Motivational speakers

Why organisations work with Matt Le Tissier He spent his entire 16-year professional career at Southampton, scoring 209 goals in 540 appearances, which gives any session on loyalty and culture a rare lived foundation rather than a borrowed example. He was the first midfielder to reach 100 Premier League goals and converted 47 of 48 career penalties, both records that travel well in front of audiences who recognise top-flight football. He was voted greatest Premier League player ever in a 2020 Eurosport poll, which gives him the sort of standing in the UK market that makes him a draw for hospitality, client events, and after-dinner bookings. He spent close to two decades as a Sky Sports Soccer Saturday panellist, so the broadcasting craft, anecdote pacing, and ease in front of a room are already there. His autobiography Taking Le Tiss, published by HarperSport, gives the personal narrative a clear public form to draw on for keynote and Q&A material. Biography highlights One-club career at Southampton, 1986 to 2002: 209 goals in 540 appearances. First midfielder to score 100 Premier League goals; 100 goals and 64 assists in 270 Premier League appearances. PFA Young Player of the Year, 1989-90. Eight England caps, 1994 to 1997. Career penalty record of 47 from 48. Voted greatest Premier League player ever in a 2020 Eurosport poll. Long-running Sky Sports Soccer Saturday panellist until August 2020; subject of Sky Sports’ Le God: The Matt Le Tissier Story. Author of Taking Le Tiss, HarperSport, 2009. Biography Southampton signed Matt Le Tissier in 1986 and never let him go. He spent sixteen years at the club, scored 209 goals in 540 appearances, and finished his career as their second-highest scorer in history. In an era when most top players moved for bigger clubs and bigger contracts, that career stands out on its own. The Premier League records do most of the talking. Le Tissier was the first midfielder to reach 100 Premier League goals, with 64 assists alongside them, and his career penalty record of 47 from 48 is still cited as the strongest in English top-flight football. The PFA Young Player of the Year award in 1989-90 marked him out early, and the 2020 Eurosport poll naming him greatest Premier League player ever gave a generation of fans a chance to make the case again, two decades after he retired. For corporate audiences, the value is in what one career at one club teaches about sticking with an institution through change, relegation fights, and quieter seasons. He played under multiple managers, refused several moves, and stayed visible in the public eye long after retirement. After his playing career he spent close to two decades as a Sky Sports Soccer Saturday panellist, which sharpened the storytelling and the timing that an after-dinner audience or a moderated panel needs. His autobiography Taking Le Tiss, published by HarperSport in 2009, set out the career in his own voice. Sky Sports’ Le God: The Matt Le Tissier Story, made about a player who never left, gives any room he speaks in an immediate point of reference: a one-club Premier League career, on his own terms, in a southern English town that adopted him as its own. Key speaking topics Loyalty and the one-club career Pressure and composure in front of goal Sustained performance across a long sporting career Premier League history and analysis Life as a broadcaster after elite sport After-dinner storytelling Ideal for Hospitality, client entertainment, and brand activation events in the UK where a recognisable Premier League figure is a draw. After-dinner and awards bookings for sales teams, partner events, and incentive nights. Panel guest or moderated Q&A formats at sports business, fan engagement, and football industry events. Senior leadership off-sites and sales conferences where loyalty and long-career discipline are part of the agenda. Audience outcomes A first-hand account of what it takes to commit to one organisation across sixteen years of changing leadership. A grounded view of pressure moments, including penalty taking and high-stakes decisions, from someone with the records to back it up. Stories from the Premier League’s first decade told by a player who lived it and then spent two decades broadcasting it. A sharper sense of what life looks like for an elite performer when the playing career ends and the public role continues.

