Peak Performance speakers

Why organisations work with Pete Cohen A named, co-authored framework (STOP 2 THINK) for the specific moment a leader switches from reactive to intentional response, applied directly inside meetings and high-pressure conversations. A coaching track record that crosses elite sport and corporate leadership, including Ronnie O’Sullivan’s 2004 World Snooker title and senior teams at Dell, IBM, Pfizer and Heineken. Twelve years as resident Life Coach on ITV’s GMTV plus a presenter slot on Discovery’s “The Coach”, which means he reads a room and a camera in a way few corporate speakers do. Twenty plus published titles including “Habit Busting” and “Fear Busting”, giving the keynote content a tested behavioural backbone rather than a one-off thesis. A delivery style built for leadership audiences fatigued by abstract wellness content, focused on what to do in the next conversation, not the next quarter. Biography highlights Resident Life Coach on ITV’s GMTV for twelve years. Presenter of “The Coach” on the Discovery Channel. Author of around 20 books including “Habit Busting”, “Fear Busting”, “Shut the Duck Up”, “Life DIY” and “Sort Your Life Out”. Co-developer of the STOP 2 THINK leadership framework with Professor Dr Ray Sylvester. Performance coach to Ronnie O’Sullivan, Sally Gunnell, Ellen MacArthur, Roger Black, the Kent Cricket team and Arsenal Football Club. Keynote speaker for organisations including Dell, IBM, Pfizer, Novartis, Boehringer Ingelheim, Heineken, Boots, Four Seasons Hotels and the Royal Bank of Scotland. Biography Most leadership failures under pressure are not failures of intelligence. They are failures of pause. The leader keeps moving when the situation has changed, and the team carries the consequences for weeks. STOP 2 THINK, the framework Pete Cohen co-developed with Professor Dr Ray Sylvester, treats that pause as a trainable leadership behaviour, not a personality trait. Cohen has spent more than thirty years working at the intersection of psychology, sport and corporate performance. As resident Life Coach on ITV’s GMTV for twelve years and presenter of “The Coach” on the Discovery Channel, he learned to translate behavioural science into language that lands in seconds. The same instinct shapes how he works with executive teams. His sports coaching list includes Ronnie O’Sullivan in the run-up to his 2004 World Snooker title, Olympic hurdler Sally Gunnell, sailor Ellen MacArthur, and sprinter Roger Black. The corporate list is equally direct: Dell, IBM, Pfizer, Novartis, Boehringer Ingelheim, Heineken, Boots, Four Seasons Hotels and the Royal Bank of Scotland. Across both, the brief is the same. People who already perform at a high level need a way to recover composure inside the moment, not after it. The published work, around twenty titles including “Habit Busting” and “Fear Busting”, gives the keynote content its behavioural foundation. The STOP 2 THINK keynote is the operating layer on top: simple tools a leader can apply in the next meeting, not the next offsite. That is what senior teams under restructure, transformation or sustained market pressure tend to be looking for, and what most wellbeing programming does not deliver. Key speaking topics Leadership behaviour under pressure The STOP 2 THINK framework Composure and decision-making in uncertainty Behavioural change and habit formation Performance psychology Resilience for senior teams Mindset for leadership in restructure and change Ideal for CEO, COO and senior leadership teams holding decisions through restructure or market shock CHROs and people directors briefing leadership development at executive level Sales and commercial leaders managing high-pressure performance cycles Boards and partner groups looking for behavioural rather than motivational content Audience outcomes A named behavioural pause point leaders can use in the next meeting, not the next quarter A clearer read on the difference between reactive habit and intentional decision in their own leadership Practical language for coaching their direct reports through pressure moments Evidence-grounded confidence that composure is a trainable behaviour, not a personality trait A simpler internal vocabulary for decision quality under stress

Why organisations work with Pete Goss He is one of very few speakers whose composure under pressure is documented in two state honours, the MBE and the Legion d’Honneur, awarded for a single named decision in the 1996 Vendee Globe. He has built and led multi-million pound sponsored projects with workforces of 100 plus, including Aqua Quorum, Team Philips and Spirit of Mystery, which gives him a working vocabulary for boards on stewardship, sponsor relationships and visible failure. The Team Philips abandonment in 2000 is part of his material, not edited out of it, so leaders get a credible account of what comes after a public, capital-heavy programme collapses. His teaching credentials sit inside serious institutions: Associate Fellow at Said Business School, Oxford, and regular lecturer at London Business School, which calibrates the content for senior audiences rather than after-dinner crowds. The Dinelli rescue is a teachable case, not a war story: a decision made on incomplete information, against the speaker’s own commercial interest, with a precise sequence of operational choices a board can interrogate. Biography highlights Skippered Aqua Quorum in the 1996/97 Vendee Globe; rescued Raphael Dinelli in a Southern Ocean hurricane on Christmas Day 1996. Awarded the MBE and France’s Legion d’Honneur for the Dinelli rescue. Named Yachtsman of the Year following the Vendee Globe. Author of Close to the Wind (Headline, 1998), an account of the race and rescue. Built and skippered Spirit of Mystery, a 37 ft Cornish lugger, on an 11,800 mile voyage from Newlyn to Melbourne in 2008 to 2009. Associate Fellow, Said Business School, University of Oxford; regular lecturer at London Business School; former Royal Marine. Biography The Vendee Globe is the hardest race in solo sailing: one boat, one person, no stops, around the world. On Christmas Day 1996, in 80 knot winds in the Southern Ocean, Pete Goss received a distress signal from Raphael Dinelli, a French competitor whose boat was sinking. Goss turned back, fought upwind for two days, and pulled Dinelli, near death, out of a life raft. The decision ended his race and won him the MBE from Queen Elizabeth II and the Legion d’Honneur from the President of France. Before that race, Goss was a Royal Marine. After it, he became one of the more credible voices on what leadership looks like when the plan stops working. He is the