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Why organisations work with Stuart Lancaster A coaching record that proves the method twice: a national team rebuild with England and a sustained European-winning culture with Leinster, where the same principles produced different results in different conditions. Direct authorship of the 2018 Heineken Champions Cup-winning Leinster culture, alongside Leo Cullen, plus four consecutive PRO14 titles between 2018 and 2021. Few corporate speakers can point to a documented seven-year run of trophy-level output in their primary domain. A structured leadership masterclass product, not a one-off war-stories keynote. Lancaster runs his own corporate programme through Stuart Lancaster Leadership, which means the material has been used and refined with executive audiences over years. Hands-on practitioner credibility on the specific question senior leaders find hardest: how to set behavioural standards inside a high-status, high-ego group of professionals without losing performance. Biography highlights Head Coach, England Rugby, 2011 to 2015. Forty-six tests, twenty-eight wins, a Triple Crown and four Calcutta Cups. Senior coach, Leinster Rugby, 2016 to 2023. One European Rugby Champions Cup (2018) and four consecutive PRO14/URC titles (2018, 2019, 2020, 2021). Head Coach, Racing 92, from 2023. Head Coach, Connacht Rugby, from June 2025. Three Churchill Cup titles as Head Coach of England Saxons (2008, 2010, 2011) and National Division One title with Leeds Tykes (2006 to 2007). Founder of Stuart Lancaster Leadership, running corporate masterclasses and keynotes for business audiences. Biography Rebuilding a national rugby programme after a public failure is a leadership problem before it is a technical one. When Lancaster took the England head coach role in 2012, the squad was carrying the reputational damage of a disastrous 2011 World Cup. He spent the next four years rebuilding the behavioural standards, won twenty-eight of forty-six tests, took a Triple Crown and four Calcutta Cups, and then watched it end in the group stages of the 2015 World Cup on home soil. The next chapter is what makes the leadership argument credible. Joining Leinster as a senior coach in 2016, Lancaster worked alongside Leo Cullen on a culture that produced the 2018 European Rugby Champions Cup final, won 15-12 against Racing 92, and four consecutive PRO14/URC titles between 2018 and 2021. The same person, the same principles, a different system, and a sustained run of European and domestic trophies. That sequence is now the source material for his work with senior executives. Through Stuart Lancaster Leadership, he runs masterclasses and keynote sessions for corporate audiences on building high-performing teams, leadership under pressure, and the practical detail of culture inside elite groups. The work is structured, not anecdotal: behavioural standards, feedback mechanics, role clarity, how leaders show up in front of their group when results are poor. Since 2023 he has continued to coach at the highest level, first at Racing 92 in the Top 14 and now as Head Coach of Connacht Rugby, appointed in June 2025. The leadership method is not retrospective; it is being tested again, on the field, while the corporate audience is watching. Key speaking topics Building high-performing teams Culture and behavioural standards in elite groups Leadership under public scrutiny and after setback Trust, feedback and communication inside senior teams Resilience and sustained performance through change Authentic leadership for introverts and extroverts Ideal for Chief executives, executive committees and senior leadership groups responsible for performance over multi-year cycles Chief people officers and HR directors building leadership development programmes anchored in real team-leadership practice Sales, professional services and trading leadership teams operating under high pressure and public results Conference audiences of senior managers where leadership and team-performance content is the primary brief Audience outcomes A concrete reference model for what cultural standards look like inside an elite-performance group, drawn from named examples at England and Leinster Sharper thinking on the difference between leading through good results and leading through bad ones Practical language for the behavioural side of leadership: standards, feedback, role clarity, the leader’s own conduct in front of the group A counterpoint to abstract leadership content, grounded in a domain where results are public, weekly and unforgiving

Why organisations work with Stuart Pearce He has captained under genuine national scrutiny, 78 England appearances and nine as captain, and can describe the mechanics of holding a dressing room together when results go against you. He is one of the few speakers who can credibly speak to recovery from a high-visibility failure. The 1990 World Cup penalty miss and the 1996 redemption are documented in his Sunday Times bestseller Psycho and in tournament footage that audiences already know. He has run teams at three different altitudes: Premier League club (Manchester City), national youth development (England U21) and one-off elite tournament (Team GB at London 2012). Few speakers cover that range from direct experience. He sits inside the British media on Sky Sports and TalkSPORT, which means his framing of leadership stories is sharp and current rather than nostalgic. Biography highlights 78 England caps, 9 as captain. MBE for services to football, 1999. 