Motivational speakers

Why organisations work with Tara Renze Twenty years inside CareerBuilder and Stella & Dot give her a sales-floor credibility that few EQ speakers carry. She has run the number, trained the new hires, and built a multi-million-dollar book of business before stepping onto the stage. She works in the practical intersection of Shirzad Chamine’s Positive Intelligence and applied emotional intelligence, translating both into language that revenue teams and women’s networks will sit through, take notes on, and act on. Her core framework, “Be Who You Came To Be”, is a trademarked through-line across keynote, workshop and book, which gives client teams a shared vocabulary that survives past the event. Repeat work from operationally serious clients including T-Mobile, Pfizer, Aflac, Amazon, Shaw Industries and Women’s Foodservice Forum, not only inspiration-circuit buyers. Biography highlights Author, Be Who You Came To Be, published by Amplify Publishing Group (second edition). Host, Be Who You Came To Be podcast. Certified practitioner in Emotional Intelligence and Shirzad Chamine’s Positive Intelligence methodology. Former Sales Leader of the Year at CareerBuilder.com; led the company’s national new hire sales training programme. Founder of a multi-million-dollar nationwide social selling business with Stella & Dot. Degree from the University of Kansas; executive leadership studies at the Wharton School and the Kellogg Graduate School of Management. Biography A sales floor is one of the more honest places in a corporation. The number is the number, the pipeline is the pipeline, and the people carrying the quota tell you quickly whether the culture, the leadership and the personal motivation are real. That environment is where Tara Renze spent two decades before she ever called herself a speaker, first as Sales Leader of the Year at CareerBuilder.com, then as the founder of a multi-million-dollar national social selling business with Stella & Dot. She moved into the emotional intelligence and positive intelligence space with that operating background still attached. Her practitioner work draws on the EQ tradition and on Shirzad Chamine’s Positive Intelligence methodology, which she applies to the specific tensions she watched up close for twenty years: high performers who lose their edge, women leaders who hide their ambition, sales teams whose self-talk eats their pipeline. The frame she has built around this work, “Be Who You Came To Be”, anchors a book published by Amplify Publishing Group, a podcast of the same name, and the keynote and workshop programme she takes into clients including T-Mobile, Pfizer, Aflac, Amazon, Shaw Industries and Women’s Foodservice Forum. The through-line is consistent. Authenticity is treated as a performance variable, not a wellness slogan, and mental fitness is taught as a learnable discipline with practical tools that a sales manager or a CHRO can actually deploy on Monday morning. What clients tend to book her for is the combination buyers struggle to assemble otherwise: a speaker who can hold the room on confidence, self-leadership and EQ, who has also personally carried a quota, run a sales training programme and built a national business. Key speaking topics Emotional intelligence in commercial environments Positive intelligence and mental fitness Authentic leadership for women Sales leadership and seller mindset Self-sabotage and saboteur patterns at work Culture, engagement and team performance Ideal for Chief Revenue Officers and sales leadership teams running enterprise sales kick-offs. CHROs and L&D leaders designing manager development and women’s leadership programming. Direct-selling and field-force organisations where individual mindset determines revenue. Industry associations and women’s networks (Women’s Foodservice Forum profile) seeking a keynote that holds an executive room. Audience outcomes A working vocabulary for the internal patterns (self-doubt, saboteur voices, performance anxiety) that quietly degrade individual and team results. Specific Positive Intelligence techniques for interrupting those patterns in real working conditions. A practical reframe of authenticity as a performance discipline, not a personality trait or a wellness extra. A shared language across a team or sales force that survives past the event and can be reinforced by managers.

Why organisations work with The Tempest Two A two-handed delivery rooted in shared, verifiable experience. Most resilience content is told solo. The duo dynamic, including dialogue and disagreement on stage, lands as conversation rather than lecture. The Atlantic row, Patagonia ultra-triathlon and El Capitan ascent are all self-funded, self-organised expeditions started without the relevant skills. The lesson on agency is structurally different from a story told by a former soldier or elite athlete. Operating discipline behind the talks. Through Dose, the same lessons are productised into workplace programmes for clients such as Nike, BNY Mellon, IBM and Airbnb, so a keynote can sit inside a wider engagement rather than ending at the closing slide. Tonal range commercial buyers actually want. The act works on a sales kick-off stage, an EMEA marketing conference or an internal wellbeing day without code-switching, which is rare in the adventure-speaker field. Biography highlights 3,000-mile unaided ocean row from the Canary Islands to Barbados, completed in 54 days, with no prior rowing or sailing experience. World-first ultra-triathlon across Patagonia in 2017: 1,600km cycle, 65km Huemul Circuit run, 100km stand-up paddleboard descent of the La Leona river. Winter ascent of Mont Blanc and El Capitan summit in Yosemite, the latter on roughly 18 months of climbing experience. Co-founders of Dose, a workplace wellbeing company working with Nike, BNY Mellon, IBM and Airbnb among others. Keynote clients include Google, Microsoft, JP Morgan, Heineken, Vodafone, Red Bull, Dropbox, Tesco, Waitrose & Partners, NatWest and Gymshark. Hosts of The Tempest Two Pod on adventure, mindset and performance. Biography Two friends in marketing jobs decided to row the Atlantic. Neither had sat in a rowing boat. Fifty-four days after leaving the Canary Islands, James