Motivational speakers

Why organisations work with Vicky Piria She is the first woman to have raced in the GP3 Series and the only Italian woman in the W Series, two facts that make her a credible voice on what it actually takes to enter and survive a closed industry at the top level. She speaks from a current operating reality, not a retired career. She is racing in the 2025 Italian GT Sprint Championship in a Ferrari 296 Challenge while presenting Sky Sport Italia’s Formula 1 coverage. Her perspective on team performance is grounded in the specific mechanics of a motorsport team, where pit-crew coordination, driver feedback, and engineering decisions all run on tight feedback loops under time pressure. She works in two languages and across two cultures (Italian and British), useful for European audiences who want a speaker who reads the room beyond an Anglophone default. For automotive, motorsport, broadcasting, and brand-sponsorship audiences, she brings credibility from inside the sport rather than commentary from outside it. Biography highlights First female driver in the GP3 Series, debuting with Trident Racing in 2012. Only Italian driver in the inaugural 2019 W Series, the Formula 1 feeder championship for women. Sky Sport Italia Formula 1 presenter from 2024, succeeding Federica Masolin. Italian GT Championship competitor; second in GT Cup in 2023 and three pole-to-win victories in the 2024 Endurance GT Cup Pro-Am Division 2. Confirmed driver for the 2025 Italian GT Sprint Championship with Scuderia Ghermandi by Zanasi Racing in a Ferrari 296 Challenge. Former Formula E commentator for Mediaset and presenter on Italia 1’s Drive Up automotive programme. Biography Motorsport is one of the most closed industries in professional sport. The cost of entry is high, the technical knowledge required is unforgiving, and for most of its history the cockpits and the commentary boxes have been occupied by men. Vicky Piria moved through both. She arrived in the GP3 Series in 2012 as the first female driver in its history, racing for Trident. Seven years later she became the only Italian driver in the inaugural W Series, the Formula 1 feeder championship created to give female drivers a serious competitive pathway. Those two facts position her uniquely in European motorsport. The current chapter is what makes her useful to organisations now. She races in the Italian GT Championship, taking three pole-to-win results in the 2024 Endurance GT Cup Pro-Am Division 2 and stepping into a Ferrari 296 Challenge with Scuderia Ghermandi by Zanasi Racing for the 2025 Sprint season. At the same time she fronts Formula 1 coverage on Sky Sport Italia, having replaced Federica Masolin in 2024. She works comfortably in Italian and English, in front of a camera and inside a race team. For audiences in automotive, broadcasting, brand sponsorship, and any sector trying to widen its talent pipeline beyond the obvious candidates, that combination of operating credibility and broadcast craft is genuinely uncommon. Key speaking topics Women in motorsport and male-dominated industries High-performance teamwork under time pressure Resilience in elite competitive environments Brand and sponsorship in motorsport Broadcasting, hosting, and panel moderation Career reinvention from athlete to broadcaster Ideal for Automotive, motorsport, and mobility sector audiences (manufacturers, sponsors, dealer networks). Brand and marketing leadership at organisations sponsoring sport or building presence around motorsport. Diversity, inclusion, and talent leads in technical or engineering-led organisations. Event hosts seeking a bilingual (Italian and English) moderator with motorsport authority. Audience outcomes A first-person account of what it took to enter and compete in the most male-dominated tier of professional sport. A working view of team performance inside a motorsport operation, from driver and crew dynamics to engineering feedback loops. A perspective on the W Series experiment, why it mattered, what it achieved, and what its absence now means for the pipeline. A motorsport-literate voice for sponsorship, brand activation, and event audiences who want substance behind the storytelling.

