Motivational speakers

Why organisations work with Mike Bushell Twenty years of live national television experience on BBC Breakfast, which translates directly into the composure conferences and awards need from the person holding the room. A recognisable face from one of the UK’s largest morning audiences and a 2019 Strictly Come Dancing series, which adds warmth and recognition to internal events and client-facing nights. A genuine interactive format, Sport or Spoof, that he runs with corporate audiences using sports drawn from his on-air library, giving organisations a built-in entertainment slot rather than a generic keynote. An on-record body of work on activity, participation and trying-the-untried that lends a credible voice to wellbeing, engagement and active-lifestyle programmes inside organisations. Reporting experience from Olympics, Paralympics and multiple World Cups, which gives him native fluency on stage with athletes, sports federations and sponsorship audiences. Biography highlights Longest-serving sports presenter in BBC Breakfast history, joined the programme in 2006. Has personally tried and profiled more than 550 sports on BBC One, from Quidditch and shin-kicking to Kabaddi with the Indian national team at the Asian Games in Doha. Held a Guinness World Record for travelling across water in an inflatable ball, set for Sport Relief in 2012. Contestant on Strictly Come Dancing series 17 in 2019, partnered with Katya Jones. Has reported on the Olympics, Paralympics, Commonwealth Games and football, rugby and cricket World Cups. Author of Bushell’s Best Bits (2013), drawn from his sports-discovery slot. Career began at BBC Radio Solent in 1990, with earlier reporting roles at the Derby Evening Telegraph and the Windsor and Slough Observer. Biography Live sports presentation on BBC Breakfast is one of the more exposed jobs in UK broadcasting. The presenter takes the chair every Saturday morning, on national television, with no second take. Mike Bushell has held that chair longer than anyone in the programme’s history, joining BBC Breakfast in 2006 after starting his career at BBC Radio Solent in 1990. The on-air work is built around a simple proposition: every week, try a sport. The list now runs past 550 and includes shin-kicking, worm charming, Quidditch, swamp soccer, Rush hockey and Kabaddi with the Indian team at the Asian Games in Doha. The book that came out of it, Bushell’s Best Bits, was published in 2013. The format is the source of the interactive Sport or Spoof game he runs with corporate audiences. The wider reporting CV covers Olympics, Paralympics, Commonwealth Games and football, rugby and cricket World Cups. In 2019 he was a contestant on series 17 of Strictly Come Dancing with Katya Jones, which is the credit most internal-event audiences recognise on sight. For organisations, the offer is straightforward. Bushell hosts conferences, moderates panels, runs awards nights and gives after-dinner talks. When the brief calls for it, he also speaks on activity, participation and getting people off the sofa, drawn directly from the on-air body of work. Key speaking topics Event hosting and conference moderation Awards night presenting Active lifestyles and sports participation Workplace wellbeing through movement Resilience and trying the unfamiliar Sports broadcasting and the Olympic and World Cup beat Interactive audience formats including Sport or Spoof Ideal for Internal conferences, sales kick-offs and all-hands looking for a recognisable host Awards nights and sponsor evenings in sport, media and consumer sectors Wellbeing, HR and people-team programmes built around activity and participation Charity galas, fundraising dinners and sports federation events Audience outcomes A programme run cleanly from the front of the room, with live moments handled without losing the audience A shared moment of entertainment through the Sport or Spoof format, tuned to the audience in the room A direct, lived case for getting more active and the corporate-wellbeing argument that follows Behind-the-scenes anecdotes from Strictly, the Olympics, World Cups and 550 sports on national television

Why organisations work with Mike Horn The scale, continuity and repetition of Horn’s expeditions – solo, human-powered, across polar regions, equatorial oceans, mountain ranges and both poles over thirty years – gives him a compounding body of tested evidence that no single-event adventurer can match. His insight is not drawn from one defining story but from decades of escalating exposure to the same high-stakes conditions. His track record with elite competitive teams is documented and attributable. At the request of coach Gary Kirsten, he conducted performance sessions with the Indian Cricket Team ahead of their 2011 Cricket World Cup win. He worked with the German national football squad in preparation for the 2014 FIFA World Cup, which they won. These outcomes give organisations a concrete reference point beyond speaking testimonials. His published work – including «Conquering the Impossible» (St. Martin’s Press, 2007) – sets out the principles he has derived from expedition experience as structured frameworks, not only as anecdote. Organisations receive insight they can apply, not only a story they can admire. His degree in Human Movement Science from Stellenbosch University grounds his observations in performance physiology and behavioural science. This distinguishes his insight from standard adventure motivation and makes it analytically durable for leadership development programmes with real accountability requirements. Horn is still actively exploring. His current «What’s Left» expedition is ongoing, meaning his perspective remains one that is still being tested in the field – not retrospectively assembled from a career that has ended. Biography highlights Solo equatorial circumnavigation without motorised transport, 1999-2000; 2001 Laureus World Alternative Sportsperson of the Year First solo, non-motorised traversal of the 20,000 km Arctic Circle («Arktos»), 2002-2004 First winter crossing of the North Pole in total darkness, with Børge Ousland, 2006 World’s longest solo, unassisted crossing of Antarctica (5,100 km in 57 days by ski-kite), 2017 Performance advisor to the Indian Cricket Team before their 2011 Cricket World Cup win, and to the German national football squad before their 2014 FIFA World Cup win Author of «Conquering the Impossible» (St. Martin’s Press, 2007) and «Latitude Zero» (2001); Laureus World Sports Academy member Biography Mike Horn’s career as an explorer spans thirty years and every major hostile environment on Earth – polar oceans, equatorial jungle, high-altitude mountain faces above 8,000 metres. These are not settings where leadership theory is applied in safety. The decisions made in them carry physical consequences, and the team dynamics that determine survival are the same dynamics