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Why organisations work with Heather J. Crider Pairs neuroscience-based performance content with live percussion through her Everyday Rockstar collaboration with drummer Mark Schulman, a format conference programmers book specifically to reset audience energy in long event agendas. Uses the Impact Index, a proprietary assessment she co-created with Schulman, to give teams a measurable read on how they show up for colleagues and clients, so the keynote leaves a tool behind rather than only a feeling. Translates research on stress, attention, and recovery into short-form micro-practices that fit inside an executive day, designed for audiences who have already been through the standard wellness curriculum. Brings 15 years of conference keynoting and a working podcast platform, Go Reflect Yourself, to her sessions, so delivery quality is a known quantity for nervous programme leads. Wrote the 2024 book Believe In Yourself More Than Your Grandma, which gives audiences a take-home extension of the keynote material and a credible authorial anchor. Biography highlights Author, Believe In Yourself More Than Your Grandma: Unleash Your Superpower Through Simple Neuroscience, 2024. Co-founder of Everyday Rockstar with Mark Schulman, drummer for P!nk and Billy Idol. Co-creator of the Impact Index, a validated assessment of how individuals show up for others. Host of the Go Reflect Yourself Podcast. Headline keynote at Anthology Together 2024 and the 2025 CPI Certified Instructors’ Conference. Featured in Forbes, Yahoo Finance, Brainz Magazine, and Thrive Global. Biography The standard playbook for workforce wellbeing has run its course. Steps challenges, mindfulness apps, and resilience workshops have not stopped the climb in burnout and disengagement. Heather J. Crider’s work begins from that observation. She designs brain-based protocols for leaders and teams who already know they are tired and want a method, not another inspirational reset. The signature format pairs her neuroperformance keynote with Mark Schulman, the drummer behind P!nk and Billy Idol. Together they co-founded Everyday Rockstar and co-created the Impact Index, an assessment that gives audiences a measurable read on how they affect the people around them. The combination, live percussion and applied neuroscience, is the reason conference programmers book the duo to reset energy across full agendas. Crider’s individual practice sits inside this broader system. She published Believe In Yourself More Than Your Grandma: Unleash Your Superpower Through Simple Neuroscience in 2024, hosts the Go Reflect Yourself Podcast, and works through coaching programmes informed by neuroscience research. She has been featured in Forbes, Yahoo Finance, Brainz Magazine, and Thrive Global, and headlined Anthology Together 2024 alongside Schulman to address EdTech leadership audiences on bold action under pressure. The argument she makes to senior buyers is straightforward. If workforces are tired, the intervention has to change the underlying inputs to attention, recovery, and emotional regulation, not the surface activity. Her keynotes give executive audiences a small set of brain-aware practices, paired with an assessment that lets a team see, in numbers, whether anything has shifted afterwards. Key speaking topics Neuroperformance and burnout prevention Resilience and stress management for senior teams Emotional intelligence and self-regulation under pressure Confidence and team engagement Music and neuroscience as a performance pairing Peak performance habits Ideal for CHROs and heads of learning addressing burnout and engagement in fatigued teams Conference programmers seeking a high-energy keynote that delivers an applied tool, not only a mood lift Executive leadership offsites focused on resilience, focus, and recovery Sales and customer-facing teams under sustained performance pressure Audience outcomes Specific brain-based micro-practices audiences can apply the next working day A measurable read on personal and team impact through the Impact Index Language for talking about burnout and recovery with credibility inside their organisation Renewed energy in the room, anchored in a method rather than novelty

Why organisations work with Mark Schulman He has spent decades performing in front of stadium crowds with P!NK, Cher, and Foreigner, and translates that experience into specific attitude and focus habits a workforce can use the next morning. His keynote includes live drumming and audience participation, which moves a conference room out of passive-listening mode and produces engagement that in-house speakers cannot replicate. He carries the Certified Speaking Professional designation from the National Speakers Association, a credential held by a minority of working keynote speakers, signalling consistency at the level Fortune 500 buyers expect. His Conquering Life’s Stage Fright framework gives audiences a named three-step model (Clarity, Capability, Confidence) for managing performance anxiety, not a generic motivation message. He pairs the music-industry story with a working business voice, having co-founded and run West Triad Studios in Venice for over a decade. Biography highlights Touring drummer for P!NK from 2006 to 2021, Cher from 1999 to 2017, and Billy Idol from 1993 to 2001 Performed with Foreigner, Stevie Nicks, Sheryl Crow, Simple Minds, and Velvet Revolver Author of Conquering Life’s Stage Fright: Three Steps to Top Performance, and co-author of The Attitude Equation with Dr. Jim Samuels Cover feature, Modern Drummer Magazine, May 2019; voted Top 3 Pop-Rock Drummer in the Modern Drummer Reader’s Poll Awarded the Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) designation