Motivation and Inspiration

Why organisations work with Sarah Storey The only person who can speak about sustaining elite performance across nine consecutive Paralympic Games, across two distinct sports, and against both disabled and able-bodied competition – making her case study in resilience and adaptation genuinely without parallel in British sport. Her career switch from swimming to cycling was not a choice but a forced pivot under serious illness. What she delivers to audiences is not an account of athletic triumph, but a dissection of the decisions that turn disruption into a new performance peak. As Active Travel Commissioner for Greater Manchester, a Non-Executive Director at the Department for Transport, and Visiting Professor of Sport at Manchester Metropolitan University, she operates inside institutions where outputs are scrutinised against governance standards – giving her a credibility in policy and leadership conversations that most athlete speakers cannot match. Two-time Sunday Times Disability Sportswoman of the Year (2020 and 2024), confirmed by a judging panel that includes some of the most respected names in British sport governance – recognition anchored in results, not profile. Client feedback consistently identifies her ability to adapt substantive content to the specific leadership context, rather than delivering a fixed biographical keynote – a distinction that matters for senior audiences expecting ideas, not inspiration alone. Biography highlights 19 Paralympic gold medals across nine Games (1992–2024) – the most by any British Paralympian in history, in either swimming or cycling 29-time World Champion across two sports; holder of 75 world records DBE (2013, for services to para-cycling); OBE (2009); MBE (1998) Active Travel Commissioner, Greater Manchester Combined Authority; former Non-Executive Director, Department for Transport Visiting Professor of Sport, Manchester Metropolitan University Institute of Sport President, Lancashire County Cricket Club (elected 2024) Sunday Times Disability Sportswoman of the Year: 2020 and 2024 Six-time British national track cycling champion, competing against able-bodied athletes; first disabled cyclist to represent England at a Commonwealth Games (Delhi, 2010) Biography Sustained performance across 32 years and two elite sports is not a product of talent alone. It requires specific disciplines: adapting when conditions shift, rebuilding when illness interrupts a career, setting standards before they are urgently needed. Dame Sarah Storey DBE holds 19 Paralympic gold medals – a British record across any sport – because she built those habits, not because she avoided the hard moments. Storey’s transition from swimming to cycling was not planned. A serious ear infection in 2005, following a diagnosis of chronic fatigue syndrome, ended her pool career. She entered a new sport, competed at Beijing 2008, and has since added 14 cycling gold medals to the five she won in the pool. The lesson she draws from that transition is not about optimism. It is about the practical decisions that make reinvention under real pressure productive rather than merely survivable. Her credibility extends well beyond athletics. She is Active Travel Commissioner for Greater Manchester Combined Authority, a former Non-Executive Director at the Department for Transport, and Visiting Professor of Sport at Manchester Metropolitan University. She has won British national track cycling titles competing against non-disabled athletes – a distinction very few Paralympic athletes can claim – and was the first disabled cyclist to represent England at a Commonwealth Games. In presentations, she connects the disciplines of elite sport directly to conditions leaders actually face: imperfect preparation, shifting targets, and pressure that outlasts the initial motivation. A two-time Sunday Times Disability Sportswoman of the Year (2020 and 2024), she brings to a senior leadership audience something rare – an athlete whose record is a matter of public fact, and whose post-competition work gives her the context to make that record relevant to the people running institutions, not just competing in them. Key speaking topics Sustained high performance and long-cycle excellence Resilience and adaptive performance under pressure Reinvention and career pivoting under constraint Marginal gains and performance culture Disability, inclusion, and elite sport Goal-setting across extended performance cycles Leadership lessons from elite sporting careers Ideal for C-suite and senior leadership teams seeking a credible, evidence-based perspective on sustained performance culture HR leaders and talent directors building resilience frameworks and high-performance environments Corporate conferences where disability inclusion, diversity of experience, and elite achievement intersect Public sector and policy audiences where sport leadership, active travel, and governance are on the agenda Audience outcomes A concrete framework for distinguishing resilience as a proactive discipline from resilience as a reactive recovery skill Understanding of the specific decisions that allow reinvention under pressure – drawn from a career that required a complete sport change mid-career Practical insight into how marginal gains and long-cycle goal-setting compound into sustained competitive advantage A reframed relationship with imperfect conditions: how elite performance is built in environments that are rarely ideal, rather than waiting for them to improve Renewed clarity on personal and team standard-setting: how the disciplines behind 32 years of elite performance apply to organisations that need to sustain output across strategic cycles, not just sprints

