Peak Performance speakers

Why organisations work with Chemmy Alcott A two-decade Team GB career across four Olympic Games gives her credible authority on what sustained high performance under public pressure actually demands, day to day. She is the first British female skier to win a run in a FIS Alpine World Cup event, a specific, verifiable breakthrough rather than a general claim of elite status. Her recovery from a career-threatening Lake Louise leg fracture, returning to compete at Sochi 2014, gives audiences a concrete case study in decision-making after physical shock. Lead presenter on BBC Ski Sunday and BBC Winter Olympics analyst across PyeongChang, Beijing and Milano Cortina, which makes her equally credible as conference host and panel chair, not only keynote speaker. Founded the X-Elle initiative for young women in sport and serves as an ambassador for Right to Play, Ski4Cancer, SnowCamp and United Learning, anchoring her message in sustained, named commitments rather than one-off charity work. Biography highlights Four-time Winter Olympian: Salt Lake City 2002, Torino 2006, Vancouver 2010, Sochi 2014. Seven-time British overall national champion and eight-time British ladies’ overall champion. First British female ski racer to win a run in a FIS Alpine World Cup event; reached eighth in the world rankings. Lead presenter, BBC Ski Sunday; BBC Winter Olympics analyst across three Games. Finished fifth on ITV Dancing on Ice (2012), having taken up skating to rehabilitate a fractured leg. Founder of the X-Elle confidence-through-sport initiative; long-standing ambassador for Right to Play, Ski4Cancer, SnowCamp and United Learning. Biography A 50-bone childhood ski accident nearly ended Chemmy Alcott’s career before it began. She came back to compete in four consecutive Winter Olympic Games for Team GB, win seven British overall national titles, and become the first British female ski racer to win a run in a FIS Alpine World Cup event. The career was not a clean upward line. A serious crash at Lake Louise broke her leg and threatened her place at Sochi 2014. She rebuilt her physical base by switching to ice skating, reached the final stages of ITV Dancing on Ice, and returned to compete at her fourth Olympics. That sequence, injury, public reinvention, return, is the spine of her keynote work. Since retiring in 2014 she has anchored BBC Ski Sunday as lead presenter and served as a BBC Winter Olympics analyst across PyeongChang, Beijing and Milano Cortina. The broadcasting craft matters commercially: she is fluent on stage, holds a panel, hosts an awards room, and handles live conference moments without losing structure. Her work outside broadcasting is concrete rather than ornamental. She founded the X-Elle initiative to build young women’s confidence through sport, climbed Kilimanjaro to raise funds for Right to Play, and remains an active ambassador for Right to Play, Ski4Cancer, SnowCamp and United Learning. The through-line is the same one she takes to corporate audiences: there is no win or lose, only win or learn. Key speaking topics Resilience after physical and competitive shock Self-leadership and composure under pressure Growth mindset and learning from failure Peak performance in elite sport Women’s leadership and confidence in performance environments Olympic-level preparation and team dynamics Conference hosting, panel chairing and awards presenting Ideal for Sales, commercial and frontline teams rebuilding momentum after a tough cycle or restructure Women’s leadership networks and ERGs commissioning a credible elite-sport voice Conferences and awards events that need a senior host with broadcast pedigree, not only a keynote Sponsor and partner audiences in winter sport, automotive, outdoor and lifestyle categories Audience outcomes A direct, lived case study of returning to elite performance after a career-threatening injury A reframe of failure as usable information, anchored in specific Olympic-cycle decisions A practical view of how elite athletes manage public scrutiny, recovery and family life in parallel Energy and pace from a presenter who can host the rest of the day, not only deliver a keynote

Why organisations work with Chloe Morgan She has lived the dual-career argument that organisations now ask of high performers: practising as a personal injury solicitor at Irwin Mitchell while playing in goal for Tottenham, Arsenal, and Crystal Palace. Her inclusion content carries weight that policy slides do not: she is a Football Black List honouree, DIVA Sports Star of the Year, and a Pride Power List entrant, recognised by the named bodies in those communities. She speaks to LGBTQ and BAME representation from inside elite sport, not as a commentator on it, which gives senior teams a credible voice for inclusion work that has lost traction since 2020. She runs She’s a Baller, the UK’s largest independent women’s football publisher and creative agency, and brings a working operator’s view of where brand and inclusion narratives still come apart. Biography highlights Former goalkeeper for Tottenham Hotspur Women, Arsenal Women, and Crystal Palace Women across an eight-year elite career. Qualified solicitor (University of Leeds law graduate); civil litigation lawyer at Irwin Mitchell during her playing career. Cyrille Regis Players Award winner, Football Black List 2020. DIVA Sports Star of the Year, 2021; Pride Power List, 2021. Co-host of “Upfront”, the women’s football podcast on the Football Ramble network. Head of She’s a Baller, the UK’s largest independent women’s football publisher and creative agency. Biography Most inclusion programmes were built for an audience that has now moved on. The reputational risk has shifted, the public mood is harder to read, and the people inside the organisation can tell the difference between a values statement and a working environment. The question senior teams now ask is narrower and more practical: what does inclusion look like once the press release has gone out. This is the territory Chloe Morgan speaks from. She played eight seasons at the top of the women’s game, in goal for Tottenham Hotspur, Arsenal, and Crystal Palace, including Tottenham’s promotion campaign into the Women’s Super League. She did it while qualifying as a solicitor and working as a civil litigation lawyer at Irwin Mitchell, a dual career that is unusual at any level of professional sport and almost unheard of at the elite end. Her inclusion work is recognised by the bodies that matter in the relevant communities. She received the Cyrille Regis Players Award on the Football Black List in 2020, was named DIVA Sports Star of the Year in 2021, and entered the Pride Power List the same year. She speaks as an openly gay Black athlete who has been inside the dressing rooms, boardrooms, and law firms in question, not as a commentator standing outside them. Since retiring in 2022 she has moved into media and operating roles. She co-hosts “Upfront” on the Football Ramble network and now leads She’s a Baller, the UK’s largest independent women’s football publisher and creative agency, where she works with