Why organisations work with Victoria Humphries A lived account of decision-making in life-threatening conditions, including falling through Arctic ice, that translates directly to how senior teams behave when the stakes are real and the recovery margin is thin. An executive track record across teaching, governance, consulting and running an EdTech business, so the resilience material lands as commercial advice, not adventure storytelling. A specific focus on the leadership behaviours that hold workforces together through repeated restructure: small steps, visible composure, recovery from setback. Co-author of Frigid Women, the published account of the 1997 first all-female North Pole expedition, which gives the keynote a documentary anchor rather than a retold anecdote. Repeat use by leadership-development and change programmes at AkzoNobel, Tarmac, Coventry Building Society, COBIS, Pfizer and ServiceNow. Biography highlights Member of the first all-female relay expedition to the North Pole, 1997. Co-author of Frigid Women, published by Eye Books, written with her mother, Sue Riches. Three-time Guinness World Record holder, as cited on her speaker profiles. 25-plus years across education, governance and commercial leadership, including managing director of an EdTech company. Keynote and workshop client list including AkzoNobel, Coventry Building Society, British Telecom, AQA Education, Tarmac Springboard, Pfizer, ServiceNow and COBIS. Biography The 1997 expedition to the North Pole was twenty women in a relay across shifting Arctic ice, in temperatures around minus 40, with rescue dependent on aircraft that could only land in a narrow weather window. Victoria Humphries was one of them. She and her mother Sue went through the ice into the Arctic Ocean at one point and got themselves out. That story sits underneath the rest of her work as a leadership speaker. The expedition is documented in Frigid Women, the book she co-wrote with her mother and published through Eye Books. It is not a motivational text. It is an account of how a non-professional team prepared for, survived and recovered from a sustained ordeal, and what each person had to manage in their own head to keep going. That makes it useful source material for organisations dealing with fatigue and repeated change, rather than a one-off shock. The commercial track record is what allows the polar story to do useful work in a corporate room. Twenty-five years of teaching, governance, consultancy and running an EdTech business gives her the language of leadership development, restructure and team performance. Programmes she has delivered for AkzoNobel, Coventry Building Society, Tarmac, Pfizer, COBIS and ServiceNow are positioned as resilience and change content, not adventure speeches. Her signature talks, Managing Change in a Changing World, One Step at a Time and Be Bold, Be Brave, Be You, take the same idea into different audiences. The argument is consistent: when conditions stay hard for a long time, what holds a team together are small, visible acts of composure from the people leading it. Key speaking topics Resilience and stress management Leading through sustained change Self-leadership under pressure Team leadership in difficult conditions Women in business and leadership Motivation and self-belief Diversity, equity and inclusion Ideal for Leadership development programmes for newly senior managers, including high-potential and emerging-leader cohorts. HR, talent and learning teams are designing resilience or change-readiness content into a wider curriculum. Conferences and town halls during or after a restructure, integration, or sustained period of operational pressure. Women’s leadership networks and inclusion programmes that want a speaker with a substantive professional record alongside the personal story. Audience outcomes A clearer view of how composure under pressure shows up as a leadership behaviour, not a personality trait. A method for breaking long, uncertain change into the next single step a team can act on. A frame for recovering from a setback at work without losing the team’s commitment to the next phase. A more honest read on personal capability, particularly for people who have under-rated their own resilience.

Why organisations work with Victoria Pendleton A measurable performance record at the top of an objectively scored sport: two Olympic golds, an Olympic silver, and a record-equalling six individual sprint world titles between 2005 and 2012. An unusually candid account of what happens after high performance, including a public testimony on depression and suicidal thoughts that lifts the conversation beyond standard wellness language. Direct experience of the British Cycling marginal-gains environment, useful for leadership teams trying to understand what disciplined, repeatable performance design actually looks like inside an organisation. A second-career proof point in a different sport entirely, racing as an amateur jockey under trainer Paul Nicholls and finishing fifth in the 2016 Foxhunter Chase, which gives her credibility on reinvention rather than on retirement. Biography highlights Olympic sprint gold (Beijing 2008), Olympic keirin gold and sprint silver (London 2012). Nine UCI Track Cycling World Championship titles, including six individual sprint world titles between 2005 and 2012. Appointed MBE in 2009 and CBE in 2013, both for services to cycling. Author of “Between the Lines: My Autobiography”, HarperSport, 2012, co-written with Donald McRae. Trained as an amateur jockey under Paul Nicholls; fifth in the 2016 Foxhunter Chase at the Cheltenham Festival on Pacha Du Polder. 2018 Everest expedition for the British Red Cross with Ben Fogle and Kenton Cool, abandoned at Camp 2 due to hypoxia, later the subject of a published account of post-expedition depression. Biography Track sprint cycling is decided in fractions of a second by athletes whose preparation is measured to the gram, the heart rate, and the watt. Inside that environment, Pendleton won two Olympic gold medals, an Olympic silver, and nine world titles, including six individual sprint world titles in seven years. She is one of the most decorated track cyclists Britain has produced. The performance record is the qualification, not the talk. The talk is what she learned holding her nerve in an Olympic final, and what happened to her psychologically when the structure of elite sport was withdrawn. Her 2012 autobiography “Between the Lines”, co-written with Donald McRae, is unusually direct on the emotional cost of competing at that level. She returned to the public account several years later, describing severe depression and suicidal thoughts following her abandoned 2018 Everest expedition with Ben Fogle. That candour is why corporate audiences book her now. She is not delivering a generic resilience keynote. She is naming what happens to high performers when the supports come off and is willing to discuss it without softening. For leaders managing teams under sustained pressure, or thinking about what comes after a major delivery, that is rare