Peak Performance

Why organisations work with Martine Wright A first-hand account of recovery from catastrophic injury that gives leaders concrete language for talking about adversity, mental health, and return to work without slipping into platitudes. Paralympic-level perspective on marginal gains, team performance, and selection, drawn from competing for Great Britain in sitting volleyball at London 2012 rather than from a textbook. Credibility on inclusion and belonging that comes from being inside the disability sport system, not commenting on it. Useful for ERG launches, accessibility programmes, and culture work where lived authority matters. An MBE, the BBC Helen Rollason Award, and a Sports Book Award-winning memoir give buyers external validation that holds up in front of senior audiences. Consistent broadcast presence with the BBC and Channel 4, including Rio 2016 and Invictus Games, which translates into stage presence and timing that work in front of 10,000-seat audiences and intimate leadership rooms alike. Biography highlights Survivor of the 7 July 2005 London bombings; was the last person extracted alive from the Aldgate carriage and lost both legs above the knee. Member of Great Britain’s women’s sitting volleyball team at the London 2012 Paralympic Games and later team captain. Appointed MBE in the 2016 Birthday Honours for services to sport. Recipient of the BBC Helen Rollason Award at the 2012 BBC Sports Personality of the Year. Author of Unbroken: My Story of Survival from 7/7 Bombings to Paralympic Success (Simon and Schuster, 2017), winner of Autobiography of the Year at the 2018 Sports Book Awards. Broadcaster for the BBC and Channel 4, including roving reporter at the Rio 2016 Paralympics and Invictus Games coverage. Biography The Aldgate bomb on 7 July 2005 killed seven people in a single Circle Line carriage. Martine Wright was the last person brought out alive. She lost roughly eighty percent of her blood, spent a week in a coma, and underwent ten months of surgery and double above-knee amputation. The detail that matters for a corporate audience is what came after: a deliberate decision, sustained over years, to treat recovery as work rather than a wait. That work led to elite sport. Wright took up sitting volleyball during rehabilitation, made the British squad, and was selected for the home Paralympic Games at London 2012, where Team GB fielded a women’s sitting volleyball side for the first time. She later captained the team and earned forty international caps. The 2012 BBC Helen Rollason Award and a 2016 MBE for services to sport followed. Her memoir Unbroken (Simon and Schuster, 2017) won Autobiography of the Year at the 2018 Sports Book Awards and remains the primary text behind her speaking. Alongside the book, she has built a steady broadcast career with the BBC and Channel 4, covering the Rio 2016 Paralympics and Invictus Games, which gives her a level of stage craft most lived-experience speakers do not have. What organisations actually book her for is the translation. Wright takes the language of marginal gains, team selection, mental health, and belonging out of the abstract and grounds it in specific decisions she made and watched others make. NatWest, the NHS, John Lewis, Deloitte, Salesforce, Pfizer, and Aon are among the named clients on her own record. The room leaves with usable vocabulary for the conversations leadership teams already know they need to have. Key speaking topics Resilience and recovery from adversity Mental health and return to work Inclusion, disability, and belonging in the workplace Marginal gains and high-performance teams Change and uncertainty Paralympic sport and elite competition Leadership through crisis Ideal for CHROs and people leaders rolling out wellbeing, mental health, or return-to-work programmes DEI leads and ERG sponsors building disability inclusion and belonging work Leadership teams briefing staff through restructures, crises, or major change programmes All-staff conferences and town halls where the brief calls for an authentic, high-impact keynote rather than a research talk Audience outcomes A vocabulary for talking about adversity, mental health, and recovery that does not feel scripted. Specific examples of how marginal gains and team selection work inside an elite sport environment, drawn from London 2012. A sharper sense of what disability inclusion looks like from inside the experience, useful for shaping ERG and accessibility work. A reset on what is actually possible after a catastrophic setback, anchored in a verifiable personal story rather than abstract motivation.

