Motivational speakers

Why organisations work with Toby Moody Eighteen years as the voice of MotoGP on Eurosport, now leading the international TV feed and BT Sport’s 4K coverage, gives him a vocabulary for high-stakes live performance most speakers only describe second-hand. Eight Dakar Rally campaigns as lead international feed commentator, on site across three continents, mean his material on operating under fatigue, equipment failure and shifting conditions comes from inside the bivouac. Hands-on team experience as Media Manager for Prodrive’s Bahrain Raid Xtreme World Rally Raid team and consultant to KTM’s board for the Red Bull KTM MotoGP programme, not just an outside view of motorsport. Cross-code authority across MotoGP, the British Touring Car Championship, FIA World Endurance, the X Games and Red Bull Global RallyCross lets him tailor the same themes for engineering, logistics and sponsorship audiences. A trusted hospitality host for Audi Sport at Le Mans, Porsche Motorsport press conferences and Goodwood Festival of Speed, with the moderation and emcee craft to carry a corporate room as well as a paddock. Biography highlights Lead commentator on MotoGP for the international TV feed and on BT Sport’s MotoGP 4K coverage. Eighteen years as Eurosport’s MotoGP voice, with Julian Ryder as commentary partner for fourteen of those years. Eight-time lead international feed commentator on the Dakar Rally, on site. Lead ITV4 commentator for the British Touring Car Championship and British Superbike Championship. FIA World Endurance Championship and Le Mans 24 Hours commentary; X Games motorsports commentator for ESPN; Red Bull Global RallyCross lead commentator for NBC and Red Bull TV. Trackside commentator at the Goodwood Festival of Speed and Revival; Audi Sport presenter at the Le Mans 24-hour arena; Media Manager for Prodrive’s Bahrain Raid Xtreme Dakar team, 2022-2024. Biography The MotoGP race weekend runs to a brutal schedule. Free practice, qualifying, warm-up, race, with riders, engineers and broadcasters all working off the same timing screens. Someone has to make sense of it live, in English, for a global audience that will notice every mistake. For most of the modern MotoGP era, that voice has been Toby Moody’s. Moody began commentating at Shelsley Walsh hill climb at 18, after working as a mechanic at Benetton F1 and Prodrive in school holidays. A contact at Prodrive led to a MotoGP commentary slot in Spain that became eighteen years as the lead voice for Eurosport, with Julian Ryder as partner for fourteen of them. He now leads commentary on the MotoGP international TV feed and on BT Sport’s 4K coverage. The breadth around that core matters. Eight Dakar Rally campaigns as lead international feed commentator, on site across Africa, South America and Saudi Arabia. FIA World Endurance Championship and Le Mans commentary. ITV4 lead on the British Touring Car and British Superbike championships. X Games motorsports commentary for ESPN, and Red Bull Global RallyCross for NBC. Trackside roles at the Goodwood Festival of Speed and Revival. The point for corporate audiences is range: live performance pressure tested across very different sports, formats and cultures. He has also worked inside the teams, not only the broadcast booth. Canon Williams F1 PR in the early 1990s. Two British Rally titles with Nissan as PR. Media Manager for Prodrive’s Bahrain Raid Xtreme team in the World Rally Raid Championship from 2022 to 2024, working with Sebastien Loeb. Consultant to KTM’s board for the Red Bull KTM MotoGP team. That dual track, broadcast and team operations, is what gives his corporate material specificity that pure presenters do not have. Key speaking topics Live broadcasting and composure under pressure MotoGP, Dakar Rally and Le Mans paddock storytelling Team performance and decision-making in elite motorsport Motorsport sponsorship, hospitality and brand activation Conference moderation, emcee and after-dinner hosting Cross-code motorsport: bikes, cars, endurance and rally raid Ideal for Corporate hospitality and client events at MotoGP rounds, Le Mans, the Dakar Rally and Goodwood Sales kick-offs and annual conferences looking for a named motorsport voice to host or headline Engineering, operations and supply chain leadership audiences drawn to precision-under-pressure themes Automotive, motorcycle and motorsport sponsor activations needing an industry-trusted moderator Audience outcomes A practitioner’s view of how factory race teams prepare for events they cannot fully predict. Stories from inside the MotoGP paddock and the Dakar bivouac that make performance under pressure tangible. A clearer sense of how a single voice and a clear running order hold a long, volatile live event together. Material that lands with motorsport enthusiasts in the room and colleagues who have never watched a race.

