Alice Jennings loves solving problems! From her time in the lab during her PhD research and then in a corporate environment as a management consultant and process improvement expert, Alice has always looked for ways to make things work better, quicker and smarter.
As a qualified ‘coder’ she is able to understand the technology on a deep level while her easy and friendly manner enable her to explain complex systems in a way that is easy to understand. She is passionate about enabling small businesses to use technology and systems to help them punch above their weight.
Alice’s mission is to help business owners make informed choices in the systems and tools they use by giving them the information they need to confidently take their business to the next level and resist being bamboozled by people selling the next big idea.
Since starting her own small business she has worked with over 200 business owners through webinars, workshops and one to one consultancy; sharing simple tips that enable better working as well as helping implement more complex systems to support growth and reduce stress.
Anne Taylor is the Director of DIRECTions Coaching Ltd. Armed with a degree in Business from Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada, she built an impressive career over 20 years with companies such as Procter & Gamble and Nestlé where she held positions of increasing responsibility in marketing, overall business management and business strategy development.
After leaving her Global Marketing role at Nestlé in Switzerland, she re-trained as an Executive Coach. Her clients included IMD business school where she developed and delivered the coaching component of corporate leadership programme. Later in the UK she established a successful practice with clients such as Nestlé, Lloyds of London, Deutsche Bank, L’Oréal and Ford among others.
She is an associate coach for London Business School and is certified through ICF to the level of PCC (Professional Certified Coach). She helps successful managers and MDs increase their leadership impact particularly around EQ, strategic thinking, and influencing.
Nick Suckley is widely regarded as one of the UK’s leading entrepreneurs in digital media.
Over a 20-year period, Nick has launched four digital specialist businesses and sold three of them, most recently his multi-award-winning digital media consultancy, Agenda21, to Be Heard Group Plc for £12m.
Early on, he launched Media21 as one of the UK’s first digital media agencies and sold it to Grey London at the height of the dot-com boom just 18 months after its formation.
He was a founding investor in digital creative hot shop Glue London (which sold to Aegis Group in 2005 for £14m) and he launched and incubated DataShaka, an analytics software business where he was instrumental in securing several rounds of VC funding from Seedcloud Ventures.
Nowadays, Nick is a much sought-after consultant for media and technology entrepreneurs and C-level executives, advising them on opportunistic corporate build strategies and how to avoid the costly mistakes frequently associated with rapid growth and a changing marketplace.
Anna Inama is a certified Master Executive Coach to leaders and their teams. Anna leverages her 20+ years of leadership experience in people focused roles in multinational corporations like Mars, L’Oréal, and Diageo, and her work is underpinned by her extensive coach training with a Masters in Organizational Development and Executive Coaching, and her multicultural background, having lived and worked globally. Anna partners with senior leaders and their teams for personal breakthroughs and to be their most impactful, authentic and effective selves. She is known for her trusting relationships, her presence and connection and her deep listening to ignite the best thinking, ideas and self expression. She helps her clients unlock the assumptions and limited beliefs which might be holding them back from being their best self, and partners with them to surface new liberating narratives and new choices in their decisions and how they show up. Anna is also a founding faculty member of the prestigious Wisdom 8 Executive Coaching programme, and works as an accredited mentor and supervisor to other Executive Coaches.
Andy Fryer is a seasoned leader and coach with over 45 years of experience of working within, leading and coaching teams. He spent 33 years as an RAF officer, including a year as commander of the enormous NATO base in Kandahar, Afghanistan – home to over 19,000 people and 300 aircraft and under frequent rocket attack. He then worked as an entrepreneur for a number of years and as Chair of the Board of a charity, before retraining as an executive and team coach. As a coach, he has worked with leaders and team across diverse organizations from National Grid through Novartis to Amazon, where Andy is known for his poised presence and ability to support individuals to navigate challenges independently. With qualifications including an MBA and postgraduate qualifications in coaching, he instills confidence and promotes growth through calculated risk-taking.
Sara Dalrymple is a sales trainer and mentor for online business owners and the go-to sales expert for creative small businesses. She has over 18 years of sales experience spanning a corporate career in investment banking and as a small business owner. Having grown her own photography business in 2013, she founded a specialist sales consultancy focussed on mentoring other creatives to sell their products and services online. Through private mentoring and online training workshops, Sara has helped hundreds of business owners bring in consistent sales through confident, sleaze-free self-promotion.
Dr Michael Oko is a leading consultant ENT specialist, with particular expertise in sleep apnoea and sleep disorders. He worked as an advisor on OSA for the Department of Health and in 2023 became a founding member of the All-Parliamentary Working Group (APPG) as the ENTUK representative to advise the House of Lords and Parliament on sleep apnoea.
Lucy Harrison is the founder of leadership consultancy the Harrison Network, delivering training and coaching in organisational development with a focus on human-centred leadership.
Having spent 15 years solving problems for organisations and people, one day she found a problem she couldn’t solve. Her husband, a paramedic, was demonstrating symptoms of PTSD and depression and she couldn’t fix it. Every time she tried to ‘help’, she made things worse.
Over time, Lucy discovered the power of choosing how she showed up to these conversations and then listening fully; the power of soft skills. The results were astonishing.
She has since identified the framework she used and taught it to others, stress-testing it with leaders in tough industry situations, from boardroom to shop floor and from nuclear engineers to emergency services. To date this simple framework has already improved connection, communication and engagement for hundreds of people, and in a recent 5-month leadership course, 70% of participants named it as one of their top three takeaways.
Lucy speaks at local and national conferences, and has recently produced cross-sector research for the Nuclear Institute as well as independently.
For the last 20 years, Dr Lucy Ryan has trained and coached over 10,000 leaders in global, blue-chip companies across 29 countries, and is a passionate advocate for women’s professional development. Noticing a trend of female midlife clients leaving their corporate roles, she led a unique five-year doctoral research project exploring this phenomenon, filling a long-standing data gap.
In 2021, Lucy published the best-selling Lunchtime Learning for Leaders with Kogan Page. Nominated as one of the top 100 global coaches for women, she is a much-requested speaker on the Conference and a popular webinar and podcast guest.
With a Masters in Positive Psychology, Lucy lectures in Positive Leadership at the University of East London and is an honorary research fellow at the University of Liverpool.
She has personal experience of the unique events women experience at midlife including menopause, parental caring, and empty nesting. She is also resilient, hopeful, and enthusiastic about the next chapter of her life!
Jo Browning is a specialist in verbal communication skills, and for 25 years she has been helping scientists and physicians to speak with impact and authority.
Jo trained as a journalist at BAFTA and Emmy award-winning Insight News Television. She then moved into public relations, and has held a variety of senior positions in science and healthcare communications in the UK, France, Australia and Switzerland. She holds an English degree from Oxford University, a Diploma in Public Relations, and a Post Graduate Diploma in ‘Science and Society’. She lectures on science and corporate communications.
Today, her knowledge of media training, including presenting in-person and on camera, is in demand across all scientific sectors. Overall, she’s trained more than 10,000 people across 23 countries and four continents.
Jo is the Founder of communications company Filshie Browning Associates, and Scientifically, a training company that supports doctors and scientists to communicate science.
