Risk Management

Why organisations work with Claire Williams A rare first-hand credential: one of only two women to have ever led a Formula 1 team, with seven years of operational accountability across a 1,800-person organisation. She negotiated the 2020 sale of Williams Racing to Dorilton Capital, securing the team’s future at a point when commercial terms and the pandemic were squeezing independent teams out of the sport. A commercial track record with specific deals attached, including a reported £65M sponsorship with Unilever and the growth of what became WAE Technologies, later acquired by Fortescue. A demonstrable record on representation: during her tenure, the proportion of women at Williams reached 17.6%, the highest in the F1 paddock, and she gave Susie Wolff her first F1 race weekend drive by a woman since 1992. Currently a recurring expert analyst on Netflix’s Drive to Survive, which keeps her commentary connected to the races and decisions audiences already follow. Biography highlights Deputy Team Principal of Williams Racing, 2013 to 2020, with day-to-day operational control of the Formula 1 team. Led Williams to consecutive third-place finishes in the Constructors’ Championship in 2014 and 2015, the team’s best results since 2003. Officer of the Order of the British Empire for services to Formula 1, awarded in the 2016 Birthday Honours. Brand Ambassador for Fortescue WAE (formerly Williams Advanced Engineering), the green-technologies business she helped grow during her tenure. Vice President of the Spinal Injuries Association; founded the Sir Frank Williams Academy for spinal cord injury care in April 2023. Recurring expert analyst on Netflix’s Drive to Survive, including the 2024 and 2025 editions. Biography The Formula 1 paddock runs on non-negotiable deadlines and live public scrutiny. Every operational decision lands against a fixed calendar of race weekends, with 1,800 staff to align and investors watching results on Sunday. Claire Williams ran Williams Racing in this environment for seven seasons as Deputy Team Principal, from 2013 to 2020. She took over day-to-day operation from her father, Sir Frank Williams, in 2013. The team had just come through some of the weakest years in its history. She replaced the race drivers, restructured the engineering department, switched to Mercedes engines, and secured the sponsorship deals that funded the rebuild. Williams finished third in the Constructors’ Championship in 2014 and again in 2015, its best results since 2003. Fortescue WAE grew under her watch from an internal sustainability unit into a commercial R&D business later acquired by Fortescue. The proportion of women at Williams reached 17.6%, the highest in the paddock. In 2014, Susie Wolff drove a Williams in a practice session, the first F1 race weekend drive by a woman since 1992. The OBE followed in 2016, for services to the sport. The final chapter was the hardest to execute. Faced with commercial terms that favoured the top teams and the financial impact of the pandemic, she negotiated the sale of Williams Racing to Dorilton Capital in August 2020. She stepped down after the Italian Grand Prix the following month. The sale secured the team’s future under new ownership after more than four decades of Williams family leadership in the sport. Key speaking topics Leadership in high-pressure, high-scrutiny environments High-performance team culture at scale Elite decision-making and operational accountability Commercial turnaround and succession Women in leadership in traditionally closed sectors Safety, risk, and learning cultures Ideal for CEOs, executive committees, and boards running organisations under sustained public scrutiny Senior leadership teams in high-stakes or heavily regulated sectors (financial services, sport, energy, aerospace) CHROs and heads of talent building high-performance cultures or advancing gender representation in traditionally closed sectors Transformation leaders and programme sponsors running commercial rebuilds or succession-stage handovers Audience outcomes A first-hand view of leadership inside a Formula 1 team under constant competitive and commercial pressure Reference points from elite-sport operations on accountability and how high-performing teams handle failure at scale A sharper read on what a commercial rebuild followed by a distressed exit requires from the person at the top A credible account of how representation is built in a closed sector, told through named decisions and measurable results

Why organisations work with Cole Brauer She has a first-person account of what it takes to run a high-stakes operation alone for 130 days, with no option to stop, and can translate that into language a board or executive team can actually use. She pairs the solo story with hard professional credibility: 2024 Rolex Yachtswoman of the Year, first all-female team to win the Bermuda One-Two, and a current seat on Team Malizia’s IMOCA 60 programme alongside Boris Herrmann. She speaks credibly about risk management and preparation, not as abstractions, but as the specific trade-offs that kept a 40-foot racing boat sailing through the Southern Ocean for four months. She reaches audiences outside the usual sailing world; her real-time documentation of the voyage built a following of nearly 400,000 people and changed who pays attention to offshore racing. She is a rare example of a young operator, not a retired one, describing lessons that are still being tested at elite level. Biography highlights First American woman to complete a solo, non-stop, unassisted circumnavigation, finishing second in the inaugural Global Solo Challenge in March 2024. 2024 Rolex Yachtswoman of the Year (US Sailing). Co-skipper, Team Malizia, competing on the IMOCA 60 in The Ocean Race Europe and the Course des Caps. Skipper of Class40 First Light; winner of the 2023 Bermuda One-Two with Cat Chimney, the first all-female team to take the race. Set a new reference time for a solo circumnavigation on a 40-foot boat, around seven days inside the previous mark. Featured across NBC News, The Washington Post, PBS NewsHour, and Robb Report for the Global Solo Challenge voyage. Biography Most people who survive 130 days alone at sea stop doing it afterwards. Cole Brauer came off the water in March 2024 as the first American woman to race solo, non-stop and unassisted around the world, and immediately began preparing for the next campaign. That sequence tells you most of what matters about how she works. The Global Solo Challenge took her 30,000 miles through the three Great Capes aboard First Light, a 40-foot Class40. She finished second overall out of 16 starters from 10 countries, set a new reference time for the class, and did it while injuring her ribs mid-race and managing a bout of dehydration that required her to insert her own IV under instruction from a remote medical team. US