that determine whether organisations hold together under real pressure. His expedition record is defined by deliberate escalation. He completed the first solo equatorial circumnavigation without motorised transport (1999-2000), then the first non-motorised traversal of the 20,000 km Arctic Circle. With Norwegian explorer Børge Ousland, he made the first winter crossing of the North Pole in total darkness in 2006. In 2017, he completed the longest solo, unassisted crossing of Antarctica at 5,100 km. The logic across all of it is consistent: remove the safety nets, increase the stakes, and discover what actually works. At the request of coach Gary Kirsten, Horn ran performance sessions with the Indian Cricket Team ahead of their 2011 Cricket World Cup win. He worked with the German national football squad in preparation for the 2014 FIFA World Cup, which they also won. These engagements addressed team cohesion, pressure tolerance and decision-making under conditions of uncertainty – the same conditions his expeditions demand. Horn holds a degree in Human Movement Science from Stellenbosch University, grounding his observations in performance physiology rather than raw adventure narrative. He is a member of the Laureus World Sports Academy and the 2001 Laureus World Alternative Sportsperson of the Year. His book «Conquering the Impossible» (St. Martin’s Press, 2007) translates expedition experience into applicable frameworks. For organisations building leadership capability for genuinely difficult conditions, his perspective comes with thirty years of tested evidence. Key speaking topics Leadership under sustained pressure Decision-making in high-stakes, low-information conditions Team cohesion and trust in hostile environments Resilience and mental endurance Risk management and performance under uncertainty Human performance at physical and psychological limits Environmental responsibility and sustainability Ideal for Senior leadership teams preparing for or navigating periods of significant organisational stress or strategic transition CHROs and L&D directors designing executive development programmes with real performance accountability High-performance sport organisations, elite teams and coaching structures focused on competitive readiness Boards and executive committees in high-risk sectors: energy, defence, deep-sea operations, financial services Audience outcomes A clearer model of how decision quality and team cohesion hold – or degrade – under sustained pressure, drawn from environments where the consequences of each are unambiguous Practical insight into the behaviours that distinguish high-performing teams when conditions deteriorate: communication discipline, risk calibration and mutual accountability under strain A framework for distinguishing trained resilience from assumed resilience, and the leadership conditions required to develop the first Direct exposure to case studies where decisions made under incomplete information had irreversible physical consequences, making leadership dynamics visible in their most unambiguous form A recalibrated understanding of what individuals and teams are capable of when development genuinely tests, rather than simulates, pressure

Why organisations work with Mikkey Dee A working account of staying at the top of a brutally competitive craft for more than three decades, drawn from inside one of rock’s most demanding touring lineups. Lived material on what happens to a team when the founder dies, told by the drummer who held Motörhead’s final lineup together until Lemmy Kilmister’s death in December 2015. Grammy-winning credibility (Best Metal Performance, 2005, with Motörhead) and Hall of Heavy Metal History induction with Scorpions at the inaugural 2017 ceremony. A speaker whose appeal sits outside the usual corporate circuit: a Swedish rock musician, comfortable in English and Swedish, who works as the unexpected closing voice at a leadership offsite or annual conference. Biography highlights Drummer for Motörhead, 1992 to 2015, across 12 studio albums and the band’s longest-serving lineup. Permanent drummer for Scorpions since 2016. Grammy Award, Best Metal Performance, 2005, for Motörhead’s cover of “Whiplash”. Inducted with Scorpions into the Hall of Heavy Metal History at its inaugural ceremony, Anaheim, January 2017. Earlier credits with King Diamond (Fatal Portrait, Abigail, Them) and Don Dokken (Up From The Ashes). Named Gothenburger of the Year in his home city of Gothenburg, November 2021. Sonor signature snare drum released in his name, 2012. Biography Lemmy Kilmister asked Mikkey Dee to join Motörhead for seven years before Dee finally accepted in 1992. That single fact frames the rest of the story: a drummer who refused to take a seat he had not yet earned, then held it for the next twenty-three years, across twelve albums and the longest-serving lineup the band ever had. The Motörhead chapter ended in December 2015 with Kilmister’s death, and Dee has since spoken openly about the choice the surviving members made: to celebrate the life of the man at the centre of the band rather than build a public mourning around it. Within a year he was the permanent drummer of Scorpions, where he has been since 2016. The credentials are concrete. A Grammy for Best Metal Performance in 2005 for Motörhead’s cover of “Whiplash”. Induction with Scorpions into the Hall of Heavy Metal History at its inaugural ceremony in 2017. A Sonor signature snare in his name. Earlier work with King Diamond on Fatal Portrait, Abigail and Them, and with Don Dokken on Up From The Ashes. For organisations, the value sits in the unusual angle. Most speakers on resilience and longevity come from sport, the military, or business itself. Dee speaks from a craft where the daily test is public, the team is small, and the founder is irreplaceable. Audiences leave with a clear-eyed account of what it takes to stay sharp for thirty years, and what a team actually does when the person at the centre is gone. Key speaking topics Perseverance and longevity in a high-performance career Continuing after the loss of a founder or central figure Self-leadership and composure under sustained pressure Lessons from inside a long-running creative team Reinvention after the end of a defining chapter Ideal for Annual conferences and leadership offsites looking for an unexpected closing keynote Sales kick-offs and customer-facing events that want a story-led session on perseverance Internal events for teams navigating the loss of a founder, CEO, or long-standing leader Audience outcomes A first-hand account of how a small team holds together across decades of touring and turnover. A frank perspective on what changes inside an organisation when the founder is suddenly gone. A working definition of perseverance grounded in a specific craft, not a slogan. A reset on what longevity at the top actually demands, day to day.

