Storytelling & Business Communication

Why organisations work with Raheela Mahomed A working anchor’s interview discipline applied to corporate panels: senior speakers get pressed cleanly on the questions an audience actually wants answered, without the host losing the room. Subject fluency across digital transformation, climate and sustainability, geopolitics and DEI, built from live news coverage rather than a single specialism, useful for agendas that span more than one track. International newsroom credibility from Al Jazeera English, CNN International and DW News, including a co-presented Emmy-nominated programme, NewsGrid, that translates immediately for global audiences. A studio operator who can hold a live, multi-camera broadcast format on stage, demonstrated on SAP’s Sapphire Now and at the Future of Media Leaders Summit in Doha. Biography highlights News anchor, Deutsche Welle (DW News), Berlin, since 2021; presenter of hourly bulletins and DW News Africa. Eight years at Al Jazeera English in Doha, anchoring the flagship Newshour and serving as Indonesia correspondent. Co-presenter and producer of NewsGrid, Al Jazeera English’s interactive news programme, International Emmy nominee in News, 2018. Earlier roles at CNN International, including contribution to the launch of the CNN Freedom Project on human trafficking. Current contributor to BBC World News on Ukraine, Israel and Gaza, and Iran. Conference host and moderator for SAP’s Sapphire Now and the Future of Media Leaders Summit, Doha; UN conference speaker at Shoko Festival Hub in Harare. BA Journalism, University of Westminster; MA International Public Policy, University College London; BRIT School alumna. Biography A live news desk is the closest professional analogue to a complex corporate stage. Both demand fluency across unfamiliar subjects, the ability to ask a sharper question than was scripted, and the composure to keep an audience inside a story that could otherwise unravel. Raheela Mahomed has worked that desk for more than a decade. Her anchoring career runs through three of the major international broadcasters. At CNN International she covered the 2012 Olympics, the Arab Spring and Egypt’s elections, and contributed to the launch of the CNN Freedom Project on human trafficking. From 2012 to 2020 she was based in Doha for Al Jazeera English, presenting the flagship Newshour, serving as Indonesia correspondent, and co-presenting NewsGrid, an interactive news show nominated for an International Emmy in News in 2018. Since 2021 she has been a news anchor at Deutsche Welle in Berlin, hosting hourly English-language bulletins and DW News Africa across the pandemic, Sudan, the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, and the war in Ukraine. She also contributes to BBC World News on Israel and Gaza and on Iran. The same instincts carry into corporate work: hosting SAP’s Sapphire Now in 2021, moderating Digital Transformation at the Future of Media Leaders Summit in Doha, and speaking on the future of broadcasting at the UN’s Shoko Festival Hub in Harare. Her academic grounding is in international public policy, with a master’s from UCL on top of a journalism degree from the University of Westminster and time at the BRIT School. The combination matters at the front of a room: enough policy literacy to chase a serious answer, enough broadcast technique to keep the show moving when a panellist runs long. Key speaking topics Conference hosting and emcee Panel moderation Digital transformation Climate and sustainability International affairs and geopolitics Diversity, equity and inclusion Future of broadcasting and media Ideal for Corporate summits and customer conferences needing a credible main-stage host across a multi-track agenda. Communications, marketing and corporate affairs teams running flagship industry events with senior external speakers. ESG, sustainability and DEI forums where panel discussion needs to be pressed harder than a friendly chair would. Internal leadership town halls and global all-hands where a working broadcast anchor can hold a live format on camera. Audience outcomes A main-stage event that holds shape across keynotes, panels and Q&A, with timing kept and senior speakers asked the questions the audience came for. Panel sessions that surface the actual disagreement on stage rather than a round of prepared statements. A broadcast-grade hosting register suitable for streamed, hybrid and on-camera formats, not only in-room. Coverage of digital, geopolitical and sustainability sessions by a host with the literacy to follow the substance, not only the script.

