Storytelling & Business Communication

Why organisations work with Jodie Kidd A recognisable on-camera presenter with two decades of live broadcast experience, including Channel 5’s The Classic Car Show and ITV’s coverage of the Isle of Man TT, equally at home with a live audience and a camera. Genuine credibility in automotive, motorsport and lifestyle briefs: a former Maserati Trofeo Series driver, Mille Miglia competitor, and Top Gear “Star in a Reasonably Priced Car” series leader. An operating entrepreneur, not a name on a brand. Owner since 2017 of The Half Moon in Kirdford, an AA 2-Rosette gastropub featured at Tom Kerridge’s Pub in the Park; co-owner of beauty brand Skin & Tonic. A reinvention story with substance behind it: Vogue covers and the McQueen debut runway, then a Maserati seat, then a working pub through the post-pandemic hospitality squeeze. Useful when a brief calls for a panel voice on backing yourself outside a single career lane. Polished, warm, unflappable on stage. The kind of host clients rebook for the second year because the first one ran on time. Biography highlights International fashion model from age 15. Vogue covers, opened for John Galliano, walked Givenchy and Alexander McQueen’s debut runway show. Maserati Trofeo Series racing driver. Competed in the Mille Miglia for Jaguar. Top Gear “Star in a Reasonably Priced Car”: topped the leader board across an entire series, becoming a long-running Top Gear reference point. Co-presenter, Channel 5’s The Classic Car Show, and ITV’s coverage of the Isle of Man TT. Strictly Come Dancing (BBC One, 2008) and Celebrity MasterChef finalist. Owner since 2017 of The Half Moon, Kirdford, a Grade II listed gastropub holding AA 2 Rosettes four years running and featured at Pub in the Park from 2019 to 2022. Author of Balance Your Life (2019); co-owner of beauty brand Skin & Tonic; host of YouTube automotive channel Kidd in a Sweet Shop. Biography Television careers built on a single specialism are easier to write about than ones built across several. Jodie Kidd has covered fashion, motorsport, lifestyle and food on BBC, ITV and Channel 5 over more than two decades, and the through-line is the live work: a host who can carry an awards room, a paddock interview, a cookery final or a panel on hospitality. The starting point was modelling. Discovered at 15, she was on the cover of British Vogue at 17, opened shows for John Galliano and walked Alexander McQueen’s debut runway. The pivot into broadcast came through cars. She raced in the Maserati Trofeo Series, competed in the Mille Miglia for Jaguar, and topped the Top Gear leader board for an entire series, which translated into long-running automotive presenting on Channel 5’s The Classic Car Show and ITV’s Isle of Man TT coverage. In 2017 she took on The Half Moon in Kirdford with two business partners, learning the gastropub business from the kitchen out. The pub holds AA 2 Rosettes four years running and has appeared at Tom Kerridge’s Pub in the Park. She co-owns the beauty brand Skin & Tonic and wrote Balance Your Life, a six-week diet and exercise book published in 2019. For event organisers, the value is straightforward. A senior buyer hiring Kidd is hiring an experienced live broadcaster with genuine subject footing in automotive, lifestyle and small-business hospitality, and a calm hand on a long evening. She works as host, awards presenter, panel moderator and panellist, and as a speaker on her own reinvention across fashion, motorsport and entrepreneurship. Key speaking topics Awards hosting and event presenting Panel moderation Automotive, motorsport and the classic car world Hospitality and independent pub ownership Entrepreneurship and brand-building outside a primary career Reinvention across industries Health, wellbeing and lifestyle Ideal for Brand and consumer events in automotive, lifestyle, fashion and hospitality Industry awards evenings looking for a recognisable, experienced live host Conference panels on entrepreneurship, small-business hospitality, or career reinvention Internal leadership or sales conferences wanting an after-dinner speaker with a broad public profile Audience outcomes A live event that runs on time, with an audience that stays in the room Panel conversations that draw out senior speakers without drifting A first-hand account of building and running a working hospitality business through a difficult market A frank reinvention story across modelling, motorsport, broadcasting and small business For automotive and motorsport audiences, an interviewer who knows the subject