Sailing named her 2024 Rolex Yachtswoman of the Year the following February. The racing record is not a single-event story. In 2023 she and co-skipper Cat Chimney won the Bermuda One-Two outright, the first all-female team to do so, winning both legs by more than 12 hours. In 2025 she joined Team Malizia as co-skipper on the IMOCA 60 alongside Boris Herrmann and Will Harris, racing The Ocean Race Europe and the Course des Caps. Her longer target is the 2028 Vendee Globe. What a business audience gets from her is the operational texture of decision-making when there is no one to escalate to. She is specific about the preparation, the trade-offs she rejected, the moments she got it wrong, and how she rebuilt composure in the next watch. The voyage was also a communications exercise: near-daily video from the boat built an audience of nearly 400,000 and changed who follows offshore racing. That combination of elite performance and direct, unvarnished narration is what makes her useful to leadership teams trying to understand what real endurance looks like from the inside. Key speaking topics Decision-making under irreversible consequences Resilience and endurance in extreme environments Risk management and preparation High-performance offshore teams Leading yourself when no one is watching Narrative, visibility, and building a following around hard work Ideal for Executive and senior leadership off-sites focused on judgement under pressure Sales kickoffs and company-wide events where the goal is genuine inspiration backed by a specific story Risk, operations, and safety leadership audiences who want practitioner-level detail rather than metaphor Audience outcomes A vivid, concrete benchmark for what sustained performance under pressure actually requires Specific language for talking about preparation and risk that leaders can carry back into their own decisions A different model of resilience, rooted in routine, self-honesty, and recovery rather than willpower A reset on what courage looks like at working level, not a motivational abstraction

Why organisations work with Colin MacLachlan He has been the hostage, the hostage negotiator and the hostage rescuer. Very few people on any speaker roster have operated on all three sides of a crisis, and it shows in how he teaches boards to read one. His account of the 2005 Basra prison incident, including repeated mock executions before British forces broke through the compound walls, gives senior audiences an unvarnished view of composure under conditions no leadership course simulates. As an instructor on Series 1 of Channel 4’s SAS: Who Dares Wins, he has publicly assessed how ordinary civilians perform under Selection-grade pressure, which translates directly into honest diagnostics of corporate teams. He pairs the platform with clinical substance: co-founder of Who Dares Cares, a UK charity supporting Armed Forces and Blue Light personnel with PTSD, so the resilience content is built on years of live casework rather than stage anecdote. Author of The Pilgrim: SAS Who Dares Wins (Pen and Sword), endorsed by Bear Grylls, Chris Ryan, Andy McNab and Damien Lewis, which gives buyers a named, citable body of work to brief their leadership against. Biography highlights 22 SAS operator (Mountain Troop), serving in Northern Ireland, Iraq, Afghanistan and Sierra Leone. Took part in Operation Barras, the 2000 hostage rescue of British soldiers from the West Side Boys in Sierra Leone. Central figure in the Basra prison incident of September 2005, captured by Iraqi police and rescued by British forces. Instructor on Series 1 of Channel 4’s SAS: Who Dares Wins; contributor to Channel 5’s Secrets of the SAS. Author of The Pilgrim: SAS Who Dares Wins (Pen and Sword), endorsed by Bear Grylls, Chris Ryan, Andy McNab and Damien Lewis. Co-founder of Who Dares Cares, a UK charity supporting Armed Forces and Blue Light personnel living with PTSD. Biography Two British SAS soldiers were captured by Iraqi police in Basra on 19 September 2005 and held through a series of mock executions before a Warrior-led assault broke through the compound walls and extracted them. Colin MacLachlan was one of those two men. That single episode shapes how he talks to leadership teams about composure, and why serious audiences listen. The operational record behind it is equally specific. Mountain Troop in 22 SAS, deployments across Northern Ireland, Iraq, Afghanistan and Sierra Leone, and a role in Operation Barras, the 2000 hostage rescue against the West Side Boys. Hostage negotiation, hostage rescue and being taken hostage are three distinct problems. Very few operators have done all three, and that combined perspective is what gives his leadership argument its weight. The public-facing work gives buyers a body of evidence they can brief against. He was an instructor on Series 1 of Channel 4’s SAS: Who Dares Wins, putting civilians through Selection-grade pressure on camera, and a contributor to Channel 5’s Secrets of the SAS. His memoir, The Pilgrim: SAS Who Dares Wins, is published by Pen and Sword and carries cover endorsements from Bear Grylls, Chris Ryan, Andy McNab and Damien Lewis. He also co-founded Who Dares Cares, a UK charity supporting Armed Forces and Blue Light personnel with PTSD. That is what keeps the resilience material honest. When he tells a leadership team how stress shows up inside a person months after the event, the claim is backed by years of clinical casework, not a stage anecdote. Key speaking topics Leadership and decision-making under pressure Crisis response and high-stakes negotiation Team performance in hostile environments Resilience and recovery from acute stress Risk assessment and security awareness Hostage survival and the psychology of captivity Veteran mental health and post-traumatic growth Ideal for Boards and executive committees stress-testing how their leadership team behaves when a crisis is live, not rehearsed. CROs, heads of security and business-continuity leads responsible for people in volatile jurisdictions. CHROs and wellbeing leads building resilience programmes that need clinical credibility, not motivational theatre. Senior leadership offsites where the brief is composure, judgement and team cohesion under sustained pressure. Audience outcomes A concrete vocabulary for making decisions when information is incomplete and the cost of delay is high. A sharper read on how individuals and teams actually behave under acute stress, drawn from Selection-grade assessments and live operations. A working understanding of hostage and crisis negotiation logic that transfers to hostile commercial situations. A more honest view of post-traumatic stress and recovery, useful to anyone responsible for people who have been through a serious event. A memorable, citable set of operational examples that senior audiences take back into their own leadership conversations.