Why organisations work with Sarah Marquis Her resilience framework is built from 20,000 kilometres of solo survival across six countries – not organisational theory or athletic competition, but multi-year immersion in conditions where poor decisions had direct physical consequences The mental tools she teaches – anticipating failure, adapting without external support, maintaining decision quality under depletion – are documented in Wild by Nature, her Macmillan-published account of the Siberia-to-Australia expedition, giving audiences a framework they can return to and apply National Geographic’s formal recognition of her as Adventurer of the Year 2014 and resident explorer in 2015 is a credibility anchor that travels across cultures, sectors, and geographies – rare in the resilience speaker category Her human-nature connection argument gives organisations a sustainability and purpose narrative grounded in decades of firsthand field evidence – a usable complement to ESG conversations that otherwise rely on data and policy With 500+ talks delivered in English and French to audiences ranging from the Swiss Army and Tetra Laval to the Olympic Museum, she brings a track record across defence, corporate, and cultural institutions that few speakers working the resilience topic can match Biography highlights National Geographic Adventurer of the Year 2014; named resident National Geographic Explorer in 2015 Author of Wild by Nature (Macmillan), the English-language account of a 20,000 km solo expedition from Siberia to Australia European Adventurer of the Year 2013 TED speaker (2011); has addressed the Geographical Society 500+ talks delivered in English and French globally, including the Olympic Museum, Tetra Laval, and the Swiss Army Profiled in The New York Times Magazine and by National Geographic Biography The most honest test of resilience is not how people respond to a single crisis. It is how they function when pressure extends for months, the plan has failed more than once, and there is no team behind them. Most organisations have no direct experience of what that actually requires – and their resilience frameworks rarely reflect it. Sarah Marquis has that experience in documented form. From 2010 to 2013, she walked 20,000 kilometres alone from Siberia through the Gobi Desert, into China, Laos, Thailand, and across Australia. Her book Wild by Nature, published by Macmillan, is the detailed account of surviving dengue fever in the Laos jungle, temperatures of -49°C in Mongolia, and over 1,000 consecutive nights in a tent across six countries. The mental tools she describes – failure anticipation, adaptation without support, instinctive decision-making under physical depletion – are specific, practised, and written down. National Geographic named her Adventurer of the Year in 2014 and a resident explorer in 2015. She has given more than 500 talks in English and French to corporate and institutional audiences including Tetra Laval, the Swiss Army, and the Olympic Museum, and has spoken for TED and the Geographical Society. The New York Times Magazine has profiled her work. Her more recent expeditions – a survival traverse of the Kimberley in north-west Australia in 2015, a solo three-month crossing of the Tasmanian primary rainforest in 2018, and a return to the Great Victoria and Gibson Deserts in 2023 – mean her material is current. It is not a retrospective account of one significant achievement. It is a body of evidence that continues to grow. Key speaking topics Resilience under sustained pressure Mental tools for extreme performance Adaptive decision-making under adversity Solo survival and self-reliance Human-nature connection Overcoming adversity and fear Sustainability and environmental awareness Ideal for Senior leadership teams preparing for high-stakes transformation or extended operational pressure C-suite and board-level audiences focused on organisational resilience and performance under uncertainty HR and L&D leaders designing resilience and peak performance programmes Corporate sustainability teams seeking a purpose narrative grounded in firsthand environmental evidence Audience outcomes A specific, practised framework for building resilience that holds under sustained pressure – not just acute crisis Practical mental tools for maintaining decision quality when plans fail and external support is unavailable, drawn from documented multi-year field conditions A reframe of fear and discomfort as navigable data rather than obstacles, grounded in expedition experience rather than theory Greater clarity on the gap between conceptual resilience and practised resilience, with concrete starting points for closing it A credible, experience-based narrative for connecting organisational purpose to sustainability and the natural environment

Why organisations work with Sally Gunnell The only woman in history to have concurrently held Olympic, World, European and Commonwealth 400m hurdles titles plus the world record, which gives wellbeing and performance content a level of competitive proof very few speakers can match. Runs an ongoing corporate wellbeing programme rather than a single keynote, with a network of coaches, nutritionists and advisors that allows the message to be embedded inside a client’s existing health and engagement workstreams. Translates elite preparation into specific workplace habits around recovery, mental fitness, goal setting and pressure management, in language that lands with non-athlete employee audiences. Over a decade as a BBC Sport athletics presenter and four published books on fitness, wellbeing and self-fulfilment, which means she communicates to mixed corporate audiences with broadcast-trained clarity. A credible figure for senior sponsors of wellbeing and culture programmes who need an external voice their CEO will respect and their wider employee base will actually listen to. Biography highlights Olympic 400m hurdles gold medallist, Barcelona 1992. World record holder at 52.74 seconds, set winning the 1993 World Championships in Stuttgart. Only woman to have concurrently held Olympic, World, European and Commonwealth 400m hurdles titles plus the world record. Appointed MBE in 1993, OBE in 1998, and Deputy Lieutenant of West Sussex in 2011. BBC Sport athletics presenter for over ten years; co-hosted ITV’s Body Heat 1994 to 1996. Author of four books on health, fitness and