Peak Performance speakers

Why organisations work with Michelle Rozen She brings peer-reviewed research on why goals fail, published in the Journal of Social Sciences, into a room of operators wrestling with stalled transformation. Her national study of 5,000 US professionals on AI adoption reframes the resistance problem from a technology question to a psychology question, which is where most enterprise AI programmes are actually losing ground. Branded, teachable frameworks (The 6% Club, the 0-10 Rule, The Change Doctor’s Playbook for Adapting to AI) give a leadership team shared language to use after the keynote, not a one-time message. A repeat client list across Fortune 100 and 500 organisations, including Pfizer, Cisco, Coca-Cola, Johnson & Johnson and Merrill Lynch, signals she translates the research into something senior leadership groups will sit with for ninety minutes and then apply on Monday. Biography highlights PhD and Master’s in psychology; founder of the Dr. Rozen Institute. Author of The 6% Club (Wiley, 2024), a USA Today bestseller. Author of 2 Second Decisions and The Change Doctor’s Playbook for Adapting to AI. Research on goal execution published in the Journal of Social Sciences. Huffington Post contributor; quoted across NBC, ABC, FOX News and CNN. Repeat speaker for Pfizer, Coca-Cola, Cisco, Johnson & Johnson, Merrill Lynch, IKEA and Illumina. Biography Most change programmes do not fail at the strategy layer. They fail at the point where a senior team has decided what should happen and a wider workforce, already worn down by previous change, has to make it real. Rozen’s work sits squarely on that point of failure. She is a behavioural scientist trained at masters and doctoral level in psychology, and her published research in the Journal of Social Sciences was the empirical basis for what became her best-known framework, The 6% Club. The headline finding from that research is uncomfortable for any leadership team running a transformation: of people who publicly commit to a change, only six percent sustain it past a month. The 6% Club, published by Wiley in 2024, took that finding into the boardroom. It became a USA Today bestseller and the spine of how she now works with Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 clients including Pfizer, Coca-Cola, Cisco, Johnson and Johnson, and Merrill Lynch. Her newer work follows the same logic into the AI conversation. A national study of five thousand US professionals, summarised in The Change Doctor’s Playbook for Adapting to AI, treats the AI adoption problem as psychological rather than technical. The point a senior buyer cares about is that this reframes where the bottleneck sits: not in the technology stack, but in the human response to it. What distinguishes her from the broader change-keynote field is the apparatus around the talk. Named frameworks, peer-reviewed research, a publishing record at a major business press, an institute under her name, and a Huffington Post column give a leadership team something to reach for after the room empties. The 6% problem is the one she has built her career on naming. Her contribution is giving senior leaders a defensible, research-grounded way to do something about it. Key speaking topics Behavioural science of organisational change The psychology of AI adoption and resistance Decision-making under pressure Goal execution and follow-through inside large organisations Leadership through restructure and uncertainty Motivation and influence at the team level Ideal for CHROs, transformation leads and change directors running multi-year restructures with stalled adoption. CIOs, CDOs and AI programme owners trying to move enterprise AI from pilot to operational use. Senior leadership offsites where the agenda is execution, not strategy. Sales and commercial leadership groups working on influence, decision-making and habit change in client-facing teams. Audience outcomes A research-backed account of why most change initiatives stall after the launch moment, and what a leader can do about it. Named frameworks (The 6% Club, the 0-10 Rule) the audience can use in their own teams without further translation. A specific reading of where AI adoption is actually breaking inside their organisation, drawn from her 5,000-professional study. Sharper language for talking to a tired workforce about another wave of change without losing credibility.

