Peak Performance speakers

Why organisations work with James Lawrence He carries two verifiable Guinness World Records and the only completed 100-in-100 full Ironman challenge, which gives any resilience talk an evidence base most motivational speakers cannot match. His 50.50.50 and Conquer 100 attempts are documented on film, in book form with Matt Fitzgerald, and across CNN and Sports Illustrated coverage. The story has been independently verified, so the room does not have to take it on trust. He breaks down what looks like a superhuman feat into operating mechanics that translate to working teams: daily milestones, small repeatable actions, role of the support crew, recovery as part of the work. He has a credible after-dinner and conference-stage presence built on a story arc that lands with mixed audiences, from sales kick-offs to leadership offsites. Biography highlights Two Guinness World Records: 22 half-Ironman-distance races in a year (2010/2011) and 30 full Ironman-distance races in a year (2012). Completed the 50.50.50 in 2015: 50 full Ironman-distance triathlons in 50 consecutive days across 50 US states. Completed Conquer 100 in 2021: 100 consecutive full-distance triathlons over 100 days, extended to 101, totalling 14,060 miles. Subject of the feature documentary Iron Cowboy: The Story of the 50.50.50, distributed on Apple TV and Amazon Prime Video. Author of Iron Cowboy: Redefine Impossible, co-written with sports writer Matt Fitzgerald and published by Regan Arts in 2017. Conquer 100 proceeds were directed to Operation Underground Railroad, an anti-trafficking non-profit. Biography Most resilience content in the corporate market is theoretical. The work behind James Lawrence’s keynotes is not. In 2015 he completed 50 full-distance Ironman triathlons in 50 consecutive days across 50 US states. In 2021 he repeated the logic at twice the length, finishing 101 consecutive full-distance triathlons over 101 days, more than 14,000 miles of swimming, cycling and running. Both attempts are independently documented. The two events sit on top of a longer track record. He held a Guinness World Record for 22 half-Ironman races in one year, then set a second for 30 full Ironman-distance races inside a calendar year. The endurance community uses him as a reference point for what one human, supported correctly, can sustain. What he brings to a stage is not the spectacle but the system underneath it. Daily milestones rather than the total mileage. A clear support model: physiologist, athletic trainer, nutritionist, running partner, family. Recovery treated as part of the workload, not a reward for completing it. The argument transfers cleanly to teams doing long programmes of change, integration, restructuring or sustained client delivery, where the issue is not whether the goal is possible but whether anyone can keep showing up. He documented the 50.50.50 attempt in Iron Cowboy: Redefine Impossible, co-written with Matt Fitzgerald and published by Regan Arts in 2017, and in the feature documentary of the same period. Proceeds from Conquer 100 were committed to Operation Underground Railroad, an anti-trafficking non-profit. The cause framing matters: the records were not the point on their own. Key speaking topics Endurance and human performance Personal resilience under sustained pressure Goal setting and daily execution Mental strength and overcoming self-doubt Team and support-system design Leadership through long, hard programmes Ideal for Sales kick-offs and annual conferences where the year ahead is being framed as a long campaign Leadership offsites focused on resilience, burnout and sustained performance After-dinner slots at client and partner events where the audience is mixed and a strong narrative is needed Audience outcomes A concrete reference point for what disciplined daily execution looks like under fatigue A working language for breaking long, hard programmes into daily milestones A specific account of how a support system around a high performer is structured and used Renewed confidence that targets framed as impossible are often a sequence of solved daily problems

Why organisations work with James Peach Twenty years of senior in-house brand work at Innocent, Coca-Cola, Uber and Vinted, including running a 120-person team across 18 countries through Vinted’s first profit milestone. He speaks from the operator’s seat, not the consultant’s chair. The Growth Project, his own framework, replaces the generic growth-mindset language most leadership programmes default to with a behavioural model built around how teams actually break and recover. A solo unsupported world cycle of 41,000km across 38 countries gives him a working laboratory for sustained performance under pressure that most performance speakers do not have. The expedition material is evidence, not metaphor. Active ambassadorship for CALM and visible mental health advocacy mean he can speak honestly about burnout and recovery without slipping into the wellness-industry register that senior audiences reject. Equally credible on brand and marketing strategy when the brief calls for it, drawing on direct accountability for some of the most-watched consumer brands of the last two decades. Biography highlights Former Global Brand Director, Vinted, leading a team of 120 across 18 countries during the platform’s path to first profit Former Head of Brand & Campaigns UKI, Uber, and former UK Senior Brand Manager, Innocent Drinks Career experience also includes Coca-Cola, alongside founder mentoring from seed to scale-up Founder of The Growth Project, a proprietary framework on resilience, performance and team growth Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society; Ambassador for CALM, the Campaign Against Living Miserably Cycled 41,000km solo and unsupported around the world over two years, across 38 countries; completed the UK’s first full-country triathlon spanning its length, width and height Biography Most senior teams are not short of strategy. They are short of the human bandwidth to execute it after three years of restructure, cost programmes and AI-driven redesign. Resilience, in that context, is not a wellness benefit. It is whether your leadership bench can still make sharp decisions on a Friday afternoon in month thirty of permanent change. That is the working problem James Peach addresses. Twenty years inside Innocent, Coca-Cola, Uber and Vinted, including a Global Brand Director role at Vinted leading 120 people across 18 countries through the platform’s first profit milestone, gave him a direct view of how brand-led businesses hold together when growth flattens and pressure builds. The Growth Project, his own framework, sits on that experience. The expedition record is the second source. Two years cycling 41,000km solo and unsupported across 38 countries, hikes across South and Central America and Scandinavia, and the first full-length, full-width, full-height triathlon of the United Kingdom are not anecdotes in his talks. They are case material on sustained