Resilience & Stress Management

Why organisations work with Julie Montagu Four published wellness books with a major UK trade publisher, including Recharge: A Year of Self-Care to Focus on You (Little, Brown, 2018), give her wellbeing material a structured, tested foundation rather than a personal-anecdote frame. She runs a live teaching practice through Whole Self Yoga, including 200-hour teacher training, so the content she delivers to a corporate room is the same content she teaches week to week, not a keynote-only construct. Her cross-cultural vantage point, American by upbringing, English Countess by marriage, makes her an unusual host and after-dinner choice for events that need warmth and storytelling alongside subject expertise. She is an experienced broadcast voice, with royal and heritage commentary credits across BBC and CNN coverage of the Sussex wedding, the Platinum Jubilee, the Queen’s funeral and the Coronation, which translates directly into stage presence and live-event composure. Her academic work on American heiresses of the British Gilded Age, completed as an MA with Distinction at the University of Buckingham, gives her a serious second register for heritage, leadership history and women-in-power conversations. Biography highlights Author of Superfoods, Eat Real Food, Superfoods Superfast and Recharge: A Year of Self-Care to Focus on You, published by Little, Brown / Piatkus. Author of Secrets of an English Country House: A Year at Mapperton, published in 2024. Founder of Whole Self Yoga, including a 200-hour yoga teacher training programme. MA with Distinction in English Country House Studies, University of Buckingham, 2021. Royal and heritage commentator for BBC and CNN across the Sussex wedding, Platinum Jubilee, Queen Elizabeth II’s state funeral and the Coronation of King Charles III. Television credits including Bravo’s Ladies of London and Smithsonian Channel’s An American Aristocrat’s Guide to Great Estates. Co-custodian of Mapperton Estate in Dorset alongside Luke Montagu, 12th Earl of Sandwich. Biography Most corporate wellbeing programmes are built by people who have never had to keep one going through a 70-hour week. Julie Montagu is not one of them. She trained and qualified as a yoga teacher and nutrition educator while raising four children, wrote four books with Little, Brown on plant-forward eating and structured self-care, and built Whole Self Yoga, a teaching practice that includes a 200-hour teacher training programme. Recharge, published in 2018, is the title that travels best into corporate rooms. It is built as a month-by-month framework rather than a lifestyle manifesto, which is why it lands with audiences who have heard the wellbeing pitch many times and want something they can actually use on Monday. The second register is heritage. Montagu lives at Mapperton Estate in Dorset, the seat of the Earls of Sandwich, and completed an MA with Distinction at the University of Buckingham on American heiresses of the British Gilded Age. That work fed Secrets of an English Country House: A Year at Mapperton, published in 2024, and a steady run of royal commentary for BBC and CNN across the Sussex wedding, the Platinum Jubilee, the Queen’s funeral and the Coronation. The result is a speaker who can hold a corporate wellbeing keynote with real depth, then host the dinner that follows it with the kind of cross-cultural ease most subject-matter experts cannot offer. For organisations that want both substance and presence, that combination is what makes the booking commercial. Key speaking topics Self-care and wellbeing for high-pressure careers Yoga, nutrition and sustainable energy management Resilience and burnout prevention Female leadership and personal reinvention British heritage, country houses and royal traditions Corporate event hosting and after-dinner speaking Ideal for Corporate wellbeing days and HR-led leadership offsites Women’s leadership networks and ERG events Executive retreats where wellbeing is the headline rather than a side track Awards dinners, hosted panels and after-dinner engagements requiring a heritage or transatlantic register Audience outcomes A clear, month-by-month structure for self-care that survives a real working calendar Practical anchors on nutrition, movement and recovery that do not require a lifestyle overhaul A more honest read on what burnout looks like before it becomes attrition An hour with a speaker who can carry both the substance of wellbeing content and the warmth of a strong host

Why organisations work with Jamie Clarke He has an unusually specific evidence base for leadership under pressure: two Mount Everest summits, the Seven Summits, a 1,126 km camel crossing of the Empty Quarter, and two failed Everest attempts that shape how he talks about recovery. He is a named performance coach to the 2018 Stanley Cup winning Washington Capitals and Hockey Canada’s 2018 PyeongChang team, so his material translates into elite team environments, not just general audiences. His academic base at the University of Calgary’s Haskayne School of Business Centre for Advanced Leadership gives the work a teaching structure, not only a story arc. He pairs expedition narrative with operator experience, having built and run LiveOutThere.com through growth, a Profit Hot 50 ranking in 2013 and eventual closure, so the failure material is first-hand. His delivery is built for senior audiences that have heard every motivational speaker before; the work is about decisions under uncertainty, not summit photography. Biography highlights Summited Mount Everest on 23 May 1997 and again on 17 May 2010, after two earlier unsuccessful attempts. Completed the Seven Summits between 1993 and 2008. Crossed the Empty Quarter of Arabia by camel in 1999, a 1,126 km, 40-day expedition with brother Leigh Clarke and Bruce Kirkby. Associate adjunct professor and fellow at the University of Calgary’s Haskayne School of Business, Centre for Advanced Leadership. Performance coach for the 2018 Stanley Cup winning Washington Capitals and Hockey Canada in PyeongChang 2018. Author of Everest to Arabia (2001) and co-author of The Power of Passion with Alan Hobson, later republished as Above All Else: The Everest Dream. Founder