wellbeing, including Be Your Best and Ten Hurdles in Life. Biography The gap between elite performance language and what actually changes behaviour inside a workforce is wider than most wellbeing programmes admit. Sally Gunnell’s corporate practice is built around closing it. She runs an ongoing wellbeing programme with a network of coaches, nutritionists and advisors, designed to sit alongside a client’s existing leadership, engagement and health agenda rather than land as a one-off keynote. The competitive record behind that work is unusual. At Barcelona 1992 she won Olympic gold in the 400m hurdles, becoming the first British woman to win an Olympic track gold since Ann Packer in 1964. The following year in Stuttgart she set a world record of 52.74 seconds to take the World Championship, and remains the only woman to have concurrently held Olympic, World, European and Commonwealth titles in the event plus the world record. Her communication base was built outside athletics. She spent over a decade with BBC Sport as an athletics presenter, co-hosted ITV’s Body Heat in the mid-1990s, and has written four books on fitness, wellbeing and self-fulfilment, including Be Your Best and Ten Hurdles in Life. That combined broadcasting and authorship background is why her sessions translate cleanly to mixed corporate audiences rather than reading as sports anecdote. She was appointed MBE in 1993, OBE in 1998, and Deputy Lieutenant of West Sussex in 2011. For organisations whose wellbeing and high-performance work has plateaued, she gives the agenda a credible external voice and a programmatic structure to attach it to. Key speaking topics Workplace wellbeing programmes Mental fitness and resilience High-performance habits Goal setting and personal accountability Sustained performance under pressure Health and lifestyle in the workplace Teamwork and motivation Ideal for CHROs and heads of wellbeing scoping multi-year mental health and performance programmes. Internal communications and engagement leads anchoring a company-wide wellbeing or culture campaign. Sales, operations and frontline leadership teams working on resilience and sustained performance. Conference organisers building a wellbeing or high-performance track for a mixed corporate audience. Audience outcomes A clearer model of what elite preparation, recovery and pressure management look like translated into office and frontline work. Specific habits to take into goal setting, mental fitness routines and managing setbacks. A shared organisational vocabulary linking individual wellbeing to team and business performance. Renewed motivation grounded in a verifiable competitive record, not generic inspiration.

Why organisations work with Rebecca Jane A founder story that is genuinely unusual: an all-female private investigation firm launched at twenty-four, scaled into national media coverage, and sold in 2018. Direct experience of running a consumer-facing business through personal upheaval, including divorce and the collapse of a previous property enterprise. A published HarperCollins memoir, The Real Lady Detective Agency, that gives the after-dinner content a documented spine rather than a stitched-together speech. Comfort with national audiences from sustained appearances on ITV’s This Morning, BBC Radio, Dragons’ Den and Big Brother, which translates into stage presence in front of large rooms. Biography highlights Founder of The Lady Detective Agency, established 2009, sold 2018. Author of The Real Lady Detective Agency: A True Story, HarperCollins, January 2013. Pitched on BBC’s Dragons’ Den, Series 10, 30 September 2012. Housemate on Channel 5’s Big Brother UK Series 18 in 2017. Regular national media contributor: The Daily Mail, Daily Star on Sunday, BBC Radio, ITV’s This Morning. Biography The Lady Detective Agency began in 2009 as a one-person operation in Lancashire. Rebecca Jane was twenty-four, recently divorced, and had just lost a property business. The agency went on to become one of the UK’s better-known female-led private investigation firms, with national newspaper coverage and broadcast features following within a few years. Her 2013 HarperCollins memoir The Real Lady Detective Agency set out the story in book form, including the surveillance work, the honey-trap operations and the personal arc that produced the company. The book is the spine of her speaking material and the source of most of the after-dinner content she now performs for corporate audiences. Television followed the publishing track. She pitched on Dragons’ Den in 2012, took part in Big Brother in 2017, and remained a regular on ITV’s This Morning and BBC Radio across the decade. The agency was sold in 2018, freeing her to work full-time on speaking, writing and media. What buyers get is a coherent founder narrative with a sellable arc: a young entrepreneur, an uncomfortable subject matter, a business built and exited, and a ten-year media career on top of it. The content is biographical rather than framework-driven, which is the basis on which to commission her. Key speaking topics Female entrepreneurship and start-up Personal resilience and recovery Building a business in an unconventional sector Media and public profile for founders Customer trust in sensitive consumer services Selling a founder-led business Ideal for Corporate after-dinner audiences looking for a strong personal story rather than an analytical keynote. Women-in-business networks and female founder events. Conferences on entrepreneurship, scale-up and exit, where a first-person account is wanted alongside expert speakers. Audience outcomes A first-hand account of what running a small consumer-facing business actually looks like through divorce and reinvention. A view of the UK private investigation sector from the inside, including how the agency was built and how it was eventually sold. A worked example of how national media exposure can be used by a founder to grow a small consumer brand. A motivational close grounded in a documented personal story rather than borrowed material.