Whittle and Tom Caulfield reached Barbados, having met the first hurricane to form in the Atlantic in fifty years on the way. The story matters because the starting point was ordinary, which is the point of every keynote that has followed. What came next was a deliberate run of self-organised expeditions: a winter ascent of Mont Blanc, a climb of El Capitan, a London-to-Sahara motorbike ride, and a self-styled world-first ultra-triathlon across Patagonia stitching together a 1,600km cycle, the 65km Huemul Circuit and a 100km paddleboard descent of the La Leona river. None were undertaken with the relevant elite credentials beforehand. That gap, between what they could obviously do and what they did anyway, became the working material. In 2018 they built Dose, a workplace wellbeing and performance company, around the same idea. Resilience and growth mindset are taught not as motivational concepts but as practices for teams under load. Clients include Nike, BNY Mellon, IBM and Airbnb. The keynote and the operating business reinforce each other; an event can lead to a programme rather than a one-off morale lift. The act sits in a specific commercial niche. It is not pure adventure inspiration, and it is not corporate consulting in disguise. It is a two-person performance for the part of an organisation that has heard the resilience message before and stopped listening, told by two people who keep proving the premise on themselves. Key speaking topics Growth mindset Resilience under pressure Team performance and trust Operating outside the comfort zone Embracing risk and failure Courage-based leadership Workplace wellbeing and engagement Ideal for CHROs and heads of employee engagement designing resilience and wellbeing programmes that need a credible opening moment. Sales, marketing and commercial leadership running annual kick-offs that need energy without slipping into hype. Culture and L&D leads looking for keynote content that can be extended into team workshops rather than ending at applause. Founder-led and high-growth companies whose teams are carrying sustained pressure and need a shared language for it. Audience outcomes A working definition of growth mindset that survives contact with a hard week back in the office. Specific habits the duo use to prepare for, push through and recover from extended pressure, transferable to a team context. A reframing of failure and risk that gives more junior staff permission to act with higher agency. A shared reference point across a team that lasts beyond the event, often picked up by Dose programming where it follows.

Why organisations work with Tim Campbell A founder’s view of what early-stage capital, mentoring and access actually do for people who do not start with networks, drawn from supporting more than 750 start-ups through the Bright Ideas Trust A senior commercial perspective on inclusion that connects diversity to talent acquisition and business outcomes, informed by his strategic adviser work in global recruitment Public recognition that opens doors at executive and audience level: MBE for Services to Enterprise Culture, two decades of broadcast presence on The Apprentice, and a seat on the Windrush Commemoration Committee A practitioner’s read on what makes a small business survive its first three years, codified in his co-authored book with Paul Humphries published by Headline Biography highlights Winner of the first series of BBC’s The Apprentice in 2005, hired by Sir Alan Sugar as Project Director of Amstrad’s Health and Beauty division Co-founder of the Bright Ideas Trust, which raised over GBP 3m and supported more than 750 start-ups from disadvantaged backgrounds Appointed MBE in 2012 for Services to Enterprise Culture Co-author of “What’s Your Bright Idea? The Journey to Starting Your Own Business” (Headline, 2010) Member of the UK Government’s Windrush Commemoration Committee Returned to The Apprentice as Lord Sugar’s permanent advisor from Series 18 onwards Biography The Apprentice in 2005 was the first time most British viewers had watched a hiring decision broadcast as entertainment. Tim Campbell, a senior planner at London Underground, won the series and took the GBP 100,000 job at Amstrad as Project Director of a new Health and Beauty division. The interesting work began two years later. In 2007 Campbell co-founded the Bright Ideas Trust with Paul Humphries and Richard Morris. The model was specific: equity-style early-stage capital and structured mentoring for 16 to 30 year olds who could not raise money through conventional networks. By the time the trust had matured, it had raised more than GBP 3m and supported over 750 start-ups. The work earned an MBE in 2012 for Services to Enterprise Culture and a co-authored book with Humphries, “What’s Your Bright Idea?”, published by Headline. The second arc of his career moved that founder perspective into large organisations. Campbell has held senior roles in talent acquisition and inclusion strategy, advising on diversity, equity and social mobility inside global recruitment, and sits on the UK Government’s Windrush Commemoration Committee. He returned to The Apprentice as Lord Sugar’s aide and now holds the role permanently from Series 18. The throughline is the gap between organisational claims about entrepreneurial culture and inclusion, and what actually happens to people inside the business and outside it. Campbell has worked both sides of that gap, as a founder building a vehicle for capital flow into underrepresented entrepreneurs, and as a senior adviser inside companies that have to decide whether their inclusion language is reflected in who gets hired, funded and promoted. Key speaking topics Entrepreneurship and early-stage business Inclusive talent acquisition and social mobility Resilience in a founder’s career Diversity and inclusion as commercial strategy Leadership through change Personal and organisational reinvention Ideal for Boards and executive teams reviewing the commercial logic of their inclusion strategy CHROs and talent leaders rethinking pipelines into underrepresented communities Founders, scale-up leaders and intrapreneurs inside corporate environments Audiences at staff conferences and ERG events seeking a credible voice on enterprise and inclusion Audience outcomes A clearer view of what early-stage entrepreneurial support looks like when it is built around access, not just funding A practical sense of how diversity commitments translate into hiring, promotion and supplier decisions A founder’s perspective on resilience, drawn from a public career and a charity built and run for over a decade A reframing of inclusion as a commercial discipline tied to talent and growth, not a separate values conversation