by the National Speakers Association in 2021 Co-founder of West Triad Studios, Venice, California Biography The difference between a strong team and a top-performing one is rarely talent. It is whether people can switch on under pressure, recover quickly when something goes wrong, and stay engaged on the night the room actually matters. That is the territory Mark Schulman works in. His credibility comes from the stage. Schulman spent more than two decades as the touring drummer for P!NK, Cher, Billy Idol, and Foreigner, performing in front of stadium audiences where there is no second take. The performance-mindset content he now delivers to corporate audiences is drawn directly from that environment, not borrowed from a leadership textbook. The work is anchored by his book Conquering Life’s Stage Fright: Three Steps to Top Performance, which sets out a Clarity, Capability, Confidence framework for managing performance anxiety. He co-authored a second book, The Attitude Equation, with Dr. Jim Samuels, focused on the attitudinal habits that separate consistent performers from one-off ones. In 2021 he was awarded the Certified Speaking Professional designation by the National Speakers Association, the standing credential of full-time keynote speakers. What organisations book is a session that changes the energy of a room. Schulman drums live, brings the audience into the performance, and ties the story back to specific attitude shifts a team can apply on Monday. The format is unusual; the underlying argument, that consistent high performance is a learnable discipline, is what keeps Fortune 500 buyers returning. Key speaking topics Performance mindset under pressure Attitude and personal accountability Confidence and stage fright Team engagement and collaboration Peak performance habits Creativity and reinvention Ideal for Sales kickoffs, annual conferences, and leadership offsites looking for an opening or closing keynote that shifts the energy of the room CHROs and culture leads programming for engagement, motivation, and people-performance themes Leadership development audiences working on confidence, presence, and personal performance Audience outcomes A named three-step framework (Clarity, Capability, Confidence) for managing performance anxiety in high-stakes moments Specific attitude practices borrowed from world-class touring musicians and adapted to a business setting A shared, high-energy experience that resets the tone of a conference and gives teams a common reference point A clearer sense of how individual presence and preparation feed collective team performance

Why organisations work with Cameron Atlas He delivers the message through an unusual format. A grand piano on stage, original songs written for the keynote, and an argument about human performance built around the music. It is one of very few keynote products where the medium itself reinforces the message. His TEDxRoma talk, “What Future Are We Creating?”, featured on TED.com, brought 80 musicians from 40 countries onto one stage. It is the cleanest public proof point of his ability to organise creative collaboration at scale. His content is built for leadership audiences in environments where change has become continuous. The talks address composure, clarity and decision-making, not abstract motivation. His coaching practice, branded Unlock Your Edge, is built around CEOs, founders and senior teams, which means the keynote is informed by ongoing work with serious operators rather than the conference circuit alone. He is a credible choice when a conference programme needs a closing keynote with emotional weight, where a conventional speaker would leave the room flat. Biography highlights Delivered the closing talk at TEDxRoma, “What Future Are We Creating?”, now featured on TED.com Host of The Edge of Possible podcast National Geographic Explorer Original songs heard across 195 countries; performs them live on grand piano and acoustic guitar during keynotes Executive coach to CEOs, founders and senior teams under the Unlock Your Edge framework Grew up on a farm in outback Australia; speaks internationally with live music as the keynote spine Biography Most leadership keynotes ask an audience to absorb an argument. A small number ask them to feel it. Cameron Atlas works in the second category. His keynotes are built around original music played live on a grand piano, with the argument about resilience, focus and decision-making woven into the performance rather than delivered alongside it. The substantive content is straightforward. After 15 years coaching CEOs, founders and senior teams under his Unlock Your Edge framework, he addresses what senior leaders actually need when they are running organisations through continuous change: composure, clarity, and the ability to make decisions when the conditions keep moving. The music is the carrier, not the point. His clearest public proof point is the TEDxRoma talk “What Future Are We Creating?”, now featured on TED.com, which assembled 80 musicians from 40 countries into a single collaborative performance. He has since taken the format to keynote stages internationally, and his songs have been heard across 195 countries. He hosts The Edge of Possible podcast and works with a roster of high-performing operators between speaking engagements. The category he belongs to is small. Most keynote speakers who use music use it as ornament. The format here is the product, and it earns its place because the audiences he serves, leadership teams that have heard every conventional resilience talk, tend to remember the room differently afterwards. Key speaking topics Resilience and decision-making under sustained change Composure and clarity for senior