of LiveOutThere.com, ranked No. 39 on Profit Magazine’s 2013 Hot 50. Biography The second Everest attempt came apart at 8,300 metres in 1994. The team Clarke was part of had the summit in reach and turned back. He went home, rebuilt the expedition, and made the top in 1997, then returned and did it again in 2010. Two failed attempts sit on the same CV as two successful ones, and that is the part of the story he now teaches from. The work is about what teams do in the hours after the plan stops working. Clarke has built a leadership practice on specific expedition evidence rather than metaphor: the 1997 and 2010 Everest summits, the 1,126 km Empty Quarter crossing by camel in 1999, the Seven Summits completed across fifteen years, and the 2019 Mongolian motorbike traverse with his son Khobe. Each expedition produced a different failure mode, which is the material he uses with senior teams. His academic base is the University of Calgary’s Haskayne School of Business, where he is an associate adjunct professor and fellow in the Centre for Advanced Leadership. His coaching work has been with elite performance environments under real stakes, including the Washington Capitals through their 2018 Stanley Cup run and Hockey Canada at the 2018 PyeongChang Olympics. Barry Trotz’s on-record comment after the Capitals won reads as a working review, not a blurb. Clarke also operated as a founder. LiveOutThere.com grew into a Profit Hot 50 retailer in 2013 and closed in 2017. He has run the inside of a business that did well and then did not, which is why the failure and recovery material in his talks sounds like first-hand accounting rather than adventure content. Key speaking topics Leadership under uncertainty Team performance in high-stakes environments Recovery after setback and failure Resilience and decision-making under stress Expedition leadership as organisational case study Culture and morale in long-cycle projects Coaching elite teams through pressure Ideal for CEOs and executive teams going into contested strategic bets Leadership development and executive education cohorts Sales and performance leaders preparing teams for long, high-pressure cycles Boards and senior groups that have already heard the standard motivational set Audience outcomes A sharper sense of how high-performing teams behave in the hours after a plan breaks. Specific expedition decisions, named and dated, that map onto organisational choices under pressure. A working language for separating recoverable setbacks from terminal ones. A clearer view of the leader’s job when morale, information and authority are all moving at once. Practical reference points drawn from elite hockey and Olympic environments, not generic motivation.

Why organisations work with David Brabham He has won the 24 Hours of Le Mans outright, a 24-hour team sport where one weak link across 60 people ends the race. That is a different reference point to draw on than a pure individual-sport narrative. He is the only driver in the history of the American Le Mans Series to win races and take pole positions in all four competitive classes, a credential that signals adaptability across very different cars, teams, and race formats. He carries the Brabham name through three operating contexts: driver for the family F1 team, overall Le Mans winner for Peugeot, and founder of Brabham Automotive. Audiences get sport, corporate, and entrepreneurial perspectives from one speaker. He stayed in the car at Simtek in 1994 after the death of his team mate Roland Ratzenberger at Imola. When he speaks about composure under pressure, the source material is direct. He is comfortable in after-dinner and hosted formats as well as keynotes, which gives event teams flexibility on how to place him in a programme. Biography highlights Overall winner, 2009 24 Hours of Le Mans, with Peugeot (908 HDi FAP), co-driving with Alexander Wurz and Marc Gene. Le Mans GT1 class winner in 2007 and 2008 with Aston Martin Racing (DBR9). American Le Mans Series LMP champion, 2009 and 2010, with Patron Highcroft Racing and Acura. Formula One driver with Brabham (1990) and Simtek (1994); team mate to Roland Ratzenberger. Japanese GT Championship winner, 1996. Bathurst 1000 winner, 1997. Founder of Brabham Automotive and the BT62 track car, launched in London in 2018. Member of the British Racing Drivers’ Club. Patron of the UK cancer charity Hope for Tomorrow. Biography Le Mans is a 24-hour race with roughly 60 people behind every car and a failure rate that runs close to half the grid. Winning it outright once is a career. David Brabham did it in 2009, with Peugeot, having already taken the GT1 class twice in the two previous years with Aston Martin. The pattern underneath those results is the story he brings to corporate audiences. He is the only driver in the history of the American Le Mans Series to have won races and taken poles in all four classes, from prototype to production GT. Back-to-back ALMS titles in 2009 and 2010 with Patron Highcroft and Acura came in a series where small execution advantages decide seasons. Consistency at that level is a team capability, not a personal one, and he talks about it that way. The wider career sharpens the material. He drove in Formula One for his family team in 1990 and for Simtek in 1994, where he lost team mate Roland Ratzenberger at Imola and continued to race the rest of the season. Later he built Brabham Automotive around the BT62 and launched it publicly in London in 2018, carrying the family brand into its own manufacturing business. For senior audiences the value is practical. He can describe, from the cockpit and the pit wall, how elite teams handle risk, prepare for conditions they cannot control, and recover when something goes wrong mid-race. The references are specific, named, and drawn from the highest level of professional motorsport. Key speaking topics High-performance teamwork Decision-making under pressure Leadership in competitive environments Resilience and focus after setbacks Brand building and heritage Preparation and execution at elite level Ideal for Senior leadership teams looking at how elite performance environments coordinate under pressure Sales and commercial leadership meetings focused on consistency of execution Automotive, engineering, and manufacturing organisations with technical workforces Annual conferences and after-dinner programmes where event teams want a credible non-business voice in the room Audience outcomes A clear picture of how a 60-person team wins a 24-hour race, and which of those mechanics transfer to a corporate setting Specific examples of how elite drivers prepare for conditions they cannot control on the day A direct account of composure and continuity after a team loss, from someone who lived it in 1994 A different vocabulary for talking about risk, handover, and recovery inside a business

