Resilience & Stress Management

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 Bowen An eight-year international career in one of the most physically and selectively demanding squad environments in elite sport, drawn on for what it teaches about standards inside a small team. A first-hand account of being named Olympic reserve for Tokyo 2020 and not getting on the field, used to talk about preparation, selection, and disappointment in terms a senior team will recognise. Direct experience competing for England at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games and the 2022 Rugby World Cup Sevens in Cape Town, alongside more than fifty World Rugby Sevens Series tournaments. A speaker pitched at the practical mechanics of teamwork and pressure, not a celebrity sports billing. Biography highlights Former England Sevens international made debut in October 2014 on the Gold Coast, Australia. Reserve in the Great Britain Rugby Sevens squad for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Selected for England at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games and the 2022 Rugby World Cup Sevens in Cape Town. Joined Plymouth Albion in 2012 from Leicester Tigers; top try-scorer for Plymouth Albion in 2013-14 and twice the club’s young player of the season. More than 50 tournaments for England on the World Rugby Sevens Series; signed for Worthing RFC in 2022. Biography A reserve player at the Olympics trains the same hours as the squad, makes the same sacrifices, and watches the tournament from the side of the pitch. Bowen sat in that seat at Tokyo 2020. The talk that comes out of it is less about the moment and more about the years before it: the eight-season England Sevens cycle that put him there. His club path runs through Leicester Tigers and Plymouth Albion, where he switched from centre to wing, scored six tries in his first eighteen RFU Championship appearances, and was named the club’s young player of the season twice in succession. He became Plymouth’s top try-scorer in 2013-14 before the England Sevens debut in October 2014. The international record is the substance of the booking. Fifty-plus tournaments on the World Rugby Sevens Series, the GB Olympic squad in Tokyo, England, at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, and the Rugby World Cup Sevens in Cape Town the same year. Sevens is a short, high-density format where small mistakes are decisive; the lessons travel reasonably well into corporate teams that work in short cycles under scrutiny. What he brings to a room is a working account of how a small group sustains its standards over a long competitive arc, including the years that do not produce a medal. He signed for Worthing RFC in 2022 and continues to coach. Key speaking topics Performance under pressure Team standards in elite sport Resilience after setback Selection, disappointment and recovery Teamwork in short-cycle, high-stakes environments Motivation and confidence Ideal for Sales and commercial leadership conferences focused on team performance and pressure Internal team away-days where leaders want a credible outside voice on standards and culture Early-career and high-potential audiences inside large organisations Audience outcomes A usable reference point for what disciplined, daily standards look like in an elite team environment A grounded view of what it means to prepare fully for an outcome that does not arrive Language for talking about pressure that goes beyond motivation and into specific habits Renewed focus on the role of small-team behaviours in larger organisational performance

Why organisations work with Tobias Lynes He works from one named behavioural model, the Tiny Habits® method developed at Stanford by BJ Fogg, rather than a buffet of wellbeing content. Audiences leave with a single mechanic they can apply on Monday. His content is built around the B=MAP equation, giving managers and HR teams a shared vocabulary for why wellbeing interventions fail when they target motivation alone. He frames fitness, nutrition, and energy as habit design problems for time-poor professionals, which lands better with sceptical corporate audiences than aspirational lifestyle messaging. He has run the coaching business he draws his material from since 2020, so the stories are first-hand client work, not borrowed case studies. Biography highlights Founder of 360Coaching, an online coaching business serving busy professionals. Tiny Habits® Certified Coach, trained in the methodology developed by BJ Fogg at the Stanford Behavior Design Lab. Works from the B=MAP model (Behaviour = Motivation, Ability, Prompt) as the core analytical frame for his keynotes. Personal training and coaching practitioner since 2015. Speaks at corporate wellbeing events, leadership offsites, and education settings, virtually and in person. Biography Most corporate wellbeing initiatives fail at the same point. People sign up in January, drift in February, and the programme quietly disappears by spring. The reason is not lack of motivation. It is that the behaviours being asked for are too large, too vague, or unhooked