Why organisations work with Mika Häkkinen Two World Championships won against Michael Schumacher, the rival Schumacher publicly named as the one he most respected. The competitive credibility is hard to manufacture. A near-fatal crash at the 1995 Australian Grand Prix, with a trackside tracheotomy keeping him alive, followed by championship titles in 1998 and 1999. The resilience story is documented, not retrofitted. Continues to operate inside elite Formula 1 as McLaren Partner Ambassador and as a permanent on-site Viaplay F1 analyst, which keeps the perspective current rather than nostalgic. Eleven seasons inside one of the most data-driven team environments in global sport, with first-hand experience of how engineers and decision-makers stay aligned when the consequences are immediate. Biography highlights Two-time Formula 1 World Drivers’ Champion (1998, 1999) with McLaren-Mercedes 20 Grand Prix victories, 51 podium finishes and 26 pole positions across 11 F1 seasons 1990 British Formula 3 Champion with West Surrey Racing McLaren Partner Ambassador since 2017; F1 analyst for Viaplay since 2022, alongside David Coulthard and Jos Verstappen Autosport Gregor Grant Award (2018) for lifetime contribution to motorsport; member of the Laureus World Sports Academy Biography Eleven seasons in Formula 1 produces a particular kind of operator. The environment is data-rich and unforgiving of indecision. A driver wins or loses by hundredths of a second, but the result depends on hundreds of people working in alignment for months. Mika Häkkinen won two World Drivers’ Championships in that environment, with McLaren-Mercedes in 1998 and 1999. He secured 20 Grand Prix victories and 51 podiums across his F1 career. Michael Schumacher, his principal rival across both title-winning seasons, named Häkkinen as the driver he most respected during his own career. His career also includes a near-fatal accident. In 1995, a tyre failure during qualifying for the Australian Grand Prix sent his McLaren into a barrier at high speed. FIA medical delegate Sid Watkins performed an emergency tracheotomy at the trackside, and Häkkinen spent two months in hospital. He returned to racing the following season and won his first championship three years later. Two roles keep Häkkinen close to the sport. He is McLaren’s Partner Ambassador, working with the team’s commercial leadership on strategic accounts. He is also part of Viaplay’s permanent on-site F1 broadcast team alongside David Coulthard and Jos Verstappen. The current exposure matters for the speaking work; the lessons land differently when the speaker is still inside the paddock most race weekends. Key speaking topics High-performance team execution Decision-making under pressure Resilience after public setbacks Sustained competitive performance over long campaigns Risk management in high-stakes environments Leadership in technically complex teams Focus and mental discipline Ideal for Senior leadership teams in sectors where execution margins are tight and outcomes are visible Sales and commercial organisations whose performance is measured continuously Annual conferences and after-dinner functions for high-performance corporate audiences Executive programmes focused on resilience and recovery from setbacks Audience outcomes A first-hand account of what sustained competitive excellence requires when the margins are narrow and the data is constant Specific lessons on how elite teams stay aligned through long, high-pressure campaigns A credible perspective on returning to the top after a serious public setback Direct insight into how senior operators make decisions in the seconds where most performance is decided

Why organisations work with Mike Brown Twenty years at the top of a brutally competitive professional sport, with 382 appearances for Harlequins and 72 England caps, gives leaders a credible voice on what it takes to keep performing through injury, deselection, and reinvention. Named 2014 Six Nations Player of the Championship, the only England player ever to win the award, alongside 2014 Premiership Player of the Season, evidence of standards held at the very top, not a single peak season. Lived experience of the back end of a career: leaving Harlequins after sixteen years, two seasons at Newcastle, finishing at Leicester, and retiring with the fourth most Premiership appearances of all time. Useful for audiences thinking about late-career identity, transition, and what high standards look like once the spotlight moves. Speaks from within elite team cultures under Eddie Jones, Stuart Lancaster, and Conor O’Shea, not as an outside observer. Biography highlights 72 England caps, 2007 to 2018, three Six Nations titles 382 appearances for Harlequins over sixteen seasons, two Premiership titles, one European Challenge Cup 2014 RBS Six Nations Player of the Championship and 2014 Premiership Rugby Player of the Season Retired at the end of the 2024 to 2025 season, the fourth most Premiership appearances in the league’s history Recurring co-host on RugbyPass Offload, one of the most-listened rugby podcasts Appointed Sporting Director at Esher RFC in December 2025 Biography Few players in the modern professional era have stayed at the top for as long as Mike Brown. Sixteen seasons at Harlequins, 72 caps for England, three Six Nations titles, and a career that ended with the fourth most appearances in the history of Premiership Rugby. The longevity matters because rugby does not allow it by accident. The 2014 Six Nations was the season that defined him. He was named Player of the Championship, the only Englishman ever to win the award, and Premiership Player of the Season in the same year. The recognition came after a decade of work that started with a debut in a record defeat to South Africa and ran through deselection, injury, and the public end of his Harlequins career in 2021. What Brown brings to a corporate audience is not the highlight reel, it is the sustained standard. He played under Eddie Jones, Stuart Lancaster and Conor O’Shea, and has been candid in interviews on RugbyPass Offload about the cost of holding his own performance to that standard for so long. Leaders responsible for tired teams recognise the territory. Since retirement he has moved into rugby media as a regular voice on RugbyPass Offload and into a Sporting Director role at Esher RFC. The second act sharpens the keynote material. He is now talking about high performance