12 years at Nottingham Forest under Brian Clough, the majority as club captain. Manager of Manchester City, 2005 to 2007. Head coach of England U21, 2007 to 2013. Manager of the Team GB football squad at the London 2012 Olympic Games. Author of Psycho: The Autobiography, Headline 2001, a Sunday Times bestseller. Regular pundit on Sky Sports and TalkSPORT. Biography The 1996 European Championship penalty shoot-out is one of the most watched moments in English sporting memory. Six years earlier, Stuart Pearce had missed his penalty in the World Cup semi-final against Germany. In 1996 he scored, and the photograph of his celebration is in most archives of the tournament. That arc, public failure followed by public composure under the same pressure, is the spine of what he speaks about. Pearce captained Nottingham Forest under Brian Clough through 12 years, and the bulk of his 78 England appearances came in that period. Nine of those were as captain. He finished his playing career at Manchester City, winning the Championship in his final season. The MBE arrived in 1999 for services to football. The post-playing CV is unusually broad. He managed Manchester City in the Premier League, then ran England U21 development for six years, and took the Team GB football squad to the London 2012 Olympics. Each of those roles required a different kind of leadership: club authority, talent development under a federation, and one-off tournament command. He has since worked as an assistant manager and as a regular Sky Sports and TalkSPORT pundit. For corporate audiences, the substance is captaincy and recovery, not nostalgia. He has fronted campaigns for Direct Line, Carlsberg, Sony and others, and his 2001 autobiography Psycho was a Sunday Times bestseller. The material that travels best into a leadership room is the part most ex-players cannot offer: a documented account of failing in public, holding the role, and getting another shot. Key speaking topics Captaincy and on-pitch leadership Recovery from public failure High-performance team culture Coaching elite talent Dressing-room management under pressure Resilience and mental discipline Ideal for Sales conferences and annual kick-offs needing a leadership-anchored keynote Senior leadership offsites focused on resilience and composure Sports and entertainment businesses, sponsors and broadcasters After-dinner and awards audiences where authority and recognisability both matter Audience outcomes A first-hand account of leading a team through the worst public moment of your career Concrete examples of how captains hold a dressing room when results go against them Insight into how Brian Clough built and sustained an elite culture at Nottingham Forest A sharper read on what separates international tournament management from club management

Why organisations work with Stuart Sandeman He turns a research-grounded physiological practice into something a CFO will actually use on a Tuesday morning, not a wellness add-on that lives outside the working day. His book “Breathe In, Breathe Out” reached the Sunday Times bestseller list and gives buyers a defensible reference point for the substance behind the session. He has run programmes inside Google, Nike, Spotify, Adidas, PwC and Warner Music, with the same framework adapted for Olympic athletes, UFC fighters and the England football squad at Euro 2024. The format pairs structured breathing protocols with curated music, drawing on his prior career as a DJ and producer. The room experience is part of the product, not a backdrop. BBC Radio 1’s “Decompression Session”, now in its sixth series, gives him a public platform that very few corporate wellbeing speakers can match. Biography highlights Founder of Breathpod, a breathwork and corporate wellbeing business with clients including Google, Nike, Spotify, Adidas, PwC, Warner Music, MediaCom and Merkle. Sunday Times bestselling author of “Breathe In, Breathe Out”, published by HarperCollins. Host of BBC Radio 1’s “Decompression Session”, a guided breathwork and electronic music programme now in its sixth series. Performance work with Olympic athletes, UFC fighters, the US rugby sevens team and the England team at the 2024 Euros. Former financial markets professional in the UK and Asia, music producer and DJ, and a Scottish national-level judo black belt. Featured in The Times, The Guardian and The Evening Standard. Biography Most corporate wellbeing programmes fail the same test. They are voluntary, optional and asynchronous, and the people who most need them never turn up. The result is a category of spend that boards struggle to defend when the next round of cost cuts arrives. Stuart Sandeman built Breathpod to sit inside the working day rather than outside it. Sessions are short, structured and physiological, designed for boardrooms, sales floors and athletic preparation rooms. The clients on the list, Google, Nike, Spotify, Adidas, PwC and Warner Music, repeat-book because the practice produces a measurable shift in state inside the meeting it is delivered in. His credibility as a practitioner is reinforced by two adjacent platforms. “Breathe In, Breathe Out” reached the Sunday Times bestseller list and gave the field a serious mainstream reference book. BBC Radio 1’s “Decompression Session”, now in its sixth series, pairs guided breathing with curated electronic music for a national audience. The hybrid, scientific instruction inside a broadcast-quality sound experience is the same form he brings to corporate rooms. The route in is unusual. A career in financial markets in the UK and Asia, a parallel life as a DJ and producer, a Scottish judo black belt, then a turn to breathwork after losing his partner to cancer in 2016. Performance clients have followed: Olympic athletes, UFC fighters, the US rugby sevens team, and the England squad at Euro 2024. Key speaking topics Breathwork for stress and recovery Focus and performance under pressure Sleep and energy management Wellbeing inside high-performance cultures Emotional regulation and resilience Mental health in the workplace Ideal for CHROs, CPOs and wellbeing leads designing interventions that need to land with senior populations, not just with HR. Executive teams and leadership offsites where stress, sleep and focus are direct constraints on output. High-performance environments in sport, broadcast and creative industries where physiological state is part of the job. Sales, trading and consulting teams operating in sustained high-pressure cycles. Audience outcomes A small set of breathing protocols that audiences can use the same day, in meetings, before pitches and during recovery. A clearer mental model for how breath, nervous system and performance interact, drawn from research rather than wellness language. A shared room experience, structured breathing inside a curated soundscape, that resets state and shifts the energy of the day. Practical tools for sleep, focus and emotional regulation that do not depend on apps, kits, or further enrolment.