YuJin Wong is Asia’s leading authority on mental fitness and peak performance in business—delivering powerful, memorable keynotes that energize people and transform organizational culture. From his roots as a lawyer and investment banker, YuJin’s journey into motivational speaking is underpinned by triple academic credentials in psychology, neuroscience, and fitness. He was the first in Asia to achieve Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) status from the Asia Professional Speakers Singapore, an accolade that amplifies his credibility with business audiences seeking proven strategies for resilience, productivity, and well-being. Empowering Business for Real-World Challenges YuJin’s dynamic, research-backed presentations tackle the unique stresses of modern corporate life, where leaders and teams face overload, competitive pressure, and burnout. Through signature frameworks like R.O.C.K.™️, he delivers actionable mental fitness techniques that help organizations: Boost productivity and sustainable performance. Build mental toughness and resilience through adversity. Elevate confidence, self-belief, and leadership impact. Develop a collaborative, high-performance culture that thrives in disruption. Corporate clients benefit from his ability to inspire change that lasts, using an engaging mix of science-based insights, interactive activities, and authentic storytelling. Addressing Core Business Challenging Issues YuJin’s programs expertly address key business challenges: High turnover and disengagement: Practical self-awareness and mental fitness methods help teams stay motivated and focused through tough market cycles. Burnout and mental health stigma: Clear differentiation of mental fitness from traditional mental health equips organizations to build proactive, supportive cultures without stigma, improving retention and morale. Leadership under pressure: YuJin’s real-world experience—his own recovery from financial loss and burnout—resonates with senior leaders navigating stress and uncertainty. Driving innovation and action: Workshops promote creativity, problem-solving, and taking decisive action even in disruptive environments. Engaging, Memorable Delivery YuJin Wong’s stage presence is widely recognized for high energy, emotional intelligence, and spontaneous interaction—ensuring each keynote is not only practical but also fun and unforgettable. He is committed to delivering events that leave participants equipped, inspired, and ready for immediate growth, alongside personalized mental fitness assessments and implementation tools. Awards, Media & Global Impact YuJin’s expertise has earned him multiple awards, including the Global Brands Icon in Wellness & Peak Performance and Asia’s Innovation Leadership Award. A best-selling author and media personality, his insights appear regularly across international media on TV, radio, and print. His reputation as a transformative speaker is celebrated by thousands of business leaders and HR directors worldwide.

About Oli France He has shared his story across the UK and Europe at corporate and charity events, schools and award ceremonies. Whether speaking to small teams, groups of 500 people, or virtually, to remote audiences, Oli’s mission is quite simple: To guide the audience on a journey, bringing empowering new perspectives on resilience, self-confidence, leadership and how we can fulfil our boldest life goals. For over a decade, Oli’s adventures have taken him through deserts, jungles, mountains, and war-torn regions. He has faced spies, interrogators, minefields and arrest, along with avalanches, earthquakes, meningitis and severe dehydration, all while attempting to complete challenging journeys in remote corners of the world, alone or while leading a team. What Oli has learned, however, is that in some of the darkest places and the bleakest situations, we can encounter untold beauty and unshakable strength, if we allow ourselves to find it. Oli illuminates how we can unlock true self-confidence, develop our resilience, and shift our perspectives on what we think is possible. Oli has guided teams through countless high-risk situations across the globe, from the highest mountain in Iraq, to the militia-filled jungles of the Congo, to the backstreets of Aleppo, Syria. The pressures and perils of expedition life mean that quickly developing highfunctioning teams is vital. Oli shares his leadership lessons from these demanding environments, where calm decision-making, intensive planning, open communication and understanding the human factor within our teams is critical.

About James McCabe Irishman Dr. James McCabe inherits his country’s singular tradition of storytelling in all forms and has honed his skill set at Oxford where he gained an award-winning doctorate in literature. James was one of the very first people in Europe to deploy classic story design at enterprise level and has over the last two decades deployed his knowledge across hundreds of corporate events and projects. Equally adept at customizing story design in any industry, function or geography, James brings the trade craft of narrative performance together with contemporary business smarts to help his audience seize the reins themselves. Since the late nineties, James has consulted European, American and Asian entities of all kinds to deploy narrative across leadership, reputation, strategy, brand and culture arenas – from strategic visions and public relations to business development, marketing communications, human relations and personal development. The five biographical phases of organizational life – from starting up and growing to taking over, turning around and evolving – are each brought to life utilizing the timeless story code of empathy, suspense and surprise. James has been involved in large-scale corporate deals, new product and service development, mergers and acquisitions, digital transformations, sustainability drives, start-up scenarios and numerous other corporate engagements. In each case, he combines unique knowledge of story arts with commercial savvy to produce memorable narrative metaphors and kernels. His Fable workshop series is instrumental in bringing original story culture to whole organizations, while his event appearances and keynotes are often the highlight of corporate gigs.