Why organisations work with Tom Bowen An eight-year international career in one of the most physically and selectively demanding squad environments in elite sport, drawn on for what it teaches about standards inside a small team. A first-hand account of being named Olympic reserve for Tokyo 2020 and not getting on the field, used to talk about preparation, selection, and disappointment in terms a senior team will recognise. Direct experience competing for England at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games and the 2022 Rugby World Cup Sevens in Cape Town, alongside more than fifty World Rugby Sevens Series tournaments. A speaker pitched at the practical mechanics of teamwork and pressure, not a celebrity sports billing. Biography highlights Former England Sevens international made debut in October 2014 on the Gold Coast, Australia. Reserve in the Great Britain Rugby Sevens squad for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Selected for England at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games and the 2022 Rugby World Cup Sevens in Cape Town. Joined Plymouth Albion in 2012 from Leicester Tigers; top try-scorer for Plymouth Albion in 2013-14 and twice the club’s young player of the season. More than 50 tournaments for England on the World Rugby Sevens Series; signed for Worthing RFC in 2022. Biography A reserve player at the Olympics trains the same hours as the squad, makes the same sacrifices, and watches the tournament from the side of the pitch. Bowen sat in that seat at Tokyo 2020. The talk that comes out of it is less about the moment and more about the years before it: the eight-season England Sevens cycle that put him there. His club path runs through Leicester Tigers and Plymouth Albion, where he switched from centre to wing, scored six tries in his first eighteen RFU Championship appearances, and was named the club’s young player of the season twice in succession. He became Plymouth’s top try-scorer in 2013-14 before the England Sevens debut in October 2014. The international record is the substance of the booking. Fifty-plus tournaments on the World Rugby Sevens Series, the GB Olympic squad in Tokyo, England, at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, and the Rugby World Cup Sevens in Cape Town the same year. Sevens is a short, high-density format where small mistakes are decisive; the lessons travel reasonably well into corporate teams that work in short cycles under scrutiny. What he brings to a room is a working account of how a small group sustains its standards over a long competitive arc, including the years that do not produce a medal. He signed for Worthing RFC in 2022 and continues to coach. Key speaking topics Performance under pressure Team standards in elite sport Resilience after setback Selection, disappointment and recovery Teamwork in short-cycle, high-stakes environments Motivation and confidence Ideal for Sales and commercial leadership conferences focused on team performance and pressure Internal team away-days where leaders want a credible outside voice on standards and culture Early-career and high-potential audiences inside large organisations Audience outcomes A usable reference point for what disciplined, daily standards look like in an elite team environment A grounded view of what it means to prepare fully for an outcome that does not arrive Language for talking about pressure that goes beyond motivation and into specific habits Renewed focus on the role of small-team behaviours in larger organisational performance

Why organisations work with Tom Morley A participatory format that gets reserved, senior or fatigued audiences playing, listening and coordinating with each other inside ten minutes, not after a day of icebreakers. Twenty-five years of delivery for Vodafone, Disney, GSK, Hertz, Nokia, Cisco, Adecco and Johnson & Johnson across New York, Moscow, Johannesburg, Istanbul, Paris and London. A working artist’s read of group energy, drawn from a career on stage with Scritti Politti and studio work with David Bowie and Madness, applied to the dynamics inside a leadership offsite. A facilitation method, the 7-Step REMIX Process, that translates the in-room experience into language teams can use back at their desks the following week. Biography highlights Founder member and original drummer of Scritti Politti, the DIY-to-pop band of the 1980s. Studio and live collaborator with David Bowie and Madness. Founder of Instant Teamwork (1999), an arts-based team-building company operating internationally. Corporate clients include Vodafone, Disney, GSK, Hertz, Nokia, Cisco, Adecco and Johnson & Johnson. Author of the 7-Step REMIX Process, a personal development framework adapted from the “More To Life” programme. Charitable work for Teenage Cancer Trust, Royal Marsden Cancer Hospital, MENCAP, Save the Children, UN Women UK and Peace One Day. Biography A power-cut hit the stage during a Scritti Politti show in Berlin. Morley kept the beat going and started a vocal call-and-response with the audience. That moment, in which a room of strangers held a groove together without any technology, became the seed for Instant Teamwork, the arts-based team-building company he founded in 1999. The premise is straightforward. Trust, candour and coordination cannot be lectured into a team. They have to be experienced first, then named. Morley uses live drumming and call-and-response to put a group into a shared rhythm fast, then debriefs what just happened in terms the room can take back to work. The musical credibility is real. He was a founder member of Scritti Politti, recorded with David Bowie and performed live with Madness. The corporate work has had time to develop a method. Vodafone, Disney, GSK, Hertz, Nokia, Cisco, Adecco and Johnson & Johnson have used Instant Teamwork sessions in New York, Moscow, Johannesburg, Istanbul, Paris and London over more than two decades. Around the facilitation sits the 7-Step REMIX Process, adapted from his work with Dr K. Bradford Brown of the “More To Life” programme. It is the language Morley uses to make a participatory session repeatable for teams once the drums are gone. Key speaking topics Team cohesion and group energy Engagement and participation in hybrid teams Creativity and improvisation under pressure Communication and call-and-response as a team behaviour Motivation and collective performance Risk-taking and breaking hierarchical silos Ideal for Annual conferences and leadership offsites that need a high-energy participatory anchor HR and culture leads rebuilding engagement after restructure or remote-working fatigue Sales kick-offs and reward events looking for a shared experience rather than a panel Senior leadership groups doing trust and communication work as part of an away-day Audience outcomes An experience of collective rhythm and coordination that members of the room produced together A felt sense of how quickly a reserved group can become participatory when the format invites it A shared reference point, the session itself, that the team can call back to in meetings afterwards Language from the REMIX framework for talking about creative risk and group communication A reset on the relationship between energy in the room and decisions made later