Why organisations work with Nina Moghaddam Two decades of live broadcast and corporate event hosting across Super RTL, RTL, RTLZWEI, ProSieben, VOX, Sat.1 and WDR, including current presentation of Lokalzeit OWL and the consumer affairs programme Servicezeit on WDR. Fluent in six languages (German, English, French, Spanish, Farsi and Mandarin), which means she can hold a multilingual room without flipping to translation. Particularly useful for international audiences and for German-Persian programmes. A corporate moderation portfolio across automotive, FMCG, foundation and public-sector clients. Includes Audi, Porsche, MAN, FERRERO, the Liz Mohn Stiftung at Bertelsmann (Zeitenwende on tour) and the City of Cologne (Viva la Green). A personal sustainability practice running back to 2014 (her HappyAndFitDIY YouTube channel, focused on homemade sustainable beauty products), which gives her honest footing on climate-themed agendas without playing the substantive expert. Works as a Moderationstrainerin, coaching others in presentation and moderation craft. For internal events, this means she can prep speakers and panel chairs ahead of the day, not only host the room. Biography highlights Current presenter of Lokalzeit OWL on WDR (since February 2024) and Servicezeit on WDR (since 2025). Two-decade run as a presenter on Super RTL, RTL and RTLZWEI, including Toggo TV, WOW Die Entdeckerzone, Kiddy Contest, Deutschland sucht den Superstar Das Magazin, Das Supertalent Backstage, and Wohnen nach Wunsch Das Haus on VOX. Adolf-Grimme-Preis nominee in 2005 (Spezial category) for her work on Super RTL’s youth programming. Studied Regional Studies East Asia (China focus) at the University of Cologne. Speaks German, English, French, Spanish, Farsi and Mandarin. Corporate event portfolio includes Audi, Porsche, MAN, REWE Group, FERRERO, Vodafone, UNESCO, the Liz Mohn Stiftung at Bertelsmann (Zeitenwende on tour) and the City of Cologne (Viva la Green). Operates the HappyAndFitDIY YouTube channel since 2014, focused on homemade and sustainable beauty products. Also coaches presenters as a Moderationstrainerin. Biography Most corporate sustainability programmes share the same failure mode: a celebrity host who introduces but cannot moderate, and a panel that reverts to talking points by question two. The organisations doing this work seriously want a different kind of room, one where a host knows the territory well enough to ask the right second question. Moghaddam has spent more than twenty years on German live television. She presented Toggo TV, WOW and Kiddy Contest on Super RTL in the early 2000s, work that earned her a Grimme-Preis nomination in 2005. From there she moved to RTL, anchoring the backstage magazines for Deutschland sucht den Superstar and Das Supertalent. She now presents Lokalzeit OWL and Servicezeit on WDR. That broadcast spine carries into a corporate setting. Live television teaches four habits: hold a drifting panel, keep an executive answer crisp, recover from a missed cue, and never let the room feel the strain. Her client list reflects where this lands: Audi, Porsche, MAN, FERRERO, REWE Group, UNESCO and the City of Cologne (Viva la Green). Foundation work includes Zeitenwende on tour for the Liz Mohn Stiftung at Bertelsmann. Her sustainability footing comes from personal practice. She has run the HappyAndFitDIY YouTube channel since 2014, focused on homemade sustainable beauty products, which gives her honest credibility on climate-themed agendas. The booking is for moderation craft. Senior corporate audiences on values-led programmes get a host who has run live television for two decades and works in six languages including Farsi and Mandarin. Key speaking topics Corporate event moderation and hosting Awards ceremonies and gala moderation Sustainability and conscious consumption Climate-themed corporate programmes Multilingual and cross-cultural events Presentation and moderation coaching Ideal for Sustainability summits, ESG awards programmes, climate-themed corporate forums and foundation-led panels needing a moderator with broadcast credibility and topical fluency International or multilingual corporate gatherings with German, English, French, Spanish, Farsi or Mandarin audiences CHRO, Head of Communications, and CSR/Foundation leads commissioning senior-audience programmes where the moderator has to do real work Awards ceremonies, gala dinners and after-dinner programmes for German-speaking corporate audiences Audience outcomes A programme that finishes on time, with senior speakers having said what they came to say Honest panel exchanges that do not drift into talking points, because the moderator pushes when a question gets dodged Broadcast-quality opening and closing that hold the room without feeling like corporate set-piece Content delivered cleanly across language groups, including mixed German-English audiences and wider international rooms

Why organisations work with Dunja Hayali A working anchor on ZDF’s flagship heute-journal and main presenter of ZDF-Morgenmagazin, which means boards and conference organisers are hiring the same journalistic judgement that reaches millions of German viewers every morning. Trained to interview politicians, CEOs and activists on live television without losing the thread, an asset when a panel includes genuinely opposing positions or a keynote speaker the room wants pressed. Carries public recognition for civic engagement, including the Bundesverdienstkreuz and the Goldene Kamera Integration award, which signals to international audiences that the chair on stage has standing beyond the broadcast booth. Works fluently in German and English, useful for DAX-30, EU-level and cross-border corporate forums that need a single moderator across languages. Author of “Haymatland” (Ullstein, 2018), a published argument on belonging, migration and social cohesion that she can draw on directly when a brief calls for substantive contribution as well as stage craft. Biography