brands on the gap between women’s football marketing and the actual culture of the women’s game. Key speaking topics Inclusion in elite performance environments LGBTQ representation in sport and professional services Race and representation in women’s football Dual-career discipline and high performance Resilience in male-dominated workplaces Women’s sport as a brand and commercial category Leadership lessons from the goalkeeping position Ideal for CHROs and DEI leads rebuilding inclusion programmes after the post-2020 retreat Brand and marketing teams investing in women’s sport sponsorships and partnerships Employee resource groups, particularly LGBTQ and Black professional networks Leadership audiences interested in dual-career performance and resilience Audience outcomes A clearer view of what inclusion looks like in environments with measurable performance pressure, not only in policy. Specific reference points from elite women’s football and a UK law firm, drawn from one career rather than secondhand. A more honest read on where brand activity in women’s sport lands well with players and fans, and where it misfires. Confidence that resilience and dual-career performance can be discussed with substance, not slogans.

Why organisations work with Chris Baréz-Brown Twenty-five years working the commercial creativity brief as an operator, first agency-side and then running his own firm. The view is from inside the work, not from a research perch. Five Penguin titles set out a coherent published thesis on creativity as a learnable behaviour, so buyers can read the argument before booking the room. His Unilever programme was written up in Harvard Business Review, a rare credential in this territory. He ships a behaviour-change tool with the keynote. TiO and the Elvis Energy Lab let the room run the method the next morning, not just remember the speech. A repeat-booking record on the brand side that other creativity speakers don’t match. Biography highlights Founder of Upping Your Elvis, a creativity and energy consultancy working with global brands. Former director at innovation consultancy ?What If!, leading offices in London, New York and Sydney. Author of five Penguin books: Shine, Wake Up!, Free!, How to Have Kick-Ass Ideas, and Upping Your Elvis. Penguin’s bestselling author in 2014. Creator of TiO, a workplace mental wellbeing app with research from the University of Bristol. Featured in Harvard Business Review for the impact of his work with Unilever. Media appearances include the BBC, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, Fast Company and Calm. Biography Most creativity programmes inside large organisations fail at the same point. The room leaves energised, the workstreams revert, and within a quarter the operating model has absorbed the change. The problem is rarely a shortage of ideas. It is the absence of a daily practice that lets ordinary employees produce original work under commercial pressure. This is the territory Chris Baréz-Brown has worked in for twenty-five years. He spent over a decade as a director at ?What If!, the innovation consultancy, running the business across London, New York and Sydney before founding Upping Your Elvis in 2010. The premise of the firm is that human energy, not strategy decks, is the variable that determines whether a creative culture survives contact with the operating model. His five Penguin titles, including the bestseller Upping Your Elvis, set out a body of practice that treats creativity as a learnable behaviour rather than a personality trait. The work has run inside Nike, Coca-Cola, Diageo, Unilever, Roche, Microsoft and the WPP agency network on the brand side, with Harvard Business Review featuring the impact of the Unilever programme. What sets the offer apart from a standard creativity keynote is the post-event mechanism. Through TiO, an app developed with research from the University of Bristol, and the Elvis Energy Lab, audiences leave with a method they can run themselves. The thesis underneath all of it is commercial: brave thinking is a function of human state, and human state can be designed for. Key speaking topics Commercial creativity and innovation practice Energy management and human performance at work Mental and emotional wellbeing in high-pressure roles Leadership of creative teams Behaviour change and habit design inside organisations Brand-side innovation case studies Ideal for CMOs and brand leaders looking to lift creative output across marketing organisations Heads of innovation and R&D in consumer-facing businesses Senior HR and people leaders responsible for engagement and wellbeing strategy Leadership offsites where the brief is renewal of energy and creative confidence, not a strategy refresh Audience outcomes A working definition of creativity as daily practice, not occasional inspiration Specific behavioural tools, including TiO, that audiences can use the next morning A sharper read on how their own energy state is shaping the quality of their commercial decisions Case material on what holds up when a creative culture meets the operating model

Why organisations work with Chris Bertish The only person to have crossed the Atlantic Ocean alone on a stand-up paddleboard, a 93-day unsupported crossing completed in 2017. That body of lived experience gives his lessons on preparation and sustained performance an authority almost no other speaker can claim. Speaks from five years of deliberate engineering and rehearsal before each expedition. Leaders hear how contingency planning and fear management get built long before they are ever needed. Holds Guinness World Records in big wave surfing, open-ocean stand-up paddleboarding and solo wing-foil ocean crossing. Few speakers can demonstrate sustained performance across this range of unrelated operational systems. Structures every major expedition around raising funds for named charities including Operation Smile and The Lunchbox Fund. Audiences see purpose functioning as an actual operating constraint on decisions taken at sea. Biography highlights First person to complete a solo, unsupported crossing of the Atlantic Ocean on a stand-up paddleboard (Morocco to Antigua, 93 days, March 2017). First person to complete a solo, unsupported wing-foil crossing of the Pacific Ocean (California to Hawaii, 48 days, 2022). Winner of the Mavericks Big Wave Invitational at Half Moon Bay, California, in 2010. Best-selling author of Stoked! (Penguin Random House) and All In!; co-director of the award-winning documentaries Ocean Driven and Last Known Coordinates. Featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, and on BBC, CNN, NPR and National Geographic. Selected as a Genius 100 Visionary by the Albert Einstein Foundation, alongside figures including Deepak Chopra and Sir Ken Robinson. Biography The Atlantic Ocean was crossed for the first time on a stand-up paddleboard in March 2017. The crossing took 93 days at sea and required roughly two million paddle strokes. Chris Bertish was alone for every one of them, in a custom-built 20-foot craft designed by naval architect Phil Morrison. Before the