Why organisations work with Tom Turcich His credibility is not analogical: it is verifiable. The world walk is ranked in a finite historical list of ten people, documented in a published memoir, and covered by CNN, BBC, Good Morning America, The Guardian, and The Today Show. Seven continuous years of forward motion without a salary, fixed team, or guaranteed outcome offers a model of value-driven decision-making that is directly applicable to organisations sustaining long-term transformation. His Circle of Possibility framework reframes constraints as inputs to problem-solving rather than barriers to progress, making his content directly usable by teams operating under resource pressure or strategic uncertainty. The journey was values-led from day one: Turcich navigated every decision – including years of solitude, a global pandemic, and active conflict zones – by a clear internal compass. That makes his framework credible for organisations focused on purpose-driven culture rather than performance management alone. Biography highlights Tenth person in recorded history to complete a circumnavigation of the globe on foot Seven-year, 28,000-mile journey across six continents and 38 countries, beginning April 2015 His rescue dog Savannah became the first dog ever to walk around the world Author of The World Walk (Skyhorse Publishing, 2024), a full-length memoir of the expedition Featured by CNN, BBC, Good Morning America, The Guardian, and The Today Show Author of the Savannah’s World of Adventure children’s book series Biography Most people’s resilience is tested in months. Tom Turcich spent seven years walking 28,000 miles across six continents and 38 countries; a journey that placed him in the historically small group of ten people ever recorded to have circled the globe on foot. That context is not incidental to his work with organisations. It is the evidence. The walk began the day before his 26th birthday, prompted by the death of a close friend that forced a reckoning with how a life should be spent. It ended in May 2022. Along the way, Turcich navigated deserts, conflict zones, a global pandemic, and sustained solitude; guided not by a fixed itinerary but by a set of core values he had articulated before he left. His memoir, The World Walk (Skyhorse Publishing, 2024), documents both the physical journey and the decision-making architecture that sustained it. For organisations, the relevance lies not in the spectacle of the achievement but in its mechanics. His talks, built around the Circle of Possibility framework, address the specific tension between ambitious long-term goals and the daily reality of setback, discomfort, and unclear progress. The same principles that kept him moving across the Andes and through Central Asia translate directly to teams operating under sustained strategic pressure. His story has been covered by CNN, BBC, Good Morning America, The Guardian, and The Today Show. The World Walk received endorsements from two New York Times bestselling authors. A second non-fiction book, applying the lessons of the walk to organisational and professional life, is in progress. Key speaking topics Long-term resilience and sustained commitment Values-driven decision-making Goal-setting under uncertainty Reframing constraints as catalysts Purpose and personal accountability Endurance mindset in professional contexts Ideal for Leadership and executive teams navigating multi-year change programmes Sales and commercial conferences requiring a credible performance and resilience narrative Employee engagement and offsite events where purpose and motivation are central themes HR and people leaders building resilience culture within the workforce Audience outcomes A practical framework (Circle of Possibility) for sustaining commitment when progress is slow or unclear A more granular understanding of what resilience looks like in practice over an extended timeframe: not as a trait but as a set of daily decisions Sharper thinking about how personal values can function as a decision-making tool under pressure Perspective on the relationship between constraints and creative problem-solving A reframe of long-term ambition: from an abstract goal to a sequence of deliberate, manageable steps

Why organisations work with Tommy Caulfield Stories with receipts. The Atlantic crossing, the Patagonia ultra triathlon, and the El Capitan climb are documented adventures, not platform anecdotes, which gives the resilience material an evidence base most motivational keynotes do not have. The “ordinary person” frame. Caulfield was a content marketer with no endurance background before any of this. That makes the material legible to a non-elite audience in a way that ex-military and Olympic speakers often are not. A specific intellectual hook in High Agency. The signature talk reframes resilience as ownership and decisive action under ambiguity, which gives people teams a more useful organising idea than “be resilient.” A corporate client list that signals fit. Repeat work with Google, Microsoft, JP Morgan, Airbnb, Nike, Dropbox, BNY Mellon, and Gymshark indicates the content travels across sectors and seniority levels. Biography highlights Co-founder of The Tempest Two with James Whittle, the speaking and adventure partnership formed after their 2015 Atlantic crossing. Rowed 3,000 miles across the Atlantic unaided in 54 days, from the Canary Islands to Barbados, with no prior rowing experience. Completed a world-first ultra triathlon in Patagonia: 1,600km cycle, 65km mountain run, and a 100km stand-up paddleboard descent of the La Leona river between Lakes Viedma and Argentino. Climbed El Capitan in Yosemite with 36 months’ climbing experience. Co-founder of Dose, a workplace wellbeing company whose clients have included Nike, BNY Mellon, IBM, and Airbnb. Host of The Tempest Two Pod, a podcast on adventure mindset. Corporate keynote clients include Google, Microsoft, JP Morgan, Dropbox, Heineken, Gymshark, and Rapid7. Biography Most resilience content fails the room within five minutes. The audience has heard the abstract version. They have done the workshop. What they have not heard is someone who can describe what changes in the head when a 7-metre rowing boat capsizes 1,500 miles from land in a hurricane, and then say