highlights Main presenter, ZDF-Morgenmagazin (since 2010); joined the heute-journal presenting team in 2023. Former host, “dunja hayali” talk show on ZDF (2017-2020), and co-presenter of das aktuelle sportstudio (2018-2023). Recipient of the Bundesverdienstkreuz (Federal Cross of Merit, 2018) for engagement against racism and online hate. Goldene Kamera 2016, Integration category. Author, “Haymatland: Wie wollen wir zusammenleben?” (Ullstein, 2018); co-author, “Ist’ was, Dog?” (Ullstein, 2014). UNICEF supporter and active with the initiative “Gesicht Zeigen! Fuer ein weltoffenes Deutschland”. Biography Live television is where reputations get made or broken in real time. For most of the last two decades, Dunja Hayali has been one of the German journalists entrusted with that responsibility, first on ZDF’s morning news strand and now also on the evening flagship heute-journal. That role is the anchor of her speaking work. When a corporate conference, political forum or industry gala books her, they are not buying a keynote lecture. They are buying the same interviewer who questions ministers before breakfast and the same composure that keeps a studio conversation on track when a guest tries to pull it elsewhere. Her publishing and civic work give that stage presence a specific edge. “Haymatland” (Ullstein, 2018) sets out her thinking on migration, belonging and social cohesion, drawing on her own Iraqi-German background. The Bundesverdienstkreuz followed in 2018 for her public stand against racism and online abuse, recognition anchored by her long association with Gesicht Zeigen! and UNICEF. The practical case for organisations is narrow and strong. When an event puts senior leaders, politicians or campaigners on the same panel and the room will not settle for bland, Hayali is one of the few moderators in the German market with the journalistic standing, bilingual reach and on-stage authority to run it cleanly. Key speaking topics Live event moderation and panel chairing Political and current affairs interviews Media, journalism and public discourse Social cohesion, integration and belonging Civic engagement and countering online hate Sport and public broadcasting Bilingual (German / English) corporate moderation Ideal for Corporate and industry conferences needing a senior moderator for keynotes, panels and plenaries with politicians, CEOs or regulators in the room. Award ceremonies, galas and anniversary events that require an anchor-grade host rather than an entertainer. CSR, DEI and civic-themed summits where the moderator’s own public record on integration and anti-racism adds credibility. Bilingual German / English forums in DAX-30, EU policy and cross-border corporate settings. Audience outcomes Conversations that stay on the agenda the organiser actually wanted, including the difficult questions. Senior speakers handled with the same level of preparation and follow-up they would expect from a flagship news interview. A neutral, credible chair presence that lets sensitive topics (migration, political polarisation, corporate controversy) be discussed without tipping into spectacle. Clear narrative threading across a multi-speaker programme, so that plenaries, panels and Q and A feel like one event rather than a sequence of slots.

Why organisations work with Jana Azizi Her live broadcast range covers hard news, live morning television, entertainment magazines, and lifestyle formats, so she can shift register inside a single event without the audience registering the adjustment. She presents professionally in German, English, French, Spanish, and Russian at television standard, which is unusually rare in a single moderator and genuinely useful for events with multiple language markets in the room. Her Sky Sport News role included editorial team work, not only on-screen presenting. She arrives as a journalist who has already researched the guests and anticipated the angles. Thousands of hours of daily live broadcasting, including live sport, guest drop-outs, and technical failures, mean she has already encountered most of what can go wrong in a live room. A business administration degree from Mainz University of Applied Sciences lets her absorb a corporate brief quickly and translate dense business content for mixed audiences. Biography highlights Presenter at Sky Sport News from 2017 to 2020, working on the editorial team as well as on-screen Presenter across RTL flagship formats including RTL aktuell, Punkt 12, Guten Morgen Deutschland, Extra, Explosiv, and Explosiv Stories Presenter of Deluxe, the n-tv lifestyle and luxury format, from October 2020 Business administration degree from Mainz University of Applied Sciences (Hochschule Mainz) Marketing communications training at Grey Worldwide, Dusseldorf; presenter training at Logo Institut, Frankfurt Works professionally in five languages: German, English, French, Spanish, and Russian Biography Seven years of daily live television at Sky Sport News, RTL, and n-tv shape a specific kind of professional. Jana Azizi reads a room mid-conversation, absorbs the unexpected, and keeps an audience with her through shifts the room never sees. Her Sky Sport News role ran from 2017 to 2020 and included editorial team work alongside on-screen presenting. That side of the job built a journalist’s instinct for interview structure and story preparation, rather than only camera presence. At RTL she presented across the broadcaster’s flagship formats including RTL aktuell, Punkt 12, Guten Morgen Deutschland, Extra, and Explosiv. From October 2020 she also fronted Deluxe, the n-tv lifestyle and luxury programme. Sport, hard news, morning television, entertainment, and lifestyle each demand a different register. A moderator who has worked across all five reads what a corporate audience actually needs in the moment. Azizi works professionally in German, English, French, Spanish, and Russian. The five-language range matters most for events that are genuinely multi-market in the room, not