Why organisations work with Tim Foster He has coached at the elite level of two distinct high-pressure domains, Olympic rowing and Premier League football management, and can speak credibly to either room. He sat inside the Sydney 2000 coxless four with Redgrave, Pinsent and Cracknell, and writes and speaks honestly about the conflict, ego and near-collapse that preceded the gold medal, not the sanitised version. As Head of Performance at the League Managers Association he advises serving managers in the Premier League, EFL and WSL on their own performance, which is a vanishingly rare vantage point on leadership at the top of a public, results-driven business. He pairs that operational depth with an Oxford Saïd Executive MBA, so the language and frame translate cleanly into board and executive education contexts. His coaching career, as Head Coach of the Swiss national rowing team from 2007 to 2012 and earlier within the GB programme, gives him the rebuild-and-sustain story, not just the peak-moment story. Biography highlights Olympic gold medallist, men’s coxless four, Sydney 2000. Olympic bronze medallist, men’s coxless four, Atlanta 1996. Nine World Championship medals across a Great Britain career spanning three Olympic Games. Co-author, Four Men in a Boat: The Inside Story of the Sydney 2000 Coxless Four (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2004). Head Coach, Swiss National Rowing Team, 2007 to 2012. Head of Performance, League Managers Association, advising managers in the Premier League, EFL and WSL. MBE, 2001 New Year Honours; Executive MBA, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. Biography The coxless four that won gold in Sydney in 2000 is now part of British sporting folklore. Inside the boat it nearly came apart. Four strong-minded athletes, including Steve Redgrave chasing a fifth Olympic gold, spent four years managing each other as much as the racing. Tim Foster sat in the two seat, and his book Four Men in a Boat tells the version that does not make the highlight reel. That experience is the spine of the speaking work. The argument is not that elite sport maps neatly onto business; it is that the human mechanics of holding a small, ambitious team together under sustained pressure are the same. Standards drift, conflict gets postponed, and somebody has to be honest enough to call it. Foster has carried that practice into two further chapters of senior coaching. As Head Coach of the Swiss national rowing team from 2007 to 2012 he rebuilt a programme that had been adrift for years. As Head of Performance at the League Managers Association he now advises serving Premier League, EFL and Women’s Super League managers on their own leadership and career development, a counsel role inside one of the most exposed leadership jobs in British public life. He completed his Executive MBA at Saïd Business School after the coaching career was already well established, and now teaches and convenes at Saïd and Oxford Brookes alongside the consultancy work. The combination is unusual: a coach who has won at the highest level, who has rebuilt a national programme, who currently advises elite managers under public scrutiny, and who has the formal business education to speak to a board in its own language. Key speaking topics High-performance team dynamics Leadership under sustained pressure Coaching and talent development Performance culture Resilience and sustained excellence Lessons from elite sport for senior business teams Ideal for Executive committees and senior leadership offsites focused on team performance High-potential and succession development programmes CHRO and people-function leadership convenings Sales leadership and commercial leadership conferences with a performance frame Audience outcomes A clearer view of what actually holds an elite team together when pressure rises Specific, named examples from inside the Sydney 2000 crew that illustrate how conflict was managed, not avoided A frame for diagnosing where standards are drifting in their own teams A working language for coaching senior people who are not used to being coached Permission to address the human mechanics of performance directly, rather than through proxies

Why organisations work with Tim Harris He speaks from inside the problem. Twenty-five years in commodities, ending as Global Head of Fuel Oil at PVM Oil Associates, gives him fluency with the pressures executive audiences actually face. He carries a formal coaching credential. ACC accreditation with the International Coaching Federation puts substance behind the lived experience. He has worked at the sharp end with organisations that test psychological content rigorously, including the Royal Marines, the Royal Navy, the NHS, Thames Valley Police and Google. The Atlantic row is more than a story. Fifty-two days at sea, 3,000 miles unassisted with one teammate, raising around £160,000 for teenage mental health, gives him a concrete reference point for talking about sustained pressure and recovery. He addresses suicide ideation directly. Few corporate speakers can hold that subject in front of a senior audience with honesty and without flinching. Biography highlights Twelve years as Global Head of Fuel Oil at PVM Oil Associates, capping a 25-year City career Completed the Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge with Simon Calver, rowing 3,000 miles in 52 days Raised approximately £160,000 for teenage mental health charity through the row ICF Associate Certified Coach (ACC) Keynote and coaching clients include Google, the Royal Marines, the Royal Navy, the NHS, Thames Valley Police and The Times HMS Warrior keynote endorsed by Vice Admiral Martin Connell CBE as “a masterclass in self-awareness and resilience” Biography