Narina Riskowitz works as a Transformational Therapist and Soul Coach and has developed a series of workshops and meditation courses for personal and spiritual growth. The Foundations of Mastery builds on her earlier book, Lifting the Veils of Illusions: 7 Steps to Spiritual Enlightenment to take your evolution from self-development to self-mastery in this advanced yet highly practical 12-step guide to mastering mind, body and soul.
Janie van Hool understands both speaking and listening profoundly. She began her career as a professional actor, training at The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art before embarking on 12 years of work in the theatre, in TV, as a voiceover artist and conference presenter.
She went on to gain an MA in Voice and then an MSc in Performance Psychology. The combination of her academic research together with her experience as a performer has given her a unique perspective on how to articulate messages with confidence and skill, and informed her work as a coach, advisor and skills teacher to business leaders.
Over the last 20 years she has developed leaders in a wide range of organizations, from mining in Australia to investment banking in New York and everything in between. She has crafted tactics, strategies, frameworks and tools to enable leaders to inspire others through impact, influence, presentation, storytelling and connection. Her fascination with how people communicate has helped countless leaders make a difference to themselves personally, and to the people they lead.
More recently she has volunteered as a listener with Samaritans – a UK charity dedicated to listening to people in distress. This has helped her complete the circle of communication insights that have been her life’s work, by recognizing fully the incredible power of being heard.
Her first book – The Impact and Presence Pocketbook – was published in 2004.’
Andy Salkeld is a ‘Big 4’-trained Chartered Accountant. He specialised in the complex field of corporate finance before moving into the private sector to focus on business intelligence and analytics. He now brings his professional expertise to the Leeds technology and start-up scene, helping new business to employ best practice as they grow. He is an investor and Director at a newly founded technology company with the ambitious goal of ‘helping the high street fight back against online’ whilst also ‘building location-centric communities’.
Andy has also knowingly lived with depression for most of his life. Struggling with his work in his 30s, distant from his family and feeling unable to connect with anyone, he was just at his lowest point when his wife left him. He came within moments of taking his own life.
He now advocates positive action around mental health, giving his signature ‘Breaking the Stigma’ talk at a wide range of market-leading international organisations. He works closely with business leaders across the UK, delivering talks, workshops and coaching across their offices as they strive to build mentally healthy cultures.
Andy promotes his work through his own website and is known as an expert in mental health, entrepreneurship and finance around Leeds; appearing on local and national TV and radio and speaking and writing regularly on the subject.
Caroline McKenna is an accredited executive coach and founder of Lead Self Coaching and Development, with 20 years’ experience working in growing SMEs, leading and developing teams. She coaches global business leaders, and supports scaling SME leaders to navigate the challenges of pursuing ambitious goals. Caroline runs her award-winning business from Northern Ireland. She developed the Lean Self First Model from her experience of working with Ireland’s top entrepreneurs to unlock next-level growth.
Martin is a former chief police officer whose 38-year career spanned five UK police forces, including significant spells in counter-terrorism in London and in homicide investigation. As a chief officer he was responsible for all aspects of safeguarding and child protection and managed the risks posed by violent and sexual offenders living in the community.
Martin’s most recent policing role was as Chief Constable of Dorset Police. During his time in charge, his officers and staff delivered eight consecutive years of crime reduction and achieved national ‘best in class’ public confidence — the highest of any police force in England and Wales. In 2006 he was awarded The Queen’s Medal for Distinguished Police Service (QPM).
Today, Martin is CEO and co-founder of The Safeguarding Company, the makers of MyConcern. He’s also an experienced school governor in both primary and upper schools, and is currently a director of a multi-academy trust.
Mike had a varied policing career, ultimately serving as an Assistant Chief Constable (in Dorset Police, responsible for the delivery of all operational policing across the county, including adult and child protection. As a young detective he volunteered to become a trained Child Protection Officer and led many serious and complex child abuse investigations. Later, as Head of CID, he was responsible for all child and adult safeguarding and headed numerous major crime investigations involving vulnerable children and adults. He was also chaired the Local Criminal Justice Board and represented Dorset Police on the Local Children’s Safeguarding Board.
Mike is currently the Chief Safeguarding Officer at The Safeguarding Company and he is regularly invited to speak at national and international conferences and events to share his expertise on safeguarding.
He too is an experienced school governor, and has been a Chair of Governors for over 10 years.
Ian is an Award-Winning Leadership Speaker, Executive Coach and Team Excellence Builder.
In 2018 he delivered a TEDx talk entitled ‘Why Everyone Needs an Unreasonable Dream’. He regularly speaks at conferences in the UK and Internationally and works with leadership teams on their Strategy, Vision and Values, as well as developing their capabilities to perform at their peak.
Ian is also a Vistage Group Chair, coaching and developing two groups of CEOs and Key Executives in Surrey to fulfil their individual potential.
Ian’s first career was in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, working across Europe and in Hong Kong. In 1996 he moved into consultancy with Celemi International, where for 10 years he was MD of the UK business.
He has an MBA from Henley Business School, is a Chartered Member of the Institute of Personnel and Development, has an Executive and Corporate Coach Diploma (ILM7), a Diploma in Marketing and is an Accredited Belbin Team Roles Facilitator.
Sally Sanderson is a multi-award-winning consultant to law firms. Specialising in leadership, emerging leaders, people and project management, she uses personality profiling to increase self-awareness and speed up development. Her clients include global firms and niche practices, and her ABCDE approach has been tested on thousands of lawyers across the world with outstanding results.
Graham Eisner has devoted 30 years to understanding the power of client referrals for businesses. In his ten years as a private client salesperson at Goldman Sachs he developed a methodology for referrals from clients, internal partners and intermediaries that made him one of their most successful sales professionals. He developed a training programme which he ran for three years at Goldman Sachs, and since then has worked as a referrals consultant and trainer, teaching his system to thousands of professional salespeople for clients such as Barclays, Deutsche Bank, Julius Baer, Northern Trust, Seven Investment Management and other leading brands.
He understands first-hand all the myths around referrals, and the mindsets that hold people back from asking and following up. He’s now put his unique and powerful system into a book so that every business can access it.
Frederique Murphy is a leadership mindset strategist who inspires and equips leaders to move through extraordinary change. Her Mountain Moving Mindset (M3) platform delivers inspiration and scientific strategies, instilling beliefs, attitudes and behaviours to drive powerful transformations.
She brings together 17 years’ experience in corporate change for large multinational organizations and scientific expertise in positive psychology, neuroscience and behaviour change with strategic vision and business acumen, having run her award-winning speaking, training and consulting company for the past decade. With this impactful combination, she helps organizations – including Fortune 500 companies – and associations reap the benefits of tapping into the power of their leaders’ minds to rewire their brains for success and make change happen.
Frederique regularly writes for business publications, has been interviewed on national and international radio and podcast shows, and serves her large audience via her award-winning M3 blog and podcast The M3 Mile. She is powerful at connecting with people and loves engaging with her remarkable online community – her M3 Power Community spans all continents and includes over 155,000 leaders, with whom she shares her ever-growing mind and brain expertise.
When Frederique takes to the stage, sparks fly: she is a passionate and charismatic speaker who captivates audiences and awakens the neural paths in their brains. She has delivered her popular keynote ‘Lead Beyond The Edge’ to tens of thousands of professionals around the globe, from Dublin to Vancouver to Mexico to Amsterdam to Madrid to Dallas.