Liz Taylor

Liz Taylor is a successful award-winning businesswoman, expert media commentator and marketing consultant for leading brands.

Martin Roberts

Martin Roberts is one of the UK’s most respected Property, Travel and Lifestyle TV presenters and journalists.

Peter Cook

Peter Cook mixes business and music in unique ways. He delivers conference keynotes and longer masterclasses to some of the world’s top businesses and organisations with a proven track record ... Read more

Rasmus Ankersen

Rasmus Ankersen is a bestselling author, an entrepreneur, a speaker on performance development and a trusted advisor to businesses and athletes around the world.

Paula Reid

Inspirational speaker, author and adventurer Speech 1: BOAT to BOARDROOM High performance inspiration for leaders and teams drawing on the Global Challenge round-the-world yacht race. As a core crew member ... Read more

Mike Forde

As the former Director of Football Operations at Chelsea FC, Mike Forde is one of the UK’s leading Sports Executives, having worked at senior level in the English Premier League ... Read more

Richard Denny

Richard Denny is the one of the most inspirational business speakers in the UK . He is probably unique in that his presentations not only motivate, inspire and educate his ... Read more

Robin Sieger

A successful businessman, best selling author, and a leading success strategist Robin has developed a reputation within media and circles as a peak performance ‘guru’, in both business and sport. ... Read more

Tim Drake

Tim has seen success – and failure – in business over several decades, and has learnt from both.

Penny Mallory

Penny Mallory is one of the most successful women Rally Drivers and the first woman in the world to compete in a World Rally Car (the Formula One of Rallying). ... Read more

Caspar Berry

Caspar Berry started his career in Byker Grove on BBC1 alongside Ant and Dec. He went on to read Economics and Anthropology at Cambridge and, after setting his sights on ... Read more

Simon Woodroffe OBE

Simon Woodroffe left school at the age of 16 with 4 ‘O’ levels in the days when they used to do peace signs and mean them. He went on the ... Read more

Mike Southon

Mike Southon is one of the UK’s leading authorities on entrepreneurship and sales with a weekly column every Saturday in the Financial Times.

Stephen Sackur

Stephen Sackur is best known as the presenter of BBC Hardtalk which is broadcast on BBC News 24 and BBC World, the BBC’s international news channel, and has received widespread ... Read more

Andrew Neil

Andrew Neil is a Scottish journalist and broadcaster.

Nick Leeson

The collapse of Barings, and the role that Nick Leeson had in it, is one of the most spectacular debacles in modern financial history. How could one trader bring down ... Read more

Lord Digby Jones

Lord Digby Jones was United Kingdom Minister of State for Trade & Investment July 2007 – October 2008, accepting a lifetime peerage in the House of Lords where he sits ... Read more

Luke Johnson

Luke Johnson studied medicine at Oxford University graduating in 1983. He then worked as media analyst at stockbroker Grieveson Grant (subsequently Kleinwort Benson Securities). He took control of PizzaExpress in ... Read more

Sahar Hashemi

In 1995 Sahar Hashemi together with her brother Bobby founded Coffee Republic, and built it into one of the UK’s most recognised high street brands with a turnover of £30m. ... Read more

Jeff Grout

Jeff Grout was, until 2000, UK Managing Director of Robert Half International, the largest specialist recruitment consultancy in the world. A graduate of the London School of Economics, he joined ... Read more

Sandro Forte

Dynamic, innovative and creative – Sandro Forte (FPSA, CSP) is a speaker as well as a strategic and personal development coach. Sandro is a Fellow of the Professional Speakers Association, ... Read more

Frances Edmonds

Frances Edmonds is a truly international expert in the business of communication. Her latest book, “Winning The Game of Life” suggests tools for personal success and motivation and embraces techniques ... Read more

Karen Darby

Karen Darby is a serial entrepreneur, and has been a leading figure in the call centre industry for over 25 years.

Declan Curry

Declan Curry is an event facilitator, conference chair, speaker and awards host. He has been a business and economics journalist for more than twenty years.

Barbara Cassani

Barbara Cassani founded the low cost airline Go and spearheaded the successful London 2012 Olympic bid. Currently, she is working on developing new business ventures – both start-ups and existing ... Read more

Alastair Campbell

Alastair Campbell read modern languages at Cambridge but made money by writing pornographic stories for the men’s magazine Forum before entering journalism.

Karren Brady

Karren Brady is now known as the first woman in football, and in Autumn 2002 was listed by “Cosmopolitan Magazine” as “one of the 100 most powerful women in the ... Read more

James Averdieck

James Averdieck is the founder and Managing Director of Gü Chocolate Puds, launched in May 2003.

Richard Watson

Richard Watson is a writer, speaker and consultant who advises organisations on the future, focusing particularly on scenario planning and the impact of trends on long-term strategy.

Sir Stuart Rose

Former Chief Executive and Chairman of Marks & Spencer, Sir Stuart Rose is a stalwart of business, and a leading authority on retail and management with a reputation and track ... Read more

Dame Stella Rimington

Stella Rimington DCB was the first woman to become Director General of MI5. Educated at Edinburgh and Liverpool Universities, Dame Stella started her career working part-time for MI5 at their ... Read more

Richard Reed

Richard Reed left advertising to set up a fresh fruit juice business with two friends. Famously they set up a stall at a music festival selling smoothies. They set up ... Read more

Gerald Ratner

Famously almost sank his business due to an ill judged comment at the IoD Annual Convention (he described his company’s products as crap!). Since then he has bounced bank with ... Read more

Michael Portillo

Michael Portillo is a popular former politician and broadcaster, possibly best known today for his travel series on TV ‘Great British Railway Journeys’ and ‘Great Continental Railway Journeys’.

Julie Meyer MBE

Julie Meyer is the founder and CEO of Ariadne Capital, Founder – Entrepreneur Country, Managing Partner – Ariadne Capital Entrepreneurs Fund.

Andrew McMillan

Andrew McMillan is currently a Principal Consultant at Charteris PLC specialising in customer experience. He started his career as a management trainee with the John Lewis Partnership at Brent Cross. ... Read more

Jo Malone MBE

Jo Malone founded one of Britain’s most famous fragrance brands in the 1990s. The Jo Malone fragrance range is renowned for the pairing of unusual ingredients and essences to create ... Read more

Martin Glenn

Martin Glenn was appointed as CEO of the Football Association in 2015. Prior to that, he was appointed as CEO for United Biscuits in April 2013. He is the former ... Read more

Geoff Burch

Presenter of BBC’s All Over the Shop where he helps failing businesses up and down the country to run around. A phenomenon who has delighted audiences throughout Britain and abroad, ... Read more

Dave Fishwick

Entrepreneur Dave Fishwick left school aged 16 without any qualifications. However, armed with a huge amount of determination and ambition, he’s now the largest supplier of minibuses in the country, ... Read more