something useful about Monday morning. That is the slot Tommy Caulfield fills. He and James Whittle, who together form The Tempest Two, rowed 3,000 miles unaided across the Atlantic in 2015 with no prior rowing experience. They followed it with a world-first ultra triathlon across Patagonia in 2017: a 1,600km cycle, a 65km mountain run, and a 100km stand-up paddleboard descent of the La Leona river. They climbed El Capitan in 2019 with three years of climbing experience between them. The keynote work draws on those expeditions, but the proposition is structural rather than anecdotal. The signature talk, High Agency, treats ownership and decisive action under ambiguity as a learnable workplace skill, not a personality trait. It is built for audiences who are tired of being told to be resilient and want a more specific mental model. The corporate adoption supports the case. Caulfield has delivered repeat keynotes for Google, Microsoft, JP Morgan, Airbnb, Nike, Dropbox, BNY Mellon, Gymshark, and Heineken, and co-founded the workplace wellbeing company Dose, which has worked with Nike, BNY Mellon, IBM, and Airbnb. The “ordinary person” framing is the differentiator: no elite athletic background, no military service, no academic credential. The credibility lives in the expeditions themselves and the room responses they produce. Key speaking topics Resilience and performance under pressure High agency and ownership at work Growth mindset Team performance in adversity Adventure mindset and behaviour change Decision-making under uncertainty Ideal for People and culture leaders looking for resilience and mindset content that lands with a mid-career audience. Sales, customer, and high-pressure operating teams running annual kick-offs or away-days. HR and L&D teams designing wellbeing or performance programmes that need a credible external opener. Conference programmes wanting an adventure-led keynote with a corporate client track record rather than a pure inspirational slot. Audience outcomes A working definition of high agency that an audience can apply to their own decisions, not a generic call to be more resilient. A felt sense of what mindset under prolonged pressure actually looks like, drawn from documented expeditions rather than abstract examples. Specific habits and decision routines used to keep moving through setbacks, capsizes, and prolonged adversity. A reset of what “ordinary” people are capable of when the frame shifts from experience to ownership.

Why organisations work with Toni Kent She makes social mobility a concrete operating question rather than a values statement, drawing on a decade running major UK partner relationships at Microsoft and a personal history that maps directly onto the barriers her audience is trying to remove. She is one of a small number of UK speakers who can carry both the hosting craft of a large awards night and the substantive keynote inside it, evidenced by twice hosting the UK Social Mobility Awards. Audiences get an unusual combination of stand-up comic timing and corporate fluency, which makes uncomfortable conversations about class, education and access land without defensiveness. The Common Good Network gives her keynote a follow-through mechanism: a directory of UK organisations that the audience can actually route their employee resource groups, CSR teams and emerging-talent programmes towards. Biography highlights Ten years at Microsoft UK, managing several of the company’s largest partner relationships. Founder of The Common Good Network, an interactive directory of UK social mobility organisations. Twice host of the UK Social Mobility Awards (2021, 2023). Author of four books, including Reasons to be Cheerful, Part One. Host of the Challenging University podcast; co-host of KAYBE Talks and The Partnership Path Podcast. Keynote and hosting clients include AWS, KPMG, PwC, Direct Line Group, Baker Hughes, ForHousing, Smart Works Reading and the University of East London. Biography Most large UK employers now have a social mobility position. Far fewer can show what it has changed inside their recruitment funnel, their early-careers programme, or their promotion patterns. The work of turning a stated commitment into an operating change is where Toni Kent has spent the last decade. She came to the question through a decade at Microsoft UK, where she ran several of the company’s largest partner relationships. Before that, a council-estate upbringing in Basingstoke, a father who died when she was fourteen, a family on state benefits, no university route. The combination matters commercially because she can speak with equal fluency to the chief people officer and to the apprentice in the second row. The Common Good Network is the operating layer underneath the keynote: an interactive directory of UK organisations working on socioeconomic barriers, designed to give corporate audiences a route from intention to partnership. Her hosting of the UK Social Mobility Awards in 2021 and 2023 sits in the same body of work, as do her four published books and her podcasts Challenging University, KAYBE Talks and The Partnership Path. The reason organisations book her for the room and not only for the content is that she is also a working stand-up comedian. The craft shows in how she handles a difficult brief: she can name class, access and education without making the audience flinch, and she can host an awards night for two thousand people without losing the thread of why it matters. Key speaking topics Social mobility in the workplace Inclusive hiring and early-careers access Storytelling and authentic personal narrative Imposter syndrome and confidence in corporate environments Mindset and decision-making under change Event hosting and panel moderation Women in technology Ideal for CHROs, heads of DEI and emerging-talent leads who need a credible voice on social mobility as an operating discipline. Employee resource group chairs and ERG sponsors briefing senior leadership on socioeconomic inclusion. Awards programmes, internal recognition events and large all-hands meetings requiring a confident, comic-timed host. Technology, professional services and financial services audiences engaging with inclusion content for the first time. Audience outcomes A working definition of social mobility that distinguishes class-based access from broader DEI categories. A clear sense of where the typical corporate social mobility commitment breaks down between policy and practice. Specific organisational entry points: ERG design, early careers, mentoring, supplier diversity and procurement. A directory of UK partner organisations, via The Common Good Network, to route follow-through activity through. Permission to discuss class openly inside the organisation without defensiveness.