Why organisations work with Confidence Staveley A practitioner voice on cybersecurity rooted in build-side delivery: founder of a foundation that trains thousands of women across 22-plus African countries, not a commentator describing the field from outside it. Author of API Security for White Hat Hackers (Packt, 2024), a technical book serious enough to be used inside security teams, written with co-author Christopher Romeo. Sits on the World Economic Forum Global Future Council on Cybersecurity, giving boards a direct line to how global policy and operational practice are converging. Brings a developing-economy lens most bureau cyber speakers do not: digital trust, payment threat landscapes and capacity-building in markets where the cost of a breach lands differently. Operational credibility on the workforce question: her CyberGirls Fellowship has become a model programme cited in the World Bank 2023 practitioner note on closing the cyber skills gap. Biography highlights Founder and Executive Director, CyberSafe Foundation (Nigeria) Author, API Security for White Hat Hackers, Packt Publishing Member, World Economic Forum Global Future Council on Cybersecurity Member, Forbes Technology Council 2023 Cybersecurity Woman of the World Award; ISC2 Global Achievement Award Obama Foundation Leaders Africa, 2022 cohort SANS Institute Difference Maker Award, People’s Champion of the Year, 2024 Biography Most cybersecurity conversations at the board level still depend on the security team simplifying for everyone else. The translation rarely survives the journey. Confidence Staveley built her career on closing that gap, in technical depth and in commercial clarity. She is the founder of the CyberSafe Foundation, a Nigerian non-profit that has trained women across more than twenty African countries through its CyberGirls Fellowship. The programme is a working answer to the cyber skills shortage, recognised in a 2023 World Bank practitioner note as a model worth scaling. Alongside the foundation, she co-authored API Security for White Hat Hackers, published by Packt, a working manual for security engineers rather than a thought-leadership book. Her platform reflects that hybrid of practice and policy. She sits on the World Economic Forum Global Future Council on Cybersecurity, is a member of the Forbes Technology Council, and was selected for the Obama Foundation Leaders Africa cohort in 2022. The recognitions matter because of where they cluster: technical authority, governance, and inclusion of underserved talent into the global cyber workforce. What organisations book her for is the rare combination of board-credible framing and ground-floor delivery, with a perspective shaped by markets where the cost of digital failure shows up faster. The 2023 Cybersecurity Woman of the World Award placed her against roughly 160 nominees from women-in-cyber networks worldwide; she came out on top. That kind of recognition, from inside the industry rather than from a bureau, is what separates a working practitioner from a circuit speaker. Key speaking topics Cybersecurity as board-level risk Digital trust and the payment threat landscape API security and application risk The cybersecurity workforce gap Women and inclusion in cyber Cyber capacity-building in emerging markets Data protection in the digital economy Ideal for Boards and audit committees treating cyber as a governance question CISOs, CIOs and CTOs are briefing executive teams on workforce and risk Financial services, fintech and payments leadership confronting fraud and digital trust Global organisations with African operations or talent strategy in the region Audience outcomes A clearer board-level vocabulary for cyber risk, separated from technical jargon A sharper read on where the cybersecurity workforce gap is widening, and what is actually working to close it A practitioner’s view of API and application security risk in commercial terms A more honest framing of inclusion in cyber as a talent-supply question, not a values statement

Why organisations work with Sir Craig Oliver He has run communications at the top of a G7 government through a general election, a referendum campaign, and the daily crisis tempo of Number 10. Few advisers carry that operating experience into corporate rooms. His Brexit account, Unleashing Demons, is the basis for a serialised national newspaper extract and a Channel 4 drama. The book gives a serious, named case study of how a high-stakes campaign was actually run, win or lose. As Co-Global Head of Strategy and Reputation at FGS Global, he advises listed companies and boards on reputation strategy. His commentary is grounded in current corporate work, not retired political memory. He brings senior broadcast craft to live events. Editing the BBC Ten and Six O’Clock News and running BBC Global English output is a different discipline from political spokesmanship, and it shows in his moderation. Biography highlights Director of Politics and Communications, 10 Downing Street, under Prime Minister David Cameron (2011 to 2016) Knighted in the 2016 Resignation Honours Partner and Co-Global Head of Strategy and Reputation, FGS Global Author of Unleashing Demons: The Inside Story of Brexit (Hodder & Stoughton), the basis for Channel 4’s Brexit: The Uncivil War Former editor of BBC Ten O’Clock News and Six O’Clock News; former Controller of English, BBC Global News Trustee, Make A Wish UK Biography The Brexit referendum was lost by the side that controlled the machinery of government. Sir Craig Oliver was inside that machinery, running communications and politics for David Cameron from Number 10. His book Unleashing Demons documents the campaign from the rooms where it was decided, and gave Channel 4 the basis for Brexit: The Uncivil War. He spent six years as Director of Politics and Communications at Downing Street, from 2011 to 2016, across a coalition government, a majority general election win, and the referendum that ended the Cameron premiership. He was knighted in the 2016 Resignation Honours. Before politics, he ran