Why organisations work with Jeremy Snape He has run the experiment in public. As performance coach to Shane Warne’s Rajasthan Royals, he built the dressing-room culture that won the inaugural IPL title against far better-resourced franchises. His work sits at the join between two credentials most consultants only have one of: an England international playing career and a master’s in sport psychology, applied across Premier League football, England Rugby and South African cricket. The “Inside the Mind of Champions” podcast gives him a continuously refreshed evidence base. Guests include Sir Alex Ferguson, Pep Guardiola, Eddie Jones and Rahul Dravid, and the material feeds directly into his executive sessions. Through Sporting Edge, he has spent two decades translating sport psychology into corporate practice rather than telling sporting war stories with a thin business gloss on top. Biography highlights Former England international cricketer, 10 ODIs and one T20I, with a Man of the Match award on ODI debut against Zimbabwe. County career at Northamptonshire, Gloucestershire and Leicestershire; captained Leicestershire and lifted the Twenty20 Cup in 2004. Master’s degree in sport psychology, taken during the latter stage of his playing career. Performance coach to the Rajasthan Royals during their IPL title-winning campaign under Shane Warne, with subsequent roles at Delhi Daredevils, England Rugby, Premier League football clubs and the South African national cricket team. Founder and Managing Director of Sporting Edge, the performance consultancy he established in 2005. Non-Executive Director of the League Managers Association since 2013, supporting leadership development for football managers at St George’s Park. Host of the “Inside the Mind of Champions” podcast, with guests including Sir Alex Ferguson, Pep Guardiola, Eddie Jones, Rahul Dravid and Shane Warne. Biography The Rajasthan Royals were the cheapest-bought, lowest-rated franchise in the inaugural Indian Premier League. They won it. The performance coach embedded with that team, working alongside Shane Warne to build a culture out of nothing in a few weeks, was Jeremy Snape. That project is the cleanest illustration of what he does. Snape played 10 One Day Internationals for England and captained Leicestershire to the Twenty20 Cup, and during the back end of his playing career he took a master’s in sport psychology. The combination is unusual: a working international athlete who became a credentialed performance specialist, rather than an academic with a fan’s interest in sport. Since founding Sporting Edge in 2005, he has taken those methods into corporate work, alongside continued roles in elite sport, including Delhi Daredevils, England Rugby, Premier League football and South African cricket. In 2013 he joined the League Managers Association as a Non-Executive Director, helping design the leadership programmes that football managers take at St George’s Park. His “Inside the Mind of Champions” podcast keeps the research live. Conversations with Sir Alex Ferguson, Pep Guardiola, Eddie Jones, Rahul Dravid and Shane Warne are not entertainment for him; they are the working material that feeds the frameworks he takes into boardrooms on team trust, composure under scrutiny and the unglamorous standards that separate first place from fourth. Key speaking topics High-performance culture Leadership under pressure Team trust and standards Mindset and mental resilience Performance psychology for business Talent development and succession Ideal for CEOs and executive teams entering a sustained period of pressure, scrutiny or transition Senior leadership offsites focused on team standards, trust and decision-making in stretch conditions Sales, trading and client-facing leadership groups whose performance hinges on composure under public-facing risk HR and L&D leads designing leadership development programmes for high-stakes commercial roles Audience outcomes A specific read on how elite sport builds composure and how that translates into executive decision-making under scrutiny. Concrete language for what high-performing team standards actually look like day to day, beyond the values poster on the wall. A clearer view of where individual mindset ends and where team culture has to take over. Methods for sustaining performance after a setback, drawn from named figures in elite sport who have done it publicly.

Why organisations work with Helen Richardson-Walsh A first-hand account of the cultural reset that took GB women’s hockey from Olympic underachievers to Rio 2016 gold, told by a senior player who was inside the leadership group for 11 years. A working performance psychologist’s view of how psychological safety, belonging and honest feedback are engineered in a daily training environment, drawn from her current role with Tottenham Hotspur Women. A credible voice on mental health at the top of high-pressure environments, grounded in her own documented recovery from clinical depression and career-threatening back surgery between London 2012 and Rio 2016. A practical perspective on inclusion as a performance variable, informed by being part of the first same-sex married couple to win Olympic gold on the same team and the cultural work that made that possible inside the squad. Co-author of “Winning Together” (Hachette, 2020), a book leaders cite as a tactical, behaviour-level account of building a winning team, not a memoir. Biography highlights Olympic gold medallist, Rio 2016, with Team GB women’s hockey; one of only two players to score in the shootout that beat the Netherlands