Resilience & Stress Management speakers

Why organisations work with Fleur East A working national breakfast presenter on Hits Radio since 2019, on air four hours a morning, five days a week. The reflexes for live radio carry directly into corporate stage moderation. Co-host of BBC Two’s Strictly: It Takes Two, where the format demands daily turnaround, guest interviewing, and managing emotional content on a tight clock. Reached the Strictly Come Dancing 2022 final with Vito Coppola and scored the series’ first perfect 40, a credibility line that lands instantly with mass-market UK audiences and partners. Co-founder with her sister of Kurl Kitchen, a textured-hair brand built on West African ingredients, launched in 2024. Useful when the brief includes founder stories, representation, or Black British entrepreneurship. Versatile in register, from awards night spectacle to panel moderation to after-dinner, without needing a different speaker for each format. Biography highlights Host of Hits Radio Breakfast (Bauer Media), nationally networked, since July 2019. Co-presenter of BBC Two’s Strictly: It Takes Two from the 2023 series. Strictly Come Dancing 2022 finalist with Vito Coppola; first perfect 40 of that series during Blackpool week. X Factor 2014 finalist; debut single “Sax” reached UK No. 3 and was certified Platinum by the BPI. Television credits including ITV’s Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway, The Void, I’m A Celebrity finalist (2018), and Apple TV’s Ted Lasso. Co-founder with her sister Keshia East of Kurl Kitchen, a natural haircare brand launched in 2024. Biography Hits Radio Breakfast goes out from 6am every weekday to a national audience, and the host has to be functional from the first link. Fleur East has held that chair since 2019. Live radio at that hour, four hours at a stretch, is the closest training a presenter gets to running a corporate mainstage when the autocue fails. She came up through The X Factor in 2014, finishing as a finalist after her cover of “Uptown Funk” became the first contestant track to reach number one on the UK iTunes chart during a live series. Her debut single “Sax” hit number three on the Official Chart and went Platinum the following year. The music career gave her the stage instincts; the broadcasting career taught her the discipline. In 2022 she reached the final of Strictly Come Dancing with Vito Coppola, scoring the series’ first perfect 40 in the Blackpool week. The BBC brought her back as co-host of Strictly: It Takes Two from 2023, a daily live show that runs across the Strictly season and demands fast guest interviewing and tight format control. Other television credits include I’m A Celebrity, Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway, ITV’s The Void, and a guest role in Apple TV’s Ted Lasso. Beyond presenting, she co-founded Kurl Kitchen with her sister Keshia in 2024, a textured-hair care brand grounded in West African ingredients. That gives her something to draw on when a brief calls for a founder story, a perspective on Black British entrepreneurship, or a host who can credibly talk to a CPG or beauty audience without being briefed in. Key speaking topics Live event hosting and awards presenting Conference moderation and stage interviewing Founder story: Kurl Kitchen and Black British entrepreneurship Representation in UK broadcast media Resilience and reinvention in a public career Women in entertainment and media Ideal for Awards nights and gala dinners requiring a recognisable national broadcaster on stage Corporate conferences needing a confident moderator across keynote interviews and panels Brand activations in beauty, CPG, retail, or media targeting UK and Black British audiences Internal events for HR, DEI, or talent leaders looking for a credible voice on representation in media Audience outcomes A live event held together by a host who keeps energy and pace through running-order changes Guest interviews that go beyond the prepared questions and land specific quotes the team can use afterwards A founder narrative grounded in a real, trading consumer brand rather than a generic entrepreneurship story A representation conversation that stays useful for an internal audience rather than slipping into platitudes

Why organisations work with Frank Gardner Direct line into the security and intelligence conversation. Gardner is the BBC’s Security Correspondent, with three decades of sourced reporting across the Middle East, counter-terrorism and state conflict, and he brings that network into the room. Arabic fluency and a degree in Arabic and Islamic Studies give him a reading of the region that most Western commentators cannot match, particularly on Gulf politics, jihadist movements and Iran. First-hand authority on the personal cost of political violence. He was shot six times by al-Qaeda gunmen in Riyadh in 2004 and returned to full-time reporting in 2005; when he speaks about risk, resilience and continuing to operate, it is from lived experience. A published thriller novelist whose Luke Carlton series (Crisis, Ultimatum, Outbreak, Invasion, Ballistic, published by Bantam and Penguin) is built on real tradecraft, which makes him unusually effective at making intelligence work comprehensible to non-specialist audiences. Credibility signals that serious buyers recognise: OBE for services to journalism, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, honorary doctorates from five UK universities, the McWhirter Award for Bravery, Spain’s El Mundo Prize and the UAE’s Zayed Medal. Biography highlights BBC Security Correspondent; previously the BBC’s first full-time Gulf correspondent (1997) and BBC Middle East correspondent based in Cairo (from 1999). Author of Blood and Sand (Bantam, 2006), a Sunday Times top-three bestseller covering 25 years of reporting from the Middle East, and Far Horizons. Author of the Luke Carlton thriller series, featuring a former SBS officer turned MI6 operative: Crisis, Ultimatum, Outbreak, Invasion and Ballistic, published by Bantam and Penguin. Shot and seriously wounded by al-Qaeda gunmen in Riyadh in 2004; returned to full-time BBC reporting in 2005. OBE (2005) for services to journalism. Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. Honorary doctorates of law from the University of Nottingham, Staffordshire University, the University of Exeter, the University of East Anglia and the Open University. Awards: McWhirter Award for Bravery, El Mundo Prize for International Journalism (Spain), Zayed Medal for Journalism (UAE), UK Press Gazette Person of the Year. Biography The security environment that boards now have to plan against, terrorism, state conflict, energy disruption, cyber, looks less like a set of discrete issues and more like a single interconnected risk map. Reading that map is the work. For nearly three decades, Frank Gardner has done it in public, on air, for the BBC. As the BBC’s Security Correspondent, he has covered the War on Terror since 2002, having previously served as the corporation’s first full-time Gulf correspondent and then as Middle East correspondent based in Cairo. A fluent Arabic speaker with a degree in Arabic and Islamic Studies, he reports from inside the region rather than about it, with sourcing across security services, militaries and political leadership. That authority was sharpened by events. In June 2004, reporting from the Al-Suwaidi district of Riyadh, he was shot six times by al-Qaeda gunmen; his colleague, cameraman Simon Cumbers, was killed. After fourteen operations and seven months in hospital, Gardner returned to full-time BBC reporting in 2005 and has covered every major terrorism and security story since. He was appointed OBE that year for services to journalism. His published work tracks the same terrain from two angles. Blood and Sand, a Sunday Times top-three bestseller, is the non-fiction record of a reporting career built in the Middle East. The Luke Carlton thrillers, Crisis, Ultimatum, Outbreak, Invasion and Ballistic, use the mechanics of real intelligence tradecraft to dramatise the threats he covers on air, and have made him one of the few security commentators equally at home briefing a board and a mass readership. Key speaking topics Geopolitical and security risk Terrorism and counter-terrorism The Middle East and the Gulf Intelligence, espionage and tradecraft Iran, Saudi Arabia and Gulf politics Resilience after serious adversity Global risk and business decision-making Ideal for Boards and executive committees setting strategy against geopolitical and security exposure Chief Risk Officers, Chief Security Officers and Heads of Corporate Security Leadership teams in energy, financial services, defence, aviation and critical infrastructure with Middle East or Gulf operations Annual conferences, client events and internal leadership offsites where a credible read of the threat landscape is the main ask Audience outcomes A working read of the current geopolitical and terrorism threat map, not a headline recap Sharper understanding of Middle East and Gulf dynamics, including Iran, Saudi Arabia and jihadist movements, from someone who reports the region in Arabic A sense of how intelligence services actually work, and what that means for corporate security, travel risk and crisis response A human account of surviving a near-fatal attack and continuing to operate at the top of a demanding profession

Why organisations work with Frankie Bridge She turns a wellbeing agenda into a conversation employees actually join. Lived-experience voices move audiences past the policy document in a way clinical presentations rarely do. Her two books, OPEN and GROW, are co-written with clinical psychologist Maleha Khan and psychiatrist Dr Mike McPhillips, which gives the material a structure beyond memoir and a reference employees can take home. She is a formal ambassador for Mind, the UK’s largest mental health charity, anchoring her advocacy in a named institution rather than personal testimony alone. Her platform reaches the employee demographic most corporate wellbeing programmes struggle to engage: women aged 25 to 45, working parents, and audiences outside the usual executive wellbeing circuit. Biography highlights Ambassador for Mind, the UK mental health charity, following hospitalisation in May 2012 for anxiety, depression and panic attacks. Author of OPEN: Why Asking for Help Can Save Your Life, a Sunday Times bestseller co-written with clinical psychologist Maleha Khan and psychiatrist Dr Mike McPhillips. Author of GROW: Motherhood, mental health and me, published 2021, again with Khan and McPhillips. Host of Open Mind with Frankie Bridge, a podcast running since 2019 across Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Global Player. Regular panellist on ITV’s Loose Women since 2021, speaking publicly on anxiety and women’s health. Former member of The Saturdays (2007 to 2014) and runner-up on BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing 2014. Biography A wellbeing programme only works when employees believe the people in front of them have been where they have. That credibility is hard to manufacture from a policy deck or a clinician’s slide set. Bridge built her audience on the opposite ground, by talking openly about her 2012 hospitalisation for anxiety and depression while still a member of one of the UK’s biggest pop acts. Her book OPEN: Why Asking for Help Can Save Your Life came out of that period and became a Sunday Times bestseller. It was co-written with clinical psychologist Maleha Khan and psychiatrist Dr Mike McPhillips, which is what separates it from a standard celebrity memoir. GROW, published in 2021, applied the same format to maternal mental health, again with Khan and McPhillips, and addressed anxiety in pregnancy and the early years of parenting. The advocacy sits inside a formal relationship with Mind, the UK mental health charity, where she is a named ambassador. Her Open Mind podcast extends the work across longer conversations with guests from public life, and her seat on ITV’s Loose Women keeps mental health vocabulary in mainstream women’s broadcasting. For a corporate audience, the specific value is reach into the employee groups that wellbeing programmes most often miss. Working women in their late twenties to mid forties recognise her from television, bookshops and podcasts, and listen differently because of it. That is the variable most internal mental-health campaigns cannot solve with budget alone. Key speaking topics Mental health in the workplace Maternal mental health Anxiety, depression and panic Employee wellbeing and lived experience Women’s health at work Reducing stigma in corporate mental health conversations Ideal for Employee wellbeing days, mental health awareness events and internal conferences where lived experience lands harder than clinical theory alone. HR, people and DEI teams building programmes for working parents, particularly women returning from maternity leave. Women’s networks and ERGs looking for a recognisable broadcaster who speaks credibly on anxiety and maternal mental health. Audience outcomes A clear reference point, anchored in two published books, for how to talk about anxiety and depression at work without defaulting to policy language. A direct look at how maternal mental health shows up in the early years of a career return, drawn from Bridge’s work with her clinical co-authors. Permission for employees to treat mental health conversations as normal rather than escalatory, which in turn lifts engagement with existing wellbeing resources. A concrete answer to the question most wellbeing programmes struggle with: what does asking for help actually look like in practice, from someone who has done it.

