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Eleanor Winton

Eleanor Winton is an experienced consultant and recognized keynote speaker on Disruption, Foresight and Innovation. In over 16 years as a consultant, she has helped hundreds of organizations in almost every sector to identify disruptive trends and develop a plan to address those. Prior to setting up Foresightfully in 2017, Eleanor led KPMG LLP’s Future Institute in the UK.

Eleanor is experienced in working with Boards and Executive teams and has designed and led thousands of workshops focused on driving innovation and change. She is well known for her high energy and engaging style which inspires those she works with to engage with the art of the possible and to break silos to drive collaboration.

Her background in forensic investigations is key to her unique approach, which combines creativity with rigour and analytical thinking to ensure that innovation is closely aligned with organizational strategy and results.

She wrote the foreword for UKWA’s report Feeding London in 2030

Joy Burnford

Joy Burnford is the founder and CEO of Encompass Equality Ltd. and is a recognized trailblazer in gender equality. She has interviewed hundreds of the world’s business leaders, published more than 70 articles on Forbes.com, is an influential speaker and host of ‘The Confidence Conversation’ podcast.

Matt Stevenson-Dodd

Matt Stevenson-Dodd is founder and chief executive of Trust Impact (www.trustimpact.com), a consultancy helping organizations build trust through innovative impact measurement and reporting.

With a 30+ year career as Chief Executive of some of the UK’s most socially impactful and innovative organizations, Matt is trusted by the CEOs, boards, chairs and senior leaders of hundreds of organizations around the world to help find pragmatic solutions to understanding, measuring and maximizing their social impact. He works across the private, public and not-for-profit sectors, helping organizations answer one simple question: ‘Do we actually make any difference to the world we are operating in?’

With clients including The Crown Estate, Shell International, RSPCA, Duke of Edinburgh International, Cambridge City Council, and Refugee Council, Trust Impact has challenged traditional and complicated impact measurement with a much simpler and more strategic offer.

In 2020 Matt was made a Member of the Venerable Order of Saint John and was recently awarded ‘Highly Commended’ in the global Association of MBA’s ‘Entrepreneur of the Year’ award. All of this is underpinned by a strong academic record which includes an MBA with Distinction and a scholarship to Harvard.

Matt has been a guest on numerous social impact and leadership podcasts around the world, written articles for national newspapers including The Guardian as well as relevant sector press.

Adam Forbes

Adam Forbes spent 25 years working happily and successfully within the four walls of major corporates in marketing, strategy, business development and finance, working within energy, retail, government and consulting – bp, Shell, Aramco, BT, Cabinet Office, John Lewis to name a few. He saw at first-hand what happens when re-structuring or other significant disruptions to the workforce results in individuals making the choice to leave or having that decision forced upon them, and observed how talented people from across all levels and roles often struggle to see beyond traditional corporate career paths.

In 2020 he made his own leap, establishing himself in a new career as a valued advisor and coach to corporates, startups and individuals and programme director for Startupbootcamp.

Since then, he’s spent time interviewing more than a hundred Corporate Escapologists to understand the formula to leave corporate life safely and successfully.

Adam writes a successful blog as the Corporate Escapologist about his time leaving a leading corporate to start up a new business and build a more varied, dynamic career designed around his values and needs. His Corporate Escapology podcast features people who have left corporate life to build new careers using the skills, experiences and know-how they gained during their corporate career.

Through his work coaching and advising fellow Corporate Escapologists to leave corporate jobs, through choice or redundancy, Adam has identified a simple method to help them move effectively through the stages of disorientation, fear and panic, to a greater appreciation of their own capabilities and options for the next phase of their careers.

Dr. Jake Tuber

Named one of the 40 Under 40 in leadership by the Leadership Center for Excellence, Dr. Jake Tuber is an award-winning executive coach, master facilitator, and expert in leadership and organizational psychology who has trained thousands of professionals across industries. He is the Managing Partner of Ticonderoga Advisory, a talent development firm that works with Fortune 500 companies, startups, nonprofits and mission-driven organizations.

His clients range from media executives at The New York Times and Disney to engineers at Google, equity partners at top law and executive search firms, agricultural C-suite leaders and professional athletes and NBA referees. He is one of the top-rated adjunct professors at the City College of New York, where he teaches industrial-organizational psychology, and previously led global leadership development academy workshops at CEB (now Gartner). A former stand-up and improv comic, he’s a dynamic speaker and has been a Lecturer in Residence with Lectures on Tap. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in philosophy from Georgetown University, a Masters in social-organizational psychology and a doctorate in Adult Learning & Leadership, both from Columbia University. He currently lives in New York with his wife and two daughters.