some of the most-watched news programmes in British broadcasting. He edited the BBC Ten O’Clock News and Six O’Clock News, then took on multiplatform commissioning across BBC Global News English output. The training is editorial, not press office. It shows in how he handles a stage and a panel. He now advises listed companies and chief executives as Partner and Co-Global Head of Strategy and Reputation at FGS Global. The work is current. The case studies he draws on are not all twelve years old, and senior buyers feel that quickly when he is in the room. Key speaking topics Reputation strategy under political and media pressure Crisis communications and decision-making at the top The communications interface between the boards and the government Political risk and public affairs for corporate leaders Campaign strategy and message discipline Broadcast media and the modern news cycle Ideal for Boards, CEOs and chairs preparing for high-stakes public communication CCOs, heads of corporate affairs and government affairs teams Conferences and private gatherings are looking for an experienced senior moderator or event host Leadership teams briefing on political risk, election cycles, or referendum dynamics Audience outcomes A clearer reading of how political and media pressure actually moves around a senior leader, drawn from inside Number 10 Sharper instincts on what to say, what to hold, and what to release in a crisis A senior view of the reputation function and how chief executives should use it Practical sense of how broadcast and digital media interact in a live story A working frame for the public-affairs interface, from someone who has sat on both sides

Why organisations work with Daisy McAndrew She has chaired panels, awards and leadership forums for clients including Samsung, HPE and ABTA, and returns to the same rooms because she reads a stage the way a lobby journalist reads a division lobby. Thirty years inside Westminster, first as a Commons researcher and Liberal Democrat press secretary, then as a BBC and ITV News political and economics correspondent, gives her a working map of how UK policy actually gets made. She can interview a chief executive, a cabinet minister or a customer keynote without a script change, which matters when a board-level event pivots on the day. She combines a broadcaster’s discipline about time and tone with the subject authority of a former national Economics Editor, so she can run a technical panel on rates, trade or regulation without deferring to the panellists. NBC News retains her as Royal Commentator, which signals that US networks trust her on camera at short notice under live political conditions. Biography highlights Former Chief Political Correspondent, Economics Editor and Special Correspondent, ITV News (2005 to 2012). Former co-presenter, BBC Daily Politics, alongside Andrew Neil, and presenter of Yesterday in Parliament, BBC Radio 4. Former Press Secretary to Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy. Former Editor of The House Magazine, Westminster’s weekly parliamentary publication. Royal Commentator for NBC News, United States. Former Vice-Chair, Internews Europe, the international media-development charity. Biography Westminster is not a neutral place to report from. Understanding how a tax change, a whip’s decision or a regulatory signal translates into a market move takes years of standing in the same corridors as the people making those calls. That is the ground Daisy McAndrew has covered for three decades. She began in the House of Commons as an MP’s researcher at nineteen, edited The House Magazine in the mid-1990s, and was Press Secretary to Charles Kennedy when he led the Liberal Democrats. Moving to broadcasting, she co-presented BBC’s Daily Politics with Andrew Neil before ITV News hired her as Chief Political Correspondent in 2005, then promoted her to Economics Editor in 2008. She reported the credit crunch and the subsequent recession from across the UK, and filed extended pieces on the French and German economies. She left ITV as its most senior female reporter. Her corporate work sits on the same foundation. She chairs conferences, moderates board-level panels, and hosts awards for clients including Samsung, HPE and ABTA, and is rebooked for the reason senior buyers rebook anyone: she runs the room. An executive chair can hand her a late script change, a difficult CEO, or a technical panel on trade or monetary policy and trust the output. She is NBC News’s Royal Commentator in the United States, was Vice-Chair of the Internews Europe trustee board until June 2023, and edited The Politics Companion for Chrysalis Books. Key speaking topics UK politics and government UK economic policy and the business environment Political risk for corporate and investor audiences Media, political communication and the British press The British Royal Family and soft-power coverage Conference hosting, panel moderation and awards chairing Ideal for Boards, investor conferences and CEO forums wanting a UK political and economic read they can act on CCOs, heads of public affairs and government relations teams briefing leadership on policy exposure Industry trade bodies and regulated-sector conferences needing a chair who can handle ministers, executives and journalists on the same stage Internal leadership summits and awards where the host must carry scripted and unscripted segments with equal authority Audience outcomes A clearer read on which Westminster and Whitehall developments actually change commercial conditions, and which do not. A sharper sense of how political communication works from the inside, from lobby briefings to Downing Street signalling. On-stage interviews, panels and awards segments that land on time, on message and with the right tension held between speakers. Context on UK economic policy drawn from first-hand reporting on the credit crunch, recession recovery and successive fiscal cycles. A senior journalistic presence that steadies a room when the agenda, speaker line-up or news cycle shifts on the day.