Burnout among senior performers rarely announces itself. It shows up as quiet resignations, eroded judgement and capable people stepping back from work they used to run. The organisations that take it seriously want speakers who can talk about it without the soft-focus vocabulary of the wellness industry. That is the space Tim Harris occupies. After 25 years in the City, the last twelve as Global Head of Fuel Oil at PVM Oil Associates, he left the industry having lived through severe depression and suicide ideation under sustained corporate pressure. His response was unusual. With Simon Calver, he rowed unassisted across the Atlantic, 3,000 miles in 52 days, raising around £160,000 for teenage mental health charity. He has since trained as an Associate Certified Coach with the International Coaching Federation and built a coaching and keynote practice working with the Royal Marines, the Royal Navy, the NHS, Thames Valley Police, Google and The Times. Vice Admiral Martin Connell CBE described his HMS Warrior keynote as “a masterclass in self-awareness and resilience.” What he offers a corporate audience is the rare combination of credible coaching content and a lived reference point most rooms cannot match. He talks about burnout, recovery and sustained performance without the platitudes, and he talks about suicide directly when the brief calls for it. Key speaking topics Burnout in high-performance environments Mental resilience and recovery Stress management for senior leaders Suicide ideation and mental health honesty at work Self-leadership under sustained pressure Endurance and decision-making under fatigue Teamwork in extreme conditions Ideal for CHROs and heads of wellbeing designing serious mental health interventions for senior populations Leadership teams in high-pressure sectors (financial services, energy, defence, healthcare) Frontline and uniformed services audiences where psychological honesty is a credibility test Sales, trading and other commission-driven environments with elevated burnout risk Audience outcomes A clearer view of what burnout actually looks like inside senior teams, before it becomes attrition Practical language for talking about mental health at work without sentimentality A coaching practitioner’s perspective on stress and recovery, grounded in personal experience Greater comfort engaging with subjects most executive audiences avoid, including suicide

Why organisations work with Tim Henman The pressure he performed under was not generic high-stakes pressure. It was sustained, nationally televised, and deeply personal, with British tennis’s entire public narrative resting on each Wimbledon fortnight for nearly a decade. That specific form of high-visibility, high-expectation performance is directly legible to leaders who carry organisational reputation on their results. His record demonstrates competitive consistency rather than isolated peaks: six Grand Slam semi-finals across all four major surfaces, across two distinct periods of competitive form, while sustaining a top-10 ATP ranking across multiple seasons. The argument he makes about sustained performance is grounded in measurable, verifiable results. As an AELTC board member, he speaks from a position few sports speakers occupy; not only as a former competitor, but as an active participant in the governance of one of the world’s most scrutinised sporting institutions, with direct experience of its most consequential decisions. His 2020 captaincy of Great Britain at the inaugural ATP Cup provides specific, recent experience of leading a team of elite, independent individuals in a compressed, high-pressure competition: a format with obvious organisational parallels for senior leaders managing high-performing, high-ego teams. Two decades immersed in Wimbledon – as competitor, board member, and BBC commentator – means he speaks from the inside of a complex sporting and commercial operation across all its dimensions, not from match-day memory alone. Biography highlights Former ATP world No. 4 in men’s singles; British No. 1 continuously from 1999 to 2005 Six Grand Slam semi-finals: four at Wimbledon (1998, 1999, 2001, 2002), plus the French Open and US Open (both 2004) 11 ATP singles titles, including the 2003 Paris Masters (ATP Masters 1000); 4 ATP doubles titles (15 combined) Olympic silver medallist, men’s doubles, 1996 Atlanta Games (with Neil Broad) OBE, 2004 New Year Honours, for services to tennis Board member, All England Lawn Tennis Club (AELTC), the governing body of Wimbledon BBC Wimbledon commentator and analyst since 2008 Great Britain captain, inaugural ATP Cup, Sydney, 2020 Founder, Tim Henman Foundation (education and health support for disadvantaged young people) Biography For a decade, every British summer began with the same question: would this be Tim Henman’s year? The weight of expectation he carried – sustained, public, and deeply personal – shaped him as a competitor in ways that resonate directly with leaders. As Britain’s world No. 4 and British No. 1 from 1999 to 2005, he performed year after year under conditions few professional athletes encounter and fewer corporate high-performers can imagine. His record spans six Grand Slam semi-finals across all four major surfaces: four at Wimbledon, and semi-final runs at both the French Open and US Open in 2004, the latter confirming a second competitive peak well into his career. His 2003 Paris Masters title, won with consecutive victories over three top-ten players, remains one of British tennis’s landmark single-tournament performances. That consistency, sustained across two distinct periods and multiple surfaces, is the foundation of what he brings to the platform. Since retiring in 2007, Henman has not stepped back from elite sport. He joined the board of the All England Lawn Tennis Club, contributing to institutional decisions, including the management of the 2020 cancellation and the transition to AI-assisted line-calling, from inside Wimbledon’s governance. He captained Great Britain at the inaugural ATP Cup in Sydney in 2020, leading a squad that included Andy Murray. He has been a BBC Wimbledon commentator since 2008, translating elite performance for broad audiences across more than fifteen