author of Close to the Wind (Headline, 1998), the bestselling account of the race and the rescue, and was named Yachtsman of the Year. He is an Associate Fellow of Said Business School at Oxford and lectures regularly at London Business School, so the material reads to senior audiences as judgement work, not adventure storytelling. His later projects sharpen the case. Team Philips, a 120 ft catamaran built for a round-the-world record, was abandoned in mid-Atlantic in December 2000 after structural damage in heavy weather. Spirit of Mystery, a 37 ft replica Cornish lugger, sailed 11,800 miles from Newlyn to Melbourne in 2008 to 2009 to recreate the 1854 voyage of the original lugger Mystery. One programme failed in public after large sponsor investment. The other succeeded after years of preparation in obscurity. Goss treats both as case material. What makes this useful in a boardroom is the specificity. The Dinelli decision is not a metaphor, it is a sequence of operational choices made against personal interest, with a paper trail. Senior leaders can interrogate it the way they would a real case, and most do. Key speaking topics Decision-making under extreme pressure Self-leadership and composure Recovery after public failure Sponsor and stakeholder leadership in capital-intensive programmes Team conduct in small, high-stakes crews Long-form planning and execution Risk and judgement at sea and in business Ideal for Boards and executive committees facing a high-stakes call where the right answer is commercially costly Leadership programmes for senior operators who have not yet been tested in a public failure Capital project sponsors and programme directors managing visible, multi-year commitments Off-sites where the brief is judgement and resilience rather than motivation Audience outcomes A working reference case for what good looks like when a leader has to abandon a plan mid-execution. A clearer view of how to separate personal stake from organisational duty when the two diverge. A more honest account of what happens after a programme fails in public, drawn from Team Philips. Specific language for talking to sponsors, crews and boards in conditions of real uncertainty.

Why organisations work with Peter Crolla He has helped build two Formula 1 teams from scratch. He joined Haas in 2015 as the team’s 14th employee and joined Cadillac in 2025 to prepare its 2026 debut. Few F1 practitioners have stood up a competitive operation from zero more than once. His content is grounded in operational mechanics. Audiences leave with how the pit wall actually works, how a 1.8-second pit stop with 22 staff and 36 tasks is choreographed, and how compliance with FIA scrutineering is built into every weekend. Formula 1 sits where exacting regulation meets competitive margins of milliseconds. Leaders in pharmaceuticals, financial services, aviation, and energy find the comparison directly applicable to their own environments. He can explain how F1 reduced driver fatalities from over 40 between 1950 and 1994 to one in the three decades since. The shift came from a system in which safety stopped being a source of competitive advantage and was shared across rival teams. Two decades across British Touring Cars, F3, McLaren, Haas, and Cadillac give him grounded comparative views on which high-performance practices transfer between organisations and which collapse outside their original context. Biography highlights Race Team Manager at the Cadillac F1 Team, preparing the operation for its 2026 Formula 1 debut. Team Manager at Haas F1 Team for eight seasons, joining as the 14th employee in 2015 ahead of the team’s 2016 debut. Previously Team Leader at McLaren Racing, working alongside World Champions Jenson Button and Fernando Alonso. Oversaw Haas’s maiden Formula 1 pole position at the 2022 Brazilian Grand Prix. Helped Haas secure FIA Three-Star Environmental Accreditation ahead of the 2023 season. Awarded the Teamwork Award at the 2013 MIA Business Excellence Awards during his time at Team Dynamics in the British Touring Car Championship. Biography In Formula 1, a pit stop now takes 1.8 seconds. Twenty-two people complete thirty-six tasks while the car is stationary. One missed cue and a podium becomes a points-paying afternoon. That kind of choreography is what Peter Crolla has spent his career producing. He joined the Haas F1 Team in 2015 as its fourteenth employee, before the team had been on a grid, and stayed for eight seasons as Team Manager. In 2025 he left to take the same role at the Cadillac F1 Team, where he is preparing the operation for its 2026 debut. Doing this work twice in a decade puts him in a small group of practitioners who have stood up a competitive Formula 1 team from a standing start. F1 teams of 1800 staff coordinate around twenty-four non-negotiable race weekend deadlines a year, under one of the most exacting regulatory regimes in commercial sport. Crolla speaks about how that machine actually runs. He explains the daily tension between psychological safety and personal accountability, and how F1 turned over forty driver fatalities between 1950 and 1994 into one in the three decades since. The change came from stopping competitive teams from hoarding what they learned about safety. Key speaking topics High-performance team operations Leadership in regulated, high-pressure environments Operational excellence under non-negotiable deadlines Safety culture and risk transformation Building organisations from a standing start Continuous improvement and marginal gains Sustainability in elite motorsport Ideal for COOs and operations directors in regulated sectors such as financial services, pharmaceuticals, aviation, and energy, where compliance and competitive performance have to be solved together. Founders, transformation leads, and executive teams building or rebuilding an organisation from a standing start. Senior risk and safety leaders looking at how F1’s cultural transformation was actually achieved over three decades. HR and people leaders focused on psychological safety and accountability in technical or engineering-led organisations. Audience outcomes The choreography of a 1.8-second pit stop across 22 staff, including where it most often breaks down. The specific practices that keep psychological safety and personal accountability in balance inside an F1 operation. How F1’s safety record went from over forty driver fatalities in its first four decades to one in its last three, including the specific decision to stop competing on safety. A clear separation between high-performance practices that transfer between industries and those that depend on the specifics of F1.

