Andy McNab DCM MM joined the army in 1976, served in B squadron 22 SAS for nine years and commanded the legendary Bravo Two Zero patrol in the Gulf War.
After a fierce firefight, three of the eight men were killed; four were captured; one escaped. McNab was held prisoner for six weeks and relentlessly tortured.
He was the British Army’s most highly decorated serving soldier when he finally left the SAS in February 1993. He is the author of Bravo Two Zero, the bestselling war memoir of all time, and ten bestselling novels.
Julie Etchingham is Anchor of ITV News at Ten and ITV Tonight. She is a journalist with 30 years experience at the BBC, Sky News and ITN.
She has twice won the RTS News Presenter of the Year Awards, the first woman to do so.
She is also a highly experienced moderator of live debates and events and recently has extended her skills to host numerous webinars.
Dom Littlewood presents the hugely successful BBC programmes Dom on the Spot, Caught Red Handed, and Fake Britain, and co-hosts Right on the Money.
He was also one of the stars of The Real Full Monty for ITV and is a campaigner for men’s cancer awareness. Dom previous programmes include Don’t Get Done, Get Dom, and several series of Cowboy Builders on Five.
He has been a regular on The One Show since it started, and has also hosted Saints & Scroungers, Beat the Burglar, Wrong Car Right Car, To buy or Not to Buy, Flycatchers, How to Holiday, Wrecks to Riches and many more.
An expert on building, nurturing, and leveraging professional relationships, Andy Lopata was once called ‘one of Europe’s leading business networking strategists’ by The Financial Times, and ‘a true master of networking’ by Forbes.com.
He believes that networking and communication is one of the most important tools in business, from generating sales to developing your career. He believes that knowing the reasons why you are networking and what you want to achieve, it is possible to improve and gain tangible results.
As well as his networking strategies, Andy Lopata is also a podcast host, and successful business author. In 2017, he was awarded the PSA Award of Excellence.
He is a two-time board member and former President of the Fellows Community of the Professional Speaking Association UK and Ireland, a member of the Association of Business Mentors and the Meetings Industry Association, and a Fellow of the Learning and Performance Institute.
Jules Coleman founded, built and sold UK based domestic cleaning marketplace start-up, Hassle.com, an online cleaning service platform.
Andy Halliday is a former international hockey player and manager of England and Great Britain men’s hockey teams, as well as a former Specialist Firearms Officer at the Met Police. Andy now applies his skills as a coach, facilitator and keynote speaker.
Andy joined the Metropolitan Police when he was 18 years old. Here he developed his policing skills in a pressurised environment of 1980s London. After an initial period on the beat in Tottenham, he became a riot training instructor for seven years before transferring to the tactical Firearms Unit.
Spending more than three decades in pursuit of best practice in high performance environments, Andy understands what it takes to thrive and succeed, as well as the challenges faced by individuals and organisations from teenagers all the way up to executives in large businesses. Andy has been interviewed on many podcasts, talking about topics including growth mindset, stress reframing, learning from mistakes and his experience managing GB men’s hockey team and 30 years policing in London.
Famous for bronzing more celebrity bodies than we’ve had hot dinners, Judy Naaké is an entrepreneur with a difference.
Most recently seen as the subject of Eamonn and Ruth’s highly acclaimed How The Other Half Live and BBC2’s much acclaimed Peter Jones Meets series, Judy’s story is an inspirational one.
Having presented BBC Breakfast for five years alongside Natasha Kaplinsky, Dermot Murnaghan moved to Sky News in 2007 where he presents their weekday breakfast show.
From 2011 to 2016, he also presented his own self-titled show, Murnaghan on Sky News which aired on a Sunday.
Since 2016 he has presented Sky News Tonight where he covered topics such as UK elections and the Brexit vote.
Alongside his job as a newscaster, Dermot Murnaghan presented long-running BBC quiz show Eggheads as well as its spin-offs Celebrity Eggheads and Are You an Egghead between 2003 and 2014. He has also hosted shows such as Treasure Hunt (2002-2003), Crimes That Shook Britain (2015-) and The State We’re In (2002-2003).
Andrew Wilson is a veteran of live television presenting and an award-winning foreign correspondent. He is a leading news and communications professional who now turns his hand to speaking events.
Andrew Wilson is an experienced event host, after-dinner speaker and conference moderator. Thanks to a decade of hosting his own current affairs programme on Sky, he is an expert interviewer, skills that he has used in a number of productions including international CEO interviews, global events for Reuters and thought leadership exchanges at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos.