Why organisations work with Jeanette Kwakye A working national broadcaster, not a former athlete trading on past results. Buyers get a host who runs live BBC Sport and ITV current affairs every week, with the on-stage instincts that come with it. Rare credibility on women in sport and media. She broke a 24-year drought as a British woman in the Olympic 100m final, then became the first Black female UK presenter to front a terrestrial boxing production. Hosting and moderation experience with Google, Nike, BMW, the IOC and World Athletics, which translates into clean panel craft for senior leadership audiences. Direct, unsentimental on the transition from elite sport to a second career. Useful for talent, learning and DEI conversations that have grown tired of the standard sportsperson keynote. Biography highlights Sixth place in the 100m final at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, the first British woman in that final since 1984. Silver medallist over 60m at the 2008 IAAF World Indoor Championships, equalling the British record of 7.08. BBC athletics trackside reporter; host of BBC Radio 5 Live’s Football Daily podcast; co-host of BBC Radio 5 Live Weekend Breakfast. Co-host of The Martin Lewis Money Show on ITV1. First Black female UK TV presenter to lead a boxing production on a terrestrial channel, on Channel 5. Appointed MBE in the 2021 Birthday Honours for services to sport and sports broadcasting. Loughborough University graduate in Politics and Economics; author of the children’s book Femi the Fox. Biography A British woman had not reached an Olympic 100m final for twenty-four years when Jeanette Kwakye ran 11.14 in Beijing in 2008 and finished sixth. The earlier rounds, not the final, are the part that matters. She trained at Loughborough, came through British championships in both the 100m and 200m, and took silver over 60m at the World Indoors that same year, equalling the British record of 7.08. The second career has the same shape. After retiring in 2014 she went through an NCTJ qualification, started in local BBC radio, and built outwards. She is now a BBC athletics trackside reporter, hosts the Football Daily podcast on BBC Radio 5 Live, co-hosts Weekend Breakfast on the same station, and co-presents The Martin Lewis Money Show on ITV1. In 2020, she became the first Black female presenter on a terrestrial UK boxing production. Her hosting and moderation portfolio outside broadcast covers Google, Nike, BMW, the International Olympic Committee and World Athletics. Senior audiences hire her because she runs a room cleanly, pushes panellists, and brings a working journalist’s instinct to questions of representation and performance rather than a retired-athlete reflection. She was appointed MBE in 2021 for services to sport and sports broadcasting. She is also the author of the children’s book Femi the Fox. Key speaking topics Representation in sport and media Women in broadcasting and elite sport High-performance mindset Career transition from elite sport Olympic preparation and selection Sports broadcasting and journalism Resilience after injury Ideal for Conference and summit organisers needing a host or moderator with senior on-stage credibility DEI, talent and people leaders running events on representation and women’s progression Sports industry, federation and rights-holder events Internal kick-offs and leadership offsites looking for an Olympic-finalist perspective on performance under pressure Audience outcomes A clearer picture of what representation actually changes inside elite environments, told from inside two of them A working definition of high performance that survives contact with injury, deselection and reinvention Practical ground for talent and DEI leaders considering how the pipeline into senior visible roles really moves A panel or fireside that lands cleanly, with a host who keeps senior speakers honest

Why organisations work with Jordan Banjo A live broadcaster’s instinct for pace, autocue, links and crowd energy, built across Got to Dance, The Greatest Dancer, Dancing On Ice and the Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards Five years of daily live radio hosting on KISS Breakfast, the discipline that translates most directly into running a long awards show without the room flagging Recognition that travels across audiences from boardrooms to family-facing events, anchored to Diversity’s 2009 Britain’s Got Talent win and a continuous national TV presence since A second register beyond hosting: a personal arc through Diversity, family, weight loss and a current move into competitive boxing with DAZN, available where a brief calls for motivational content rather than presenting Biography highlights Founding member of Diversity, winners of Britain’s Got Talent series 3 (2009) Co-host of KISS Breakfast with Perri Kiely, 2020 to January 2026 TV credits include Got to Dance, The Greatest Dancer, Dancing On Ice digital, Eat Well For Less, and the Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards UK Runner-up on I’m a Celebrity: South Africa All-Stars (2023); previously a series 16 contestant (2016) On-screen presenter for DAZN boxing coverage Co-author with Ashley Banjo of the children’s books Fly High Crew and The Day We Saved The Future Biography Diversity walked onto Britain’s Got Talent in 2009 as an unknown street dance group from Essex and walked off as the winners of the series. Jordan Banjo, then sixteen, was the youngest on stage. The group has remained a fixture of British popular culture ever since, and Banjo has built the broadest broadcasting career of any of its original members. Most of that career has been live. Got to Dance on Sky, The Greatest Dancer on BBC One, Dancing On Ice digital for ITV, Eat Well For Less, and the Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards UK have all required the same skill: keep a room or a camera on rhythm without losing the audience. Five years of daily breakfast radio on KISS, alongside Perri Kiely, sharpened it further. For corporate buyers, the value is straightforward. A host with this volume of live-television and live-radio reps does not freeze on a long running order, does not over-talk a sponsor read, and does not let an awards show drift in the second hour. The face is recognisable to a broad audience, which matters when the brief includes family events, consumer-facing brand moments or all-staff celebrations rather than narrow C-suite rooms. Where a brief asks for content rather than hosting, Banjo can speak from his own arc: the discipline of a winning team rebuilt year after year, public weight loss, family, fatherhood, and a current move into the boxing ring with DAZN, following his father Funso Banjo, a former professional fighter. Key speaking topics Awards and conference hosting Live event presenting Team performance, drawn from Diversity Personal motivation and reinvention Family, fitness and boxing Brand and audience engagement on camera Ideal for Internal all-staff conferences and end-of-year celebrations needing a recognisable host Awards nights and gala dinners requiring a broadcast-trained presenter Consumer brand events targeting family and mainstream UK audiences Sponsorship activations and product launches with on-camera elements Audience outcomes A live event run at television pace, with cleaner cues and tighter links Higher audience energy across long-form running orders, particularly in the second half A recognisable on-stage face that broadens the room beyond a purely corporate audience Where booked as content, a personal story of team success, public scrutiny and physical reinvention

Why organisations work with Josie Gibson A nationally familiar face from ITV’s daytime flagship who lands instantly with UK consumer and employee audiences without long set-up. A live-room temperament built across thousands of hours of unscripted daytime television, including I’m A Celebrity 2023, where unpredictability is the format. Brand-event credibility from sustained partnerships with Samsung, Very, Next, Regatta, Babybel and Cawston Press. Genuine warmth on stage that suits internal culture moments, recognition nights and panels where audiences need to feel met, not lectured to. Biography highlights Host on ITV’s This Morning, regularly presenting alongside Alison Hammond, Dermot O’Leary and Rylan. Winner of Big Brother UK Series 11 (Channel 4, 2010). Finalist on I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here, 2023, finishing fourth. Television credits across The Wheel, Blankety Blank and Bake Off: Extra Slice. Commercial partnerships with Samsung, Very, Next Clothing, Regatta, Babybel and Cawston Press. Biography Live audiences are unforgiving. They feel a host who is performing at them rather than with them, and they switch off fast. The work of carrying a room with warmth, pace and on-the-fly recovery is craft, and it is built only by doing it for years on live television. Josie Gibson has built that craft on ITV’s This Morning, the UK’s longest-running daytime magazine show, where she presents alongside Alison Hammond, Dermot O’Leary and Rylan. Daytime television is unscripted by design: she has the reflexes to handle a guest going off-piste, a feature that runs short, or a tonal shift between segments without losing the audience. Her wider profile sits on top of that broadcast spine. She first reached a national audience as the winner of Big Brother UK Series 11 in 2010, and reinforced her live-television credentials reaching the final four on I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here in 2023. Brand work with Samsung, Very, Next Clothing, Regatta, Babybel and Cawston Press has given her sustained experience of representing partners on camera and in live settings. For organisations, this translates into a specific kind of value. Gibson is recognisable to UK staff and customer audiences from a programme they actually watch, and she brings the unscripted live-television temperament that internal events, awards ceremonies and brand activations need to feel like genuine moments rather than corporate set pieces. Key speaking topics Live event hosting Awards night hosting Brand event moderation Panel facilitation On-stage interviews Audience engagement for consumer-facing brands Ideal for Internal company conferences, kick-offs and recognition events with UK consumer-facing staff audiences. Awards ceremonies and brand activations seeking a recognisable ITV daytime presenter. Marketing, communications and HR teams briefing for warm, audience-led moderation rather than subject-matter keynote. Audience outcomes A live event paced and held by a broadcaster the room already knows from television. Panels and on-stage interviews that feel conversational rather than rehearsed. A recognition or awards moment that registers with employees as a genuine reward, not a formality. Brand stories told on stage by a presenter audiences read as warm and credible.

