Mark Garrett Hayes is a Sales Enablement Expert, Accredited Coach and Certified Trainer who helps sales leaders and managers learn how to coach their salespeople and dramatically boost performance and revenue.
Working both in-house and remotely with sales teams internationally, Mark has developed powerful tools to help sales leaders to get the very best from their teams.
He has helped leaders reduce A-Player churn, drive greater accountability among their reps and revolutionize how they get the best from their sales people.
Mark is the host of the popular weekly The Sales Coach podcast where he interviews sales leaders and thought leaders at SaaS and tech companies worldwide each week.
Richard Mawer is the CEO of Ignite Growth Consultancy and founder of Leadnamic Systems, and the author of Remarkable Business Growth.
Over more than three decades he has built eight of his own businesses and helped hundreds of owners to grow theirs, including one client he worked with through to a £28m exit and another to an £8m acquisition.
His first book set out the STEPS Growth Method, a step-by-step approach to building a remarkable business that attracts a steady flow of clients and drives predictable growth to £1m and beyond. This book goes further. It shows owners how to build the engine and systems behind that growth, using the BUILD method (Bespoke, Usable, Intelligent, Leverage, Data), so the business runs without depending on them for every decision.
Liz Atkin is a brand copywriter and internal comms strategist who has spent her career using the power of words to positively influence people and inspire action.
Her own experience as CEO of an organization transitioning through change gave her first-hand insight into the way that internal communication can make or break a business.
She went on to spend 10 years working in the manufacturing industry assessing operational and workplace culture issues, advising MDs and senior managers in operations and HR, and providing solutions through training and consultancy.
Liz now combines her business experience, communication expertise and creative thinking to help businesses of all types engage with their target audiences – external and internal – through strategic positioning, powerful narrative and authentic messaging.
Philippa White is a global thought leader, social innovator and the Founder and CEO of UK-based company TIE. For 20 years she has been unlocking the potential of corporate leaders and teams with a unique approach to leadership development. By igniting the power of a people-first approach to business her processes not only enhance commercial success, but create a more sustainable world.
TIE works with some of the world’s biggest businesses including Next15, Octopus Group, Santander, Leo Burnett and Bartle Bogle Hegarty, helping their people develop the necessary human competencies to thrive in today’s corporate world.
Born in South Africa, Philippa grew up in Canada and, following an exchange programme in Thailand, moved to the United Kingdom, where she worked in advertising before moving to Brazil, her current base.
Philippa is the creator and host of the TIE Unearthed Podcast and host of the London ‘Evening with TIE’ events. A speaker and author, she has published over 60 articles, and works as a mentor and advisor for companies looking to move to a ‘people first’ approach to business.
Olusegun Aganga CON is a Chartered Accountant with a professional career extending over four decades in the financial services industry and in the public service.
He is the Chairman of a number of companies. He also advises a number of boards including Times Partners and the Queen’s Commonwealth Trust in the UK where he serves on the advisory board. He was at Goldman Sachs, London for many years where he was a Managing Director and prior to that, he was a Senior Director at Ernst & Young London where he had various leadership roles.
Within the public sector, he served first as Nigeria’s Minister of Finance and Chairman of the Economic Management Team and then as its Minister of Industry, Trade and Investments. He has been widely acclaimed as being responsible for many transformational milestones in Nigeria including establishing the country’s sovereign wealth fund, issuing the Nation’s first Euro bond, structuring and funding the first standard gauge rail in the country and as a major contributor to making Nigeria the premier destination for investments in Africa. He was the Chairman of the Joint Board of Governors of World Bank and IMF in 2010 and in 2011, he chaired the 8th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organisation in Geneva, making him the first African to chair these two organisations.
He is the founder of the Nigerian Leadership Initiative (NLI), an organization that provides a platform for highly accomplished and credible Nigerians in Nigeria and the diaspora to develop and express their values-based leadership skills and to assume a transformative role in the future development of Nigeria.
He also serves on the Board of TechnoServe, a US NGO that provides business solutions to rural poverty.
Olusegun Aganga is a recipient of one of the highest national awards in Nigeria, the Commander of the Order of the Niger (CON).
Jenny Campbell is Chief Executive and lead researcher at The Resilience Engine. Resilience takes her into many domains, from working with leaders in large organisations to working in schools, universities and charities. She is passionate about sharing the thinking and practical resilience habits from the research, so that everyone can feel well, more at ease, and reconnected to the joy in their life.
Born on an East London council estate, having studied at Cambridge and Oxford, and now an author, teacher, and entrepreneur, Eloise Skinner – over-achieving, formerly purposeless millennial – is well-placed to write on this topic. Over seven years she undertook a personal purpose-finding project, and now, having crafted and tailored her own life to reflect her values, identity and sense of purpose, she shares the lessons she learned in this book.
During her own journey, she trained for a year as a monk, as part of a small community run by the Archbishop of Canterbury, exploring the topic of individual purpose. She also trained in Logotherapy (also known as ‘existential analysis’), the therapeutic approach based on the work of Viktor Frankl that emphasizes the need to find meaning and purpose in life. Eloise incorporates its practical tools and techniques here.
Eloise holds qualifications in meditation and mindfulness, yoga, Pilates, nutrition, massage and ballet (as well as that triple First Class Law degree from Cambridge University). The combination gives her writing a holistic, integrated approach – balancing body, mind and soul.
Her first book, the Junior Lawyers’ Handbook (The Law Society, 2019) was described as a ‘must-have guide for all junior lawyers’, and in 2020 she was named as one of the University of Law’s ‘Pioneers’ for her work advocating for an emphasis on wellbeing and purpose in the legal profession. She has a strong presence on social media and hosts her own podcast.
Above all, she is passionate about living life fully – about intentionally creating and designing everyday life, and doing so with a sense of purpose.
Rachel Fairley had never heard of brand until in her first job she helped the General Counsel value the business’s intangible assets. Fascinated, Rachel decided to pursue a career repositioning brands to improve their impact and drive fresh growth.
Rachel has contributed to B2B and B2C business transformations across many industries, all over the world. Sometimes she does it by advising, sometimes by taking on the role of chief brand officer or marketing leader. All her work has come through client recommendations.
Rachel has a reputation for strategic thinking, creativity and pragmatism. Her positivity and infectious energy galvanize those around her and drive collaboration.
Rachel is partially deaf, having survived a brain tumour. Brought up in Edinburgh, she moved to London for a year in 1999; she still lives there with her husband and two sons. Rachel co-founded Rebrand Right with Sarah Robb.
Sarah’s career as a brand strategist began on the prestigious WPP Fellowship programme. She learnt her craft working with B2B and B2C Fortune 500 companies, and has supported clients on 57 rebrands, across the A to Z of industries.
After a decade as an agency strategist, she conducted a study of the 181 most valuable brands to get behind the jargon and to a simpler model that helps marketers better connect brands to business growth.
This ability to bring clarity to brand strategy, think creatively and unite employees and customers through her work has won her innumerable fans.
She established Brand Strategy Academy to equip strategists, designers and copywriters with the skills and tools to confidently help the brands they work with.
She lives near London with her husband and two children, speaks rusty Japanese and travels as often as she can. Sarah co-founded Rebrand Right with Rachel Fairley.