in the final. Youngest woman ever to represent GB hockey at an Olympic Games, on debut at Sydney 2000, aged 18. Olympic bronze, London 2012; European champion, 2015; 293 caps for England and Great Britain across four Olympic Games. MBE for services to hockey, 2017 New Year Honours. Co-author of “Winning Together: An Olympic-Winning Approach to Building Better Teams” (Hachette, 2020), with Kate Richardson-Walsh. Performance Psychologist with Tottenham Hotspur Women since 2021; holds a Master’s in Organisational Psychology from City, University of London, and trains as a sport psychologist with elite teams. Biography GB women’s hockey arrived at London 2012 with a bronze medal and an open question about whether the squad could ever win at the level its talent suggested. The four years that followed were not a story of more training. They were a story of a deliberate cultural rebuild: explicit team values, leadership shared across the senior players, hard conversations about behaviour, and a willingness to treat psychology as a daily performance system. Rio 2016 produced the first Olympic gold for British women’s hockey. Helen Richardson-Walsh made her Olympic debut at Sydney 2000 as the youngest woman ever to represent GB hockey, and sat inside that leadership group for 11 of her 18 years in the squad. Her experience is unusually specific. Between the two Olympics she also went through two ruptured discs, multiple back and ankle surgeries, and a period of clinical depression severe enough to require professional treatment. The Rio gold was won by a player who had been told she might not play again, who had used therapy and mindfulness to come back, and who was one of only two players to score in the shootout that won the final against the Netherlands. That combination of operating inside an elite team culture and rebuilding her own performance from the inside is the content she now works with. She is co-author, with Kate Richardson-Walsh, of “Winning Together” (Hachette, 2020), a working manual on team building drawn directly from the Rio cycle. She is a Performance Psychologist with Tottenham Hotspur Women, where her brief includes individual mindset work and squad culture, and she holds a Master’s in Organisational Psychology from City, University of London. For senior teams the value is in the precision of her examples. How psychological safety actually shows up in a meeting. What belonging looks like when a married couple are competing for the same shirt. How a high performer talks about depression without losing their place in the team. What inclusion does to performance when the pressure is on. The credibility is the medal; the substance is what she did to get there and what she does now. Key speaking topics High-performance team culture Psychological safety and belonging Inclusion in elite performance environments Resilience after injury, setback and depression Mental health and wellbeing at senior level Leadership inside high-pressure teams Performance mindset Ideal for CHROs, heads of talent and culture leads building team norms in pressured commercial environments. Executive teams and senior leadership groups going through performance reset or post-restructure rebuild. Wellbeing, DEI and people leaders working on inclusion and psychological safety as performance issues, not compliance. Sales, trading floor and operating leadership groups where sustained pressure is the working environment. Audience outcomes A concrete account of how an elite team rebuilt its culture in four years, with the specific behaviours that changed. A working definition of psychological safety drawn from a team where the cost of getting it wrong was visible in performance. Language for talking about mental health and recovery at senior level without softening or sensationalising it. A view of inclusion as a performance variable, not a values statement. Practical mental tools used by elite athletes that translate to commercial high-pressure roles.

Why organisations work with Samantha Clarke Treats workplace wellbeing as a design problem. Her Masters-level training in Neuroaesthetics and Global Innovation Design gives her a scientific framework for how physical space and sensory conditions shape performance. It is territory most workplace wellbeing consultants never enter. Teaches regularly at three distinct platforms: The School of Life, Simon Sinek’s Inspire U, and The Guardian Masterclasses. The material has been refined across years of teaching, not just delivered on a speaker circuit. Author of Love It Or Leave It: How to Be Happy at Work (Octopus Publishing Group, 2020). The book sets out a framework for career fit decisions that HR leaders have used to structure retention and talent development conversations with senior talent. Qualified as a Bhutanese Gross National Happiness Facilitator, one of few workplace speakers with formal training in a non-Western model of measuring wellbeing. The credential brings practical weight to what otherwise risks becoming a philosophical conversation about happiness at work. Client roster includes JP Morgan, LVMH, Accenture, Samsung and Pinterest. The work holds up in performance-first cultures where wellbeing programmes are often treated with suspicion. Biography highlights Author of Love It Or Leave It: How to Be Happy at Work (Octopus Publishing Group, 2020) TEDx speaker, “Are You Ready to Break Up With Work?” (TEDxRoyalTunbridgeWells) Faculty lecturer at The School of Life; lecturer and facilitator at Simon Sinek’s Inspire U platform; facilitator for The Guardian Masterclasses Masters-level training in Neuroaesthetics and Global Innovation Design for Social Change; qualified Bhutanese Gross National Happiness Facilitator; MIT training in Neuroscience for Business; ICF-accredited Co-Active and ORSC coach Appeared in conversation with Hillary Rodham Clinton and Angela Duckworth at the Hillary Rodham Clinton Global Challenges Summit Featured in Forbes, Fast Company, Monocle, Stylist, Harper’s Bazaar, Psychologies, Evening Standard, BBC Woman’s Hour and BBC Radio 4 Client work across JP Morgan, LVMH, Accenture, Samsung, Pinterest, Unilever, Nespresso, ITV and the NHS Biography Organisations spend more on wellbeing than at any point in