Why organisations work with Guenther Steiner He built a Formula One team from scratch – conceived at his kitchen table during the 2008 financial crisis, brought to the F1 grid seven years later as the first American constructor in thirty years. No other motorsport speaker can talk about team-building from that starting point. His account of accountability is grounded in an environment where failure is timed, televised, and scored. The feedback loop for culture and decision-making in F1 is compressed to minutes, not quarters, which makes his observations directly transferable to any organisation managing high-visibility performance. The Netflix series Drive to Survive documented his leadership style across multiple seasons before a global audience. Organisations booking Steiner get a speaker whose directness and authenticity are already known – the profile is established, not claimed. His perspective spans the full leadership lifecycle – from mechanic to technical manager to managing director (Jaguar Racing), to founding principal (Haas F1), to team owner (Tech3 MotoGP). That breadth is unusual among elite sport speakers who typically occupy a single role. Surviving to Drive, his account of a full F1 season from inside the principal’s office, reached No.1 on the Sunday Times bestseller list. The book provides a structured intellectual foundation for his speaking that event organisers can build audience preparation around. Biography highlights Team Principal, Haas F1 Team, 2014-2023 – led the organisation from formation through eight seasons, including a 5th-place Constructors’ Championship finish (2018) and the team’s first pole position (2022) Managing Director, Jaguar Racing (2001-2003), recruited by Niki Lauda; Technical Operations Director, Red Bull Racing (2004-2006) More than a decade in the World Rally Championship, working with multiple manufacturers including Mazda, Prodrive, and M-Sport Ford, alongside drivers Colin McRae and Carlos Sainz Sr Founder and President of Fibreworks Composites, a carbon composites engineering and manufacturing business Author of Surviving to Drive (2023, Sunday Times No.1 bestseller) and Unfiltered: My Incredible Decade in Formula 1 (2024) Led acquisition of Tech3 MotoGP team in September 2025; assumes CEO role from 2026 – his first major ownership position in motorsport Biography Guenther Steiner wrote his first Haas business plan at his kitchen table during the 2008 financial crisis. Seven years later, the team made its Formula One debut at the 2016 Australian Grand Prix, scoring points in its first race – the most successful debut by a new constructor in F1 this century. That founding story is the foundation of his organisational argument. Building a competitive F1 team with limited resources, in a field where performance is measured to thousandths of a second and broadcast to a global audience, produces a specific kind of leadership discipline. Accountability cannot be deferred. Culture either holds under pressure or it does not. Steiner ran that environment for a decade. His career before Haas is equally instructive. He came up through the World Rally Championship as a mechanic and technical manager – working with championship-winning teams at Mazda, Prodrive, and M-Sport Ford – before Niki Lauda recruited him as Managing Director of Jaguar Racing in F1 in 2001. The transition from engineering discipline to senior management, and eventually to team ownership, gives his perspective a structural credibility that purely managerial career paths rarely provide. In September 2025, Steiner led a consortium to acquire the Tech3 MotoGP team, taking on the CEO role from 2026. The move signals a deliberate expansion of his leadership platform from management to ownership – and adds a new chapter to a practitioner argument about building and scaling competitive motorsport organisations that is already two books and one Netflix series deep. Key speaking topics High-performance team leadership Founding and scaling organisations under resource constraints Accountability and decision-making under competitive pressure Performance culture in high-stakes environments Managing risk and failure Operational resilience in elite sport Leadership transition and team ownership Ideal for Senior leadership teams and C-suite audiences navigating competitive or high-accountability environments CHROs and transformation leads working on performance culture and ownership Boards and executive teams in capital-intensive, operationally complex sectors (manufacturing, technology, professional services) Corporate audiences familiar with Drive to Survive seeking direct engagement with a practitioner whose leadership style is already known Audience outcomes A concrete framework for the relationship between culture, accountability, and performance – drawn from an environment where those variables are tested in real time Specific examples of leadership decisions made under resource constraints and public scrutiny, with the reasoning behind them A clearer understanding of what founding and scaling a high-performance operation actually requires, distinct from received management theory Practical perspective on managing failure productively – how teams that lose well build the foundation for winning Direct insight into what separates declared performance standards from lived performance culture