Why organisations work with Peter Schmeichel Captained Manchester United to the 1999 Treble, the most successful season in the club’s history. The lessons from holding that dressing room together speak directly to what ‘team first’ demands of senior people when stakes are public. Delivered the opening keynote at IMD Business School’s flagship Orchestrating Winning Performance programme to more than 400 senior executives. Few former athletes are invited onto that platform, and the appearance gives the corporate content genuine business-school provenance. Played twenty-two years at top-flight football across England, Denmark and Portugal, winning major titles in three different leagues. The perspective is built on a long career across changing teams and competitions, not a single peak. Goalkeeping is the most unforgiving position in elite team sport. Every mistake is visible and there is nowhere to hide. The lessons on composure and accountability under that exposure carry into senior leadership without strain. Biography highlights Captained Manchester United to victory in the 1999 UEFA Champions League final, completing the club’s only Treble of Premier League, FA Cup and European Cup. Won the UEFA European Championship with Denmark in 1992, defeating Germany in the final after the Danish squad entered as late replacements for Yugoslavia. Voted IFFHS World’s Best Goalkeeper in 1992 and 1993 and named in the FIFA 100 list of 125 greatest living footballers in 2004. Earned 129 caps for Denmark between 1987 and 2001, the Danish national-team caps record for more than two decades. Inducted into the English Football Hall of Fame in 2003 and awarded an honorary MBE in the 2001 New Year Honours. Has worked as a football pundit and analyst for the BBC, the Premier League Channel, CBS Sports and FOX Sports, where he joined the studio for UEFA Euro 2024. Biography Manchester United were a goal down in the 1999 Champions League final with two minutes left. They scored twice in stoppage time and won the European Cup. Peter Schmeichel, captain that night, lifted the trophy in his last game for the club. Those eight years yielded five Premier League titles, three FA Cups and a Champions League. He was twice voted the world’s best goalkeeper. The trophy count is the headline. Holding standards in that dressing room under Sir Alex Ferguson for nearly a decade is the harder achievement. IMD Business School invited him to translate that experience when he opened its flagship Orchestrating Winning Performance programme. His keynote, Putting Everything on the Line, argued that consistency at the top is a different problem from reaching it. Talent reaches the top once. Holding that level for a decade demands a discipline most organisations underestimate. The international career sits behind every story he tells. He earned 129 caps for Denmark and won Euro 1992. The Danish squad had replaced Yugoslavia at ten days’ notice and beat Germany in the final. He now broadcasts for the BBC, the Premier League Channel, CBS Sports and FOX Sports, where he covered UEFA Euro 2024. Key speaking topics Leadership and standards in high-performance teams Sustained elite performance across long careers Captaincy and team-first culture Composure and decision-making under public scrutiny Recovery from mistakes in unforgiving environments Lessons from elite team sport for senior leaders Ideal for Senior leadership teams in industries where performance is publicly scrutinised Conferences, offsites and leadership programmes focused on team standards and accountability Organisations going through periods of sustained success that risk complacency Sales, customer-facing and high-pressure operational teams Audience outcomes A specific account of what ‘team first’ requires of senior people, drawn from inside one of the most successful dressing rooms in modern football The argument that holding standards is a separate problem from reaching them, with a working vocabulary for naming that problem in their own organisations Examples of how elite teams handle mistakes and the temptation to relax once a major goal has been reached A sharper view of the role of the captain in protecting team standards from individual ego

Why organisations work with Phil Olley He gives leadership groups a working method for personal composure under pressure, not a generic resilience talk. The NEXUS Code is his own framework, refined over more than two decades of client work. His credibility rests on operating experience: six years as a Royal Navy officer, a sales and financial planning career, and a coaching practice founded in 1999. He speaks to commercial audiences as a peer, not an academic. He has a documented recovery story, a near-death incident in March 1999, which anchors his material on adversity and decision-making in something specific rather than rhetorical. He has been retained by Shell, PepsiCo, Mars, Kellogg’s, The Wood Group and IOSH, which signals that operating businesses, not just conferences, find the material useful. He has authored three books, including RESULT! published by Pearson, giving him a body of written work that buyers can read before commissioning. Biography highlights Former Royal Navy officer, six years’ service. Founded his performance coaching practice in 1999. Author of three books: Counting Chickens, RESULT! Think Decisively, Take Action and Get Results (Pearson, 2013), and Reflections from the White Tunnel (FCM Publishing, 2017). Creator of The NEXUS Code framework. Named corporate clients include Shell, PepsiCo, Mars (Masterfoods), Kellogg’s, The Wood Group, IOSH and Blevins Franks International. Media appearances