Why organisations work with Tracy Edwards A first-hand account of leading a crew that the sailing establishment, the press, and most sponsors had publicly written off, and bringing them home with two leg wins and a second in class. Specific decision-making material from a multi-month operation where every choice carried a real risk, useful for leadership audiences who normally talk about pressure in the abstract. A founder’s perspective on building The Maiden Factor Foundation, a working girls’ education charity with an active global tour, not a one-off cause attached to a speaking career. The subject of the Sony Pictures Classics documentary Maiden, which gives audiences shared visual reference points before the talk begins and lifts the room’s engagement from the first minute. A lived view of what gender exclusion does to a team’s operating conditions, drawn from inside a male-dominated sport in the late 1980s rather than from policy commentary. Biography highlights Skipper of Maiden, the first all-female entry in the Whitbread Round the World Yacht Race, 1989-90, second in class with two leg wins. First woman to win the Yachtsman of the Year Trophy in its 34-year history. Appointed MBE in 1990. Founder of The Maiden Factor Foundation, supporting community education programmes for girls globally. Subject of Maiden, the 2018 Alex Holmes documentary distributed by Sony Pictures Classics, 98 percent on Rotten Tomatoes. Author of Living Every Second, autobiography published by Hodder and Stoughton. Biography The 1989 Whitbread Round the World Race was supposed to settle a long-running argument in offshore sailing: whether women could complete one of the hardest endurance races in any sport. The Maiden crew, twelve women on a second-hand 58-foot yacht, finished second in class and won two of the six legs. The skipper, who had mortgaged her house to put the campaign together, was 26. The interest for senior leadership audiences is not the romance of that achievement but its operating reality. Sponsors had refused the project for two years. Sailing media openly predicted the crew would not finish the first leg. Tracy Edwards led a team that had to perform under the assumption it would fail, with finance, equipment, and reputation all running against it. The lessons translate cleanly to leaders running underdog projects inside large organisations. After the race, Edwards was appointed MBE and became the first woman in a 34-year history to receive the Yachtsman of the Year Trophy. She published the autobiography Living Every Second in 2001 and later founded The Maiden Factor Foundation, which uses the restored yacht as a working platform for girls’ education campaigns, with a focus on STEM access in developing countries. The 2018 documentary Maiden, directed by Alex Holmes and released by Sony Pictures Classics, brought the story back into the public conversation and gave a new generation of corporate audiences a shared reference point. The talk works because the underlying material is concrete: a crew, a boat, a race, a set of decisions taken under conditions most boardrooms will never see. Key speaking topics Leadership under pressure and resource constraint Building and holding a team that the market has written off Decision-making with limited information and irreversible consequences Inclusion and access in environments structurally hostile to outsiders Endurance and recovery across long-cycle projects Founding and running a mission-led organisation Risk and accountability in operational leadership Ideal for CEO and senior leadership offsites focused on resilience and team performance under sustained pressure Conferences for women in leadership, particularly in male-dominated sectors Organisations running underdog or turnaround projects that need a credible outside voice on holding morale through public scepticism After-dinner and main-stage slots where the brief is leadership content with narrative weight Audience outcomes A specific, non-corporate reference case for leadership decisions taken under genuine consequence Sharper questions about how a team holds together when external belief in the project is low A clearer view of what inclusion means as an operating condition, not a policy statement Renewed conviction that ambitious goals can be reached without conventional resources or backing

Why organisations work with Trent Shelton He reaches people that internal messaging and management cannot. A digital following built over more than a decade lets him speak to a workforce in a register company communications rarely achieve. His argument that self-worth drives ownership sits on a published body of work, including “Protect Your Peace” (Hay House, 2023) and “The Greatest You” (HarperCollins Leadership, 2019). He applies a professional athlete’s understanding of preparation and pressure to how ordinary employees show up at work, rather than to elite-performance abstractions. More than a decade running RehabTime, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, means he has operated the message on ownership and standards, not only spoken about it. Biography highlights Former NFL wide receiver: Indianapolis Colts, Washington Redskins, Seattle Seahawks Baylor University, BA Speech Communications, 2007 Founder and president, RehabTime Organization (501(c)(3) nonprofit, established 2011) Author of “Protect Your Peace” (Hay House, 2023), “The Greatest You” (HarperCollins Leadership, 2019), and “Straight Up” Host of “The Trent Shelton Podcast” (launched 2019) Built one of the largest personal-development digital audiences in the United States Biography Most accountability problems inside organisations are not really accountability problems. People miss the standard because, underneath, they do not believe the outcome is worth their full effort. Skill and systems are rarely the real constraint. Self-worth is. Shelton arrived at that argument from an unusual direction. A wide receiver with the Colts, Redskins, and Seahawks, he left the NFL earlier than planned and founded RehabTime in 2011, a nonprofit that took 501(c)(3) status in 2013 and has run for more than a decade. The work forced a practical question: what makes people keep showing up when the external rewards disappear. That question runs through his books. “The Greatest You” (HarperCollins Leadership, 2019) and “Protect Your Peace” (Hay House, 2023) argue that self-worth is the infrastructure