Why organisations work with Frederika Roberts An applied positive psychology MSc and doctoral research base, rather than the wellness-industry credentialling that dominates this space. Author or co-author of five published works on character education and whole-school wellbeing, including titles with Jessica Kingsley Publishers and Sage. European Representative for IPPAed, giving access to current global research on positive education before it filters into mainstream practice. Working content for both education sectors and workplaces, covering character strengths, psychological safety, and Appreciative Inquiry as a change method. Operates in English, Italian, French, and German, which matters for European multi-site organisations and international school groups. Biography highlights MSc in Applied Positive Psychology; doctoral researcher in Education focused on whole-school wellbeing. European Representative for IPPAed, the International Positive Psychology Association’s Positive Education division. Founder of Educate to Flourish CIC, a social enterprise embedding wellbeing into school communities. Co-author, “Character Toolkit for Teachers” (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2018) and “Character Toolkit Strength Cards” (2020). Co-editor, “The Big Book of Whole School Wellbeing” (2021); author, “For Flourishing’s Sake” (2020) and “Recipe for Happiness” (2013). Member of the Professional Speaking Association and the Global Speakers Federation; iPPL Expert Member. Biography Wellbeing has become one of the most over-claimed and under-delivered categories in organisational life. Initiatives proliferate; engagement and mental health indicators rarely move with them. The gap is methodological. Most wellbeing work is built on motivational content rather than on the published research that the field of positive psychology has produced over the last two decades. Roberts works inside that research base. She holds an MSc in Applied Positive Psychology and is completing doctoral research on whole-school wellbeing using Appreciative Inquiry, a change methodology that focuses organisational attention on what is already working and how to build from it. As European Representative for IPPAed, the International Positive Psychology Association’s Positive Education division, she connects practitioners with current academic findings before they reach the trade press. Her published output gives organisations a clear sense of how she translates evidence into practice. “Character Toolkit for Teachers” (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2018) and the “Character Toolkit Strength Cards” (2020) provide working tools rather than abstract frameworks. “The Big Book of Whole School Wellbeing” (2021), which she co-edited, sits across the major contributors in the field. “For Flourishing’s Sake” sets out how policy and practice can be redesigned to put flourishing at the centre. She founded Educate to Flourish CIC to take this work into schools as a social enterprise, and extends the same practice into workplaces, drawing on character strengths, psychological safety, and strengths-based approaches. The work is unusual in the wellbeing market for being explicitly research-grounded and equally credible in front of educators, HR leaders, and policy audiences. Key speaking topics Positive psychology in organisational and educational settings Whole-school and whole-organisation wellbeing Character education and character strengths Appreciative Inquiry as a change method Psychological safety and strengths-based culture Mental health and flourishing at work Ideal for HR and people leaders responsible for wellbeing strategy beyond surface-level programmes School leaders, MAT executives, and university leadership teams Conference audiences in education, public sector, and not-for-profit Boards or executives in family-owned and values-led organisations rethinking culture Audience outcomes A working understanding of what positive psychology research has actually shown about wellbeing and performance. Specific tools from character strengths, Appreciative Inquiry, and strengths-based practice that can be applied immediately. A sharper distinction between wellbeing programmes that produce change and those that do not. Language and a model for connecting individual flourishing to organisational outcomes.

Why organisations work with Gemma Oaten A credible front-of-house voice on eating disorders specifically, an area most wellbeing programmes underserve because it is hard to discuss without either trivialising or distressing audiences. Operational charity leadership at SEED, which means her content reflects what families, sufferers, and clinicians actually report, not generic resilience messaging. Broadcast craft from BBC Radio and BBC Morning Live work, useful when a wellbeing event also needs an experienced host or interviewer in the room. A TEDx talk and named corporate clients including Samsung, Towergate Insurance, and Health Assured, which gives HR and wellbeing leads a defensible reference list. Biography highlights CEO of SEED Eating Disorder Support Services. Played Rachel Breckle in Emmerdale, 2011 to 2015. TEDx speaker on eating disorders and recovery. Hosted the British Safety Council International Safety Awards Gala Dinner, 2024. BBC Radio presenter across Humberside, Lincolnshire, York, and Leeds; BBC Morning Live contributor. Drama Studio London graduate. Biography Eating disorders are the mental illness most likely to kill the person who has one, and they remain one of the hardest topics for an HR team to handle in front of staff. Gemma Oaten developed anorexia at ten and lived with it, and with bulimia, for thirteen years. SEED, the charity her parents founded to support other families through it, is now the organisation she runs. That dual position, lived experience and charity leadership, is what makes her useful to corporate audiences. She is not describing recovery as a metaphor for resilience. She is describing what eating disorders look like in a workforce, what triggers them, what helps, and what managers tend to get wrong when an employee is visibly struggling. Her broadcast work runs alongside the charity. She has presented across BBC Radio Humberside, Lincolnshire, York, and Leeds, contributed to BBC Morning Live, and hosted the British Safety Council International Safety Awards Gala Dinner in 2024. Her acting credits include four years as Rachel Breckle in Emmerdale, with Best Newcomer nominations at the British Soap Awards and TV Quick Awards. For wellbeing leads commissioning a keynote that staff will actually remember, the value is the specificity. She speaks