Why organisations work with Naomi Schiff She has performed at the level she talks about. Schiff drove in the inaugural W Series in 2019, won the 2014 Clio Cup China Series with seven victories in ten races, and finished second in class at the 2018 24 Hours of Nürburgring. Lived authority is uncommon in the inclusion speaking circuit. The Sky Sports F1 analyst role is current. She is in the F1 paddock during race weekends, conducting on-grid interviews and post-session analysis. The examples she uses with corporate audiences come from this season. The W Series Diversity and Inclusion Ambassador title is a structured external credential. The W Series itself was designed to give female drivers a competitive route toward Formula 1, so the inclusion conversation she leads is rooted in operational reality. Bilingual in English and French, with broadcast credits across Sky Sports and Canal+. Useful for European corporate audiences and for events that need a host-fluent presence in both languages. Biography highlights Sky Sports F1 analyst and presenter; full-time on the channel since 2023 W Series Diversity and Inclusion Ambassador, appointed 2020 Inaugural W Series competitor, 2019 2014 Clio Cup China Series champion with seven wins from ten races Second in class at the 2018 24 Hours of Nürburgring Co-presented the Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 W13 launch with Natalie Pinkham, 2022 Biography Few performance environments are as exposed as elite motorsport. At Le Mans or the Nürburgring, the car either makes the lap or it does not, and the data is in the public record by the next morning. There is no committee, no PR layer between driver and result. When the W Series launched in 2019 as the first single-seater championship structured exclusively for female drivers, places on the grid were tightly contested. Schiff was selected for the inaugural season and appointed the championship’s Diversity and Inclusion Ambassador the following year. Her racing record runs across continents. The 2014 Clio Cup China Series, won with seven victories in ten races, brought a five-year contract with a German team. They raced the KTM X-Bow GT across the European GT4 series and 24-hour endurance events. At the 2018 24 Hours of Nürburgring, considered alongside Le Mans the most punishing endurance race in the world, she finished second in class. From 2022 she joined Sky Sports F1 as analyst and presenter, co-presenting the Mercedes-AMG Petronas W13 launch with Natalie Pinkham. She went full-time on the channel in 2023. When online abuse questioned her racing credentials in 2022, Lewis Hamilton publicly defended her place on the Sky team, and the broader F1 paddock followed his lead. Key speaking topics Diversity, equity and inclusion in male-dominated industries Performance under pressure Mental resilience and recovery Women in sport and motorsport High-performance team culture Broadcast hosting and event moderation Ideal for CHROs, DEI leads, and women’s leadership networks in male-dominated sectors such as engineering, automotive, energy and financial services Sponsor activation events and brand-led keynotes connected to motorsport or premium sport Conference programmes that need a host or moderator with current F1 access and bilingual capability Audience outcomes A direct view of how the W Series was structured to create a competitive pathway for female drivers, and what that suggests for pathway design inside corporate organisations Specific examples from the F1 paddock of how teams handle pressure and make decisions at speed A sharper sense of what it costs to be the only woman in a high-performance professional environment, drawn from working experience A current take on the F1 ecosystem and how it manages performance and representation

Why organisations work with Lee McKenzie A live-television hosting standard. Two decades anchoring Formula 1, Olympic, Paralympic, Wimbledon and Six Nations coverage translates directly into conference and awards rooms where the brief is tight scripts, live interviews and zero margin for error. Genuine motorsport access. She has interviewed Lewis Hamilton, Michael Schumacher, Max Verstappen and other Formula 1 World Champions on the record, repeatedly, over fifteen years. That access is the basis of Inside F1, her 2022 book with Black and White Publishing. A first-mover credential that still differentiates. First woman to anchor Formula 1 on British television, first female recipient of the Jim Clark Memorial Award. The story of how she got there is the spine of her keynote material. A trusted hand for sponsor-sensitive rooms. Repeat hosting work for JP Morgan, UBS, Investec, Mercedes-Benz, McLaren Automotive and Castrol indicates a presenter who can read a corporate brief and stay on it. Biography highlights Reporter and presenter, Channel 4 Formula 1, 2016 to present. BBC Formula 1 pit lane reporter, 2009 to 2015; first woman to present Formula 1 as main anchor on British television, 2012. Author, Inside F1: Life Alongside Legends, Black and White Publishing, 2022. Jim Clark Memorial Award, 2007, first female recipient. Broadcast credits include Wimbledon, Six Nations, Commonwealth Games, Olympic and Paralympic Games, Channel 4 Rugby and BBC Radio 5 Live. Patron of World Horse Welfare; former World Rally Championship co-driver, class winner at Wales Rally GB 2004. Biography Formula 1 is a useful laboratory for how senior people behave under pressure. The decisions are made in seconds, the consequences are public, and the recovery cycle from a bad result is measured in days. Lee McKenzie has been inside that environment, with a microphone, for the better part of two decades. She joined the BBC Formula 1 team as pit lane reporter in 2009 and stayed through to 2015, covering every grand prix and stepping into the main anchor chair in 2012, the first woman to do so on British television. When the rights moved to Channel 4 in 2016 she moved with them, and now serves as reporter and presenter, including the long-form F1 Meets