Why organisations work with Dambisa Moyo Few macroeconomists hold simultaneous directorships at companies of the scale of Chevron, Starbucks, and Condé Nast. From that seat she has spent two decades answering the question now on every board’s table: where the next dollar goes when the old growth assumptions stop working. Her four New York Times bestsellers gave decision-makers a vocabulary for the questions that now dominate board agendas: aid dependency, the West’s structural decline, China’s resource strategy, the failure of democratic capitalism to deliver growth, and how boards themselves should function. As Chair of the Economic Club of New York, she convenes the forum where Fed chairs, heads of state, and Fortune 500 CEOs publicly debate the economy. That puts her at the centre of the conversations her clients are trying to anticipate. She is a serving member of the House of Lords as Baroness Moyo of Knightsbridge, which gives her a working line of sight into how policy, regulation, and geopolitics actually move. Her training is unusually broad for a public macro voice: a DPhil in Economics from Oxford, an MPA from Harvard Kennedy, plus eight years inside Goldman Sachs research. Audiences get a practitioner, not a commentator. Biography highlights DPhil in Economics, St Antony’s College, Oxford; MPA, Harvard Kennedy School Eight years at Goldman Sachs in research; two years at the World Bank Chair of the Economic Club of New York; current board director at Chevron, Condé Nast, and Starbucks; member of the Oxford University Endowment Investment Committee; trustee of the National Geographic Society Prior public-company boards include Barclays, SABMiller, Barrick Gold, 3M, and Seagate Technology Life peer in the United Kingdom House of Lords as Baroness Moyo of Knightsbridge (created 2022) Author of Dead Aid, How the West Was Lost, Winner Take All, Edge of Chaos, and How Boards Work; recipient of the Hayek Lifetime Achievement Award (2013) and TIME 100 (2009) Biography The argument that ran through forty years of cheap goods, cheap money and integrated supply chains has stopped working. Capital allocators now have to price geopolitics into every decision, and most of the management vocabulary they grew up with was built for a different world. Dambisa Moyo’s career has been spent on exactly this fault line. Her first book, Dead Aid, took on the development consensus and argued that aid dependency was choking African growth. How the West Was Lost and Winner Take All extended the argument into the structural decline of advanced economies and China’s strategic accumulation of commodities. Edge of Chaos asked whether liberal democracies can still deliver economic growth at all. The books are not adjacent to her speaking; they are the speaking. The credentials behind the argument are unusual. A DPhil in Economics from Oxford and an MPA from Harvard Kennedy, eight years inside Goldman Sachs research, simultaneous directorships at Chevron, Condé Nast, and Starbucks, a seat in the House of Lords as Baroness Moyo of Knightsbridge, and, since 2026, the chair of the Economic Club of New York. The combination is rare because it spans rooms that usually do not talk to each other: the academy, the trading floor, the boardroom, and the forum where they meet in public. What makes her useful in a leadership setting is that she has had to act on her own analysis. The question of how to allocate capital across China exposure, energy transition timelines and political risk is not a thought experiment for her; it is the agenda of the boards she sits on. How Boards Work, her most recent book, was written from that seat. Key speaking topics Global macroeconomics and capital allocation Geopolitics and the future of globalisation China and the contest for resources Democracy, governance and economic growth Energy transition and the cost of capital Corporate governance and how boards should function Emerging markets and frontier investment Ideal for Boards and investment committees pricing geopolitical and macro risk into capital decisions CEOs, CFOs and Chief Strategy Officers reassessing China exposure, supply chain footprint and growth assumptions Asset managers, family offices and institutional investors setting long-horizon allocation strategy Senior leadership offsites where the economic and geopolitical context for the next plan is the agenda Audience outcomes A clearer reading of how geopolitical fracture, sanctions regimes and energy transition are reshaping the cost of capital A defensible view on China’s resource strategy and what it implies for Western corporates and investors A working framework for how boards should govern in a more politicised, slower-growth global economy Confidence to challenge consensus assumptions about globalisation, growth and aid that no longer hold

Why organisations work with Damon Hill His championship was not won from a position of privilege or natural advantage. Hill self-financed his junior career, started F1 with a team that folded mid-season, and was dismissed by Williams on the day he became World Champion. The argument for persistence and composure under adversity is the literal story of his career, not a theme applied to it afterwards. Across three consecutive seasons his primary rival was Michael Schumacher. In two of them, the championship was settled at the final race. That direct, tested experience of executing under maximum competitive scrutiny, when everything is at stake and a better-resourced rival is closing, is specific to him and cannot be replicated by other speakers in this topic area. As one of only two sons of an F1 World Champion to win the title themselves, Hill brings a distinctive perspective on performing under inherited expectation, legacy pressure, and public scrutiny; a dynamic immediately recognisable to second-generation business leaders, acquired organisations, and teams carrying institutional reputations. His autobiography, Watching the Wheels (Pan Macmillan, 2016), disclosed post-retirement depression with unusual candour for an elite sportsperson of his generation. That frankness about the psychological cost of sustained high performance gives him credibility in discussions about mental resilience that most athlete speakers avoid. His tenure as BRDC President (2006-2011) required institutional leadership in a complex stakeholder environment, including negotiating the 17-year contract that secured the British Grand Prix at Silverstone. It is a demonstrable leadership record beyond the cockpit, relevant to audiences dealing with governance, stakeholder management, and long-term institutional decisions. Biography highlights 1996 FIA F1 World Drivers’ Champion with Williams; 22 Grand Prix victories across eight seasons One of only two sons of an F1 World Champion to win the title themselves Twice named BBC Sports Personality of the Year (1994 and 1996) BRDC President (2006-2011), succeeding Sir Jackie Stewart; negotiated the 17-year contract securing the British Grand Prix at Silverstone Author of Watching the Wheels (Pan Macmillan, 2016), a candid account of elite performance, grief, and post-career depression Sky Sports F1 pundit for 13 seasons (2012-2024); appointed Williams F1 Ambassador in February 2026 Biography The 1996 Formula One Drivers’ Championship was not won by the most naturally gifted driver on the grid. Hill self-financed his junior career, started F1 with a team that folded mid-season, and was told his services were no longer required by Williams on the day he became champion. The title was built through persistence, technical precision, and composure under conditions designed to break both. What gives Hill’s perspective organisational value is the specificity of those conditions. Across three consecutive seasons, his primary rival was Michael Schumacher. In two of them the championship was decided at the final race, including the notorious 1994 finale in Adelaide. Maintaining judgment and execution quality when pressure is at its most extreme is the argument his career makes, and it maps directly to what organisations face in genuinely competitive markets. After retirement, Hill served as President of the British Racing Drivers’ Club from 2006 to 2011, succeeding Sir Jackie Stewart. He negotiated the 17-year contract that secured the British Grand Prix at Silverstone and oversaw the circuit’s major redevelopment. It was institutional leadership in a complex stakeholder environment – a different dimension to the individual performance story, and a credible one. Hill’s autobiography, Watching the Wheels (Pan Macmillan, 2016), disclosed post-retirement depression with unusual candour for an elite sportsperson of his generation. That frankness about the psychological cost of sustained performance gives him a credibility that statistics alone cannot. And as one of only two sons of an F1 World Champion to have won the title, his perspective on legacy, expectation, and self-determination is specific to him. Key speaking topics High performance under competitive pressure Leadership and decision-making in extreme conditions Resilience and recovery from sustained adversity Team performance and composure under scrutiny Risk management in high-stakes environments Performance culture in elite sport Institutional leadership and stakeholder negotiation Ideal for Senior leadership and C-suite teams preparing for periods of intense competitive pressure or strategic inflection Sales, trading, and performance-led organisations benchmarking mindset and execution against elite standards HR, talent, and organisational development leaders working on resilience, psychological safety, and sustained performance Financial services, professional services, and corporate conference audiences seeking leadership insight grounded in direct competitive experience Audience outcomes A clear framework for understanding how composure and judgment quality, not raw capability, determine outcomes when competitive pressure is highest Practical insight into how elite performers and teams sustain execution quality through adversity, loss, and periods of institutional change A model for distinguishing between risk aversion and disciplined risk management, drawn from direct competitive experience in an unforgiving environment Greater awareness of the psychological dimensions of peak performance and the personal cost of sustained high achievement Specific lessons applicable to performance culture, team alignment, and decision-making under pressure in corporate contexts

Why organisations work with Dan Restrepo He sat in the White House Situation Room as the Obama administration’s point person on the Americas, and he explains U.S. policy toward the region with the authority of someone who helped write it. He holds a current corporate board seat at MasTec, a New York Stock Exchange-listed infrastructure group, which gives his risk analysis a boardroom register rather than a think-tank one. His published argument on hemispheric migration, carried in Foreign Affairs and Americas Quarterly, reframes migration as a management problem for governments and investors, not a humanitarian talking point. He works in English and Spanish across U.S., Latin American, and Iberian audiences, with on-air experience on CNN and CNN en Espanol that makes him effective in front of mixed-language rooms. Through Dinamica Americas and Restrepo Strategies he advises firms actively making investment, market-entry, and government-relations decisions across the region, so the analysis lands on live questions rather than historical ones. Biography highlights Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Western Hemisphere Affairs, National Security Council, March 2009 to July 2012, under President Barack Obama. Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress, focused on U.S. policy in the Americas. Founder and managing director, Restrepo Strategies; Founding Partner, Dinamica Americas. Class II Director, MasTec, Inc. (NYSE: MTZ). On-air contributor, CNN and CNN en Espanol; published in Foreign Affairs and Americas Quarterly. Named one of America’s most influential Latinos three times by Poder magazine; J.D., University of Pennsylvania Law School; former judicial clerk, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Biography The U.S. relationship with Latin America has never mapped neatly onto a single policy frame. Trade, migration, narcotics, Cuba, Venezuela, and the competition for influence with China all run through the same capitals and the same meetings. For nearly six years, Dan Restrepo sat at the centre of that portfolio as President Obama’s principal advisor on the Americas, first as a campaign surrogate and then as Senior Director for Western Hemisphere Affairs at the National Security Council. That experience shapes the way he advises boards and executives now. Through Restrepo Strategies and as Founding Partner of Dinamica Americas, he works with U.S. firms operating in Latin America and with Latin and Iberian firms operating in the United States. The brief is usually the same: read the political signal correctly, price it, and decide what to do about it before the market does. Published work in Foreign Affairs and Americas Quarterly has put him on record arguing that migration in the Americas is a management challenge, not a crisis narrative, and that the tools already exist to handle it if governments choose to use them. On CNN and CNN en Espanol he translates U.S. domestic politics and hemispheric policy in both English and Spanish, which is part of why Spanish-speaking boards and U.S. leadership teams hire him for the same conversation. His seat as a Class II Director on the board of MasTec, a listed U.S. infrastructure group, is the detail that distinguishes him from most policy voices. He has used it. The analysis buyers get is not an academic read on the region but a directorial one, tested against the kind of operational decisions boards actually make. Key speaking topics U.S. policy in the Western Hemisphere U.S.