simply bilingual on paper. She holds a business administration degree from Mainz University of Applied Sciences, which gives her the vocabulary to move confidently through a corporate brief and carry dense content for a mixed audience. Key speaking topics Live event moderation and conference hosting Broadcast communication and on-camera presence Interview craft and panel facilitation Storytelling in a business context Multilingual event hosting Women in media and male-dominated industries Ideal for Corporate conferences and leadership summits requiring a professional moderator or host International events where facilitation in multiple languages is needed at broadcast standard Award ceremonies, galas, and high-profile company anniversaries Media, sport, and communications sector organisations that need a credible, broadcast-trained panel moderator Audience outcomes Events that run with broadcast-level control, professionally paced and clearly structured Panels and interviews driven by focused, well-prepared questions rather than generic facilitation Live sessions handled cleanly when guests go off-script, formats slip, or tech fails Multi-language audiences held by a moderator who moves between languages without losing authority

Why organisations work with Hasnain Kazim He has spent a decade testing, in public, what actually works when people shout at you. “Post von Karlheinz” turned his replies to hate mail into a national bestseller, and the method underneath it travels directly into how leaders and communications teams handle hostile audiences. He reports from inside the conditions most executives only read about. Six years as a Der Spiegel foreign correspondent in Islamabad and Istanbul, ended by the Turkish state refusing to renew his press credentials, gives him concrete material on authoritarian drift, migration and press freedom rather than abstract commentary. He speaks and writes in German and English with equal fluency, which matters for DAX and European-headquartered organisations briefing a single voice across jurisdictions on identity, integration and public discourse. He works as both author and moderator. The same person who wrote the argument can host the board dinner, chair the panel, or carry an awards night, which reduces briefing overhead for events that need a serious thinker on stage. His published rhetorical guide, “Auf sie mit Gebruell!”, is specifically about how to argue in public against populism without losing the room. That is a usable internal-comms and leadership-communication frame, not a lecture topic. Biography highlights Der Spiegel South Asia correspondent, Islamabad, 2009 to 2013. Der Spiegel Turkey correspondent, Istanbul, 2013 to 2016; left after the Turkish government refused to renew his press credentials. CNN Journalist Award winner, 2009. Bestselling author with Penguin Verlag, including “Post von Karlheinz” (2018) and “Auf sie mit Gebruell!” (2019). Studied political science in Hamburg; served as an officer in the German Navy, 1994 to 2000. Keynote speaker at re:publica 2022 on language in times of division; regular contributor to IPS Journal and Goethe-Institut publications. Biography The Turkish government refused to renew his press credentials in 2016, and with them his legal residency. Hasnain Kazim had been Der Spiegel’s Istanbul correspondent for three years. He moved his reporting on Turkey, and later on identity and migration across Europe, to Vienna. The work before and after that moment is unusually concrete. Four years as South Asia correspondent in Islamabad, three in Istanbul, a CNN Journalist Award in 2009, and a German Navy officer’s commission before any of that. For organisations trying to understand what authoritarian pressure, migration and press freedom actually look like on the ground, this is first-hand material rather than commentary. The second arc of the career is what makes him useful in a room of executives. Since 2018, as a full-time author with Penguin Verlag, he has built a public method for responding to hostility. “Post von Karlheinz” collected his replies to racist and abusive reader mail, became a long-running bestseller, and turned him into a case study for the Dangerous Speech Project. “Auf sie mit Gebruell!” followed, a rhetorical handbook for arguing with populists without surrendering the tone. That body of work gives him something most geopolitics speakers do not have: a practical grammar for how leaders, communications teams and frontline staff should actually speak in a climate where silence reads as complicity and escalation damages the brand. He writes and speaks in German and English, and works as both keynote speaker and moderator for events that need a single serious voice to carry the evening. Key speaking topics Counterspeech and responding to online hostility Language, polarisation and public discourse Migration, identity and integration in Europe Populism, extremism and democratic resilience Press freedom and authoritarian pressure Germany, Turkey and South Asia in geopolitical context Ideal for CHROs and internal-communications leaders dealing with polarisation inside the workforce. External communications, public affairs and brand teams briefing leaders on migration, identity and reputational risk. Boards and executive committees at European-headquartered organisations working through integration, DEI or social-cohesion questions in their markets. Conference organisers and awards committees looking for a serious bilingual moderator or host. Audience outcomes A concrete method for replying to hostile or abusive communication, drawn from a published and tested body of practice. A clearer read on how language choices in internal and external communication either defuse or deepen division. First-hand perspective on Turkey, South Asia and migration into Europe from someone who reported on them under pressure. A sharper sense of what leaders can say in public on contested social questions without conceding ground to populism.