competitive cycles. The Tim Henman Foundation, which he founded to support disadvantaged young people through education and health, reflects a commitment that stretches well beyond the results sheet. Key speaking topics Performing under pressure Competitive resilience and mental discipline Sustained high performance National representation and public expectation Team dynamics in high-stakes competition Athletic-to-leadership transition Preparation, focus, and decision-making under scrutiny Ideal for Senior leadership and executive conferences where competitive mindset, performance culture, and resilience under pressure are central themes Sales and commercial leadership events where the parallels between elite sport and high-stakes commercial performance are directly applicable Sports industry forums, Wimbledon-adjacent hospitality, and British-market events where his cultural profile adds immediate resonance HR and people leadership audiences exploring what sustained high performance looks like in practice, and how organisations can build environments that produce it Audience outcomes A first-person, evidence-grounded perspective on how elite performers maintain output under sustained, high-visibility pressure – not as a set of techniques, but as a practised, testable discipline Understanding of how competitive consistency is built over time: through preparation, surface adaptation, and the ability to perform across conditions rather than only in ideal circumstances Insight into the specific mental challenges of carrying high expectation: when it fuels performance, and when it becomes a liability Practical reflection on what the shift from individual competitor to team leader requires, drawing on experience as both a Davis Cup player and ATP Cup captain A perspective on elite sport that extends beyond the athlete’s experience into institutional governance, offering audiences a more complete picture of what world-class performance systems actually look like from the inside

Why organisations work with Tim Kröger Two Whitbread Round the World podiums (1993/94 second, 1997/98 third) and a Mumm 36 World Championship give him direct, named experience of multi-week competitive performance, not generic adventure narrative. Author of Ich bin wir, das Crew-Konzept (Delius Klasing, 2013), a published thesis on how international crews are built and held together, which he uses as the spine of his corporate sessions. Two America’s Cup challenger campaigns (Le Defi Areva and Shosholoza) give him operating experience inside multinational, multilingual professional teams under heavy sponsor and media scrutiny. Holds a working coaching role with the German Sailing Association on the Olympic Mixed Offshore discipline, so the material is current, not retired-athlete reminiscence. Awarded the Silbernes Lorbeerblatt in 1983 alongside the German Admiral’s Cup team, anchoring credibility at national level rather than only within sailing circles. Biography highlights Whitbread Round the World Race: second place 1993/94 aboard Intrum Justitia, third place 1997/98 aboard Swedish Match. Admiral’s Cup winner with the German team, 1983; recipient of the Silbernes Lorbeerblatt the same year. Mumm 36 World Champion, 1995, aboard Corum. America’s Cup challenger campaigns with Le Defi Areva (France) and Shosholoza (South Africa). Author of Ich bin wir, das Crew-Konzept (Delius Klasing, 2013) and Abgerechnet wird im Ziel (2001). Trainer for the Mixed Offshore Olympic discipline with the German Sailing Association; Race Crew Manager in J Class yacht programmes. Biography The Whitbread Round the World Race runs nine months. A crew sails roughly 32,000 nautical miles, much of it in the Southern Ocean. Tim Kröger has finished it twice on the podium: second on Intrum Justitia in 1993/94 under Lawrie Smith, third on Swedish Match in 1997/98 as watch captain. That is the operating environment his corporate work draws from. In 1993 he became the first German to make professional offshore sailing his primary career. The decade after produced a Mumm 36 world title aboard Corum in 1995 and two America’s Cup challenger campaigns: the French Le Defi Areva syndicate from 2001 to 2003, and the South African Shosholoza programme from 2005 to 2007. Both involved running the operational seam between sailors, shore crew, designers and sponsors. His book Ich bin wir, das Crew-Konzept, published by Delius Klasing in 2013, sets out how a crew is actually built and held together: who decides, how watches hand over, how mistakes are handled while the boat is still moving. The argument carries because the crews he describes are named ones he sailed in, not composite illustrations. He continues to work as a trainer for the German Sailing Association in the Mixed Offshore Olympic discipline and as Race Crew Manager in J Class yacht programmes. The Admiral’s Cup win in 1983 brought him the Silbernes Lorbeerblatt, Germany’s highest sporting honour, awarded by the Federal President. Key speaking topics High-performance team dynamics Leadership under sustained pressure Decision-making in offshore racing Communication across multinational crews Accountability inside small expert teams Resilience and recovery on long campaigns Building and managing elite crews Ideal for Executive teams and ExCos preparing for sustained operational pressure (transformations, integrations, restructures) Leadership offsites where the brief is team behaviour, not strategy content Sales and operations conferences seeking a credible narrative anchor with serious substance behind it After-dinner and incentive audiences in DACH and international corporate settings Audience outcomes A working vocabulary for how elite crews hold decision quality when conditions deteriorate Specific techniques for handover, watch discipline and post-error recovery, drawn from named campaigns A clearer view of what accountability looks like in practice inside small expert teams A reframed sense of what sustained pressure does to communication, and what disciplined crews do about it