from inside a charity that takes the calls, and from inside a recovery she nearly did not survive. That is a different proposition from a clinician explaining the science or a coach selling a framework. Key speaking topics Eating disorders awareness and recovery Mental health in the workplace Employee wellbeing Resilience after long-term illness Bullying, body image, and self-worth Lived experience of anorexia and bulimia Hosting and moderation for wellbeing events Ideal for CHROs, wellbeing leads, and HR directors building substantive mental health programmes Health, safety, and wellbeing conferences, particularly in regulated sectors Schools, universities, and NHS audiences working on body image and eating disorders Internal events that need a credible host as well as a keynote voice Audience outcomes A clearer picture of what eating disorders look like in a working population, beyond the stereotypes Practical language managers can use when an employee shows signs of being unwell A frank account of long-term recovery from someone who runs the support charity Renewed permission inside the room to talk about mental health without flinching

Why organisations work with George King A first-hand account of decision-making at lethal stakes, not borrowed from sport or special forces analogy. King climbed The Shard at 19 without ropes; the consequence of error was death, not a missed target. A specific reframe of ADHD that audiences with neurodivergent colleagues or family members find usable. The argument is that hyperfocus and risk tolerance are trainable assets, not deficits the workplace must tolerate. Public credibility through the Channel 4 documentary “The Boy Who Climbed The Shard” and presenting work for the channel’s extreme sports output, which gives the booking immediate recognition with general audiences. A profile that travels well to younger and external-facing audiences: 1.6 million YouTube views on the documentary, an active public following, and a story that lands in the room before he speaks. Biography highlights First person to free-solo climb The Shard, July 2019, age 19. Subject of the 2020 Channel 4 documentary “The Boy Who Climbed The Shard”. Channel 4 presenter on extreme sports specials. Free-solo ascents of Lotte Tower, Seoul, and Stratosphere Tower, with BASE-jump descents. Featured in Time magazine, the Architects’ Journal, and Times Live. Speaks publicly about ADHD and fear management on platforms including the Minter Dial podcast. Biography In July 2019 a 19 year old climbed The Shard with no ropes, no safety equipment, and no permission. The ascent took 45 minutes. The legal aftermath took longer, ending in a custodial sentence at HMP Pentonville. George King was the climber, and the story is the foundation of every keynote he gives. What makes the talk useful to corporate audiences is not the climb itself but the preparation behind it. King describes fear as a system that can be trained, with named techniques he applies before each ascent: visualisation, breath control, and the specific mental routines that hold composure when the consequence of a mistake is fatal. The frame is recognisable to anyone who has briefed a board on a high-stakes decision, but the stakes are concrete rather than figurative. He also speaks openly about ADHD, which he treats as the cognitive asset that makes the climbs possible. His position is direct: hyperfocus, risk tolerance and pattern attention are not deficits requiring medication, they are trainable capabilities that produce performance when properly channelled. That argument has earned him a following among neurodivergent audiences and the parents and managers around them. King has presented two extreme sports specials for Channel 4 and was the subject of the channel’s 2020 documentary “The Boy Who Climbed The Shard”, which has passed 1.6 million views on YouTube. His climbs since The Shard include Lotte Tower in Seoul and the Stratosphere Tower, both with BASE-jump descents, and both covered in international press. Key speaking topics Fear management under high-consequence conditions ADHD and neurodiversity as performance Mental preparation and visualisation Risk assessment in extreme environments Resilience after public failure Peak performance Ideal for Internal employee events on neurodiversity and inclusion, particularly where the audience includes line managers of neurodivergent staff Sales kick-offs and motivational set-pieces where the brief is composure under pressure Youth-facing, education and apprentice audiences where reach and recognition matter as much as content Wellbeing and mental performance programmes looking for a non-clinical voice Audience outcomes A named set of techniques for managing fear before a high-stakes event, drawn directly from the climber’s own pre-ascent routine A reframe of ADHD that audiences can take back to neurodivergent colleagues, children or themselves A first-hand account of decision-making where the cost of error is final, useful as a reference point for less extreme corporate risk conversations A memorable headline story that gives the wider event a centrepiece audiences will retell

Why organisations work with George Kohlrieser He turns a literal high-stakes discipline into a leadership method. The negotiation techniques he teaches carry a documented 95% resolution rate in real hostage situations, and he shows leaders how the same bonding and dialogue skills resolve conflict in a boardroom. He gives leaders the “secure base” model: a tested account, grounded in attachment theory and neuroscience, of how a leader can provide both safety and challenge so that teams take risks instead of protecting themselves. He teaches the specific act most leaders avoid: naming a difficult issue out loud. His “put the fish on the table” approach gives executives a repeatable way to surface conflict before it rots a team from the inside. His authority is built on two decades of senior-executive teaching at IMD, where he created and still directs its flagship High Performance Leadership programme, not on a single book or talk. He works on the leader’s internal state first. His doctoral research on physiological recovery after high-stress events underpins practical methods for staying composed when a situation is escalating. Biography highlights Distinguished Professor of Leadership and Organizational Behaviour at IMD, Lausanne, and creator and director of its High Performance Leadership and Advanced High Performance Leadership programmes. Author of the international bestseller Hostage at the Table, winner of Best Business Book in France and Best Management Book in Germany, with a revised second