material. She has also rebuilt outside cycling. After retirement she trained as an amateur jockey under Paul Nicholls and rode Pacha Du Polder to fifth place in the 2016 Foxhunter Chase at Cheltenham, having raced competitively for less than a year. Reinvention here is a documented sporting result, not a slogan. Key speaking topics Elite performance and marginal gains Composure under high-stakes pressure Recovery and identity after peak achievement Mental health and depression in high-performing populations Reinvention across careers Goal setting in objectively measured environments Team dynamics inside elite sport Ideal for Leadership conferences and executive offsites focused on performance under pressure Organisations with sales, trading, or delivery teams operating to short-cycle measured outcomes HR and wellbeing leads commissioning serious mental health content rather than wellness theatre Programmes for senior leaders navigating a major transition or post-success identity shift Audience outcomes A first-hand account of the preparation discipline behind two Olympic gold medals and what it costs A clearer view of how composure is engineered, not summoned, in the moments that decide a result A serious frame for thinking about post-peak recovery, including the version that goes badly An honest reference point for leaders who are sceptical of wellness language but recognise the underlying problem

Why organisations work with Vinh Giang His communication framework is rooted in the psychology of illusion; specifically, how professional magicians manage audience perception, belief, and attention. This gives organisations access to a model of influence that is empirically grounded in audience psychology, not generic presentation technique. His signature concept: that every professional has a habitual voice, not a natural one, and that this voice can be deliberately rebuilt, gives individuals a concrete, actionable framework rather than general advice about confidence or impact. He built 52Kards, an online magic education platform that reached 800,000 students globally, demonstrating that he has applied the same principles of skill transfer and engagement he teaches to others at commercial scale. The STAGE Academy programme translates his performance methodology into structured organisational training, giving companies a repeatable development pathway, not a one-off motivational event. He was named South Australia’s Young Entrepreneur of the Year in 2013 and has delivered over 80 live events internationally, including a TEDx appearance at Macquarie University: his credibility is practitioner-built, not academic. Biography highlights Co-founder of 52Kards (formerly Encyclopedia of Magic), an online education platform with over 800,000 enrolled students worldwide CEO of Luminary Productions, a training, development, and video production company Creator of the STAGE Academy, a structured public speaking and communication programme for professionals South Australia Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award (2013) Multiple award-winning performer at the Adelaide Fringe Festival: Top Voted Show and Top Reviewed Show, three consecutive years (2012-2014) TEDx speaker, Macquarie University, on communication and professional performance Biography Vinh Giang’s central argument is that most professionals communicate well below the standard their thinking deserves, and that the gap between expertise and expression is a learned problem with a learnable fix. His methodology doesn’t come from corporate training or academic research. It comes from 15 years of studying what professional magicians do: how they control attention, manage belief, and shape the experience of an audience in real time. The insight he took from performance is precise. Robert-Houdin’s principle: that a magician is an actor playing the part of a magician, reframes communication as a discipline of craft, not personality. Applied to business, this means that a leader’s authority in a room is not fixed. It is a set of habits, many of them inherited from childhood, that can be replaced with deliberate ones. That argument is the foundation of the STAGE Academy, his structured communication programme for professionals. Giang is not a theorist. He dropped out of a commerce and law degree at the University of Adelaide to build 52Kards, an online magic education platform that eventually reached over 800,000 students worldwide. That business – built before the term “creator economy” existed – earned him the South Australia Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2013. His performance work at the Adelaide Fringe Festival, where his shows won Top Voted and Top Reviewed for three consecutive years, gave him a practical laboratory for the same principles he now teaches to senior professionals. His clients have included Microsoft, Facebook, and LinkedIn. The organisations that engage him are not looking for motivational uplift; they are investing in a measurable upgrade in how their people present, persuade, and lead under pressure. Key speaking topics Performance-based communication for leaders The psychology of influence and audience perception Vocal presence and professional authority Storytelling and high-stakes persuasion Confidence and mindset in professional communication Communication as a teachable skill set Entrepreneurship and the business of building trust Ideal for Senior leadership teams and C-suite executives seeking to sharpen influence and executive presence Sales and commercial leaders whose teams communicate and persuade in high-stakes environments CHROs and L&D leads commissioning communication capability programmes Conference audiences drawn from professional services, financial services, or technology – where credibility depends on the ability to make complex ideas land clearly Audience outcomes A concrete model for understanding why their current communication habits underperform, and what specifically to change Practical tools for rebuilding vocal presence and delivery authority, drawn from professional performance training A framework for structuring high-stakes communication; presentations, negotiations, and leadership conversations, that moves audiences to action Greater awareness of the gap between how they intend to come across and how they are actually received A shift from treating communication as a soft skill to treating it as a professional discipline with measurable standards