Why organisations work with Raha Moharrak Her core material is not motivational narrative – it is a documented, years-long record of calibrating risk, managing fear, sustaining team cohesion, and making irreversible decisions at altitude. Organisations get specific behavioural insight, not a metaphor. She holds two verified world firsts simultaneously: first Saudi woman to summit Everest, and first Arab woman to complete all Seven Summits. That combination of record and cultural context is not available from any other speaker in the leadership or resilience space. Her career was built in advertising and visual communication – at Leo Burnett and in senior art direction – before and during her climbing career. She frames extreme experience with a practitioner’s precision, not a competitor’s self-regard. In 2023 she returned to Everest with Adidas TERREX specifically to guide two young women from the region through a competitive selection process to the summit. Her argument is not only about what individuals can endure – it is about what leaders must do to build capability in the people who come after them. For GCC and MENA leadership audiences in particular, she speaks as a cultural insider who navigated societal constraint as well as physical extremity. That dual dimension – societal ambition alongside physical risk – resonates in ways that an equivalent Western adventure speaker cannot replicate. Biography highlights First Saudi woman and youngest Arab to summit Mount Everest, 18 May 2013 – confirmed by IOC, Arab News, Gulf News, Esquire Middle East First Saudi woman to complete the Seven Summits – the highest peak on each of the seven continents – by 2017 Keynote speaker at the 10th IOC World Conference on Sport and the Environment, alongside UNEP Patron of the Oceans Lewis Pugh Esquire Middle East Woman of the Year 2017; Emirates Woman of the Year 2017 First Arab brand ambassador for TAG Heuer, joining the watchmaker’s global roster alongside Cristiano Ronaldo and Bella Hadid BA in Visual Communication, American University of Sharjah; MBA in Women’s Leadership, Synergy University Dubai Career in advertising and brand as Art Director at Leo Burnett and UPNDO; TV presenter at MBC Group and Dubai Media Incorporated Returned to Everest in 2023 in a partnership with Adidas TERREX to mentor and guide two young women from the region to the summit Biography Leadership development rarely simulates the conditions that matter most: when planning has failed, options have narrowed, and the decision in front of you cannot be undone. What equips a leader to perform at that moment – to manage their own fear, hold the confidence of their team, and act on incomplete information – is the question Raha Moharrak has spent over a decade exploring in the most unforgiving conditions available. Moharrak is the first Saudi woman to summit Mount Everest and the first Arab woman to complete all Seven Summits – the highest peak on each continent. The Everest summit came on 18 May 2013, as part of the Arabs with Altitude expedition. The Seven Summits were completed by 2017. Each ascent required months of logistical preparation, self-funded risk-taking, and sustained performance when weather, physical failure, or the behaviour of others threatened the outcome. None of it was carried out with a safety net. Her background is not that of a career athlete. She trained as a graphic designer, built her early career as Art Director at Leo Burnett, and continued in brand and media roles – including presenting for MBC Group and Dubai Media Incorporated – while climbing in parallel. That discipline of clear, purposeful communication shapes how she translates high-altitude experience for corporate audiences: with precision, not spectacle. In 2023, Moharrak returned to Everest not to repeat her record but to bring two young women from the region with her, through a competition run in partnership with Adidas TERREX. That decision – to move from being the first to actively enabling the next – defines what her work now asks of organisations: not merely to celebrate resilience, but to build and transfer it deliberately. Key speaking topics Leadership under extreme pressure Risk assessment and decision-making with incomplete information Resilience and mental endurance Fear management and performance in hostile conditions Ambition beyond societal constraint Legacy and generational capability transfer Women’s leadership in the Arab world Ideal for Senior leadership teams in organisations operating in sustained conditions of uncertainty, transformation, or risk CHROs and talent development leads building high-performance and resilience frameworks Corporate conferences in the GCC and MENA region where the cultural dimension of ambition and barrier-breaking carries direct relevance Events and boards focused on inclusive leadership, particularly where the gap between stated commitment and actual practice is the live tension Audience outcomes A concrete, first-person account of how decision-making, risk calibration, and team management actually function when the consequences of failure are real and irreversible Specific frameworks for distinguishing productive discomfort – the kind that precedes growth – from signals of genuine danger Practical perspective on what mental preparation for extreme conditions looks like, transferable to organisational contexts where sustained pressure is the norm A reframed understanding of ambition: what it means to pursue a goal against external constraint, and how that differs from goal-setting in permissive environments Reflection on leadership legacy – the deliberate move from personal achievement to building capability and confidence in others