edition published in 2025. Co-author of Care to Dare: Unleashing Astonishing Potential Through Secure Base Leadership, part of the Warren Bennis leadership series and named among Soundview’s best business books of 2013. Organizational and clinical psychologist with a doctorate from Ohio State University; veteran police psychologist and hostage negotiator taken hostage four times in the course of his work. Has trained the FBI, the Los Angeles Police and Sheriff’s Departments, and police academies in France, the Netherlands and Germany in crisis negotiation. Has worked with leaders in over 100 countries for clients including Cisco, Coca-Cola, IBM, Roche, Santander, Toyota and UBS; featured in the Wall Street Journal, the Economist, the Financial Times and Forbes. Biography Most leadership advice about conflict tells people to manage it. Kohlrieser’s career began somewhere far less comfortable: as a police psychologist and hostage negotiator who was himself taken hostage four times, once in a hospital emergency room and three times in homes during domestic violence calls. He came out of each by building a bond with the person holding him. That experience became the foundation of his work. At IMD in Lausanne, where he is Distinguished Professor of Leadership and Organizational Behaviour, he turned it into method. He created and still directs the school’s High Performance Leadership programme, an intensive course for senior executives, and built his teaching on a counterintuitive claim: hostage negotiators succeed roughly 95% of the time not by force but by forming a genuine connection with someone they have every reason to despise. The same capability, he argues, separates leaders who can challenge their teams from those who only pressure them. His books gave the method its structure. Hostage at the Table applies negotiation psychology to ordinary business conflict and won best-book awards in France and Germany. Care to Dare set out the “secure base” idea, drawn from attachment theory and neuroscience: a leader who provides both care and challenge frees people to take risks rather than protect themselves. The practical core is an act most executives dodge, what he calls putting the fish on the table, naming a difficult issue openly so it can be cleaned rather than left to rot. What gives the work its weight is the evidence behind the soft language. His doctoral research measured how law enforcement leaders physically recover after high-stress events, and that grounding in self-mastery runs through everything he teaches. He has trained the FBI and police academies across Europe, and advised leaders at Cisco, IBM, Roche and UBS in more than 100 countries, but the through-line is consistent: the hardest part of leadership is emotional, and it can be learned. Key speaking topics Conflict management and resolution Negotiation and influence under pressure Secure base leadership and trust High performance leadership and teams Self-mastery and composure in high-stress situations Leading through change and uncertainty Dialogue and high-impact communication Ideal for C-suite and senior executives responsible for leading teams through high-stakes or adversarial situations Leadership development and HPL-style executive programmes Boards and senior teams facing entrenched internal conflict or stalled negotiations CHROs and people leaders building trust and psychological safety as a performance lever Audience outcomes A working method for surfacing and resolving conflict instead of avoiding it Negotiation and bonding techniques drawn from real hostage situations, adapted for business relationships A clear model for becoming a “secure base” who combines care and challenge to lift team performance Practical ways to stay composed and make sound decisions when a situation is escalating A sharper read on how trust, emotion and dialogue drive results their teams will not deliver otherwise

Why organisations work with Georgia Harrison A first-hand voice on intimate image abuse with a direct line to legislative outcome. Her decision to waive anonymity during the Stephen Bear prosecution and her work with government produced amendments inside the Online Safety Act 2023, which is rare evidence of citizen campaigning translating into statute. Credibility with the people most affected. Harrison reaches young employees, customers, students and frontline staff in a register a senior policy speaker cannot match, which matters for internal wellbeing programmes, customer-facing safeguarding training and brand purpose work. Operational experience of consent and online safety campaigning. Named partnerships with Thames Valley Police (“Consent Conversations”) and Superdrug (“You before Yes”) give her a track record of building education programmes for adult and young-adult audiences. A working broadcaster and author on the subject. Her ITV documentaries Revenge Porn: Georgia vs Bear and Porn, Power, Profit, and her 2024 memoir Taking Back My Power, give the talk a body of public-facing work behind it rather than a single anecdote. A clear, current public profile. MBE recipient, BBC 100 Women 2023, Glamour Women of the Year 2023, which gives the booking external visibility and helps drive internal turnout. Biography highlights MBE awarded in the 2025 King’s Birthday Honours for services to the prevention of violence against women and girls and for campaigning on online privacy and cyber crime. First Love Island contestant to receive an MBE. Campaigning contributed to amendments to the Online Safety Act 2023 on intimate image abuse. Listed on BBC 100 Women 2023; Glamour Women of the Year 2023 (Activist Award). Author of Taking Back My Power (Dialogue / Hachette, 2024). Fronted ITV documentaries Revenge Porn: Georgia vs Bear (2023) and Georgia Harrison: Porn, Power, Profit (2025). Named campaigns with Thames Valley Police (“Consent Conversations”) and Superdrug (“You before Yes”); has interviewed Tony Blair, Sir Keir Starmer, Lord Hague and Sadiq Khan in policy interview work. Biography In December 2022 Stephen Bear was sentenced to 21 months in prison for voyeurism and for disclosing private sexual images. The complainant in that case had waived her anonymity to speak publicly. That decision turned a personal harm into the most-covered intimate image abuse prosecution in UK media and forced the issue out of the safeguarding column and into the policy column. The campaigning that followed contributed to amendments inside the Online Safety Act 2023, including the move away from requiring prosecutors to prove an intent to cause distress. That is a substantive legislative outcome traceable to one person’s public testimony and