Why organisations work with Tim Smith Two decades on Steve Wright in the Afternoon on BBC Radio 2 is rehearsal time most corporate hosts do not have. He arrives on stage already knowing how to read a room of strangers in real time. He has built a working production relationship with FTSE-scale internal communications teams through podcast series for BAE Systems, Network Rail, BT, Jaguar Land Rover, Diageo, UK Power Networks and McVitie’s. He understands what a regulated employer can and cannot put into a sponsored programme. He interviews senior leaders, including former Prime Minister Tony Blair on the Steve Wright Show, without losing the audience or the executive. That craft transfers directly to fireside chats and keynote interviews at corporate events. His current weekday morning slot on Magic Classical and continuing radio practice keep his interview rhythm sharp. Buyers are not booking a former broadcaster; they are booking someone still on air every week. Biography highlights Co-presenter on Steve Wright in the Afternoon, BBC Radio 2, from 1999 to 2022. Presenter of the UK Top 20 Chart Show on BBC World Service for 13 years, succeeding Paul Burnett. Weekday morning presenter on Magic Classical from June 2025. Corporate podcast presenter for BAE Systems, Network Rail, BT, Jaguar Land Rover, Diageo, UK Power Networks and McVitie’s. Sony Award-nominated for Picture Show on BBC GLR. Covered the 2000 Open Golf Championship at St Andrews and Wimbledon for official broadcast platforms. Biography The hardest part of a corporate set piece is rarely the strategy on the slide. It is the twelve seconds after the host introduces the CEO, when the audience decides whether to listen. A broadcaster trained on live national radio knows how to fill those twelve seconds. Most corporate MCs do not. Tim joined BBC Radio 2 in 1999 as co-presenter on Steve Wright in the Afternoon and stayed for 23 years, alongside Janey Lee Grace and Joyce Frost. Before that he had presented on BBC Radio 1, on BBC GLR where Picture Show earned a Sony Award nomination, and the UK Top 20 Chart Show on BBC World Service for 13 years. The corporate work runs in parallel. He presents podcast series for BAE Systems, Network Rail, BT, Jaguar Land Rover, Diageo, UK Power Networks and McVitie’s, working inside the editorial and compliance constraints that internal communications teams in regulated industries actually operate under. From June 2025 he also presents the weekday morning show on Magic Classical. For a buyer, the proposition is narrow and clear. He is not a subject-matter speaker on a business theme. He is a host with two decades of live national broadcast behind him, hired to make a conference, awards night, town hall or branded podcast sound like something the audience wants to keep listening to. Key speaking topics Conference and awards hosting Keynote interviews and fireside chats with senior leaders Corporate podcast presenting and production Internal town hall and all-hands hosting Panel moderation Live broadcast craft for corporate events Ideal for Internal communications and employee experience leads commissioning town halls, all-hands events and leadership broadcasts Marketing and brand teams running awards programmes, conferences and customer events Corporate affairs teams producing branded podcast series for employee or external audiences Event producers and agency partners briefing on plenary and panel hosting Audience outcomes A plenary that runs to time, with senior speakers introduced and handled without dead air. A keynote interview that draws the answer the audience came to hear, not the answer the executive rehearsed. A panel that moves, with questions sharp enough that the panellists have to respond rather than recite. An awards night with pace, where category presentations land and the room is still engaged at the final award. A podcast episode that sounds like national broadcast quality rather than a recorded internal meeting.

Why organisations work with Tima Deryan A first-person account of summiting Everest in one of the deadliest seasons on the mountain, used as concrete material for how leaders prepare for, recover from, and execute under conditions where mistakes cost lives. A track record of physical first-ever achievements, including Everest, the Seven Summits, the South Pole, and Ojos del Salado, that gives weight to her arguments on goal-setting and persistence beyond the usual motivational register. A working coaching practice, not a one-off speaking circuit; she runs Mountain Gipsy as an ongoing platform, which means content is sharpened by repeated client work rather than rehearsed from a single book. A founder track record alongside the mountaineering, including the sustainable fashion brand Feministiya and earlier ventures, which gives her credibility on women’s leadership and entrepreneurship topics where bureaus often field speakers with only one of those two profiles. Biography highlights First Lebanese woman and youngest Arab to summit Mount Everest, 22 May 2019, age 26. First Lebanese woman to ski the last degree to the South Pole, December 2022. Completed the Seven Summits; first Arab woman to summit Ojos del Salado, the world’s highest active volcano. Founder and CEO of Mountain Gipsy; founder of Feministiya, a sustainability-focused fashion brand. Author of Curly Adventures: Mount Everest, a children’s book on her ascent. Certified mindset coach with a corporate keynote client list spanning multinationals across consumer goods, energy, and pharmaceuticals. Biography The 2019 Everest season was one of the deadliest on record. On 22 May, Tima Deryan reached the summit at 7:21 am, becoming the first Lebanese woman and the youngest Arab to do so. The technical and psychological work that produced that morning is what she now teaches. Deryan has since added the South Pole, the Seven Summits, and Ojos del Salado to a sustained record of high-altitude objectives. She is pursuing the Explorer Grand Slam, a list completed by fewer than 75 people globally and by only 15 women. The achievements matter for the keynote because the lessons are drawn from environments where decisions cannot be undone, not from a metaphor. Outside the mountains, she runs Mountain Gipsy as a coaching and speaking platform and founded Feministiya, a sustainable fashion brand focused on women’s rights and gender equality. That second track gives her substantive material on entrepreneurship