Why organisations work with Jonah Berger He has built two operating frameworks, STEPPS for word of mouth and REDUCE for overcoming resistance, that translate directly into product, marketing and change decisions rather than sitting at the level of theory. The research base is unusually deep for a commercial speaker: 80+ peer-reviewed articles, much of it using natural language processing on real consumer and organisational text, not anecdote. His client work spans Apple, Google, Nike, Amazon, GE, Moderna, Facebook and the Gates Foundation, which means the frameworks have been pressure-tested across consumer brands, platforms and mission-driven organisations. Contagious won the Berry-AMA Book Prize for the best book in marketing, the field’s most credible peer recognition. He addresses two distinct buyer problems with one body of work: how things spread (marketing, product, communications) and how to move people who do not want to move (change, transformation, sales). Biography highlights Marketing Professor at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. PhD in Marketing, Stanford Graduate School of Business; BA Stanford. Author of Contagious, Invisible Influence, The Catalyst and Magic Words; books published in over 35 countries. Berry-AMA Book Prize for Best Book in Marketing (Contagious). Wharton Iron Professor Award for faculty research; recognised by the American Marketing Association as a top-five most productive marketing researcher. Research and commentary featured in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review and NPR. Biography Most attempts to change behaviour rely on more pressure: more advertising spend, more incentives, more internal communication. The research suggests the opposite often works better. Removing the friction that holds people in place changes more behaviour than pushing harder against it. That argument sits at the centre of Jonah Berger’s work as a marketing professor at the Wharton School. His book The Catalyst sets out a five-part model, REDUCE, for identifying and dismantling the specific barriers that stop customers, employees and citizens from changing their minds. It is paired with the earlier STEPPS framework from Contagious, which names the six factors that make products and ideas spread. The academic foundation is substantial. Berger holds a PhD in Marketing from Stanford and has published more than eighty peer-reviewed articles, much of it applying natural language processing to large bodies of consumer and organisational text. Contagious won the Berry-AMA Book Prize for the best book in marketing. Invisible Influence and Magic Words extend the same methodology into social influence and the language of persuasion. The frameworks have been used inside Apple, Google, Nike, Amazon, GE, Moderna, Facebook and the Gates Foundation. The value to a senior team is the same in each case: a defensible, named model for two questions that boards and chief marketing officers ask repeatedly, why some things spread and others do not, and why people resist change even when the case for it is sound. Key speaking topics Word of mouth and viral marketing Behavioural science in commercial strategy Change and persuasion Consumer behaviour and decision-making Language and influence Social influence and choice architecture Branding and customer engagement Ideal for Chief marketing officers and brand leadership teams setting strategy on growth, virality and customer engagement. Transformation and change leaders running programmes where employee or customer resistance is the binding constraint. Sales and revenue leaders looking to apply behavioural science to pricing, messaging and conversion. Product and innovation teams working on adoption of new offerings. Audience outcomes A working knowledge of the STEPPS framework and how to apply each principle to a current product, message or campaign. The REDUCE model as a diagnostic for stalled change, with the five categories of resistance named and addressable. Specific language techniques from Berger’s natural language processing research that shift persuasion outcomes. A sharper read on which behavioural levers genuinely move customers and employees, and which ones do not. Concrete examples drawn from consumer brands, platforms and mission-driven organisations Berger has worked with.

Why organisations work with Ramon Ray He has built and exited three of his own companies and runs two active media platforms, so the advice is operator-tested, not theorised from the outside His Celebrity CEO framework gives founders a step-by-step way to build local and category authority, not generic personal-brand advice He has interviewed every Shark Tank investor and President Obama, and shares platforms with Seth Godin and Simon Sinek, which gives him an unusually wide read on what works across founder archetypes He has been invited to the White House and the US Congress on small-business and personal-branding topics, which gives the work institutional weight beyond the usual marketing-conference circuit He is a high-energy event host as well as a keynote speaker, and is regularly hired by Entrepreneur magazine and similar publishers to anchor their flagship conferences Biography highlights Founder of SmallBizTechnology.com and Smart Hustle Media, two long-running platforms serving small-business owners Author of The Celebrity CEO, Facebook Guide to Small Business Marketing (Wiley), Technology Solutions for Growing Businesses, and two further titles Conducted the first live Google Hangout interview with President Barack Obama Member of the US Delegation to India led by Ivanka Trump for the Global Entrepreneurship Summit Invited expert witness to the US Congress and speaker at the White House on personal branding Contributor to Inc., Entrepreneur, PC World, Small Business Trends, and Allbusiness.com; co-founder of the Small Business Influencer Awards