leaders Adaptability as a performance discipline Creative collaboration at scale The role of focus in distraction-heavy environments Live-music keynote experiences for leadership audiences Ideal for CEOs, founders and executive teams running through continuous restructure or strategic change Leadership conferences and annual summits looking for a closing keynote with emotional weight Sales kick-offs and partner events where audiences arrive saturated with conventional content HR and people-function audiences working on resilience, wellbeing and high-performance culture Audience outcomes A clearer language for what composure under pressure looks like in senior roles A reset on the difference between motion and focus when teams are exhausted by change A live demonstration of how creative collaboration can hold a room of unfamiliar people together A keynote experience that audiences remember and refer back to, which matters when the surrounding programme is dense

Key speaking topics Formula 1 race engineering High-performance teamwork Real-time decision-making under pressure Motorsport strategy and execution Engineering leadership in elite sport Performance optimisation in competitive environments Ideal for Senior leadership teams Engineering and technical audiences Performance-focused organisations Corporate conferences seeking elite sport insights Audience outcomes Clear understanding of how Formula 1 teams operate under pressure. Insight into race-day communication and decision-making processes. Practical perspectives on teamwork in high-stakes environments. Greater appreciation of the role of data and engineering in performance delivery. Why organisations work with Julien Simon-Chautemps Direct experience from senior trackside roles in Formula 1. First-hand insight into collaboration between engineers and world-class drivers. Credible, technical perspective grounded in elite motorsport. Ability to translate complex engineering environments into accessible business lessons. Biography Julien Simon-Chautemps brings over two decades of elite motorsport engineering experience, including senior trackside roles in Formula 1. Working at the heart of high-performance race teams, he operated in environments defined by precision, pressure and constant competitive scrutiny. Across his Formula 1 career, he held race-engineering positions with Toyota, Lotus/Caterham, Renault/Lotus Renault and Sauber, later rebranded as Alfa Romeo. In these roles, he worked directly with world-class drivers including Kimi Räikkönen, Romain Grosjean, Jarno Trulli and Marcus Ericsson, supporting performance delivery at the highest level of international sport. His work required real-time decision-making, technical leadership and seamless communication between drivers, engineers and senior team management. The Formula 1 paddock demands clarity, discipline and alignment across complex technical systems, disciplines directly relevant to organisations navigating high-stakes operational and strategic environments. Following his Formula 1 career, Julien founded JSC7 Engineering, a motorsport and automotive consultancy drawing on his experience in race strategy, engineering execution and team performance. He also contributes technical analysis for Canal+ and has appeared as an on-air analyst for F1 TV, providing expert insight into the engineering and strategic dimensions of Formula 1. Fluent in English and French, with Italian also listed, Julien works with organisations seeking credible insight from elite performance environments. His perspective combines engineering depth with first-hand experience of operating where performance margins are measured in milliseconds and decisions shape outcomes instantly.

Why organisations work with Andre Agassi He has a documented, named comeback, world No. 141 in 1997 to world No. 1 in 1999, which gives leadership audiences a specific case study in rebuilding after public failure rather than a generic resilience message. He is one of nine men in history to complete a career Grand Slam, a credential that carries instant authority with sales, sports, and executive audiences without requiring any further framing. His second act is operational, not ceremonial. The Turner-Agassi Charter School Facilities Fund has developed more than 120 school buildings, which gives him genuine standing on scaling mission-led ventures, not just philanthropy as biography. Open, his memoir written with J.R. Moehringer, is a No. 1 New York Times bestseller treated seriously by literary critics, which signals the reflective honesty leadership audiences expect from a keynote on reinvention. He is one of very few speakers who can hold a corporate leadership room, a sales conference, and an education forum with equal credibility, because each credential is independently verifiable. Biography highlights Eight Grand Slam singles titles across the Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon, and US Open, and a career Grand Slam completed in 1999. Olympic gold medal at the 1996 Atlanta Games, and member of three winning United States Davis Cup teams. 