Lucy Werner is the writer behind Top 50 business newsletter Hype Yourself on Substack.
With over 20 years of communications experience, she has taught hundreds of entrepreneurs through workshops and courses for creative spaces like The Futur, Bayes Business School, and the University of Arts London.
She’s the author of two bestselling books, Hype Yourself and Brand Yourself, and has been featured in the Alt Marketing Power 100, The Dots Rising Stars, and Start Up Magazine’s Female Founders to Watch.
She is a Domestika instructor and Adobe Express Global Ambassador, based in rural France..
Michael Brown runs his own training consultancy, specializing in building leadership, team development and negotiation skills. He has been working with complex international organizations for nearly 20 years, and over that time he has met nearly 10,000 people in organisations of all shapes and sizes. This has given him an in-depth personal insight into their hopes, fears and challenges as they try to keep ahead in a rapidly evolving and increasingly dysfunctional workplace.
Before joining the training industry he gained practical experience of managing people and developing small businesses from a 14-year career at Whitbread in logistics, sales and marketing.
He was educated at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford, where he was an organ scholar.
Jeremy Marchant is the founder of emotional intelligence at work, a coaching and training practice focused on business performance and transformation. After 10 years with Marks and Spencer as a business analyst and manager in the IT division and in the company’s Finance group, he spent 15 years as a business consultant working with a wide range of clients, including the BBC, Hewlett-Packard, Boots, Harrods and many others, helping clients identify and define the functionality of their major IT developments.
He is an associate of, and facilitator/mentor with, Akonia, a London-based training company which offers the GradStart programme of business and soft skills development for undergraduates and for graduate recruits.
Trained in the application of emotional intelligence and psychology and in business coaching (with Shirlaws), he takes an integrative approach grounded in experience, putting business issues in an emotional intelligence context.
He is also a successful composer, arranger and music journalist.
Leanne Maskell is a model, law graduate and activist. Having modelled since the age of 13, her first ever job appeared in Vogue UK and she has continued this success, going on to work for brands such as ASOS, Urban Outfitters and i-D Magazine. Leanne has modelled internationally since graduating from university, signed to agencies around the world, and has both experienced and witnessed exploitation within the fashion industry. Compelled to do something about this, she left her successful career in order to help build a new safe, secure way of working for freelance models, empowering them to take control of their own lives and end exploitation.
David’s advice is widely sought. From startups to established organisations. All looking for outside help to solve those tricky everyday problems. And there isn’t too much he hasn’t seen.
His early career in the commercial operations of the advertising and media industries exposed him to the best and worst excesses of the business world. Eventually leading Capital Radio PLC, he ran the team that built one of the most admired and successful businesses of its era.
David’s many years of experience encompasses a wide range of companies and sectors. From retail, research, events, digital transformation and corporate finance to name but a few.
Present in lofty board rooms and lowly management meetings, he’s been at the table when both brilliant and foolhardy decision were made, seeing first-hand how company and personal reputations can be built or destroyed.
In his evolving career he has encountered the vast number of challenges that face everybody who’s trying to get ahead. His capacity for observation, clear thinking and pragmatic application will help any business leader looking to revolutionise their working week.
He’s a no-nonsense visiting business school professor, academic fellow, management consultant, investor, author and public speaker.
Laura Haycock is a Chartered Psychologist and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, with over 30 years of consultancy experience across all aspects of talent management including selection and assessment, performance management, career development, employee engagement, leadership and team development, culture change, and diversity and inclusion.
Moira Newiss is a BANT-registered nutritional therapist, health coach and accredited ketogenic metabolic therapy expert who specialises in metabolic therapies for serious mental illness. As an NHS manager Moira suffered burnout, anxiety, depression, depersonalization, and derealization. She struggled with chronic fatigue, severe brain fog, and problems with cognition. She began to lose hope, feeling she had become a burden to her family, and was desperate for a solution.
Her recovery journey led her to spend three years studying at the Institute of Optimum Nutrition, where she discovered the astonishing power of ketogenic metabolic therapy. She has since helped hundreds of people to use food and other lifestyle strategies as powerful metabolic prescriptions to reset metabolic health and work magic for the mind.
Rachel Fowler used to be a paediatric intensive care nurse before swapping scrubs for a sketch-pad and committing herself to a full-time 3-year degree in interior design. Having graduated with Honours, she now runs her own design business focused on healthy, humane design, including her own line of sustainable wallpaper.
David Pattison left school not knowing what he wanted to do. He ‘fell’ into the advertising industry and made good progress, becoming a main board director at the age of 29. In 1990 he started his own business with two partners that was sold and became part of the Omnicom Group. PHD is now a worldwide brand in eighty markets.He attended Harvard Business School and lived and worked in New York building PHD USA. Before leaving PHD he launched offices in 35 markets including Moscow, Dubai, Hong Kong and Singapore.After PHD he was asked by the founders to sell an independent digital media business, which he achieved successfully just before the world economic crisis in 2008. For the last 10 years David has worked as a chair or mentor for a variety of businesses and CEOs. Investing, raising funds, selling, advising, setting up infrastructure and being a shoulder to rest on. Acting as a ‘wingman’ watching CEOs and companies’ backs and witnessing first-hand the ups and downs of start-up and young company life. He still doesn’t know what to do but he has had an amazing working life trying to find out.
With degrees in Applied Mathematics, Aerospace Engineering, and Computational Neuroscience, Paolo Gaudiano jokes that he had literally done rocket science and brain surgery before turning to a really hard problem: how to create companies that have happier employees while making more money.
A former tenured professor turned entrepreneur, Paolo is Chief Scientist of Aleria, President of ARC, Adjunct at NYU Stern School of Business, and Chairman of the annual Diversity & Inclusion Research Conference. These activities combine Paolo’s decades of experience in business, technology, and academia, to transform how people think about DEI and what they do about it, with the ultimate goal of making our society more inclusive and equitable.
Paolo is a sought-after speaker, having presented his work at several hundred conferences and events around the world, including two TEDx talks. He is the author of dozens of academic papers and over 100 blogs in major online publications.