Biography Most small-business owners do not lose to better products. They lose to better-known competitors. The Celebrity CEO thesis takes that observation seriously and treats personal brand as a growth instrument with measurable outputs: leads, referrals, pricing power, retention. The book is the public face of two decades of work with founders trying to compete against larger rivals. The author of that thesis, Ramon Ray, is a five-time entrepreneur who has built and exited three companies, including SmallBizTechnology.com and Smart Hustle Media. He has written five books across technology, marketing, and personal brand, and his journalism appears in Inc., Entrepreneur, PC World, and Small Business Trends. His access to the top of the founder market is unusual. He conducted the first live Google Hangout with President Obama, joined the US Delegation to India for the Global Entrepreneurship Summit, and has been invited as an expert witness to Congress and as a speaker at the White House on personal branding. He has interviewed every Shark Tank investor and shared stages with Seth Godin, Simon Sinek, Gary Vaynerchuk, and Deepak Chopra. What makes the work commercially useful is the operator’s eye behind it. Ramon co-founded the Small Business Influencer Awards with Anita Campbell, anchors Entrepreneur magazine’s flagship conferences as host, and runs an active mastermind for founders applying the Celebrity CEO playbook. The advice is not theoretical; it is what he is doing for himself in public, in real time. Key speaking topics Personal brand as a growth engine for founders Small-business marketing and customer acquisition Community building and category authority Social media for entrepreneurs Digital tools and technology for small business Entrepreneurial mindset and resilience Ideal for Founders and CEOs of small and mid-sized businesses Franchise networks, dealer councils, and independent business associations Marketing and growth leaders inside larger organisations who serve SMB customers Diversity-in-business and youth-entrepreneurship programmes Audience outcomes A working definition of what a Celebrity CEO is, and what it takes to become one in their market A simple model for turning customer relationships into a referral and retention engine Specific tactics for showing up consistently on social platforms without burning out Renewed conviction that being visible is part of the job, not a vanity project A short list of next moves they can act on the same week

Why organisations work with Hannah Cooper-Dommett A working ITV presenter who has co-hosted a network series and panel slots, so she handles live cues, interviews and unscripted moments without losing the room. Front-of-camera credibility built across M&S, GHD, Barbour, Boux Avenue and Macy’s campaigns, useful for brand-led events where the host is part of the visual product. Co-host of the Never Have I Ever podcast, a long-form conversational format that translates directly into on-stage interviews, fireside chats and panel moderation. Brain Tumour Support ambassador since 2021, which gives a substantive thread for charity galas, fundraising dinners and wellbeing-led internal moments. Marie Claire fashion writer, useful for retail, beauty and lifestyle brand audiences where the host needs to speak the category fluently. Biography highlights Co-hosted the ITV series At Home With Joel Dommett in 2020. Co-host of the Never Have I Ever podcast. Commercial campaigns for M&S, GHD, Barbour, Boux Avenue and Macy’s. Online fashion writer for Marie Claire. Brand ambassador for Brain Tumour Support since 2021. BA in Fashion Management and Marketing, University for the Creative Arts (2012). Biography A corporate awards night runs for three hours, has nine sponsor mentions, twelve category winners and a senior audience that has had a long week. The host has to make all of that feel like a single evening, not a running order. That is presenter craft, and it is the core of what Cooper-Dommett does. She built that craft on ITV, co-hosting At Home With Joel Dommett during the 2020 lockdown, and through guest slots on Loose Women, Saturday Kitchen, Celebrity Gogglebox and The Chris & Rosie Ramsey Show. The Never Have I Ever podcast, co-hosted with Joel Dommett, gives her a long-form conversational instinct that maps onto fireside interviews and panel moderation. The commercial side reinforces the booking case. Campaigns for M&S, GHD, Barbour, Boux Avenue and Macy’s, plus a Marie Claire fashion column, sit her credibly inside retail, beauty and lifestyle audiences. For charity and wellbeing-led events, her work as a Brain Tumour Support ambassador since 2021 is a genuine throughline rather than a borrowed cause. The booking is the host, not the keynote. Buyers who need a presenter who can carry a script, work a room and protect the rhythm of an evening get a working broadcaster with a brand-friendly profile and a real charitable association behind her name. Key speaking topics Awards ceremony hosting Corporate event hosting Panel moderation and on-stage interviews Fashion, beauty and lifestyle audiences Wellbeing and mental health advocacy Brain Tumour Support ambassadorship Personal branding and media presence Ideal for Awards ceremonies and gala dinners needing a TV-trained host Retail, fashion and beauty brand events and product launches Charity fundraisers, particularly in the health and wellbeing space Internal conferences and town halls needing a warm, non-corporate presenter for fireside chats and panels Audience outcomes An evening that holds its energy from welcome to close, with sponsor moments handled cleanly. Panel conversations that move, with guests drawn out rather than read at. A brand-aligned host presence for retail, beauty and lifestyle audiences. A credible, non-performative voice on Brain Tumour Support and wellbeing themes when the brief calls for it.