performance, recovery cycles, and decision quality when conditions degrade. His Royal Geographical Society fellowship sits behind that work. The third strand is his ambassadorship for CALM, the Campaign Against Living Miserably. It lets him speak about burnout, recovery and mental health in operator language, with the credibility of someone who has done the corporate hours and the physical extremes, and stayed honest about both. Key speaking topics Resilience and performance under sustained pressure Team and culture leadership through change Brand-led business growth and reinvention Mental health, burnout and recovery in senior leadership Lessons from extreme endurance applied to commercial teams High-performance team behaviours Building cultures that compound growth Ideal for CHROs, transformation leads and senior HR teams running multi-year change programmes CMOs and brand leaders rebuilding marketing functions for relevance and growth Executive teams entering a profitability or efficiency phase after a long growth cycle Leadership offsites and senior all-hands focused on team performance and wellbeing Audience outcomes A working definition of resilience that holds up in operating reviews, not only in HR comms A concrete read on what changes inside a high-performing team when pressure becomes constant Specific behaviours leaders can name and reinforce to stop quiet attrition and burnout in senior layers Honest language for talking about mental health with senior people without defaulting to wellness cliches A renewed argument for why brand and culture are operating assets, drawn from inside Innocent, Uber and Vinted

Why organisations work with James Whittle A first-person account of decision-making after 54 days of unsupported ocean rowing, three days on the wall of El Capitan, and a world-first Patagonia triathlon, drawn on directly rather than borrowed from research. A deliberate “started from zero” frame that lands with workforces who are tired of being shown ex-special-forces or Olympic-medallist case studies and find them remote. A track record of repeat work with Nike, Google, Microsoft, JP Morgan, Heineken and Airbnb, which gives buyers reassurance that the material survives a senior corporate audience. A second business, Dose, built around translating expedition lessons into ongoing workplace wellbeing programmes for clients including BNY Mellon and IBM, so the keynote sits inside a wider intervention rather than a one-off appearance. A speaking partnership with Tom Caulfield that allows two-handed delivery, useful for offsites and team experiences where a single-voice keynote would not hold the room. Biography highlights Co-founder, The Tempest Two, the speaking and adventure partnership with Tom Caulfield. Co-founder, Dose, a workplace wellbeing company working with Nike, BNY Mellon, IBM and Airbnb. Rowed the Atlantic unsupported, Canary Islands to Barbados, 3,000 miles in 54 days, with no prior rowing experience. World-first ultra-triathlon across Patagonia: 1,600km cycle, 65km mountain run, 100km stand-up paddleboard descent of the La Leona River. Climbed El Capitan in Yosemite, encountering Alex Honnold and Tommy Caldwell on the wall. Speaking client list includes Google, Nike, Airbnb, JP Morgan, Microsoft, Heineken, Red Bull and Vodafone. Biography The honest version of resilience is not a poster on an office wall. It is what someone does on day forty of an Atlantic crossing when the water-maker has failed and the next port is still two weeks away. That is the territory The Tempest Two have spent the better part of a decade walking into on purpose. The duo, James Whittle and Tom Caulfield, started with no rowing experience and crossed 3,000 miles of ocean in 54 days. They followed it with a world-first ultra-triathlon in Patagonia and three days on the granite face of El Capitan. The pattern is deliberate: pick a discipline neither of them has practised, give themselves enough runway to learn it, and put the result in front of a corporate audience as material on how ordinary people make hard decisions under load. That positioning is what gives the work its commercial weight. Most adventure speakers come from a military or elite-sport background that audiences quietly discount as unreachable. The Tempest Two reject that framing on principle, which is why their keynote travels into rooms at Nike, Google, Microsoft, JP Morgan and Heineken without losing the audience halfway through. Whittle’s second business, Dose, takes the same lessons and converts them into structured workplace wellbeing programmes for clients including BNY Mellon, IBM and Airbnb. The keynote is the front door; the operating model behind it is closer to a sustained intervention on team energy and recovery than a one-time motivational booking. Key speaking topics Resilience under sustained pressure Decision-making in degraded conditions Team performance on long-duration projects Risk and the comfort zone Wellbeing as a performance variable Adventure-led leadership development Ideal for HR and people leaders running offsites focused on team energy and recovery Sales and commercial leadership conferences where the brief is grit and momentum, not strategy content Programme leads on long-duration transformations who need to address fatigue head-on Senior all-hands events that need a non-corporate voice to shift the register Audience outcomes A concrete picture of how a small team makes decisions when the original plan has stopped working A vocabulary for resilience that does not collapse into platitude A reset on the difference between high-effort discomfort and actual risk A reason to look at recovery and energy management as a leadership concern, not a personal one

Why organisations work with Jamie Andrew He speaks from a lived reinvention most audiences will never encounter: five nights trapped on Les Droites, the loss of all four limbs, and a decade of returning to elite mountaineering, including a Matterhorn summit. His story gives wellbeing and resilience programmes something concrete to anchor to, rather than another framework slide that no one remembers after the offsite. He writes as well as he speaks. Life and Limb won the Banff Mountain Book Festival Prize for Literature, which places him in a different category from most adventure-circuit speakers. He has delivered in more than 40 countries for audiences at Microsoft, Vodafone, Roche, PepsiCo, Procter and Gamble, Toyota and Tetra Pak, which means he reads corporate rooms and adapts to them. Biography highlights Author of Life and Limb (Portrait, 2004), winner of the Banff Mountain Book Festival Prize for Literature and shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Prize. First quadruple amputee to summit the Matterhorn (2016), climb Mont Blanc (2002) and Kilimanjaro, and to complete the London Marathon (2001) and an Ironman triathlon. Keynote experience in more than 40 countries across five continents, with clients including Microsoft, Toyota, Vodafone, Roche, Danone, Procter and Gamble, PepsiCo and Tetra Pak. Appointed