from both sides of the line, as the player who lived it and the executive who has to build it again from the ground up. Key speaking topics Sustained high performance Resilience and recovery from setback Team standards and accountability Elite team culture Career transition and reinvention Mental discipline under public pressure Ideal for Senior leadership teams and boards working through sustained pressure or restructure Sales and commercial teams under repeated quarterly performance demands HR and L&D programmes on resilience, standards, and high-performance culture Sports, broadcast, and member-organisation audiences Audience outcomes A clear-eyed account of what it takes to hold elite standards across a twenty-year career, not a single season Lived perspective on managing setback, public scrutiny, and deselection without losing competitive edge A working view of how elite team cultures actually function under high-profile coaches Reference points senior leaders can use when their own teams are fatigued by repeated change

Why organisations work with Mike Forde His vantage point is inside the building. As Director of Football Operations at Chelsea FC, he ran recruitment, contracts, sport science and team operations across the club’s most successful era: the Champions League, the Europa League, the Premier League and three FA Cups inside six years. Few advisors work credibly across the EPL and the major US leagues. Sportsology, the firm he founded in 2014, has long-running client relationships with the Philadelphia Eagles, Atlanta Falcons, Brooklyn Nets and San Antonio Spurs alongside European football clubs. He has been the architect of senior appointments that have shaped franchises. The Brooklyn Nets hired him in 2016 to lead their general manager search and he placed Sean Marks, who rebuilt the roster around Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving. The Sacramento Kings retained him for the same purpose in 2020. His co-authored book Quiet Leadership (Portfolio Penguin, 2016), written with Carlo Ancelotti and Chris Brady, gives him a developed framework on leading talented egos. It has sold over 100,000 copies and is read well outside professional sport. Biography highlights Founder and Executive Chairman of Sportsology Group, an advisory firm based in New York and London with clients across European football, the NFL, NBA and MLB Director of Football Operations and Executive Club Director at Chelsea FC, 2007 to 2013, the most successful era in the club’s history Performance Director at Bolton Wanderers FC, 1999 to 2007 Co-author of Quiet Leadership: Winning Hearts, Minds and Matches with Carlo Ancelotti and Chris Brady (Portfolio Penguin, 2016) Led the general manager searches for the Brooklyn Nets (placing Sean Marks in 2016) and the Sacramento Kings (2020) BSc Sport Science, Liverpool John Moores University; MSc Psychology and Sport, San Diego State University Biography Chelsea FC won everything in sight between 2007 and 2013: the Champions League, the Europa League, the Premier League and three FA Cups. Mike Forde sat inside the building for that entire run as Director of Football Operations and Executive Club Director. He had spent the previous seven years at Bolton Wanderers FC as Performance Director. The Chelsea role professionalised that work at scale: recruitment, contracts, sport science, performance analysis and team operations under public pressure. He founded Sportsology Group in 2014 to do similar work outside one club. The firm now operates from New York and London, advising franchise owners, leagues and institutional capital across European football, the NFL, NBA and MLB. Sportsology has worked with the Philadelphia Eagles, Atlanta Falcons, Brooklyn Nets, San Antonio Spurs and LA Rams. The firm also runs senior leadership searches: Forde placed Sean Marks at the Brooklyn Nets in 2016 and was retained by the Sacramento Kings in 2020. His co-authored book Quiet Leadership (Portfolio Penguin, 2016) sets out the methods Carlo Ancelotti used to lead talented egos at AC Milan, Chelsea, PSG and Real Madrid. It has sold over 100,000 copies and is cited regularly by senior managers far outside professional sport. The Ringer profiled Forde in 2021 as the consultant NBA owners call when a general manager search begins. Key speaking topics High performance team culture Talent identification and development Leadership of high ego performers Operating systems behind sustained winning Lessons from elite sport for corporate leaders Senior executive search and assessment Multi cultural team management Ideal for CHROs, CPOs and heads of talent rebuilding the systems behind spotting and keeping high performers CEOs and senior leadership teams setting cultural standards that outlast personnel change Senior partner and managing director audiences in professional and financial services firms Sales leadership and customer facing kickoff events focused on team performance Audience outcomes A working vocabulary for what separates winning teams from the rest, drawn from clubs that win under public scrutiny Direct examples of how Carlo Ancelotti, Sir Dave Brailsford and other elite sport leaders manage difficult egos and protect culture through change A sharper diagnosis of where their own talent and culture systems are weakest, with reference points from the NFL, NBA and European football Tools they can apply directly to hiring decisions and talent reviews

Why organisations work with Mike Horn The scale, continuity and repetition of Horn’s expeditions – solo, human-powered, across polar regions, equatorial oceans, mountain ranges and both poles over thirty years – gives him a compounding body of tested evidence that no single-event adventurer can match. His insight is not drawn from one defining story but from decades of escalating exposure to the same high-stakes conditions. His track record with elite competitive teams is documented and attributable. At the request of coach Gary Kirsten, he conducted performance sessions with the Indian Cricket Team ahead of their 2011 Cricket World Cup win. He worked with the German national football squad in preparation for the 2014 FIFA World Cup, which they won. These outcomes give organisations a concrete reference point beyond speaking testimonials. His published work – including «Conquering the Impossible» (St. Martin’s Press, 2007) – sets out the principles he has derived from expedition experience as structured