Why organisations work with Mark Millar He has run the project management seat on BBC One’s DIY SOS since 2006, including the Swansea build of the UK’s first adapted surf school for people with disabilities, completed in eleven days. That is a specific, televised record of delivery under extreme constraint. He brings the trade voice to corporate audiences. Manufacturers, merchants, installers and developers book him because he speaks the language of the site as well as the boardroom. His Channel 5 presenting work, Dream Kitchens and Bathrooms with Mark Millar and Build Your Dream Home in the Country, makes him a recognisable on-camera host for product launches, awards nights and trade conferences. He runs a working building firm in Bristol with UK and international clients, so the operating advice is current rather than retrospective. Biography highlights Project Manager on BBC One’s DIY SOS, on screen and behind the scenes, since 2006. Presenter of Channel 5’s Dream Kitchens and Bathrooms with Mark Millar (2021) and Build Your Dream Home in the Country (2023). Led the September 2020 DIY SOS and Children in Need build in Swansea of an adapted surf school for people with disabilities, completed in eleven days. Owner of a Bristol-based building firm with UK and international project work. Trained as a carpenter in Northern Ireland through a four-year apprenticeship. Recurring host and guest across BBC and Channel 5 entertainment programming, including Pointless Celebrities and radio appearances. Biography The Swansea adapted surf school went up in eleven days. Mark Millar ran the site as Project Manager for BBC One’s DIY SOS, working with Children in Need on a build that became the first surf school in the UK designed for people with disabilities. That kind of work, where the deadline is fixed by a broadcast date and the brief is emotionally non-negotiable, is the discipline he has spent two decades practising on screen. Mark trained as a carpenter in Northern Ireland and has been the project management voice of DIY SOS since 2006. The role has been editorial as well as practical: he has visited every site and shaped which stories made it to air. The show has accumulated audiences and BAFTA recognition over its run, and Mark is the figure most associated with its delivery rhythm. Channel 5 built two series around him. Dream Kitchens and Bathrooms with Mark Millar (2021) follows homeowners through the rooms they cannot afford to get wrong. Build Your Dream Home in the Country (2023) takes him to self-build projects across the UK. He continues to run a Bristol-based building firm with celebrity and international clients, which keeps the on-screen advice anchored in current site economics. The reason corporate audiences in construction, manufacturing, merchanting and home improvement book him is specific. He is one of the few public figures in UK media who can carry a room of contractors, hold a brand stage, and explain the trade view to a board, without losing any of the three audiences. Key speaking topics Project management on complex builds The realities of running a building firm Trades, training and apprenticeship Television presenting and brand hosting Charity builds and community projects Customer experience in home improvement Ideal for Construction, merchant and manufacturer audiences at trade conferences and dealer events Home improvement and KBB sector brand activations and product launches Corporate hospitality and after-dinner audiences looking for a recognisable TV host Charity and community fundraising events with a build or trade dimension Audience outcomes A clear, on-the-tools view of how complex builds get delivered to fixed deadlines A working perspective on customer trust in trades, told from the contractor’s side Recognisable broadcast presence for awards, panels and product reveals Stories from DIY SOS sites that ground discussion of community impact in specific builds

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

Why organisations work with DJ Target He was inside grime before it was a marketing category. As a founding member of Roll Deep with Wiley, Dizzee Rascal, Skepta and Flowdan, his account of how the genre formed is first-hand, not retrofitted. His book Grime Kids became the definitive insider history of the scene and the source text for a BBC Three drama adaptation written by Theresa Ikoko. Few cultural movements are documented this directly by a participant. The Rap Game UK, which he co-hosts with Krept and Konan, earned a BAFTA nomination for Entertainment Programme, giving him broadcast craft alongside scene credibility. Eden’s Bloom, the freeze-dried baby food brand he co-founded with his wife Eva, gives him a working perspective on building a consumer brand from scratch outside the music industry. He brings the hosting craft of a daily 1Xtra slot to corporate panels, awards and culture-led conversations, where the bar is keeping a senior audience interested without scripting every line. Biography highlights Founding member of Roll Deep alongside Wiley, Dizzee Rascal, Skepta and Flowdan; co-producer of the UK Top 20 single “Champagne Dance”. BBC Radio 1Xtra presenter since 2007, former co-music lead of the station. Co-host of BBC Three’s BAFTA-nominated The Rap Game UK with Krept and Konan. Author of Grime Kids: The Inside Story of the Global Grime Takeover (Trapeze, 2018). Executive producer on the BBC Three drama adaptation of Grime Kids, written by Theresa Ikoko and produced by Mammoth Screen. Co-founder of Eden’s Bloom, a freeze-dried baby food brand