60 ATP singles titles, 101 weeks at world No. 1, and year-end No. 1 in 1999. Inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2011. Founder of the Andre Agassi Foundation for Education, which has raised over $180 million, and the Andre Agassi College Preparatory Academy in West Las Vegas. Co-founder with Bobby Turner of the Turner-Agassi Charter School Facilities Fund, a real estate vehicle that has financed more than 120 charter school facilities. Author of Open: An Autobiography, a No. 1 New York Times bestseller. Biography In 1997, the player who had won Wimbledon five years earlier was ranked No. 141 in the world. Two years later he won the French Open, completed the career Grand Slam, and finished the season as world No. 1. That arc is the reason serious leadership audiences listen to Andre Agassi. The eight Grand Slam titles, the 1996 Olympic gold, the 101 weeks at No. 1, and the 2011 induction into the International Tennis Hall of Fame are the headline credentials. What makes them useful in a boardroom is the honesty about what the comeback cost. Open, written with Pulitzer Prize winner J.R. Moehringer and a No. 1 New York Times bestseller, is the public record of that reckoning, treated by reviewers as a serious memoir rather than a sports book. His operating work has held up to the same scrutiny. The Andre Agassi Foundation for Education, founded in 1994, has raised over $180 million and anchors the Andre Agassi College Preparatory Academy in West Las Vegas. With investor Bobby Turner, he built the Turner-Agassi Charter School Facilities Fund, a real estate platform that has developed more than 120 charter school buildings serving tens of thousands of students. He is also a board member and investor in Square Panda, an early-literacy education technology company. For a senior audience, the value is the combination. Elite performance credentialed at the highest level, a comeback story that is specific rather than mythologised, and a post-career record built through institutional vehicles that other operators take seriously. A leader preparing for a period of pressure, transition, or public reinvention gets a case study, not a speech. Key speaking topics Performance under sustained public pressure Reinvention after a public setback Leadership through career transition Legacy and second-act ventures Scaling mission-led organisations Education reform and philanthropy at institutional scale Ideal for Senior leadership offsites and CEO forums working through a public reinvention or strategic reset Sales kickoffs and top-performer conferences where the brief is sustained performance under scrutiny Board and philanthropy events focused on legacy, second-act ventures, and mission-driven capital Education sector gatherings on charter school scaling, early literacy, and philanthropic models Audience outcomes A specific, named case study of rebuilding elite performance after public failure, drawn from the 1997 to 1999 comeback. A clear view of what separates a mythologised comeback story from a real operational reset, and what leaders can borrow from each. A working model for how a high-profile career transitions into institutional operating work, using the Agassi Foundation and Turner-Agassi fund as reference points. Renewed clarity on how personal authenticity, honestly examined in Open, functions as a leadership asset rather than a liability.

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 Tom Turcich His credibility is not analogical: it is verifiable. The world walk is ranked in a finite historical list of ten people, documented in a published memoir, and covered by CNN, BBC, Good Morning America, The Guardian, and The Today Show. Seven continuous years of forward motion without a salary, fixed team, or guaranteed outcome offers a model of value-driven decision-making that is directly applicable to organisations sustaining long-term transformation. His Circle of Possibility framework reframes constraints as inputs to problem-solving rather than barriers to progress, making his content directly usable by teams operating under resource pressure or strategic uncertainty. The journey was values-led from day one: Turcich navigated every decision – including years of solitude, a global pandemic, and active conflict zones – by a clear internal compass. That makes his framework credible for organisations focused on purpose-driven culture rather than performance management alone. Biography highlights Tenth person in recorded history to complete a circumnavigation of the globe on foot Seven-year, 28,000-mile journey across six continents and 38 countries, beginning April 2015 His rescue dog Savannah became the first dog ever to walk around the world Author of The World Walk (Skyhorse Publishing, 2024), a full-length memoir of the expedition Featured by CNN, BBC, Good Morning America, The Guardian, and The Today Show Author of the Savannah’s World of Adventure children’s book series Biography Most people’s resilience is tested in months. Tom Turcich spent seven years walking 28,000 miles across six continents and 38 countries; a journey that placed him in the historically small group of ten people ever recorded to have circled the globe on foot. That context is not incidental to his work with organisations. It is the evidence. The walk began the day before his 26th birthday, prompted by the death of a close friend that forced a reckoning with how a life should be spent. It ended in May 2022. Along the way, Turcich navigated deserts, conflict zones, a global pandemic, and sustained solitude; guided not by a fixed itinerary but by a set of core values he had articulated before he left. His memoir, The World Walk (Skyhorse Publishing, 2024), documents both the physical journey and the decision-making architecture that sustained it. For organisations, the relevance lies not in the spectacle of the achievement but in its mechanics. His talks, built around the Circle of Possibility framework, address the specific tension between ambitious long-term goals and the daily reality of setback, discomfort, and unclear progress. The same principles that kept him moving across the Andes and through Central Asia translate directly to teams operating under sustained strategic pressure. His story has been covered by CNN, BBC, Good Morning America, The Guardian, and The Today Show. The World Walk received endorsements from