frameworks, not only as anecdote. Organisations receive insight they can apply, not only a story they can admire. His degree in Human Movement Science from Stellenbosch University grounds his observations in performance physiology and behavioural science. This distinguishes his insight from standard adventure motivation and makes it analytically durable for leadership development programmes with real accountability requirements. Horn is still actively exploring. His current «What’s Left» expedition is ongoing, meaning his perspective remains one that is still being tested in the field – not retrospectively assembled from a career that has ended. Biography highlights Solo equatorial circumnavigation without motorised transport, 1999-2000; 2001 Laureus World Alternative Sportsperson of the Year First solo, non-motorised traversal of the 20,000 km Arctic Circle («Arktos»), 2002-2004 First winter crossing of the North Pole in total darkness, with Børge Ousland, 2006 World’s longest solo, unassisted crossing of Antarctica (5,100 km in 57 days by ski-kite), 2017 Performance advisor to the Indian Cricket Team before their 2011 Cricket World Cup win, and to the German national football squad before their 2014 FIFA World Cup win Author of «Conquering the Impossible» (St. Martin’s Press, 2007) and «Latitude Zero» (2001); Laureus World Sports Academy member Biography Mike Horn’s career as an explorer spans thirty years and every major hostile environment on Earth – polar oceans, equatorial jungle, high-altitude mountain faces above 8,000 metres. These are not settings where leadership theory is applied in safety. The decisions made in them carry physical consequences, and the team dynamics that determine survival are the same dynamics that determine whether organisations hold together under real pressure. His expedition record is defined by deliberate escalation. He completed the first solo equatorial circumnavigation without motorised transport (1999-2000), then the first non-motorised traversal of the 20,000 km Arctic Circle. With Norwegian explorer Børge Ousland, he made the first winter crossing of the North Pole in total darkness in 2006. In 2017, he completed the longest solo, unassisted crossing of Antarctica at 5,100 km. The logic across all of it is consistent: remove the safety nets, increase the stakes, and discover what actually works. At the request of coach Gary Kirsten, Horn ran performance sessions with the Indian Cricket Team ahead of their 2011 Cricket World Cup win. He worked with the German national football squad in preparation for the 2014 FIFA World Cup, which they also won. These engagements addressed team cohesion, pressure tolerance and decision-making under conditions of uncertainty – the same conditions his expeditions demand. Horn holds a degree in Human Movement Science from Stellenbosch University, grounding his observations in performance physiology rather than raw adventure narrative. He is a member of the Laureus World Sports Academy and the 2001 Laureus World Alternative Sportsperson of the Year. His book «Conquering the Impossible» (St. Martin’s Press, 2007) translates expedition experience into applicable frameworks. For organisations building leadership capability for genuinely difficult conditions, his perspective comes with thirty years of tested evidence. Key speaking topics Leadership under sustained pressure Decision-making in high-stakes, low-information conditions Team cohesion and trust in hostile environments Resilience and mental endurance Risk management and performance under uncertainty Human performance at physical and psychological limits Environmental responsibility and sustainability Ideal for Senior leadership teams preparing for or navigating periods of significant organisational stress or strategic transition CHROs and L&D directors designing executive development programmes with real performance accountability High-performance sport organisations, elite teams and coaching structures focused on competitive readiness Boards and executive committees in high-risk sectors: energy, defence, deep-sea operations, financial services Audience outcomes A clearer model of how decision quality and team cohesion hold – or degrade – under sustained pressure, drawn from environments where the consequences of each are unambiguous Practical insight into the behaviours that distinguish high-performing teams when conditions deteriorate: communication discipline, risk calibration and mutual accountability under strain A framework for distinguishing trained resilience from assumed resilience, and the leadership conditions required to develop the first Direct exposure to case studies where decisions made under incomplete information had irreversible physical consequences, making leadership dynamics visible in their most unambiguous form A recalibrated understanding of what individuals and teams are capable of when development genuinely tests, rather than simulates, pressure

Why organisations work with Mike Lee Direct credibility transfer from elite sport. Fifteen years coaching NBA MVPs Stephen Curry and Joel Embiid, plus Malcolm Brogdon, gives audiences a vocabulary for high performance that lands harder than any management framework. A useable account of mental health from the inside. Lee built his methodology while working through severe anxiety, depression and antidepressant withdrawal, which lets him talk about wellbeing without the abstraction that usually surrounds it in corporate settings. A specific argument about belonging. The book New Rules For The Future Of Leadership makes engagement, talent and belonging culture a single connected problem, useful for CHROs trying to defend headcount and engagement budgets in the same conversation. An unusually low-friction speaker for the brief. Bureau testimonials repeatedly call out preparation and adaptability, which matters when the room is a board offsite rather than a conference plenary. Biography highlights Founder, MindShift Labs, a performance and leadership consultancy. Author, New Rules For The Future Of Leadership (Heartmind Media, 2023). Fifteen years coaching elite basketball, including NBA MVPs Stephen Curry and Joel Embiid and Rookie of the Year Malcolm Brogdon. Host of The MindShift Lab podcast, with guests including Mo Gawdat (formerly Google X) and Cy Wakeman. Keynote and workshop client list: Google, Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo, Deloitte, IBM, Cisco, American