Why organisations work with Sir Mo Farah Second athlete in Olympic history, after Finland’s Lasse Virén, to defend both the 5,000m and 10,000m at consecutive Games. Almost no one else can speak to sustained dominance at that level from direct experience. Delivered the distance double under two very different forms of pressure: home-crowd expectation at London 2012 and defending-champion pressure at Rio 2016. Both required the same habits, applied in different contexts. Trained inside elite endurance programmes for over a decade, including a long stint at the Nike Oregon Project. The talk goes into how Olympic preparation actually works at the operational level. In 2022 he disclosed in the BBC documentary The Real Mo Farah that he had been trafficked into the UK as a child under another boy’s name. For audiences focused on resilience, this part of his story now sits alongside the running. Biography highlights Four Olympic gold medals: 5,000m and 10,000m at London 2012 and Rio 2016. Second man in Olympic history, after Lasse Virén, to defend both distances at consecutive Games. Six World Championship golds and five European Championship golds. Most successful individual male athlete in European Championships history. Knighted in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to athletics; appointed CBE in 2013. BBC Sports Personality of the Year, 2017. Won the 2018 Chicago Marathon in a European record time of 2:05:11. Subject of the 2022 BBC One documentary The Real Mo Farah, which disclosed his trafficking into the UK as a child. Biography In over a century of Olympic history, only one athlete had ever defended both the 5,000m and 10,000m at consecutive Games. Sir Mo Farah is the second. The career was not luck. From the European junior 5,000m title in 2001, through training inside the Nike Oregon Project under Alberto Salazar and later under Gary Lough, Farah built an operational discipline. It produced ten global championship golds: four Olympic, six World Championship. He remains the most successful British track athlete in modern Olympic history. In 2022, the BBC One documentary The Real Mo Farah disclosed publicly that he had been trafficked into the UK as a nine-year-old child under the name of another boy. He spent his formative years as a domestic servant in West London before a PE teacher, Alan Watkinson, identified both his athletic ability and the conditions he was living in. The disclosure changed how audiences understood the runner. The discipline that built the medals had been built first under far harder conditions. What Farah gives an audience is access to the operational substance behind a public performance. The four-year cycle leading into a Games. The tactical patience required to hold position through 24 laps of a track race and execute a final 400m sprint that competitors cannot match. He left elite track competition after a sixth World Championship gold in 2017 and turned to road racing, winning the 2018 Chicago Marathon in a European record of 2:05:11. Key speaking topics Sustained elite performance over multiple Olympic cycles Resilience under public scrutiny The mechanics of Olympic preparation Tactical execution and decision making under pressure Reinvention from track racing to the marathon The training and recovery cycle behind elite endurance Ideal for Sales and revenue team conferences focused on execution and performance under pressure Large leadership and all-hands events anchored around resilience and sustained achievement After-dinner engagements at corporate and association conferences High-performance team kick-offs entering a multi-quarter or multi-year cycle Audience outcomes A specific picture of what an Olympic four-year cycle actually involves, from long preparation through to race-day execution Resilience presented as a set of repeatable daily disciplines, anchored in concrete examples from elite training Direct testimony on how elite performers manage public expectation and the cost of public defeat A real example of mid-career reinvention, illustrated through the transition from track racing to the 2018 Chicago Marathon win

Why organisations work with Monty Criswell Five number-one country singles across three decades, including “I Saw God Today” for George Strait, “Five More Minutes” for Scotty McCreery and “Hell of a View” for Eric Church, give him a body of work most after-dinner speakers cannot match. His material is built around real songs played live, not slides. The performance element makes the resilience message land with senior audiences in a way a conventional keynote cannot. A stage 3 colon cancer recovery, tied to active support of Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, gives the health and recovery thread substance rather than sentiment. Thirty years in a commercial creative industry, with named hits for George Strait, Eric Church, Trace Adkins, Scotty McCreery and Parker McCollum, makes him credible on the realities of sustained creative output under commercial pressure. Biography highlights Co-writer, “I Saw God Today” (George Strait, 2008), CMA Single of the Year; Grammy and Dove nominations. Number-one country singles include “Just Fishin'” (Trace Adkins), “Five More Minutes” (Scotty McCreery, triple platinum), “Hell of a View” (Eric Church, double platinum) and “Handle on You” (Parker McCollum). Two Grammy nominations for Country Song of the Year; multiple BMI and NSAI songwriting awards. Songwriter Session presenter at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, Nashville. Publishing history with Hamstein Music Group, Sony/ATV/Tree and currently Spirit Music Group. B.A. American Studies, cum