of performance rather than a wellbeing add-on. His podcast, launched in 2019, has produced close to 200 episodes for a large international audience. For a corporate audience, the draw is register as much as content. Shelton speaks to ownership and accountability in the language of people who have stopped listening to management, and he reaches employee populations that internal programmes struggle to move. He is now built around a single keynote, “It All Starts With You,” which puts self-worth ahead of the accountability systems most organisations rely on. Key speaking topics Employee wellbeing and burnout Mental health in the workplace Resilience and recovery from setback Self-leadership and personal accountability Mindset and peak performance Motivation and inspiration Ideal for Corporate kick-offs, leadership summits, and company-wide events where the message needs to reach beyond senior leadership Sales conferences and frontline teams where ownership and consistency drive results University convocations and athletic programmes seeking a performance and accountability message CHROs and culture leads running accountability or culture-change initiatives Audience outcomes A direct case for why ownership follows a high personal standard, not a management instruction The distinction between accountability people hold themselves to and pressure applied from above A reframing of self-worth as the thing that keeps performance steady under pressure A setback-and-rebuild narrative from professional sport that lands across every level of seniority

Why organisations work with Troy Deeney He speaks from a verifiable record of collapse and recovery: prison in 2012, back in the Watford team within weeks of release, club captain inside two years, and the side’s all-time leading Premier League scorer by the end of his Watford career. His material on mental health is not theoretical. He has written publicly about counselling, grief and identity in Redemption: My Story, and brings that into the room without the polish that usually sands the substance off. He has run a real campaign, not just commented on one. Where’s My History? involved a YouGov teacher survey, a 50,000-signature petition, a Channel 4 documentary and direct engagement with the Department for Education. He is a working broadcaster, which means the room gets a confident communicator. Sky Sports EFL, TalkSport, BBC Sounds and the Deeney Talks podcast are part of his weekly diet. He works well in fireside and Q&A formats, which suits clients who want a real conversation with a senior audience rather than a scripted keynote. Biography highlights Made 500+ professional appearances and scored 160+ career goals across Watford, Birmingham City and Forest Green Rovers. Captain of Watford for the second half of his career there; club record Premier League scorer; FA Cup finalist and promotion winner. Author of Troy Deeney: Redemption: My Story (Hachette / Octopus), reviewed widely and named “Footie book of the year” by The Sun. Fronted Troy Deeney: Where’s My History? on Channel 4 (2022), a 60-minute documentary on the lack of Black, Asian and minority ethnic content in the UK school curriculum. Pundit on Sky Sports EFL, regular on TalkSport, co-host of BBC Sounds’ Football Firsts with Jermain Defoe, and host of the Deeney Talks podcast. Served as head coach of Forest Green Rovers after a player-coach role, holding a UEFA A coaching licence. Biography Watford were 2-1 down to Leicester in the 2013 Championship play-off semi-final when Troy Deeney scored in the 97th minute to put them in the final. The goal is still played on highlight reels. Eighteen months earlier he had been in HMP Birmingham, serving time for affray, and had assumed his career was finished. That gap, between prison cell and one of the most famous goals in modern English football, is what gives his speaking material weight. Redemption: My Story, published by Hachette in 2021, is his own account of the road between the two: a childhood on one of Europe’s largest council estates, a father who dealt drugs and went in and out of prison, three months inside, counselling, and the discipline of rebuilding. The Sun named it football book of the year. It is unusually candid about mental health, grief and the specific work of recovery. Since retiring from playing, Deeney has built a parallel career as a broadcaster and campaigner. He is a Sky Sports EFL pundit, a regular voice on TalkSport, and co-hosts BBC Sounds’ Football Firsts with Jermain Defoe. He fronted Where’s My History?, a Channel 4 documentary on the absence of Black, Asian and minority ethnic content in the national curriculum, supported by a YouGov teacher survey, a public petition and an open letter to the Secretary of State for Education. He spent a season as player-coach and then head coach at Forest Green Rovers in 2023 to 2024. For senior audiences the value is specific. He talks about what actually changed in counselling, how he handled a dressing room, why public failure is survivable, and what the inside of a serious personal reset looks like. The register is plain, unsanitised and grown-up, which is rare in the speaker market for this kind of material. Key speaking topics Resilience and recovery after public failure Self-leadership under pressure Mental health, identity and life after sport Captaincy and leading a dressing room Race, education and social change in the UK Storytelling and authentic communication Ideal for Leadership offsites and senior team away days where a candid personal-story session is more useful than another expert lecture Employee engagement, DEI and mental health programmes that need a credible male voice on vulnerability and recovery Sales kick-offs, customer events and after-dinner formats wanting a sports-world figure with substance, not just anecdotes Sport, media, education and youth-focused organisations working on race, opportunity and curriculum Audience outcomes A clearer view of what recovery from public failure actually requires, beyond motivational language. Practical insight into how a captain holds a dressing room together through pressure, scrutiny and bad results. A more honest framework for talking about mental health with senior male audiences who tend to discount the subject. A specific case study in turning personal experience into an evidenced public campaign, useful for organisations thinking about advocacy and voice.