Why organisations work with Will Dalton Live-broadcast instincts. Eighteen years of Champions League, Olympics, and Premier League coverage means he reads a room the way he reads a touchline, with the timing of someone used to going out live. Interview craft built on names like Pele, José Mourinho, Andy Murray, Steven Gerrard, and Jackie Stewart. He gets executives, panellists, and customers to say something worth hearing. A presenter who has worked Chelsea TV since 2010 and Premier League Productions at top-flight grounds across England. Stage nerves are not part of the equation. After-dinner range that uses sport as material, not metaphor: dressing-room access, locker-room moments, the texture of elite events told with a journalist’s eye. Irish broadcast presence through Virgin Media Sport, useful for clients running Dublin events or wanting a host who reads as international rather than purely UK domestic. Biography highlights Presenter and reporter, Virgin Media Sport Ireland. Chelsea TV presenter since 2010, covering senior team and academy. Premier League Productions reporter at top-flight English club grounds and Champions League fixtures. Olympic Broadcasting Service coverage at Youth Olympics Nanjing 2014, Rio 2016, and Pyeongchang 2018. Reporting credits at ITV News, ITN, Setanta Sports News, and Reuters. Post-graduate qualification in Broadcast Journalism and Media Communications. Biography Going out live is a specific skill. Eighteen years of Champions League nights, Olympic Games, and post-match interviews at Stamford Bridge train a presenter to think in seconds, hold a room with one talkback voice in the ear, and recover when the running order falls apart. That is the craft Will Dalton brings to corporate events. His broadcast home is Virgin Media Sport in Ireland, where he fronts UEFA Champions League, Europa League, and Nations League coverage. Alongside that, he has been a Chelsea TV presenter since 2010, reported for Premier League Productions from grounds across England, and covered three Olympic Games for the Olympic Broadcasting Service. Earlier roles took in ITV News, ITN, Setanta Sports News, and Reuters. The interview list reads as a who’s who of sport: Pele, Andy Murray, José Mourinho, Mark Cavendish, Eden Hazard, Steven Gerrard, John Terry, Jackie Stewart. That work is the underwriting for his stage presence. Buyers booking him for a host or moderator role are buying a journalist’s instinct for questions, not a celebrity name on a poster. For after-dinner and keynote briefs, the material is sports storytelling with a working broadcaster’s access: what elite performers actually say off camera, how teams behave under pressure, how a manager’s first thirty seconds in a press conference tells you whether the dressing room is intact. The themes connect to business audiences, but the value is in the texture and specificity, not in claims to leadership theory. Key speaking topics Conference hosting and moderation After-dinner sports storytelling Live broadcast interviewing High-performance sport culture Communication and audience engagement Champions League and Olympic event reporting Ideal for Corporate conference organisers needing a professional broadcast host or MC Awards nights and gala dinners seeking a sports-led after-dinner speaker Panel moderation for sponsor activations, sports partnerships, and broadcast-adjacent industries Irish or UK events wanting a host with cross-market broadcast credibility Audience outcomes A live programme that runs cleanly: tight transitions, sharp introductions, controlled Q and A. Panel sessions that produce useable answers because the moderator knows how to ask follow-ups. After-dinner content with first-hand sports detail rather than recycled inspirational tropes. Interviews on stage with executives, customers, or guests that read as conversations, not scripted exchanges.

Why organisations work with William Adoasi He has built, financed and scaled a consumer brand from a £7,000 personal stake into a business shipping to more than 30 countries, with the impact model embedded in the unit economics rather than bolted on as CSR. His Virgin StartUp loan and subsequent mentorship from Richard Branson give him a first-hand, founder-level view of how early-stage capital, investor relationships and brand storytelling actually convert into revenue. The Vitae London model directly funds school uniform, footwear and bags for children in Sub-Saharan Africa per purchase, giving him a concrete case study for purpose-led commercial design that finance and marketing leaders can interrogate. His Forbes listing as one of 25 Leading Black British Business People to Follow lends credibility to inclusion and entrepreneurship programmes without reducing the conversation to identity alone. He speaks from the founder’s chair, not the consultant’s, which is what audiences of aspiring operators and intrapreneurs actually want in the room. Biography highlights Founder and CEO, Vitae London, launched 2016, distributing in 30+ countries. Founder of the wider Vitae Group, including Vitae Digital, Broken Chain Co and Vitae Photography. Named to Forbes “25 Leading Black British Business People to Follow”. 2016 Virgin StartUp ambassador; mentored by Richard Branson after pitching through the Virgin StartUp programme. TEDx speaker, “Finding Purpose Through Pain”. Opinion contributor at CEOWORLD magazine. Biography Vitae London started with £7,000 of personal savings and a Virgin StartUp loan. Within a few years it was selling watches in more than thirty countries and funding school uniform, footwear and a bag for a child in Sub-Saharan Africa with every purchase. The business case and the mission run on the same P&L. That is the through-line of William Adoasi’s work as a founder. He is the British-Ghanaian entrepreneur behind Vitae London and the wider Vitae Group, which spans digital, photography and lifestyle ventures. His pitch to Richard Branson, made through the Virgin StartUp programme, ended with Branson buying a watch on the spot and stepping in as a mentor. The detail matters because it explains why audiences pay attention. Adoasi can describe, from the operator’s seat, how a small consumer brand finances early inventory, how it earns shelf space across 30+ countries, and how purpose can be designed into the unit economics rather than marketed on top of them. Forbes named him one of 25 Leading Black British Business People to Follow on the strength of that record. For finance, marketing and impact teams trying to make a purpose-led commercial story stand up to scrutiny, his case is a useful one to interrogate. He has built the business, written about it as a CEOWORLD contributor, and tested the argument on a TEDx stage with “Finding Purpose Through Pain”. Key speaking topics Founder-led entrepreneurship Purpose-driven consumer brands Business model innovation Personal branding for founders Diversity in entrepreneurship Scaling from idea to international market Mentorship and early-stage capital Ideal for Founder programmes, accelerators and entrepreneur networks Marketing and brand leadership audiences working on purpose-led propositions Diversity, inclusion and emerging-talent forums inside large corporates Youth, education and community organisations connecting business to social mobility Audience outcomes A grounded view of how a purpose model can be designed into a product’s unit economics from the start. A working example of how a first-time founder turns a small loan and a mentor relationship into international distribution. Practical signals on what early investors and mentors are actually looking for in a founder pitch. A more honest reading of what “impact” means once it has to survive a balance sheet.