laude, University of Alabama. Biography Country music is one of the few commercial creative industries where the same writer can sustain hits across thirty years. It is also one of the most unforgiving. Hit songs decide careers, and most writers never get one. Monty Criswell has written or co-written five number-one country singles in four different decades, including “I Saw God Today” for George Strait, which won CMA Single of the Year in 2008 and was nominated for a Grammy. The catalogue runs from Trace Adkins to Eric Church to Parker McCollum. “Five More Minutes” for Scotty McCreery went triple platinum. “Hell of a View” for Eric Church went double platinum. The longevity matters more than any single credit. It is what gives him a working theory of how a person keeps producing under commercial pressure when the room around them changes. Halfway through that run he was diagnosed with stage 3 colon cancer. He recovered, returned to writing, and continued to land number ones. He now supports Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center and sits with his wife on Vanderbilt’s Canby Robinson Society. The cancer story is not a frame for the talk; it is the second source of evidence behind it. “An Evening with Monty Criswell” is a live performance, not a conference session. He plays the songs, tells the stories behind them, and draws lessons on persistence, craft and recovery from a working life that produced both. For organisations looking for an inspirational close to a conference, an awards dinner or a leadership offsite, the offering is unusual: a credible commercial creative who can hold a room with songs the audience already knows. Key speaking topics Resilience and recovery after serious illness Sustaining creative output over a long career Storytelling as a leadership tool Persistence in commercially unforgiving industries Country music songwriting craft Faith and personal values in working life Ideal for Conference closing keynotes and gala dinners where an inspirational live performance is required Sales kick-offs and leadership offsites in need of a resilience and persistence anchor Cancer charities, healthcare audiences and corporate wellness events Audiences in the United States with country music affinity, including Nashville-based events Audience outcomes A live experience of how a hit country song is built, told by its writer A first-hand account of stage 3 cancer recovery and the return to high-output work Stories drawn from a thirty-year Nashville career, with named artists and named songs A close that lands emotionally without leaning on a slide deck

Why organisations work with Monty Halls A first-hand account of leadership built in two domains where mistakes are not theoretical: Royal Marines command and multi-year expedition leadership across four global circumnavigations. Leaderbox, the training system he founded in 2016, gives clients a structured method drawn from military, elite sport and business practice rather than a one-off keynote moment. Three decades of working with teams under physical and psychological load, translated into language a corporate audience can use the next morning. Credibility on the substance of resilience that does not rely on rhetoric: the Bish Medal from the Scientific Exploration Society, an Honorary Doctor of Science from Plymouth University, presidency of the Galapagos Conservation Trust. An ability to hold an audience for an after-dinner or conference slot through specific story material, including the 2002 Mahabalipuram expedition and BBC Two “Great Escape” series, without sliding into generic adventure rhetoric. Biography highlights Former Royal Marines officer; served with the British Military Assistance and Training Team in South Africa during the early-1990s peace process. First Class Honours in Marine Biology, University of Plymouth, 1999. Honorary Doctor of Science, Plymouth University, 2010. Bish Medal, Scientific Exploration Society, 2003, for the expedition to the sunken temple complex at Mahabalipuram. Presenter of the BBC Two “Great Escape” trilogy (Applecross, North Uist, Connemara, 2009 to 2011) and the BBC Two series “Great Barrier Reef” (2012). Author of titles including “Monty Halls’ Great Escape: Beachcomber Cottage”, “The Fisherman’s Apprentice”, “Escaping Hitler” and “My Family and the Galapagos”. President of the Galapagos Conservation Trust since 2015. Patron of the Shark Trust and of Help for Heroes. Founder of Leaderbox, 2016. Biography Most leadership content describes how teams should behave on a good day. The harder material is what happens to a unit when it is cold, tired, behind schedule and short on information. Halls has spent a working life in environments where that is the operating condition, first as a Royal Marines officer, then as an expedition leader. After leaving the Marines he completed a First Class Honours degree in Marine Biology at the University of Plymouth and led the 2002 Scientific Exploration Society expedition to the sunken temples of Mahabalipuram in Tamil Nadu, work for which the Society awarded him the Bish Medal. He went on to four circumnavigations of the globe filming wildlife and adventure content for the BBC, Channel 4, National Geographic and Discovery, anchored by the BBC Two “Great Escape” series and the 2012 BBC Two production “Great Barrier Reef”. The corporate practice grew out of that. Halls founded Leaderbox in 2016 as a structured training system drawing on Royal Marines doctrine, elite sport and business practice, and now delivers leadership and team-building work to clients including Google, Visa and Virgin. His subject is the behaviour of teams under pressure, the