their history, and employee engagement keeps falling. The gap between intention and outcome is where Samantha Clarke works. She treats wellbeing as a design problem: something shaped by how work is structured, led and experienced, before any programme begins. Her methodology draws on neuroaesthetics, coaching practice and positive psychology. The Masters-level training in Neuroaesthetics and Global Innovation Design equipped her to think about how physical space and sensory design shape cognitive and emotional capacity. A Bhutanese Gross National Happiness Facilitator qualification adds a non-Western model for measuring wellbeing; MIT Neuroscience for Business adds the biological layer. She teaches at The School of Life as a faculty lecturer, and runs programmes for Simon Sinek’s Inspire U platform and The Guardian Masterclasses. Her TEDx talk “Are You Ready to Break Up With Work?” takes the central question to a wider audience. Her book Love It Or Leave It: How to Be Happy at Work (Octopus, 2020) takes the same argument to individuals: a framework for deciding whether a role still fits. The material on resilience and sustainable performance also draws on her lived experience of sickle cell anaemia and chronic pain. That experience is the reason her work on stress and burnout sits on a different foundation from motivational treatment of the same topics. Clients including JP Morgan, LVMH, Accenture, Samsung, Pinterest, Unilever, Nespresso and the NHS have brought her into senior teams where those topics matter. Key speaking topics Workplace wellbeing and culture design Happiness and fulfilment at work Burnout prevention and sustainable performance Employee engagement and retention Leadership in change and transition Resilience and stress management Neuroaesthetics and workplace environment design Ideal for CHROs and People leaders reviewing wellbeing and engagement strategy Senior leadership teams addressing burnout and retention in high-performance environments Culture and transformation leads designing new operating rhythms HR directors shifting from programme-led to design-led wellbeing Audience outcomes Specific reasons their wellbeing initiatives have failed to improve engagement, and what is missing Language to distinguish wellbeing-as-benefit from wellbeing-as-design inside their own organisation Methods to identify signature drop-off points in the employee experience before those become attrition problems Rhythms leaders can install in their own teams without adding another programme layer A sharper view of when individual performance issues are in fact organisational design issues

Why organisations work with Juan Pablo Montoya One of three drivers in history to win at the top tier of Formula 1, IndyCar, and the NASCAR Cup Series, giving him a rare lens on how elite teams differ across cultures and disciplines. Operated inside the highest-stakes performance environments in sport: Williams and McLaren in Formula 1, Chip Ganassi Racing in IndyCar, Team Penske in IndyCar and IMSA. Audiences hear about team execution from inside those organisations, not as commentary. A first-hand account of decision-making at 300 km/h, where the cost of a mistake is immediate, which translates directly for leaders managing high-pressure commercial calls. Bilingual (English and Spanish) and Latin American, which makes him relevant for global organisations with significant Hispanic markets or workforces. Biography highlights 1999 CART Series Champion with Chip Ganassi Racing, the youngest CART champion at the time at age 24. Two-time Indianapolis 500 winner, in 2000 and 2015. Won the 2000 race on his first attempt. Formula 1 career across Williams and McLaren: 7 wins, 30 podiums, 13 pole positions, and third in the 2002 and 2003 World Drivers’ Championships. Three-time winner of the 24 Hours of Daytona. 2019 IMSA SportsCar Championship with Team Penske. One of only three drivers to win races in Formula 1, IndyCar, and the NASCAR Cup Series. Biography The seat of a Formula 1 car is one of the most unforgiving leadership environments in sport. Decisions arrive at hundreds of kilometres per hour, the team behind the driver runs into the hundreds, and the margin between winning and crashing is measured in tenths. Juan Pablo Montoya spent two decades inside that environment, at the top of every major motorsport discipline. He won the CART championship in 1999 as a rookie with Chip Ganassi Racing, then won the Indianapolis 500 the following year on his first attempt. Formula 1 followed: seven Grand Prix wins and 30 podiums across Williams and McLaren, including a Monaco win in 2003 and back-to-back third-place finishes in the World Drivers’ Championship in 2002 and 2003. He then crossed disciplines that almost nobody else has crossed at the top tier. Wins in the NASCAR Cup Series. A second Indianapolis 500 in 2015 with Team Penske. Three victories in the 24 Hours of Daytona, and the 2019 IMSA SportsCar Championship. Only two other drivers in history have won at the top of Formula 1, IndyCar, and NASCAR. That cross-discipline record is what gives his keynote substance. He has worked inside Williams, McLaren, Ganassi, and Penske, four of the most demanding performance organisations in sport, and can speak directly to how they differ in how they prepare drivers, manage teams, and recover from failure. Key speaking topics High-performance team execution Composure and decision-making under pressure Cross-cultural team leadership in elite sport Resilience and reinvention across careers Motorsport, Formula 1, and IndyCar Ideal for Senior leadership offsites and executive development programmes Sales kick-offs and high-performance commercial team events Organisations with a Latin American footprint or Hispanic audience Automotive, technology, and sponsorship-aligned brand events Audience outcomes A first-hand view of how Formula 1, IndyCar, and NASCAR teams prepare for and recover from high-stakes moments. A clearer sense of what composure looks like in practice when decisions cannot be deferred. Specific examples of how trust between a driver and their team is built, tested, and rebuilt. Cross-cultural perspective on what separates elite teams in different national sporting cultures.

