBC 100 Women listing and a Glamour Women of the Year award. Key speaking topics Image-based sexual abuse and online safety Consent education and the workplace social contract Resilience after public trauma Reform of the Online Safety Act Deepfakes and the harms economy Personal advocacy and citizen campaigning Mental health and self-worth in the digital age Ideal for HR, DEI and wellbeing leads building internal programmes on online safety, consent and respect at work Customer-facing brands with young adult audiences (retail, telco, social platforms, education providers) Schools, universities and police forces commissioning consent and digital safety education Internal women’s networks, ERG events and International Women’s Day platforms Audience outcomes A clear account of how UK law on intimate image abuse changed and what is still unresolved A working vocabulary for talking about consent, image-based abuse and deepfakes inside an organisation A frank view of what online harm looks like from the receiving end, in language that lands with non-specialist audiences A direct example of how citizen advocacy turns into legislative change Renewed permission to take online safety seriously as a culture and wellbeing issue, not only a compliance one

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