interview series. Her broadcast range extends well beyond motorsport, taking in Wimbledon, the Six Nations, Channel 4 Rugby, and successive Olympic and Paralympic Games. Her 2022 book Inside F1: Life Alongside Legends, published by Black and White Publishing, draws on sustained on-the-record access to seven Formula 1 World Champions, including Michael Schumacher, Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen. It is the basis of her speaking material on composure, preparation and what elite performers do differently when results are binary. Outside the studio she is a patron of World Horse Welfare and a former World Rally Championship co-driver, class winner at Wales Rally GB in 2004. The Jim Clark Memorial Award, which she received in 2007 as the first woman to do so, recognised her contribution to motorsport in a year when she was still establishing herself in front of the camera. Key speaking topics Lessons from elite Formula 1 performers Composure and preparation under public pressure Career-building as a woman in male-dominated industries Sport, sponsorship and the corporate stage Live interviewing and storytelling under deadline Ideal for Corporate conferences and annual kick-offs that need a senior on-stage host or moderator Awards ceremonies and gala dinners with motorsport, automotive or sponsorship audiences Leadership offsites looking for a sport-led keynote on performance under pressure Panels and fireside discussions with athletes, executives or sponsors Audience outcomes A clearer read on how elite performers prepare, recover and stay composed when results are public Specific stories from Formula 1, Olympic and Paralympic environments that map onto corporate decision-making Stronger framing for women navigating early-career moves in male-dominated industries Conference flow held together by a presenter who has done it live on television

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

Why organisations work with Ruth Hinks She is the first woman to win UK Chocolate Masters and produced the highest UK finish on record at the World Chocolate Masters final in Paris, a credential that lands in any room. She has built and run Cocoa Black since 2008 across retail, production, cafe, and a chocolate and pastry school, giving her a working operator’s view of a specialist food business rather than a theory of one. She brings hands-on culinary content to client hospitality and product launches, which most keynote speakers cannot offer. Her career has run from Head Pastry Chef at the Windsor Hotel in Melbourne and the Sheraton Grand Hotel Edinburgh to international competition and television, giving her credibility across hospitality, retail, and broadcast settings. Biography highlights First woman to win UK Chocolate Masters, 2012. Top-five finish at the World Chocolate Masters final in Paris, 2013, the highest UK result recorded at the time. Founder of Cocoa Black, Peebles, established 2008; chocolate and pastry school opened by HRH Prince Edward in 2016. Former Head Pastry Chef at the Windsor Hotel, Melbourne and the Sheraton Grand Hotel Edinburgh. Named Australian Pastry Chef of the Year early in her Melbourne career. Expert judge, BBC Two’s The Hairy Bikers’ Chocolate Challenge; featured in Netflix’s Extreme Chocolate Makers. Biography Cocoa Black opened in Peebles in 2008. From a single Scottish border town it has grown into a chocolate and patisserie business that runs retail, production, a cafe, and a school, with international competition credibility behind it. The founder has held every line in the operation. Ruth Hinks made her name in competition before the business expanded. In 2012 she became the first woman to win UK Chocolate Masters. A year later she finished in the top five at the World Chocolate Masters final in Paris, the strongest UK result on record at that time. The result put a small Peebles operation on the international map for the craft. Her hospitality grounding came earlier. She was named Australian Pastry Chef of the Year in Melbourne, where she ran the pastry kitchen at the 5-star Windsor Hotel, then moved to head the pastry section at the Sheraton Grand Hotel Edinburgh. She trained with Cacao Barry and studied under Albert Roux, technical roots that show up in Cocoa Black’s product range and in the school’s curriculum. The Pastry School in Peebles was opened by HRH Prince Edward in 2016. Hinks has appeared as expert judge on BBC Two’s The Hairy Bikers’ Chocolate Challenge and produced a chocolate showpiece for Chatsworth House in Netflix’s Extreme Chocolate Makers, work that has put a specialist craft business in front of a far larger audience than the trade alone. Key speaking topics Building a specialist food and drink brand Entrepreneurship in craft-led businesses Competition standards in chocolate and patisserie Hospitality leadership in 5-star kitchens Product innovation and chocolate development Skills development and culinary education Women in elite culinary competition Ideal for Food and beverage industry conferences and supplier events Hospitality leadership teams and luxury hotel groups Corporate client hospitality, gala dinners, and product launches that benefit from craft content alongside a keynote Founder and entrepreneur audiences in specialist consumer businesses Audience outcomes A close-range view of what international competition standards demand of a craft operator. A founder’s account of building a specialist food business across retail, production, and education from a small town base. Specific examples of how product, brand, and training can sit inside a single small business. Hospitality and kitchen leadership lessons drawn from 5-star pastry roles.