from anything already happening in the day. Tiny Habits, the method developed by BJ Fogg at the Stanford Behavior Design Lab, was built to fix exactly that problem. Its underlying equation, B=MAP, treats behaviour as the product of motivation, ability, and a clear prompt. When a habit does not stick, one of those three variables is wrong. Tobias Lynes is a certified coach in that method and uses it as the spine of his work with corporate audiences. He runs 360Coaching, the practice he founded in 2020 after several years as a personal trainer. The business focuses on busy professionals trying to manage body composition, energy, and nutrition inside a demanding work life. That client base shapes the keynote material: the failure modes he names are the ones HR teams already see, and the remedies are calibrated for people who cannot add another hour to their day. His commercial range is mid-market corporate wellbeing rather than senior leadership platforms. The value he gives audiences is narrow and specific. One framework, applied well, with a vocabulary leaders and managers can use after he leaves the room. Key speaking topics Habit formation and behaviour change in the workplace The Tiny Habits® method and the B=MAP model Sustainable approaches to employee health and wellbeing Energy, nutrition, and fitness habits for busy professionals Why corporate wellbeing programmes fail to stick Building resilience through small daily behaviours Ideal for HR, People, and wellbeing leads designing employee health initiatives Corporate wellbeing weeks, mental health awareness events, and team offsites Leadership groups looking for practical behavioural tools rather than aspirational content Education and early-career audiences building work-readiness habits Audience outcomes A working understanding of the B=MAP behavioural equation and how to apply it to a personal or team habit A method for designing a habit that is small enough to survive a bad week A frame for diagnosing why an existing wellbeing programme is failing A shared vocabulary HR and managers can use to talk about behaviour change after the session

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

Why organisations work with Stef Reid A medal record, not a metaphor: triple Paralympic medallist, 2017 long jump world champion and five-time world record holder, with 18 years of evidence on what holds performance together when conditions change. Sharp specificity on the moment after the plan fails. Her material is built around what teams actually do in the hours and weeks after a setback, not the rhetoric of bouncing back. A working argument on inclusion that does not collapse into compliance language. Reid speaks about disability and difference as performance variables, drawing on her TEDxLondonWomen talk on accessible design and her public campaign that pushed Nike on single-shoe retail for amputee customers. Boardroom credibility built outside the speaking circuit: Vice President of British Athletics, broadcaster for Channel 4 and the BBC, MBE for services to Paralympic sport. Clients including BP, Sky, Bloomberg, Visa, McLaren, Barclays and Procter & Gamble, where the brief was leadership under pressure, not an inspirational set piece. Biography highlights Triple Paralympic medallist (Beijing 2008, London 2012, Rio 2016) and 2017 World Para Athletics long jump champion. MBE, 2018 New Year Honours, for services to Paralympic sport. Biochemistry graduate, Queen’s University, Kingston, on a full academic scholarship. Vice President of British Athletics and The Leprosy Mission UK; ambassador for London Air Ambulance and British Ice Skating. Broadcaster across Channel 4, BBC and CBC, including the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics, the Invictus Games and the 2025 World Athletics Championships; Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Sports Host. TEDxLondonWomen speaker on accessible design; first British amputee to walk a London Fashion Week catwalk. Biography A boating accident at fifteen ended one version of Reid’s life and made the next one a question of design rather than recovery. The medical answer was amputation. The harder question, asked over the eighteen years that followed, was how to build a system, training, mindset, team, that turned a body operating under new constraints into one capable of winning at the highest level of world sport. She did. Three Paralympic medals across Beijing, London and Rio. A world long jump title in 2017. Five world records. An MBE in 2018 for services to Paralympic sport. The proof points sit on a single shelf, but the content she now brings to senior audiences sits underneath them, in the specific habits and decisions that allowed an athlete to keep performing through injury, classification changes and the routine collapse of plans. That material translates because organisations face the same problem in a different vocabulary. Reid works with leadership teams on the practical question of what high-performing groups actually do in the moment a strategy stops describing reality. Her talks for BP, Sky, Bloomberg, Visa, McLaren, Barclays