include The Richard and Judy Show, BBC Radio 4 and The Times. Biography Most leadership advice on resilience starts from a model. Olley starts from an event. On 18 March 1999 he collapsed on a pavement and was revived by paramedics. The same year, he closed his sales and financial planning career and built a coaching practice around a single question: what actually holds people steady when the ground moves. That question became The NEXUS Code, a working framework on self-leadership, focus and execution that he has refined over more than two decades of client engagements. It is not a research model. It is a practitioner’s method, built and tested in front of sales teams, leadership groups and business owners under real commercial pressure. The body of written work backs the speaking. RESULT! Think Decisively, Take Action and Get Results was published by Pearson in 2013. Counting Chickens preceded it. Reflections from the White Tunnel, his most personal book, was published by FCM Publishing in 2017 and ties the recovery story directly to the framework. Three books give a buyer something concrete to read before commissioning a session. The career arc behind all of this matters for credibility with commercial audiences. Six years as a Royal Navy officer, then a sales and financial planning career, then his own business. Clients have included Shell, PepsiCo, Mars, Kellogg’s, The Wood Group and IOSH. He talks to leaders as someone who has carried a number and led a team, not as someone observing from a faculty position. Key speaking topics Self-leadership under pressure Mental toughness and resilience Goal setting and execution Performance coaching for leaders and teams Leading through change and adversity Employee engagement in difficult conditions Ideal for Sales leadership conferences and annual kick-offs. Leadership offsites for senior teams under restructuring or pressure. Owner-managed businesses and senior commercial functions in larger organisations. Professional services and financial services audiences working to lift execution and accountability. Audience outcomes A working method for holding composure and focus when conditions are difficult. A clearer view of where personal performance is being lost to noise rather than effort. Specific language and habits for converting goals into delivered results. A reset on how to lead a team through repeated change without losing momentum.

Why organisations work with Phillippa Mole She brings the practical content of executive presence into the room: how leaders hold themselves in a pitch, a board meeting, or a difficult conversation, taught as craft rather than as personality. Her coaching combines elite-sport performance psychology with certified executive coaching credentials, including Association for Coaching Master Executive Coach and ICF PCC accreditation, giving the work a defensible technical base. She is the first UK qualified practitioner of Reconsolidation of Traumatic Memories techniques for post-traumatic stress, which gives her unusual range when working with leaders carrying real career or personal load. Her broadcast background, including BBC and GMTV presenting, sharpens the work on how senior people communicate when the stakes and the camera are both live. Clients have included Deloitte, Dell, Sandtoft and Wienerberger, with applications spanning bid pitches, capital raises and senior team development. Biography highlights Founder and CEO of Fresh Air Coaching, established 2007. Master Executive Coach (Association for Coaching) and ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC). NLP Master Practitioner and Trainer; first UK practitioner certified in Reconsolidation of Traumatic Memories for PTSS. MSc Sport Science and Performance Psychology, Loughborough University. Former lecturer in Performance Psychology at Manchester Metropolitan University. Former BBC and GMTV network broadcaster and Sunday Telegraph columnist. Biography Composure is rarely the line item in a leadership development plan, but it is what senior people are actually judged on when the room turns difficult. Phillippa Mole’s coaching practice is built around that observation. Fresh Air Coaching, the firm she founded in 2007, works with senior leaders and teams on the behavioural mechanics of presence, influence and decision-making under pressure. The technical base is unusual. She holds an MSc in Sport Science and Performance Psychology from Loughborough and lectured in performance psychology at Manchester Metropolitan University before moving into executive coaching full time. Her certifications run from Association for Coaching Master Executive Coach to ICF PCC, with NLP Master Practitioner and Trainer status alongside. She is named as the first UK practitioner certified in Reconsolidation of Traumatic Memories techniques for post-traumatic stress, which extends her range into work that touches genuine personal load. Before coaching, she competed in sprint hurdles for the South of England and represented Great Britain in bobsleigh, then spent years in front of a camera as a network broadcaster for the BBC and GMTV, including coverage of the Commonwealth Games, and as a Sunday Telegraph columnist. That background informs the way she teaches presence: the work is granular and physical, closer to a directing note than a leadership homily. Named clients include Deloitte, Dell, Sandtoft and Wienerberger, with engagements on bid pitches, capital raising and senior team performance. Buyers describe her as a “secret weapon” in those high-stakes settings, language that reflects what the work actually does, which is to make a small set of senior people