Why organisations work with Matthew Pinsent One of only three rowers ever to win gold at four consecutive Olympic Games, giving leadership audiences a rare first-person account of how a team holds form across more than a decade. Direct experience of rebuilding a winning crew after the retirement of Sir Steve Redgrave, a credible parallel for any executive team facing the loss of a defining figure. Two decades inside Olympic broadcasting for the BBC, covering eight Games as reporter and commentator, which gives him a wider view of high performance than his own career alone. Speaks from a discipline measured in fractions: the Athens 2004 final was decided by ten centimetres after a three-minute review, and he uses that margin as the spine of his argument about preparation and discipline. Honoured with the Thomas Keller Medal, rowing’s highest individual recognition, alongside a knighthood, providing audiences with credentials a buyer can name without hedging. Biography highlights Four Olympic gold medals: Barcelona 1992, Atlanta 1996, Sydney 2000, Athens 2004 Ten World Championship gold medals across his international career Knight Bachelor (2004) and CBE; Thomas Keller Medal recipient (2005) Elected to the IOC Athletes’ Commission in 2001 BBC sports broadcaster covering Olympic Games from Beijing 2008 to Paris 2024 Author of “A Lifetime in a Race”, a Sunday Times Bestseller published by Ebury Biography Athens 2004 came down to ten centimetres. The British and Canadian coxless fours crossed the line together, and three minutes of officials’ review separated the gold from the silver. That final was Pinsent’s fourth Olympic title in a row, the closing chapter of a partnership with Sir Steve Redgrave that had defined British rowing for more than a decade. The thread through his career is repetition under pressure. Pinsent and Redgrave won at Barcelona, Atlanta, and Sydney before Pinsent built a new crew with James Cracknell, Ed Coode, and Steve Williams for Athens. The team changed; the standard did not. He retired with four Olympic golds and ten World Championship titles, and was knighted in the New Year’s Honours of 2004. Since 2004 he has worked as a BBC sports broadcaster, reporting from the Olympic Games in Beijing, Vancouver, London, Sochi, Rio, Tokyo, Beijing again, and Paris. He fronted the BBC’s “World Olympic Dreams” series ahead of London 2012, following twenty-five athletes across multiple sports, and directed “Unbelievable: The Chad Le Clos Story” in 2016. That second career has given him a working knowledge of elite performance well beyond his own discipline. For corporate audiences he draws on the specifics. How a crew is selected, how trust is built across a boat where one weak stroke loses a race, what changes when the senior figure retires and the unit has to find a new centre of gravity. His memoir “A Lifetime in a Race” set out the same material in long form and reached the Sunday Times Bestseller list. Key speaking topics Sustained high performance Team leadership under pressure Building a crew after a defining figure leaves Preparation and marginal gains Olympic broadcasting and elite sport Resilience across long competitive cycles Ideal for Executive teams and boards working through leadership transition or succession Sales, partnership, and customer-facing leadership conferences focused on sustained output rather than one-off wins Awards dinners and recognition events where a credible Olympic voice frames the evening Leadership development cohorts studying high-performing teams Audience outcomes A sharper sense of what separates one-time success from repeated success across cycles A clearer picture of how senior teams absorb the loss of a defining figure Concrete language for talking about preparation, selection, and trust inside a small unit A first-person account of competing and winning by margins measured in centimetres

Why organisations work with Max Biaggi A first-hand account of what it takes to win at world-championship level across three different categories of motorcycle racing, from 250cc Grand Prix to MotoGP to Superbike. Lived experience of comeback under the hardest possible conditions: returning to competition after a near-fatal training crash and winning a second world title at 41, the oldest champion in WorldSBK history. A studied perspective on rivalry, public scrutiny, and team management, drawn from two decades at the front of a sport where margins are measured in tenths of a second. Credential weight that opens conversations with audiences who respect achievement: MotoGP Legend, FIM Road Racing Legend, joint record-holder for 250cc world titles. Biography highlights Four-time 250cc World Champion (1994, 1995, 1996, 1997), joint record with Phil Read. Two-time Superbike World Champion (2010, 2012) with Aprilia. Inducted as a MotoGP Legend at Mugello in 2022; named FIM Road Racing Legend in 2020. Won on his 500cc premier-class debut, a result no rider has repeated. 