Why organisations work with Yogi Roth Co-authorship with Pete Carroll of Win Forever, a New York Times bestseller, gives him direct authority on the “Always Compete” philosophy now used widely in sport and corporate culture programmes. Two decades inside elite football locker rooms, first as a USC quarterbacks coach, then as a Big Ten, Pac-12, ESPN and Fox analyst, gives him a first-hand evidence base most culture speakers do not have. He brings a filmmaker’s command of narrative into the room. As producer and narrator of The Drive on the Pac-12 Networks since 2013, he has spent his career studying what actually makes high-performing cultures cohere on camera. Track record speaking for Nike, World Surf League, Capital One, Dignity Health and JCPenney, alongside major college athletic programmes, means he reads both commercial audiences and team-led organisations without recalibration. Biography highlights Co-author with Pete Carroll of Win Forever: Live, Work, and Play Like a Champion, which reached number seven on the New York Times bestseller list. Los Angeles Emmy winner in 2020 for Fight On: A Jackson Family, produced for the Pac-12 Networks. College football analyst across the Big Ten Network, Pac-12 Networks, Fox, ESPN and NFL Network, joining Big Ten Network in 2024. USC football quarterbacks coach under Pete Carroll, 2005 to 2009, following a playing career as a wide receiver at the University of Pittsburgh. Master’s degree in Communication Management from the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, graduating magna cum laude. Elite 11 quarterback coach and host since 2009; producer and narrator of the documentary series The Drive on Pac-12 Networks since 2013. Biography Pete Carroll’s Win Forever philosophy did not stay inside USC’s football programme. The book that codified it, co-written with Yogi Roth in 2010, reached number seven on the New York Times bestseller list and has since travelled through corporate culture programmes, athletic departments and leadership offsites. Roth is the storyteller who shaped how that philosophy reads on the page and how its central idea, “Always Compete,” lands in a room. His route to that work was unusual. He walked on as a wide receiver at the University of Pittsburgh, earned a full athletic scholarship, then moved into coaching at USC under Carroll from 2005 to 2009. He studied alongside that work, completing a master’s in Communication Management at the USC Annenberg School. Coaching gave him the inside view of how an elite competitive culture actually behaves. Annenberg gave him the craft to translate it. The translation has been a 20-year career across broadcast and film. He has been an on-air college football analyst for the Big Ten Network, Pac-12 Networks, Fox, ESPN and NFL Network, and has produced and narrated The Drive since 2013, the long-running documentary series on the Pac-12 Networks. In 2020 he won a Los Angeles Emmy for Fight On: A Jackson Family. He also coaches and hosts the Elite 11, the country’s premier high school quarterback competition. That body of work is the substance behind his keynote practice. He has spoken for Nike, World Surf League, Capital One, Dignity Health and JCPenney, applying the same idea: organisations perform when leaders make what matters specific, repeat it relentlessly, and reward the behaviours that show people are competing for it together. The Latin root of compete, he points out, is “to strive together.” Most culture programmes forget that part. Key speaking topics Culture and the “Always Compete” philosophy Storytelling as a leadership tool High-performance team dynamics Personal brand and authentic communication Coaching and feedback in competitive cultures Purpose, clarity and discipline in winning organisations Ideal for Sales leaders and commercial teams running culture or kickoff events HR and people leaders building engagement programmes around purpose and team behaviour Athletic departments, sports organisations and performance-led businesses Marketing leaders and brand teams working on internal storytelling and identity Audience outcomes A working definition of what their team is actually competing for, beyond the stated mission Specific stories they can carry back into their own teams to make values concrete A clearer sense of where culture is real in their organisation and where it is decoration Renewed conviction that the behaviours leaders model in small moments are what shape a winning culture

Why organisations work with YuJin Wong He treats mental fitness as a performance discipline with measurable inputs, not a wellness theme, which gives HR and operational leaders something they can run beyond awareness days. His R.O.C.K formula, trademarked and built out across the book Mental Rockstar, gives audiences a named structure to take into Monday morning rather than a motivational hit that fades by the weekend. He is the first speaker in Asia to hold the Certified Speaking Professional designation from Asia Professional Speakers Singapore, a credential held by fewer than 5% of professional speakers worldwide. His material is built from a corporate insider lens. As a former lawyer and investment banker, he speaks to the specific pressure profile of finance, professional services, and high-output commercial environments rather than to a general wellness audience. He brings an Asia-anchored perspective on mental fitness, which matters for regional headquarters, APAC workforces, and global firms whose employee mental health programmes have so far been designed in the US or UK. Biography highlights First speaker in Asia to earn the Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) designation from Asia Professional Speakers Singapore. Author of Mental Rockstar: How to build mental toughness, face your fears, embrace change and