Why organisations work with Penny Mallory Her central argument: that mental toughness is a measurable, trainable personality trait rather than an innate quality, gives leadership and L&D teams a practical case for investing in mindset, not just skills or process. She deploys the MTQPlus psychometric assessment in her work, allowing organisations to measure mental toughness across teams, identify where the gap lies, and target development with data rather than instinct. As the first and only woman in the world to compete in a World Rally Car for Ford in the WRC, her performance credentials are not a metaphor, they are a career built on exactly the conditions she teaches organisations to handle. Three books published over fifteen years (Take Control of Your Life, World Class Thinking, World Class Behaviour, 365 Ways to Develop Mental Toughness) give the keynote intellectual depth and longevity that extends well beyond the event itself. Her trajectory, from teenage homelessness in London to national rally champion, is not backstory; it is the proof of concept for an argument that resilience is built, not inherited, and that organisations can deliberately develop it. Biography highlights First and only woman to compete in a World Rally Car, driving for Ford in the World Rally Championship National Ladies Rally Champion TEDx speaker: Mental Toughness: The One Thing That Will Change Everything, delivered at TEDxRoyalHolloway, hosted on the TED platform Author of three books: 365 Ways to Develop Mental Toughness (John Murray One, 2023), World Class Thinking, World Class Behaviour (2018), and Take Control of Your Life (2010) Television presenter across two decades: Channel 4’s Driven, Channel 4 WRC coverage, ITV’s Used Car Roadshow, Accident Blackspots, Good Morning Britain, BBC Breakfast Client roster includes Microsoft, Google, Santander, Coca-Cola, NatWest, Airbus, Tesco, Jaguar, and Sony Biography Penny Mallory became the first and only woman in the world to compete in a World Rally Car for Ford in the World Rally Championship. Before that, she was National Ladies Rally Champion. Both achievements came after a teenage period of homelessness, living in hostels in London, in circumstances that made either outcome statistically unlikely. Her career is the argument she makes in every room she enters. Mental toughness, in her framework, is not a disposition some people are fortunate enough to have. It is a trainable personality trait – measurable through the MTQPlus psychometric and buildable through deliberate practice. The 4Cs model underpinning that tool (Control, Commitment, Challenge, Confidence) gives organisations a shared language for the mindset conversation and a diagnostic foundation for acting on it. Mallory uses this assessment in her coaching and workshop work, making her delivery measurable rather than merely motivational. The intellectual case for this is laid out across three books, from Take Control of Your Life (2010) through World Class Thinking, World Class Behaviour (2018) to 365 Ways to Develop Mental Toughness, published by John Murray One in 2023. The TEDx talk, Mental Toughness: The One Thing That Will Change Everything, delivered at TEDxRoyalHolloway and hosted on the TED platform, extends the same argument to a wider audience. Across two decades of television presenting; Channel 4, ITV, and BBC, she developed the communication discipline to make complex performance psychology accessible without diluting it. The organisations that work with her; Microsoft, Google, Santander, Coca-Cola, NatWest, Airbus, are not primarily looking for inspiration. They are looking for a framework their people can use under pressure. The motorsport history gives Mallory a credibility floor that few performance speakers can match; the psychometric grounding and publishing record give her the structural depth to sustain the conversation after the event. Key speaking topics Mental Toughness and Performance Psychology Resilience Under Pressure High-Performance Mindset Sustaining Peak Performance in Teams Leadership Behaviour Under Stress Building a Performance Culture Personal Accountability and Commitment Psychological Approaches to Change Ideal for Senior leadership and executive teams facing sustained performance pressure, significant change, or post-restructuring recovery CHROs and People Directors building the case