Why organisations work with Mark Webber Twelve seasons inside Formula One across four teams gives him a working model of how high-stakes organisations succeed and fail, told from the cockpit rather than the pitwall. Won the 2015 FIA World Endurance Championship with Porsche after a full F1 career, which is a credible demonstration of building a second peak in a different system after a first one ended. Speaks with the authority of a competitor who finished on the Formula One podium 42 times and reached second at Le Mans, not a generalist drawing analogies from sport. Officer of the Order of Australia recognises both the racing record and sustained work for medical and youth charities, which lands with audiences that want substance behind the speaker, not a highlight reel. Active Channel 4 Formula One analyst and Porsche brand ambassador, so the perspective on current team dynamics, driver decisions and engineering culture is live, not retired. Biography highlights 217 Formula One starts for Minardi, Jaguar, Williams and Red Bull Racing across 2002 to 2013. Nine Grand Prix wins, 42 podiums, 13 pole positions and three third-place finishes in the World Drivers’ Championship. 2015 FIA World Endurance Champion with Porsche, sharing the Porsche 919 Hybrid with Timo Bernhard and Brendon Hartley. Officer of the Order of Australia, 2017 Australia Day Honours. Author of Aussie Grit: My Formula One Journey, Pan Macmillan, with foreword by Sir Jackie Stewart. Channel 4 Formula One analyst and global Porsche brand ambassador. Biography A Formula One driver makes thousands of decisions in a season that the rest of the team only sees the result of. The job is to be calm enough to execute them and honest enough afterwards to say which were wrong. Mark Webber spent twelve seasons doing that work in public. He started 217 Grands Prix between 2002 and 2013, drove for Minardi, Jaguar, Williams and Red Bull Racing, and finished his Formula One career with nine wins, 42 podiums, 13 pole positions and three third-place finishes in the World Drivers’ Championship. The Red Bull years overlapped with four consecutive Constructors’ titles, which is the part of his record that speaks most directly to how a small group sustains performance at the limit. After Formula One he moved to endurance racing with Porsche and won the 2015 FIA World Endurance Championship in the Porsche 919 Hybrid alongside Timo Bernhard and Brendon Hartley, finishing second at the 24 Hours of Le Mans the same year. He was appointed Officer of the Order of Australia in 2017 for service to motor sport and to charity, and his memoir Aussie Grit, with a foreword by Sir Jackie Stewart, gives a candid account of what those years inside the sport actually felt like. Today he is a Channel 4 Formula One analyst and a global Porsche brand ambassador, which keeps him close to the engineering, driver and team conversations that shaped his own career. For senior audiences, the value is not the trophy cabinet. It is a clear-eyed account, from inside the car, of how decisions are made when there is no time to make them well. Key speaking topics Performance under sustained pressure Team dynamics inside elite organisations Recovery from setbacks and reinvention Decision-making at the edge of capacity Culture and standards in small high-stakes teams Lessons from Formula One and endurance racing for business leaders Ideal for Executive leadership teams and board offsites focused on high performance CHRO and talent leaders shaping standards inside elite teams Sales kick-offs and commercial leadership conferences After-dinner audiences at senior client events where authority and storytelling are both required Audience outcomes A working picture of how a competitive team functions when results are public and margins are small. Specific examples of where pressure breaks people and processes, drawn from named races and team episodes rather than generic anecdotes. A more honest internal language for talking about setbacks, recovery and standards. Practical reference points senior leaders can use when their own teams are operating at the edge.

Why organisations work with Divyanshu Ganatra He brings clinical psychology training together with a record of firsts in adventure sport, so the conversation about resilience is grounded in evidence rather than in motivational narrative alone. He runs Adventures Beyond Barriers Foundation, a working inclusion organisation, which means his content on inclusive leadership comes from operating practice with cross-disability teams, not from a deck. He is recognised by the Vice President of India through the National Award for the Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities, which gives senior buyers a defensible credential when positioning the session internally. He speaks credibly to CXO forums and Fortune 500 audiences on attitudinal barriers, the specific tension that stalls most inclusion programmes once policy and quotas have been set. His material translates between personal decision-making under pressure and organisational decision-making under restructure, which makes him a fit for leadership offsites that need both registers. Biography highlights Founder, Adventures Beyond Barriers Foundation (ABBF), 2014, an inclusive adventure-sports organisation working across cross-disabilities. India’s first blind solo paraglider pilot, 29 April 2014. First blind tandem cyclist to complete the Manali to Khardung La route, 2016, the world’s highest motorable road, now ABBF’s flagship M2K expedition. First blind Indian to summit Mount Kilimanjaro, 2018. Master’s in Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Pune, where he was the first blind student to graduate in the field; clinical psychologist by training. National Award for the Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities, presented by the Vice President of India; named among the Ten Outstanding Young Indians by the Junior Chamber International. Biography Most inclusion programmes inside large organisations stall at the same point. Policy is in place, quotas are tracked, and senior leaders still cannot describe what changed in how the organisation actually works. The blockage is rarely structural. It is attitudinal, and it sits with the leadership group itself. That is the tension Divyanshu Ganatra was trained to read. He lost his sight to glaucoma at nineteen and went on to become the first blind student to complete a Master’s in Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Pune. He works as a clinical psychologist, and the discipline shapes how he frames inclusion to senior audiences: as a behavioural and decision-making problem, not a values statement. In 2014 he founded Adventures Beyond Barriers Foundation, an inclusive adventure-sports organisation that puts people with and without disabilities into the same physical task. The same year, he became India’s first blind solo paraglider pilot. In 2016 he led the first blind tandem cycling crossing from Manali to Khardung La, the world’s highest motorable road, which now anchors ABBF’s annual M2K expedition. In 2018 he became the first blind Indian to summit Mount Kilimanjaro. The Vice President of India presented him with the National Award for the Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities, and the Junior Chamber International named him among the Ten Outstanding Young Indians. With CXO forums and Fortune 500 audiences he treats those firsts as case material, not biography, working back from each one to the decision sequence that made it possible for a leadership team to use. Key speaking topics Inclusion as a leadership capability Attitudinal barriers and behavioural change Decision-making after personal and organisational shock Resilience grounded in cognitive neuroscience Disability and workplace inclusion Innovation through cross-ability collaboration Ideal for CHROs and DEI leads designing inclusion strategy beyond compliance Executive committees and leadership offsites focused on resilience and composure under pressure CXO forums and Fortune 500 leadership audiences working on culture change Boards and senior teams setting the inclusion agenda for the next reporting cycle Audience outcomes A reframing of inclusion from policy mechanic to leadership behaviour, with named attitudinal barriers to look for in their own organisation. A working model for decision-making in the period that follows acute personal or organisational shock. A clearer view of what cross-ability collaboration produces operationally, drawn from ABBF’s M2K expedition and other inclusive programmes. A direct first-person account of building competence after sight loss, used as case material for senior leaders managing reinvention in their own teams.