42 Grand Prix victories, 111 GP podiums, 56 pole positions; 21 WorldSBK wins and 71 podiums. Oldest rider to win the Superbike World Championship, at age 41 in 2012. Biography Winning a world title once is luck stacked on talent. Winning across three different categories of motorcycle racing, separated by more than fifteen years, is something else. Biaggi took four consecutive 250cc world championships between 1994 and 1997, three with Aprilia and one with Honda, equalling Phil Read’s all-time record. He then moved to the premier class and won on debut, a feat still unrepeated. The MotoGP years were unfinished. Three runner-up seasons (1998, 2001, 2002), 13 premier-class wins, persistent rivalries with Rossi and the press. By the time he left Grand Prix racing he had accumulated 42 victories, 111 podiums and 56 pole positions, putting him among the most accomplished riders never to take the premier-class title. He moved to World Superbikes in 2007 and rebuilt. Champion in 2010, again in 2012, at 41 years old. No older rider has won the Superbike crown. A near-fatal training crash in 2015 took him out of competition; he returned to selected races afterward, then to coaching and mentoring. In 2020 the FIM named him a Road Racing Legend, and in 2022 he was inducted as a MotoGP Legend at Mugello. For senior audiences the value sits in the texture of how an elite competitor manages the parts of performance that are not talent: recovery from physical and reputational damage, the discipline of preparation when the field is closing on you, the management of rivalry without losing focus. It is a specific perspective, told by someone who lived it across three decades at the front of the sport. Key speaking topics Performance under pressure Recovery from setback Competitive focus and discipline Team dynamics in high-stakes environments Long-career reinvention Decision-making at speed Ideal for Senior leadership teams and board offsites focused on composure and resilience Sales and commercial leadership conferences where competitive intensity is the theme Programmes for newly promoted executives stepping into high-visibility roles Audiences who respond to athlete-led narratives anchored in named achievement Audience outcomes A concrete view of how elite competitors prepare, recover, and re-enter after failure Language for talking about composure as a trained capability, not a personality trait A reference point for the discipline behind sustained high performance over decades Perspective on managing rivalry, scrutiny and public criticism without losing focus

Why organisations work with Max Garcia A rare first-hand account of command at scale: responsibility for more than 1,500 Marines in an operational battalion, drawn on directly when speaking to leaders running large frontline workforces. Combat-tested perspective on decision-making under pressure, including involvement in the 2012 Benghazi consulate response and combat tours in Iraq, used to make composure a teachable skill rather than a personality trait. A practical sales and influence framework grounded in body language, credibility-building and referral generation, distinct from the leadership keynote and useful for commercial teams. Recognised by named senior figures, including the Medal for Valor presented by General James Mattis, giving the leadership material a verifiable institutional anchor. Written work as Amazon #1 best-selling co-author with Joe Vitale gives organisations a published reference point alongside the keynote. Biography highlights Sergeant Major, US Marine Corps (selected 2014), retired 2019 after 25 years of service. Combat Action Ribbon, Iraq 2003 and 2004; Medal for Valor presented by General James Mattis. Served with Fleet Anti-terrorism Security Team (FAST) Company Europe; coordinated response activity during the 2012 Benghazi consulate attack. Officer Candidate instructor, University of South Florida, 2006 to 2009. Amazon #1 best-selling co-author with Joe Vitale, contributor to The Secret. Speaking client base spans Members of Parliament, NRL clubs including The Wests Tigers, professional golfers, corporate audiences and universities across the US and Australia. Biography A Marine sergeant major spends a career making the kind of decisions most organisations only model in tabletop exercises. Max Garcia spent 25 years doing it, including two tours in Iraq, deployments to Afghanistan and Europe, and command of an operational battalion of more than 1,500 personnel. His material is built from those decisions, not adapted from them. He enlisted in 1994, served as a drill instructor and Officer Candidate instructor at the University of South Florida, and joined Fleet Anti-terrorism Security Team Company Europe, where he was involved in coordinating the response during the 2012 Benghazi consulate attack. In 2014 he was selected to Sergeant Major, the top enlisted rank in the Corps. General James Mattis presented him with the Medal for Valor. For senior leaders, the value is the translation. Composure under pressure, loyalty inside a unit, and the ability to keep a large team functioning when conditions deteriorate are usually discussed as personality traits. Garcia treats them as practices that can be taught, and he draws directly on named operational moments to teach them. He is also Amazon #1 best-selling co-author with Joe Vitale, contributor to The Secret. He speaks across the US and Australia to Members of Parliament, NRL teams, professional golfers, universities and corporate audiences, having travelled to all 50 US states and more than 70 countries. Key speaking topics Leadership under operational pressure Resilience and personal performance Loyalty and team cohesion Confidence and self-belief Sales, influence and credibility Goal achievement and execution Ideal for C-suite and senior leadership offsites in high-stakes industries Frontline operational leaders running large workforces Sales leadership teams looking for a credibility and influence framework Conferences seeking a keynote on resilience grounded in named military command, not generic motivation Audience outcomes A practical view of composure as a learnable command skill, not a fixed personality trait Concrete language for building loyalty inside a team during periods of strain A repeatable approach to confidence, drawn from Garcia’s own progression from adopted child to Sergeant Major A 30-point sales and influence framework covering body language, subconscious cues, credibility and referrals Decision-making cues calibrated to high-consequence environments