for psychological resilience as a workforce development priority Sales, commercial, and revenue-critical teams operating under consistent target pressure Leadership conferences in financial services, professional services, technology, and corporate sectors Audience outcomes A working definition of mental toughness as a trainable trait – grounded in the 4Cs model – that participants can apply immediately in a business context Specific, named practices for building confidence, focus, commitment, and resilience under sustained pressure Greater awareness of how personal accountability shapes collective team performance A reframe of pressure from an obstacle to a manageable and even generative condition Insight into the relationship between mindset, sustained performance, and organisational results

Why organisations work with Noëlla Coursaris Musunka She has built and run an institution from scratch in eastern Congo for nearly two decades. The leadership lessons she draws on are operational, not theoretical. Her platform sits across philanthropy, fashion and global health. She is a Global Fund ambassador alongside Bono, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Charlize Theron, which gives corporate audiences a peer-level voice on global development. She translates a five-pillar community model (education, health, water, food, livelihoods) into a frame senior teams can apply to their own ESG and impact strategies. She brings a personal arc, from being separated from her mother at five to founding a school in her birth country, that audiences hear as testimony rather than corporate narrative. Her recognition by the BBC’s 100 Women, ELLE, the Muhammad Ali Center and the United Nations gives buyers external validation that does not depend on bureau marketing. Biography highlights Founder and CEO of Malaika, a free school and community ecosystem in Kalebuka, DRC, founded 2007. Ambassador of The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, appointed 2017. Named one of the BBC’s 100 Women (2017) and one of ELLE’s 50 African women shaping the continent (2016). Speaker at the World Economic Forum, the United Nations, UNICEF, the UK Parliament, the Clinton Global Initiative, Concordia and the Milken Institute Global Conference. Honoured by the Muhammad Ali Center as a “Daughter of Greatness” and recognised at the Nelson Mandela centenary by the House of Mandela. International model with campaigns including Agent Provocateur and editorial coverage in Vogue and Vanity Fair. Biography The DRC is one of the hardest places on earth to build an institution. Malaika has been operating there since 2007, running a free girls’ school, a community centre, vocational training, an agriculture programme and clean water and sanitation services in the village of Kalebuka. It was founded by Noella Coursaris Musunka, who is still its CEO. Her route to that work is unusual. Born in the DRC to a Cypriot father and a Congolese mother, she was sent to relatives in Europe at five after her father died and her mother could no longer support her. She returned at eighteen, met her mother again, and saw what girls in her birth country were facing. The school followed. The substance of her leadership argument is operational. Malaika is not a single-issue charity. It is a five-pillar model built on the recognition that girls cannot stay in school if their families cannot eat, drink clean water or earn a living, and that change has to be made with the community, not delivered to it. That logic, applied in a fragile-state context, is what corporate audiences book her to translate into their own strategy and impact work. The platform that funds and amplifies it is global. She is a Global Fund ambassador alongside Bono, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Charlize Theron, has been recognised by the BBC’s 100 Women, ELLE and the Muhammad Ali Center, and has spoken at Davos, the United Nations, UK Parliament, Cambridge, Oxford, Harvard and MIT. Key speaking topics Values-based and purpose-driven leadership Girls’ education and gender equality Building institutions in fragile environments Global health and the Global Fund agenda Founder leadership and social entrepreneurship Inclusion and the African leadership voice Corporate philanthropy and ESG impact Ideal for Boards and executive teams setting purpose, ESG and corporate philanthropy strategy CHROs and DEI leads designing inclusive leadership and values programmes Foundation, family office and impact investing audiences Annual meetings and leadership conferences seeking a credible founder voice on global development Audience outcomes A working model for translating purpose statements into operating institutions, drawn from a fragile-state context. A clearer view of how girls’ education and global health intersect with corporate ESG agendas. A founder’s account of building, funding and sustaining an organisation across nearly two decades. A reframing of values-based leadership through lived experience rather than corporate vocabulary.