materially better at the moments their reputation rests on. Key speaking topics Executive presence and influence Self-leadership under pressure Emotional intelligence in senior teams Performance psychology applied to business Communication and persuasion craft Resilience and recovery for senior leaders Ideal for CEOs, managing partners and board members preparing for high-stakes pitches, capital raises or contested set-pieces Senior leadership teams investing in presence, influence and team performance ahead of restructure or growth Newly promoted executives stepping into roles where credibility is judged in moments rather than over months HR directors and L&D leads commissioning behavioural development for the top layer rather than generic wellbeing content Audience outcomes A clearer, behaviourally specific picture of what executive presence is and how to build it Practical methods for holding composure in pitches, boardrooms and difficult conversations A working model for using emotional intelligence to read a room and shift a dynamic in real time Language for naming and addressing the pressure points that quietly reduce senior performance Renewed personal confidence in the moments where reputation is actually decided

Why organisations work with Pierluigi Collina He is the only figure in global sport who achieved celebrity status not as a player or coach but as the person whose sole function was to make consequential public judgments under pressure – his perspective on authority and decision-making has no direct equivalent in the business speaker market. His post-playing career adds institutional weight that most performance speakers cannot match: two decades in senior governance roles across Serie A, UEFA, and FIFA, including leading the global implementation of VAR – the most disruptive change to officiating rules in the sport’s history. My Rules of the Game, translated into more than ten languages across twenty countries, demonstrates that his framework for elite performance and disciplined decision-making has cross-cultural resonance far beyond football. His economics background (cum laude, University of Bologna) and career as a financial consultant mean his analytical lens on preparation, risk, and judgment is grounded in professional rigour, not athletic instinct alone. For organisations working through governance reform, accountability culture, or leadership under scrutiny, he offers a case study of sustained credibility at the highest levels of a globally watched, deeply contested environment. Biography highlights Refereed the 2002 FIFA World Cup Final (Brazil v Germany), the 1999 UEFA Champions League Final (Manchester United v Bayern Munich), the 1996 Olympic Games Final, and the 2004 UEFA Cup Final Named IFFHS World’s Best Referee for six consecutive years, 1998–2003; Serie A Referee of the Year six times Chairman of the FIFA Referees Committee since January 2017; previously UEFA Chief Refereeing Officer and Chairman of the Referees Committee (2010–2018); Chairman of the Serie A referees committee (2007–2010) Led preparation and training of referees for VAR introduction at the 2018 FIFA World Cup Author of My Rules of the Game (Macmillan, 2003), translated into more than ten languages across twenty countries Economics graduate cum laude, University of Bologna; former professional financial consultant Appointed Commendatore of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (2003); Honorary Doctor of Science, University of Hull (2004) Biography Making a decision that 1.2 billion people will immediately scrutinise is not a leadership metaphor. For Pierluigi Collina, it was the 2002 FIFA World Cup Final – the most-watched sporting event on the planet, and the last in a career that also included the 1999 Champions League Final and the 1996 Olympic Games Final. What those moments produced was not simply a record of high-profile matches, but a working methodology for sustained authority under conditions of total public exposure. Collina was named IFFHS World’s Best Referee six consecutive years from 1998 to 2003 – a period that also produced My Rules of the Game, his account of the preparation, discipline, and judgment required to perform at the top of an intensely adversarial profession. Translated into more than ten languages across twenty countries, the book demonstrated that his thinking on decision-making under pressure had relevance well beyond the sport. His economics degree cum laude from the University of Bologna and a parallel career as a financial consultant are consistent with a mind that approached officiating analytically, not intuitively. His retirement from the pitch in 2005 opened a second, structurally significant chapter. He led the Serie A referees committee, moved to UEFA as Chief Refereeing Officer, and since January 2017 has served as Chairman of the FIFA Referees Committee. In that role, he was central to the design and implementation of VAR – the most consequential change to football’s decision-making infrastructure in modern times – preparing referees globally for a system that required them to re-examine, in public and in real time, decisions already made. For organisations grappling with accountability culture, judgment under scrutiny, and the conditions under which authority holds – or fails – Collina brings something rare: not a sporting story applied to business by analogy, but a career-long, institutionally tested practice of making high-consequence decisions when the cost of error is immediate and the audience is watching every call. Key speaking topics Decision-making under public scrutiny Authority, credibility, and trust in leadership