and Procter & Gamble take the same arc, with frameworks built from elite sport science and her own career, not from generic motivational structure. The second strand of her work is inclusion as a performance question. Her TEDxLondonWomen talk argued that accessible design serves everyone, not a category. Her public campaign pressing Nike to sell single shoes to amputee customers made the same point in retail terms. As a broadcaster for Channel 4, the BBC and CBC, and as Vice President of British Athletics, she carries that argument into rooms where DEI language has otherwise lost its edge. Key speaking topics Adaptive mindset and team performance under pressure Resilience and recovery after setback High performance habits in elite sport and business Inclusion and disability as performance variables Mental health and sustained excellence Diversity as a competitive lever, not a compliance line Ideal for Senior leadership teams entering restructure, integration or a period of sustained pressure DEI, talent and culture leads briefing the board on inclusion as capability rather than reporting High-performing commercial, sales and trading teams operating under volatility Sales kick-offs, leadership offsites and all-hands moments where the audience needs a credible voice on adapting when the plan stops working Audience outcomes A clearer view of what a team’s actual response to setback says about its performance ceiling Practical habits drawn from elite-sport preparation that translate to operating decisions under pressure A sharper, less political vocabulary for inclusion that frames difference as a performance variable Renewed conviction at senior level that adaptive capacity is a leadership skill, not a personality trait

Why organisations work with Nick Hendrix A recognisable face from one of ITV’s longest-running primetime dramas, which gives award ceremonies, gala dinners and brand events an immediate sense of occasion. Live theatre training at RADA and on West End stages, which translates directly into clean autocue delivery, audience reading and recovery when an agenda slips. Comfort across formats: scripted keynote interview, awards script, panel moderation and after-dinner. The same person can run the evening end to end without a second host. A second professional life as an automotive journalist for the Financial Times’ How To Spend It, Square Mile and SPEARS, with brand work for Ferrari, Lamborghini, Porsche, McLaren and Mercedes. Useful for luxury, automotive and lifestyle audiences. A substantive talk on confidence, rejection and sustaining performance through career volatility, available when the brief calls for content beyond hosting. Biography highlights RADA-trained actor, BA in acting, 2010, following a BA in drama from the University of Exeter. Plays DS Jamie Winter in ITV’s Midsomer Murders, his ongoing role since 2016. Stage credits include male lead Prince Digby in The Light Princess at the Royal National Theatre, plus work at The Old Vic and West End productions including What The Butler Saw at the Vaudeville. Film credits include Captain America: The First Avenger, Suffragette, Legend and Red Tails. Television credits include The Crown, Black Mirror, Call the Midwife, Foyle’s War, Silk and Marcella. Co-founder of DRIVEN, an automotive journalism company, with bylines in the Financial Times’ How To Spend It, Square Mile and SPEARS, and commercial work with Ferrari, Lamborghini, Porsche, McLaren and Mercedes. Biography A working actor’s career is built on repeated rejection. For every part won there are dozens lost, and the craft of staying available, composed and credible across that volatility is closer to a corporate audience’s daily reality than it first appears. Hendrix has spent thirteen years inside that discipline, on a primetime ITV set, on West End stages, and in front of live audiences who give no second chances. Trained at RADA after a drama degree at Exeter, he has played DS Jamie Winter in ITV’s Midsomer Murders since 2016, alongside stage work at the National, The Old Vic and the West End. Screen credits include Captain America: The First Avenger, Suffragette, Legend, The Crown and Black Mirror. The body of work is broad enough to give an event audience an immediate point of recognition. A second career runs in parallel. Hendrix co-founded DRIVEN, an automotive journalism venture, and writes for the Financial Times’ How To Spend It, Square Mile and SPEARS. That work has produced commercial relationships with Ferrari, Lamborghini, Porsche, McLaren and Mercedes, which gives him a working fluency with luxury, automotive and lifestyle brand audiences that few hosts can match. On stage at an event he leans on the obvious tools of his trade: a trained voice, accurate scripted delivery, a feel for pace and a willingness to improvise when an agenda moves. When the brief is content rather than hosting, his subject is the practical economy of confidence and resilience inside a career that has no fixed salary or guaranteed next job. Key speaking topics Awards hosting and event mastering of ceremonies Panel moderation and on-stage