and women’s leadership rather than the borrowed credibility some adventure speakers rely on. She is also a best-selling author of Curly Adventures: Mount Everest, a children’s book recounting her climb. Her corporate work includes keynotes and workshops for Procter & Gamble, Merck, Ford, Adidas, Henkel, Swarovski, Shell, and ADNOC. The repeated booking pattern across consumer goods, pharmaceuticals, and energy reflects what she is most often commissioned for: a high-stakes story used as working material on goal-setting, team dynamics, and composure under pressure. Key speaking topics Goal-setting in low-margin environments Mindset and self-leadership under pressure Decision-making in high-stakes uncertainty Team dynamics on extended expeditions Women’s leadership and breaking first-ever barriers Entrepreneurship and sustainability Resilience and recovery from setback Ideal for CHROs and L&D leaders commissioning a high-stakes keynote on resilience and goal-setting Sales and commercial leadership teams working through stretch targets Women’s leadership networks and ERGs inside large multinationals Off-site events for senior teams that need a working narrative on composure under pressure, not a generic motivational session Audience outcomes A working framework for setting and pursuing objectives where failure has real cost A first-person account of how preparation, composure, and team trust hold up in extreme conditions A clearer view of what self-leadership looks like in environments without external validation A direct argument for persistence in goals that look unreasonable from the starting line

Why organisations work with Timur Boguslavskiy Two GT World Challenge Europe overall titles, in 2020 and 2023, with the 2020 win making him the youngest overall champion in the series’ history. The record is verifiable and current. Active top-tier competitor in the 2025 FIA World Endurance Championship LMGT3 class with Team WRT, sharing a BMW M4 GT3 EVO with Augusto Farfus and Yasser Shahin. The material is fresh, not retrospective. Direct experience of multi-driver endurance racing, where handover, radio discipline and shared decision-making decide results across hours of competition. A 2023 Endurance Cup title won alongside Raffaele Marciello and Jules Gounon, a useful proof point for audiences interested in how mixed-rated teams perform under pressure. Biography highlights 2020 GT World Challenge Europe overall champion, youngest in the series’ history. 2023 GT World Challenge Europe overall champion and Endurance Cup champion with Raffaele Marciello and Jules Gounon. 2019 Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup Silver Cup champion with Nico Bastian and Felipe Fraga. 2024 24 Hours of Le Mans debut with Akkodis ASP in the LMGT3 class. 2025 FIA World Endurance Championship driver for Team WRT in the #31 BMW M4 GT3 EVO. FIA Silver-rated; 13 GTWC career wins and 29 GTWC Europe podiums. Biography Endurance racing exposes a leadership problem most boardrooms never see directly. Three drivers, one car, a shared radio and a result that depends on hours of disciplined handover. Boguslavskiy has spent his career inside that environment and at the top of it. In 2020 he won the GT World Challenge Europe overall championship, becoming the youngest overall champion in the series’ history. He repeated the feat in 2023, taking both the overall title and the Endurance Cup with Raffaele Marciello and Jules Gounon. Those are two of the most competitive seasons in modern GT racing, decided across short sprints and multi-hour endurance rounds. The career arc gives him recent, top-tier material. In 2024 he stepped up to the FIA World Endurance Championship with Akkodis ASP and contested the 24 Hours of Le Mans. For 2025 he joined Team WRT in the LMGT3 class, sharing a BMW M4 GT3 EVO with Augusto Farfus and Yasser Shahin, and the trio took podiums in Doha and Fuji during the season. The reason organisations book a driver of this profile is narrower than the topic label suggests. They want a credible inside view of how composure, repetition and team coordination are engineered at the level where any of those breaking down costs the result. Boguslavskiy has the current competitive record to offer that view firsthand. Key speaking topics High performance under competitive pressure Focus and composure in real-time decision-making Team coordination in multi-driver endurance racing Resilience after setbacks Risk management at speed Ideal for Leadership offsites where the agenda centres on composure and decision-making under pressure Sales kick-offs and high-performance team events looking for an authentic competitor’s perspective Automotive, motorsport-adjacent and partner-led brand events with a performance theme Audience outcomes A firsthand account of how elite drivers prepare for and recover from high-stakes moments A clearer view of how multi-person teams coordinate decisions when communication windows are short Specific examples from current FIA WEC and GT World Challenge Europe seasons, not generic motorsport anecdotes A reference point for talking about composure as a trained capability, not a personality trait

Why organisations work with Tobias Lynes He works from one named behavioural model, the Tiny Habits® method developed at Stanford by BJ Fogg, rather than a buffet of wellbeing content. Audiences leave with a single mechanic they can apply on Monday. His content is built around the B=MAP equation, giving managers and HR teams a shared vocabulary for why wellbeing interventions fail when they target motivation alone. He frames fitness, nutrition, and energy as habit design problems for time-poor professionals, which lands better with sceptical corporate audiences than aspirational lifestyle messaging. He has run the coaching business he draws his material from since 2020, so the stories are first-hand client work, not borrowed case studies. Biography highlights Founder of 360Coaching, an online coaching business serving busy professionals. Tiny Habits® Certified Coach, trained in the methodology developed by BJ Fogg at the Stanford Behavior Design Lab. Works from the B=MAP model (Behaviour = Motivation, Ability, Prompt) as the core analytical frame for his keynotes. Personal