Performance preparation and elite standards Governance and institutional integrity Conflict management and de-escalation Accountability and rule-based leadership Technology-led change in high-stakes environments Ideal for Senior leadership teams navigating high-visibility, high-accountability environments Boards and governance professionals addressing decision-making culture and institutional integrity C-suite and executive development programmes focused on judgment, authority, and performance under pressure Transformation leads and HR directors building accountability frameworks within complex organisations Audience outcomes A structured understanding of how preparation, not instinct, is the foundation of sound judgment under pressure Practical perspectives on how authority is built and maintained – and the specific behaviours that erode it A framework for making and communicating consequential decisions in ways that command trust rather than invite challenge Clearer thinking on the relationship between governance structures and individual performance standards Concrete examples of how high-stakes decision-making principles from elite sport translate to organisational and leadership contexts

Why organisations work with Preet Chandi A verifiable record of decision-making under conditions most leaders will never face: solo, unsupported, 70 days on the Antarctic ice with no extraction option if a decision goes wrong. Two distinct authority sources in one speaker: 16 years as a British Army physiotherapist with operational deployments in Nepal, Kenya and South Sudan, and four Guinness World Records on Antarctic expeditions. Credibility on inclusion that is grounded in lived experience rather than commentary: the first woman of colour to ski solo to the South Pole, with an MBE for the expedition itself, not for advocacy work around it. A speaker leadership teams remember twelve months later. The Antarctic story is concrete, structured around preparation, setback and recovery, and lands in a register the board, the engineering function and the graduate intake all recognise. Biography highlights MBE, 2022 Queen’s Birthday Honours, for her solo expedition across Antarctica. Four Guinness World Records on Antarctic expeditions, including the longest solo unsupported one-way polar ski expedition and the female speed record to the South Pole. Captain in the British Army, served 16 years as a physiotherapist with operational deployments in Nepal, Kenya and South Sudan. MSc in Sports and Exercise Medicine; trained Nordic skier and ultramarathon runner, including the Marathon des Sables. Author of “The Explorer’s Guide to Going Wild: Find Adventure Anywhere”, published with Hachette. Covered extensively by Guinness World Records, BBC, and the British Army; judge for Women in Defence UK Awards. Biography The hardest part of a solo polar expedition is not the cold. It is the absence of anyone else to confer with when a decision needs making and the cost of getting it wrong is your life. Preet Chandi spent 40 days alone on the Antarctic ice in 2022, then returned twice more, breaking records on each expedition. She is one of nine women in history to ski solo to the South Pole and the first woman of colour to do so. Her subsequent expeditions set the record for the longest solo unsupported one-way polar ski journey, at 922 miles over 70 days, and the female speed record to the South Pole, completed in 31 days, 13 hours and 19 minutes. The records were ratified by Guinness World Records. The MBE, awarded in the 2022 Birthday Honours, was for the expedition itself. The background underneath the expeditions matters. Preet served 16 years as a physiotherapist in the British Army, reaching the rank of Captain, with operational deployments in Nepal, Kenya and South Sudan. She holds an MSc in Sports and Exercise Medicine. The military discipline shapes how she frames what she did on the ice: planning, contingency, recovery, and the management of the mind when conditions remove every external prop. Audiences get a serious account of how composure is built and held when help is not available. The story is unusual because it is verifiable at every step, and because Preet talks about the setbacks, the recalibration, and the days she wanted to stop, in the same plain register as the record-breaking finishes. Key speaking topics Resilience under sustained pressure Self-belief and identity in high-stakes environments Decision-making in isolation Diversity and representation at the edges of endurance sport Preparation and contingency planning Recovery after setback Mental performance for senior leaders Ideal for Leadership offsites where the cohort is fatigued from repeated change and needs a credible voice on composure. DEI and women’s leadership programmes wanting a speaker whose authority is anchored in achievement rather than commentary. Sales kick-offs, all-hands and conference openings where the brief is to set a tone of resolve without resorting to generic motivational content. Defence, healthcare and high-risk operating environments where the audience recognises military and clinical credibility. Audience outcomes A specific account of how preparation, contingency and self-talk hold up under genuine isolation. A reframing of setback as a structured stage of any ambitious plan, not a deviation from it. Confidence that the standard reasons given for not starting something difficult are weaker than they sound. A vocabulary for talking about pressure, fear and recovery that senior teams can use without embarrassment. A story audiences can retell internally to colleagues, anchored to named records and named places.