Why organisations work with Mayara Magri A first-hand account of operating at the top of one of the most ranked, publicly scrutinised performance institutions in the world, where every promotion is earned in front of an audience and a critical press. A decade-plus inside a single company, from corps to Principal, gives her unusual authority on what sustained high performance actually requires of an individual inside a team that does not change around them. Career story carries credentials that buyers recognise without explanation: Youth America Grand Prix Senior Gold, Prix de Lausanne, Principal at The Royal Ballet. The proof points do the work of the bio for her. Brings the Brazilian-trained, London-based performer perspective on adapting to a different culture, language, and working method without losing identity, useful for global mobility, integration, and inclusion conversations. Biography highlights Principal Dancer, The Royal Ballet, since 2021 Trained at The Royal Ballet School after early scholarship training in Rio de Janeiro Senior Age Division Gold Medal, Youth America Grand Prix Prix de Lausanne Scholarship and Audience Prize, 2011 Created the role of Rosaura in Christopher Wheeldon’s Like Water for Chocolate Ambassador for The Fonteyn 2025 Brazil, Royal Academy of Dance Biography The Royal Ballet promotes from inside its own ranks. A dancer who joins the Company at seventeen and reaches Principal a decade later has done so while performing publicly several nights a week, in front of the same critics, alongside the same colleagues, with no role hidden from view. Mayara Magri made that journey between 2012 and 2021. She arrived in London from Rio de Janeiro on the back of two of the strongest results in the international ballet competition circuit: the Senior Age Division at the Youth America Grand Prix and the Prix de Lausanne Scholarship and Audience Prize in 2011. The Royal Ballet School then a Company contract followed. Promotions to First Artist, Soloist, First Soloist and Principal came in 2015, 2016, 2018 and 2021. Her repertoire covers most of the senior classical canon, from Odette/Odile and Juliet to Aurora, Kitri and Cinderella, with created roles including Rosaura in Christopher Wheeldon’s Like Water for Chocolate. Outside the company she has taken on ambassador work, including for the Royal Academy of Dance’s Fonteyn 2025 Brazil. For organisations, the relevant material is the working life behind the credits. Sustained performance inside a ranked institution, the discipline of preparing roles that will be judged the same night they are danced, and the long arc of building a career inside a single company rather than across many. Key speaking topics Sustained performance inside elite institutions Composure and preparation under public scrutiny Long-career discipline and reinvention Cross-cultural adaptation in global organisations Inclusion and representation in high-performance environments Resilience as a working practice Ideal for Leadership offsites and senior team gatherings looking for a credible high-performance voice outside the standard sport-speaker pool HR, talent and L&D programmes on resilience, sustained performance and career-long development Diversity and inclusion programmes seeking authentic perspectives on representation inside elite, traditional institutions Brand, marketing and CSR audiences working with arts, culture or sustainability narratives Audience outcomes A working performer’s view of what sustained high performance asks of an individual over a decade, not a single peak moment A concrete picture of how elite institutions absorb new talent, and what that demands of the person joining A reference point for resilience that is grounded in a working career, not a recovery story A perspective on representation and adaptation drawn from a Brazilian dancer’s path into one of Britain’s oldest cultural institutions

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 Michael Johnson He has a defensible body of work on what it actually takes to perform on the single day that matters, drawn from a career where seven undefeated years in the 400m were earned through training design, not talent alone. He is the only male sprinter to hold the 200m and 400m world records simultaneously and the only man to defend an Olympic 400m title, which gives him standing in any room where the topic is sustained excellence rather than a single peak moment. Through Michael Johnson Performance, he has spent more than two decades translating elite training methodology into corporate and athletic settings, so the content is structured rather than anecdotal. As founder and Commissioner of Grand Slam Track, he is currently operating inside the commercial reality of building a new institution under public scrutiny, which gives him relevant material on launch decisions, capital, and pressure that is fresher than most retired-athlete keynotes. He has a long broadcast track record with the BBC, which means he is comfortable with live audiences, panel formats, and sharper interview-style sessions, not only set-piece keynotes. Biography highlights Four Olympic gold medals: 200m and 400m at Atlanta 1996, 400m at Sydney 2000, 4x400m relay at Barcelona 1992 and Atlanta 1996. Eight individual World Championship gold medals and a 400m world record (43.18s, Seville 1999) that stood for 17 years. Author of “Slaying the Dragon” (HarperCollins, 1996), co-written with Jess Walter. Founder of Michael Johnson Performance, a human performance and athlete development business. Founder and Commissioner of Grand Slam Track, the professional sprint league launched in April 2025. Member of the Laureus World Sports Academy and longtime BBC Sport athletics analyst. Biography The 400m at the 1999 World Championships in Seville was won