OBE for services to charity. Biography In January 1999, a storm pinned two climbers to the north face of Les Droites in the French Alps for five nights. One did not come home. The survivor, severely frostbitten, reached hospital in septic shock and lost both hands and both feet. That survivor later walked up Blackford Hill in Edinburgh, learned to run on prosthetics, and then went back to the mountains. The practical point for organisations is not the drama of the accident. It is what happened afterwards. Jamie Andrew has climbed Mont Blanc, Kilimanjaro and the Matterhorn as a quadruple amputee. He finished the London Marathon in 2001 and an Ironman triathlon. Each of those took years of structured relearning, and each required a different approach to preparation, risk, and what a team can reasonably be asked to carry. The written record matters here. Life and Limb, published by Portrait in 2004, won the Banff Mountain Book Festival Prize for Literature and was shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Prize. It is a careful book by someone who has examined what actually held him together through rehabilitation and what did not. Andrew’s audiences tend to be in the middle of something hard: a restructure, a performance reset, a wellbeing programme that is not landing. He gives those rooms a point of reference that is not abstract. The stories are specific, the lessons are tested against a life that kept going, and the register is matter-of-fact rather than inspirational in the usual sense. Key speaking topics Resilience and recovery under extreme pressure Team performance in high-stakes conditions Risk, judgement and decision-making Goal setting across long time horizons Motivation and sustained effort Change and personal reinvention Leadership through adversity Ideal for CHROs and wellbeing leads designing resilience, mental health and engagement programmes that need a credible human anchor Leadership teams navigating a major change, restructure or performance reset Sales, operations and frontline audiences where motivation and long-horizon effort are the performance issue Employee conferences, kick-offs and offsites that need a keynote the room remembers the following Monday Audience outcomes A concrete reference point for what resilience looks like when the stakes are real, not rhetorical A clearer sense of what teams owe one another when conditions deteriorate Language for talking about recovery, setbacks and reinvention without resorting to slogans A sharper view of the difference between motivation that lasts and motivation that fades by the following week

Why organisations work with Jamie Clarke He has an unusually specific evidence base for leadership under pressure: two Mount Everest summits, the Seven Summits, a 1,126 km camel crossing of the Empty Quarter, and two failed Everest attempts that shape how he talks about recovery. He is a named performance coach to the 2018 Stanley Cup winning Washington Capitals and Hockey Canada’s 2018 PyeongChang team, so his material translates into elite team environments, not just general audiences. His academic base at the University of Calgary’s Haskayne School of Business Centre for Advanced Leadership gives the work a teaching structure, not only a story arc. He pairs expedition narrative with operator experience, having built and run LiveOutThere.com through growth, a Profit Hot 50 ranking in 2013 and eventual closure, so the failure material is first-hand. His delivery is built for senior audiences that have heard every motivational speaker before; the work is about decisions under uncertainty, not summit photography. Biography highlights Summited Mount Everest on 23 May 1997 and again on 17 May 2010, after two earlier unsuccessful attempts. Completed the Seven Summits between 1993 and 2008. Crossed the Empty Quarter of Arabia by camel in 1999, a 1,126 km, 40-day expedition with brother Leigh Clarke and Bruce Kirkby. Associate adjunct professor and fellow at the University of Calgary’s Haskayne School of Business, Centre for Advanced Leadership. Performance coach for the 2018 Stanley Cup winning Washington Capitals and Hockey Canada in PyeongChang 2018. Author of Everest to Arabia (2001) and co-author of The Power of Passion with Alan Hobson, later republished as Above All Else: The Everest Dream. Founder of LiveOutThere.com, ranked No. 39 on Profit Magazine’s 2013 Hot 50. Biography The second Everest attempt came apart at 8,300 metres in 1994. The team Clarke was part of had the summit in reach and turned back. He went home, rebuilt the expedition, and made the top in 1997, then returned and did it again in 2010. Two failed attempts sit on the same CV as two successful ones, and that is the part of the story he now teaches from. The work is about what teams do in the hours after the plan stops working. Clarke has built a leadership practice on specific expedition evidence rather than metaphor: the 1997 and 2010 Everest summits, the 1,126 km Empty Quarter crossing by camel in 1999, the Seven Summits completed across fifteen years, and the 2019 Mongolian motorbike traverse with his son Khobe. Each expedition produced a different failure mode, which is the material he uses with senior teams. His academic base is the University of Calgary’s Haskayne School of Business, where he is an associate adjunct professor and fellow in the Centre for Advanced Leadership. His coaching work has been with elite performance environments under real stakes, including the Washington Capitals through their 2018 Stanley Cup run and Hockey Canada at the 2018 PyeongChang Olympics. Barry Trotz’s on-record comment after the Capitals won reads as a working review, not a blurb. Clarke also operated as a founder. LiveOutThere.com grew into a Profit Hot 50 retailer in 2013 and closed in 2017. He has run the inside of a business that did well and then did not, which is why the failure and recovery material in his talks sounds like first-hand accounting rather than adventure content. Key speaking topics Leadership under uncertainty Team performance in high-stakes environments Recovery after setback and failure Resilience and decision-making under stress Expedition leadership as organisational case study Culture and morale in long-cycle projects Coaching elite teams through pressure Ideal for CEOs and executive teams going into contested strategic bets Leadership development and executive education cohorts Sales and performance leaders preparing teams for long, high-pressure cycles Boards and senior groups that have already heard the standard motivational set Audience outcomes A sharper sense of how high-performing teams behave in the hours after a plan breaks. Specific expedition decisions, named and dated, that map onto organisational choices under pressure. A working language for separating recoverable setbacks from terminal ones. A clearer view of the leader’s job when morale, information and authority are all moving at once. Practical reference points drawn from elite hockey and Olympic environments, not generic motivation.