unleash greatness (2020), built on the trademarked R.O.C.K formula. Certified by the International Sports Science Association and the Mental Toughness Research Institute (USA). Hosts the Mental Toughness for Business segment on MONEY FM 89.3, Singapore’s business radio. Former lawyer and investment banker with more than fifteen years working with corporate audiences on resilience, stress, and peak performance. Named recipient of Asia’s Innovation Leadership Award (2022), Asia’s Best Brands Award (2018), and the Global Brands Awards (2017). Biography Employee mental health has become an executive line item without becoming an executive capability. Most large employers now report a wellbeing programme, an EAP contract, and a calendar of awareness moments. Engagement scores, attrition, and presenteeism keep telling a different story. YuJin Wong works at exactly that gap. His material treats mental fitness the way operational leaders already treat physical fitness or safety, as a set of trainable behaviours with measurable inputs, not a campaign about awareness. The trademarked R.O.C.K formula, set out across his 2020 book Mental Rockstar, gives organisations a named structure to teach, repeat, and reinforce inside teams. His credibility with commercial audiences comes from inside the room rather than outside it. Before mental fitness work, he was a corporate lawyer and then an investment banker, before a personal collapse pushed him to rebuild around resilience and peak performance training. That history is why his material reads to finance, professional services, and sales leaders as a description of their environment, not an external commentary on it. The institutional signal is clear. He was the first speaker in Asia to earn the Certified Speaking Professional designation from Asia Professional Speakers Singapore, a credential held by fewer than 5% of professional speakers globally. He holds further certifications from the International Sports Science Association and the Mental Toughness Research Institute in the United States, and hosts the Mental Toughness for Business segment on MONEY FM 89.3, Singapore’s business radio station. Key speaking topics Mental fitness as an organisational capability Resilience and stress mastery for commercial environments Peak performance under sustained pressure Burnout prevention in high-output workforces Confidence and self-leadership for senior individual contributors Mental toughness for sales and revenue teams Ideal for CHROs and heads of wellbeing redesigning mental health programmes beyond awareness campaigns Sales leadership and revenue teams operating under sustained quota pressure APAC regional leadership and global firms briefing mental fitness work for Asian workforces Professional services and financial services firms managing burnout risk inside high-output teams Audience outcomes A working understanding of mental fitness as a trainable capability rather than a mood or trait The R.O.C.K formula as a shared vocabulary for teams to use after the session A specific read on the stress and burnout signals that precede performance loss Practical behaviours for sustaining output under pressure without normalising overwork Confidence that mental health work can be taken back into the organisation as a leadership task, not a clinical referral

Why organisations work with Zara Rutherford A named, verifiable Guinness World Record (youngest woman to fly solo around the world, first microlight circumnavigation) that gives an event a single, citable anchor moment for a STEM or women’s network audience. Direct credibility with the 16 to 25 audience that internal pipeline campaigns most struggle to reach, including school partnerships, early careers events, and graduate intake programmes. A clear, repeatable advocacy thesis on female participation in aviation (5%) and computer science (15%) that gives a commercial sponsor or internal D&I event a substantive content backbone, not just a celebrity booking. International recognition from named aviation bodies (Royal Automobile Club Segrave Trophy, Honourable Company of Air Pilots Master’s Medal, Living Legends of Aviation Baron Hilton Award), which gives partners in aerospace, engineering and defence a culturally specific credential set. Biography highlights Guinness World Record holder: youngest woman to fly solo around the world, completed 20 January 2022 at age 19. First person to circumnavigate the globe solo in a microlight aircraft (Shark UL), covering 41 countries and five continents. 2023 Segrave Trophy from the Royal Automobile Club, shared with brother Mack Rutherford. 2022 Master’s Medal from the Honourable Company of Air Pilots; Baron Hilton Award from the Living Legends of Aviation; Nicolaus August Otto Award from Deutz AG. Undergraduate at Stanford University from September 2022, studying computer science and aeronautics and astronautics. Author, I Flew Around the World (DK Publishing); keynote speaker at the ZeroAvia Hydrogen Aviation Summit, Festival de las Ideas (Puebla), and Misk “Generation Transformation” (Riyadh). Biography The Shark UL microlight that touched down at Kortrijk on 20 January 2022 had been in the air, on and off, for 155 days. Zara Rutherford had flown it across 41 countries and five continents, alone, at 19. The flight produced a Guinness World Record for the youngest woman to fly solo around the world and the first solo microlight circumnavigation. The record matters because of the audience it reaches. Women still make up roughly 5% of commercial pilots and 15% of computer science specialists. Pipeline programmes have moved those numbers slowly. A single, specific, verifiable feat by a teenager, told in her own voice, reaches school audiences, early careers cohorts and women’s networks that internal D&I campaigns rarely touch. The