crossing, Bertish had already won the 2010 Mavericks Big Wave Invitational at Half Moon Bay in the largest waves in the competition’s history. He arrived in California without his board or a sponsor, borrowing both. The value organisations draw from his story lies in the five years of engineering and rehearsal that preceded the expedition, the part that never appears in the documentary. His body of work covers ocean disciplines that do not naturally overlap. In 2022 he became the first person to wing-foil solo across the Pacific, from California to Hawaii in 48 days. In 2025 he sailed an open beach catamaran from San Diego toward Oahu with no cabin, again solo and unsupported. Each expedition is a new operating system built under different constraints, which maps closely onto what senior teams face through extended transformation programmes. Every expedition sits inside a structure of named beneficiaries. The Atlantic crossing raised more than $400,000 for Operation Smile, The Lunchbox Fund and Signature of Hope Trust. His company, Chris Bertish Impossible, is a certified B Corp, and his Chris Bertish Foundation is a registered 501(c)(3). Audiences come away with a working example of how purpose operates as an actual constraint on decisions at sea, a form of evidence most leadership keynotes cannot offer. Key speaking topics Resilience under sustained, real-world pressure Risk and fear management in high-consequence decisions Preparation discipline and systems redundancy Purpose-driven leadership Change and adaptability under uncertainty Peak performance and mindset Ocean conservation and sustainable business Ideal for Leadership teams asking their people to sustain effort through extended transformation or recovery programmes. Sales, commercial and delivery organisations facing high-stakes, high-pressure execution cycles. Senior offsites, executive retreats and all-hands conferences focused on resilience, purpose or culture change. ESG, sustainability and B Corp-aligned organisations looking for a credible voice on purpose as operating principle. Audience outcomes A concrete sense of what preparation looks like when failure carries real consequences. Practical tools for managing fear and risk when systems fail and no external help is available. A working example of purpose operating as a genuine constraint on decisions under pressure. A shift in how teams think about the scale of goals that are achievable through sustained preparation.

Why organisations work with Chris Boardman Demonstrable experience building high-performing teams in three distinct environments: elite sport (the British Cycling R&D team known as the «Secret Squirrel Club»), commercial business (Boardman Bikes), and UK national infrastructure (Active Travel England). The pattern transfers. Most speakers only have one of these on the CV. Genuine authority on driving innovation inside institutions that are structurally set up to resist it. His work on the Bee Network in Greater Manchester, alongside Mayor Andy Burnham, is a case study in pushing something new through a political and administrative system built for continuity. Credibility with senior leaders who are tired of generic «marginal gains» content. Boardman was inside the team that produced the phrase and can explain what the method actually looked like on the ground at British Cycling, without the subsequent mythology. A personal story of reinvention that holds a senior room’s attention: carpenter, Olympic champion, product entrepreneur, commissioner of a £2 billion government agency, with the same discipline around preparation running through each phase. Biography highlights Olympic gold medallist, Barcelona 1992 (4km individual pursuit); first British cycling gold in 72 years. World Hour Record holder on two separate occasions; three times wore the yellow jersey at the Tour de France; three-time World Champion. CBE (2022) for services to transport; MBE (1992) for services to cycling. Led the R&D group within British Cycling known as the «Secret Squirrel Club»; co-founded Boardman Bikes with Alan Ingarfield and Sarah Mooney. National Active Travel Commissioner for England and Chair of Sport England, with oversight responsibility for billions of pounds of public investment in active travel and sport. Author of «Triumphs and Turbulence» (Cross Sports Cycling Book of the Year, 2017); BBC and ITV cycling commentator, including London 2012 Olympic coverage. Biography Britain had not won an Olympic cycling gold in seventy-two years. In 1992, at Barcelona, a former carpenter from the Wirral crossed the line first on a Lotus frame. Chris Boardman’s name has been tied to technology-led performance ever since. Two decades later, that fascination with preparation had been institutionalised. As head of research and development at British Cycling, Boardman led the small team that became known inside the sport as the Secret Squirrel Club. Its remit was to find every unglamorous, repeatable improvement a well-prepared squad could stack on top of raw talent. The approach underwrote Team GB’s dominance at Beijing 2008 and London 2012. The phrase «marginal gains» was, in practice, its house style. The same method has since travelled further than most sporting careers ever do. Alongside Mayor Andy Burnham, Boardman designed the Bee Network as Greater Manchester’s first Cycling and Walking Commissioner: an 1,800-mile, £1.5 billion plan to rewire how a city region moves. From 2022 he has led Active Travel England, the national executive agency responsible for the standard of walking and cycling infrastructure across the country. He chairs Sport England in parallel. What makes him useful in a senior boardroom is the translation. Most speakers have built one high-performing team, in one context. Boardman has done it three times: inside an elite sporting federation, inside a consumer bike business he co-founded, and inside a government agency running a £2 billion programme. The common thread is stamina: how you keep a team intact and productive long enough to deliver something the surrounding system quietly prefers not to change. Key speaking topics High-performance team building Innovation culture in complex institutions Change leadership and organisational resistance Marginal gains and operational excellence Leading large-scale public delivery Personal reinvention and career translation Ideal for CEOs and senior leaders responsible for major transformation programmes Public sector, transport, and infrastructure leaders delivering long-duration projects Innovation, strategy, and transformation directors inside risk-averse institutions Audience outcomes A sharper view of what it takes to build a team capable of sustained high performance, drawn from inside British Cycling’s Olympic programme. A working understanding of why innovation usually fails inside institutions, with examples from both elite sport and UK public policy. Specific examples of moving large organisations from strategy to delivery, drawn from the Bee Network and Active Travel England. A direct, practical account of managing one’s own career through repeated reinvention.