two New York Times bestselling authors. A second non-fiction book, applying the lessons of the walk to organisational and professional life, is in progress. Key speaking topics Long-term resilience and sustained commitment Values-driven decision-making Goal-setting under uncertainty Reframing constraints as catalysts Purpose and personal accountability Endurance mindset in professional contexts Ideal for Leadership and executive teams navigating multi-year change programmes Sales and commercial conferences requiring a credible performance and resilience narrative Employee engagement and offsite events where purpose and motivation are central themes HR and people leaders building resilience culture within the workforce Audience outcomes A practical framework (Circle of Possibility) for sustaining commitment when progress is slow or unclear A more granular understanding of what resilience looks like in practice over an extended timeframe: not as a trait but as a set of daily decisions Sharper thinking about how personal values can function as a decision-making tool under pressure Perspective on the relationship between constraints and creative problem-solving A reframe of long-term ambition: from an abstract goal to a sequence of deliberate, manageable steps

Why organisations work with Emma Ross She brings the operating knowledge of the person who ran physiology for Team GB across Olympic and Paralympic cycles, applied directly to corporate workforces rather than borrowed as metaphor. She co-founded The Well HQ, the consultancy that has delivered women’s health programmes inside Sport England, England Netball, the Lawn Tennis Association, Vitality, News UK and Barclays; her frameworks are already in production in serious organisations. The Female Body Bible gave her a mainstream platform and a Sunday Times bestseller, which means her language is already familiar to employees and journalists before she walks into the room. She closes the knowing-doing gap leaders struggle with most: turning evidence on menstrual health, menopause, pelvic health and breast health into specific policy, benefits and manager scripts. Her authority is independent and scientific. The Cardiff Metropolitan honorary doctorate and her Fellowship of the British Association of Sport and Exercise Science signal that the content is peer-respected, not opinion. Biography highlights Head of Physiology, English Institute of Sport, 2013 to 2021, across Rio and Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic cycles. Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer, The Well HQ. Co-author, The Female Body Bible, Sunday Times bestseller, 2023. Changemaker, The Sunday Times Sportswomen of the Year Awards, 2021. Honorary Doctorate, Cardiff Metropolitan University, 2025. Honorary Research Fellow, University of Brighton; Honorary Lecturer, University of Kent; Fellow of the British Association of Sport and Exercise Science. Biography Women make up roughly half of most workforces and a larger share of many consumer markets. Until recently, almost no corporate policy, product design or leadership development programme was built on evidence about how female bodies actually work. Emma Ross is one of the people rewriting that. As Head of Physiology at the English Institute of Sport from 2013, she supported Team GB athletes and coaches across the Rio and Tokyo cycles. Inside that system she saw how much of the playbook for elite performance had been written for men, and what happened when women were given training, recovery, nutrition and medical support designed around their physiology instead. In 2021 she co-founded The Well HQ with Baz Moffat and Dr Bella Smith. The consultancy has built education and policy programmes for Sport England, England Netball, the Lawn Tennis Association and the Open University, and has moved into corporate workforces with Vitality, News UK and Barclays. The Female Body Bible, co-authored in 2023, landed as an instant Sunday Times bestseller and took the argument into the mainstream. Her credibility is underwritten by a PhD from Brunel, more than thirty peer-reviewed publications, a Fellowship of the British Association of Sport and Exercise Science, and an Honorary Doctorate from Cardiff Metropolitan University awarded in 2025. The practical value for a boardroom is simpler: she can tell a CHRO, in specific terms, what to change on Monday about benefits, line-manager training, menopause policy, return-to-work protocols and the data the organisation is not yet collecting. Key speaking topics Women’s health in the workplace Female physiology and high performance Menstrual health, menopause and pelvic health at work Policy and manager capability for women’s health Culture change in male-default organisations Lessons from elite sport for corporate performance systems Evidence-based wellbeing for women Ideal for CHROs, Chief People Officers and Heads of Reward designing benefits, menopause and family-health policy. DEI and ERG leads moving from awareness events to operational change. Executive teams in organisations with large female workforces or female consumer bases. Leadership programmes for senior women and their managers. Audience outcomes A clear read on where your current policies and manager behaviours fail women, and what to change first. Specific, evidence-based actions on menstrual health, menopause, pelvic and breast health that can be taken into HR and benefits. Language that line managers and male leaders can use without fear of saying the wrong thing. A framework for translating women’s health from a wellbeing initiative into an organisational performance lever. Confidence that the content is backed by elite sport science and peer-reviewed evidence, not opinion.