Why organisations work with Jamie Roberts He carries 94 Wales caps, two Lions tours and a 2009 Lions Player of the Series award, with the operational vocabulary that goes with it: selection, cycle planning, recovery, accountability inside a small group. He completed a Cardiff University medical degree, a Cambridge MPhil in Medical Science and a Loughborough MBA while playing professional rugby, giving him a credible voice on dual-career discipline that most athlete speakers cannot match. As an Independent Non-Executive Director on the Welsh Rugby Union Board, he speaks from current governance experience, not retired anecdote. His autobiography Centre Stage, written with Ross Harries and published by Hodder and Stoughton, gives buyers a sourced, on-record account of the moments he draws on from stage. Biography highlights 94 Wales caps and two British and Irish Lions tours (2009, 2013); named Lions Player of the Series in South Africa, 2009. Two Six Nations Grand Slams (2008, 2012) and the 2013 Six Nations Championship title. BSc Sport and Exercise Science from Cardiff Met, MBBCh in Medicine from Cardiff University, MPhil in Medical Science from Queens’ College, Cambridge, and MBA from Loughborough University. Independent Non-Executive Director on the Welsh Rugby Union Board, appointed October 2023. Author of Centre Stage (Hodder and Stoughton, 2021), co-written with Ross Harries. Honorary Fellow of Cardiff Metropolitan University (2023); started NHS Foundation training in Cardiff and Vale Health Board in 2025. Biography Inside elite rugby, the gap between training and Test match is small, public and unforgiving. Selection lasts a week. Recovery windows are measured in hours. The same group has to perform again, in front of cameras, after the last result has been dissected on television. That is the operational world Jamie Roberts lived in for seventeen years. He won 94 caps for Wales between 2008 and 2017, lifted Grand Slams in 2008 and 2012, took the Six Nations title in 2013 and toured twice with the British and Irish Lions. On the 2009 tour to South Africa he was named Player of the Series alongside Brian O’Driscoll in midfield. Most athletes at that level commit fully and exclusively to the game. Roberts was qualifying as a doctor at the same time. He completed his medical degree at Cardiff University in 2013, an MPhil in Medical Science at Queens’ College, Cambridge in 2017 and an MBA at Loughborough in 2020. The combination is unusual and useful. It gives him a vocabulary for performance that translates easily to clinical settings, board agendas and commercial teams, without leaning on rugby metaphor. Since 2023 he has sat on the Welsh Rugby Union Board as an Independent Non-Executive Director, a role he took during a difficult period for the governing body. He began NHS Foundation training in Cardiff in 2025. His autobiography Centre Stage, written with Ross Harries, is the on-record source for the stories audiences hear from him: selection, injury, the loss of a Wales place after a decade, and what holds a senior group together when the result is public. Key speaking topics Team performance under public pressure Leadership inside elite small groups Dual-career discipline and identity Resilience after setback and reinvention Sport, medicine and governance crossovers Mental approach to high-stakes selection Ideal for Senior leadership teams under sustained external scrutiny Sales, partnership and trading floors operating on short performance cycles Healthcare, professional services and regulated organisations interested in dual-career and clinical-leader perspectives Conferences and dinners seeking a credible, articulate sports voice with substantive content beyond playing anecdote Audience outcomes A clearer view of how elite teams sustain performance across a long competitive cycle, not a single peak Practical reference points for composure when results are visible and immediate A frank account of what selection, demotion and recovery feel like inside a high-performing group Insight into how a serious second discipline can sit alongside, rather than dilute, a primary role A grounded perspective on leadership and governance from someone currently inside both clinical and rugby boardroom settings

Why organisations work with Jamil Qureshi Six individuals to world number one, five Ryder Cup captains advised, 22 golfers ranked inside the world top 50. The track record in elite sport is operationally specific, not rhetorical. He has designed and embedded long-running change programmes at scale: Lloyds Banking Group’s ‘Journey to World Class’, the Post Office’s separation from Royal Mail, and Marks & Spencer. He has run transformation inside organisations, not only spoken about it. He translates the psychology of sustained pressure from environments where the cost of failure is public and immediate (Premier League, Ryder Cup) into boardrooms where it usually is not. One of a small number of external psychologists invited to study astronauts on the 2008 NASA Space Programme. The framework has been pressure-tested in domains most speakers can only describe. Biography highlights First-ever official psychologist appointed to the European Ryder Cup team by captain Ian Woosnam in 2006; has since worked with five Ryder Cup captains. Has worked with 22 golfers ranked inside the world top 50, with Premier League players from Liverpool, Manchester United, Manchester City and Chelsea, with Formula 1 drivers David Coulthard and Eddie Irvine, and with members of the 2009 England Ashes-winning cricket team. Designed and delivered board-level leadership and change programmes for Coca-Cola, Hewlett Packard, Emirates Airlines, Cisco, GSK, and Lloyds Banking Group. Author of The Mind Coach, published by Penguin, on the psychological foundations of personal and professional performance. One of a small number of external psychologists invited to study astronauts on the 