Family Insurance, BMO Harris, ALPLA, and SHRM. Biography Elite athletes have always operated under conditions that resemble what senior corporate leaders now face every day: high stakes, public scrutiny, narrow margins between winning and losing, and almost no recovery time. The transfer of how that world handles performance is more useful to organisations than another framework borrowed from management literature. Lee spent fifteen years inside that world. He built an international basketball training business from a college apartment and ended up working with NBA MVPs Stephen Curry and Joel Embiid, and Rookie of the Year Malcolm Brogdon, among others. While the business grew, he was also working through severe anxiety, depression and the withdrawal from antidepressant medication. The combination of elite-performance coaching and a personal route through mental health is what shaped the methodology he now brings to corporate audiences. That methodology is set out in New Rules For The Future Of Leadership (Heartmind Media, 2023). The book argues that engagement, the contest for talent and the felt experience of belonging are the same operating problem, and that leaders need both the composure of a mindful practitioner and the mindset of an elite athlete to address it. It draws on neuroscience, sports psychology and his own first-person experience. Lee now runs MindShift Labs and works with companies including Google, Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo, Deloitte, IBM, Cisco, American Family Insurance, BMO Harris, and ALPLA, alongside professional bodies such as SHRM. His podcast, The MindShift Lab, ran twenty-nine episodes between 2021 and 2022 with guests including Mo Gawdat, formerly Chief Business Officer at Google X. Key speaking topics High-performance leadership Engagement and belonging culture Mindfulness and presence at work Mental health and burnout Resilience under uncertainty Peak performance psychology Talent and retention Ideal for CHROs and people leaders carrying engagement, retention and culture targets. Senior leadership offsites where performance and wellbeing need to be addressed in the same room. Sales, client-facing and high-pressure commercial teams. Talent and learning leads designing leadership development at the manager and director tier. Audience outcomes A practical view of how elite athletes manage focus, recovery and pressure, applied to corporate conditions. A clearer line between belonging culture and the commercial cost of attrition. Specific mindfulness and presence techniques leaders can use before a high-stakes conversation, not as a wellbeing perk. A more honest internal language for mental health that senior leaders can use without sounding either performative or clinical.

Why organisations work with Mikkey Dee A working account of staying at the top of a brutally competitive craft for more than three decades, drawn from inside one of rock’s most demanding touring lineups. Lived material on what happens to a team when the founder dies, told by the drummer who held Motörhead’s final lineup together until Lemmy Kilmister’s death in December 2015. Grammy-winning credibility (Best Metal Performance, 2005, with Motörhead) and Hall of Heavy Metal History induction with Scorpions at the inaugural 2017 ceremony. A speaker whose appeal sits outside the usual corporate circuit: a Swedish rock musician, comfortable in English and Swedish, who works as the unexpected closing voice at a leadership offsite or annual conference. Biography highlights Drummer for Motörhead, 1992 to 2015, across 12 studio albums and the band’s longest-serving lineup. Permanent drummer for Scorpions since 2016. Grammy Award, Best Metal Performance, 2005, for Motörhead’s cover of “Whiplash”. Inducted with Scorpions into the Hall of Heavy Metal History at its inaugural ceremony, Anaheim, January 2017. Earlier credits with King Diamond (Fatal Portrait, Abigail, Them) and Don Dokken (Up From The Ashes). Named Gothenburger of the Year in his home city of Gothenburg, November 2021. Sonor signature snare drum released in his name, 2012. Biography Lemmy Kilmister asked Mikkey Dee to join Motörhead for seven years before Dee finally accepted in 1992. That single fact frames the rest of the story: a drummer who refused to take a seat he had not yet earned, then held it for the next twenty-three years, across twelve albums and the longest-serving lineup the band ever had. The Motörhead chapter ended in December 2015 with Kilmister’s death, and Dee has since spoken openly about the choice the surviving members made: to celebrate the life of the man at the centre of the band rather than build a public mourning around it. Within a year he was the permanent drummer of Scorpions, where he has been since 2016. The credentials are concrete. A Grammy for Best Metal Performance in 2005 for Motörhead’s cover of “Whiplash”. Induction with Scorpions into the Hall of Heavy Metal History at its inaugural ceremony in 2017. A Sonor signature snare in his name. Earlier work with King Diamond on Fatal Portrait, Abigail and Them, and with Don Dokken on Up From The Ashes. For organisations, the value sits in the unusual angle. Most speakers on resilience and longevity come from sport, the military, or business itself. Dee speaks from a craft where the daily test is public, the team is small, and the founder is irreplaceable. Audiences leave with a clear-eyed account of what it takes to stay sharp for thirty years, and what a team actually does when the person at the centre is gone. Key speaking topics Perseverance and longevity in a high-performance career Continuing after the loss of a founder or central figure Self-leadership and composure under sustained pressure Lessons from inside a long-running creative team Reinvention after the end of a defining chapter Ideal for Annual conferences and leadership offsites looking for an unexpected closing keynote Sales kick-offs and customer-facing events that want a story-led session on perseverance Internal events for teams navigating the loss of a founder, CEO, or long-standing leader Audience outcomes A first-hand account of how a small team holds together across decades of touring and turnover. A frank perspective on what changes inside an organisation when the founder is suddenly gone. A working definition of perseverance grounded in a specific craft, not a slogan. A reset on what longevity at the top actually demands, day to day.