by 43.18 seconds, a world record that stood for 17 years. The runner had been undefeated at the distance for seven years by that point. That kind of sustained dominance is not produced by talent. It is produced by a system: training design, race modelling, recovery discipline, and an unusually clear view of what to do in the final 50 metres when the body is asking permission to slow down. That system is the substance of Michael Johnson’s work outside the track. Across Olympic Games in Barcelona, Atlanta and Sydney, he won four gold medals, including a 200m and 400m double in Atlanta that no other male sprinter has matched. He held world records at both distances at the same time. He wrote about the underlying method in “Slaying the Dragon” with Jess Walter in 1996, and built it into a working business through Michael Johnson Performance, which has trained Olympic and professional athletes for more than two decades. His current platform is Grand Slam Track, the professional sprint league he founded and runs as Commissioner. The league launched in April 2025 with backing from Winners Alliance and a roster of contracted athletes competing across four annual meets. It has since had to restructure under Chapter 11 protection. The point for a corporate audience is not the outcome, which is unfinished. It is that he is currently operating as a founder under public, financial and regulatory pressure, which sharpens the material he brings into the room on decisions, capital, and execution. He sits on the Laureus World Sports Academy and has worked as a BBC athletics analyst across multiple Olympic cycles, which means audiences get a speaker who is comfortable being interviewed and pushed, not only one delivering a prepared keynote. Key speaking topics Performance under pressure Preparation, training design and execution Sustained excellence and competitive longevity Leadership of self and team in high-stakes moments The Olympic mindset Founding and running a new sports league Ideal for Senior leadership offsites focused on execution and composure Sales kickoffs and high-performance team events Board and CEO dinners where authority and presence matter as much as content Sport, media and commercial audiences interested in the business of athletics Audience outcomes A clear account of what elite preparation looks like when the day cannot be repeated A specific framework for composure when the stakes are visible and external A grounded view of what sustained excellence costs, beyond the highlight reel A current operator’s perspective on building a new institution under financial pressure

Why organisations work with Michael Maisey Lived experience that lands in rooms where wellbeing decks usually do not, drawn from five years in Feltham Young Offenders Institute and a documented twenty-year rebuild. Operates an active service organisation. The CIP Project runs residential workshops from a 25-acre Devon retreat centre, giving him a working view of what actually helps people recover, not a theoretical one. Two published works that hold up to corporate scrutiny: Young Offender (Pan Macmillan, 2019) and Change is Possible: The Seven Stages to Healing Trauma (2025). The second gives him a named framework, not just a story. Civic recognition by the London Borough of Hounslow and the Metropolitan Police in 2014, a useful third-party validation when buyers vet speakers with criminal-record backgrounds. Talks designed to give managers practical language for the empathy-and-communication conversation, rather than a motivational arc that leaves the audience moved but unequipped. Biography highlights Founder of The CIP Project, a UK non-profit operating from a 25-acre retreat centre in Devon. Author of Young Offender: My Life from Armed Robber to Local Hero, published by Pan Macmillan in 2019. Author of Change is Possible: The Seven Stages to Healing Trauma, published in 2025. TEDx speaker. Talk title: “The Healing Power of Connection”. Honoured by the London Borough of Hounslow and the Metropolitan Police in 2014 for services to the community. Over 17 years sober. Public advocacy work across UK prisons, including author visits to HMYOI Aylesbury. Biography Most corporate wellbeing programmes do not fail on intent. They fail on permission. Employees are offered resources, apps and policies, but rarely the model of what an honest conversation about mental health, addiction or trauma actually sounds like in a working environment. Michael Maisey’s contribution is to provide that model in a room of senior managers, with credibility earned outside the wellness industry. His route into the work is unusually direct. At sixteen he was sentenced for armed robbery and spent much of his teenage years in Feltham Young Offenders Institute. The rebuild that followed produced two things organisations care about: a published autobiography with Pan Macmillan, Young Offender, in 2019; and a working non-profit, The CIP Project, founded in 2018 on a 25-acre site in Devon, supporting people with addiction, mental health, PTSD and childhood trauma. A second book, Change is Possible: The Seven Stages to Healing Trauma, followed in 2025 and gives him a structured framework rather than a single biographical story. His TEDx talk, “The Healing Power of Connection”, is the most-quoted piece of his keynote content in workplace settings. In 2014, the London Borough of Hounslow and the Metropolitan Police recognised him formally for services to the community. For a head of people or culture, the practical value is twofold. Maisey can hold a room on the subjects that most speakers either soften or skirt: suicidal ideation, addiction, the texture of trauma. And he can hand managers a vocabulary for the empathy-and-communication conversation that has otherwise sat in