2008 NASA Space Programme. Listed by GQ Magazine among the most influential figures in British sport (2009); named in The Daily Mirror’s top 100 coaches in the world (2023). Biography At the 2006 Ryder Cup at the K Club, Europe beat the United States by a record-equalling margin. Captain Ian Woosnam had done something no Ryder Cup captain had done before: he appointed an official psychologist to the team. That psychologist was Jamil Qureshi. Sport had been treating mindset as decisive for years. Most boards still treat it as a soft skill, even as senior leaders increasingly face the conditions of elite athletes: sustained scrutiny and very narrow margins for error. Qureshi has spent two decades closing that gap. He has helped six individuals reach world number one in their sport, advised five Ryder Cup captains, and worked with 22 golfers ranked inside the world top 50. Premier League players at Liverpool, Manchester United, Manchester City and Chelsea sit on the same client list as Coca-Cola, Hewlett Packard, Emirates Airlines, Cisco, GSK and Lloyds Banking Group. In business, the work goes well beyond keynotes. Qureshi designed and embedded leadership and change programmes for Lloyds Banking Group’s ‘Journey to World Class’, the Post Office’s cultural separation from Royal Mail, and Marks & Spencer. Through Covid he ran extensive work with global leadership teams at SAS, GSK, Janssen, NHS England and Protiviti as they reset around remote and hybrid leadership. His book, The Mind Coach, published by Penguin, sets out the psychological foundations he applies in both worlds. Skill gets people to the top. What keeps them there, and what determines whether the team around them performs when it matters, is something organisations rarely build deliberately. That is what Qureshi is asked in to do. Key speaking topics Performance psychology in business High-performing teams Leadership under sustained pressure Mindset and behavioural change Cultural change and transformation Translating elite sport into business performance Hybrid and remote leadership Ideal for Boards and CEO leadership teams setting expectations for performance under sustained pressure Sales and commercial leadership teams where individual mindset shapes pipeline outcomes HR and L&D directors building leadership programmes that need psychological substance, not theory Senior leadership conferences where elite-sport credibility opens the room Audience outcomes Specific behaviours for performing under sustained pressure, drawn from how elite athletes actually train A sharper view of where individual mindset constrains team output, and what to do about it Language for leaders to talk about psychology without it sounding soft A more honest read on the gap between intent and execution in their own teams

Why organisations work with Jann Mardenborough He carries a verified outlier credential: third in the LMP2 class at the 2013 Le Mans 24 Hours, reached in two years from a Gran Turismo console with no prior motorsport background. His subject is composure after consequence. The 2015 Nürburgring crash, which killed a spectator and which he chose to allow into the Sony Pictures film, is part of what he discusses, not a fact left at the door. The Gran Turismo film, in which Archie Madekwe plays him and on which he served as co-producer and stunt driver, gives audiences immediate recognition without requiring a motorsport brief. He has operated inside two of the most demanding racing cultures in the world, Japan’s Super GT and Super Formula, where the working language and feedback loops are not built around his first language. Biography highlights Won the 2011 Nissan GT Academy, beating more than 90,000 entrants on Gran Turismo before progressing through a real-car final at Silverstone. Third in LMP2 class at the 2013 24 Hours of Le Mans with Greaves Motorsport; further Le Mans entries in 2014 and 2015, the latter with Nissan’s LMP1 programme. Second in the 2016 All-Japan Formula 3 Championship, with four wins, six poles and twelve podiums. Long Japanese career across Super GT GT300 and GT500 and Super Formula, including a GT300 win at Fuji. Co-producer, stunt driver and consultant on Gran Turismo (Sony Pictures, 2023), portrayed by Archie Madekwe. Simulator and test driver in Formula E for Nissan e.dams and McLaren (2021 to 2022); signed by HRT Ford Performance for the 2025 GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup. Biography The 2011 Nissan GT Academy final was a twenty-minute race at Silverstone in real GT cars, contested between gamers who had never sat in one. Jann Mardenborough won it by eight seconds and signed a professional racing contract the same week. He had been playing Gran Turismo since he was eight. Two years later he stood on the LMP2 podium at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. That trajectory is unusual enough on its own. What makes the story usable for senior audiences is what came after. In 2015 his Nissan GT-R Nismo left the circuit at the Nürburgring Nordschleife, cleared the catch fencing at Flugplatz and killed a spectator. He survived. He returned to racing. He later agreed to let the incident appear in the Sony Pictures Gran Turismo film, on which he was co-producer, stunt driver and consultant. The professional record sits alongside that. Second in the 2016 All-Japan Formula 3 Championship with four wins and a dozen podiums. A GT300 win at Fuji. Multiple seasons in Super GT’s top GT500 class and in Super Formula, racing inside an engineering culture that does not run on his first language. Simulator and test work in Formula E with Nissan e.dams and McLaren. A 2025 signing with HRT Ford Performance for the GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup. The talk he gives is about what performance actually costs once the conditions stop being forgiving, and what a person and a team have to keep doing on the morning after a setback that is