Why organisations work with Sir Mo Farah Second athlete in Olympic history, after Finland’s Lasse Virén, to defend both the 5,000m and 10,000m at consecutive Games. Almost no one else can speak to sustained dominance at that level from direct experience. Delivered the distance double under two very different forms of pressure: home-crowd expectation at London 2012 and defending-champion pressure at Rio 2016. Both required the same habits, applied in different contexts. Trained inside elite endurance programmes for over a decade, including a long stint at the Nike Oregon Project. The talk goes into how Olympic preparation actually works at the operational level. In 2022 he disclosed in the BBC documentary The Real Mo Farah that he had been trafficked into the UK as a child under another boy’s name. For audiences focused on resilience, this part of his story now sits alongside the running. Biography highlights Four Olympic gold medals: 5,000m and 10,000m at London 2012 and Rio 2016. Second man in Olympic history, after Lasse Virén, to defend both distances at consecutive Games. Six World Championship golds and five European Championship golds. Most successful individual male athlete in European Championships history. Knighted in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to athletics; appointed CBE in 2013. BBC Sports Personality of the Year, 2017. Won the 2018 Chicago Marathon in a European record time of 2:05:11. Subject of the 2022 BBC One documentary The Real Mo Farah, which disclosed his trafficking into the UK as a child. Biography In over a century of Olympic history, only one athlete had ever defended both the 5,000m and 10,000m at consecutive Games. Sir Mo Farah is the second. The career was not luck. From the European junior 5,000m title in 2001, through training inside the Nike Oregon Project under Alberto Salazar and later under Gary Lough, Farah built an operational discipline. It produced ten global championship golds: four Olympic, six World Championship. He remains the most successful British track athlete in modern Olympic history. In 2022, the BBC One documentary The Real Mo Farah disclosed publicly that he had been trafficked into the UK as a nine-year-old child under the name of another boy. He spent his formative years as a domestic servant in West London before a PE teacher, Alan Watkinson, identified both his athletic ability and the conditions he was living in. The disclosure changed how audiences understood the runner. The discipline that built the medals had been built first under far harder conditions. What Farah gives an audience is access to the operational substance behind a public performance. The four-year cycle leading into a Games. The tactical patience required to hold position through 24 laps of a track race and execute a final 400m sprint that competitors cannot match. He left elite track competition after a sixth World Championship gold in 2017 and turned to road racing, winning the 2018 Chicago Marathon in a European record of 2:05:11. Key speaking topics Sustained elite performance over multiple Olympic cycles Resilience under public scrutiny The mechanics of Olympic preparation Tactical execution and decision making under pressure Reinvention from track racing to the marathon The training and recovery cycle behind elite endurance Ideal for Sales and revenue team conferences focused on execution and performance under pressure Large leadership and all-hands events anchored around resilience and sustained achievement After-dinner engagements at corporate and association conferences High-performance team kick-offs entering a multi-quarter or multi-year cycle Audience outcomes A specific picture of what an Olympic four-year cycle actually involves, from long preparation through to race-day execution Resilience presented as a set of repeatable daily disciplines, anchored in concrete examples from elite training Direct testimony on how elite performers manage public expectation and the cost of public defeat A real example of mid-career reinvention, illustrated through the transition from track racing to the 2018 Chicago Marathon win

Why organisations work with Molly Bloom A first-hand account of how pressure and money distort judgement among hedge fund managers, studio heads, and high-net-worth players. The observation comes from inside the room. A real case study in rebuilding after professional and legal collapse. Bloom pleaded guilty to running an illegal gambling operation, then re-emerged as a published author whose memoir was adapted into the Oscar-nominated Molly’s Game, Aaron Sorkin’s directorial debut, starring Jessica Chastain. Lived experience of decision-making at the edges of legality and ethics. She knows how the wrong choice looks before it is made, and why intelligent people make it anyway. A practitioner’s view of how exclusivity and discretion build a customer base wealthy clients fight to join. Bloom designed and ran the operation herself, with rooms at venues like the Peninsula Beverly Hills hosting individual hands worth millions. Biography highlights Author of the memoir Molly’s Game (HarperCollins, 2014), adapted into Aaron Sorkin’s directorial debut, which earned a 2018 Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay. Former member of the U.S. Ski Team in freestyle moguls, ranked third in the Nor-Am Cup season standings. Built and ran one of the largest high-stakes private poker operations in the United States, with regular players including Tobey Maguire, Leonardo DiCaprio, Ben Affleck, and Alex Rodriguez. Host of Torched, an investigative sports podcast produced by FilmNation Entertainment in association with Gilded Audio. Corporate speaking clients include BlackRock, Blackstone, Adobe, Cisco, Dell, SiriusXM, Uber, Comcast, and