Why organisations work with Baz Moffat She runs the consultancy that adidas, The Gym Group and England Netball use to redesign female-health training and policy. Buyers get an operator with live commercial programmes, not a speaker reading the literature. Co-author of The Female Body Bible, the Sunday Times bestseller now published in five languages, written with an NHS GP and a former Head of Physiology at the UK Sports Institute. The credentialled trio is what gives her positions weight inside HR, medical and performance functions. Translates female physiology into manager behaviour, line manager conversations, training plans and return-to-work protocols. Audiences leave with language and decisions, not slogans. Speaks from inside the system she is critiquing. Former GB rower, 20 years in coaching and high performance, World Championship medallist, mother of two. The lived ground makes the policy argument harder to dismiss. Biography highlights Co-founder and CEO of The Well HQ, female-health consultancy to brands, governing bodies and corporates including adidas, The Gym Group, England Netball and The Fitness Group. Co-author, The Female Body Bible (Yellow Kite, Hachette, 2023), Sunday Times bestseller, published in five languages. GB Rowing Team member 2005 to 2008; raced in the women’s eight at the 2007 World Rowing Championships, Munich. BSc Sports Science, First Class, University of Birmingham; MSc Health Related Behaviour Change, University of Bristol. Spoke at the Council of Europe International Women’s Day roundtable on female health in sport. Twenty years’ experience as a coach, personal trainer and Holistic Core Restore practitioner. Biography Most workplace wellbeing programmes are still calibrated to a male default. Female-specific health sits inside a thin band of policy and a generic resilience strand, with little connection to performance, retention or management practice. The Well HQ, the consultancy Baz Moffat co-founded in 2021 with Dr Emma Ross and Dr Bella Smith, exists to close that gap by treating female health as part of the operating system, not the wellness budget. The consultancy now works with adidas on the Breaking Barriers Academy, with The Gym Group and The Fitness Group on training personal trainers in female-health literacy, and with national governing bodies including England Netball and English Football on changing how the sport supports women from grassroots through to elite. The same logic applies to corporates. Policy, manager training and protocols for menstruation, fertility, pregnancy, return to work and menopause are rebuilt on the science rather than on assumption. Baz brings the operator side of that argument. She rowed for Great Britain from 2005 to 2008, raced in the women’s eight at the 2007 World Rowing Championships, and spent two decades coaching women through pelvic, core and perinatal health. Her academic credentials sit in behaviour change, an MSc from Bristol on top of a First in Sports Science from Birmingham, which is why her work translates into adoption rather than slide decks. Her co-authored book, The Female Body Bible, written with an NHS GP and a former Head of Physiology at the UK Sports Institute, became an instant Sunday Times bestseller and now appears in five languages. It functions as the public version of the consultancy’s argument: that the failure to design for half the workforce is no longer defensible on cost, evidence or talent grounds. Key speaking topics Female health as an operating system inside organisations Menopause, perimenopause and the workplace Pelvic, core and perinatal health Return to work after pregnancy and postnatal recovery Female-specific high performance in sport and corporate environments Designing wellbeing policy beyond the male default Building and scaling a mission-led consultancy Ideal for CHROs, heads of DEI and wellbeing leads rebuilding female-health policy beyond a generic wellness offer. Boards and executive teams of sports governing bodies, federations and clubs reviewing female participation and performance pathways. Senior leaders in health, fitness and consumer brands targeting the female market. Founders and operators seeking a live case study in building a mission-led commercial business. Audience outcomes A working model for treating female health as a workforce capability, not a benefits line item. Clear language for line managers and HR on menstruation, pregnancy, postnatal return and menopause. A grounded picture of what changes when policy, manager training and protocols are redesigned on female physiology. A first-hand account of the cultural and commercial barriers to female health in sport and corporate life, and what shifts them.

Why organisations work with Paris Norriss The Grit Code gives organisations a repeatable method for developing resilience: not a motivational moment, but a structured framework built from both extreme first-hand experience and interviews with more than 50 documented high performers. It can be applied, not just felt. His source material is verified broadcast content. The adventures Paris describes are not anecdotes: they are documented on productions distributed via Amazon Prime and Apple TV. When the Pacific storm or the 40-foot wave hits, no one questions whether the stakes were real. He draws a distinction most resilience speakers do not: between teams that perform well when conditions are manageable and teams that hold when those conditions break down. The gap between the two is where most organisational performance is actually lost. His career spans investment banking, media production, and extreme endurance sport, which means he can translate the mechanics of sustained performance directly into commercial and operational terms, without forcing the adventure metaphor. His speaking record runs from the US Military in Hawaii to DHL in Athens to COP28 in Dubai. The breadth of context is itself evidence that The Grit Code’s framework transfers across sector, culture, and seniority level. Biography highlights Creator of The Grit Code, a structured resilience framework built from extreme endurance experience and research with more than 50 high performers Rowed 4,800km across the Pacific Ocean (California to Hawaii) with the Brothers N Oars team over 39 days (2023), raising funds for the Blue Marine Foundation and the Invictus Games Completed the World Marathon Challenge: 7 marathons on 7 continents in 5 days and 21 hours (2025), having previously run a single marathon Host and