Why organisations work with Nigella Lawson Sustained public presence across three decades, from broadsheet journalism through ten million books sold to a current generation of streaming and broadcast audiences. Few hosts carry that breadth of recognition into a corporate room. Track record performing to large, paying audiences in a conversational format, including a sell-out at the Sydney Opera House in 2016. Translates directly to keynote stages, fireside formats and audience interviews. A working point of view on reinvention, women’s voice in competitive industries, and the place of joy and care in working life, drawn from her own career and public life rather than borrowed from a management framework. Brand value at the level of awards hosting, after-dinner sets and partnership activations, where the booking is partly about the room’s response to the name on the programme. Biography highlights Author of How to Eat (1998) and How to Be a Domestic Goddess (2000), the latter winning the British Book Award for Author of the Year. Over ten million books sold globally across titles including Nigella Bites, At My Table, Simply Nigella and Cook, Eat, Repeat. Television series for Channel 4 and the BBC including Nigella Bites, Nigella Feasts, Simply Nigella and Nigella’s Cook, Eat, Repeat. Deputy Literary Editor of The Sunday Times; originated the restaurant column in The Spectator; food columnist for British Vogue; contributor to the Guardian, Observer, Daily Telegraph, Gourmet and Bon Appetit. Fortnum and Mason TV Personality of the Year, 2016. Guild of Food Writers Award and World Food Media Gold Ladle for Nigella Bites. Studied Medieval and Modern Languages at Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford. Biography How to Eat sold three hundred thousand copies in 1998. Its successor, How to Be a Domestic Goddess, won the British Book Award for Author of the Year in 2001. Those two books did something the food category had not previously achieved at that scale in the UK, they spoke to a reader rather than instructing a cook, and they established Nigella Lawson as a writer first and a presenter second. The journalism came first. After Oxford she was Deputy Literary Editor of The Sunday Times, originated the restaurant column at The Spectator, and wrote the food column at British Vogue. The prose carried across into broadcast when Nigella Bites launched on Channel 4 in 1999. The series and its successors, Nigella Feasts, Simply Nigella, At My Table and Cook, Eat, Repeat, sold the books they accompanied and reset the tone of food television in English. The corporate proposition draws on the same instincts. Audiences come for warmth, command of an audience, and a presence that has been earned across thirty years of public work, including a sell-out at the Sydney Opera House in 2016 and frequent appearances at awards, festivals and live events. The themes she takes onto a stage, reinvention, the long arc of a working life, the right to claim pleasure and care as serious values, are spoken by someone who has lived them publicly rather than studied them. For organisations she works best as a host, conversation partner or after-dinner draw, where the room responds to a familiar voice on a programme that needs an anchor. Her cumulative sales of over ten million books and her continued reach across broadcast and streaming are the most concrete measure of why audiences turn up. Key speaking topics Reinvention and the long career Women’s voice in competitive industries Wellbeing, joy and care as working values Creativity and curiosity in commercial work Conference hosting and fireside conversation Awards hosting and after-dinner appearances Ideal for Corporate awards nights, gala dinners and partner conferences seeking a recognisable host Internal leadership and culture events on reinvention, voice or wellbeing Brand activations, customer events and retail partnerships in food, lifestyle and consumer categories Women’s networks and senior women’s leadership programmes Audience outcomes A high-recognition moment that lifts the energy and attendance of the wider programme A first-person account of building and rebuilding a public career across thirty years A direct, conversational take on wellbeing and self-compassion at work, framed by lived experience rather than wellness language A confident, professionally hosted conversation or interview segment

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

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

Why organisations work with Maggie Aderin-Pocock She has built optical instruments that flew on ESA satellites and sit inside major ground-based telescopes, so her authority on STEM careers comes from doing the work, not commenting on it. She is one of a small group of scientists who can hold a prime-time television audience, which is why The Sky at Night has kept her on air since 2014. Internal communications teams use her to make technical strategy land with the rest of the business. The Institute of Physics awarded her the 2020 Kelvin Medal for public engagement, the first time a Black woman has received a gold medal from the IoP. That credential gives diversity and inclusion programmes a credible scientific anchor. Through Science Innovation Ltd she has run STEM outreach for more than 350,000 students, giving her practical evidence about what actually moves under-represented young people into technical careers, not just theory. She speaks openly about being diagnosed with dyslexia at eight and the assumptions teachers made about her, which lets leadership audiences hear an inclusion argument grounded in lived experience rather than policy language. Biography highlights BSc in Physics and PhD in Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London. Honorary research associate, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London. Chancellor of the University of Leicester. Co-presenter of BBC’s The Sky at Night, the world’s longest-running television science programme. Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE), 2024, for services to science education and diversity. 