Why organisations work with Khadra Sufi Fifteen-plus years of live television means she handles unscripted moments, technical hiccups, and difficult guests the way a working broadcaster does, not the way an event host learns to. Bilingual moderation in German and English at a professional broadcast standard, useful for DAX-listed companies and international brands running mixed-language audiences from a single stage. A QVC track record selling on live retail television, which translates directly to product launches, brand reveals, and live commerce formats where pacing and credibility matter more than polish. A Spiegel bestselling memoir and a UN Refugee Aid ambassadorship give her a separate, bookable keynote on resilience and reinvention when the brief calls for personal-story content alongside hosting. Biography highlights Author of “Das Madchen, das nicht weinen durfte” (Sudwest Verlag, 2010), a Spiegel bestseller about her family’s flight from Somalia and asylum in Germany. UN Refugee Aid (UNO-Fluchtlingshilfe) ambassador since 2012. Reporter for Bild in Cologne (2008-2010) and live reporter and author for WDR Lokalzeit Ruhr (2009-2012). Brand ambassador and presenter at QVC Dusseldorf, including her own clothing line. Guest on national German television including Markus Lanz (ZDF), Hartaberfair (ARD), Menschen bei Maischberger (ARD), Plasberg in Person (WDR), and ZDF Mittagsmagazin. Biography A corporate gala, a press conference, and a livestreamed product launch all need the same thing on stage: a host who can read a room, talk to a stranger on camera, and not flinch when the autocue fails. That is broadcast craft, and it is what Khadra Sufi has done professionally for more than fifteen years. Her route in is unusual. The daughter of a Somali diplomat, she grew up between Yemen, Zambia, Saudi Arabia, and East Berlin before her family fled the Somali civil war in 1990 and arrived in Germany as asylum seekers. She trained as a medical assistant, completed her secondary education in Germany, and moved into journalism via Bild in Cologne and WDR Lokalzeit Ruhr, working as a live reporter and author from 2009 to 2012. The on-camera work expanded into national appearances on Markus Lanz, Hartaberfair, Menschen bei Maischberger, and Plasberg in Person, and into commercial broadcasting through QVC Dusseldorf, where she is a long-running brand ambassador and runs her own clothing line. She moderates corporate events, panels, and product launches in German and English, and is based in Hamburg. Her 2010 memoir “Das Madchen, das nicht weinen durfte” became a Spiegel bestseller and reissued through Penguin Random House. Since 2012 she has been an ambassador for UN Refugee Aid (UNO-Fluchtlingshilfe), which is also the foundation for her keynote work on displacement, resilience, and reinvention when an organiser wants more than a host on the bill. Key speaking topics Event hosting and moderation Panel facilitation Live product launches and brand reveals After-dinner and awards hosting Resilience and personal reinvention Refugee experience and integration Ideal for Corporate communications and brand teams running bilingual German-English galas, conferences, or product launches Marketing and retail leaders booking live commerce, brand reveals, or QVC-style on-camera formats DEI, CSR, and employee engagement leads commissioning a personal-story keynote on displacement, resilience, and reinvention Audience outcomes An event that holds together across a long-format agenda, with a host who keeps senior guests sharp and the audience present A bilingual stage that does not lose energy when switching between German and English speakers For keynote bookings: a first-person account of statelessness, asylum, and rebuilding a working life in a new country, told without sentimentality A practical reference point for what employee-facing communication on refugee and integration topics can sound like when it is delivered by someone who has lived it

Why organisations work with Jennifer Sarah Boone Native bilingual fluency in German and English – thinking simultaneously in both, not translating between them – means international technology events get equivalent quality of moderation across both audience groups. Her MSc in Business Psychology, completed in 2024 with a focus on digital coaching and consulting, means she can interrogate a panel on AI ethics or data governance with the vocabulary that makes technical experts take the conversation seriously. A broadcast career built across three countries – news editing at Wack Radio in Trinidad and Tobago, TV presenting at Reelkandi in Hamburg, morning show hosting in the UAE – gives her a level of live composure under pressure that is professional in the deepest sense. She has moderated at Deutsche Telekom’s stage at Mobile World Congress 2023 in Barcelona and at events connected to the German government’s Digitalgipfel – two of the most scrutinised technology forums in Europe. A cross-sector client portfolio spanning enterprise software (SAP, Google), semiconductor and automotive technology (Infineon, TWAICE Technologies, Nexperia), and climate innovation (Greentech Festival) means she can move between technical depth and commercial context within a single event day. Biography highlights Bilingual presenter and event moderator with over 20 years of professional on-stage and on-camera experience MSc in Business Psychology (focus: digital coaching and consulting), DIPLOMA Nordhessen, completed 2024 BA in Media Management and Media Journalism, DIPLOMA Nordhessen Host at Deutsche Telekom’s stage, Mobile World Congress 2023, Barcelona Client portfolio includes SAP, Google, Infineon, TWAICE Technologies, Nexperia, and Greentech Festival Confirmed panel moderation topics include AI ethics, autonomous mobility, cybersecurity, data governance, digital sovereignty, and sustainable aviation Broadcast background: Wack Radio (Trinidad and Tobago), Reelkandi TV (Hamburg), morning show host (UAE) Performing arts training at Stage School of Music, Dance and Drama, Hamburg Biography The moment a technology panel drifts – experts talking past each other, the room disengaging – organisations discover that event facilitation is a specialism, not an afterthought. Jennifer Sarah Boone has spent over 20 years preventing that failure, moderating across AI, digital transformation, autonomous mobility, and sustainability for some of the most demanding technology forums in Europe. Her academic formation is unusual for a professional host. An MSc in Business Psychology – completed in 2024, focused on digital coaching and consulting – sits alongside a BA in Media Journalism. That combination produces content literacy, not just stage craft. She can interrogate a panel on data governance, AI safety, or software-defined vehicles with the vocabulary and curiosity that makes subject-matter experts raise their game. Her broadcast roots run deep. News editing at Wack Radio in Trinidad and Tobago, TV presenting at Reelkandi in Hamburg, morning show hosting in the UAE built a live composure that a conference facilitator cannot replicate. She was a working journalist before she was a technology moderator, and that shows in how she manages complexity at speed. Deutsche Telekom trusted her to front their