Why organisations work with Jacquie Davis Direct operational authority on decisions made under live threat, including hostage rescue work in Pakistan and Iraq, that no academic or consultant voice can claim. Four years as personal protection officer to JK Rowling at the height of Harry Potter publicity, with a wider client list including Nicole Kidman, the Beckhams, and Middle Eastern royalty, which gives her credibility with audiences used to operating in a public eye. A reference point that few keynote speakers can offer: a Netflix feature film, Close (2019), built around her professional life, on which she served as the operational consultant. A perspective on team performance and trust forged inside small units where a wrong call has physical consequences, rather than abstracted from a leadership framework. An unusually credible voice on women operating at the senior end of a male-dominated profession, drawn from her own working life rather than a research project. Biography highlights Author of The Circuit, first published by Penguin and reprinted in 2020, an autobiographical account of her work from Metropolitan Police service to international close protection. Personal bodyguard to JK Rowling for four years during the peak of the Harry Potter phenomenon. The protagonist of the 2019 Netflix film Close, directed by Vicky Jewson and starring Noomi Rapace, is based on her career. Operational record includes hostage rescue work freeing a British woman held in Pakistan, and rescuing men held by Uday Hussein in Iraq. Trained in counter-surveillance, firearms, restraint tactics, bomb search, defensive driving, and hostage survival. Consults for television and film production companies and appears regularly as a security commentator on UK and US broadcast media. Biography Penguin published The Circuit in 1998 and reprinted it in 2020. The memoir is an operational account of close protection work, from a 1970s start in the Metropolitan Police through hostage rescues abroad and protection of named celebrity principals, by one of the few female operators to write the story down. Her career began in the Metropolitan Police in the 1970s and moved into close protection at a point when the field had almost no women in it. Over the following three decades she protected JK Rowling for four years at the peak of Harry Potter publicity, worked principals including Nicole Kidman, Diana Ross, and the Beckhams, and conducted hostage rescue operations in Pakistan and Iraq. The reason a boardroom listens is not the celebrity client list. It is that Davis has had to make consequential decisions, fast, in environments where information was partial and the cost of error was physical. She speaks about how composure is built, how small teams hold together when conditions deteriorate, and what trust actually looks like when it is being tested in real time. In 2019 Netflix released Close, a feature film directed by Vicky Jewson and starring Noomi Rapace, with a protagonist based on Davis’s working life and with Davis herself consulting on the production. The result is a speaker who arrives with operational evidence, a published account of the work, and a cultural artefact that anchors the story for an audience. Key speaking topics Decision-making under extreme pressure Risk assessment and crisis planning Small-team performance in hostile environments Leadership composure and self-management Women in male-dominated professions Personal and organisational security awareness Ideal for Boards and executive committees building crisis decision-making capability Security, risk, and resilience leadership functions Women’s leadership programmes and senior development audiences Conferences with a substantive focus on personal and organisational composure under threat Audience outcomes A working sense of how field operators reach decisions when information is incomplete and consequences are immediate A more practical reference point for what crisis planning and small-team trust look like outside the training-room version A concrete account of how women operate at the senior end of a profession that resisted them, useful for leadership programmes that handle that subject substantively A reset on what risk awareness means in personal and organisational settings, drawn from operational experience rather than checklists

Why organisations work with Richard Coles He is one of the very few public figures in Britain who can speak about bereavement, faith and sexuality in front of a corporate audience without the room flinching. Audiences trust him because he has lived each subject in public. Twelve years co-presenting BBC Radio 4’s Saturday Live gives him the interviewer’s craft: he can host an awards night, chair a panel of executives, or turn a CEO conversation into something a room actually wants to listen to. He is a Sunday Times number one bestselling novelist, the writer of The Madness of Grief, and the inspiration for the BBC comedy Rev. The cultural recognition gets him in the door; the substance is why he is asked back. His pop-to-pulpit story (member of The Communards, “Don’t Leave Me This Way” at number one in 1986, then ordination as an Anglican priest) is the most genuinely unusual second-career narrative on the speaking circuit, and he tells it without nostalgia. Biography highlights Co-presenter, BBC Radio 4’s Saturday Live, 2011 to 2023 Church of England priest, ordained 2005; former vicar of Finedon, Northamptonshire Multi-instrumentalist in The Communards with Jimmy Somerville; UK number one with “Don’t Leave Me This Way” in 1986 Author of twelve books, including the Sunday Times bestseller The Madness of Grief (2021) and the Canon Clement crime series, optioned by ITV Regular panellist on Have I Got News For You, QI, and Would I Lie To You? Inspiration and consultant for the BBC comedy Rev Biography “Don’t Leave Me This Way” was the best-selling single in the UK in 1986. The man playing the keyboards on it is now a Church of England priest, a Sunday Times bestselling novelist and one of the most recognisable broadcasters on British radio. Few public lives have travelled this far between chapters, and fewer still have done so with the same lack of edit. Coles spent twelve years co-presenting BBC Radio 4’s Saturday Live, the long-form Saturday morning programme heard by more than two million listeners. The role made him a national interviewer: a priest who could draw a stranger out, hold a difficult moment on air, and make space for the kind of conversation British broadcasting often avoids. The