Why organisations work with Chris Griffiths He brings a named, tested method. GRASP and the Solution Finder process, published across The Creative Thinking Handbook and GRASP The Solution, give teams a four-step route from problem to decision that can be run again without him in the room. He has built the tooling, not just the theory. OpenGenius turned the mind mapping method into Ayoa, a commercial platform used across Pfizer, the NHS, the European Commission and the State Bank of India, which gives his frameworks an operating record outside the keynote. He treats neurodiversity as a creative asset. Through the Inspire Genius Foundation and Ayoa’s neuroinclusive design, he connects creative thinking to the way neurodivergent minds actually work, giving leaders a practical angle on inclusion that is tied to output rather than compliance. He has run the playbook at scale. With Tony Buzan he built a global network of more than 1,000 licensed instructors operating inside Sony, the Ministry of Defence and the NHS, which is unusual evidence that his method transfers beyond the author. His work has been stress-tested in serious rooms. He facilitated a Nobel Laureate brainstorm at the Petra Nobel Conference convened by HM King Abdullah II of Jordan, and has coached senior teams at the European Commission. Biography highlights Founder and CEO of OpenGenius, the company behind the Ayoa mind mapping and productivity platform. Author of The Creative Thinking Handbook (Kogan Page), GRASP The Solution, and Mind Maps for Business (with Tony Buzan), with titles translated across more than 15 countries. Co-creator, with Tony Buzan, of the ThinkBuzan Licensed Instructor Course, a global network of more than 1,000 accredited mind mapping instructors. Founder of start-ups that have ranked in the Deloitte European Fast 50 and The Sunday Times Fast Track 100. Facilitator of a brainstorming session with Nobel Laureates at the Petra Nobel Conference, hosted by HM King Abdullah II of Jordan. Contributor and cited expert in Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Fast Company, BBC, The Telegraph and GQ. Biography Creativity inside most organisations is still treated as a talent rather than a process. Chris Griffiths has spent nearly three decades arguing the opposite, and building the books, frameworks and software to prove it. His published work sets out a specific method. The Creative Thinking Handbook, published by Kogan Page and now available in more than ten languages, lays out the Solution Finder model. GRASP The Solution distils a four-step process that teams can run on any live business problem. Mind Maps for Business, co-authored with Tony Buzan, remains a standard text on applied visual thinking. The frameworks have a commercial track record attached. As founder and CEO of OpenGenius, he turned the method into Ayoa, a mind mapping and productivity platform used inside Pfizer, the NHS, the European Commission and the State Bank of India. With Tony Buzan he built the ThinkBuzan Licensed Instructor Course into a network of over 1,000 accredited instructors operating inside Sony, the Ministry of Defence and the NHS, a rare piece of evidence that the method works without the author in the room. His businesses have ranked in the Deloitte European Fast 50 and The Sunday Times Fast Track 100. He has facilitated a Nobel Laureate brainstorm convened by HM King Abdullah II of Jordan at the Petra Nobel Conference, and through the Inspire Genius Foundation he funds young neurodivergent entrepreneurs, the group Ayoa’s neuroinclusive design was built around. Key speaking topics Applied creative thinking in business Systematic innovation and problem solving Mind mapping for leadership and strategy AI as a creative partner for human teams Productivity and focus for knowledge workers Neuroinclusive approaches to innovation Entrepreneurship and venture building Ideal for CEOs, founders and senior leadership teams who want a shared method for problem solving across the executive group. Chief Innovation Officers, Heads of Strategy and transformation leads tasked with making innovation repeatable rather than episodic. L&D and People leaders building creative-thinking capability and neuroinclusive practice across the workforce. R&D, product and commercial teams preparing for a specific planning cycle, offsite or innovation sprint. Audience outcomes A named four-step process (GRASP) that leaders can apply to a live business problem the day after the session. A working grasp of the Solution Finder model from The Creative Thinking Handbook and how to run it with a team. A practical introduction to mind mapping as a decision tool, not a sticky-note exercise. A view of where AI fits alongside human creativity, drawn from the design choices inside Ayoa. A clearer read on how neurodivergent thinkers contribute to creative output and how to design sessions that use that.