interviewing Confidence and performance under pressure Mental health and wellbeing in volatile careers Resilience through repeated rejection Luxury automotive and lifestyle brand engagement Ideal for Awards ceremonies, gala dinners and brand events that need a recognisable on-camera host Marketing, communications and brand teams in luxury, automotive and lifestyle sectors Conference programmes that need a polished panel moderator across the day Employee experience and wellbeing programmes looking for a recognisable, non-clinical voice on confidence and pressure Audience outcomes A clearly run evening or conference day, with an autocue-fluent host who keeps time and recovers cleanly when things move A concrete account of how performers manage live-performance pressure, told without self-help framing A working perspective on confidence as a trained habit, not a personality trait A relevant cultural reference point for luxury, automotive and lifestyle brand audiences

Why organisations work with Bonita Norris Her “Focus Not Fret” framework gives teams a specific, repeatable mechanism for redirecting attention under pressure, from what cannot be controlled to what can. Clients at Google and Alpine cite it by name as something still in use after the event. Her trajectory from complete novice to holder of two world records in three years is structurally identical to the challenge organisations face when asking teams to achieve stretch goals from a standing start, which is why the analogy lands rather than simply inspiring. The “Data Over Dogma” keynote reframes the 1953 Everest ascent as a triumph of scientific evidence over institutional resistance, creating a bridge to data and AI audiences that most expedition speakers cannot credibly make. She is the first British woman to summit Lhotse, the world’s fourth-highest mountain: a credential that goes beyond Everest and signals sustained, multi-year commitment to extreme performance, not a single peak. Winner of Best Speaker Storyteller at The Speaker Awards 2024, with verified feedback from organisations across financial services, technology, FMCG, and professional services, not a single sector cohort. Biography highlights Youngest British woman to summit Everest (2010); youngest person to reach both the summit of Everest and the North Pole First British woman to summit Lhotse, the world’s fourth-highest mountain (2012) Attempted to become the first British woman to climb K2, widely regarded as the world’s most dangerous mountain Author of The Girl Who Climbed Everest (Hodder & Stoughton, 2017); Amazon No. 1 in mountaineering and adventure (2022) Winner, Best Speaker Storyteller, The Speaker Awards 2024 Appearances on BBC News, ITV’s Lorraine, and BBC World Service; featured on HSBC’s Power Up Your Goals podcast (2024) Biography The question most organisations ask after a high-pressure failure is: what went wrong with the plan? The harder question and the more useful one is: what went wrong with the mindset? Bonita Norris has spent fifteen years developing a practical answer. She began climbing at twenty, having never touched a mountain. Two years later she stood on the summit of Everest, the youngest British woman to do so. A year after that she reached the North Pole, becoming the youngest person to hold both records simultaneously. None of it was the product of innate talent. It was the product of a specific way of managing fear, uncertainty, and the pressure of stretch goals: principles she has since codified and delivered in more than 650 corporate engagements worldwide. Her framework centres on three named concepts: “Success by Smallness”: the principle that ambitious goals are won through consistent, process-driven small actions; “Mountains of the Mind”: the argument that the limiting factor is almost always cognitive, not physical; and “Focus Not Fret”: a tool for redirecting attention from what is uncontrollable to what is actionable. These are not metaphors. They are structures that clients at Google, Clifford Chance, BlackRock, and Microsoft have applied directly. Her memoir, The Girl Who Climbed Everest, published in 2017, reached No. 1 on Amazon’s mountaineering and adventure chart in 2022. In 2024 she was awarded Best Speaker Storyteller at The Speaker Awards, recognition grounded in a consistent record of audience engagement across industries, not a single standout performance. Key speaking topics Resilience and mindset under pressure High performance in high-stakes environments Goal-setting and stretch ambition Overcoming fear and cognitive limitation Team cohesion and shared-goal culture Marginal gains and process-driven performance Data, evidence, and overcoming institutional resistance to change Ideal for Senior leadership teams navigating high-pressure transformation or uncertainty Sales and commercial organisations working toward stretch targets CHROs and L&D leads designing resilience or performance programmes All-hands and conference audiences where cross-functional alignment and shared motivation are the goal Audience outcomes A named, portable framework – “Focus Not Fret” – for managing attention and decision-making under pressure Clearer understanding of why ambitious goals fail at the mindset level, and what specifically to do about it A reframed relationship with failure: practical insight into how mistakes accelerate rather than derail progress Greater awareness of how small, consistent actions – not heroic moments – produce exceptional results over time A shared reference point for team culture conversations around resilience, ambition, and collective performance