Why organisations work with Sue Barker A rare first-hand account of two distinct elite careers, professional tennis and three decades of live BBC broadcasting, with the practical detail of how each transition was managed. Sustained composure on live television. Hosting Wimbledon, Sports Personality of the Year and A Question of Sport for decades is a working example of executing under scrutiny that few corporate audiences will encounter directly. Credibility with senior, mixed-gender audiences. Recognised by the Royal Television Society and the Crown across three honours, which lands with boards and partner-track audiences in a way generic motivational speakers do not. Strong fit as an awards host, panel chair and after-dinner speaker for corporate events that need a recognisable public figure with broadcast-grade interviewing craft. Biography highlights French Open singles champion, 1976; world No. 3, 1977; eleven WTA singles titles. Host of BBC Wimbledon coverage, 1994 to 2022. Host of A Question of Sport, 1997 to 2021. Host of BBC Sports Personality of the Year, 1994 to 2012. First woman to win the Royal Television Society best sports presenter award, 2001. MBE (2000), OBE (2016), CBE (2021); Sunday Times bestselling author of Calling The Shots and Wimbledon: A Personal Story. Biography The 1976 French Open final was won by a 20-year-old from Devon who had been picked out for coaching at age ten by Arthur Roberts, the coach behind Angela Mortimer’s three Grand Slam titles. That win, eleven WTA singles titles and a world ranking of No. 3 made the first career. The second was longer and arguably harder. After retiring from professional tennis in 1984, Barker moved into broadcasting through Australia’s Channel 7 and Sky, then joined the BBC in 1993. From 1994 she anchored Wimbledon for the corporation, a role she held for almost three decades, alongside A Question of Sport from 1997 and Sports Personality of the Year from 1994. Three Royal honours followed: MBE, OBE and CBE. For corporate audiences, the substance is the craft underneath the visibility. Holding a live two-week tournament on air, running a long-running studio format, and interviewing elite performers in defeat as well as victory are working demonstrations of composure, preparation and reinvention. Her two Sunday Times bestsellers, Calling The Shots and Wimbledon: A Personal Story, document the same material in print. She is most often booked as an awards host, panel chair or after-dinner speaker, where the value sits in broadcast-grade interviewing and the standing she brings to the room. The keynote content on resilience and performing under pressure is drawn directly from those two careers, not assembled from theory. Key speaking topics Resilience and reinvention across a long career Performing under pressure on live broadcast Women in sport and sports media Teamwork in elite competition Awards hosting and panel chairing Interviewing elite performers Ideal for Corporate awards ceremonies and gala dinners needing a recognised public figure to host Leadership offsites where resilience and career reinvention are the brief Conferences requiring a panel chair or interviewer with broadcast-grade craft Client and partner events where brand recognition and audience appeal matter Audience outcomes A first-hand account of how composure is built and held across decades of public performance Specific examples of managing a career transition from elite sport into a second profession A practitioner’s view of women’s progress in sport and sports broadcasting since the 1970s An interviewer’s perspective on what elite performers say about pressure and recovery

Why organisations work with Susie Wolff She is the only executive who has both experienced structural exclusion at the top of global motorsport as a competitor and then returned to redesign those structures, giving her an argument that runs deeper than advocacy. F1 Academy under her leadership secured the backing of all ten Formula 1 teams, partnerships with Charlotte Tilbury, American Express, TAG Heuer and The LEGO Group, and grew to become the second-most followed motorsport series after Formula 1 – these are not diversity metrics, they are commercial outcomes. Her work addresses a specific organisational failure that most DEI programmes miss: talent exclusion is not primarily a selection problem, it is a pipeline and development problem. She has built the operational case study. Her track record spans the full leadership arc – elite competitor, team principal, CEO, series director – giving her credibility in conversations about performance culture, high-pressure decision-making, and building organisations that win under scrutiny. Driven, her memoir, was an instant Sunday Times bestseller on UK publication by Hodder & Stoughton, and was released in the US by Henry Holt in April 2026 with a Booklist Starred Review and Lewis Hamilton endorsement, extending her reach beyond motorsport audiences into mainstream leadership conversations. Biography highlights Managing Director, F1 Academy (Formula 1’s all-female development series), appointed March 2023; reports directly to Formula 1 CEO Stefano Domenicali First woman to participate in a Formula One race weekend since 1992 – four FP1 sessions with the Williams F1 team, 2014–2015 Seven seasons in the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters (DTM) with Mercedes-Benz, 2006-2012 Team Principal then CEO, Venturi Formula E team, 2018-2022; took the team from the back of the grid to Formula E Vice-World Champions and oversaw its sale to Maserati on departure Founder, Dare To Be Different initiative (2016); merged with FIA Girls on Track (2019) Author, Driven (Hodder & Stoughton / Henry Holt) – instant Sunday Times bestseller; executive producer of Netflix docuseries F1: The Academy (2025) MBE (2017) for services to women in sport; Honorary Fellowship, University of Edinburgh (2013); CNBC Changemaker (2026) Biography Motorsport has long had a pipeline problem, not of talent, but of access. The structures that determined who made it to the top were built for a specific kind of competitor, and they were rarely questioned. Susie Wolff sat inside that system for over two decades: as a driver who pushed further into Formula One than any woman had in a generation, and then as the executive who went back to rebuild it. Her driving career ran from karting to the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters with Mercedes-Benz, then to Williams F1, where she became the first woman to participate in a Formula One race weekend since 1992 across four practice sessions in 2014 and 2015. When she retired from driving, she turned to the leadership side of the sport: first as Team Principal, then CEO, of the Venturi