training and coaching practitioner since 2015. Speaks at corporate wellbeing events, leadership offsites, and education settings, virtually and in person. Biography Most corporate wellbeing initiatives fail at the same point. People sign up in January, drift in February, and the programme quietly disappears by spring. The reason is not lack of motivation. It is that the behaviours being asked for are too large, too vague, or unhooked from anything already happening in the day. Tiny Habits, the method developed by BJ Fogg at the Stanford Behavior Design Lab, was built to fix exactly that problem. Its underlying equation, B=MAP, treats behaviour as the product of motivation, ability, and a clear prompt. When a habit does not stick, one of those three variables is wrong. Tobias Lynes is a certified coach in that method and uses it as the spine of his work with corporate audiences. He runs 360Coaching, the practice he founded in 2020 after several years as a personal trainer. The business focuses on busy professionals trying to manage body composition, energy, and nutrition inside a demanding work life. That client base shapes the keynote material: the failure modes he names are the ones HR teams already see, and the remedies are calibrated for people who cannot add another hour to their day. His commercial range is mid-market corporate wellbeing rather than senior leadership platforms. The value he gives audiences is narrow and specific. One framework, applied well, with a vocabulary leaders and managers can use after he leaves the room. Key speaking topics Habit formation and behaviour change in the workplace The Tiny Habits® method and the B=MAP model Sustainable approaches to employee health and wellbeing Energy, nutrition, and fitness habits for busy professionals Why corporate wellbeing programmes fail to stick Building resilience through small daily behaviours Ideal for HR, People, and wellbeing leads designing employee health initiatives Corporate wellbeing weeks, mental health awareness events, and team offsites Leadership groups looking for practical behavioural tools rather than aspirational content Education and early-career audiences building work-readiness habits Audience outcomes A working understanding of the B=MAP behavioural equation and how to apply it to a personal or team habit A method for designing a habit that is small enough to survive a bad week A frame for diagnosing why an existing wellbeing programme is failing A shared vocabulary HR and managers can use to talk about behaviour change after the session

Why organisations work with Toby Makoyawo A current elite athlete competing at the front edge of NCAA Division I sprinting, not a retired professional reflecting on a finished career. The pressure he describes is the pressure he is still operating inside. A European U20 100m title and a Boston University school record at 10.12 seconds give him a specific credibility on the question of preparation, execution, and recovery in events decided by hundredths of a second. Combines elite competition with a full undergraduate degree at Boston University, which lets him speak credibly to early-career and graduate audiences about workload, discipline, and time as a finite resource. A diaspora background, born in Florida to Nigerian parents and raised in West London, that lets him speak naturally on inclusion and identity without the topic feeling bolted on. Biography highlights European U20 Champion, 100m, 2021, in a personal-best 10.25 seconds Boston University 100m and 60m school record holder, fastest sprinter in BU programme history NCAA Division I Second Team All-American British Olympic Trials 200m finalist at age 19 UK National Champion, U20 age category, 2021 Reading for an undergraduate degree at Boston University while competing at NCAA Division I level Biography Most sprint finals are decided in the first thirty metres and a leader’s first thirty seconds of a hard meeting are not that different. The capacity to be composed under public scrutiny is a trained capacity, and Toby Makoyawo trains it for a living. He is the fastest sprinter in Boston University’s history and a European U20 100m champion who is still in the middle of the work, not at the end of it. The substance of his story is preparation rather than highlights. A 10.25 second European junior title in 2021, a 10.12 second school record at the Texas Relays in 2022, and an All-American placing in NCAA Division I sit on top of a daily routine that includes coursework, training cycles, and the management of expectation that any 23-year-old at the front of a sport has to learn quickly. The route through is also distinctive. Born in Florida to Nigerian parents, raised in West London, and recruited into the American collegiate athletics system, he has had to learn how to perform inside three different cultural contexts. The relevance to a corporate audience is direct: graduate intake, early-career talent, and inclusion programmes all benefit from a speaker who can describe identity and high performance as the same conversation, not two separate ones. What he offers a room is not a finished career narrative. It is a current account of how an elite competitor manages the gap between training intent and competition reality, week after week, in a discipline where the margin of error is measured in hundredths of a second. Key speaking topics Performance under public pressure Goal-setting and long-horizon planning Identity, inclusion, and elite performance Discipline and time management Mental health in competitive environments Resilience after setback Ideal for Graduate intake and early-career talent programmes Diversity, inclusion, and belonging audiences inside large employers Sales and high-performance teams operating to public targets Sports, education, and youth-facing organisations Audience outcomes A working sense of how elite athletes prepare for moments measured in hundredths of a second Practical language for goal-setting, time discipline, and recovery from setback A first-person account of identity and high performance as a single conversation, not a parallel one Renewed engagement from younger and early-career audiences who recognise the speaker’s age, register, and trajectory