Communards, the priesthood, the radio, the books, the dachshunds, the dance floor on Strictly: each chapter brought a new audience without losing the previous one. The writing has become its own career. The Madness of Grief, published in 2021 after the death of his civil partner David, is a Sunday Times bestseller and one of the rare popular books on bereavement written from inside the experience rather than around it. The Canon Clement Mysteries, beginning with Murder Before Evensong in 2022, became a Sunday Times number one cosy crime series and an ITV drama starring Matthew Lewis. For corporate audiences, the value is the combination most public figures cannot offer: a hosting craft built over twelve years of live radio, lived experience of the subjects organisations now want to discuss honestly (grief, faith, identity, sexuality, mental health), and a sense of timing that comes from working a microphone for three decades. The result is a speaker who can carry a black-tie dinner, a leadership offsite or a memorial event with the same register. Key speaking topics Grief and bereavement in public life Faith, ethics and the modern workplace Identity, sexuality and being openly gay in public roles Reinvention and second careers The craft of conversation and interviewing Mental health and the inner life Public broadcasting and cultural commentary Ideal for Awards ceremonies, gala dinners and milestone events seeking a host who can carry the room Leadership and culture conferences addressing grief, mental health, identity or inclusion Internal employee events tied to wellbeing, faith networks or LGBTQ+ programming Membership organisations and professional bodies booking a literary, cultural keynote Audience outcomes A frank, unsentimental treatment of grief and bereavement that gives leaders language they can actually use at work A model of public conversation about faith and sexuality that does not retreat into either piety or politics A reframing of mid-career reinvention drawn from one of the most unusual second-career trajectories in British public life An event hosted or anchored with the timing, warmth and interviewing craft of a senior BBC broadcaster

Why organisations work with Michael Owen A first-hand account of operating at the top of a global sport from the age of 17, with the goalscoring record at Liverpool, Real Madrid, Newcastle, Manchester United and England to back it. One of only nine Englishmen to win the Ballon d’Or, and the most recent, which gives any audience an unusually direct line to what world-class performance actually requires day to day. A second career built deliberately rather than by accident: Manor House Stables in Cheshire, founded with Andrew Black in 2007, has become a working thoroughbred yard now training under Hugo Palmer. Active broadcast presence with TNT Sports and Amazon Prime Video Premier League coverage, which keeps the perspective current rather than retrospective. Author of Reboot: My Life, My Time (2019), a candid account of injuries, scrutiny and the transition out of professional sport that gives an after-dinner or Q and A session real substance. Biography highlights 2001 Ballon d’Or winner, the first English recipient since Kevin Keegan in 1979. 89 England caps, 40 international goals; sixth on England’s all-time scoring list at retirement. Named in Pele’s FIFA 100 list of the greatest living players in 2004. Career clubs: Liverpool, Real Madrid, Newcastle United, Manchester United, Stoke City. Author of Off the Record (2004) and Reboot: My Life, My Time (Reach Sport, 2019). Co-founder of Manor House Stables, Cheshire; pundit for TNT Sports and Amazon Prime Video. Biography Liverpool were 1-0 down to Arsenal in the 2001 FA Cup final when Michael Owen scored twice in the last eight minutes to win the trophy. That season he helped Liverpool to a treble of the FA Cup, League Cup and UEFA Cup, and in December he was named European Footballer of the Year. He was 22, and the most recent English winner of the Ballon d’Or to this day. The career around that moment is the substance of his speaking. A debut at Liverpool at 17, a Premier League Golden Boot in his first full season, 89 England caps, 40 international goals, and spells at Real Madrid, Newcastle, Manchester United and Stoke. Pele included him in the FIFA 100 list of the greatest living players. The lived experience underneath those numbers, including injury, scrutiny and the discipline of staying selectable across four major tournaments for England, is what audiences buy when they book him. Life after football has been built deliberately. In 2007 he and the entrepreneur Andrew Black converted a cattle barn in Cheshire into Manor House Stables, now a Classic-winning operation with Hugo Palmer as resident trainer and a racing club that opens ownership to a broader audience. He works as a pundit for TNT Sports and Amazon Prime Video, with regular Premier League coverage. His 2019 autobiography Reboot: My Life, My Time is a frank account of what playing through pain, public criticism and the end of a top-level career actually felt like. For corporate audiences the value is direct testimony rather than a framework. Owen speaks to what it takes to perform under sustained pressure, how to keep going when the body and the press are against you, and how to construct a second act on purpose rather than by drift. That makes him a strong fit for after-dinner formats, leadership offsites with a sports lens, and brand-ambassador work where credibility and recognition matter as much as content. Key speaking topics Performance under pressure Lessons from elite sport for business leaders Resilience through injury and setback Transition from professional sport to entrepreneurship Building a second career: Manor House Stables and racing Football punditry and the modern Premier League Ideal for After-dinner audiences at corporate events, partner conferences and client hospitality Sales, leadership and high-performance offsites that want a credible sporting voice Brand and sponsorship activations where a recognisable name is part of the value Q and A and fireside formats with a host who can draw out career stories Audience outcomes A direct account of what world-class performance demands across a 17-year career Specific stories about Liverpool, Real Madrid, Manchester United and England rather than generalised lessons A candid view on injury, scrutiny and the pressure of being the youngest player in the room A working example of building a second career on purpose, through racing, broadcasting and writing