Formula E team. Over four seasons she took the team from the back of the grid to a Formula E Vice-World Championship finish, then oversaw its sale to Maserati before joining F1 Academy in March 2023. At F1 Academy, Wolff has built something that did not exist before: a commercially viable, Formula 1-integrated development series for female talent, which now carries the liveries of all ten F1 teams, holds partnerships with brands including Charlotte Tilbury, American Express, TAG Heuer and The LEGO Group, and has grown to become the second-most followed motorsport series after Formula 1. She executive produced the 2025 Netflix docuseries F1: The Academy alongside Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine. Her memoir Driven was an instant Sunday Times bestseller on UK publication by Hodder & Stoughton, and was released in the US by Henry Holt in April 2026 to a Booklist Starred Review. What Wolff offers corporate audiences is not a motivational narrative with a motorsport backdrop. It is a specific and replicable argument: that inclusive talent pipelines are not built by changing who you select, but by redesigning the conditions in which talent is identified and developed. She has built that case inside one of the world’s most commercially demanding sports, and has the results to prove it. Key speaking topics Inclusive talent pipeline design Leadership and performance under competitive pressure Organisational culture change in structurally resistant industries Executive leadership in high-performance sport Building commercial frameworks for underrepresented talent Resilience and ambition in elite environments Diversity as a strategic performance lever Ideal for C-suite and senior leadership teams working on talent strategy, diversity, or cultural transformation CHROs and People directors designing inclusive talent development programmes Leadership and strategy teams in automotive, engineering, technology, and financial services Sports business, sponsorship, and commercial leadership audiences Audience outcomes A clear framework for distinguishing between diversity as selection (reactive) and diversity as pipeline design (structural) with a real-world organisational example Understanding of how to build commercial buy-in for inclusion initiatives, grounded in F1 Academy’s partnership and broadcast growth Insight into high-performance decision-making and the leadership qualities required to build organisations under public scrutiny A more specific vocabulary for talking about talent exclusion as a performance problem rather than a compliance issue First-hand perspective on what resilience, ambition, and goal-setting look like at the elite level, and how these translate into organisational contexts

Why organisations work with Suzi Perry She has hosted live, high-stakes broadcast for more than two decades, including BBC Formula 1, MotoGP for BBC and BT Sport, Wimbledon and the London Olympics. Few hosts on the corporate circuit carry that volume of unscripted live experience. She is the first woman to have held the permanent main-anchor role on BBC Formula 1, which makes her credible in front of motorsport, automotive and engineering audiences in a way most generalist hosts are not. She has eight years on Channel 5’s The Gadget Show and a long run with Mobile World Congress and Global Mobile Awards, giving her fluency with technology, telecoms and consumer electronics audiences without needing a brief. Repeat corporate clients include BT, Mercedes, Honda, HSBC, Suzuki, DELL, EE, Nikon and Royal Mail, with hosting work spanning awards nights, conference moderation and product launches. Biography highlights First permanent female anchor of BBC One’s Formula 1 coverage, 2013 to 2015. Lead MotoGP presenter for BT Sport, now TNT Sports, since 2016. Thirteen seasons covering MotoGP for BBC Sport before joining Formula 1. Co-presenter of Channel 5’s The Gadget Show for eight years across 17 series. Conference and awards host for BT, Mercedes, Honda, HSBC, Mobile World Congress and Global Mobile Awards. Honorary degree from the University of Wolverhampton. Biography Live broadcast is the part of the modern executive job that gets the least practice and the most scrutiny. Suzi Perry has spent more than twenty years working in exactly that environment, first as the BBC’s MotoGP presenter for thirteen seasons, then as the first woman to hold the permanent main-anchor role on BBC One’s Formula 1 coverage from 2013, and since 2016 as the lead MotoGP presenter for BT Sport and TNT Sports. That work is the basis of how she shows up for corporate audiences. She has hosted at Mobile World Congress, Global Mobile Awards, the Boat Show and conferences for BT, Mercedes, Honda, HSBC, Suzuki, DELL, EE, Nikon and Royal Mail, alongside awards-night work for technology, automotive and consumer brands. Eight years co-presenting Channel 5’s The Gadget Show, and a long association with Gadget Show Live, gave her a separate base of fluency with technology and consumer-tech audiences. Her speaking content draws on the same source material. Two decades of live broadcast at the front of a Formula 1 paddock or a MotoGP grid produce a specific working knowledge: how to prepare, how to recover when a feed drops or a guest goes off-script, how to read a room when the schedule slips. For senior leaders increasingly asked to be the face of their organisation on stage and on camera, that experience is the relevant credential. She holds an honorary degree from the University of Wolverhampton, where she originally studied business and finance, and serves as a patron or ambassador for Promise Dreams, UK Youth, the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award, Alzheimer’s Research UK and the Special Olympics. Key speaking topics Live broadcast and presenting craft Awards hosting and conference moderation Motorsport and Formula 1 MotoGP and motorcycle racing Technology and consumer electronics Women in motorsport and broadcasting Ideal for Boards and executive teams preparing for high-visibility live moments: investor days, town halls, AGMs. Automotive, motorsport and engineering audiences looking for a host with technical fluency, not a generalist. Technology and telecoms organisations running keynote stages, awards nights or product launches. CMOs and brand teams briefing for sponsorship-driven hospitality at major sporting events. Audience outcomes A working sense of how experienced broadcasters prepare for live moments where the script can fail. A clearer view of what composure on camera actually looks like in practice. Specific examples from inside Formula 1 and MotoGP that translate to high-pressure corporate stages. A sharper read on how to recover when a live moment goes off plan.