not theoretical. Few speakers in this category can address that subject from inside the event rather than at a remove. Key speaking topics High-performance under pressure Composure and recovery after setback Mindset and the transition from amateur to professional Decision-making at speed Cross-cultural performance in elite sport Digital disruption and unconventional career paths Ideal for Leadership teams preparing for high-stakes execution windows: product launches, results days, regulatory events Sales, trading and operations groups whose work is judged on consistency under pressure Talent and L&D programmes addressing resilience and career reinvention Corporate partner activations for motorsport, gaming and automotive sponsors Audience outcomes A concrete account of what changes inside a performer between an amateur ceiling and a professional one A sharper sense of what composure looks like in the hours and days after a serious setback A working frame for thinking about decision-making when feedback is immediate and consequence is high Recognition that high-performance careers are made of recoveries, not only of wins

Why organisations work with Jason Redman A named decision framework, Get Off the X, that translates combat crisis response into language a commercial team can use when a project, customer or market situation collapses. A New York Times bestselling author of The Trident and Overcome, the second built on interviews with Admiral William McRaven, General Stanley McChrystal and Jocko Willink. Combat credibility that is specific and documented: wounded by machine gun fire outside Fallujah in 2007, awarded the Bronze Star with Valor and the Purple Heart, returned to active duty and commanded again. Works with Fortune 500 audiences including NASCAR, NFL and MLB organisations, Dell and McDonald’s, which gives him a tested range across corporate, sports and operational cultures. Founded Wounded Wear and the Combat Wounded Coalition, so the resilience content is not theoretical. He has built and run an organisation whose entire purpose was helping people rebuild after catastrophic loss. Biography highlights Retired US Navy SEAL Lieutenant, 21 years of service, 11 enlisted and roughly 10 as an officer. Awarded the Bronze Star Medal with Valor, the Purple Heart and the Defense Meritorious Service Medal; holder of the US Army Ranger Tab. New York Times bestselling author of The Trident: The Forging and Reforging of a Navy SEAL Leader (William Morrow). Author of Overcome: Crush Adversity with the Leadership Techniques of America’s Toughest Warriors (Center Street, 2019). Founder of Wounded Wear, which evolved into the Combat Wounded Coalition, a non-profit supporting combat-wounded warriors and families of the fallen. Keynote speaker for Fortune 500 companies, professional sports organisations including NASCAR, the NFL and MLB, and global employers such as Dell and McDonald’s. Biography Outside Fallujah in September 2007, a SEAL assault team walked into heavy machine gun fire. Their commander was hit multiple times, including a round to the face. He kept directing the fight. That commander was Jason Redman, and the next several years of surgeries, rehabilitation and return to duty became the foundation of the leadership method he now teaches to corporate and sporting organisations. Redman spent 21 years in the US Navy, 11 as an enlisted SEAL and nearly a decade as a SEAL officer. His decorations include the Bronze Star Medal with Valor and the Purple Heart. His first book, The Trident, is a New York Times bestseller and is unusual among military memoirs for the candour with which he documents early leadership failure. The book works because he describes being broken as a leader before he describes being rebuilt as one. His second book, Overcome, moves the argument out of his own story and into a wider frame. He interviews Admiral William McRaven, General Stanley McChrystal, Jocko Willink and others to draw out the specific mental and behavioural patterns that let people function in catastrophic conditions. The result is a usable framework rather than a war story. That framework, anchored by Get Off the X and the REACT model, is what he teaches when organisations bring him in to work on crisis response, decision quality and team accountability. The programmes sit on top of operating experience. He founded Wounded Wear, which became the Combat Wounded Coalition, to help combat-wounded service members and Gold Star families rebuild. He also runs Pointman for Life and Get Off the X coaching work. Fortune 500 organisations, including Dell and McDonald’s, and major sporting bodies across the NFL, MLB and NASCAR, have used him to put a language around leadership under pressure that their own teams can carry into the next difficult quarter. Key speaking topics Leadership under pressure Crisis response and decision-making Team accountability and ownership Resilience after setback High-performance team culture Mission planning and execution Personal and organisational recovery Ideal for CEO, COO and senior operating leaders facing a live crisis, restructure or turnaround. Executive teams rebuilding after a failed strategy, product or market entry. Sales, trading and high-pressure commercial functions where decision quality under stress is the core job. Professional sports and performance organisations where team culture and recovery from loss shape the season. Audience outcomes A shared vocabulary for crisis response, anchored by Get Off the X and the REACT model, that leaders can use in live situations. A sharper view of what personal accountability looks like when the plan has failed and blame is the easier option. A usable model for rebuilding a team after a public setback, drawn from Redman’s own command experience and recovery. A clearer understanding of how elite operators think about preparation so that the first decision in a crisis is not the worst one.