conditions that create high-performing culture, and the discipline of self-leadership when a leader is as fatigued as the people they are responsible for. He is President of the Galapagos Conservation Trust, a patron of the Shark Trust and of Help for Heroes, and the author of nine books across exploration, marine biology and modern history, including “Escaping Hitler”, a study of the courage of Allied servicemen on the wartime escape lines through occupied Europe. Key speaking topics Leadership under pressure Team culture and high-performance environments Self-leadership and composure Resilience and decision-making in adverse conditions Expedition leadership lessons for corporate teams Marine conservation and the Galapagos Lessons from Royal Marines selection and training Ideal for CEOs, COOs and executive teams stress-testing how their leadership behaviour holds up under sustained operational pressure HR directors and L&D leads designing leadership development that goes beyond classroom theory Sales and operational leadership teams building high-trust, high-tempo culture Conference, leadership offsite and after-dinner audiences where credibility on resilience and team behaviour is the brief Audience outcomes A working vocabulary for what high-performing teams actually do differently when conditions deteriorate A clearer view of self-leadership as a daily discipline rather than a one-off response to crisis Specific, transferable lessons from Royal Marines training and expedition command that translate directly into commercial team settings Story material drawn from named expeditions and operational moments that audiences can carry into their own leadership conversations

Why organisations work with Nadia Jae She hosts a daily national breakfast show on BBC 1Xtra and won a Gold ARIA for it in 2023, so the live-microphone craft is tested every morning in front of a UK audience, not assembled for the occasion. She is one of the small group of UK presenters who moves fluently between the BAFTA TV Awards, the MOBO Awards, Disney and Marvel red carpets and corporate stages, which matters when an event sits between entertainment and business. Her interview reel includes Stormzy, John Legend, Usher, Daniel Kaluuya and Little Simz. Senior on-stage guests are handled without the script becoming the safety net. Raise Your Voice, her 2022 book with DK and the BBC, gives her a credible secondary offer on confidence, communication and self-presentation for younger workforces and early-career audiences. She brings cultural reach into rooms that often lack it: a DJ background at the BRITs, Lovebox, indigO2 and Fabric, and a brand history with ASOS, Adidas, John Lewis, Netflix and Beats By Dre. Biography highlights Host, BBC Radio 1Xtra Breakfast Show, since December 2020. Gold ARIA, Best Music Breakfast Show, 2023. Author, Raise Your Voice: Make Yourself Heard in a Noisy World (DK, 2022), produced in partnership with the BBC. Presenting credits across the BAFTA TV Awards, MOBO Awards, Wireless Festival, Disney and Marvel events. DJ sets at the BRIT Awards, Lovebox, indigO2 and Fabric. Brand and commercial work with ASOS, Adidas, John Lewis, Netflix and Beats By Dre. Biography The BBC 1Xtra Breakfast Show is one of the most exposed live slots in UK radio: a daily national programme, a young audience, a music-industry guest list and no second takes. Nadia Jae has held it since December 2020 and won a Gold ARIA for it in 2023. Outside the studio, she has built a parallel career as a live events host. She has presented on stage and on red carpets for the BAFTA TV Awards, the MOBO Awards, Wireless Festival, Disney and Marvel, with a DJ track record at the BRITs, Lovebox, indigO2 and Fabric. The blend matters for corporate clients: she can hold an awards night, a brand launch or an internal conference without the cultural register feeling forced. Raise Your Voice, published by DK with the BBC in 2022 as part of the corporation’s centenary Share Your Story programme, sits alongside the broadcast work. The book is a practical guide to confidence, self-presentation and storytelling for young audiences, with contributions from George the Poet, Ade Adepitan and Nancy Kacungira. It gives her a credible secondary keynote on voice and communication for early-career and Gen Z workforce audiences. Her interview history on 1Xtra, from Stormzy and Little Simz to John Legend, Usher and Daniel Kaluuya, is the clearest signal of the on-stage craft: senior names, live mics, no second pass. Key speaking topics Awards and event hosting Conference and keynote moderation Brand activation and launch hosting Panel facilitation and on-stage interviews Voice, confidence and communication for young audiences Storytelling and personal narrative Media and broadcast presence Culture, music and youth audiences Ideal for Internal awards nights, recognition events and end-of-year conferences that need a confident MC. Brand launches, product reveals and consumer-facing activations aimed at younger audiences. Panel sessions and on-stage interviews where the host needs to interview senior or high-profile guests live. Early-career, apprentice and Gen Z workforce sessions on voice, confidence and self-presentation. Audience outcomes A clearly structured event with consistent pace, set pieces landed and senior contributors handled with confidence. On-stage interviews and panels that move rather than stall. A cultural register that resonates with younger and more diverse audiences without feeling tokenistic. For Raise Your Voice sessions: a practical sense of how to speak up, present a clear personal narrative and use voice deliberately at work.