Why organisations work with Chris Hoy He won six Olympic golds across four Games, a career that required rebuilding for a new event (the kilo was removed after Athens) and winning three golds in a single Olympics. Audiences get a first-person account of sustained performance at the very top, not a theory of it. His perspective on adversity carries unusual weight. Since his stage 4 prostate cancer diagnosis in October 2024, he has spoken publicly about living and working through it, and his openness triggered a near eight-fold spike in NHS searches for prostate cancer symptoms. He is a Laureus World Sports Academy member and BBC Sports Personality of the Year, credentials that put him among the small group of athletes peer-recognised for how they competed, not only what they won. He has reinvented himself commercially, as a Le Mans motorsport driver, children’s author of the Flying Fergus series with Joanna Nadin, and memoirist with All That Matters. That gives the talk a second life beyond the medal count. Biography highlights Six-time Olympic gold medallist and one-time Olympic silver medallist across Sydney, Athens, Beijing, and London. Three gold medals at Beijing 2008, the first British male to do so at a single Games since 1908. 11-time UCI Track Cycling World Champion. Team GB flag bearer at the London 2012 Opening Ceremony; BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2008. Knight Bachelor (2009) for services to sport; Laureus World Sports Academy member (2017). Author of All That Matters (Hodder and Stoughton, 2024) and the Flying Fergus children’s series with Joanna Nadin; the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome in Glasgow is named in his honour. Biography The velodrome in Beijing in August 2008 produced one of the defining British sporting runs of the modern era: three gold medals in the Keirin, Sprint, and Team Sprint, the first time a British man had taken three at a single Olympics since Henry Taylor in 1908. Four years later at London 2012, a sixth gold in the Keirin made him, at that moment, Britain’s most decorated Olympian. Behind the medal count is a career that required genuine reinvention. The kilometre time trial, the event in which Hoy won his first individual Olympic gold in Athens, was dropped from the programme after 2004. He retrained for the Keirin and Sprint, the events he would dominate in Beijing. Eleven world titles, a knighthood in 2009, and membership of the Laureus World Sports Academy in 2017 followed the same pattern: technical preparation, deliberate pressure-testing, and the discipline to keep the standards consistent across cycles. Retirement in 2013 became a series of second acts. He raced at the Le Mans 24 Hours and won the European Le Mans Series LMP3 title in 2015. He wrote ten books in the Flying Fergus children’s series with Joanna Nadin. In October 2024 he disclosed a stage 4 prostate cancer diagnosis and published All That Matters with Hodder and Stoughton, a memoir about the diagnosis and the family around it. The disclosure was followed by a near eight-fold jump in NHS searches for prostate cancer symptoms. For senior audiences, what Hoy offers is the lived version of something most performance literature only describes: how you build, hold, and eventually renegotiate an identity around sustained excellence when the conditions change beneath you. Key speaking topics Sustained high performance at elite level Preparation and composure under pressure Resilience and adversity Team performance and role clarity Reinvention across careers Leadership through personal and organisational uncertainty Ideal for Executive teams and boards setting long-horizon performance standards. Sales kick-offs and leadership conferences framed around sustained execution under pressure. High-performance teams benchmarking preparation, recovery, and coordination. Organisations working on resilience, wellbeing, and leading through uncertainty. Audience outcomes A first-person view of how three gold medals at a single Games were actually prepared for, not the sanitised version. A sharper sense of what it takes to reinvent a career when the rules change mid-cycle, from an Olympic-event restructure to a terminal diagnosis. Specific reference points, Athens, Beijing, London, Le Mans, the cancer disclosure, that audiences can use as shared shorthand for composure and preparation. A more honest framing of resilience than most corporate decks allow, from someone speaking with direct personal authority.