the wellbeing policy and never made it onto the floor. Key speaking topics Workplace mental health Empathy and compassion at work Trauma recovery Addiction and the workplace Personal transformation and lived experience Communication around wellbeing Ideal for CHROs, heads of people, heads of culture and wellbeing leads commissioning workplace mental health content Internal manager populations responsible for direct conversations about wellbeing Employee resource groups and DEI forums focused on mental health and recovery Conference programmes seeking a lived-experience anchor on wellbeing alongside clinical or academic speakers Audience outcomes Sharper language for raising mental health, addiction or trauma in a workplace conversation without making it clinical A more concrete view of what recovery actually requires, drawn from operating a residential support model Permission, observed in the room, for senior people to speak honestly about their own experience A framework, drawn from the seven stages in Change is Possible, for thinking about trauma in stages rather than as a single event

Why organisations work with Michael Owen A first-hand account of operating at the top of a global sport from the age of 17, with the goalscoring record at Liverpool, Real Madrid, Newcastle, Manchester United and England to back it. One of only nine Englishmen to win the Ballon d’Or, and the most recent, which gives any audience an unusually direct line to what world-class performance actually requires day to day. A second career built deliberately rather than by accident: Manor House Stables in Cheshire, founded with Andrew Black in 2007, has become a working thoroughbred yard now training under Hugo Palmer. Active broadcast presence with TNT Sports and Amazon Prime Video Premier League coverage, which keeps the perspective current rather than retrospective. Author of Reboot: My Life, My Time (2019), a candid account of injuries, scrutiny and the transition out of professional sport that gives an after-dinner or Q and A session real substance. Biography highlights 2001 Ballon d’Or winner, the first English recipient since Kevin Keegan in 1979. 89 England caps, 40 international goals; sixth on England’s all-time scoring list at retirement. Named in Pele’s FIFA 100 list of the greatest living players in 2004. Career clubs: Liverpool, Real Madrid, Newcastle United, Manchester United, Stoke City. Author of Off the Record (2004) and Reboot: My Life, My Time (Reach Sport, 2019). Co-founder of Manor House Stables, Cheshire; pundit for TNT Sports and Amazon Prime Video. Biography Liverpool were 1-0 down to Arsenal in the 2001 FA Cup final when Michael Owen scored twice in the last eight minutes to win the trophy. That season he helped Liverpool to a treble of the FA Cup, League Cup and UEFA Cup, and in December he was named European Footballer of the Year. He was 22, and the most recent English winner of the Ballon d’Or to this day. The career around that moment is the substance of his speaking. A debut at Liverpool at 17, a Premier League Golden Boot in his first full season, 89 England caps, 40 international goals, and spells at Real Madrid, Newcastle, Manchester United and Stoke. Pele included him in the FIFA 100 list of the greatest living players. The lived experience underneath those numbers, including injury, scrutiny and the discipline of staying selectable across four major tournaments for England, is what audiences buy when they book him. Life after football has been built deliberately. In 2007 he and the entrepreneur Andrew Black converted a cattle barn in Cheshire into Manor House Stables, now a Classic-winning operation with Hugo Palmer as resident trainer and a racing club that opens ownership to a broader audience. He works as a pundit for TNT Sports and Amazon Prime Video, with regular Premier League coverage. His 2019 autobiography Reboot: My Life, My Time is a frank account of what playing through pain, public criticism and the end of a top-level career actually felt like. For corporate audiences the value is direct testimony rather than a framework. Owen speaks to what it takes to perform under sustained pressure, how to keep going when the body and the press are against you, and how to construct a second act on purpose rather than by drift. That makes him a strong fit for after-dinner formats, leadership offsites with a sports lens, and brand-ambassador work where credibility and recognition matter as much as content. Key speaking topics Performance under pressure Lessons from elite sport for business leaders Resilience through injury and setback Transition from professional sport to entrepreneurship Building a second career: Manor House Stables and racing Football punditry and the modern Premier League Ideal for After-dinner audiences at corporate events, partner conferences and client hospitality Sales, leadership and high-performance offsites that want a credible sporting voice Brand and sponsorship activations where a recognisable name is part of the value Q and A and fireside formats with a host who can draw out career stories Audience outcomes A direct account of what world-class performance demands across a 17-year career Specific stories about Liverpool, Real Madrid, Manchester United and England rather than generalised lessons A candid view on injury, scrutiny and the pressure of being the youngest player in the room A working example of building a second career on purpose, through racing, broadcasting and writing