Jonny Wilkinson is a former legend of English rugby who is famous for the drop goal in the final minute of extra time that won the 2003 Rugby World Cup. He is widely celebrated as one of the best Rugby Union players of all time.
In 2002, Jonny was awarded an MBE for services to Rugby Union. Two years later, he was promoted to an OB,E and then in 2015, he became a CBE.
Since retiring, Jonny has established himself as a sustainability advocate, health and wellbeing ambassador, a coach, business founder and philanthropist. He is also a sought-after public speaker.
As a player, Jonny played club rugby for 12 seasons, while amassing 91 caps at the international level for England. Following his retirement in 2014, Jonny became a popular sports pundit for ITV and Sky Sports, while also launching his own health drink brand No 1 Living.
Jonathan Holloway is a creative visionary, seasoned business leader and extraordinary storyteller who understands that every single organisation needs better tools to manage constant change, and create the unforgettable experiences that their customers and colleagues require.
His bold thinking and talent for connecting huge vision to practical action illustrate the compelling execution that great companies need to thrive in disruptive times.
Dean Leak is a mindset coach, consultant, and leader within the British high-performance sports system, with over a decade of experience leading teams to deliver sustainable systems and programmes to support world-leading athletes.
A sports enthusiast and fascinated by all things psychology and understanding what drives us as a species, Dean has developed a skill for mentoring people in order to reach their full potential.
Since moving into senior leadership roles, his experience has seen him launch creative recruitment strategies, create business plans to governments, and implement complex talent pathways.
A creative, action-orientated, big-picture thinker, Dean Leak cares deeply about the people he works with, and is passionate about helping them create the best environment possible for them to succeed, both personally and professionally.
For over a decade, Andrew Vorster was the Head of Technology Research for Visa Europe, gaining a reputation for fresh thinking, and proposing pragmatic solutions to complex problems.
Andrew has over 30 years of experience identifying and tracking trends in technology and business behaviours across a variety of industries. His colourful and engaging storytelling drawn from his real-life experiences helps businesses to harness the current pace of change, identify the opportunities it presents, and stimulates transformation.
Jon Burkhart is best known for being an international award-winning keynote speaker, strategist and author of the world-famous Newsjacking.
Through his consultancy company, TBC Global, he has helped brands rethink their business practices so that they stand out from their competitors with a more impactful and engaging story. He has also helped leaders solve problems in surprising ways that lead to growth. In his speeches and workshops, he uses his Constant Curiosity framework to solve problems in marketing, company culture, and customer experience.
In the last decade, Jon has travelled to over 25 different countries, inspiring clients such as BMW, Deloitte, Havanans, Microsoft and Salesforce to be more daring. He is also one of the very few people to speak at the South By South West (SXSW) conference 10 times, and he now serves on their advisory board. He has also hosted an event at Cannes Lions which led him to create his ‘beernote’ closing keynote speech.
In addition to his own published work, he has been featured in publications such as Rolling Stone, Fast Company, and The Guardian.
David Thomas is a speaker with an unbelievable and inspirational story who will show your audience how to manage change and challenge.
David suffered a deeply abusive childhood at the hands of his alcoholic mother and aged stepfather. He went off the rails at 16. He started burgling shops, attempted suicide twice, nearly killed a police officer one night, received a criminal conviction and was expelled from school.
He turned his life around and after a series of dead-end jobs, joined the Fire Service at 20.
Jonathan Charles is a strategic communications and geopolitics expert, reputation management consultant and broadcaster.
Jonathan was a familiar voice and face after thirty years on BBC Television and Radio. He was a BBC Foreign and War Correspondent covering some of the biggest stories of recent years, reporting on 29 wars and conflicts including Iraq, Afghanistan, Yugoslavia, Chechnya, Northern Ireland and a host of others, winning several awards for his journalism.
Jonathan established television operations for the BBC in Brussels and Frankfurt, and operated in many conflict zones throughout the world. For five years, he presented the television news on BBC1, BBC World News and BBC News Channel.
Andrew Thorp is an award-winning speaker, trainer and consultant in the field of business storytelling. He works with senior leaders and salespeople to improve their external marketing message, but also with their broader workforce to encourage a more connected and productive company culture.
Companies regularly hire a branding/marketing agency to help define their message (Vision, Values, Purpose, etc) but it often fizzles out when the focus returns to the daily grind; people revert to a factual and forgettable version.
David Shukman was appointed as the BBC’s first Science Editor in 2012, a role he retired from in the summer of 2021.
He is acclaimed for his innovative reporting from the frontlines of global change. Since joining the BBC in 1983, he has held a series of key positions for the broadcaster, reporting on conflicts, politics, research, and the environment.