credentials around the flight are substantive. The Royal Automobile Club awarded her the 2023 Segrave Trophy with her brother Mack, joining a list that has included only four other women. The Honourable Company of Air Pilots granted the Master’s Medal in September 2022. The Living Legends of Aviation presented the Baron Hilton Award the same year. Deutz AG presented the Nicolaus August Otto Award. She is now at Stanford reading computer science and aeronautics and astronautics, which keeps the advocacy honest. The thesis is not retrospective. Rutherford is still inside the technical pipeline she is asking other young women to enter. Key speaking topics Women in aviation and the female pilot pipeline Women in STEM and computer science participation Goal-setting and long-horizon ambition for young people Resilience and decision-making under sustained pressure Motivation and inspiration for early careers and graduate audiences Ideal for Early careers, graduate intake and school outreach programmes in aerospace, engineering and technology Women’s networks, employee resource groups and International Women’s Day events Aviation, aerospace and defence industry conferences seeking a credible young voice on female participation Brand-led STEM campaigns and education partnerships targeting 16 to 25 audiences Audience outcomes A concrete reference point for what sustained, high-stakes goal pursuit actually looks like at a young age Specific, current data on female participation in aviation and computer science, with an articulated thesis on what is keeping it low A direct view of the operational and decision-making demands of a five-month solo flight across 41 countries An anchor moment that early careers, school and women’s network audiences will talk about after the event

Why organisations work with Zoe Harrison A current, contracted international whose authority on performance under pressure is live, not retrospective. She kicked four conversions in the 2025 World Cup final the same year she walked into the room. The fly-half perspective on team performance: the position responsible for game management, tempo and the next decision after a mistake. Translated for senior leaders who own the equivalent calls inside their organisations. Saracens-era discipline was brought into a corporate setting. Two consecutive Premier 15s titles and the dominant club culture of that period sit behind her view of what a winning team actually looks like day to day. A serious England career built through visible setbacks, including a period out of the starting side before returning to win the World Cup. Useful for audiences whose recent story is recovery, not uninterrupted success. Biography highlights 65 caps for England; 242 international points. Starting fly-half for England at the 2025 Women’s Rugby World Cup, won by the Red Roses against Canada (33-13). Saracens Women regular since 2016-17; Players’ Player of the Season in her first senior year. Started the 2018 and 2019 Premier 15s finals, scoring two tries in the 2019 final. 2019 Six Nations Grand Slam winner with England; full-time England contract from January 2019. Trained through the Hartpury AASE Girls Rugby Programme; Sports Rehabilitation and Exercise studies at Middlesex University. Biography The Red Roses won the 2025 World Cup at Twickenham against Canada. Zoe Harrison started at fly-half and kicked four conversions in the final. That detail matters because the fly-half is the position that runs the game, sets the tempo, and makes the next call after a mistake. It is the closest on-field equivalent to the role a senior leader plays inside their organisation. Harrison has been a Saracens first-team regular since 2016-17, named Players’ Player of the Season in her debut senior year. She started both the 2018 and 2019 Premier 15s finals and scored two tries in the 2019 win. England honoured her with a full-time contract in January 2019 and a Six Nations Grand Slam followed that year. Across 65 caps, she has scored 242 international points. Her authority for corporate audiences is built on a specific kind of experience. She has held the playmaker role in a sustained winning culture at Saracens, lost and regained the England starting shirt, and stood over the kicking tee in a World Cup final. That arc is more useful to senior teams than an uninterrupted highlight reel, because most boardrooms now operate after a setback rather than before one. She is most credible on what a fly-half actually does: read pressure, pick the next play, hold the team’s composure when the score has just moved. Translated for a leadership audience, that is the practical content of self-leadership and team behaviour in moments where the cost of the wrong call is public. Key speaking topics Performance under pressure Team behaviour in high-stakes environments Composure and decision-making in the next moment Elite team culture and standards Resilience after setbacks Women in elite sport and the changing professional game Ideal for Senior leadership teams entering a high-visibility year (IPO, restructure, public scrutiny) Sales and commercial conferences where the audience owns the next-call decisions All-company kickoffs anchoring a year on standards, behaviour and pace Networks and ERGs centred on women in leadership and performance environments Audience outcomes A clear picture of what composure looks like in practice, drawn from the position on the pitch responsible for it. Specific language for the moments inside a team where the next decision sets the tone, and how an elite environment handles them. A working definition of standards in a winning team that is not generic, drawn from a sustained Saracens and England culture. An honest account of losing form and regaining it at the highest level, useful for teams whose recent story is recovery.