Why organisations work with Naomi Schiff She has performed at the level she talks about. Schiff drove in the inaugural W Series in 2019, won the 2014 Clio Cup China Series with seven victories in ten races, and finished second in class at the 2018 24 Hours of Nürburgring. Lived authority is uncommon in the inclusion speaking circuit. The Sky Sports F1 analyst role is current. She is in the F1 paddock during race weekends, conducting on-grid interviews and post-session analysis. The examples she uses with corporate audiences come from this season. The W Series Diversity and Inclusion Ambassador title is a structured external credential. The W Series itself was designed to give female drivers a competitive route toward Formula 1, so the inclusion conversation she leads is rooted in operational reality. Bilingual in English and French, with broadcast credits across Sky Sports and Canal+. Useful for European corporate audiences and for events that need a host-fluent presence in both languages. Biography highlights Sky Sports F1 analyst and presenter; full-time on the channel since 2023 W Series Diversity and Inclusion Ambassador, appointed 2020 Inaugural W Series competitor, 2019 2014 Clio Cup China Series champion with seven wins from ten races Second in class at the 2018 24 Hours of Nürburgring Co-presented the Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 W13 launch with Natalie Pinkham, 2022 Biography Few performance environments are as exposed as elite motorsport. At Le Mans or the Nürburgring, the car either makes the lap or it does not, and the data is in the public record by the next morning. There is no committee, no PR layer between driver and result. When the W Series launched in 2019 as the first single-seater championship structured exclusively for female drivers, places on the grid were tightly contested. Schiff was selected for the inaugural season and appointed the championship’s Diversity and Inclusion Ambassador the following year. Her racing record runs across continents. The 2014 Clio Cup China Series, won with seven victories in ten races, brought a five-year contract with a German team. They raced the KTM X-Bow GT across the European GT4 series and 24-hour endurance events. At the 2018 24 Hours of Nürburgring, considered alongside Le Mans the most punishing endurance race in the world, she finished second in class. From 2022 she joined Sky Sports F1 as analyst and presenter, co-presenting the Mercedes-AMG Petronas W13 launch with Natalie Pinkham. She went full-time on the channel in 2023. When online abuse questioned her racing credentials in 2022, Lewis Hamilton publicly defended her place on the Sky team, and the broader F1 paddock followed his lead. Key speaking topics Diversity, equity and inclusion in male-dominated industries Performance under pressure Mental resilience and recovery Women in sport and motorsport High-performance team culture Broadcast hosting and event moderation Ideal for CHROs, DEI leads, and women’s leadership networks in male-dominated sectors such as engineering, automotive, energy and financial services Sponsor activation events and brand-led keynotes connected to motorsport or premium sport Conference programmes that need a host or moderator with current F1 access and bilingual capability Audience outcomes A direct view of how the W Series was structured to create a competitive pathway for female drivers, and what that suggests for pathway design inside corporate organisations Specific examples from the F1 paddock of how teams handle pressure and make decisions at speed A sharper sense of what it costs to be the only woman in a high-performance professional environment, drawn from working experience A current take on the F1 ecosystem and how it manages performance and representation

Why organisations work with Natalie Turner A trained journalist’s foundation behind the broadcast work. First-class honours degree in journalism, freelance bylines in Men’s Health and Oxford Mail, and on-camera presenting credits with Disruptive Live and TRT World. Subject-matter comfort in tech and corporate environments. Disruptive Live is a London production studio whose clients include Lenovo, NetApp, TD SYNNEX and SnapLogic. Her presenting work there means an MC who can handle enterprise software and cybersecurity content without freezing when a CTO drifts off-script. The rare mix of presence and graft. Gloucestershire Media School hired her to interview actor and writer Jessica Hynes for their flagship event. The producer praised her as “a confident presenter with presence and charm” who was also willing to “put in the graft as a researcher and fixer.” Hosts who lift a programme tend to look like that. Earned authority in fitness and wellbeing content. British Military Fitness instructor, qualified personal trainer, competitive strongwoman, and former bodybuilder. When the brief turns to physical performance and resilience, the material comes from competitions she has actually entered, which audiences notice. Biography highlights Live event host and TV presenter with credits at Disruptive Live, the London-based video production and live streaming studio for technology brands Regular guest contributor on TRT World current affairs programming First-class honours degree in journalism Freelance journalism for Men’s Health and Oxford Mail British Military Fitness instructor and qualified personal trainer Competitive strongwoman, former bodybuilder, and organiser of a Help for Heroes charity strongwoman and strongman event at DW Fitness Cheltenham Biography Live events fail in predictable ways. The moderator loses tempo somewhere in the second half, and a room that started warm never quite comes back. Hosting is its own discipline, and a weak host can sink an otherwise strong programme. This is the work Natalie Turner has spent her career learning. A first-class honours graduate in journalism, she trained as a reporter before moving into live presenting. Her work for Disruptive Live, the London production studio whose technology-sector clients include Lenovo, NetApp, TD SYNNEX and SnapLogic, has put her in front of cybersecurity panels and channel-partner summits where the host has to hold technical content under live conditions. Freelance bylines for Men’s Health and Oxford Mail give the broadcast work a reporter’s foundation. On-camera contributions to TRT World add live news experience. When Gloucestershire Media School hired her to interview actor and writer Jessica Hynes for their flagship “An Audience With” programme, the producer described her as “the real deal” and praised her willingness to “put in the graft as a researcher and fixer.” Outside the studio she keeps a parallel professional life that informs her motivational work. She is a qualified personal trainer, a British Military Fitness instructor, a competitive strongwoman, and a former bodybuilder, and has organised a charity strongwoman event at DW Fitness Cheltenham in aid of Help for Heroes. When the brief calls for content on training and physical performance, the material is built from events she has personally walked through. Her primary booking categories are moderating, emcee work, and after-dinner hosting. Key speaking topics Live event hosting and moderation Panel facilitation in technology and corporate environments