Why organisations work with T. Harv Eker His core material is built from his own operating experience, including a retail fitness chain scaled to ten locations, a subsequent financial collapse, and a methodical rebuild; this is not theory cribbed from other authors. Secrets of the Millionaire Mind put his argument into mainstream circulation, a New York Times bestseller and number one on the Wall Street Journal business-book list, which gives audiences a common reference point before the session starts. His Money Blueprint framework translates abstract wealth mindset material into a concrete diagnostic that individuals can apply to their own decisions and habits. Peak Potentials Training, the company he founded, has run entrepreneurial and wealth-mindset programmes at scale for more than two decades, so the material has been refined in front of large, mixed audiences rather than a single executive room. He speaks directly to founders, owner-operators and ambitious individuals, which is a different audience to the corporate keynote circuit and a better fit for entrepreneurial and franchise events. Biography highlights Canadian-American entrepreneur, businessman and motivational speaker Author of the New York Times bestseller Secrets of the Millionaire Mind (HarperCollins, 2005), number one on the Wall Street Journal business-book list Founder of Peak Potentials Training, acquired by Success Resources in 2011 Developer of the Money Blueprint framework for understanding individual wealth behaviour Creator of the Millionaire Mind Intensive and related programmes delivered internationally Biography The practical question behind most wealth advice is why the same information produces very different outcomes for very different people. T. Harv Eker’s working answer is the Money Blueprint: a set of internalised beliefs, set early, that governs how someone earns, saves, invests and loses money. His career has been an extended test of that argument, first on himself and then in front of large rooms of entrepreneurs. He is Canadian-American, born in Toronto in 1954, and started working at thirteen. After more than a dozen unsuccessful businesses, he opened one of North America’s early retail fitness stores and scaled it to ten locations, selling part of the company to a Fortune 500 buyer. He then lost most of the proceeds within two years. The rebuild is the source of the framework: a deliberate study of the psychological patterns that separate people who make money from people who keep it. That work became Secrets of the Millionaire Mind, a New York Times bestseller and number one on the Wall Street Journal business-book list, and Peak Potentials Training, the seminar company he founded and later sold to Success Resources in 2011. The Millionaire Mind Intensive remains the flagship programme. Eker’s natural audience is entrepreneurs, business owners and individuals building financial independence, rather than corporate boards. For growth conferences, founder communities, franchise events and wealth-focused audiences, his draw is the combination of a directly applicable framework, a mainstream bestseller and an operator’s willingness to talk about the failures as well as the results. Key speaking topics Wealth psychology and the Money Blueprint Entrepreneurial mindset and personal finance Building and rebuilding businesses Habits of high-earning individuals Motivation, action and execution Ideal for Entrepreneurs, founders and owner-operators scaling or restarting a business Franchise networks, sales organisations and business-opportunity communities Growth-focused conferences and private wealth events After-dinner and headline slots where a direct, plain-spoken commercial voice is required Audience outcomes A working diagnostic of the beliefs driving their current earning and spending behaviour A concrete view of the habits shared by high-earning entrepreneurs, drawn from Eker’s own research and teaching Specific prompts for changing patterns that have previously capped income or business growth A direct, action-oriented call to implement, consistent with his operating style

Why organisations work with Tal Ben-Shahar The Harvard credential is unusually specific. His Positive Psychology course became the most-taken class in the university’s history, which means his material has been pressure-tested in a room he did not own rather than rehearsed for conferences. His SPIRE framework, the basis of the Happiness Studies Academy curriculum, gives organisations a shared language for wellbeing that is specific enough to act on and simple enough to deploy at scale. Potentialife, co-founded with a former McKinsey senior partner, has translated positive psychology into a leadership development platform rather than a keynote; he speaks from inside that operating experience. Eight books, Happier a New York Times bestseller, translated into 25 languages, makes him one of the most cited authorities on happiness science that a buyer can put in front of a large internal audience. His work connects wellbeing to performance in a way most wellness speakers cannot, which is what senior leadership teams need when they are being asked to justify the investment. Biography highlights PhD in Organizational Behavior and BA in Philosophy and Psychology, Harvard University Former teacher of Positive Psychology 1504 at Harvard, the most-taken course in the university’s history Co-founder of the Happiness Studies Academy and creator of the SPIRE wellbeing framework Co-founder of Potentialife, a positive-psychology-based leadership development platform Author of eight books including the New York Times bestseller Happier, translated into 25 languages Helped establish the Maytiv Center for positive psychology at IDC Herzliya (now Reichman University) Biography A generation of Harvard students sat in Positive Psychology 1504 