US Bank. Biography The hands at the Peninsula Beverly Hills sometimes ran past $4 million. Bloom designed the operation and ran the room before she turned 26. Her clients were Hollywood actors and Wall Street financiers. The FBI eventually took the business apart. Before any of that, she was a competitive skier. She made the U.S. Ski Team in freestyle moguls and ranked third in the Nor-Am Cup season standings. A back injury ended her Olympic ambitions before she finished her degree at the University of Colorado Boulder. Los Angeles was meant to be a gap year. Within a few years she was hosting weekly poker games for some of the most recognisable people in entertainment. Tobey Maguire, Leonardo DiCaprio, Ben Affleck, and Alex Rodriguez were among the regulars. In 2013 she was indicted in a federal money-laundering case in New York and pleaded guilty the following year. The second act began on the page. The memoir Molly’s Game (2014) became the basis for Aaron Sorkin’s directorial debut, starring Jessica Chastain and earning a 2018 Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay. She hosts Torched, an investigative podcast on the costs of elite competition, and her corporate audiences include BlackRock, Blackstone, Adobe, Cisco, Dell, SiriusXM, Uber, Comcast, and US Bank. In those rooms she examines how high performers misjudge risk under pressure, and what serious recovery looks like once they have. Key speaking topics Decision-making under pressure Risk and judgement in high-stakes environments Resilience and reinvention after professional setback Ethics and integrity in competitive markets Customer experience and exclusivity Behavioural dynamics of high performers Entrepreneurship from a standing start Ideal for Boards and senior executives facing decisions where the costs of judgement errors are large and public Financial services, investment, and trading audiences working under live time pressure Sales and customer experience leaders building premium or exclusive propositions Conferences on resilience and second-act leadership Audience outcomes A first-hand view of how ego and short-term incentives erode judgement among senior players A specific account of how to read the early signals of risk before public consequences arrive An honest reckoning of what professional and legal failure costs, and what real recovery demands A working sense of how exclusivity and discretion build premium customer bases that competitors cannot easily copy

Why organisations work with Monty Halls A first-hand account of leadership built in two domains where mistakes are not theoretical: Royal Marines command and multi-year expedition leadership across four global circumnavigations. Leaderbox, the training system he founded in 2016, gives clients a structured method drawn from military, elite sport and business practice rather than a one-off keynote moment. Three decades of working with teams under physical and psychological load, translated into language a corporate audience can use the next morning. Credibility on the substance of resilience that does not rely on rhetoric: the Bish Medal from the Scientific Exploration Society, an Honorary Doctor of Science from Plymouth University, presidency of the Galapagos Conservation Trust. An ability to hold an audience for an after-dinner or conference slot through specific story material, including the 2002 Mahabalipuram expedition and BBC Two “Great Escape” series, without sliding into generic adventure rhetoric. Biography highlights Former Royal Marines officer; served with the British Military Assistance and Training Team in South Africa during the early-1990s peace process. First Class Honours in Marine Biology, University of Plymouth, 1999. Honorary Doctor of Science, Plymouth University, 2010. Bish Medal, Scientific Exploration Society, 2003, for the expedition to the sunken temple complex at Mahabalipuram. Presenter of the BBC Two “Great Escape” trilogy (Applecross, North Uist, Connemara, 2009 to 2011) and the BBC Two series “Great Barrier Reef” (2012). Author of titles including “Monty Halls’ Great Escape: Beachcomber Cottage”, “The Fisherman’s Apprentice”, “Escaping Hitler” and “My Family and the Galapagos”. President of the Galapagos Conservation Trust since 2015. Patron of the Shark Trust and of Help for Heroes. Founder of Leaderbox, 2016. Biography Most leadership content describes how teams should behave on a good day. The harder material is what happens to a unit when it is cold, tired, behind schedule and short on information. Halls has spent a working life in environments where that is the operating condition, first as a Royal Marines officer, then as an expedition leader. After leaving the Marines he completed a First Class Honours degree in Marine Biology at the University of Plymouth and led the 2002 Scientific Exploration Society expedition to the sunken temples of Mahabalipuram in Tamil Nadu, work for which the Society awarded him the Bish Medal. He went on to four circumnavigations of the globe filming wildlife and adventure content for the BBC, Channel 4, National Geographic and Discovery, anchored by the BBC Two “Great Escape” series and the 2012 BBC Two production “Great Barrier Reef”. The corporate practice grew out of that. Halls founded Leaderbox in 2016 as a structured training system drawing on Royal Marines doctrine, elite sport and business practice, and now delivers leadership and team-building work to clients including Google, Visa and Virgin. His subject is the behaviour of teams under pressure, the conditions that create high-performing culture, and the discipline of self-leadership when a leader is as fatigued as the people they are responsible for. He is President of the Galapagos Conservation Trust, a patron of the