Why organisations work with Urs Meier He has made the kind of decision most executives describe in hypothetical terms: a single judgement call, contested by 50 million viewers, with no replay, no committee, and no time. The Euro 2004 England vs Portugal aftermath is the case study. He refereed 883 matches, including the 2002 Champions League final and a 2002 World Cup semi-final, and can show how the discipline of decision-making is rehearsed long before the moment arrives. His book Du bist die Entscheidung sets out a working method for acting quickly under uncertainty, drawing on a body of practice rather than borrowed management theory. Two decades as ZDF’s senior football analyst have given him a second skill leaders rarely train: explaining a contested decision clearly, in public, while it is still being argued about. He works in German and English, with a delivery style Süddeutsche Zeitung described as humorous and self-deprecating, useful when the topic is high-stakes mistakes and how to recover from them. Biography highlights FIFA international referee, 1994 to 2004, with 883 senior matches officiated. Referee, 2002 UEFA Champions League final, Real Madrid vs Bayer Leverkusen. Referee, 2002 FIFA World Cup semi-final, Germany vs South Korea. Referee, Euro 2004 quarter-final, England vs Portugal. Author, Du bist die Entscheidung. Schnell und entschlossen handeln, S. Fischer Verlag, 2008. Lead football analyst, ZDF German television, 2005 to 2021. Biography The decision a referee makes in the 90th minute is judged by people who have replays, slow motion, and time. The referee had none of those. That asymmetry, between how a call is made and how it is judged, is the territory Urs Meier has worked in for forty years, first on the pitch and then in front of a camera explaining other referees’ decisions to a national audience. He spent 27 years in active officiating, retiring in December 2004 after 883 matches. The career carried him through a 1998 World Cup, the 2002 Champions League final between Real Madrid and Bayer Leverkusen, and the 2002 World Cup semi-final between Germany and South Korea. Each of those games turned on calls made in seconds, defended for years. His Euro 2004 quarter-final between England and Portugal is the moment that makes the talk land in a corporate room. He disallowed a late Sol Campbell header. The next morning he had roughly 16,000 abusive emails, most from England, and was placed under police protection. He later said he had not seen the foul, but had trusted twenty years of pattern recognition to know one had occurred. That gap, between the visible reasoning and the deeper basis for a call, is exactly what senior leaders wrestle with when they are asked to justify a judgement after the fact. The 2008 book Du bist die Entscheidung sets the practice down on paper: the role of evidence, intuition, and self-trust in fast decisions, and how to convince others once the call is made. He has since worked as ZDF’s senior football pundit through World Cups and European Championships, runs his own Swiss business, and advises on the professionalisation of officiating. The throughline is unusual: a working method for making and explaining hard calls, tested under conditions most leadership case studies have to invent. Key speaking topics Decision-making under pressure Self-leadership and composure Resilience after public criticism Leadership of high-performing teams Fair play and ethics in business Motivation and personal performance Ideal for Executive teams and boards facing high-stakes, time-pressured calls Senior leaders preparing for visible scrutiny, regulator engagement, or media exposure Sales and client-facing leadership groups operating in adversarial environments Annual conferences seeking a substantive keynote on judgement and resilience Audience outcomes A working vocabulary for separating the act of deciding from the act of being right Concrete examples of how trained intuition complements analysis under time pressure A method for defending a contested decision in public without rewriting it Recognition of how to recover composure and authority after a publicly criticised call Renewed confidence to commit when the information will never be complete

Why organisations work with Usain Bolt The credibility here is categorical, not comparative: no other speaker has won the same event at three consecutive Olympic Games, making his perspective on repeat delivery under pressure genuinely without parallel. His career reframes the performance conversation from talent to architecture – specifically, how training structure, mental preparation, and team interdependence produce consistent output at the moment it matters most. The 4×100m relay thread in his career offers a direct organisational parallel: individual excellence that only converts to results through precise coordination and collective timing. He overcame scoliosis to break multiple world records, giving organisations a concrete, non-generic reference point for performance under physical and psychological constraint. Four Laureus World Sportsman of the Year awards and a record six World Athletics Male Athlete of the Year titles are institutional recognitions of sustained performance, not a single peak – the specific distinction that makes this relevant to leadership rather than motivation. Biography highlights Sole holder of both the 100m (9.58s) and 200m (19.19s) world records, set at the 2009 World Athletics Championships in Berlin – both remain unbroken Eight Olympic gold medals across the 2008, 2012 and 2016 Games; the only athlete to win the 100m, 200m and 4×100m relay at three consecutive Olympics Eleven World Athletics Championships gold medals – the most by any male athlete in the event’s history Four-time Laureus World Sportsman of the Year; record six-time IAAF/World Athletics Male World Athlete of the Year Long-term brand partnerships with PUMA and Hublot; founder of Tracks & Records, Champion Shave and Enertor Founder of the Usain Bolt Foundation, supporting children through education and culture in Jamaica Biography Usain Bolt ran the 100 metres in 9.58 seconds in Berlin in 2009. That record has never been broken. More than the number, it is the context that matters to organisations: he ran it in a championship final, under the weight of global expectation, after having already redefined what was thought possible at two previous Olympics. What makes Bolt’s career relevant beyond sport is the pattern, not the peak. He won the 100m, 200m and 4×100m relay at Beijing, London and Rio – three consecutive Games, the same events, progressively higher