because it was the most-enrolled course in the university’s history. The argument that drew them is the argument Tal Ben-Shahar has since built into an international body of work: that happiness is not a soft subject, it is a measurable driver of performance, judgment and resilience, and the organisations that understand it will outperform the ones that treat it as HR decoration. His academic grounding is Harvard across the board, with a BA in Philosophy and Psychology and a PhD in Organizational Behavior. The teaching track ran alongside a popular-writing career that now spans eight books, including the New York Times bestseller Happier, translated into 25 languages. These are not motivational titles, they are the popular expression of an empirical research tradition he has been teaching since the early 2000s. The organisational application comes through two vehicles. The Happiness Studies Academy, which he co-founded, is the home of the SPIRE framework, which codifies wellbeing as the integration of spiritual, physical, intellectual, relational and emotional health. Potentialife, co-founded with former McKinsey senior partner Angus Ridgway, delivers a positive-psychology-based leadership programme at corporate scale, with a platform that tracks behaviour in and out of work. For senior leadership teams, the combination is what matters. Ben-Shahar can translate a research finding into a board-level case for investment, and translate that case into a programme employees will actually use. In a period when wellbeing spend is under scrutiny and the cost of burnout is appearing on the P&L, that is a short list of people who can hold both ends of the conversation. Key speaking topics Positive psychology and the science of wellbeing The SPIRE framework for wholeperson wellbeing Positive leadership and performance Resilience and happiness in uncertain times Burnout, meaning and motivation at work Organisational applications of happiness research Ideal for CHROs, chief wellbeing officers and people-and-culture leaders designing enterprise-wide wellbeing strategy CEOs and executive teams looking to connect wellbeing investment to performance outcomes Leadership development and learning functions building positive leadership capability at scale All-hands, leadership offsites and customer or partner conferences where a credible, research-anchored wellbeing voice is required Audience outcomes A research-grounded vocabulary for talking about wellbeing with the same rigour the organisation applies to strategy or finance A working grasp of the SPIRE framework and how its five dimensions map to concrete workplace practices Specific habits and behavioural shifts drawn from positive psychology that leaders can apply to themselves and their teams A clearer view of the link between individual flourishing, leadership effectiveness and organisational performance Reference points from Harvard teaching and from Potentialife’s corporate deployments rather than generic wellness advice

Why organisations work with Tanya Oxtoby She has built winning environments at both ends of the resource spectrum: Bristol City Women, operating on the WSL’s smallest budget, and Chelsea Women under Emma Hayes, the most dominant club side in English football. She has held a UEFA Pro Licence in a sport where fewer than a handful of women in the British and Irish game hold that qualification, and she has used it inside national-team rebuild conditions at Northern Ireland. She speaks directly about leading squad transitions; under her at Northern Ireland the average age of the squad dropped from 27 to 23, nine players debuted, and the world ranking improved while results remained mixed. That is the texture of real change leadership rather than the slide version. She brings a working perspective on inclusion as performance practice, drawing on her own indigenous Australian background and her record of developing female coaches and players inside the elite game. Biography highlights Manager, Newcastle United Women, appointed November 2025 on a contract to June 2029. Former manager, Northern Ireland senior women’s national team, 2023 to 2025. Former assistant coach, Chelsea FC Women, under Emma Hayes; two FA Women’s Super League titles and three Women’s FA Cups during her two seasons. Former manager, Bristol City Women, July 2018 to early 2022; record WSL points tally and a sixth place finish in her first season, with two Manager of the Month awards. UEFA Pro Licence holder. Former professional centre-back for Perth Glory, Western Waves and Doncaster Rovers Belles; captained Western Australia and Perth Glory. Biography Bristol City Women had the lowest budget in the Women’s Super League when Tanya Oxtoby took over in July 2018. By the end of her first season they had a record points tally, a sixth place finish in the WSL, and she had collected two Manager of the Month awards. That is the work that defines her as a leader: building standards inside teams that are not supposed to win at the level they end up competing at. The Chelsea years sharpened the credential. Two seasons as assistant to Emma Hayes, two FA Women’s Super League titles, three Women’s FA Cups. She joined the staff in 2021 and left in 2023 for the senior international job with Northern Ireland, a four-year project to reset a national team that had qualified for its first major tournament under the previous regime. Northern Ireland was the harder leadership test. She handed nine players their senior debuts, dropped the average squad age from 27 to 23, and improved the country’s world ranking, while results on the pitch stayed inconsistent. The squad reset was the point. In November 2025 she left to take the manager’s job at Newcastle United Women, on a contract running until 2029, in a recruitment process led by Director of Women’s Football Grace Williams. Oxtoby is