Why organisations work with Karl Dickson He has refereed at the level where every call is reviewed in slow motion by millions, including the 2023 Rugby World Cup final on the touchline, and translates that into how leaders hold a decision when it is being second-guessed in real time. He brings a rare dual perspective: a Premiership winner with Harlequins and a current PGMOT international official, so he can speak credibly to both the player under instruction and the official making the call. His material on communication is grounded in a discipline where being unclear costs you the room within seconds, useful for executives whose audiences increasingly behave the same way. He addresses public mistakes head-on. Refereeing offers no place to hide a wrong decision, and the recovery skill he teaches is directly applicable to leadership populations who fear visible error. Biography highlights 169 appearances for Harlequins as a scrum-half between 2009 and 2017 Replacement in the 2011 to 2012 Premiership final, won by Harlequins against Leicester Tigers Called into the senior England squad during the 2012 Six Nations and South Africa tour Member of the RFU Professional Game Match Officials Team since 2017 Quarter-final referee at Rugby World Cup 2023 (Wales v Argentina) and assistant referee for the final (South Africa v New Zealand) Six Nations referee, including the opening fixture of the 2024 Championship (France v Ireland) Biography Most leadership content treats decision-making under pressure as a mindset. In elite refereeing it is a practised skill, made under load, on camera, with no opportunity to consult, and with the entire stadium reacting before the decision has finished being made. Karl Dickson works at exactly that level. He refereed a Rugby World Cup quarter-final in 2023 and stood as assistant referee in the final between South Africa and New Zealand. He arrived at officiating from inside the game. Eight seasons at Harlequins, 169 appearances as a scrum-half, and a Premiership title in 2012 give him a player’s reading of the moment. England squad call-ups in 2012 and a near-cap mark the upper edge of that career. Few officials at his level have lived the other side of the decision so recently. His speaking work draws directly from that dual experience. He talks about the discipline of being decisive when the right answer is not yet obvious, the communication craft of holding a room of thirty professional athletes to a call they disagree with, and the recovery skill required when the replay shows you were wrong. Those are not metaphors for leadership. They are the same problems senior teams face when a market moves, a stakeholder pushes back, or a strategy turns out to have been mistimed. What he gives a corporate audience is a working operator’s view of public judgement. Premiership and Six Nations seasons run year-round; the 2024 Six Nations opener, France v Ireland in Marseille, was his. He is not retired. He is mid-career at the top of his sport, and the material is current. Key speaking topics Decision-making under pressure Communication in high-stakes environments Composure and confidence in public roles Resilience after visible mistakes High-performance team dynamics Leadership lessons from elite sport Ideal for Senior leadership teams preparing for high-scrutiny moments: results announcements, regulatory hearings, restructure communications Sales, customer-facing, and front-line management populations whose decisions are visible and contested Executive development programmes focused on judgement, communication, and presence Annual conferences where the audience benefits from a credible voice on pressure and recovery Audience outcomes A clearer picture of what trained composure looks like, drawn from a domain where it is a job requirement Practical communication discipline for moments when an audience is sceptical, hostile, or impatient A more honest framework for handling visible mistakes, separating the error from the recovery Renewed confidence that decisiveness can be developed, not just born into