-Mexico relations and the border Migration strategy across the Americas Political risk in Latin America U.S. domestic politics and its foreign policy consequences Investment climate and market entry in the Americas Cuba, Venezuela, and U.S. engagement with authoritarian regimes Ideal for Boards and executive committees of firms with operations, supply chains, or expansion plans in Latin America and the Caribbean Chief strategy officers, heads of government affairs, and risk committees pricing Western Hemisphere exposure Latin American and Iberian corporates preparing for U.S. market entry, regulatory engagement, or capital raises Investor conferences, family offices, and financial institutions with dedicated Americas portfolios Audience outcomes A clear read on where U.S. policy toward Latin America is heading and what the administration is likely to do next A practical framework for distinguishing political noise from decisions that will actually move capital, trade, and talent Specific judgment on U.S.-Mexico, migration, Venezuela, Cuba, and Brazil, delivered with the authority of someone who has negotiated in the region The confidence to ask sharper questions of internal country teams, local partners, and government affairs advisers

Why organisations work with Dan Walters Five decades inside the Sacramento Capitol press corps, from Jerry Brown’s first governorship to the current administration, with relationships that predate most of the elected officials he covers. Founding editor of the California Political Almanac and co-author of The Third House, the standard reference on lobbying inside the California legislature. One of the few commentators who reads the state budget, the floor calendar and the ballot initiative pipeline as a single connected system, then explains it in language a board can act on. Over 9,000 columns syndicated across dozens of California papers, with a track record of calling political and fiscal shifts before they reach the national press. Biography highlights Opinion columnist, CalMatters (2017 to present), writing four times weekly on California politics and policy. Daily column previously ran in The Sacramento Bee for 33 years and The Sacramento Union for three. Author, The New California: Facing the 21st Century, used as a college text on California socioeconomic and political trends. Co-author, The Third House: Lobbyists, Money and Power in Sacramento (University of California Press). Founding editor, California Political Almanac. Frequent on-air commentator on California policy for CNN, Fox and PBS SoCal. Biography California’s legislature, governor’s office and ballot system together set policy that reshapes regulation, labour costs and capital allocation across the country. Reading that system from the outside is hard. Reading it from inside the Capitol press corps for fifty years is a different proposition. Walters joined the Sacramento Union’s Capitol bureau in 1975, became its bureau chief, and in 1981 launched the only daily newspaper column dedicated to California state politics. He moved the column to The Sacramento Bee in 1984, where it ran for 33 years, then to CalMatters in 2017, where it continues four times a week. The total now exceeds 9,000 columns syndicated across dozens of California papers. The body of work behind the column matters. The New California: Facing the 21st Century, drawn from a 9,000-mile drive through all 58 counties, became a college text on the state’s socioeconomic direction. The Third House, co-authored and published by the University of California Press, remains a standard reference on how lobbying actually functions inside the California legislature. He is also the founding editor of the California Political Almanac. For an audience trying to anticipate California’s next move, that history is the value. Walters can name which committees decide what, which lobbies are ascendant, which budget assumptions are about to fail and which initiatives have the signatures to reach the ballot. CNN, Fox and PBS SoCal use him as a California policy commentator for the same reason boards do: he has been inside the room while the rules were being written. Key speaking topics California political and policy outlook Sacramento legislative and budget process Lobbying and interest-group power in California California ballot initiatives and direct democracy California’s economic and demographic trajectory Public works planning and finance under polarised politics Election-year political climate Ideal for Boards, general counsel and government-affairs leaders with material California exposure Industry associations, infrastructure and public-works bodies operating in the state Investors and operators tracking California regulatory and fiscal direction Public agencies, joint-powers authorities and policy convenings Audience outcomes A clearer read of where California policy is heading on tax, regulation and spending Specific names and committee dynamics behind the issues most relevant to their sector A working sense of which interest groups are winning and losing inside Sacramento Sharper questions for their own government-affairs and risk teams Distinction between political theatre and the decisions that will actually move

Why organisations work with Dana Lewis Three decades of frontline reporting across more than 50 countries, including Moscow, Jerusalem, Iraq, and Afghanistan, bring first-hand authority to any panel on geopolitical risk. Twelve years based in Russia and fluent Russian give him context on Moscow, the Kremlin, and the wider post-Soviet space that few moderators in the market can match. Embedded assignments with the 101st Airborne, 82nd Airborne, 10th Mountain Division, and U.S. Marines in Iraq and Afghanistan make him credible on military and security subjects that often defeat generalist hosts. Interviews with heads of state including Vladimir Putin, King Hussein of Jordan, Benjamin Netanyahu, and Shimon Peres translate directly into the composure and pace required to hold a senior panel. Overseas Press Club awards for coverage of the Kursk submarine disaster and the Kosovo war, plus an Emmy nomination for his reporting on Russian orphans, back the billing with recognition from named bodies. Biography highlights Former Moscow correspondent for NBC News and Moscow Bureau Chief for Fox News, one of the longest-serving Western reporters based in Russia. Jerusalem-based Middle East Bureau Chief for CTV, covering Israel, the Palestinian territories, and the wider region. Correspondent credits with Fox News, NBC News, CBS News, CBC News, and CTV National News; contributor to Al Jazeera America. Embedded with U.S. forces for the 2003 Iraq invasion with the 101st Airborne and on multiple Afghanistan rotations including Helmand Province. Host of BACK STORY With DANA LEWIS, a world affairs podcast featuring interviews with former officials and subject experts. Overseas Press Club awards for the Kursk submarine disaster and the Kosovo war; Emmy nomination for Russian orphans reporting. Biography Moscow, Jerusalem, Kabul, and Baghdad are not datelines Dana Lewis covered from a hotel balcony. He