Executive Producer of “Guy in Dubai” and “Guy in the Sky,” distributed on Amazon Prime, Apple TV, OSN, and Emirates Airlines across more than 120 countries Founder of Blazing Sand Studios (formerly GID Media Production), an Abu Dhabi-based production company established in 2017 Regular contributor to Dubai Eye radio; business columnist for The National MA (Hons), Business Studies (Finance), University of Edinburgh; earlier career in investment banking and private equity Biography Most organisations discover they have a resilience problem not during planning but when things go wrong. A skilled, well-resourced team will perform competently under normal conditions. Whether that same team can sustain judgement, cohesion, and output when conditions break down is a different question: and one that most leadership development programmes never directly test. Paris Norriss has spent a decade answering it under conditions where the cost of failure was not theoretical. In 2023 he rowed 4,800 kilometres across the Pacific Ocean with the Brothers N Oars team over 39 days: navigating two storms, 40-foot waves, and a near-collision with a cargo ship. In 2025, having previously run a single marathon, he completed the World Marathon Challenge across seven continents in 5 days and 21 hours. The experiences are not the argument. The argument is what they required: a decision-making framework that holds when resources, morale, and conditions are all working against you. The Grit Code is that framework. Structured from both Paris’s own extreme experiences and interviews with more than 50 high performers, it gives organisations a repeatable method for developing the mental durability that sustains performance under real pressure. Paris has applied it across audiences spanning the US Military, DHL, Nokia, and COP28; contexts with little in common except the fundamental challenge of keeping a team functional when nothing is going to plan. His parallel career as founder of Blazing Sand Studios and executive producer of “Guy in Dubai” and “Guy in the Sky”, distributed on Amazon Prime and Apple TV across more than 120 countries, separates him from other speakers working in the same space. He has not merely survived extreme experiences; he has spent a career converting them into narrative form for mass audiences. That capacity to distil high-stakes experience into something transferable and usable is precisely what The Grit Code delivers in an organisational setting. Key speaking topics Mental resilience and performance under pressure Team cohesion in high-stakes environments Leadership in adversity Decision-making under stress The Grit Code framework for building organisational resilience Visual storytelling and narrative in business Adventure filmmaking and destination media Ideal for Leadership and senior management teams preparing for high-pressure transformation, restructuring, or sustained competitive pressure Sales, operations, and commercial teams where consistent output under difficult conditions is a performance priority HR and L&D leaders looking to embed resilience as a systemic organisational capability rather than a wellbeing initiative Conference organisers serving Gulf, Middle East, and international markets seeking a speaker with verified regional credibility and global media distribution Audience outcomes A working definition of grit as a learnable, structured capability – not a fixed personality trait Practical tools for identifying the internal motivational triggers that determine how individuals perform under sustained adversity A clear framework for distinguishing teams that hold under pressure from teams that only perform when conditions are favourable Insight into the mechanics of leadership and decision-making during the specific period when resources, morale, and conditions are all depleted simultaneously Understanding of how internal purpose and motivational alignment sustain team output beyond the point where conventional incentives and management techniques lose traction

Why organisations work with Pau Gasol Two NBA championships, three Olympic medals and a FIBA World Cup title give him a working definition of high performance grounded in repeated wins across cultures, coaches and rosters, not a single peak. He speaks credibly about the operating reality of elite teams: ego management next to a generational star (Kobe Bryant), role clarity, and the unglamorous habits that hold a group together across an 82-game season. A Basketball Hall of Fame induction in 2023 and a retired Lakers jersey place him among the small group of athletes whose authority on team and leadership is taken seriously inside a boardroom, not only on a stage. His work outside sport (Gasol Foundation on childhood obesity, IOC Athletes’ Commission, Gasol16 Ventures) shows a leader who has built institutions, not only played in them. The J. Walter Kennedy Citizenship Award is the NBA’s formal recognition of that. He presents fluently in English and Spanish, with direct experience of US, European and global organisations, which suits international leadership audiences without translation overhead. Biography highlights Two NBA Championships with the Los Angeles Lakers (2009, 2010); six-time NBA All-Star; four-time All-NBA selection. 2002 NBA Rookie of the Year, the first non-American player to win the award. Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, Class of 2023; jersey No. 16 retired by the Los Angeles Lakers. FIBA World Cup champion and MVP 2006; three EuroBasket golds with Spain (2009, 2011, 2015); two-time EuroBasket MVP. Three Olympic medals with Spain: silver in 2008 and 2012, bronze in 2016. President and co-founder of the Gasol Foundation; UNICEF Global Champion for Nutrition and Zero Childhood Obesity; member of the IOC Athletes’ Commission; 2012 NBA J. Walter Kennedy Citizenship Award. Biography Two NBA Championships, three Olympic medals and a FIBA World Cup title are not won by the same individual playing in different teams. They are won by leaders who help different groups behave the same way under pressure. Pau Gasol spent two decades inside the highest-stakes team environments in professional sport, with Kobe Bryant in Los Angeles, alongside his brother Marc on the Spanish national team, and across rosters in Memphis, Chicago, San Antonio and Milwaukee. The interest for senior leaders is not the trophy count. It is what it took to sit beside a generational star like Bryant and still deliver, year after year, in the locker