Vanessa Loughlin is a trusted specialist in organization effectiveness with a clear view: most organizations aren’t held back by strategy, but by the way they’re designed to work. Founder of Organisation Matters Ltd, she partners with CEOs and executive teams to understand issues, surface hidden costs and make organization decisions that create competitive advantage. With 35 years experience across global businesses including Motorola, Vodafone, Barclays and Aviva, she specialises in diagnosing and resolving complex issues to unlock organization, team and individual performance. A systems thinker and straight talker she co-authored The Effectiveness Edge: How Organization Effectiveness Unlocks Performance with Andrea Robottom – a partnership forged through a unique job share. Vanessa holds an MSc in Organisation Consulting, is trained in Transactional Analysis and is a Fellow of the CIPD. Outside work, she finds balance in family life, long walks with her dog and painting.
Andrea Robottom is a leading voice in organisation effectiveness – the person leaders call when they have a business performance issue and the cause is elusive. Known for her candour, clarity, and ability to cut through complexity, she helps CEOs and senior executives identify what is truly blocking performance – then act on it. Andrea founded NoNonsense Consulting in 2009 and has over 35 years of global organisation effectiveness experience across FMCG, beer, financial services, med tech, retail, utilities, hospitality and not-for-profit. Her corporate career spans Cadbury, PepsiCo, Seagram and Compaq. She is the co-author of The Effectiveness Edge: How Organisation Effectiveness Unlocks Performance – written with her former job share partner Vanessa Loughlin – which introduces the 3D-OE Diagnostic Framework™. Andrea is an accredited Mediator, Fellow of the CIPD, and Trustee of Precious Sisters, a charity supporting girls’ education in Kenya. Outside of work she loves tennis, family games, cooking, and exploring the world with her family.
Shannon Nutter is a global executive and board director. A recognized expert in strategy, product development and customer experience, she has been a leader at organizations including the Vanguard Group, Deloitte and GM. Shannon is also the founder of My Classroom Economy, a K-12 program teaching financial responsibility. She earned a BA in Economics from Macalester College and an MBA from Duke’s Fuqua School of Business. Shannon lives outside Philadelphia and has two sons.
Julia C. Carreon is a financial services executive with a reputation for large-scale technology transformations and execution excellence. She has led wealth management and advisor tech at Citibank and Wells Fargo and launched the first mobile app for wealth advisors. In May 2024, Julia was featured on the Nasdaq billboard for her contributions to innovation in the wealth management space. She has a BA in Journalism. She lives in Austin, Texas with her husband and three sons.
Ginny Carter is a bestselling ghostwriter of 25 books, a book coach, and an award-winning author in her own right. She takes coaches, entrepreneurs, therapists, and trainers from everyday expert to respected thought leader and in-demand speaker, through the book that grows their reputation and expands their business. Ginny loves writing, and it frustrates her when she talks to would-be authors who have books trapped inside them for want of some expert help. Her talent lies in enticing their ideas, signature programme, or talk, out of their heads and into books that are engaging, insightful, and persuasive.
Her guide to writing a standout business book, the award-winning Your Business Your Book, takes you through the process of planning, writing, and promoting your own business book.
Steven C Landes is a seasoned cybersecurity leader, former campaign analyst and systems strategist with over a decade of experience navigating complex institutional, digital and human terrains. His career spans cyber threat intelligence, criminal counseling and executive engagement across healthcare, finance and national security sectors.
A Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) with an MBA in Strategic Thinking, Steve brings a rare blend of technical acumen and human insight to questions of digital trust and systemic change.
Dr Ruth E. Simpson has developed the skills to work with senior leaders over 30 years. She combines this with a deep understanding of what works and how it works, through her PhD research. Her experience encompasses the private and public sector, partnerships and global multinationals, finance and professional services. Initially sceptical about coaching at work and the efficacy of leaders collaborating in groups, she is now a passionate advocate for the critical role coaching leaders in groups can play in organizations.
Ruth also has an MSc in Coaching and Development and is accredited to Master Practitioner level through the EMCC. She has contributed to the field through peer-reviewed articles, conference presentations and a podcast series called The Evolution of Leadership, cementing her reputation as a trusted expert in the industry. She is based in Surrey, UK.
Dr Julia Carden was born and raised in Cornwall and “made in the Royal Navy”. A certified and accredited coach, she runs a coaching and coaching supervision practice and is a visiting tutor at Henley Business School, teaching on the Professional Certificate in Executive Coaching, MSc in Executive Coaching for Behavioural Change and heading up the Professional Certificate in Coaching Supervision.
Puran Prem Kaur, also known as Emma Martin, is a Kundalini Yoga teacher (level 1, i-SKY), teaching Yoga and Meditation in the London Borough of Bromley. Committed to making the life-changing practice of Yoga accessible to everybody, she also has a Yoga for All qualification, as well as a Foundation Certificate with the British Wheel of Yoga.
Alison Jones is a publisher, podcaster, speaker and book coach, founder of Practical Inspiration Publishing and host of The Extraordinary Business Book Club podcast. She worked as an editor and publisher with leading companies such as Chambers, Oxford University Press and Macmillan, most recently as Director of Innovation Strategy at Palgrave Macmillan until she left to set up her own publishing imprint.
Through her training and coaching programmes she enables business leaders and entrepreneurs to deepen their thinking and communicate more effectively, using their writing to build a platform for their expertise and business success.
A champion of the value of books for businesses, she is a former Head Judge of the Business Book Awards in the UK and recommends and reviews business books for the thousands of subscribers to her weekly newsletter.
She has written and edited several books, including This Book Means Business (2018) and Exploratory Writing (2022), speaks regularly at industry and business events (she has twice chaired the London Book Fair’s Quantum conference), and regularly contributes articles on business books and business writing to press and other publications. In 2022 she delivered a TEDx talk, ‘Let’s Rethink Writing’.