Kellie Lucas

Kellie Lucas is a Founding Director at ForseLucas, the consulting business which helps C-Suite executives and their teams establish and maximise their revenue growth engine through Customer Success.

A founding member of the European Customer Success network, she works with her peers to pioneer the emerging profession and co-founded CustomerSuccessNetwork.org, EMEA’s primary Customer Success community. Kellie is a regular speaker at conferences such as SuccessCon, Pulse Europe and CSU Live.

Beginning her career in Finance and transferring to IT, she spent over 20 years consulting for and with enterprise businesses like HSBC, Barclays, IBM, Deloitte and Vodafone. Kellie then moved to Ghana to work with anti-slavery NGO Challenging Heights and continues to lend her voice to the third sector wherever possible to extend the reach of her passion to help people achieve their dreams and goals.

She is an NLP Master Practitioner providing expert leadership, coaching and mentoring to her peers and clients in project and relationship management, most specifically with a focus on Customer Success.

Advita Patel

Advita Patel is a sought-after international speaker, confidence coach, and leadership expert who helps professionals unlock their potential through courageous communication and inclusive leadership. As the founder of CommsRebel, she partners with organizations to build cultures where people feel seen, heard, and valued. With over two decades of experience in strategic communications and employee engagement, Advita is known for empowering leaders to lead with clarity, compassion, and confidence.
She is the co-author of the bestselling book Building a Culture of Inclusivity, and is often speaking on various global podcasts where she explores bold ideas in internal communications, confidence and leadership. Advita also co-founded A Leader Like Me and the Asian Communications Network, platforms that support and elevate underrepresented voices in the workplace. Currently serving as President of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR), she is widely respected for her impactful work in shaping the future of inclusive leadership.

Catherine Garrod

Catherine Garrod led Sky to become the Most Inclusive Employer in the UK, with 80% of teams increasing their diversity. Now as a consultant she combines the power of listening, employee engagement, diversity and inclusion, making the complex simple with practical action people can implement today, tomorrow and the day after, to transform the organizations she works with.

Sherry Bevan

Sherry Bevan runs The Confident Mother which is all about celebrating and loving life as a woman and as a mother. Sherry helps women to create a feeling of confidence; the confidence that you feel when you balance the five elements: work, wellness, contribution, family, and feminine.

After more than 25 years working in professional services, Sherry launched her own business in 2012. In January 2015, she wanted to find the secret to having it all and interviewed more than 20 successful women, only to find that it’s not about having it all but having the confidence to live your life the way that works for you.

Sherry trained as an NCT breastfeeding counsellor and qualified in 2010. She devotes much of her spare time to supporting new mums in the early weeks after birth. In August 2015, Sherry was nominated for the figurehead NCT President role.

Sherry is a popular panellist on parenting issues for BBC Radio Kent; she blogs regularly for Birds on the Blog and Books on the Blog. She writes articles for NCT both nationally and locally, as well as parenting magazines.

Discover how to work with Sherry at www.sherrybevan.co.uk or www.theconfidentmother.co.uk.

She lives in Kent with her husband, two daughters and four pet rats.

Deb Mashek PhD

Dr. Deb Mashek, PhD is an experienced professor, higher education administrator, and national nonprofit executive. Named one of the Top 35 Women in Higher Education by Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, she has been featured in media outlets including The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Hechinger Report, Inside Higher Ed, Fortune, Reason, Business Week, University Business Insider, Wall Street Journal, and The Hill. She writes regularly for Psychology Today.

Previously Full Professor of Social Psychology at Harvey Mudd College, Deb served as the college’s Associate Dean for Faculty Development and as the founding Director of the Claremont College’s Office of Consortial Academic Collaboration. She served as the inaugural Executive Director of Heterodox Academy, a national nonprofit advancing constructive disagreement on college campuses. Having garnered over $3 million in grant funding to support collaborative projects, Deb serves on the board of BridgeUSA, is a Senior Fellow at Claremont Graduate University, and teaches at Dennison Edge, a “high-touch learning environment where industry experts help liberal arts students and recent graduates acquire the skills and knowledge to launch into, pivot toward, or accelerate their preferred career.”

Deb is the founder of Myco Consulting LLC, where she speaks, advises, and facilitates workshops on applying relationship science to help teams build healthy and effective collaborations so that they can accomplish ambitious goals. A member of both the Association for Collaborative Leadership and the International Coaching Federation, Deb has been an invited speaker on collaboration and viewpoint diversity at leading organizations including the United Nations, the American Psychological Association, the Council of Independent Colleges, and the Association of American Colleges & Universities.

Originally from North Platte, NE, Deb lives in Staten Island, NY with her son.

Author location: Staten Island, New York, 10301