built with his wife Eva Joseph. Biography Grime did not arrive fully formed. It was built on pirate radio in East London by teenagers who had no expectation that anyone outside their estates would listen. Roll Deep was one of the collectives at the centre of that, and DJ Target was one of its founding members alongside Wiley, Dizzee Rascal, Skepta and Flowdan. Their 2002 single “Champagne Dance” reached number 13 on the UK Singles Chart and signalled that the scene could cross over without losing what made it. That experience gave him the source material for Grime Kids: The Inside Story of the Global Grime Takeover, published by Trapeze in 2018. The book became the canonical insider account of the genre, later adapted into a BBC Three drama series written by Theresa Ikoko and produced by Mammoth Screen, with DJ Target as executive producer. He is one of the few participants in a cultural movement who has gone on to write its history and shape its dramatisation. His broadcasting career sits alongside this. He has presented on BBC Radio 1Xtra since 2007, served as the station’s co-music lead, and co-hosts BBC Three’s The Rap Game UK with Krept and Konan, a series that earned a BAFTA nomination for Entertainment Programme. The hosting craft is the part senior audiences feel directly: keeping a room engaged, threading a conversation, working without a script. Outside music he co-founded Eden’s Bloom with his wife Eva Joseph, a freeze-dried baby food brand named after their daughter. The venture gives him a working view of consumer brand-building from product to shelf, and a second story to draw on when the brief is entrepreneurship rather than culture. Key speaking topics UK grime, garage and the rise of British Black music Cultural authenticity in brand and youth marketing Building a creative scene from the ground up Broadcasting and panel hosting Founder experience in consumer goods Ideal for CMOs and brand leaders working on youth, music or culture-led campaigns Internal culture and DEI programmes that want substance rather than slogans Awards hosting, panel moderation and after-dinner sets where craft and cultural authority both matter Founder communities and accelerator audiences interested in consumer brand-building Audience outcomes A first-hand account of how grime moved from pirate radio to global recognition, told by someone who was there A clearer read on what makes brand engagement with youth culture credible and what makes it fall flat A working founder’s view of building a consumer product brand alongside a creative career A hosted conversation that lands with audiences who can spot a scripted moderator from the back of the room

Why organisations work with David Gandy He has lived both sides of a licensing deal, as the face of Dolce & Gabbana’s Light Blue for more than a decade and as the founder designing and pricing his own range at M&S. He built Wellwear from a clear commercial insight, that softness and fabric performance were an unworked seam between loungewear and everyday apparel, and translated it into a sellable category. His BoF 500 listing and first-ever male BFC Model of the Year nominations give him standing with fashion, retail, and luxury audiences that few outsiders can match. He speaks from inside the consumer press, as a long-running British GQ car reviewer, British Vogue blog contributor and former Telegraph Men columnist, which shapes how he thinks about voice and media. Biography highlights Face of Dolce & Gabbana from 2006 and the Light Blue fragrance from 2007, shot by Mario Testino. Only male model to appear more than once on the Forbes highest-paid models list; widely cited as the highest-grossing male model in history. First male nominated for British Fashion Council Model of the Year (2010); nominated again in 2012; appointed to the BFC committee launching London Collections: Men. Designer of the David Gandy for Autograph range at Marks & Spencer across underwear, sleepwear, swim and loungewear from 2014. Founder of David Gandy Wellwear (2021), an apparel label built around fabric performance and everyday wellbeing, now stocked at M&S. Listed in Business of Fashion’s BoF 500; regular contributor to British GQ, British Vogue and the Telegraph. Biography Light Blue launched in 2007 with a Mario Testino shoot, an 11-million-view online reel and a fifty-foot billboard in Times Square. The male figure at the centre of the campaign was a 27-year-old British model who had won a daytime television competition six years earlier. That campaign, and the decade-plus of Dolce & Gabbana work that followed, turned David Gandy into the highest-grossing male model on record and the only male to feature on the Forbes list of highest-paid models more than once. What happened after the campaigns is more useful to a business audience. Gandy used the visibility to build a product business. A long-running collaboration with Marks & Spencer produced the David Gandy for Autograph range, moving across underwear, sleepwear, swim and loungewear. In 2021 he launched David Gandy Wellwear, a label built around a specific commercial thesis, that everyday clothing could compete on fabric performance and wellbeing rather than on logo or silhouette. His institutional footprint tracks the same arc. The British Fashion Council made him its first male Model of the Year nominee in 2010, nominated him again in 2012, and placed him on the committee that launched London Collections: Men. Business of Fashion has named him among the BoF 500. He writes for British GQ as its car reviewer, has blogged