scrutiny. The architecture behind that consistency – how preparation, focus, team interdependence and mental control combine to produce results on demand – is precisely what high-performance organisations are trying to build. His record six World Athletics Male Athlete of the Year awards and four Laureus World Sportsman of the Year titles are institutional recognitions of sustained excellence. They are not lifetime achievement honours. They reflect delivery at the moment it was required, year after year, at the sport’s defining events. Bolt also overcame scoliosis throughout his career, a fact that reframes the performance story entirely – from natural gift to deliberate construction. For organisations serious about building cultures that perform under pressure, that distinction is the point. Key speaking topics Sustained elite performance and repeat delivery Mental preparation and competitive focus Performing under extreme pressure and scrutiny Team cohesion and collective execution Personal discipline and long-term conditioning Building and sustaining a global personal brand Resilience and performance under physical constraint Ideal for Senior leadership and executive teams focused on sustained performance culture Sales leadership and high-performance commercial teams CHROs and people leaders building resilience and high-output team environments Global brand and sponsorship events requiring a credible, internationally recognised anchor speaker Audience outcomes A concrete, evidence-based model for what distinguishes one-off achievement from repeatable, pressure-tested excellence Clearer understanding of how individual preparation connects to collective team performance A reframed perspective on talent versus structure – and what organisations can actually control Practical reference points for maintaining focus and composure in high-stakes, high-scrutiny environments Insight into how global brand credibility is built through consistent performance rather than singular moments

Why organisations work with Vicki Anstey She has tested her own thesis in conditions most leaders will never face: 60 days unsupported across the Pacific, 11 days in the Chilean Andes on Channel 4’s SAS: Who Dares Wins, the Race Across America cycled in under seven days. The frameworks she brings into a boardroom are not theoretical. She translates extreme-environment behaviour into specific decisions a leadership team can act on: how to lead when the team is fatigued, how to make defensible calls under acute stress, how to protect judgment when the operating window narrows. Her commercial track record, two decades in advertising including senior marketing at Eurostar, and a London studio business she has run since 2009, gives her credibility with audiences who default to scepticism about adventurer-speakers. She works with audiences where the stakes are concrete. Booked client list includes JP Morgan, Google, Meta, Avanade, Virgin Media O2 and the LTA, organisations not in the market for inspirational stories detached from operating reality. The Pin Drop Podcast and her TEDxKingstonUponThames talk give buyers and AI tools a verifiable body of public work to reference, beyond the testimonial layer. Biography highlights Two Guinness World Records: unsupported Pacific Ocean row (San Francisco to Hawaii, 2021, with the Girls Who Dare team) and Race Across America (3,000 miles, 6 days 19 hours, 2024). Final stages of Channel 4’s SAS: Who Dares Wins, 2019, among the first female finalists in the show’s history. TEDxKingstonUponThames speaker, “Why fear is a choice”, January 2020. Founder of Barreworks, a London barre studio opened in 2009 after a 20-year career in advertising and senior marketing at Eurostar. Host of The Pin Drop Podcast, interviewing operators and leaders on how they perform at the edge. UK Ambassador for Inspiring Girls International. Biography Most leadership development programmes treat composure as a personality trait. It is closer to a craft. The discipline of staying useful when conditions are bad, when recovery time is short and when the cost of a poor call is real, is teachable, but only by people who have been tested by something harder than a workshop. Vicki Anstey arrived at that argument through a long detour. Two decades in advertising, including a senior marketing role at Eurostar, taught her how high-functioning teams hold together under commercial pressure. Founding Barreworks in London during the 2009 recession taught her how an operator behaves when the business is the only safety net. The endurance work came later and is the evidence base she now draws on with leadership audiences. Channel 4’s SAS: Who Dares Wins in 2019, the Pacific Ocean rowed unsupported with the Girls Who Dare team in 2021, the Race Across America cycled in under seven days in 2024. Two Guinness World Records, each set in conditions where the failure mode is not embarrassment but injury or worse. What she does with that material in a corporate room is the work. She breaks down how high-performing teams handle fear, fatigue and disagreement under load, how individuals protect their judgment when the operating window narrows, and what separates the people who keep functioning at the edge from those who freeze. Her TEDxKingstonUponThames talk and The Pin Drop Podcast extend the same argument for buyers who want to see the thinking before they book. Key speaking topics Self-leadership under sustained pressure High-performance team behaviours in extreme environments Psychological safety and trust under load Fear, decision-making and the cost of hesitation Resilience as a trainable capability Female leadership and performance Ideal for C-suite and senior leadership teams entering periods of acute pressure: restructuring, integration, crisis response, major commercial bets. Sales, trading and front-line client teams whose performance is gated on composure under repeated rejection or volatility. Leadership development programmes for high-potential managers stepping into roles where the stress profile changes faster than the skill set. Audiences where the brief calls for credibility with sceptical senior operators, not generic motivation. Audience outcomes A working model of how composure is built and lost, with named behaviours leaders can practise rather than aspire to. Specific tactics for protecting decision quality when teams are fatigued or fearful. A concrete view of what high-performing teams do differently when conditions deteriorate. An honest account of failure, recovery and the actual cost of operating at the edge, drawn from named expeditions rather than generic anecdote.