After-dinner speaking Health, fitness and wellbeing Resilience and physical performance Broadcast interviewing Ideal for Conference organisers and event programmers in the technology, business and channel-partner sectors who need a credentialed live host or moderator Internal communications and HR teams running employee wellbeing days where motivational fitness content needs delivery from someone with operator-level credentials Award ceremonies, gala dinners and after-dinner audiences who want a presenter rather than a comedian or a celebrity name Audience outcomes An audience that stays engaged through the full programme and can recall the specifics from each session, not a blurred afternoon Motivational content built from personal competitive experience (strongwoman events, bodybuilding, military fitness instruction) which does not need to dress itself up as inspiration Panels and fireside sessions where guests are actually drawn out, with the audience hearing material it could not have got from reading the speakers’ books A take on resilience and physical performance free of the borrowed-metaphor problem common in motivational speaking

Why organisations work with Natasha Kaplinsky Twenty-plus years anchoring national news for the BBC, Sky, ITV and Channel 5 means a host who can absorb a script change five minutes before going live and still hold the room. The 112 Holocaust testimony interviews she conducted pro bono for the UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation are evidence of an interviewer who can hold material most professionals would not attempt; that capacity transfers directly into sensitive Q&As and reputational moments where missteps are expensive. Concurrent senior governance roles at the British Board of Film Classification, the Royal Ballet School and Barnardo’s mean she meets executives as a peer. Stage conversations tend to land at a higher level as a result. Recognisable to most British audiences from two decades of national bulletins, which makes her presence at the front of an event an immediate signal that the moment is serious. Biography highlights President of the British Board of Film Classification since October 2022; chairs the Board of Classification and the Advisory Council on Children’s Viewing Chair of The Royal Ballet School since October 2024; President of Barnardo’s since 2019; Global Ambassador for Save the Children Awarded an OBE in the 2017 Queen’s Birthday Honours List for services to Holocaust Commemoration, following 112 testimony interviews conducted pro bono for the UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation Lead news anchor across BBC News, Sky News, Channel 5 and ITV News, with credits including BBC Breakfast, the BBC Six O’Clock News and Five News with Natasha Kaplinsky Author of Letters From Lockdown (Hachette, 2021); contributors include Paul McCartney, Bill Gates, Malala Yousafzai and Sir Mo Farah, with all publisher profits donated to Barnardo’s Newscaster of the Year at the TRIC Awards (2004); inaugural winner of BBC One’s Strictly Come Dancing (2004) Biography David Cameron’s Holocaust Commission was set up in 2014 to consider how Britain should mark the Holocaust for future generations. Its findings flagged that the testimonies of surviving British witnesses had not been recorded. Over the fifteen months that followed, Natasha Kaplinsky conducted 112 interviews on a pro bono basis. They covered camp survivors, children of the Kindertransport and the British soldiers who liberated Bergen Belsen; the OBE followed in 2017. This capacity for handling difficult material now sits behind her senior roles across British public life. She is President of the British Board of Film Classification, chairing both the Board of Classification and the Advisory Council on Children’s Viewing. Since October 2024 she has been Chair of The Royal Ballet School; she has been President of Barnardo’s since 2019. Each of these institutions is in the middle of a significant generational transition, and each has put her at the head of its board. Two decades of live national news anchoring sit behind these roles. She co-presented BBC Breakfast with Dermot Murnaghan, hosted the BBC Six O’Clock News and anchored Five News between 2008 and 2010. Her Channel 5 contract was reported to be the highest newsreader fee in UK television. Sky News won a BAFTA for Best News Channel during her tenure, and she was named TRIC Newscaster of the Year in 2004. Awards ceremonies, conferences and high-stakes panels live or die on the host. The ability to absorb a last-minute script change or steer a difficult Q&A decides whether the moment is remembered. Audiences read two decades of national broadcasting on sight. Repeat clients including the Royal Society for Public Health and the Vodafone Foundation rebook for the same reason. Key speaking topics Awards Hosting and Event Compering Conference Moderation and Panel Facilitation Broadcast Communication and Live Storytelling Holocaust Commemoration and Testimony Leadership of Public and Cultural Institutions Children’s Welfare and Online Safety Ideal for Major industry awards ceremonies and corporate gala dinners requiring a host with national profile and broadcast composure Leadership summits and conference plenaries where the chair must hold a senior panel and steer Q&A in real time Charity and cultural sector events where a recognisable senior public figure adds visible weight Internal town halls, AGMs and investor days where reputational risk on the platform is high Audience outcomes What 112 Holocaust survivor interviews taught her about drawing testimony out of people nobody else could reach Where children’s online safety regulation is heading, viewed from the BBFC The working principles behind live national broadcasting, including the cases where silence does more work than the next question The case for bearing witness, in journalism and in cultural institutions, made by someone who has spent two decades doing it

Why organisations work with Nayla Al Khaja She is the first woman to direct a feature film in the UAE, which means her observations on inclusion in restrictive professional cultures come from lived practice, not commentary. She built and runs her own production company, Nayla Al Khaja Films, and founded The Scene Club, the UAE’s first independent film club, giving her a track record of standing up creative institutions where none existed. Her debut feature Three premiered at the Red Sea International Film Festival and released theatrically across the GCC and MENA, evidence of commercial credibility alongside cultural pioneering. Variety named her one of the 50 Most Powerful Personalities in Arab Cinema, a useful external marker for buyers who want a credentialled voice on the Gulf creative economy. She works in Arabic and English at native level, which makes her usable for regional events in the UAE and Saudi Arabia as well as international audiences. Biography highlights First female film director in the United Arab Emirates and CEO of Nayla Al Khaja Films since 2005. BA in film studies, Ryerson University (now Toronto Metropolitan University), Canada, on a UAE government scholarship. Founder of The Scene Club, the UAE’s first independent film club, established 2007. Director of Three (2024), her debut feature, which