2020 William Thomson, Lord Kelvin Medal and Prize from the Institute of Physics. Author of The Sky at Night: Book of the Moon, A Guide to Our Closest Neighbour (Penguin / BBC Books). Biography The instruments that measure wind from space, or split starlight into its component frequencies on a Chilean mountaintop, are built by small teams of engineers most people will never hear of. Maggie Aderin-Pocock has spent her career inside those teams. She managed the observation instruments for the European Space Agency’s Aeolus satellite at Astrium, and led a group of seventeen engineers building a high-resolution spectrograph for the Gemini telescope in Chile. That hands-on instrumentation career sits underneath everything else she does. It is why a BBC commissioner trusted her with The Sky at Night, the longest-running television science programme in the world, and why universities and government bodies treat her science communication as substantive rather than decorative. Imperial College trained her as a physicist and mechanical engineer; University College London hosts her as an honorary research associate; the University of Leicester appointed her Chancellor in 2023. Public engagement is the second strand of the work, and it has been institutionally recognised. The Institute of Physics awarded her its 2020 Kelvin Medal for exceptional services to science education and physics communication. She was the first Black woman to receive a gold medal from the IoP. Through her social enterprise Science Innovation Ltd she has run hands-on STEM outreach for more than 350,000 students, much of it in inner-city schools that conventional pipelines do not reach. She talks publicly about being diagnosed with dyslexia at eight and being assumed to be heading for a career other than science. That is not autobiography for its own sake, it is the evidence base for how she argues about inclusion: leaders who want a wider technical pipeline have to look at where the system filters people out, not only where it lets them in. She was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2024 for services to science education and diversity. Key speaking topics Diversity and inclusion in STEM Science communication for non-specialist audiences Space science, satellites, and astronomy The future of space exploration STEM education and the technical talent pipeline Curiosity and creativity in technical organisations Ideal for CHROs and heads of talent building technical and STEM pipelines Heads of internal communications translating engineering or science strategy to general audiences DEI leads working on retention and progression of under-represented technical staff Leaders running large customer or employee events that need a credible science voice Audience outcomes A clearer view of where standard recruiting and education pipelines filter out under-represented technical talent, and what actually changes that. Practical language for explaining complex technical work to non-technical colleagues, customers, or boards. A current picture of where space science and satellite technology are heading and what that means for adjacent industries. Renewed conviction among technical staff that their work matters beyond the lab, told through someone who has built instruments that flew.

Why organisations work with Lucy Bloom She has run mission-driven organisations through real turnarounds, including a $7 million fundraising programme at Hamlin Fistula Ethiopia and a model shift from orphanage to community development at Sunrise Cambodia. Her leadership material is drawn from those decisions, not from theory. She is one of a small number of Australian leaders to appear on the global Top 30 #SocialCEOs list, which gives her credibility with audiences that care about purpose translated into delivery. She combines a long commercial career, two decades running a boutique advertising agency, with senior charity leadership. That cross-sector range lets her speak credibly to both corporate and not-for-profit rooms. As a HarperCollins-published author and frequent contributor to ABC, Sky News, the Australian Financial Review and CEO Magazine, she has the public communication craft to hold a senior audience for a full keynote. Biography highlights Founding CEO, Hamlin Fistula Ethiopia (Australia); raised over $7 million for hospitals and a midwifery school in Ethiopia. CEO, Sunrise Cambodia; led the transition from orphanage model to community-first programmes. First and only Australian named to the global Top 30 #SocialCEOs list. Two-time finalist, Telstra Business Woman of the Year Awards. Author of three books across three genres, including the HarperCollins memoir Get the Girls Out (2019). Speaking and writing platform spanning ABC, Sky News, Today, the Australian Financial Review, CEO Magazine and Australian Vogue. Biography Hamlin Fistula Ethiopia is a women’s health charity working in one of the most demanding operating environments in the world. It needed money, a credible Australian operation, and a leader who could hold both the cause and the donor relationships. Lucy Bloom was the founding CEO. Over a few years the Australian arm raised more than $7 million for hospitals and a midwifery school in Ethiopia. She was then headhunted by Sunrise Cambodia, a children’s charity that needed to move away from the orphanage model toward community-first development. She led that transition. She is the first and only Australian on the global Top 30 #SocialCEOs list, a recognition that tracks operating substance rather than profile. Before the charity sector she spent two decades building and running a boutique advertising agency. That commercial track record is why her material lands in corporate rooms as well as not-for-profit ones. Clients she has spoken to include Deloitte, Commonwealth Bank, ANZ, JP Morgan, Amazon Web Services, McDonald’s and Tourism Australia. She is the author of three books across three genres, including the HarperCollins memoir Get the Girls Out, and a regular contributor and interviewee in Australian national media. The throughline across the work is straightforward: how leaders convert conviction into results when the resources are tight and the stakes are real. Key speaking topics Creative leadership Values-based leadership and kindness at work Purpose-driven organisations Resilience and reinvention Storytelling and business communication Change leadership in mission-driven settings Ideal for CEOs and executive teams in mission-driven and purpose-led organisations Boards and leadership teams in not-for-profits and foundations Corporate leadership audiences working on values, culture and purpose Conferences with a women-in-leadership or social-impact track Audience outcomes A working account of how a charity CEO raises seven figures and rebuilds an operating model under constraint. Specific examples of values-based decisions made in real conditions, not as theory. A reframed view of creative leadership as a discipline that produces commercial and social results, not a personality trait. Practical communication craft from a published author and broadcast contributor.