Shark Trust and of Help for Heroes, and the author of nine books across exploration, marine biology and modern history, including “Escaping Hitler”, a study of the courage of Allied servicemen on the wartime escape lines through occupied Europe. Key speaking topics Leadership under pressure Team culture and high-performance environments Self-leadership and composure Resilience and decision-making in adverse conditions Expedition leadership lessons for corporate teams Marine conservation and the Galapagos Lessons from Royal Marines selection and training Ideal for CEOs, COOs and executive teams stress-testing how their leadership behaviour holds up under sustained operational pressure HR directors and L&D leads designing leadership development that goes beyond classroom theory Sales and operational leadership teams building high-trust, high-tempo culture Conference, leadership offsite and after-dinner audiences where credibility on resilience and team behaviour is the brief Audience outcomes A working vocabulary for what high-performing teams actually do differently when conditions deteriorate A clearer view of self-leadership as a daily discipline rather than a one-off response to crisis Specific, transferable lessons from Royal Marines training and expedition command that translate directly into commercial team settings Story material drawn from named expeditions and operational moments that audiences can carry into their own leadership conversations

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 Natalie Johnson The CultureJourney™ framework gives senior teams a working model for how culture is actually produced, organised around three named levers: energy, connection, and courage. Combines a science foundation in human performance and resilience with three decades of corporate performance coaching. Few speakers in this space work from both traditions. Certified Dare to Lead™ Facilitator licensed by Brené Brown’s organisation, which means buyers can book her for a keynote and for the full leadership programme from a single practitioner. Track record with organisations where performance under pressure is the basic operating condition, including NASA, the U.S. Department of Defense, Google, Johnson & Johnson, Deloitte, and Ascension Healthcare. Biography highlights Co-founder and Chief Visionary Officer of Vidl Work, the consulting and keynote firm she leads Co-author of Leading the Culture Journey: Elevating Everyday Actions to Create Extraordinary Workplaces (Wiley, August 2026) Co-creator of the CultureJourney™ framework, used to guide culture transformation inside client organisations Performance Coach with the Johnson & Johnson Human Performance Institute Certified Dare to Lead™ Facilitator licensed by Brené Brown’s organisation, and a Wellcoaches® Certified Coach BSc in Human Performance and Nutrition; MSc in Wellness Promotion Co-host of the Energy, Connection & Courage at Work podcast Biography Most organisations describe their culture in terms they cannot define. Engagement scores climb and wellbeing budgets grow each year, yet senior teams still cannot explain why some groups sustain high performance while others burn out. This is the gap that the CultureJourney™ framework was built to close. Natalie Johnson developed it with her team at Vidl Work, the firm she co-founded and now leads as Chief Visionary Officer. The framework treats culture as the product of three working systems: how leaders elevate energy, how teams prioritise connection, and how leaders choose courage. The thinking is set out in Leading the Culture Journey, her 2026 book with Rebecca Johnson, published by Wiley. Her authority on the topic comes from a combination of training that few culture speakers share. Johnson holds a BSc in Human Performance and Nutrition and an MSc in Wellness Promotion. She is a Wellcoaches® Certified Coach, a Performance Coach with the Johnson & Johnson Human Performance Institute, and a certified Dare to Lead™ Facilitator. The Dare to Lead credential licenses her to deliver Brené Brown’s full leadership programme inside client organisations. Her client list spans organisations where performance under pressure is the basic operating condition: NASA, the U.S. Department of Defense, Google, Johnson & Johnson, Deloitte, Ascension Healthcare, and the American College of Surgeons. The HR profession books her too: she has delivered keynotes for SHRM, the largest professional association for human resources. She also sits on the board of the Kidney Cancer Association and is a member of the International Women’s Forum. Key speaking topics Workplace culture and culture transformation Human performance and energy management Trust and courageous conversation in teams Resilience and sustainable high performance Employee wellbeing as a performance lever Dare to Lead leadership development Ideal for Chief executives and senior leadership teams setting culture as a strategic priority CHROs and Chief People Officers running culture, engagement, and wellbeing portfolios Cross-functional teams operating under sustained change cycles: post-merger integrations, restructures, transformation programmes Leadership teams in high-pressure operating environments such as healthcare, defence, and regulated industry Organisations running Brené Brown’s Dare to Lead programme that want a licensed facilitator with deep performance science background Audience outcomes A working model for culture that names where it gets built and where it breaks down Language for linking employee wellbeing and engagement spend to commercial performance A method for holding the courageous conversations that team trust depends on, drawn from Dare to Lead Approaches for managing human energy and recovery at both individual and team level