Jeremy Schwartz is a business expert on accelerating the performance of individuals and teams to profit from sustainability. As a former CEO & MD with iconic consumer and retail companies, Coca-Cola, L’Oréal, The Body Shop and Pandora, he delivers audiences ‘valuable actionable insights.’’
Jeremy draws on his leadership roles where he inspired teams to turn around Pandora and Sainsburys and innovate sustainability initiatives, delivering in excess of $20 billion of shareholder value.
This, he combines with a prediction of the future.
“Alison delivers clear business impact, with a human touch and personable approach.”
Dr Alison Edgar MBE, is an expert in improving performance inside organisations. Throughout Alison’s years advising entrepreneurial businesses, she has analysed the important factors that make them successful. Alison takes these lessons and applies them to big companies, enhancing motivation, communication, and agility. She is known both for her practical tools that teams can implement immediately and for the ground-breaking and lasting impact she has on audiences.
Alison Edgar was one of the few women to be awarded an MBE on the Queen’s Birthday Honours list in 2020 for her services to entrepreneurship and business. After gaining her knowledge and experience in the corporate arena for over 25 years, Alison has mentored some of the world’s leading entrepreneurs, from start-ups to multi-million-pound turnovers.
A dyslexic author of two international best-selling books, Alison Edgar has mastered the balance of how to enhance readers’ personal and professional development. Her debut book was not only a WHSmith Top Ten Business Book but named one of the top business books written by a woman in 2019 by The Independent newspaper.
Alex Partridge is one of the pioneers of social media content the way we know it today. At age 21 in 2010, while a student at Oxford Brookes University, he founded UNILAD, one of the most engaged with social news and entertainment Internet companies in the world with an astonishing following of over 50 million people around the globe. In 2012, Alex founded LADBible which would also grew to become a social media juggernaut.
He is regarded as a Facebook Genius!
Alex McQueen is a BAFTA-nominated British actor who has appeared in many TV, film and radio productions, including 75 episodes of Holby City, playing the sarcastic anaesthetist Keith Greene.
In a career spanning over 20 years, Alex MacQueen has appeared in more than 40 films and over 60 different TV programmes, including multiple episodes of The Inbetweeners, Hilda, The Thick of It, and Hunderby, among many others.
He is best known for his role as Julius Nicholson in the BBC’s Thick Of It and as Neil’s dad in the Channel 4 comedy The Inbetweeners.
He has worked alongside various Directors including, Woody Allen, Kenneth Branagh and Richard Curtis.
In 2016 Alex starred opposite Sir Michael Caine in Paolo Sorrentino’s Youth. Later that year he appeared alongside Sir Kenneth Branagh in The Painkiller as part of the Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company season at The Garrick Theatre, London.
Daniel Disney is a LinkedIn and social selling expert, trainer, author and award-winning keynote speaker.
His LinkedIn expertise has earned him the title of King of LinkedIn, where he has generated over £25 million in revenue, has 1 million followers and his content reaches 10 million people every month.
Daniel uses his 20 years of sales experience and his expert knowledge of social selling to help organisations turn LinkedIn into a sales and revenue-generating machine.
He is the number 1 expert on LinkedIn social selling and is in-demand for speaking, training and consultancy where he helps organisations maximise their growth, reach and sales through LinkedIn.
Jeremy Bowen is a journalist with vast knowledge and experience of the Middle East.
From 1995-2000, he was based in Jerusalem as the BBC’s Middle East Correspondent, winning awards from television festivals in New York and Monte Carlo, as well as a Best Breaking News report from the Royal Television Society on the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin.
During the Kosovo crisis of 1999, he reported extensively from the region, often in dangerous conditions, which included being robbed at gunpoint by bandits whilst reporting from the Albanian border. Since June 2005, he has been working in the newly created role of BBC Middle East Editor.
Alex Hunter is a branding and customer experience expert, keynote speaker, and angel investor. He is also the creator and host of Attaché, an award-winning online travel show, aimed at showing frequent travelers all they need to know before visiting a city on company business.