to sustained work with government, the Crown Prosecution Service stakeholders and victim groups. Georgia Harrison MBE has since built the public-facing apparatus around that work. Two ITV documentaries, Revenge Porn: Georgia vs Bear and Porn, Power, Profit, examined the legal and commercial mechanics of image-based abuse and the deepfake economy. Her 2024 memoir Taking Back My Power, published by Hachette’s Dialogue imprint, sets out the case story and the campaigning arc. Named partnerships with Thames Valley Police on consent education and with Superdrug on the “You before Yes” campaign extend the work into school and high-street audiences. For corporate buyers, the value is specific. Boards, HR teams and customer-facing brands are being asked to take positions on online safety, deepfakes and consent that they were not asked to take five years ago. Harrison brings a lived voice on those issues that policy expertise alone cannot supply, alongside the public profile of an MBE, a BBC 100 Women listing and a Glamour Women of the Year award. Key speaking topics Image-based sexual abuse and online safety Consent education and the workplace social contract Resilience after public trauma Reform of the Online Safety Act Deepfakes and the harms economy Personal advocacy and citizen campaigning Mental health and self-worth in the digital age Ideal for HR, DEI and wellbeing leads building internal programmes on online safety, consent and respect at work Customer-facing brands with young adult audiences (retail, telco, social platforms, education providers) Schools, universities and police forces commissioning consent and digital safety education Internal women’s networks, ERG events and International Women’s Day platforms Audience outcomes A clear account of how UK law on intimate image abuse changed and what is still unresolved A working vocabulary for talking about consent, image-based abuse and deepfakes inside an organisation A frank view of what online harm looks like from the receiving end, in language that lands with non-specialist audiences A direct example of how citizen advocacy turns into legislative change Renewed permission to take online safety seriously as a culture and wellbeing issue, not only a compliance one

Why organisations work with Georgia-Mae Fenton She has won the same individual event at consecutive Commonwealth Games, four years apart, the first gymnast in the discipline to do so. That is direct experience of defending a peak, which is harder than reaching one. Her team’s World Championship silver in Liverpool in 2022 was the best result by a British women’s artistic gymnastics team in the history of the World Championships. She can speak credibly to what changes inside a high-performing group at the moment the standard moves. She made her Olympic debut at Paris 2024 in her mid-twenties after several years of being the established figure in the squad. The arc is later than most assume, and that is the substance of her recovery and persistence material. East London based, comfortable in school, community and corporate audiences without changing register. Useful for organisations that want a high-profile athlete who reads the room. Biography highlights Commonwealth Games gold, uneven bars and team, Birmingham 2022. Commonwealth Games gold, uneven bars, Gold Coast 2018. World Championships silver, team, Liverpool 2022, with Great Britain. Team GB women’s artistic gymnastics, Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Trained from age five at South Essex Gymnastics Club; competes for Great Britain and England. Represented by Forte Model Management alongside her competitive career. Biography The uneven bars demand absolute composure inside an eight-second routine where one missed catch ends the competition. Georgia-Mae Fenton has stood on the top of the Commonwealth podium for that event twice, four years apart, in Gold Coast and Birmingham. That is a rare thing in any sport: holding a championship standard across a full Olympic cycle of injury risk, selection politics and shifting code requirements. The Liverpool World Championships in 2022 was the broader inflection point. Fenton was part of the five-woman Great Britain team that took silver, the strongest result a British women’s artistic gymnastics team has ever produced at a World Championship. That medal also booked the team’s quota place for Paris 2024. At Paris she made her Olympic debut as one of the more experienced figures in a young Team GB quintet that finished fourth, edged off the podium by Brazil in the final rotation. The arc from junior British champion at fifteen, to Commonwealth gold at seventeen, to Olympian at twenty-three, is the substance she draws on when she speaks about persistence and re-entry after long stretches of work with no obvious return. She works with corporate, school and community audiences from her base in East London. The material is grounded in what she has actually done: holding a routine when it counts, going back to the same event a second time after winning it once, and recovering form after the years when the medals do not come. Key speaking topics Composure under high-stakes performance pressure Defending a peak across long performance cycles Recovery and re-entry after setback Discipline and goal-setting in elite sport Team dynamics inside a high-performing squad Mental health and stress management for young performers Role models and visibility in women’s sport Ideal for Corporate audiences in sectors with high-pressure delivery cycles (sales, trading, professional services) HR and talent leaders programming on resilience, wellbeing and early-career performance Schools, universities and youth-facing organisations focused on aspiration and persistence Women’s networks and ERGs commissioning speakers on visibility in sport Audience outcomes A concrete view of what composure looks like inside an eight-second performance window, told by someone who has executed it on the world stage The mechanics of preparing to defend a title, which is different in kind from preparing to win one Honest material on the years when the medals do not come and the work continues A grounded perspective on managing public expectation as a young woman in elite sport