stage at Mobile World Congress 2023 in Barcelona. What makes her specifically valuable to international technology events is native-level bilingual fluency in German and English – a combination exceptionally rare at this professional level in Europe. Clients spanning SAP, Google, Infineon, TWAICE Technologies, and the German government’s Digitalgipfel represent the full spectrum of environments where moderation quality is commercially and reputationally visible. Key speaking topics Technology and AI event moderation Digitalisation and digital transformation Artificial intelligence and human communication Autonomous mobility and future technologies Sustainability and climate innovation Cross-cultural and multilingual communication Ideal for Technology conference programme directors and corporate event leads managing flagship international forums CTOs and CDOs hosting multilingual summits or cross-border innovation events Government and public sector digital policy bodies running German-language or bilingual events Corporate communications leads managing hybrid or large-format live technology productions Audience outcomes Panels that remain structured and substantive without losing energy or audience accessibility Complex AI and digital transformation content rendered in language that non-specialist senior leaders can engage with and act on Multilingual events where German and English audiences receive the same quality of facilitation Coherent through-lines connecting multiple speakers, disciplines, and sessions across a full event day A stage environment where technical experts and strategic executives communicate with each other rather than alongside each other

Why organisations work with Debarati Guha Sits at the editorial centre of one of the largest non-Asian international broadcasters covering Asia, with operational responsibility across nine language services run from Germany, and bureaus in Taipei, Delhi, Jakarta, and Chennai. Two decades of front-line reporting on South Asian politics, including direct interviews with Sheikh Hasina, Shashi Tharoor, and Amartya Sen, gives her a working network few moderators in the region can match. Recognised as one of Germany’s top ten women leaders by Global Woman Leader in 2023, with a track record of leading multi-country, multi-language editorial teams through digital transition. Comfortable chairing complex media and policy panels for organisations like WAN-IFRA, where the room mixes editors, regulators, and platform leaders. Bilingual cultural register: equally readable to a Berlin or Brussels audience and a Delhi, Dhaka, or Jakarta one, which matters when the conversation crosses both. Biography highlights Director Programs for Asia, Deutsche Welle, leading nine Asian language departments plus Asia Desk (English and German). MA and MPhil in Political Science, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Career interviews include Sheikh Hasina, Shashi Tharoor, and Amartya Sen. Top 10 “Women Leader in Germany” 2023, Global Woman Leader. “Most Influential Business Leader” 2024, Business Frontier. Executive Management Programme, EBU Academy (2022); BAKS course on Southeast Asian politics and Germany (2023). Panel chair at WAN-IFRA Indian Media Leaders eSummit and similar industry forums. Biography Asia is no longer a single story for international organisations. India, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Taiwan, and the Mekong economies each move on different political clocks, and the editorial signal reaching Western capitals is increasingly mediated by national platforms with their own agendas. Reading Asia from a London or Frankfurt boardroom is harder than it was ten years ago. That is the operational world Debarati Guha works inside every day. As Director Programs for Asia at Deutsche Welle, she oversees nine Asian language services plus the Asia Desk in English and German, with editorial bureaus in Taipei, Delhi, Jakarta, and Chennai. The job involves judgement calls on what crosses the line between regional reporting and global business interest, made several times a day across very different political environments. Her background is unusual for that seat. She trained in political science at Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi, started in journalism as the New Delhi assistant to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung’s Asia correspondent in 2003, and joined DW in 2007. By 2013 she was running DW’s Bengali service; by 2018, the whole Asia operation. Along the way she has interviewed Sheikh Hasina, Shashi Tharoor, and Amartya Sen, and built relationships across South and Southeast Asian political and intellectual life. For Speakers Associates, this means a moderator and panellist who can hold a room of senior leaders on Asia, media, and the politics of digital information without resorting to high-level summary. She was named one of Germany’s top ten women leaders by Global Woman Leader in 2023, and chairs panels at WAN-IFRA’s Indian Media Leaders eSummit, where the audience is exactly the working editors and platform leaders she manages every day. Key speaking topics Geopolitics of South and Southeast Asia Asia-Europe relations and cross-continental media strategy Digital transformation in newsrooms Women in media leadership Disinformation and political reporting in Asia Cross-cultural editorial leadership Ideal for Boards and executive teams shaping Asia strategy or expansion plans Conferences on international media, journalism, and digital news Leadership programmes on cross-cultural management and women in senior media roles Panels and summits requiring an informed chair on Asia, geopolitics, or the information ecosystem Audience outcomes A clearer read on the political and media dynamics shaping South and Southeast Asia Direct insight into how a major international broadcaster makes editorial calls across nine languages and three Asian bureaus Practical perspective on running multilingual, multicultural teams through digital change A sharper sense of where disinformation, platform power, and politics intersect in Asia A panel or session moderated with senior-room composure, where the questions land and the speakers are pushed