Why organisations work with James Lang He brings live, professional rugby experience of operating at fly-half, the position responsible for in-game decisions under crowd noise, time pressure, and immediate consequences. That is a useful analogue for senior teams that have to make calls quickly in front of an audience. His career spans Harlequins (79 senior appearances) and Edinburgh Rugby in the United Rugby Championship, with six Scotland caps. The credentials are specific, verifiable, and current. He works in concrete language: setbacks, dropped balls, missed kicks, recovery between phases. Audiences leave with examples, not generic motivation. Useful for sessions where the buyer wants athlete-translated content on pressure and team trust rather than a corporate leadership lecture. Biography highlights Senior debut for Scotland against Canada in Edmonton, 9 June 2018, starting at inside centre in a 48-10 win. Six caps for Scotland between 2018 and 2021. 79 senior appearances for Harlequins between 2016 and 2021. Signed for Edinburgh Rugby in 2021, playing in the United Rugby Championship. Early career with Welsh side Rygbi Gogledd Cymru (RGC1404) before returning to the Harlequins academy. Educated at St Mary’s University and Bangor University. Biography Fly-half is the most exposed position on a rugby pitch. Every decision is public, every kick is counted, and recovery has to happen between phases of play. Lang has spent his senior career in that role, including a Scotland debut against Canada in Edmonton in June 2018 and 79 senior appearances for Harlequins before signing for Edinburgh Rugby in 2021. His route to professional rugby is itself part of the content. He left the Harlequins schoolboy programme for Welsh side Rygbi Gogledd Cymru as a teenager, then returned to the Harlequins academy in 2016. The detour gave him competitive minutes that more conventional pathways do not provide, and it shapes how he talks about non-linear progression. On stage he focuses on the practical mechanics of pressure performance: preparation routines, handling mistakes mid-game, and the team trust that holds when results do not. The reference points are specific moments in named matches, which makes the content useful for internal team sessions, sales kick-offs, and events where the brief is high performance and recovery rather than strategic leadership. The honest framing for a buyer: this is athlete-experience content. It is most powerful when the room wants a credible voice on composure and team dynamics, paired with substantive business speakers for the strategic agenda. Key speaking topics Performance under pressure Team trust and collaboration Resilience and recovery from setbacks Self-motivation and elite habits Leadership in high-stakes moments Adversity and non-linear careers Ideal for Sales kick-offs and internal team conferences seeking an athlete’s voice on pressure and recovery. People and culture events focused on team trust and collaboration. Talent and graduate development programmes covering early-career resilience and non-linear progression. Audience outcomes A concrete picture of how elite athletes train composure rather than rely on it. Specific examples of recovery routines used between high-pressure moments. Language for talking about team trust that holds when results turn negative. A useful contrast between athlete preparation habits and typical corporate working patterns.

Why organisations work with Jack McMullen A working actor on a major Apple TV+ and BBC One drama slate, speaking from a career that has run continuously since age ten on the practical mechanics of performing under pressure. Two British Soap Awards as a teenager, including Best Newcomer for Brookside, give him a specific story about early-career exposure, public scrutiny, and recovering from the dip that follows. Mental health and wellbeing content rooted in lived experience of the acting industry, where rejection, instability, and visibility are constant. Reaches audiences that resist clinical or corporate framings. Comfortable as host as well as keynote speaker, useful for awards evenings, leadership retreats, and internal events that need a credible presenter rather than an MC for hire. Biography highlights Two British Soap Awards for Brookside (Channel 4): Best Newcomer and Best On-Screen Partnership with Sarah White. Long-running BBC roles as Tigger Johnson in Grange Hill and Finn Sharkey in Waterloo Road. Feature film Ford v Ferrari / Le Mans ’66 with Matt Damon and Christian Bale. BBC One’s prison drama Time alongside Sean Bean and Stephen Graham. Apple TV+ thriller Hijack opposite Idris Elba. Lead role as Jamie Phelan in BBC One’s This City Is Ours. Biography A career that begins on screen at ten and continues through a person’s mid-thirties is unusual in any industry. Jack McMullen made his television debut on Channel 4’s Brookside in 2002 and won two British Soap Awards before he had left school, including Best Newcomer and Best On-Screen Partnership. The years that followed are the material most working actors talk about least: long stretches of auditions, regional theatre, day-player roles on Casualty, Doctors, and The Bill, alongside a long-running BBC contract as Tigger Johnson in Grange Hill and Finn Sharkey in Waterloo Road. The work was constant. The visibility was not. The latter part of his career has been a steady move into prestige drama. Ford v Ferrari with Matt Damon and Christian Bale; BBC One’s Time opposite Sean Bean and Stephen Graham; Apple TV+’s Hijack with Idris Elba; the lead role of Jamie Phelan in BBC One’s This City Is Ours. His speaking work draws on the operating discipline that sits behind that