Previously, Alex served as the global Head of Online for the Virgin Group, overseeing the Virgin brand’s global digital strategy in its entirety, as well as Sir Richard Branson’s personal digital strategy.
A political correspondent and presenter for many years with ITV, Alex Forrest Whiting brings authority and panache to all her broadcast work.
She has reported and presented for a variety of national and international news organisations including ITV News, BBC World, Al Jazeera English and Germany’s international broadcaster, Deutsche Welle (DW) she has a deep knowledge of international affairs.
She is an accomplished event Moderator, Host, Facilitator and Emcee for all corporate and business events.
After studying for her master’s degree at the University of Chicago and working on a political campaign there, Alex Depledge returned to the UK to work as a consultant at Accenture. She specialised in customer and channel execution. In 2012, Alex teamed up with her friend and fellow Great Business Speakers Jules Coleman to start the online business Hassle.com, now known as ‘Helping’. Impressively, Alex raised the largest VC capital funding ever for a solely female owned business at the time.
What started life as a rather modest booking page allowing users to book all manner of services, became a well-known brand. The duo would go on to sell the company in 2015 for an impressive £24 million.
The following year, the duo set up Resi.co.uk – with Alex as CEO and Jules as CTO – an online architectural platform helping UK homeowners renovate and extend their homes.
Alex is now a popular entrepreneurial speaker, looking at start-up mentality, branding, scaling up a business, overcoming obstacles, the importance of duty of care, diversification, and how to respond to customer needs.
Daniel Chappell is a forward-thinking entrepreneur dedicated to redefining the health and wellness landscape through creative innovation and effective leadership.
Backed by a solid academic foundation, he has built his career in elite sporting environments, applying his expertise to drive both performance and wellbeing.
With more than ten years’ experience in the sports sector, Daniel has held strength and conditioning roles with organisations including Richmond upon Thames College, Bristol Bears, Bath Rugby, Imperial College London, Ealing Trailfinders Rugby Club, and PerformancePro.
In 2020, he launched VTMN, a premium supplement brand designed to support the demands of modern professionals. He is also the co-founder of UNTIL – the world’s first members’ club for health and wellness practitioners – created to give independent professionals the tools, space, and support they need to run thriving businesses without compromising their own wellbeing.
Alex Atherton is a Leadership Coach and expert on Generation Z who works with senior leaders to help improve recruitment, retention and engagement of this generation of young people in the workplace.
Drawing on his long career as a headteacher, he also supports organisations in thinking differently about Generation Z and managing their development as multi-generational institutions.
By 2025, Gen Z will make up 25% of the workforce, yet many older people in leadership positions do not understand this generation. Alex presents the challenges for leaders and organisations but also the actions needed to not only overcome these challenges but ensure future prosperity.
Alex’s down-to-earth talks make his audiences laugh and wince yet feel empowered with the practical actions they take away to implement.
Alan O’Neill can guide your team through his structured path to profit increase, tailoring his insight to the needs of your business. Wherever you are on your journey, Alan’s no-nonsense expertise, infectious enthusiasm and sheer depth of experience can reignite your company’s passion for growth.
A seasoned expert in facilitating organisational change in culture and strategy, Alan can help your team to navigate any stormy waters and overcome resistance. His tried-and-tested formula will help you transform your business to deliver the meaningful experiences your customers crave.
Practical, empathic and very commercial, Alan’s refreshing and passionate style will inspire and challenge your organisation to embrace change and grow, using real-life business models and memorable success stories.
Alan brings 30 years of wide industry experience, from retail to manufacturing and distribution, FMCG to financial services, hospitality to professional services, motor to travel and tourism and more. His work history spans blue-chips and PLCs, SMEs, family businesses and the Public Sector across Europe, the Middle East and Asia.
Adam Kingl is a globally renowned expert in innovating management strategy, an authority on generational paradigms in the workplace and the future of capitalism, author, educator and inspirational speaker.