for British Vogue since 2011, and has held columns at the Telegraph and Evening Standard. For a corporate audience, the specific value is the inside view: what a licensing deal looks like from the talent side, what it takes to move a recognisable name into an owned label, and why most celebrity brands fail the test that Wellwear was built to pass. Key speaking topics Personal brand building in consumer markets Licensing and brand partnerships in luxury and retail Category creation in apparel Founding a consumer label from an established name Menswear design and the premium high street Media voice, column writing and press strategy Ambassadorship and long-form brand alignment Ideal for Consumer brand, luxury and retail leadership teams working on licensing or founder-led ranges Marketing and creative directors briefing long-form brand campaigns Retail and wholesale conferences in fashion, lifestyle and wellbeing Corporate hospitality audiences where a recognisable cultural name adds pull Audience outcomes A founder’s view of how a celebrity licensing deal is negotiated, structured and sustained A concrete read on why the Wellwear category was built the way it was, including fabric, fit and price positioning A working sense of what a twenty-year commercial relationship with a global fashion house actually requires A sharper question set for any team considering a celebrity partnership or an own-label extension

Why organisations work with Monty Criswell Five number-one country singles across three decades, including “I Saw God Today” for George Strait, “Five More Minutes” for Scotty McCreery and “Hell of a View” for Eric Church, give him a body of work most after-dinner speakers cannot match. His material is built around real songs played live, not slides. The performance element makes the resilience message land with senior audiences in a way a conventional keynote cannot. A stage 3 colon cancer recovery, tied to active support of Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, gives the health and recovery thread substance rather than sentiment. Thirty years in a commercial creative industry, with named hits for George Strait, Eric Church, Trace Adkins, Scotty McCreery and Parker McCollum, makes him credible on the realities of sustained creative output under commercial pressure. Biography highlights Co-writer, “I Saw God Today” (George Strait, 2008), CMA Single of the Year; Grammy and Dove nominations. Number-one country singles include “Just Fishin'” (Trace Adkins), “Five More Minutes” (Scotty McCreery, triple platinum), “Hell of a View” (Eric Church, double platinum) and “Handle on You” (Parker McCollum). Two Grammy nominations for Country Song of the Year; multiple BMI and NSAI songwriting awards. Songwriter Session presenter at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, Nashville. Publishing history with Hamstein Music Group, Sony/ATV/Tree and currently Spirit Music Group. B.A. American Studies, cum laude, University of Alabama. Biography Country music is one of the few commercial creative industries where the same writer can sustain hits across thirty years. It is also one of the most unforgiving. Hit songs decide careers, and most writers never get one. Monty Criswell has written or co-written five number-one country singles in four different decades, including “I Saw God Today” for George Strait, which won CMA Single of the Year in 2008 and was nominated for a Grammy. The catalogue runs from Trace Adkins to Eric Church to Parker McCollum. “Five More Minutes” for Scotty McCreery went triple platinum. “Hell of a View” for Eric Church went double platinum. The longevity matters more than any single credit. It is what gives him a working theory of how a person keeps producing under commercial pressure when the room around them changes. Halfway through that run he was diagnosed with stage 3 colon cancer. He recovered, returned to writing, and continued to land number ones. He now supports Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center and sits with his wife on Vanderbilt’s Canby Robinson Society. The cancer story is not a frame for the talk; it is the second source of evidence behind it. “An Evening with Monty Criswell” is a live performance, not a conference session. He plays the songs, tells the stories behind them, and draws lessons on persistence, craft and recovery from a working life that produced both. For organisations looking for an inspirational close to a conference, an awards dinner or a leadership offsite, the offering is unusual: a credible commercial creative who can hold a room with songs the audience already knows. Key speaking topics Resilience and recovery after serious illness Sustaining creative output over a long career Storytelling as a leadership tool Persistence in commercially unforgiving industries Country music songwriting craft Faith and personal values in working life Ideal for Conference closing keynotes and gala dinners where an inspirational live performance is required Sales kick-offs and leadership offsites in need of a resilience and persistence anchor Cancer charities, healthcare audiences and corporate wellness events Audiences in the United States with country music affinity, including Nashville-based events Audience outcomes A live experience of how a hit country song is built, told by its writer A first-hand account of stage 3 cancer recovery and the return to high-output work Stories drawn from a thirty-year Nashville career, with named artists and named songs A close that lands emotionally without leaning on a slide deck