arc, the mechanics of preparation, the management of nerves and rejection, and the practical experience of staying useful in a profession where most people do not. Where his content is most useful to organisations is in audiences that have stopped responding to standard wellbeing language. He is a working performer, not a coach with a model, and the credibility of what he says comes from the fact that he is still doing the work. Key speaking topics Performance under pressure Confidence in high-visibility roles Mental health and wellbeing in performance careers Resilience after early success Motivation and personal discipline Storytelling and business communication Ideal for Internal conferences and away days where audiences have grown tired of corporate wellbeing framings Awards evenings and leadership retreats needing a credible host as well as a speaker Sales, trading, and client-facing teams operating in high-pressure, high-visibility environments Early-career and graduate audiences navigating exposure and rejection Audience outcomes A specific account of how working performers manage nerves, rejection, and exposure across a long career Language for talking about pressure and mental health that audiences who resist clinical framings will engage with A clearer view of confidence as a practised behaviour, not a personality trait An honest perspective on what sustained career performance actually requires when the visibility is uneven

Why organisations work with Jack Burnell He speaks from the inside of a public failure most leaders only read about: disqualified at Rio 2016 on the finish line, then open about the nightmares and depression that followed. He currently coaches Premier League footballers at Brentford FC on performing in the hardest sustained-pressure environment in European sport, so the material is live, not retrospective. He can translate the texture of elite competition, the silent weeks of preparation, the seconds in which a career-defining decision goes wrong, into language that senior teams recognise from their own work. His credibility is earned rather than claimed: GB’s first named Olympic quota place for the Rio open-water 10km, 2016 European silver, 2017 Abu Dhabi FINA World Cup gold. He is precise about what he is and is not: a performance mindset coach, not a clinical psychologist, which is the right framing for a corporate audience that wants applied insight rather than therapeutic content. Biography highlights Represented Great Britain at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games in the 10km open-water marathon swim. Secured GB’s first named quota place for the Rio 2016 Olympic open-water event at the 2015 Kazan World Championships. Silver medal, 10km, 2016 European Open Water Swimming Championships. Gold medal, 2017 FINA Marathon Swimming World Cup, Abu Dhabi. Retired from competitive swimming in April 2021. Performance mindset coach at Brentford FC, working with first-team players on sustaining performance in the Premier League. Biography The Rio 2016 men’s 10km marathon swim ended for Jack Burnell with a second yellow card on the finish straight, a disqualification after what briefly looked like a fifth-place finish, and an unsuccessful appeal. He had arrived in Rio a month after winning European silver in the same event, as the first British swimmer named to Team GB for the open-water Olympic programme. What organisations rarely hear is what happens in the months afterwards. Burnell has spoken publicly about the nightmares and depression that followed, and about the specific, unpredictable triggers that brought the memory back. He did not stop. He returned to the World Championships the following year, won a FINA World Cup gold in Abu Dhabi in 2017, and continued in elite competition until retiring in 2021 after the Doha World Cup. That arc, the public failure, the private struggle, the continued competing, is the substance of what he now takes into rooms. Since retiring he has worked as a performance mindset coach at Brentford FC, introduced to the club by performance psychologist Tom Bates. He is careful about the label. He is not a clinical psychologist. He is a coach whose job is to help players perform in the Premier League, a sustained-pressure environment with few parallels outside elite sport. That live practice is what keeps his speaking content grounded in current work rather than past results. For senior teams the value is specific. Burnell gives organisations a close-range account of how high performers actually cope with repeated high-stakes pressure, how failure lands when it happens in front of the world, and what recovery looks like when the next event is already on the calendar. Key speaking topics Performance under sustained pressure Resilience and recovery after public setback Mental health in high-performance environments Decision-making in high-stakes moments Lessons from elite sport applied to leadership teams The role of performance mindset coaching in professional sport Ideal for CHROs and wellbeing leads building resilience and mental-health programmes for high-pressure functions Senior leadership teams operating under acute, sustained scrutiny Founders and executive teams at inflection points who need honest language for failure and recovery Sales, trading, and client-facing leaders whose teams work in repeated high-stakes decision cycles Audience outcomes A sharper read on how elite performers actually hold up and where they come apart Honest language for failure and recovery that people can use inside their own teams A working distinction between performance mindset coaching and clinical support, and where each belongs Practical reference points from Premier League football and Olympic open-water swimming that translate into everyday leadership pressure