Why organisations work with Colin MacLachlan He has been the hostage, the hostage negotiator and the hostage rescuer. Very few people on any speaker roster have operated on all three sides of a crisis, and it shows in how he teaches boards to read one. His account of the 2005 Basra prison incident, including repeated mock executions before British forces broke through the compound walls, gives senior audiences an unvarnished view of composure under conditions no leadership course simulates. As an instructor on Series 1 of Channel 4’s SAS: Who Dares Wins, he has publicly assessed how ordinary civilians perform under Selection-grade pressure, which translates directly into honest diagnostics of corporate teams. He pairs the platform with clinical substance: co-founder of Who Dares Cares, a UK charity supporting Armed Forces and Blue Light personnel with PTSD, so the resilience content is built on years of live casework rather than stage anecdote. Author of The Pilgrim: SAS Who Dares Wins (Pen and Sword), endorsed by Bear Grylls, Chris Ryan, Andy McNab and Damien Lewis, which gives buyers a named, citable body of work to brief their leadership against. Biography highlights 22 SAS operator (Mountain Troop), serving in Northern Ireland, Iraq, Afghanistan and Sierra Leone. Took part in Operation Barras, the 2000 hostage rescue of British soldiers from the West Side Boys in Sierra Leone. Central figure in the Basra prison incident of September 2005, captured by Iraqi police and rescued by British forces. Instructor on Series 1 of Channel 4’s SAS: Who Dares Wins; contributor to Channel 5’s Secrets of the SAS. Author of The Pilgrim: SAS Who Dares Wins (Pen and Sword), endorsed by Bear Grylls, Chris Ryan, Andy McNab and Damien Lewis. Co-founder of Who Dares Cares, a UK charity supporting Armed Forces and Blue Light personnel living with PTSD. Biography Two British SAS soldiers were captured by Iraqi police in Basra on 19 September 2005 and held through a series of mock executions before a Warrior-led assault broke through the compound walls and extracted them. Colin MacLachlan was one of those two men. That single episode shapes how he talks to leadership teams about composure, and why serious audiences listen. The operational record behind it is equally specific. Mountain Troop in 22 SAS, deployments across Northern Ireland, Iraq, Afghanistan and Sierra Leone, and a role in Operation Barras, the 2000 hostage rescue against the West Side Boys. Hostage negotiation, hostage rescue and being taken hostage are three distinct problems. Very few operators have done all three, and that combined perspective is what gives his leadership argument its weight. The public-facing work gives buyers a body of evidence they can brief against. He was an instructor on Series 1 of Channel 4’s SAS: Who Dares Wins, putting civilians through Selection-grade pressure on camera, and a contributor to Channel 5’s Secrets of the SAS. His memoir, The Pilgrim: SAS Who Dares Wins, is published by Pen and Sword and carries cover endorsements from Bear Grylls, Chris Ryan, Andy McNab and Damien Lewis. He also co-founded Who Dares Cares, a UK charity supporting Armed Forces and Blue Light personnel with PTSD. That is what keeps the resilience material honest. When he tells a leadership team how stress shows up inside a person months after the event, the claim is backed by years of clinical casework, not a stage anecdote. Key speaking topics Leadership and decision-making under pressure Crisis response and high-stakes negotiation Team performance in hostile environments Resilience and recovery from acute stress Risk assessment and security awareness Hostage survival and the psychology of captivity Veteran mental health and post-traumatic growth Ideal for Boards and executive committees stress-testing how their leadership team behaves when a crisis is live, not rehearsed. CROs, heads of security and business-continuity leads responsible for people in volatile jurisdictions. CHROs and wellbeing leads building resilience programmes that need clinical credibility, not motivational theatre. Senior leadership offsites where the brief is composure, judgement and team cohesion under sustained pressure. Audience outcomes A concrete vocabulary for making decisions when information is incomplete and the cost of delay is high. A sharper read on how individuals and teams actually behave under acute stress, drawn from Selection-grade assessments and live operations. A working understanding of hostage and crisis negotiation logic that transfers to hostile commercial situations. A more honest view of post-traumatic stress and recovery, useful to anyone responsible for people who have been through a serious event. A memorable, citable set of operational examples that senior audiences take back into their own leadership conversations.