Why organisations work with Gerald Ratner His name is embedded in the business lexicon. “Doing a Ratner” is not a metaphor; it is a documented event with a verified cost of £500m, which organisations reference every time a leader’s words threaten to become the story. He provides the only first-person account of what happens inside a catastrophic, self-inflicted reputational collapse; not from a crisis consultancy, but from the person who caused it, survived it, and rebuilt from it. His growth story stands independently of the fall. Taking Ratners Group from 130 stores and £13m in sales to 2,500 stores and over £1.2bn in turnover is a concrete case study in scaling a mass-market brand in a staid, elitist industry. He demonstrates that commercial credibility can be rebuilt without institutional support. The health club sold for £3.9m and GeraldOnline’s subsequent emergence as the UK’s largest online jewellery business were both built after banks had refused to back him. His 2007 autobiography “The Rise and Fall…and Rise Again,” reviewed in the Financial Times and serialised in the Sunday Times, gives audiences a structured, honest account rather than the selective narrative most comeback stories rely on. Biography highlights CEO and Chairman of Ratners Group, built into the world’s largest jewellery retailer, with 2,500 stores and annual sales exceeding £1.2bn by 1990 April 1991 speech at the Institute of Directors conference, Royal Albert Hall: a single remark wiped approximately £500m from the company’s market value The phrase “doing a Ratner” entered the English business vocabulary as a term for self-inflicted reputational damage; referenced in media, business schools, and boardroom conversations worldwide Author of “The Rise and Fall…and Rise Again” (Capstone/Wiley, 2007), serialised in the Sunday Times and reviewed in the Financial Times and Management Today Founded GeraldOnline in 2003, which became the UK’s largest online jewellery business Ranked first in The Sun’s published list of the 50 biggest business mistakes of all time Biography Most leaders know that reputation is fragile. Few have experienced, in precisely documented financial terms, exactly how fast it can go. In April 1991, a single off-the-cuff remark at the Institute of Directors annual conference at the Royal Albert Hall wiped £500m from Ratners Group within days. Gerald Ratner had built that company. He joined the family jewellery business in 1966 and, within two decades, grew it to 2,500 stores and over £1.2bn in annual sales, including H. Samuel, Ernest Jones, Watches of Switzerland, and more than a thousand stores in the United States. It was the world’s largest jewellery retailer. He was dismissed as CEO in November 1992. The company renamed itself Signet Group and expunged his name. What followed is the more instructive half of the account. After bankruptcy and a period of professional isolation, Ratner financed a health club in Henley-on-Thames against his home, sold it for £3.9m, and used the proceeds to launch GeraldOnline, a name forced on him because his former company blocked him from trading under his own. It became the UK’s largest online jewellery business. His 2007 autobiography, “The Rise and Fall…and Rise Again,” published by Capstone/Wiley and serialised in the Sunday Times, set out the full arc without omission. The phrase “doing a Ratner” now circulates in business schools and boardrooms internationally. It captures what happens when a leader’s offhand candour meets public trust at scale. Ratner is the only person who can speak to it from inside all three moments: the building, the collapse, and the recovery. Key speaking topics Reputational risk and crisis leadership Resilience and recovery after catastrophic failure Brand trust and the consequences of leadership communication Retail growth and mass-market brand building Entrepreneurship after failure Organisational crisis and business survival Ideal for Executive and senior leadership conferences where reputational risk, crisis management, or communication under pressure are on the agenda CHRO and L&D audiences focused on building genuine resilience culture, rather than frameworks without lived experience behind them Business award dinners, gala events, and after-dinner occasions where a high-recognition, self-deprecating narrative sets the tone Entrepreneurship and business growth forums where the full cycle of building, losing, and rebuilding a commercial enterprise is directly relevant Audience outcomes A concrete, real-world illustration of how quickly a leader’s words can overtake the reputation of an organisation they have spent years building An honest account of what recovery from professional catastrophe looks like in practice – including the financial, psychological, and strategic dimensions A sharper instinct for the gap between what leaders say internally and how public statements land with customers and markets Practical perspective on rebuilding commercial credibility without institutional backing, drawn from two separate comebacks in the same industry A reference story they will use – the “Ratner effect” framework is already in common use; hearing it directly sharpens how teams apply it

Why organisations work with Giancarlo Fisichella Rare double credential: three Formula One Grand Prix wins across 14 seasons and two LMGTE Pro class victories at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Very few speakers have won at the front of both disciplines. First-hand experience of seven F1 constructors, from Minardi at the back of the grid to Ferrari, which gives a practical read on how resources, culture and leadership translate into on-track performance. Lived the shift from single-lap qualifying to 24-hour endurance racing, which makes him useful for audiences thinking about short-cycle intensity and long-cycle stamina in the same business. Delivers talks in English and Italian, which widens his reach for automotive, engineering and industrial audiences across Europe. Still an active Ferrari Competizioni GT ambassador, so his material is current rather than retrospective. Biography highlights 229 Formula One starts, three Grand Prix victories, four pole positions, 19 podium finishes between 1996 and 2009. F1 race wins at Brazil 2003 (Jordan), Australia 2005 (Renault) and Malaysia 2006 (Renault). Contributed to Renault’s back-to-back Constructors’ Championships in 2005 and 2006; career-best fourth in the 2006 Drivers’ Championship. Drove Force India to its first pole position and first podium at the 2009 Belgian Grand Prix. Two LMGTE Pro class wins at the 24 Hours of Le Mans (2012 and 2014) with AF Corse, partnered with Gianmaria Bruni and Toni Vilander. Ambassador Driver for Ferrari Competizioni GT and founder of Fisichella Motor Sport, which competed in GP2 from 2006 to 2009. Biography Formula One teams are built on thousands of decisions that never reach a television screen. The lap time is the visible output. Giancarlo Fisichella spent fourteen seasons inside that machine across seven different constructors, which is an unusually wide sample