Why organisations work with Michaela Strachan Recognised across forty years of British television, from 1980s Saturday morning audiences to current Springwatch viewers and the 2025 Dancing on Ice final. That cross-generational recognition is unusual for a single broadcaster. Decades of on-location wildlife filming with named conservation organisations including SANCCOB in South Africa, the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation and the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust. The specialism is built from fieldwork. BAFTA Best Children’s Presenter (2005) for Michaela’s Wild Challenge, with co-presenter status on BBC’s flagship Springwatch, Autumnwatch and Winterwatch since 2011 alongside Chris Packham. Live performance pedigree across formats most television presenters never touch. BBC live broadcasts, the 2018 Walking with Dinosaurs arena tour, and the 2025 Dancing on Ice final as the oldest contestant in show history. A genuine personal story for resilience and wellbeing briefs as a Breast Cancer Now ambassador, following her own 2014 diagnosis. Biography highlights BAFTA Best Children’s Presenter (2005) for Michaela’s Wild Challenge (Channel 5) Co-presenter, BBC Springwatch, Autumnwatch and Winterwatch (2011 to present), alongside Chris Packham Presenter, BBC Countryfile (1999 to 2009) Presenter, BBC’s The Really Wild Show (1993 to 2006) Presenter for Channel 5, National Geographic and Animal Planet, including Safari Live from Kruger National Park, Big 5 Little 5, Digging for Treasure and Extreme Conservation for BBC World News Author, Michaela Strachan’s Really Wild Adventures (2013) Finalist, ITV Dancing on Ice (2025), oldest contestant in the show’s history Biography Springwatch is one of British television’s most enduring nature programmes. Strachan has co-presented it since 2011 alongside Chris Packham, on location at reserves including Slimbridge and Wild Ken Hill. The role demands what few broadcasters can sustain over fifteen years: holding an audience through serious conservation content without losing either the science or the warmth. Before Springwatch came ten years on BBC’s Countryfile and thirteen years on The Really Wild Show, the BBC1 children’s wildlife series that ran until 2006. Earlier still, the breakthrough roles in 1980s Saturday morning television. Wide Awake Club and Wacaday with Timmy Mallett, then late-night music as the ‘Her’ in The Hitman and Her with Pete Waterman. The presenting craft is BAFTA-validated. She won Best Children’s Presenter at the 2005 British Academy Children’s Awards for Michaela’s Wild Challenge on Channel 5. International filming with SANCCOB, the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation and the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust gives her the fieldwork credentials behind the broadcasting craft. Audiences from forty years of British television recognise her on stage. That reach is unusual. Sustainability and conservation briefs benefit from a host with subject knowledge to back the warmth. Resilience and wellbeing programmes can draw on her work as a Breast Cancer Now ambassador after her own 2014 diagnosis. Few television presenters span Wide Awake Club, Springwatch and the Dancing on Ice final. Key speaking topics Wildlife and conservation Climate and sustainability communication Hosting and moderating live events Personal resilience and reinvention Breast cancer awareness and recovery Television and broadcasting craft Ideal for Sustainability conferences, climate events and ESG forums needing a credible host who is comfortable with the subject matter Wildlife festivals, conservation fundraisers and environmental charities Awards ceremonies, gala dinners and corporate emcee briefs that benefit from a familiar British television voice Health, wellbeing and women’s events drawing on personal cancer recovery and resilience themes Audience outcomes A grounded picture of what conservation actually looks like behind the camera, from Borneo orangutan rescues to penguin colonies in South Africa Stories of professional reinvention across forty years on television, useful for audiences thinking about long careers and second acts A clear, generous account of life through a breast cancer diagnosis and recovery Behind-the-scenes detail on how Springwatch and other live nature broadcasts are actually made

Why organisations work with Mika Häkkinen Two World Championships won against Michael Schumacher, the rival Schumacher publicly named as the one he most respected. The competitive credibility is hard to manufacture. A near-fatal crash at the 1995 Australian Grand Prix, with a trackside tracheotomy keeping him alive, followed by championship titles in 1998 and 1999. The resilience story is documented, not retrofitted. Continues to operate inside elite Formula 1 as McLaren Partner Ambassador and as a permanent on-site Viaplay F1 analyst, which keeps the perspective current rather than nostalgic. Eleven seasons inside one of the most data-driven team environments in global sport, with first-hand experience of how engineers and decision-makers stay aligned when the consequences are immediate. Biography highlights Two-time Formula 1 World Drivers’ Champion (1998, 1999) with McLaren-Mercedes 20 Grand Prix victories, 51 podium finishes and 26 pole positions across 11 F1 seasons 1990 British Formula 3 Champion with West Surrey Racing McLaren Partner Ambassador since 2017; F1 analyst for Viaplay since 2022, alongside David Coulthard and Jos Verstappen Autosport Gregor Grant Award (2018) for lifetime contribution to motorsport; member of the Laureus World Sports Academy Biography Eleven seasons in Formula 1 produces a particular kind of operator. The environment is data-rich and unforgiving of indecision. A driver wins or loses by hundredths of a second, but the result depends on hundreds of people working in alignment for months. Mika Häkkinen won two World Drivers’ Championships in that environment, with McLaren-Mercedes in 1998 and 1999. He secured 20 Grand Prix victories and 51 podiums across