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 David Brabham He has won the 24 Hours of Le Mans outright, a 24-hour team sport where one weak link across 60 people ends the race. That is a different reference point to draw on than a pure individual-sport narrative. He is the only driver in the history of the American Le Mans Series to win races and take pole positions in all four competitive classes, a credential that signals adaptability across very different cars, teams, and race formats. He carries the Brabham name through three operating contexts: driver for the family F1 team, overall Le Mans winner for Peugeot, and founder of Brabham Automotive. Audiences get sport, corporate, and entrepreneurial perspectives from one speaker. He stayed in the car at Simtek in 1994 after the death of his team mate Roland Ratzenberger at Imola. When he speaks about composure under pressure, the source material is direct. He is comfortable in after-dinner and hosted formats as well as keynotes, which gives event teams flexibility on how to place him in a programme. Biography highlights Overall winner, 2009 24 Hours of Le Mans, with Peugeot (908 HDi FAP), co-driving with Alexander Wurz and Marc Gene. Le Mans GT1 class winner in 2007 and 2008 with Aston Martin Racing (DBR9). American Le Mans Series LMP champion, 2009 and 2010, with Patron Highcroft Racing and Acura. Formula One driver with Brabham (1990) and Simtek (1994); team mate to Roland Ratzenberger. Japanese GT Championship winner, 1996. Bathurst 1000 winner, 1997. Founder of Brabham Automotive and the BT62 track car, launched in London in 2018. Member of the British Racing Drivers’ Club. Patron of the UK cancer charity Hope for Tomorrow. Biography Le Mans is a 24-hour race with roughly 60 people behind every car and a failure rate that runs close to half the grid. Winning it outright once is a career. David Brabham did it in 2009, with Peugeot, having already taken the GT1 class twice in the two previous years with Aston Martin. The pattern underneath those results is the story he brings to corporate audiences. He is the only driver in the history of the American Le Mans Series to have won races and taken poles in all four classes, from prototype to production GT. Back-to-back ALMS titles in 2009 and 2010 with Patron Highcroft and Acura came in a series where small execution advantages decide seasons. Consistency at that level is a team capability, not a personal one, and he talks about it that way. The wider career sharpens the material. He drove in Formula One for his family team in 1990 and for Simtek in 1994, where he lost team mate Roland Ratzenberger at Imola and continued to race the rest of the season. Later he built Brabham Automotive around the BT62 and launched it publicly in London in 2018, carrying the family brand into its own manufacturing business. For senior audiences the value is practical. He can describe, from the cockpit and the pit wall, how elite teams handle risk, prepare for conditions they cannot control, and recover when something goes wrong mid-race. The references are specific, named, and drawn from the highest level of professional motorsport. Key speaking topics High-performance teamwork Decision-making under pressure Leadership in competitive environments Resilience and focus after setbacks Brand building and heritage Preparation and execution at elite level Ideal for Senior leadership teams looking at how elite performance environments coordinate under pressure Sales and commercial leadership meetings focused on consistency of execution Automotive, engineering, and manufacturing organisations with technical workforces Annual conferences and after-dinner programmes where event teams want a credible non-business voice in the room Audience outcomes A clear picture of how a 60-person team wins a 24-hour race, and which of those mechanics transfer to a corporate setting Specific examples of how elite drivers prepare for conditions they cannot control on the day A direct account of composure and continuity after a team loss, from someone who lived it in 1994 A different vocabulary for talking about risk, handover, and recovery inside a business