room as much as on the court. Role clarity, ego management, honest conversations between named individuals, and a standard that did not move with the score. Gasol’s account of that period is one of the more credible insider readings of elite team performance available from any speaker in the market. His record off the court is unusually substantive for an athlete. He co-founded the Gasol Foundation in 2013 with Marc Gasol, working on childhood obesity and child wellbeing in Spain and the United States. He serves as UNICEF’s Global Champion for Nutrition and Zero Childhood Obesity, sits on the International Olympic Committee Athletes’ Commission, and runs Gasol16 Ventures, an investment platform in sport, health and wellness. The NBA recognised the community work with the 2012 J. Walter Kennedy Citizenship Award. Inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2023, with his number retired by the Los Angeles Lakers the same year, Gasol now speaks to leadership audiences in English and Spanish on what it actually takes to build a team that wins more than once. Key speaking topics Leadership and team performance under sustained pressure Building trust and role clarity inside elite teams Resilience and self-leadership through injury, transition and setback Sport as a model for organisational culture and standards Purpose-driven leadership and life after a professional career Child health and the leadership case for long-term social investment Ideal for Senior leadership offsites and CEO conferences focused on team performance and culture Sales kick-offs and annual conferences seeking a credible voice on resilience and standards Sports, health and consumer-brand audiences engaging with athlete leadership International audiences requiring delivery in English or Spanish Audience outcomes A working picture of what elite team performance looks like behind the result, told by someone inside it A direct view of how leaders manage ego, role and trust around a dominant individual Specific reference points for resilience and decision-making through injury, transition and public scrutiny A leadership case for long-term investment in people and purpose beyond the immediate quarter

Why organisations work with Tom Clark He works inside one of the most demanding performance environments in elite sport, around 250 days a year on the road with an F1 driver, and brings that operating reality directly into the room. His doctoral research at Liverpool John Moores University on jet lag and travel fatigue in F1 gives him a defensible scientific position on a topic most peak-performance speakers handle anecdotally. He has been part of a Hungarian Grand Prix victory at the level of preparation and recovery, so the marginal-gains argument is grounded in a specific outcome rather than a general claim. He translates Hintsa Performance methodology, the system that shaped modern F1 conditioning, into language and tools senior leaders can apply to their own travel and decision schedules. Biography highlights Head of Performance for Esteban Ocon at Alpine F1, since 2020. Professional Doctorate in Applied Sport and Exercise Science, Liverpool John Moores University, focused on jet lag and travel fatigue in elite motorsport. MSc Athletic Development and Peak Performance, Solent University; BSc Health and Exercise Science, First Class Honours, Solent University. Former performance coach at Hintsa Performance, the consultancy behind much of modern F1 athlete development. Worked alongside Esteban Ocon at his maiden Formula One race win, the 2021 Hungarian Grand Prix. Adapted the LJMU Jet Lag Questionnaire into a digital monitoring platform used across an F1 season. Biography A Formula 1 season runs to roughly two dozen races across five continents. The driver is expected to perform at the limit of human reaction time on each one, often within forty-eight hours of landing. Tom Clark is the person who designs the conditions under which that is possible. As Head of Performance for Esteban Ocon at Alpine F1, Clark is responsible for the sleep, training, nutrition, and recovery system that holds a driver’s output steady across a calendar engineered for fatigue. He came into the sport through Hintsa Performance, the consultancy that built the modern playbook for F1 conditioning, and joined Alpine as Senior Performance Coach in 2020. He was part of the team at the 2021 Hungarian Grand Prix, Ocon’s first Formula One race victory. His doctoral research at Liverpool John Moores University, supervised by Dr Ben Edwards, focuses on jet lag and travel fatigue in elite motorsport. With LJMU colleagues, Clark adapted the university’s Jet Lag Questionnaire into a digital tool used across the F1 season, turning a clinical instrument into operating data. That research connects directly to what senior business audiences face: cumulative time-zone shifts, compressed sleep, and the gap between feeling capable and being capable. What distinguishes him from the wider peak-performance category is the specificity. He is not a former athlete reflecting on a finished career. He is an operator describing a system he runs every weekend, with a named driver, in measurable conditions, and grounding it in published science. Key speaking topics Performance science in elite motorsport Jet lag and travel fatigue in high-stakes environments Circadian rhythms and sleep as performance variables Marginal gains and Formula 1 preparation methodology Mental resilience under continuous competition Routine design for sustained executive output Ideal for C-suite leaders and senior executives whose schedules involve frequent long-haul travel and sustained decision load Sales and commercial leadership teams operating across multiple time zones High-performance teams in finance, professional services, and global operations where output cannot drop with the calendar Leadership development programmes drawing on elite-sport methodology Audience outcomes A working understanding of how circadian disruption affects judgement, mood, and reaction time, and what the data actually shows Specific protocols used inside an F1 team to manage jet lag, sleep, and recovery across long-haul travel A clearer line between preparation and performance, drawn from Formula 1 race weekends rather than business analogy Practical adjustments to routine, light exposure, training, and nutrition that senior leaders can apply inside an existing schedule An honest sense of where marginal gains move the needle and where they do not