his F1 career. Michael Schumacher, his principal rival across both title-winning seasons, named Häkkinen as the driver he most respected during his own career. His career also includes a near-fatal accident. In 1995, a tyre failure during qualifying for the Australian Grand Prix sent his McLaren into a barrier at high speed. FIA medical delegate Sid Watkins performed an emergency tracheotomy at the trackside, and Häkkinen spent two months in hospital. He returned to racing the following season and won his first championship three years later. Two roles keep Häkkinen close to the sport. He is McLaren’s Partner Ambassador, working with the team’s commercial leadership on strategic accounts. He is also part of Viaplay’s permanent on-site F1 broadcast team alongside David Coulthard and Jos Verstappen. The current exposure matters for the speaking work; the lessons land differently when the speaker is still inside the paddock most race weekends. Key speaking topics High-performance team execution Decision-making under pressure Resilience after public setbacks Sustained competitive performance over long campaigns Risk management in high-stakes environments Leadership in technically complex teams Focus and mental discipline Ideal for Senior leadership teams in sectors where execution margins are tight and outcomes are visible Sales and commercial organisations whose performance is measured continuously Annual conferences and after-dinner functions for high-performance corporate audiences Executive programmes focused on resilience and recovery from setbacks Audience outcomes A first-hand account of what sustained competitive excellence requires when the margins are narrow and the data is constant Specific lessons on how elite teams stay aligned through long, high-pressure campaigns A credible perspective on returning to the top after a serious public setback Direct insight into how senior operators make decisions in the seconds where most performance is decided

Why organisations work with Mike Brown Twenty years at the top of a brutally competitive professional sport, with 382 appearances for Harlequins and 72 England caps, gives leaders a credible voice on what it takes to keep performing through injury, deselection, and reinvention. Named 2014 Six Nations Player of the Championship, the only England player ever to win the award, alongside 2014 Premiership Player of the Season, evidence of standards held at the very top, not a single peak season. Lived experience of the back end of a career: leaving Harlequins after sixteen years, two seasons at Newcastle, finishing at Leicester, and retiring with the fourth most Premiership appearances of all time. Useful for audiences thinking about late-career identity, transition, and what high standards look like once the spotlight moves. Speaks from within elite team cultures under Eddie Jones, Stuart Lancaster, and Conor O’Shea, not as an outside observer. Biography highlights 72 England caps, 2007 to 2018, three Six Nations titles 382 appearances for Harlequins over sixteen seasons, two Premiership titles, one European Challenge Cup 2014 RBS Six Nations Player of the Championship and 2014 Premiership Rugby Player of the Season Retired at the end of the 2024 to 2025 season, the fourth most Premiership appearances in the league’s history Recurring co-host on RugbyPass Offload, one of the most-listened rugby podcasts Appointed Sporting Director at Esher RFC in December 2025 Biography Few players in the modern professional era have stayed at the top for as long as Mike Brown. Sixteen seasons at Harlequins, 72 caps for England, three Six Nations titles, and a career that ended with the fourth most appearances in the history of Premiership Rugby. The longevity matters because rugby does not allow it by accident. The 2014 Six Nations was the season that defined him. He was named Player of the Championship, the only Englishman ever to win the award, and Premiership Player of the Season in the same year. The recognition came after a decade of work that started with a debut in a record defeat to South Africa and ran through deselection, injury, and the public end of his Harlequins career in 2021. What Brown brings to a corporate audience is not the highlight reel, it is the sustained standard. He played under Eddie Jones, Stuart Lancaster and Conor O’Shea, and has been candid in interviews on RugbyPass Offload about the cost of holding his own performance to that standard for so long. Leaders responsible for tired teams recognise the territory. Since retirement he has moved into rugby media as a regular voice on RugbyPass Offload and into a Sporting Director role at Esher RFC. The second act sharpens the keynote material. He is now talking about high performance from both sides of the line, as the player who lived it and the executive who has to build it again from the ground up. Key speaking topics Sustained high performance Resilience and recovery from setback Team standards and accountability Elite team culture Career transition and reinvention Mental discipline under public pressure Ideal for Senior leadership teams and boards working through sustained pressure or restructure Sales and commercial teams under repeated quarterly performance demands HR and L&D programmes on resilience, standards, and high-performance culture Sports, broadcast, and member-organisation audiences Audience outcomes A clear-eyed account of what it takes to hold elite standards across a twenty-year career, not a single season Lived perspective on managing setback, public scrutiny, and deselection without losing competitive edge A working view of how elite team cultures actually function under high-profile coaches Reference points senior leaders can use when their own teams are fatigued by repeated change