Why organisations work with Chris Moon Reference points for crisis decision-making come directly from surviving Khmer Rouge captivity in Cambodia and self-treating critical injuries inside a Mozambique minefield after a landmine explosion in 1995. Brings formal academic grounding to the subject: a Master’s in Security Management from the University of Leicester, focused on human behaviour and management theory. Credentials a senior audience registers immediately: an MBE awarded in 1996 for services to the HALO Trust, and honorary doctorates from the Universities of Plymouth, Leicester and Exeter. Has been booked by Microsoft, Ernst & Young, Autodesk, Skanska, Direct Line Group and London Business School executive programmes, typically on leadership in high-pressure environments. Biography highlights Former British Army officer, commissioned into the Royal Military Police after graduating from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. Led landmine clearance operations for the HALO Trust in Cambodia and Mozambique from 1993; awarded MBE in 1996 for services to demining. Survived abduction by Khmer Rouge forces in Cambodia and negotiated the release of himself and two colleagues from captivity. Lost his right arm and lower right leg after a landmine explosion in a supposedly cleared safety lane in Mozambique in 1995. First amputee to complete the Marathon des Sables (1997); subsequently completed the Badwater 135 ultra in Death Valley and, in 2024, a solo unsupported 500-mile Camino de Santiago at age 62. Author of One Step Beyond (Pan Macmillan); Master’s in Security Management from the University of Leicester; honorary doctorates from Plymouth, Leicester and Exeter. Biography A landmine detonated in a supposedly cleared safety lane in Mozambique in 1995. Chris Moon, then running mine clearance for the HALO Trust, lost his right arm and lower right leg. He treated himself where he lay, and reached a South African hospital where doctors said they had never seen anyone survive with so little blood remaining. Moon came to the work through the British Army. After Sandhurst and three years of operational duty with the Royal Military Police, he left in 1993 to lead landmine clearance operations for the HALO Trust. Two years before the Mozambique explosion, he had already negotiated his way out of Khmer Rouge captivity in Cambodia along with two colleagues. The MBE followed in 1996, for services to demining. Within a year of leaving hospital he completed the London Marathon. In 1997 he became the first amputee to complete the Marathon des Sables, the 250km race across the Sahara. The Badwater 135 in Death Valley followed. At age 62, in 2024, he completed a solo unsupported 500-mile Camino de Santiago. Alongside the endurance work he holds a Master’s in Security Management from the University of Leicester and serves as an adviser to the NHS on prosthetics. The organisations that retain him now tend to be those in which decisions carry operational weight: Microsoft, Ernst & Young, Skanska, Direct Line Group, and London Business School executive programmes. In those rooms, his argument keeps coming back to one observation. The responses leaders fall back on under severe pressure are the ones they have already rehearsed in ordinary conditions. Key speaking topics Leadership and decision-making under pressure Crisis response and operational risk Resilience and human performance Safety culture in high-risk industries Personal accountability in operational settings Ideal for Senior leadership teams in operationally intensive industries: construction, utilities, energy, defence, transport Heads of risk, safety and security responsible for how the organisation performs in a crisis Boards and executive programmes working on leadership in high-pressure conditions Health and safety conferences where the audience is operational leadership Audience outcomes Recalibration of what operating “under pressure” actually involves when conditions are genuine A stock of specific, verifiable examples of decision-making in extreme conditions that audiences can apply to their own work Vocabulary for discussing risk, accountability and resilience that is grounded in operational terms A baseline for what sustained performance under difficult conditions looks like across three decades

Why organisations work with Chrissy May She speaks to the personal interior of high performers, the part that wellness perks and engagement surveys do not reach, drawing on two decades of one-to-one work with founders, executives and athletes. Her practice integrates hypnotherapy, somatic work and subconscious reprogramming through Sacred Shift Therapy, so the material is grounded in a specific therapeutic method rather than general motivational content. Audiences hear from someone who has built and run businesses across health, wellness and real estate, not a speaker whose only product is the talk itself. Her book Aligned + Alive and the podcast of the same name give organisers a clear, public body of work that audiences can engage with before and after the session. Biography highlights Author, ALIGNED + ALIVE: Your Guide to Clarity, Self-Love, and Living with Purpose. Host, Aligned + Alive podcast, distributed on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Amazon Music. Founder, Sacred Shift Therapy and Sacred Experiences retreats. Founder of CMAY Performance, with work spanning elite athletes and survivors of domestic violence. Over 20 years in health and wellness; concurrent real-estate advisory practice based in Scottsdale, Arizona. Former competitive figure skater and fitness champion. Biography Performance at senior levels increasingly comes with a private cost that organisations do not see. Founders, executives and high-output professionals function publicly while quietly running low on clarity, energy and meaning. Chrissy May has spent more than twenty years working with that interior layer. Her practice, Sacred Shift Therapy, draws on transformational hypnotherapy, somatic work and subconscious reprogramming. The method is specific, not generalised motivation. Her retreat business, Sacred Experiences, applies the same approach to immersive group settings for leaders who need a reset rather than another training programme. She came to this work through performance environments. She competed as a figure skater and fitness champion before building CMAY Performance, which trained elite athletes and supported survivors of domestic violence. She has since combined the therapeutic practice with a long-running real-estate advisory career in Arizona, working in proximity to the entrepreneurial clients she also coaches. Her book Aligned + Alive: Your Guide to Clarity, Self-Love, and Living with Purpose and the podcast of the same name extend that practice to a wider audience. Both are built around the same thesis: that the people who appear most capable are often the ones most in need of permission to slow down, recover and choose what they actually want next. Key speaking topics Personal recovery from burnout Clarity and purpose for high achievers Mindset and subconscious reprogramming Inner work behind sustained performance Resilience after personal setback Authenticity and self-leadership Ideal for Founder and entrepreneur communities convening for offsites or retreats Sales, advisory and client-facing teams in high-output industries Women’s leadership and high-performer networks Personal-development and wellbeing programmes inside professional services and real estate Audience outcomes A clearer picture of where they are running on reserves and what is depleting them A specific therapeutic vocabulary for the difference between motivation, mindset and subconscious patterns Permission and language to slow down without losing professional ambition Practical exercises drawn from hypnotherapy and somatic work that they can use after the session