lived in Russia for 12 years as NBC News Moscow correspondent and later Fox News Moscow Bureau Chief, one of the longest continuously based Western reporters in the country. Before that he ran CTV’s Middle East bureau out of Jerusalem through the 1990s. That grounding matters when a board is asked to think about Russia, Ukraine, Iran, or the Gulf. Lewis has interviewed Vladimir Putin, King Hussein of Jordan, Benjamin Netanyahu, and Shimon Peres. He was embedded with the 101st Airborne for the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and with the 82nd Airborne, 10th Mountain Division, and U.S. Marines across multiple Afghanistan tours including Helmand Province. He reports in English and Russian. The awards sit underneath the reporting, not in front of it. Overseas Press Club recognition for the Kursk submarine disaster and the Kosovo war, an Emmy nomination for a story on Russian orphans, and decades of assignments for Fox News, NBC News, CBS News, CBC News, CTV National News, and Al Jazeera America. Today he is based in London, hosts the BACK STORY With DANA LEWIS podcast on world affairs, and appears regularly on TRT World, LBC Radio, and ABC News Australia. For event organisers he works as a moderator, conference host, and interviewer, putting the same instincts that governed a live two-way from a war zone to work on a corporate stage. Key speaking topics Russia and the Kremlin Middle East conflict and security Geopolitical risk and foreign policy War reporting and frontline journalism International media and world affairs Event hosting, moderation, and executive interviews Ideal for Board and executive briefings on Russia, Ukraine, and the wider post-Soviet region Conferences requiring a moderator or host with authority on geopolitics and security Media panels and journalism programmes exploring war reporting and foreign correspondence Awards ceremonies and corporate events seeking a broadcast-trained presenter Audience outcomes A clearer read on the Kremlin’s logic and the constraints shaping Russian foreign policy A grounded sense of how Middle East conflicts connect to European and global risk An on-stage conversation moderated at the pace and standard of live network television First-hand colour from inside Moscow, Jerusalem, Kabul, and Baghdad that sharpens abstract risk discussions

Why organisations work with Daniel Lacalle He is one of the few macro voices who has run institutional capital at Citadel and PIMCO, which means his read on central banks, rates and currencies is shaped by position-taking, not commentary. His work on monetary policy, set out in Escape from the Central Bank Trap, gives boards a specific framework for understanding why stimulus produces weaker growth and persistent inflation rather than the recovery policymakers promise. The Energy World Is Flat anticipated the structural shift in oil, gas and commodity markets that now sits at the centre of every industrial capital plan, energy security review and net zero financing decision. He sits across the macro and the energy desk in a way almost no other economist on the speaking circuit does, which matters for any board with significant exposure to commodities, infrastructure or sovereign risk. A regular voice on CNBC, Bloomberg, the Wall Street Journal and the World Economic Forum Agenda, so the analysis a room hears in private is the analysis institutional investors are pricing in public. Biography highlights Chief Economist at Tressis SV; former Vice President at PIMCO and portfolio manager at Citadel and Ecofin Limited. Professor of Global Economics at IE Business School and lecturer at the London School of Economics. Author of Life in the Financial Markets (Wiley), The Energy World Is Flat (Wiley), Escape from the Central Bank Trap (Business Expert Press) and Freedom or Equality (Post Hill Press). Ranked among the world’s twenty most influential economists by Richtopia in 2016, 2017 and 2019, and placed fifth in 2020. Voted Top 3 in the Thomson Reuters Extel Survey for five consecutive years across generalist, oil and electricity categories. Regular contributor to CNBC, Bloomberg, the Wall Street Journal, Fox News and the World Economic Forum Agenda, and weekly columnist for El Español. Biography Central banks have spent fifteen years running the largest monetary experiment in modern history. Boards now have to allocate capital inside the consequences. Daniel Lacalle has spent his career on the side of the trade where being wrong about the macro has a price, first at Citadel, then at Ecofin, then as Vice President at PIMCO. That experience sits underneath the books. Escape from the Central Bank Trap argues that easy money produces fragile balance sheets, asset inflation and weaker real growth, not the recovery policymakers describe. The Energy World Is Flat, written before the shale revolution remade global oil markets, set out why the assumptions priced into long-dated energy contracts no longer held. Both have moved from contrarian reading to mainstream reference inside investment committees. Since 2015 he has been Chief Economist at Tressis SV and a professor of global economics at IE Business School, with lecturing roles at the London School of Economics and IEB. His weekly commentary in El Español, his monthly slots on CNBC and Bloomberg, and his contributions to the World Economic Forum Agenda give boards a continuous read on rates, currencies, sovereign debt and energy that lines up with how institutional capital is actually positioned. The reason serious organisations book him is narrower than the topic list suggests. He is one of a small number of speakers who can sit across monetary policy and energy markets at the same time, with the credibility of having priced both inside a fund. For any board with material exposure to commodities, sovereign risk, or the cost of capital, that is the conversation that matters. Key speaking topics Monetary policy and central bank intervention Inflation, currencies and the cost of capital Global energy markets and security of supply Sovereign debt and fiscal sustainability Macroeconomic risk and capital allocation Geopolitics and global financial markets Ideal for Boards, investment committees and CFOs reviewing capital allocation under rate and currency volatility Energy, utilities and industrial leadership teams managing commodity exposure and the economics of the energy transition Banking, asset management and family office audiences setting macro positioning Sovereign and policy audiences working on fiscal, monetary and energy questions Audience outcomes A direct read on what current central bank policy implies for inflation, rates and the real cost of capital over a multi-year horizon A defensible view of structural conditions in global oil, gas and power markets, and what they mean for industrial investment A sharper sense of where sovereign and currency risk is being mispriced, and what that means for cross-border exposure The macro framing institutional investors are actually using, expressed in language a board can act on