one of a small group of women in the British and Irish game who holds a UEFA Pro Licence. She speaks publicly about her indigenous Australian heritage and the absence of visible role models from that background during her playing career at Perth Glory and Doncaster Rovers Belles. That gives her work on inclusion a specificity that most sports-speaker treatments of the subject lack. Key speaking topics Leadership under resource constraint Building winning cultures inside elite teams Squad and team renewal Performance leadership in high-pressure environments Inclusion and representation in elite sport Coaching at the top of professional football Ideal for CHROs and senior people leaders managing teams through restructure or budget pressure Operating leaders and divisional heads inside organisations rebuilding underperforming units Women’s leadership networks and senior development programmes Executive teams looking for an outside performance perspective on sustained pressure and public scrutiny Audience outcomes A sharper read on what raising standards actually looks like inside a team that is outspent or under-resourced A working framework for thinking about squad and team renewal without losing the people you keep A specific account of how a leader holds standards while results are inconsistent An honest perspective on inclusion as performance work rather than corporate signalling

Why organisations work with The Tempest Two A two-handed delivery rooted in shared, verifiable experience. Most resilience content is told solo. The duo dynamic, including dialogue and disagreement on stage, lands as conversation rather than lecture. The Atlantic row, Patagonia ultra-triathlon and El Capitan ascent are all self-funded, self-organised expeditions started without the relevant skills. The lesson on agency is structurally different from a story told by a former soldier or elite athlete. Operating discipline behind the talks. Through Dose, the same lessons are productised into workplace programmes for clients such as Nike, BNY Mellon, IBM and Airbnb, so a keynote can sit inside a wider engagement rather than ending at the closing slide. Tonal range commercial buyers actually want. The act works on a sales kick-off stage, an EMEA marketing conference or an internal wellbeing day without code-switching, which is rare in the adventure-speaker field. Biography highlights 3,000-mile unaided ocean row from the Canary Islands to Barbados, completed in 54 days, with no prior rowing or sailing experience. World-first ultra-triathlon across Patagonia in 2017: 1,600km cycle, 65km Huemul Circuit run, 100km stand-up paddleboard descent of the La Leona river. Winter ascent of Mont Blanc and El Capitan summit in Yosemite, the latter on roughly 18 months of climbing experience. Co-founders of Dose, a workplace wellbeing company working with Nike, BNY Mellon, IBM and Airbnb among others. Keynote clients include Google, Microsoft, JP Morgan, Heineken, Vodafone, Red Bull, Dropbox, Tesco, Waitrose & Partners, NatWest and Gymshark. Hosts of The Tempest Two Pod on adventure, mindset and performance. Biography Two friends in marketing jobs decided to row the Atlantic. Neither had sat in a rowing boat. Fifty-four days after leaving the Canary Islands, James Whittle and Tom Caulfield reached Barbados, having met the first hurricane to form in the Atlantic in fifty years on the way. The story matters because the starting point was ordinary, which is the point of every keynote that has followed. What came next was a deliberate run of self-organised expeditions: a winter ascent of Mont Blanc, a climb of El Capitan, a London-to-Sahara motorbike ride, and a self-styled world-first ultra-triathlon across Patagonia stitching together a 1,600km cycle, the 65km Huemul Circuit and a 100km paddleboard descent of the La Leona river. None were undertaken with the relevant elite credentials beforehand. That gap, between what they could obviously do and what they did anyway, became the working material. In 2018 they built Dose, a workplace wellbeing and performance company, around the same idea. Resilience and growth mindset are taught not as motivational concepts but as practices for teams under load. Clients include Nike, BNY Mellon, IBM and Airbnb. The keynote and the operating business reinforce each other; an event can lead to a programme rather than a one-off morale lift. The act sits in a specific commercial niche. It is not pure adventure inspiration, and it is not corporate consulting in disguise. It is a two-person performance for the part of an organisation that has heard the resilience message before and stopped listening, told by two people who keep proving the premise on themselves. Key speaking topics Growth mindset Resilience under pressure Team performance and trust Operating outside the comfort zone Embracing risk and failure Courage-based leadership Workplace wellbeing and engagement Ideal for CHROs and heads of employee engagement designing resilience and wellbeing programmes that need a credible opening moment. Sales, marketing and commercial leadership running annual kick-offs that need energy without slipping into hype. Culture and L&D leads looking for keynote content that can be extended into team workshops rather than ending at applause. Founder-led and high-growth companies whose teams are carrying sustained pressure and need a shared language for it. Audience outcomes A working definition of growth mindset that survives contact with a hard week back in the office. Specific habits the duo use to prepare for, push through and recover from extended pressure, transferable to a team context. A reframing of failure and risk that gives more junior staff permission to act with higher agency. A shared reference point across a team that lasts beyond the event, often picked up by Dose programming where it follows.