Why organisations work with Rachel Brown-Finnis A first-person account of a workforce professionalising in real time. She joined the England set-up before central contracts existed and was still playing when the FA introduced them in 2009; few speakers can describe an industry rebuilding itself from inside the dressing room. Lead-level broadcast craft. She co-commentated the BBC’s Euro 2025 final between England and Spain alongside Robyn Cowen, on top of long-standing punditry on Football Focus, The Women’s Football Show, BBC 5 Live and BT Sport, which transfers directly to corporate hosting, panels and fireside interviews. The goalkeeper’s perspective on team pressure. The position carries a particular discipline around isolation, recovery from visible error, and the cost of a single mistake; that is useful content for high-stakes corporate teams, not a metaphor. A practitioner voice on women entering male-coded industries, drawn from a 17-year senior international career, two World Cups, three European Championships, and an Olympic Games, not from secondary research. Biography highlights 82 senior England caps from a debut at 16 against Germany in 1997 through to international retirement in 2014. First-choice England goalkeeper at the 2007 FIFA Women’s World Cup and UEFA Women’s Euro 2009; Team GB squad member at the London 2012 Olympics. FA Women’s Cup winner with Everton in 2010; FA Women’s Cup finalist with Liverpool in 1996 at the age of 15. One of the first female players awarded a central contract by The Football Association in 2009. Co-commentator on the BBC’s Euro 2025 final coverage and long-standing pundit across BBC Sport, BT Sport and BBC 5 Live. Sports Science degree, University of Pittsburgh, where she held the Panthers’ single-season record for fewest goals conceded; subsequent PE teaching qualification at Liverpool John Moores University. Biography Women’s football was an amateur sport when Rachel Brown-Finnis made her senior England debut at 16 against Germany in 1997. It was a professional, broadcast-funded industry by the time she retired from international football in 2014. She played through every stage of that transition: 82 caps, two World Cups, three European Championships, the 2012 Olympics, and the introduction of the first FA central contracts for women in 2009, which she was part of. The playing career was built on a goalkeeping discipline familiar to anyone who has worked in a high-visibility role. The position rewards composure, an honest read of risk, and recovery from public error. She held the first-choice England jersey through the 2007 FIFA Women’s World Cup and UEFA Women’s Euro 2009. At club level she won the FA Women’s Cup with Everton in 2010 after reaching her first final at 15 with Liverpool. The broadcast career has tracked the commercial expansion of the women’s game. She is a fixture on BBC Football Focus, The Women’s Football Show, BBC 5 Live and BT Sport, wrote a weekly Guardian column through the 2019/20 WSL season, and co-commentated the BBC’s coverage of the Euro 2025 final between England and Spain. The skill set is live broadcast craft: read the room, structure the conversation, manage the interview, hold the line under pressure. When she speaks from the stage, the material is grounded in that experience rather than imported from a framework. Team culture inside elite environments. The texture of being one of very few women in a high-performance system that was not designed for her. The economics and identity of a workforce that has had to build itself in public. The story is specific, recent, and difficult to outsource. Key speaking topics Team culture and trust in high-performance environments Women in male-coded industries Resilience and composure under public pressure The economics and evolution of women’s professional sport Live broadcast hosting, interview craft and on-stage moderation Lessons from a goalkeeping career: isolation, error recovery, and the cost of a single moment Ideal for Leadership teams in financial services, engineering, energy and other historically male-coded sectors running inclusion or women-in-leadership programmes. Sponsors and partners of the Premier League, The FA, WSL and the wider football ecosystem programming hospitality, conferences and awards. Corporate event organisers commissioning a broadcast-trained host or panel moderator rather than a celebrity name. High-performance organisations using sport as a credible reference point for team culture, recovery from error, and pressure management. Audience outcomes A first-person account of a workforce professionalising in real time, with the structural and cultural detail intact. Working language for women in male-coded industries that resists slogan and connects to operational reality. A goalkeeper’s mental model for high-visibility error: how teams should treat the person who carries the moment. Live interview and hosting craft when she takes the stage rather than the keynote slot, applied to panels, fireside conversations and awards.