premiered at the Red Sea International Film Festival and released theatrically across the GCC and MENA. Director of BAAB, scored by two-time Academy Award winner A.R. Rahman, with cinematography by Rogier Stoffers ASC. Named to Variety’s 50 Most Powerful Personalities in Arab Cinema (2020); Visionary of the Year, Arabian Business Awards (2011); TEDx speaker on women in Arab cinema. Biography The UAE had no female film director before Nayla Al Khaja. She became the first, then built the production company, the film club and the audience that the country needed for a domestic film industry to be possible at all. That is the work she draws on when she speaks. Al Khaja studied mass communication at Dubai Women’s College, then took a UAE government scholarship to Ryerson University in Toronto for a degree in film studies. She returned and founded what is now Nayla Al Khaja Films in 2005, and in 2007 opened The Scene Club, the country’s first independent film society. Both still operate. Her debut feature Three premiered at the Red Sea International Film Festival in December 2023 and released across the GCC and wider MENA region in early 2024. Her second feature, BAAB, was scored by A.R. Rahman and shot by Rogier Stoffers ASC, two collaborators with serious international standing. Variety placed her in its 50 Most Powerful Personalities in Arab Cinema. For corporate audiences, her usefulness is direct. She is asked how a woman builds a career inside an industry that has no women in it, how a creative business gets capitalised in a market that does not yet exist, and how cultural representation actually shifts when someone takes the job rather than waits for the policy. Her answers come from doing it. Key speaking topics Women in male-dominated industries Creative entrepreneurship in the Gulf Cultural representation in film and media Building a career under restrictive cultural conditions The UAE and Saudi creative economy Storytelling and brand communication Resilience and the long arc of a creative career Ideal for Conferences on women in leadership and inclusion, particularly in the GCC and Levant Corporate diversity, talent and ERG events for organisations operating across the Middle East Creative industry summits, brand and marketing leadership audiences Regional government, tourism and cultural authority programmes on the Gulf creative economy Audience outcomes A first-hand account of how women break through in industries where there is no precedent for them. A clearer view of how the Gulf creative economy actually functions, from someone who built inside it. Specific stories about getting a feature film made in a market that did not previously support one. Practical observations on cultural representation that are usable for brand, marketing and communications teams. A keynote presence that audiences in the region recognise and respond to.

Why organisations work with Neal Petersen A first-person account of self-leadership at the edge of human tolerance: 195 days alone at sea, completing the 1998 to 1999 Around Alone circumnavigation as the first Black sailor to race solo around the world A story arc that translates directly to senior leadership: a hip defect, apartheid-era barriers, and no capital, met with a multi-year build of his own ocean-racing yacht and a top-five finish in his class Material credibility for diversity, inclusion, and access conversations that goes beyond commentary, grounded in lived experience inside an elite, almost entirely white sport A National Outdoor Book Award winning memoir, Journey of a Hope Merchant, and a PBS documentary, which give audiences a coherent reference text to engage with after the keynote A track record of repeat keynotes for IBM, Microsoft, Intel, MasterCard, Salesforce, and senior government audiences, with content adapted to the specific operating challenge in the room Biography highlights First Black sailor to race solo around the world, completing the 1998 to 1999 Around Alone race in Class II Designed and built his own 38-foot yacht, Stella R, while funding the project through North Sea oil-rig and commercial diamond diving work Author of Journey of a Hope Merchant: From Apartheid to the Elite World of Solo Yacht Racing (2004), winner of the 2005 National Outdoor Book Award, History/Biography Subject of the PBS documentary No Barriers: The Story of Neal Petersen Repeat keynote speaker for IBM, Microsoft, Intel, Salesforce, MasterCard, AXIS Capital, and US federal and state government audiences Born 1967 in Cape Town, South Africa, into apartheid-era classification with a hip defect that required three childhood surgeries Biography The 1998 to 1999 Around Alone circumnavigation was a 27,000-mile solo yacht race, completed by nine sailors, with Cape Horn and the Southern Ocean as the central trial. Neal Petersen, racing in Class II aboard a yacht he had built himself, was one of those nine. He finished the course after 195 days at sea, becoming the first Black sailor to race solo around the world. The route to that starting line is the substance of the keynote. Born in Cape Town in 1967, classified under apartheid, and recovering from three childhood hip surgeries, he taught himself the sport from magazines in a hospital bed. He funded the yacht, Stella R, by working as a North Sea oil-rig diver and a commercial diamond diver off the South African coast. The boat was built from donated and reclaimed parts. Journey of a Hope Merchant, his 2004 memoir, won the 2005 National Outdoor Book Award in the History and Biography category, and PBS produced a documentary on the same story. The published record gives senior audiences a coherent reference text rather than a stage anecdote, which matters for the kind of programme that wants the talk to keep working after the lights go up. The booking pattern reflects what corporate audiences actually want from this material. Repeat engagements with IBM, Microsoft, Intel, Salesforce, MasterCard, and senior government audiences point to a speaker whose value lies in the practical content of composure: how to make decisions when the cost of being wrong is total, how to hold a course through months of degraded conditions, and how to lead yourself when no one is watching. Key speaking topics Self-leadership under sustained pressure Resilience and decision-making in extreme conditions Diversity, inclusion, and access in elite environments Goal-setting and execution over multi-year horizons Adaptability when plans break down Building from limited resources Ideal for C-suite and senior leadership offsites focused on resilience and composure Sales kickoffs and annual conferences that need a credible, non-generic peak-performance keynote DEI leadership programmes seeking lived experience over commentary Government, defence, and association audiences working under prolonged operational strain Audience outcomes A reference framework for self-leadership during sustained adversity, drawn from a documented multi-year build and a 195-day solo race Specific decision-making lessons from the Southern Ocean, applicable to leaders operating without immediate support A renewed view of barriers as design constraints rather than stop signs A coherent narrative audiences can carry back into team conversations, supported by an award-winning memoir and a PBS documentary