Why organisations work with Jean Alesi A decade at the front of Formula One with Tyrrell, Ferrari, Benetton, Sauber, Prost and Jordan, racing wheel to wheel with Senna, Prost and Schumacher. The reference points are first-hand, not researched. A record that names the exact problem leaders are buying for: 32 podiums and one Grand Prix win from 201 starts, including the joint F1 record for most podiums before a first victory. Composure across years of near misses, not a single highlight reel. Operated inside Ferrari from 1991 to 1995, one of the most scrutinised high-performance environments in sport. Useful for leaders dealing with intense external pressure, internal politics and constant public judgement. Continued at elite level after F1 across the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters, the 24 Hours of Le Mans and the Indianapolis 500. A practical case study in reinventing a career when the original platform ends. Knight of the Legion of Honour (France, 2006) and Pirelli ambassador since 2013. Credible to senior European audiences without needing translation. Biography highlights 201 Formula One Grand Prix starts between 1989 and 2001 for Tyrrell, Ferrari, Benetton, Sauber, Prost and Jordan. Winner of the 1995 Canadian Grand Prix for Ferrari; 32 career podiums; joint F1 record holder for most podium finishes before a first win. 1989 International Formula 3000 Champion with Eddie Jordan Racing; 1987 French Formula Three Champion. Five race wins in the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters with Mercedes between 2002 and 2006. Knight of the Legion of Honour, awarded by the French Republic in 2006. Pirelli ambassador since 2013 and co-founder of the Jean Alesi Esports Academy with Matteo Bobbi. Biography Most public-facing roles are evaluated on outcomes that are obvious to outsiders. Formula One is one of the few where the audience watches the process in real time, every fortnight, for years on end. That is the discipline Jean Alesi grew up inside. Alesi raced 201 Grands Prix between 1989 and 2001 for Tyrrell, Ferrari, Benetton, Sauber, Prost and Jordan. He took one victory, at the 1995 Canadian Grand Prix for Ferrari, alongside 32 podiums. He also holds the joint Formula One record for most podiums before a first win. Read together, those numbers describe a long career of being a few decisions or a few seconds short of the result, and continuing to perform at the front anyway. The Ferrari years gave him something most speakers on resilience do not have: five seasons inside one of the most scrutinised teams in professional sport, in an era that included Senna, Prost and Schumacher. The work was not only driving. It was holding personal performance steady inside a public organisation under constant internal change and external judgement. After Formula One he won races in the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters with Mercedes, returned to Le Mans with AF Corse, and entered the 2012 Indianapolis 500. France made him a Knight of the Legion of Honour in 2006. Today, as a Pirelli ambassador and co-founder of the Jean Alesi Esports Academy, his focus is on developing the next generation of competitors, which is the same problem senior leaders face when their job moves from doing the work to building the people who will. Key speaking topics Performance under sustained competitive pressure Composure and decision-making at the limit High-performance team dynamics inside elite organisations Recovery from public setback and near miss Career reinvention after a defining role ends Mentoring and developing next-generation talent Ideal for C-suite and board audiences responsible for the tone of an organisation under scrutiny Sales leadership and commercial teams operating against measurable competitors High-performance environments inside automotive, sport, luxury and engineering Talent and leadership development programmes focused on succession and reinvention Audience outcomes A first-person account of operating at the front of Formula One across the Senna, Prost and Schumacher era A clear view of how elite teams hold composure when results do not come on the expected timeline Specific reference points for handling external pressure, internal change and public judgement at once A working model for moving from individual performance to building the next generation of performers

Why organisations work with Jean Todt He took over a Ferrari racing operation that had not won a Drivers’ Championship in twenty-one years and produced five consecutive titles for Michael Schumacher between 2000 and 2004. Few living executives can speak to a turnaround at that scale and that level of public scrutiny. He has run three different kinds of high-stakes organisation, a manufacturer racing programme at Peugeot, a listed sports car business at Ferrari, and a 145-country federation at the FIA. The leadership lessons translate across commercial, governance, and political environments. He holds a live UN mandate. As Special Envoy for Road Safety since 2015, he negotiates directly with heads of state on a public health crisis that kills roughly 1.19 million people a year. Boards working on ESG, public-private partnership, or regulated-industry strategy get a practitioner, not a commentator. He co-founded the Paris Brain Institute with neurosurgeon Gerard Saillant, putting institutional capital and racing-industry networks behind one of Europe’s largest neuroscience research centres. The pattern, building durable institutions from convening power, is rare. Biography highlights Director of Peugeot Talbot Sport, 1981 to 1993, delivering four World Rally Championship titles, four Paris-Dakar wins, and two Le Mans 24 Hours victories. General Manager of Ferrari’s Racing Division from 1993; CEO of Ferrari S.p.A. from 2004 to 2008. Ninth President of the FIA, 2009 to 2021, three full terms; now FIA Honorary President. UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Road Safety since April 2015, reconfirmed under Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. Co-founder and board member, Paris Brain Institute, ICM, with Professor Gerard Saillant. Author, “The Silent Pandemic On the Road,” Assouline. Grand-Croix de la Legion d’Honneur. Recipient of the Olympic Order. Biography Scuderia Ferrari had not won a Formula One Drivers’ Championship since 1979 when Jean Todt arrived in 1993 as General Manager of the Racing Division. He brought in Michael Schumacher, Ross Brawn, and Rory Byrne, rebuilt the technical organisation around them, and produced the most dominant run in modern Formula One: five consecutive Drivers’ titles between 2000 and 2004 and six