Why organisations work with John Hall He has built two commercial businesses around the problem he speaks on: Influence & Co., which scaled content as a managed marketing function for senior executives, and Calendar, which monetises the attention his first company taught leaders to capture. Top of Mind (McGraw-Hill) gives sales and marketing teams a named operating model for staying memorable to specific decision-makers, not a generic content playbook. Weekly Forbes and Inc. columns, plus contributions to Harvard Business Review, Fortune and Fast Company, mean his frameworks are tested in public against a senior business readership every week. Influence & Co. was ranked No. 72 on Forbes’ Most Promising Companies in America and won EY Entrepreneur of the Year for Best Emerging Company, so the underlying methodology has commercial proof, not only platform reach. He translates content marketing out of the marketing department and into a CEO and revenue conversation, which is where buying decisions about brand authority actually sit. Biography highlights Co-founder of Calendar, a scheduling platform used by millions of professionals. Co-founder and former CEO of Influence & Co., the content marketing firm ranked No. 72 on Forbes’ Most Promising Companies in America. Author of Top of Mind, published by McGraw-Hill in 2017. Weekly columnist for Forbes and Inc. Contributor to Harvard Business Review, Fortune, Fast Company, Entrepreneur and Mashable. EY Entrepreneur of the Year (Best Emerging Company) and Business Journals’ Top 100 Visionaries. Described by Inc. as “one of the most powerful people in media you’ve never met” and by Forbes as a “must-see keynote speaker”. Biography Most companies treat brand visibility as a marketing line item. Buyers experience it as the shortlist they already had in their heads before procurement opened a process. Closing that gap, between how visibility is funded internally and how it is consumed externally, is the commercial problem John Hall has worked on for more than a decade. Top of Mind, his McGraw-Hill book, sets out the operating logic. Trust is built by useful content delivered consistently to the specific people whose decisions matter, and it compounds. The book is not a content marketing manual. It is a framework for executive and corporate visibility, built from running Influence & Co., the agency that productised the discipline for senior leaders and was ranked No. 72 on Forbes’ Most Promising Companies in America. Hall scaled that thesis into a second business, Calendar, which sits on the other side of the equation. Once a leader has captured attention, time becomes the constraint. Together the two companies bracket the commercial problem his keynotes address: how to be the name buyers reach for, and how to manage the demand that creates. His weekly columns for Forbes and Inc., and contributions to Harvard Business Review, Fortune, Fast Company, Entrepreneur and Mashable, keep the argument public and tested. EY named him Entrepreneur of the Year for Best Emerging Company. The Business Journals listed him among its Top 100 Visionaries. Key speaking topics Building executive and corporate visibility Content as a trust-building system Sales influence and decision-maker engagement Top-of-mind brand strategy Time management and executive productivity Talent attraction through company culture and content Ideal for CMOs, CROs and heads of brand reassessing how content drives pipeline CEOs and founders building personal and corporate authority in a contested market Sales leadership teams measuring trust as a leading indicator of revenue Marketing and communications functions inside professional services, B2B technology and financial services Audience outcomes A working definition of top-of-mind status and the specific behaviours that produce it inside their organisation Named criteria for deciding which content earns attention from senior buyers and which dilutes it A clearer line between brand spend and revenue contribution, framed for finance and board conversations Tactics for converting executive expertise into published authority without consuming executive time

Why organisations work with Brenda Romero Forty-plus years inside a creative industry as designer, studio CEO and educator, with credits on roughly 49 shipped titles including the Wizardry series, Jagged Alliance, Ghost Recon and Empire of Sin. A working perspective on running an independent creative business: she co-founded Romero Games in Galway in 2015 and has built it through publisher deals, original IP and the realities of indie studio economics. An unusual record on the question of how design carries meaning. Her Train (2009) and the broader The Mechanic is the Message series are studied in academic literature as examples of game mechanics used to communicate difficult historical material. Formal industry recognition that buyers can reference without explanation: BAFTA Special Award (2017), GDC Ambassador Award (2015), Fulbright Scholar (2014). An educator’s clarity. As Director of the MSc in Game Design and Development at the University of Limerick (2016 to 2019) she taught the craft to a graduate cohort, and co-authored Challenges for Game Designers with Ian Schreiber, a standard text in the field. Biography highlights Co-founder and CEO, Romero Games Ltd, Galway, Ireland (2015 to present). BAFTA Special Award, 2017, for creative contribution to the games industry. Game Developers Choice Ambassador Award, 2015. Fulbright Scholar, 2014. Director, MSc in Game Design and Development, University of Limerick, 2016 to 2019. Designer of Train (2009) and the The Mechanic is the Message series; works held by the Strong National Museum of Play; TED speaker on games for understanding. Biography Most discussions of innovation get stuck at the level of culture. Romero’s career is a sustained argument that it is really a question of craft. She began at Sir-tech Software in 1981 on the Wizardry role-playing series, and has since shipped credits on roughly 49 titles across PC, console and mobile, including Jagged Alliance, Ghost Recon, Dungeons and Dragons: Heroes and Empire of Sin. In 2015 she co-founded Romero Games in Galway with John Romero, where she is CEO. The studio sits outside the conventional tech hubs, an operating choice rather than an aesthetic one, and a useful case study for any leader thinking about how to build a creative organisation away from the talent magnet cities. The work spans publisher partnerships, original IP and the day-to-day of running a creative business through cycles. Alongside the commercial work, Romero has used game design to address serious historical material. Train (2009) and the wider The Mechanic is the Message series treat the mechanics of a game, the rules players agree to follow, as the message itself. Train won the IndieCade Vanguard Award and is studied in academic literature on serious games and design ethics. The credentials line up around a consistent argument. BAFTA Special Award in 2017. GDC Ambassador Award in 2015. Fulbright Scholar in 2014. Director of the MSc in Game Design and Development at the University of Limerick from 2016 to 2019. Co-author with Ian Schreiber of Challenges for Game Designers, a standard text used in graduate programmes worldwide. Key speaking topics Creative leadership in technology and entertainment The discipline of design and managed innovation Building and running an independent creative studio Games as a medium for communicating complex ideas Women in technology and the games industry The economics of creative work and intellectual property Ideal for Leaders of creative, R and D, brand and product organisations. Boards and executive teams in entertainment, media and consumer technology. Innovation and transformation leads looking for a working studio perspective on creative output. Talent and learning leaders building creative capability inside a corporate environment. Audience outcomes A working operator’s view of how creative output is produced under commercial pressure. A clearer picture of what good design discipline looks like when the subject is hard or contested. Reference points from inside the games industry that translate into corporate creative function. A frank account of building a creative business outside the obvious geographies, with the trade-offs named.