For two years, David covered the Troubles in Northern Ireland before being appointed as Defence Correspondent, which took him to Berlin for the fall of the Wall, the Gulf, and some of the former Soviet Union’s most secret nuclear installations. More recently he has covered a range of news items related to the environment and sustainability issues.
Andrew Priestley is a multi-award-winning business leadership coach; ranked in the top 100 UK Entrepreneur Mentors 2017; best-selling author and speaker.
Qualified in Industrial and Organisational Psychology he talks enthusiastically about a broad range of fascinating topics including business leadership, fast uplift business growth, core fundamental human values, motivation, goal setting, and building neurones for success for peak performers.
Andrew is entertaining, instructive, challenging, and always relevant.
John Vincent is the co-founder and CEO of the natural-food chain LEON, which he founded in 2004 alongside Henry Dimbleby.
Prior to founding LEON, John was a strategy consultant for Bain & Company where his business travels made him realise that the majority of food available ‘on the go’ was unhealthy.
He is also known for his work in developing the 2013 School Food Plan, for which he was appointed and MBE, and for chairing the Council of Sustainable Business.
Delivering coaching, workshops and keynote talks, Andrew Pain is an approved TEDx Mental Health speaker and ICF-accredited coach. He is an energetic speaker, on a mission to create decisive and resilient communities, where psychological safety is the norm, the tragic number of suicide victims is reduced to zero, and where diverse communities of people work cohesively as allies. He leads in his work on men’s menta health, burnout, prevention, and overcoming adversity.
Andrew Pain is a hugely relatable speaker, delivering in his own down-to-earth style, exploring tough topics such as men’s mental health, suicide, domestic abuse, toxic masculinity, and gender division, with a frank yet upbeat and optimistic approach.
He is passionate about sharing fresh insights and practical strategies for progress, which people won’t have heard many times before. Whether he is talking about men’s mental health, decision making, burnout, imposter syndrome, or domestic abuse, Andrew delivers ‘refreshingly different’, and it is something which makes him stand out as a speaker.
Former Squadron Leader John Peters came to the world’s attention in 1991, when his bruised and battered face flashed on our television screens. It was this shocking image that became a terrible symbol of Saddam Hussein’s ruthless aggression.
Since leaving the forces, John Peters has become a prominent keynote speaker, using his own dramatic, and sometimes harrowing, experiences to reach into our minds, and how us how we can overcome our worst fears.
WWF Lifestyle Hero Award-winning David Saddington is a young British environmentalist and climate change influencer who has revolutionised government policy and sustainable business strategy.
From the United Nations to the beaches of Ibiza, David has worked to create game-changing collaborations to tackle climate change. He has seen the impacts of climate change first-hand, from witnessing the melting ice caps of Iceland to helping build extreme weather resilience in Africa.
His first experience on climate change effects was in 2005 when he found himself in the middle of one of the worst storms and floods to hit his home in North Yorkshire. This was before climate change was big news and he set it upon himself to educate his peers at school and in the wider community. At the age of 10, he worked with then-Prime Minister Tony Blair to get climate change education into school.
David Saddington was then chosen by the UK Government to communicate the concerns on climate change to the public in a landmark campaign that reached over 3 million people. With the ambition of raising awareness of the latest climate crises, David Saddington has taken his message across the media, in books and articles, on panel shows and panel debates and to wider events.
He is a renowned authority on the matter and is sought after to share his insights and expertise with corporate audience as a contemporary voice on environment changes and climate action.
Andrew is an accomplished senior leader with over 20 years’ experience in heading up major programmes. He excels in building integrated collaborative cultures with clients, and multi-disciplinary and organisational teams to achieve rapid delivery. Andrew trains teams and leaders to thrive under pressure, maximising their potential and teaching them how to look after their wellbeing.
Andrew helps leaders and teams unlock their potential through self-leadership, enhanced collaboration and practical strategies for navigating complex workplace challenges. Drawing on his extensive background of leading teams under intense pressure and the stress that comes with it, Andrew brings and applies 20 years of senior leadership experience, most recently serving as a Regional Director in the Private Sector and Director in the UK Civil Service where he led multi-billion pound programmes.
He is also an accredited mindfulness teacher and brought these two worlds together in his book Organisational Mindfulness: a How-To Guide in 2019 which has sold in four continents. By integrating his experience in leadership and his teachings in mindfulness, Andrew has developed a method to help leaders and their teams embed mindfulness techniques in their organisation.
Currently, Andrew McNeill offers leadership training to a wide range of small and large organisations, helping individuals and teams improve their performance and their wellbeing.
