Karen Foy is a Master Certified Coach with over 20 years’ experience, and a certified coach, mentor and supervisor and educator. Karen holds a BA Psychology from the University of Sheffield and an MSc Coaching Psychology from the University of East London. She has recently retired as the Programme Director of accredited coaching programmes at Henley Business School, where she is still a visiting tutor and Honorary Fellow.
Jenny Williams (MCC) is a top Executive and Systemic Team Coach who works with leaders to leverage the power in their doubts. For the last 15 years, she has spent thousands of hours working with exceptional senior clients who also doubt, to deliver exceptional results.
While leaders often see their doubt as a problem, Jenny knows how to use it as a catalyst for clarity and a powerful aid to better decision-making. Her unique approach is based on research and her own experience working through her own doubts, first as a global Creative Director for Nokia, and then with her coaching abilities. This work has established her in the top 4% of coaches globally with an International Coaching Federation certification as Master Coach. She has lectured at Cambridge University on leadership, entrepreneurship and creativity.
Professor Simon Fishel is the Founder and President of the CARE Fertility Group – the UK’s largest independent provider of fertility services.
He began his research career at the University of Cambridge in 1975 with Bob Edwards, who was responsible – with Patrick Steptoe – for the birth of the first IVF baby Louise Brown in 1978. During 1978-1980 he was the first to publish on the metabolic responsiveness of embryos to their environment, and he also published on demonstrating the presence of specific uterine glycoproteins suggesting bidirectional signalling. Simon joined Patrick and Bob at Bourn Hall, the world’s first dedicated IVF clinic, as Deputy Scientific Director when it opened in 1980, where he was part of the original clinical team undertaking IVF. In 1979 he was appointed a Research Fellow at Churchill College. In 1980 he was awarded the prestigious Beit Memorial Fellowship and in 1984 was the first to publish on the secretion of HCG by the human embryo.
He has published over 200 scientific papers and three books and, with Alison Campbell, the first atlas of time-lapse images of the human embryo. His pioneering work in the field of IVF has resulted in many honorary awards around the world.
In 1992 he founded the world’s first degree course in IVF and he has advised several international government committees reviewing policy and legislation on IVF, including advisors to the Vatican. In 1997 he was awarded a Personal Professional Chair in Human Reproduction. He is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology and in 2009 was honoured by the Liverpool John Moores University with their highest award of ‘University Fellow’ for ‘outstanding contribution to science and to humanity’.
He is the founder of the Rachel Foundation, a charity for research to help children rendered infertile due to medical treatment, and also to help raise awareness for secondary infertility.
His professional interests span all elements of human reproduction, fertility and embryology, and IVF technologies in particular.
Michael Buckworth is a qualified solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales, and the founder of Buckworths, the only UK law firm working exclusively with start-ups and high growth businesses. He has a passion for entrepreneurialism, and has advised countless start-ups over the last ten years. He’s been ‘entrepreneur in residence’ at London South Bank University and University College, London, for several years, and is a regular speaker at industry events.
www.buckworths.com
Rachel Philpotts is a nutritionist and mental health expert, and founder of re:Nutrition. She holds an MSc in personalized nutrition alongside qualifications in functional medicine and neurolinguistic programming. A member of the British Association for Lifestyle Medicine (BANT), the Complementary Healthcare Council (CNHC) and the Institute for Functional Medicine (IFM), Rachel has contributed to publications such as BBC Good Food and Good Life North and is in the process of having her Master’s research into stress and major depressive disorder published. She is also active across social media, and has guested internationally on mental health podcasts such as Dawn Breaks and The Mindful Trinity.
Prior to becoming a nutritionist, Rachel enjoyed a successful 13-year commercial career. However, her career-girl lifestyle caught up with her in her 30s and left her tired, frustrated and a shadow of her former self. It took total burnout to make her realise something had to change. It was during this time that she discovered the concept of functional medicine. The simple nutrition and lifestyle changes she made transformed her health, and she was inspired to quit the corporate world and retrain. Now she helps other tired and wired career women to combat fatigue rebalance their mood naturally and feel revitalized, reenergized and restored.
David McQueen is a leadership coach, international speaker and facilitator. He is the cofounder of professional development company Q Squared Ltd, the host of The BRAVE Leader podcast and a blogger on all things leadership and culture change
David’s work has taken him all over the world working in both profit and non-profit sectors. His clients include Aviva, JP Morgan, Bloomberg, Google, Facebook, Mercedes Benz, Tate and Lyle and UnLtd. He is also a 3x TEDx speaker and a TED Fellow.
Dr Amanda Potter, CEO of Zircon BeTalent, is a business psychologist, podcaster and international speaker with over 20 years’ experience helping organizations unlock high performance through people. She specializes in psychological safety, resilience, leadership and talent assessment, combining robust psychometric science with practical behavioural change.
Amanda has led the development and validation of innovative workplace assessments used by organizations around the world to improve leadership, team performance and organizational culture. Passionate about translating complex psychology into practical action, she works with executive teams to create environments where people thrive, make better decisions and consistently achieve outstanding results.
Tabbin Almond had a long career in advertising, working in some of London’s top agencies and winning numerous awards. Like most of her colleagues, she drank… a lot. Realising she had a problem, she tried on countless occasions to stop. Eventually she found a method that worked, and then went on to train as a coach to help others. As a coach, she became increasingly aware that the stigma around alcohol-dependence was preventing people from asking for help, and keeping them stuck in lack-lustre performance, affecting their careers as well as the productivity and profitability of the organisations they worked for. In addition to one-on-one and group coaching, she runs Reset Retreats, blogs, appears on podcasts and is a regular guest speaker.
Hadrien Chatelet is Creative Director of The Wern, a PR & design business for small business. As well as launching the strategic branding and design arm of the agency, he is developing a range of FREE tools, DIY products and one-to-one coaching.
From literally being caught red-handed and commissioned on the spot to create street art for (Agnes-B) a fashion brand in France, to cutting his teeth in London as a junior designer for a wallpaper company. Hadrien has a wealth of experience across the design, art and branding world. His most recent role saw him build and manage the creative department for the European Marketing division of Endeavor.
Hadrien is an advocate for shared parental leave and his desire to share the parental load is a contributing factor to him becoming a co-founder with his partner. They work from a garden office in Hackney. When not making things beautiful visually he also bends your ear with French electro/techno mixes under his DJ alter ego Kiki With Love.
Shireen Smith is an intellectual property lawyer and business advisor specialising in trademarks and brands.
Her interest in business and entrepreneurship led her to in-house positions at Coopers & Lybrand and then Reuters. She returned briefly to private practice, working briefly at the international law firm Eversheds while raising her two daughters, before setting up Azrights as a law firm in 2005..
Shireen is a trained journalist and writes extensively about brands, business and IP in her various blogs. For example, Intellectual Property Rights – Why Ignoring Them Could Be Disastrous for UK Businesses and Licensing and Franchising – What is the Difference and Does it Matter? She has a strong social media presence, including a You Tube channel, Instagram account, Facebook page Twitter and a growing LinkedIn presence.
Shireen is the host of the podcast Brand Tuned – Smart Thinking, Better Branding which discusses personal and business brands to give founders ideas and inspiration for their brands.
She has published articles in numerous journals, and been a regular speaker at the British Library, the London School of Economics and at conferences for the legal industry and entrepreneurs. She is the author of two books, Legally Branded and Intellectual Property Revolution, which focus on the impact of the internet on business IP.