Why organisations work with Christian Gansch His work draws directly on the governance and communication structures of professional orchestras to diagnose alignment failures inside organisations – not as analogy, but as operational system analysis. Leaders leave with a replicable model, not just a perspective. His 14 years as a senior producer at Deutsche Grammophon (1990-2003) mean he has exercised genuine executive authority – across production, marketing, sales, and commercial strategy – inside a major global institution. This is the experience of a manager who performed at the highest level, not a performer who later studied management. His book «From Solo to Symphony» (2006) gives his framework a named, tested structure that organisations can return to. The central argument – that orchestras are precision operating systems, not just inspiring metaphors – is the intellectual spine of every engagement. He puts a question to leadership teams that most frameworks avoid: how many high-performing soloists can a team accommodate before individual excellence starts to fracture collective output? The orchestra offers a concrete, daily-tested answer. He speaks and consults in both English and German, making him an operationally practical choice for pan-European organisations and those with significant DACH-region leadership presence. Biography highlights Leader (concertmaster) of the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra from 1981 to 1990 Senior producer at Deutsche Grammophon from 1990 to 2003; responsible for approximately 190 classical recordings including productions with Pierre Boulez, Claudio Abbado, Daniel Barenboim, Lang Lang, and Anna Netrebko Multiple Grammy Award winner as a producer; recipient of the Record Academy Award Tokyo (Gold) in the Best Concerto Disc category Conducted major orchestras internationally, including the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France Paris, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Russian National Orchestra, NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo, and BBC National Orchestra of Wales BBC Proms debut at the Royal Albert Hall; conducted Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the orchestra and chorus of Teatro La Fenice, Venice; opera credits include Le nozze di Figaro with Opera North Author of «From Solo to Symphony – What businesses can learn from orchestras» (2006) and a second German-language business book; corporate consulting and keynote work with clients including Airbus, BASF, Deloitte, and Roche since 2003 Biography Christian Gansch spent a decade as leader of the Munich Philharmonic. He then spent fourteen years as a senior producer at Deutsche Grammophon. In both roles, the daily challenge was identical: turning highly skilled, independently minded specialists into a functioning collective. His book «From Solo to Symphony» (2006) makes a specific argument from that experience. Professional orchestras are not simply compelling analogies for corporate life – they are operational systems, with precise structures for authority, communication, and coordination. Most large organisations have never consciously built those structures. The gap shows up in execution. His 190 recordings at Deutsche Grammophon were produced across commercial, artistic, and logistical functions simultaneously. That cross-functional executive experience – managing complexity at the level of a major global label – is what separates his framework from that of performers who later turned to speaking. Gansch operated inside the institution, not just on stage. Since 2003, his consulting and keynote work has taken him to organisations including Airbus, BASF, Deloitte, and Roche. The question he brings to every leadership engagement is the one an orchestra solves in every rehearsal: when each individual in the room is an expert in their own domain, what structure of communication and authority allows the group to act as one? Key speaking topics Orchestral leadership and organisational alignment High-performance team dynamics in expert-driven environments Communication and authority structures in complex organisations Leadership decision-making under pressure Managing the tension between individual excellence and collective output Change readiness and adaptability Ideal for C-suite and senior leadership teams working on alignment, coordination, and collective performance CHROs and organisational development leads designing performance culture in large, expert-heavy organisations Executive conferences and leadership summits with DACH-region or international audiences Organisations in professional services, engineering, or life sciences navigating cross-functional complexity Audience outcomes A named operational framework – the orchestral model – for thinking about authority, communication, and coordination in large organisations Specific diagnostic questions for their own leadership teams about the relationship between individual performance and collective output A clearer vocabulary for the gap between team capability and team alignment – and what structures close it Practical perspectives on decision-making under pressure, drawn from the specific demands of conducting at the highest level A changed understanding of what «communication» requires at an organisational level, beyond cultural aspiration

Why organisations work with Christian Horner He rebuilt Red Bull Racing’s championship standing twice. The two dominant eras – 2010 to 2013 and 2021 to 2023 – are separated by eight years of Mercedes dominance, making his leadership record one of the few in elite sport that spans genuine decline and recovery, not just a single peak. His pivotal talent decisions include recruiting Adrian Newey from McLaren, developing Sebastian Vettel through the junior system, and promoting Max Verstappen mid-season at 18 – each a bold call taken before the outcome was certain, with verifiable long-term consequences. He ran an independent, UK-based team against factory-backed rivals with greater institutional resources and outcompeted them twice, on culture, structure, and strategic clarity rather than budget. His tenure included real organisational pressures – an FIA budget cap penalty in 2022, the departure of lead technical architect Newey in 2024, and sustained management conflict at parent company level – providing concrete case material on keeping an organisation competitive through reputational and structural challenge. He initiated Red Bull Powertrains and a long-term technical partnership with Ford – a decision to internalise a critical competitive dependency, taken while actively defending championship positions, with consequences measured in performance and cost over a decade. Biography highlights Former Team Principal and CEO, Red Bull Racing, 2005-2025 – longest-serving team principal in the sport during that period 14 Formula 1 