Why organisations work with Rachel Clarkson She is a Health and Care Professions Council registered dietitian, not a nutritionist or wellness coach, which puts her workplace content inside the standard of evidence that clinical and benefits leaders can stand behind. Her nutrigenomics specialism, built through King’s College London training and a clinical partnership with Nutrigenomix at the University of Toronto, lets her translate gene-nutrient interaction into practical eating guidance for non-clinical audiences. The Eat The DNA Way framework gives corporate audiences a structured way to think about personalised nutrition, rather than the rotating list of trends that wellbeing programmes usually offer. Media credibility is established in outlets benefits and comms teams already trust, including BBC Future, The Guardian, Vogue and Healthista, which makes internal positioning of her sessions straightforward. She speaks as a clinician who runs a Harley Street practice, so audience questions on weight management, gut health, hormones and energy land with practical, individual-level answers rather than generic talking points. Biography highlights Founder of The DNA Dietitian, a Harley Street consultancy focused on nutrigenomics and personalised nutrition. MSc Nutritional Science and Postgraduate Diploma in Dietetics, King’s College London. Former Clinical Dietitian at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Trust, with rotational training across the Royal Marsden, Imperial College Healthcare and St Thomas’s. Guest Lecturer on the MSc programme at St Mary’s University, London. Clinical partner of Nutrigenomix, the genetic testing company founded at the University of Toronto. Featured in BBC Future, The Guardian, Vogue, Tatler, Cosmopolitan, Grazia, Women’s Health and Men’s Health. Biography Corporate wellbeing spend has risen for a decade, and most workforces still feel tired, distracted and unsure what to eat. The gap is not awareness. It is specificity. Generic nutrition advice cannot account for how different people actually metabolise caffeine, respond to saturated fat, or tolerate carbohydrate, which is why so much wellbeing content fails to translate into behaviour change. That is the gap nutrigenomics closes, and it is the territory Rachel Clarkson works in. Trained as a dietitian at King’s College London and clinically grounded through NHS rotations at Chelsea and Westminster, the Royal Marsden, Imperial College Healthcare and St Thomas’s, she now runs The DNA Dietitian from Harley Street. Her clinical partnership with Nutrigenomix, the testing company founded at the University of Toronto, sits behind a method she calls Eat The DNA Way. She holds a guest lecturing position at St Mary’s University, London, where she teaches nutrigenomics on the MSc programme, and she contributes to literature in the field. The combination, regulated clinical credentials plus a specialism most general nutrition speakers do not have, is what makes her credible to a board-level audience asking whether wellbeing budget can be made to do real work. In rooms of HR, benefits and people leaders, she translates a complex science into practical guidance her audience can act on the same week, with the same evidential standard she applies in clinic. That is rare in the workplace wellbeing market, and it is the basis on which her work has been picked up across BBC Future, The Guardian, Vogue and Healthista. Key speaking topics Personalised nutrition and nutrigenomics Corporate wellbeing programme design Workplace energy, focus and cognitive performance Weight management and cardiometabolic health Gut health, IBS and digestion Hormonal health across the working life Longevity and healthspan in the workforce Ideal for CHROs, heads of people and benefits leaders reviewing their wellbeing strategy Internal health, safety and wellbeing committees commissioning content for staff Professional services and finance firms with high-performance cultures and energy management questions Women’s networks and ERGs running hormonal health, menopause or energy programming Audience outcomes A working understanding of how nutrigenomics differs from generic nutrition advice and where it can usefully apply at work Specific, evidence-based answers to the questions employees most often ask about weight, energy, gut health and hormones A clinical frame of reference for assessing wellbeing vendors and content offered to the workforce Personal next steps each attendee can apply to their own eating pattern within the week

Why organisations work with Rafael Camara A current-season elite competitor at the sharp end of an environment built around pressure, qualifying margins, and split-second decisions, not a retired athlete reflecting on a finished career. Direct insight into how a Ferrari Driver Academy programme structures preparation, debrief, and feedback cycles around a young driver who has to perform on schedule. A rookie-year championship in FIA Formula 3 plus the 2024 Formula Regional European title give him a documented record of converting promotion-year pressure into results. Speaks credibly to teams working in multicultural, multilingual environments, having raced and lived across European championships from a Brazilian base since his teens. Biography highlights 2025 FIA Formula 3 Champion with Trident, clinching the title with one round remaining FIA Rookie of the Year and Aramco Best Rookie Award, 2025 2024 Formula Regional European Champion with Prema Racing; first Brazilian to win the title Member of the Scuderia Ferrari Driver Academy 2021 WSK Champions Cup winner in karting Signed to Invicta Racing for the 2026 FIA Formula 2 Championship Biography Formula 3 has not seen a rookie campaign quite like the one Trident and Camara put together in 2025. Four feature-race victories, five pole positions, and a championship sealed with a round still to run. He took both the FIA Rookie of the Year and Aramco Best Rookie awards in the same season. The year before, he had already done something no Brazilian had managed. With Prema Racing he won the 2024 Formula Regional European Championship and set a single-season points record on the way. Two titles, two teams, two consecutive promotion years. Behind the results sits a Ferrari Driver Academy programme that has produced Charles Leclerc and a structured way of preparing young drivers for the pressure that comes with a Scuderia seat. Camara has been inside that system through his step up from karting into single-seaters, and through his moves to FREC, F3, and now F2 with Invicta Racing for 2026. For business audiences, that is the substance he draws on. How a competitive team uses debrief data, how preparation is structured when you have one qualifying lap to deliver, and what composure looks like when a season turns on a handful of corners. Key speaking topics Performance under pressure Preparation and debrief in elite competition Resilience after setbacks Team performance in multicultural environments Lessons from inside the Ferrari Driver Academy High-stakes decision-making in narrow time windows Ideal for Sales and commercial leadership teams in cyclical, target-driven environments Operations and execution teams where preparation and timing decide outcomes Sponsor activations and partner events with a motorsport or performance theme Talent and leadership development audiences focused on young high-performer cohorts Audience outcomes A first-hand account of how a Ferrari Driver Academy driver prepares for a championship year A working picture of what debrief discipline and feedback loops look like in elite competition Specific examples of how composure is built and held in narrow-margin moments A view of how a young performer manages the step up between levels of competition

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