He has worked for the likes of the London Business School, Imperial College Business School, Hult International Business School, Moller Institute-Churchill College-University of Cambridge and the UCL School of Management. It is through these teachings that he helps boost the careers of senior executives and professionals.
One of his main pieces of research is on the leadership paradigms of Generation Y – generally accepted to be anyone born between 1981 and 1994 – a demographic that makes up over half of the global workforce today, rising to an expected 75% by 2025.
Daniel Bobroff is the founder of Coded Futures, a creative technology advisory firm focused on the future of retail, and formerly the co-founder and Investment Director of ASOS Ventures, the online fashion company’s venture capital division.
In over two decades as an innovator, entrepreneur, mentor and investor, Daniel Bobroff has pioneered in-game advertising – “selling Mario to the admen” – starting an advertising medium that is today an eight-billion-dollar market, has developed chart-topping video games that sold in their millions, and is, today, a leading thought leader and keynote speaker in the world of retail and fashion technology.
Adam Gray studied as a concert violinist, but on sustaining an injury had to “get a proper job” and after a brief dalliance with sales has been in marketing ever since, for the last 10 years specialising in social media.
His background in marketing gives him a very sceptical attitude towards social media and how it is implemented by businesses often asking the question “how do you know” and this pragmatic approach has helped him to deliver some spectacular turnarounds in organisations’ social media success.
Adam Corbally is a motivational speaker, entrepreneur and former candidate on The Apprentice.
Despite not winning the competition, Adam Corbally left a lasting impression on viewers with his infectious energy and positive attitude. Following his stint on the show, he embarked on a successful career as a motivational speaker and business consultant.
Speaking to audiences, Adam shares his personal story and journey, from leaving school and home at only 16 years old with little hope and then turning his life around, returning to education and becoming a financial success, achieving happiness and fulfilment in his life.
His message is about how to be resilient, raise aspirations, cope with change and achieve goals. Adam’s speaking style is dynamic and authentic, as he shares practical advice and inspirational stories from his own journey as an entrepreneur.
Diversity speaker, Adah Parris is an award-winning polymath and enthusiastic curator of people, patterns and stories, anti-disciplinary artist, tech futurist, activist, and keynote speaker.
An expert in fields including systems design, digital and ecological technology, and living systems, she has an unique perspective on innovation, technology, and transformation. She is both empathetic and subversive, challenges the status quo, and helps people to recognise and bridge the gap between their external stories and internal behaviours.
Since 2020, Adah Parris has been chair of Mental Health First Aid England, a social enterprise that offers expert guidance and training to support mental health in the workplace. She is also Chair for The Centre for Cultural Values Advisory Group.
Adah Parris is co-founder of Ism.Earth and Artist in Residence at the Santa Barbara Centre for Art Science and Technology. She was an Artist in Residence at the Design Science Studio and the Living Collaboratory – a partnership between The Design Science Studio and the Emergent Media Lab at the University of California Irvine.”
Aaron Calvert originally trained as a doctor, before swapping his stethoscope for the stage, revisiting his childhood love of magic, illusion and hypnosis. He now uses his charm to fill theatres around the UK, abroad, on TV and at corporate events. Specialising in performance-driven talks, Aaron delivers an interactive and entertaining presentation to inspire your attendees from the minute they sit down.
“I would remortgage my house to learn some more of his secrets!” – University of Nottingham Alumni Dinner
Aaron Calvert has worked on a nation-wide stop smoking campaign for VICE Media’s Change Incorporated series, a week-long series on how to look after your mental health during lockdown and a hypnotic stunt at 30,000 feet with Thomas Cook Airlines. Aaron’s unique brand of entertainment combined with his degree and experience has entranced the media and means he receives five-star reviews every time.
Audiences describe him as a “quirky and refreshing alternative that will leave you absolutely baffled” (Daily Mail) and “quite literally stuck to your seat.”