World Championship titles: 8 Drivers’ Championships and 6 Constructors’, plus 124 Grand Prix victories Appointed youngest Team Principal in Formula 1 history at age 31 – a record unbroken at the point of his departure in 2025 Founded Arden International; led the team to three consecutive International Formula 3000 teams’ championships (2002-2004) before entering Formula 1 management OBE (2013) and CBE (2024) for services to motorsport Key verified talent decisions include recruiting chief designer Adrian Newey from McLaren and promoting Max Verstappen to the senior team mid-season at 18 Biography Red Bull Racing won its first Formula 1 World Championship in 2010 and its most recent in 2023 – thirteen years apart, with eight years of Mercedes dominance in between. Christian Horner CBE was Team Principal and CEO for all of it. Building the team from an uncompetitive acquisition into a championship operation required bold early decisions. Horner recruited Adrian Newey from McLaren as chief technical architect and developed Sebastian Vettel through the Red Bull junior system. Within five seasons, the team had moved from the back of the grid to world champions. The second era required different thinking. When regulation changes in 2014 ended the first dominant run, Horner navigated nearly eight years without a championship before switching engine supplier from Renault to Honda and promoting Max Verstappen from the junior team mid-season at 18. The four consecutive Drivers’ Championships from 2021 followed from decisions taken when those outcomes were far from certain. Horner led the organisation through an FIA budget cap penalty in 2022 and the departure of lead technical architect Newey in 2024. His CBE (2024), following an OBE (2013), marks national recognition for a record of 14 World Championships and 124 Grand Prix victories built across two decades. Key speaking topics High-performance team leadership Decision-making under competitive pressure Talent identification, succession, and bold recruitment Competitive strategy across long performance cycles Organisational culture in elite performance environments Leading through regulatory and structural change Sustaining resilience across extended performance cycles Ideal for Executive leadership teams and boards responsible for multi-year performance strategy CHROs and people leaders building talent pipelines in high-competition environments CEOs and managing directors leading organisations through competitive disruption or market shifts Transformation leads managing capability builds across multiple cycles Audience outcomes A concrete framework for distinguishing a performance system from a performance moment, and what it takes to build the former. Insight into talent decisions that compound over multiple competitive cycles, drawn from specific, verifiable recruitment and succession calls. Practical lessons in leading through genuine organisational crises – reputational, structural, and competitive – without losing competitive function. Clarity on the leadership differences between building for a first win and sustaining advantage when rivals close the gap. Case examples drawn from 20 years of high-stakes decisions with traceable long-term consequences.

Why organisations work with Christophe Fox Headline entertainment that doubles as a content vehicle. The mentalism set is built for a corporate room, with company branding, brief framing and a takeaway message that ties back to the event theme. Emcee craft for high-stakes internal events. Fox holds the room across a multi-session agenda, manages energy between speakers and reduces the load on internal hosts at sales kickoffs, anniversaries and client gatherings. A motivational keynote anchored in a personal arc. “Performing Under Pressure” uses Fox’s stage-fright-to-stage transformation as the spine, paired with live demonstrations rather than slides. A reception product, not just a stage product. Mix-and-mingle mentalism gives organisations a way to make networking sessions and hospitality moments deliberately memorable rather than incidental. A client list that signals corporate-grade reliability. Deloitte, JP Morgan, Boston Scientific, Wells Fargo and Amazon have all booked Fox, alongside named work for PBS and the Jordan Royal Family. Biography highlights Corporate clients include Deloitte, JP Morgan, Boston Scientific, Wells Fargo and Amazon. Television appearances on CBS, ABC, Fox and MSNBC, plus a TEDx appearance. Featured in Modern Luxury Magazine and Yahoo News. Social audience of more than one million followers and over 100 million views of his work. Performs in English and French. Named client testimonial from Princess Ghida Talal of the Jordanian Royal Family. Biography Most corporate events are built around content the audience will forget. The harder design problem is the moment in the room that people retell on Monday morning, and that still carries the message leadership wanted to land. Christophe Fox builds that moment as a product. Fox is a corporate mentalist and emcee who works almost exclusively in the Fortune-100 event circuit. His headline set uses mind reading, suggestion and audience participation to put the audience inside the demonstration rather than in front of it. The same craft scales down to mix-and-mingle receptions and up to multi-session emcee work across sales kickoffs, anniversaries, product launches and client appreciation events. His keynote, “Performing Under Pressure,” runs a different lane. The content draws on his own transition from paralysing stage fright to full-time performer for clients including Deloitte, JP Morgan, Boston Scientific, Wells Fargo and Amazon. Mentalism demonstrations carry the message rather than slide decks, which is why the talk lands with audiences that have sat through a long agenda of conventional speakers. The body of public work sits on television (CBS, ABC, Fox, MSNBC), a TEDx appearance, features in Modern Luxury Magazine and Yahoo News, and a social audience above one million followers with 100 million plus views. For a senior buyer, the relevant signal is reliability at scale: a performer who can hold the room at a Fortune-100 sales kickoff, brand the set to the event, and leave the audience with a shared moment that reinforces, rather than competes with, the leadership message. Key speaking topics Corporate mentalism and interactive entertainment Event emcee and hosting Mix-and-mingle reception performance Performing under pressure Mindset and overcoming stage fright Customer experience as a designed moment Audience engagement at large internal events Ideal for Heads of internal communications and event leads planning sales kickoffs, all-hands, anniversaries and client appreciation events. Chief marketing officers and brand teams designing customer events, product launches and hospitality experiences. Conference organisers booking an emcee who can hold a multi-session agenda and absorb load from internal hosts. Audience outcomes A shared, retold moment from the event that ties back to the message leadership wanted to land. Higher energy and attention through the second half of the agenda when audiences typically fade. A reception or networking session that feels deliberate and branded, not incidental. For keynote bookings: a personal narrative about composure and stage fright that audiences relate to without it feeling like a lecture.