Why organisations work with Tim Foster He has coached at the elite level of two distinct high-pressure domains, Olympic rowing and Premier League football management, and can speak credibly to either room. He sat inside the Sydney 2000 coxless four with Redgrave, Pinsent and Cracknell, and writes and speaks honestly about the conflict, ego and near-collapse that preceded the gold medal, not the sanitised version. As Head of Performance at the League Managers Association he advises serving managers in the Premier League, EFL and WSL on their own performance, which is a vanishingly rare vantage point on leadership at the top of a public, results-driven business. He pairs that operational depth with an Oxford Saïd Executive MBA, so the language and frame translate cleanly into board and executive education contexts. His coaching career, as Head Coach of the Swiss national rowing team from 2007 to 2012 and earlier within the GB programme, gives him the rebuild-and-sustain story, not just the peak-moment story. Biography highlights Olympic gold medallist, men’s coxless four, Sydney 2000. Olympic bronze medallist, men’s coxless four, Atlanta 1996. Nine World Championship medals across a Great Britain career spanning three Olympic Games. Co-author, Four Men in a Boat: The Inside Story of the Sydney 2000 Coxless Four (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2004). Head Coach, Swiss National Rowing Team, 2007 to 2012. Head of Performance, League Managers Association, advising managers in the Premier League, EFL and WSL. MBE, 2001 New Year Honours; Executive MBA, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. Biography The coxless four that won gold in Sydney in 2000 is now part of British sporting folklore. Inside the boat it nearly came apart. Four strong-minded athletes, including Steve Redgrave chasing a fifth Olympic gold, spent four years managing each other as much as the racing. Tim Foster sat in the two seat, and his book Four Men in a Boat tells the version that does not make the highlight reel. That experience is the spine of the speaking work. The argument is not that elite sport maps neatly onto business; it is that the human mechanics of holding a small, ambitious team together under sustained pressure are the same. Standards drift, conflict gets postponed, and somebody has to be honest enough to call it. Foster has carried that practice into two further chapters of senior coaching. As Head Coach of the Swiss national rowing team from 2007 to 2012 he rebuilt a programme that had been adrift for years. As Head of Performance at the League Managers Association he now advises serving Premier League, EFL and Women’s Super League managers on their own leadership and career development, a counsel role inside one of the most exposed leadership jobs in British public life. He completed his Executive MBA at Saïd Business School after the coaching career was already well established, and now teaches and convenes at Saïd and Oxford Brookes alongside the consultancy work. The combination is unusual: a coach who has won at the highest level, who has rebuilt a national programme, who currently advises elite managers under public scrutiny, and who has the formal business education to speak to a board in its own language. Key speaking topics High-performance team dynamics Leadership under sustained pressure Coaching and talent development Performance culture Resilience and sustained excellence Lessons from elite sport for senior business teams Ideal for Executive committees and senior leadership offsites focused on team performance High-potential and succession development programmes CHRO and people-function leadership convenings Sales leadership and commercial leadership conferences with a performance frame Audience outcomes A clearer view of what actually holds an elite team together when pressure rises Specific, named examples from inside the Sydney 2000 crew that illustrate how conflict was managed, not avoided A frame for diagnosing where standards are drifting in their own teams A working language for coaching senior people who are not used to being coached Permission to address the human mechanics of performance directly, rather than through proxies

Why organisations work with Tim Harris He speaks from inside the problem. Twenty-five years in commodities, ending as Global Head of Fuel Oil at PVM Oil Associates, gives him fluency with the pressures executive audiences actually face. He carries a formal coaching credential. ACC accreditation with the International Coaching Federation puts substance behind the lived experience. He has worked at the sharp end with organisations that test psychological content rigorously, including the Royal Marines, the Royal Navy, the NHS, Thames Valley Police and Google. The Atlantic row is more than a story. Fifty-two days at sea, 3,000 miles unassisted with one teammate, raising around £160,000 for teenage mental health, gives him a concrete reference point for talking about sustained pressure and recovery. He addresses suicide ideation directly. Few corporate speakers can hold that subject in front of a senior audience with honesty and without flinching. Biography highlights Twelve years as Global Head of Fuel Oil at PVM Oil Associates, capping a 25-year City career Completed the Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge with Simon Calver, rowing 3,000 miles in 52 days Raised approximately £160,000 for teenage mental health charity through the row ICF Associate Certified Coach (ACC) Keynote and coaching clients include Google, the Royal Marines, the Royal Navy, the NHS, Thames Valley Police and The Times HMS Warrior keynote endorsed by Vice Admiral Martin Connell CBE as “a masterclass in self-awareness and resilience” Biography Burnout among senior performers rarely announces itself. It shows up as quiet resignations, eroded judgement and capable people stepping back from work they used to run. The organisations that take it seriously want speakers who can talk about it without the soft-focus vocabulary of the wellness industry. That is the space Tim Harris occupies. After 25 years in the City, the last twelve as Global Head of Fuel Oil at PVM Oil Associates, he left the industry having lived through severe depression and suicide ideation under sustained corporate pressure. His response was unusual. With Simon Calver, he rowed unassisted across the Atlantic, 3,000 miles in 52 days, raising around £160,000 for teenage mental health charity. He has since trained as an Associate Certified Coach with the International Coaching Federation and built a coaching and keynote practice working with the Royal Marines, the Royal Navy, the NHS, Thames Valley Police, Google and The Times. Vice Admiral Martin Connell CBE described his HMS Warrior keynote as “a masterclass in self-awareness and resilience.” What he offers a corporate audience is the rare combination of credible coaching content and a lived reference point most rooms cannot match. He talks about burnout, recovery and sustained performance without the platitudes, and he talks about suicide directly when the brief calls for it. Key speaking topics Burnout in high-performance environments Mental resilience and recovery Stress management for senior leaders Suicide ideation and mental health honesty at work Self-leadership under sustained pressure Endurance and decision-making under fatigue Teamwork in extreme conditions Ideal for CHROs and heads of wellbeing designing serious mental health interventions for senior populations Leadership teams in high-pressure sectors (financial services, energy, defence, healthcare) Frontline and uniformed services audiences where psychological honesty is a credibility test Sales, trading and other commission-driven environments with elevated burnout risk Audience outcomes A clearer view of what burnout actually looks like inside senior teams, before it becomes attrition Practical language for talking about mental health at work without sentimentality A coaching practitioner’s perspective on stress and recovery, grounded in personal experience Greater comfort engaging with subjects most executive audiences avoid, including suicide