Why organisations work with Lissie Mackintosh A live host who can move between the F1 paddock, a brand launch, an awards stage and a corporate panel without dropping register, with the trust of drivers, teams and sponsors built up since 2022. Direct reach into a young, global F1 audience through TikTok, Instagram, YouTube and the Going Purple podcast, useful for brands building presence with under-35 motorsport fans. A genuine working point of view on women in motorsport, grounded in three years of on-the-ground experience, not consultancy framing. Hosting credits at scale-events where the brief is unforgiving: the 2022 Autosport Awards, the 2023 UK premiere of Ferrari and multiple F1 team and car launches. Biography highlights Lead paddock presenter on Formula 1 broadcast and digital content since 2022, interviewing drivers including Charles Leclerc, Lando Norris, Carlos Sainz, George Russell and Jenson Button. Host of Going Purple, an F1 podcast launched in 2022 and distributed via Spotify and Apple Podcasts, with guests including Oscar Piastri, Jamie Chadwick and F1 Academy driver Abbi Pulling. Hosted the 2022 Autosport Awards and the 2023 UK premiere of Ferrari, plus multiple F1 team launches. Face of the 2023 Reiss x McLaren partnership alongside McLaren F1 drivers Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri. Brand work with Sky Sports, Scuderia Ferrari, Red Bull, Mercedes AMG Petronas, Aston Martin, McLaren, HSBC, NFL UK, PUMA, Tommy Hilfiger, Michael Kors, Elemis and Elizabeth Arden. Aligned with Females in Motorsport and a regular public voice on gender representation across F1, F1 Academy and the wider racing ecosystem. Biography Formula 1 sells access. For decades that access ran through the same narrow set of broadcast voices, and the audience that grew up on social video was largely left out of the conversation. Mackintosh started filling that gap from a phone in late 2021, with TikTok videos that moved fast and assumed the viewer was new to the sport. By 2022 she was in the paddock as one of F1’s lead presenters, working across the championship’s broadcast and digital output. She has interviewed Charles Leclerc, Lando Norris, Carlos Sainz, George Russell and Jenson Button, and hosted set-pieces including the 2022 Autosport Awards, the 2023 UK premiere of Ferrari and multiple team and car launches. Her podcast Going Purple, launched in 2022, sits alongside the broadcast work. Guests include Oscar Piastri on his first F1 win, F1 Academy driver Abbi Pulling and former W Series champion Jamie Chadwick on the pressure of being a female role model in racing. The podcast is open about being designed for fans who do not see themselves reflected in the existing motorsport media set. That is the throughline. Mackintosh’s working argument, made on stage and in interviews with Sky Sports and Females in Motorsport, is that motorsport’s growth depends on whether the sport is willing to put different people in front of the camera and the microphone. She has built her career inside that argument and is a credible voice for brands and organisations testing the same proposition. Key speaking topics Formula 1 and the future of motorsport media Women in motorsport and representation in sport Building community with Gen-Z sports audiences Content creation and the new sports broadcast model Personal brand and platform in a legacy industry Event hosting and panel moderation across motorsport, brand and awards Ideal for Brand and partner events inside motorsport, automotive and sports sponsorship looking for a credible live host Internal and external events for organisations targeting younger consumer audiences in F1, F1 Academy and adjacent sports Diversity and inclusion conferences and women-in-sport platforms seeking a working voice from inside the paddock Awards nights, premieres and product launches where the host needs to speak fluently to drivers, sponsors and fans in the same room Audience outcomes A first-hand account of how Formula 1 has changed its audience profile since 2022 and what brands inside the sport are doing about it A practical view of how content creators have shifted the sports broadcast model and what that means for sponsors and rights holders Honest perspective on the lived experience of being a young woman in a male-dominated sport, including the cost of public visibility A live host who lifts the energy of the room and keeps a panel of drivers, executives or sponsors on the brief