Constructors’ titles in seven years. In 2004 he was promoted to CEO of Ferrari S.p.A., responsible for the road car business as well as the racing operation, until 2008. The Ferrari work followed a twelve-year stint at Peugeot Talbot Sport from 1981, where he built the rally programme that produced four World Rally Championship titles, four Paris-Dakar wins, and two Le Mans 24 Hours victories. The pattern across both jobs was the same: take a manufacturer’s competition arm, set a clear technical direction, and hold it long enough for compounding to work. Elected ninth President of the FIA in 2009, Todt served three four-year terms running motor sport’s global governing body across 145 national federations and 245 member organisations. He launched the FIA Action for Road Safety campaign in 2011, which became the platform for his next role: in April 2015, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appointed him Special Envoy for Road Safety, a brief he still holds, working with governments to halve road deaths by 2030. Outside motor sport, Todt co-founded the Paris Brain Institute, ICM, with Professor Gerard Saillant; the institute is now one of the largest neuroscience research centres in Europe. He is a Grand-Croix de la Legion d’Honneur and a recipient of the Olympic Order. His most recent book, “The Silent Pandemic On the Road,” collects more than fifty road safety case studies from the partners and governments he has worked with as UN Envoy. Key speaking topics Turnaround leadership in legacy organisations High-performance team building under public scrutiny Sports governance and federation reform Global road safety policy Public-private partnership for social outcomes Building institutions: from racing to neuroscience Crisis management and decision-making at speed Ideal for CEOs and executive committees running multi-year turnarounds where culture and technical excellence both have to move Boards and chairs working on governance reform, federation oversight, or regulated-industry strategy ESG, public affairs, and sustainability leaders building credible public-private programmes Automotive, mobility, and insurance leadership audiences working on safety, risk, and the energy transition Audience outcomes A working model for rebuilding a senior team when the inherited talent and the public narrative are both against you A clearer view of how political authority, technical authority, and commercial authority interact in regulated industries A first-hand account of negotiating with heads of state on a public health mandate, with the mechanisms that have moved policy and the ones that have not A serious answer to the question of how a leader sustains performance across forty years and three very different institutional roles

Why organisations work with Jeanette Kwakye A working national broadcaster, not a former athlete trading on past results. Buyers get a host who runs live BBC Sport and ITV current affairs every week, with the on-stage instincts that come with it. Rare credibility on women in sport and media. She broke a 24-year drought as a British woman in the Olympic 100m final, then became the first Black female UK presenter to front a terrestrial boxing production. Hosting and moderation experience with Google, Nike, BMW, the IOC and World Athletics, which translates into clean panel craft for senior leadership audiences. Direct, unsentimental on the transition from elite sport to a second career. Useful for talent, learning and DEI conversations that have grown tired of the standard sportsperson keynote. Biography highlights Sixth place in the 100m final at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, the first British woman in that final since 1984. Silver medallist over 60m at the 2008 IAAF World Indoor Championships, equalling the British record of 7.08. BBC athletics trackside reporter; host of BBC Radio 5 Live’s Football Daily podcast; co-host of BBC Radio 5 Live Weekend Breakfast. Co-host of The Martin Lewis Money Show on ITV1. First Black female UK TV presenter to lead a boxing production on a terrestrial channel, on Channel 5. Appointed MBE in the 2021 Birthday Honours for services to sport and sports broadcasting. Loughborough University graduate in Politics and Economics; author of the children’s book Femi the Fox. Biography A British woman had not reached an Olympic 100m final for twenty-four years when Jeanette Kwakye ran 11.14 in Beijing in 2008 and finished sixth. The earlier rounds, not the final, are the part that matters. She trained at Loughborough, came through British championships in both the 100m and 200m, and took silver over 60m at the World Indoors that same year, equalling the British record of 7.08. The second career has the same shape. After retiring in 2014 she went through an NCTJ qualification, started in local BBC radio, and built outwards. She is now a BBC athletics trackside reporter, hosts the Football Daily podcast on BBC Radio 5 Live, co-hosts Weekend Breakfast on the same station, and co-presents The Martin Lewis Money Show on ITV1. In 2020, she became the first Black female presenter on a terrestrial UK boxing production. Her hosting and moderation portfolio outside broadcast covers Google, Nike, BMW, the International Olympic Committee and World Athletics. Senior audiences hire her because she runs a room cleanly, pushes panellists, and brings a working journalist’s instinct to questions of representation and performance rather than a retired-athlete reflection. She was appointed MBE in 2021 for services to sport and sports broadcasting. She is also the author of the children’s book Femi the Fox. Key speaking topics Representation in sport and media Women in broadcasting and elite sport High-performance mindset Career transition from elite sport Olympic preparation and selection Sports broadcasting and journalism Resilience after injury Ideal for Conference and summit organisers needing a host or moderator with senior on-stage credibility DEI, talent and people leaders running events on representation and women’s progression Sports industry, federation and rights-holder events Internal kick-offs and leadership offsites looking for an Olympic-finalist perspective on performance under pressure Audience outcomes A clearer picture of what representation actually changes inside elite environments, told from inside two of them A working definition of high performance that survives contact with injury, deselection and reinvention Practical ground for talent and DEI leaders considering how the pipeline into senior visible roles really moves A panel or fireside that lands cleanly, with a host who keeps senior speakers honest