Why organisations work with Elle Mace Her clinical stack is unusually deep for a workplace wellbeing speaker: Master Practitioner via the National Centre for Eating Disorders, ICF accredited NLP Practitioner, Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapist, Level 4 CBT and ILM Level 5 Coach and Mentor. Food Freedom, published by Vermilion in August 2026, gives audiences a named, citable framework on food, body image and the rise of GLP-1 weight loss medications, a topic most wellbeing programmes are not yet equipped to discuss. She runs her own clinic and two CPD-accredited training courses for practitioners, so the workplace material is grounded in active clinical caseload rather than recycled keynote content. Her recovery from 17 years of eating disorders and body dysmorphia gives the room a level of trust and disclosure that pure clinicians rarely achieve, without sliding into testimonial territory. As Executive Partner at Strategic Wellbeing, she works inside an operating consultancy, which means her keynote sits alongside follow-on training and 1:1 support rather than ending at the stage. Biography highlights Author of Food Freedom, Vermilion (Penguin Random House UK), August 2026 Master Practitioner in eating disorders, obesity and nutrition, National Centre for Eating Disorders ICF accredited NLP Practitioner, Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapist, Level 4 CBT, ILM Level 5 Coach and Mentor Executive Partner at Strategic Wellbeing Founder of her own clinic, with two CPD-accredited training courses for practitioners Host of the More to Life podcast on food, body and growth Biography Workplace wellbeing strategy still defaults to perks and posters when the harder issues sit further down: how people relate to food, to their bodies and to their own self-worth. Those issues quietly drive absence, presenteeism and burnout, and they rarely show up in engagement data. Elle Mace works at that level, where most wellbeing programmes do not reach. Her credentials are built for it. She trained as a Master Practitioner in eating disorders, obesity and nutrition through the National Centre for Eating Disorders, and holds qualifications as an ICF accredited NLP Practitioner, a Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapist, a Level 4 CBT practitioner and an ILM Level 5 Coach and Mentor. She runs her own clinic, hosts international retreats and has built two CPD-accredited training courses for other practitioners. Food Freedom, published by Vermilion, an imprint of Penguin Random House UK, in August 2026, codifies the argument. It pairs positive psychology and cognitive behavioural tools with a direct reading of diet culture and the new wave of GLP-1 weight loss medications now entering the wellbeing conversation. As Executive Partner at Strategic Wellbeing, she takes that material into corporate environments through keynotes, workshops and training. The lived backbone is 17 years of recovery from eating disorders and body dysmorphia. That experience is what allows her to talk about self-worth, body image and disordered eating in front of a corporate audience without losing either clinical authority or the room. Key speaking topics Psychology of food, body image and self-worth at work Eating disorders, disordered eating and body dysmorphia Workplace wellbeing and mental health Burnout, stress and resilience Positive psychology for performance Self-doubt, self-worth and imposter syndrome Mindful leadership and the mind-body connection Ideal for CHROs, wellbeing leads and EAP commissioners designing the next layer of mental health strategy HR directors and DEI leads addressing body image, self-worth and gendered wellbeing concerns Leadership teams in high-pressure sectors where burnout, food and body issues are showing up in engagement data Internal employee networks, ERGs and Mental Health Awareness Week or Wellbeing Week programmes Audience outcomes A clearer view of how food, body image and self-worth feed into workplace stress, presenteeism and burnout Practical positive psychology and cognitive behavioural tools employees can use without clinical supervision Confident vocabulary for line managers and HR on disordered eating, body dysmorphia and weight stigma Reference points from Food Freedom and her CPD-accredited training for follow-on organisational work A safer, more honest conversation in the room about issues most employees do not raise at work