Why organisations work with Shiulie Ghosh A live news anchor’s instincts on stage. Two decades fronting breaking coverage at the BBC, ITV, and Al Jazeera English means she handles a panel that has gone off-script the way she handled a rolling news studio. A working subject base in the topics global summits actually convene around: health, climate, sustainable development, food systems, and humanitarian affairs. She is not learning the brief on the train. Trusted repeatedly by the World Health Organization and UN bodies, including chair roles at the World Health Assembly, the World Heart Summit, and the UN World Investment Forum. A track record reporting from inside the stories that shape the room, from Kosovo and the Asian Tsunami through the Arab Spring, the killing of Bin Laden, and the death of Nelson Mandela. That experience reads in how she handles serious subject matter on stage. Biography highlights Launch anchor for Al Jazeera English when the channel went on air from Doha on 15 November 2006, then a senior anchor for the international channel until the end of 2015. Former Home Affairs Editor at ITV News and a former BBC News journalist, with a career in network television news that began as a BBC News trainee in 1990. Currently a presenter at TRT World’s London bureau and director of her own UK media services company, Aero Productions Ltd. Named Best Television News Journalist at the BT Ethnic Multicultural Media Awards in 2001, and won the Association of International Broadcasting’s Editor’s Choice Media Excellence Award for hosting Every Woman. Chair of high-level panels at the World Health Assembly, the World Heart Summit, and the UN World Investment Forum, with regular moderating work for WHO and UN agencies. Author of the Daughter of Kali urban fantasy trilogy, Kingdom of Salt, Mark of the Djinn, and Realm of Sirens, all published since 2018. Biography The hardest job at most senior summits is not being on the panel. It is running the panel. Whoever holds the chair decides whether four prepared statements turn into an actual exchange, whether a minister gets pressed or politely deferred to, and whether the audience leaves with a sharper view of the issue or a vaguer one. Ghosh has spent more than two decades inside that craft. She came up through British network television news. A BBC News trainee in 1990, then eight years at the BBC, then ITV News from 1998, where she rose to Senior Correspondent and Home Affairs Editor. In 2006 she became one of the launch anchors of Al Jazeera English, opening the channel’s broadcast from Doha and remaining a senior anchor until late 2015. Today she anchors at TRT World’s London bureau and runs her own media services company, Aero Productions, in Buckinghamshire. The work that takes her on stage now is moderation. She chairs panels at the World Health Assembly, the World Heart Summit, and the UN World Investment Forum, and works regularly with WHO and UN agencies on debates covering global health, climate, sustainable development, food systems, and humanitarian affairs. The reporting CV is part of why those organisations book her: she has filed from Kosovo, from the Asian Tsunami, from the Arab Spring, on the killing of Bin Laden, on the death of Nelson Mandela. Recognition has come from inside the industry. She was named Best Television News Journalist at the BT Ethnic Multicultural Media Awards in 2001 and picked up the Association of International Broadcasting’s Editor’s Choice Media Excellence Award for Every Woman, a series on women’s issues worldwide. Outside the studio she is also a published novelist, with the Daughter of Kali urban fantasy trilogy, Kingdom of Salt, Mark of the Djinn, and Realm of Sirens all in print since 2018. Key speaking topics Conference moderation and panel chairing Global health and the World Health Assembly agenda Climate, sustainability, and energy transition convening Humanitarian affairs and international development Food systems and food security Diversity in international broadcasting Ideal for CEOs, communications directors, and event leads commissioning a chair for an annual conference, AGM, or investor day Heads of public affairs at NGOs, multilaterals, and global health bodies running ministerial panels or donor convenings Sustainability and ESG leads running summits on climate, energy transition, or food systems Internal communications teams running senior leadership town halls or all-hands events that need a credible external host Audience outcomes A panel that produces actual exchange between speakers, not four parallel statements Tight stage timing across complex multi-stakeholder agendas, including ministerial slots Subject-literate questioning on health, climate, energy, and humanitarian topics, without primer-level explanation from the room A room that leaves with a clearer sense of where the speakers actually agreed and disagreed

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