of how high-performance organisations actually operate. He won his first Grand Prix at Interlagos in 2003, in a Jordan, after a five-day timekeeping review handed him a result that had initially gone to someone else. Two further wins followed at Renault in 2005 and 2006, alongside Fernando Alonso, during the period when the team took consecutive Constructors’ Championships. At Force India in 2009 he delivered the team’s first pole and podium, at Spa, in a car that had been at the back of the field a year earlier. The second act has been Ferrari GT machinery at endurance level. He has twice won the LMGTE Pro class at the 24 Hours of Le Mans with AF Corse, in 2012 and 2014, with Gianmaria Bruni and Toni Vilander. He remains an Ambassador Driver for Ferrari Competizioni GT, which keeps his point of view current rather than nostalgic. The useful material for a business audience is what sits underneath those results: how a driver and a team stay honest about performance when a rival is faster, how trust inside a small group gets built over a season, and what happens to confidence when the car or the circumstances turn against you. Fisichella has lived all three, at the Minardi end of the grid and at the front with Renault and Ferrari. Key speaking topics Formula One and elite motorsport performance Competing under pressure at decisive moments Team dynamics in high-performance environments Endurance racing and long-cycle competition Recovery after setbacks and results loss Italian motorsport and the Ferrari Competizioni GT programme Ideal for Automotive, engineering and industrial audiences planning leadership offsites Sales and commercial teams operating in competitive, measurable environments Corporate events with an Italian or European audience where bilingual delivery is valuable Boards and leadership teams examining how elite teams sustain performance across multi-year cycles Audience outcomes A concrete view of how F1 teams prepare for decisive moments and what that looks like away from the racetrack A sharper sense of the difference between short-cycle intensity, such as a qualifying lap, and long-cycle stamina, such as a 24-hour race Specific examples of how trust is built inside a small, high-pressure team across a season A first-hand account of winning and losing at the highest level of a sport where margins are tenths of a second

Why organisations work with Gina Miller She has personally tested the limits of UK executive power in court, twice, and can speak about constitutional risk with first-hand authority rather than as a commentator. Her financial services work through SCM Direct and the True and Fair Campaign gives her a working operator’s view of regulation, fees, disclosure, and ESG claims, not a policy abstraction. She brings a credible read on the political conditions that shape regulation in the UK, including how parties form, how reform agendas are built, and where the system is fragile. She speaks from sustained personal exposure to public hostility and threat, which gives her a serious frame on resilience and on the personal cost of institutional accountability. Biography highlights Lead claimant in R (Miller) v Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union [2017] UKSC 5, the case that required parliamentary authorisation to trigger Article 50. Lead claimant in R (Miller) v The Prime Minister [2019] UKSC 41, the prorogation case decided unanimously by eleven Supreme Court justices. Co-founder of SCM Direct, an investment management firm launched in 2009, and co-founder of the True and Fair Campaign in 2012. Founder and leader of the True and Fair Party, launched January 2022. Author of Rise: Life Lessons in Speaking Out, Standing Tall and Leading the Way (Canongate, 2018), co-written with Elizabeth Day. Global Ambassador for Peace, The Tutu Foundation UK; recipient of the Harper’s Bazaar Campaigner of the Year 2018 and Vanity Fair Challenger Award 2021. Biography The two Miller cases sit at the centre of modern UK constitutional law. The first, decided by the Supreme Court in 2017, required parliamentary authorisation before the government could trigger Article 50. The second, decided unanimously by eleven justices in 2019, found the prorogation of Parliament unlawful. Both cases were brought by Gina Miller as lead claimant. That record gives her an unusual vantage point on political risk. She has watched executive power, parliamentary sovereignty and judicial review meet under live conditions, and she has been on the receiving end of the political and personal consequences. For boards thinking about regulatory exposure, lobbying conduct, and the durability of the institutions they rely on, her perspective is operational rather than theoretical. Her commercial career runs in parallel. With Alan Miller, she co-founded SCM Direct in 2009 and the True and Fair Campaign in 2012, pressing the investment industry on hidden fees, closet index tracking and, more recently, greenwashing in ESG products. In January 2022 she launched the True and Fair Party, built around a written constitution, parliamentary accountability and reform of how public money is spent. She is the author of Rise, published by Canongate in 2018 and co-written with Elizabeth Day, and serves as Global Ambassador for Peace with The Tutu Foundation UK. Awards include Harper’s Bazaar Campaigner of the Year 2018, PSA Political Campaigner of the Year 2017, and the Vanity Fair Challenger Award 2021. Key speaking topics UK constitutional law and parliamentary sovereignty Political and regulatory risk for boards Financial services reform and investor protection Transparency in fees, fund disclosure and ESG claims Trust, accountability and the conduct of public office Resilience under sustained public hostility Women, leadership and visibility in public life Ideal for Boards and risk committees stress-testing exposure to political, regulatory and constitutional change Asset managers, pension trustees and financial services leaders facing disclosure and ESG scrutiny General counsel and public affairs leads tracking the boundary between executive action and parliamentary process Leadership and women’s network audiences interested in serious accounts of public exposure and recovery Audience outcomes A clearer read on how UK constitutional rules actually constrain executive decisions, and where they do not A working sense of how transparency, fees and ESG claims are being tested by regulators and campaigners A direct account of what it costs personally to challenge institutional power, and what it teaches about resilience A sharper view of how reform agendas form, gain traction or fail in UK political life