Author, speaker, educator and adviser Adam Kingl (www.adamkingl.com) is the author of the books Next Generation Leadership and Sparking Success, the latter shortlisted for the Business Book Awards. He explores what business can learn from the creative arts, including culinary art, in enhancing innovation, creativity, adaptability and inspiration.
Adam is Adjunct Faculty at the University College London School of Management, Hult Ashridge, affiliate faculty at London Business School, the Hanken-Stockholm Schools of Economics, the Moller Institute at the University of Cambridge, and Imperial College London. Previously, Adam was the Executive Director of Thought Leadership and Learning Solutions for London Business School for almost a decade. He works with diverse companies and delivers keynotes around the world.
Adam trained at Le Cordon Bleu in California and cooked in an Italian trattoria. He holds degrees from London Business School, UCLA and Yale. He lives in London.
Kirsten de Bouter Shillam is a mentor, speaker, change expert, communicator and thought provoker. With a background in psychology and corporate coaching, she has worked all over Europe with companies such as Oracle, TomTom, Teva and Qualcomm with a focus on organisational change, innovation and people development.
She helps people reframe the way they work, to find creative and fulfilling ways of ‘doing life differently’ and to realise their untapped potential.
Anders Boulanger CSP is founder and CEO of Engagify, a company dedicated to rehumanizing business through engagement. After spending thousands of hours engaging with people at events around the world, he has codified engagement and now trains teams on how to deepen connection and command attention.
Dr. Samantha Madhosingh is an international speaker, leadership consultant, executive coach, and psychologist, who has dedicated her career over the past two decades to assisting leaders and teams with discovering their full potential and optimizing their productivity, performance, and progress without burning out. She is committed to helping leaders and teams work together better because healthy work cultures require exceptional leaders and happy, engaged employees.
Dr. Samantha has published many articles and book chapters on emotional intelligence, leadership, and personal development topics. Her work has been featured in prominent publications like Forbes, Entrepreneur, CEO World Magazine, LifeHack, BlackEnterprise, and The Daily Telegraph. Dr. Samantha has also appeared on tv media outlets in the US, including CW, FOX, NBC, and CBS.
Dr. Samantha is currently based in London, England and continues to speak, train, coach, and consult internationally.
E. A. Catlin holds a more holistic view on the effect that risk management frameworks have on performance and engagement, thanks to holding a wide variety of roles in mid- to large global enterprises. These roles often focused on implementing or auditing the application of internal control and risk management frameworks across an enterprise.
These experiences were further augmented with certifications in enterprise risk and ESG management that provided a deeper perspective of the effect that such frameworks have on organizational culture, providing a unique perspective of how organizations should empower accountability to better manage operational risks.
Oliver Banks helps retail leaders to drive transformation and realize their strategies and goals. He’s the founder of consultancy OB&Co and helps retailers and brands to deliver change to increase customer experience and profitability.
Originally a Chartered Engineer and cocktail mixologist, he blends a logical, systematic approach with energy and left-field thinking.
Formerly at UK retail giant Tesco, he led multiple change programmes, increasing effectiveness and efficiency across stores, online operations and the supply chain.
Since founding OB&Co, Banks has kick-started transformation projects with global retailers and brands, including creating new propositions, unlocking revenue streams, expanding internationally, integrating acquisitions and defining ideal operating models. Collectively, these initiatives have delivered over £100m of new annual profits.
One of the world’s top retail influencers, a LinkedIn Top Voice for retail and host of the Retail Transformation Show podcast, he delivers keynotes and consults on navigating transformation and the ever-evolving retail trends to guide retail leaders.
The Founder of Coastal Survival and the Coastal Survival School, Fraser Christian is a fully Qualified Charter Skipper, MCA Commercial Endorsed Skipper.
Fraser first taught survival and bushcraft skills to his local scout group over 25 years ago and has since been lucky enough to fish, hunt and forage professionally. He is a fully qualified chef and nutritionist with a passion for wild herbal medicines, wild food and outdoor cooking skills including preserving and smoking foods, and has led a series of popular River Cottage cookery courses including Catch and Cook and Fish Skills.
Fraser lives completely off grid and divides his time between the coast and a remote wild woodland, living the life he teaches.
Cara Holland is one of the leading graphic recorders / graphic facilitators in the UK today running a small studio that works with some of the biggest brands in the world. Her passion for effective, creative and visual communication was honed in the workplace, where for many years she managed diverse teams, set up projects and delivered results by working visually. So she knows the tangible benefits this way of working brings, even in challenging environments.
Andy Brown is a Non-Executive Director, leadership coach, speaker and author. He provides coaching to leaders in people-based businesses, enabling them to make better decisions and to build more valuable businesses. He coaches founders and CEOs including, in recent years, two CEOs at M&C Saatchi and has advised many agencies as they prepared themselves for sale.
Over the years, Andy has recognised that most leaders subsidize their companies at the expense of their own wellbeing, which he refers to as the ‘emotional overdraft’. This insight has enabled him to save numerous clients from burnout and stress and, at the same time, made their businesses more resilient.
With more than 30 years’ experience in the field, Andy has developed coaching and training programmes which give leaders and their teams the confidence, skills and tools needed to make a positive impact on their organizations. As a result, he was voted ‘Outstanding Non-Executive Director 2021’. He is regularly invited to speak to organizations and teams about leadership and business growth.
During his career, Andy has advised more than a hundred companies in the creative services and communications sector, serving on the board of advertising and brand agencies, and working with digital media, direct response and research businesses. He has also served on the Board of the Princes Trust.
Andy produces a weekly newsletter for founders and leaders, called Rambling On. He has written hundreds of articles on leadership and business growth, is a regular contributor to podcasts and has lectured at the University of Brighton.
Dr Ruth Murray-Webster is recognized as a leader of project-based organizational change and risk management performing roles as a practitioner, advisor, facilitator, researcher and author. For more than 30 years Ruth has practised and advanced change and risk management approaches, developing commercially astute strategy, centred around emerging risks and disruptive trends.
Ruth has experience in delivering change objectives in most sectors.
Prior to returning to her own company, Potentiality UK, in 2018, Ruth held appointments as Director, Change Portfolio and Group Head of Risk for a major port operator and Director, Risk in the Boardroom practice for KPMG LLP. Ruth researched organizational change from the perspective of the recipients of change for an Executive Doctorate at Cranfield School of Management between 2008 and 2012. She is an Associate Fellow at the University of Oxford: Saïd Business School and a Teaching Fellow at Warwick Business School.
Ruth’s interest in risk management arose from a passion to help organizations to take educated risks, not avoid them. She has co-authored four books on the human aspects of risk management and is a popular speaker at conferences and in webinars. She has also published papers in the areas of project complexity, organizational ambidexterity through projects and programmes and multi-paradigmatic perspectives on business transformation programmes. Ruth was Editor of the APM Body of Knowledge 7th edition and Lead Editor for the forthcoming (5th edition) of Managing Successful Programmes (MSP).
Ruth was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Association for Project Management in 2013 for her services to risk and change. The synergies between the two disciplines continue to drive Ruth’s thinking, writing and practice.
