Suzanne Allers combines deep scientific expertise with a rare talent for creating compelling product stories that drive business success. With a PhD in Chemistry and a Natural Sciences degree from Cambridge, she spent 15 years at P&G and created the pioneering ‘Technical Product Story’ methodology. As co-founder of Untapped Innovation, she helps R&D teams connect science, technology, and emerging human needs. Suzanne is also a committed STEM advocate.
Suzanne, Sally, and Deirdre are founding partners of Untapped Innovation, a global consulting and training agency helping R&D teams at companies like PepsiCo, P&G, Unilever, and Reckitt develop breakthrough products and tell product stories.
The trio met at Procter & Gamble, where they built deep expertise in user psychology, product insight, and commercial strategy. Their diverse backgrounds—Suzanne’s scientific PhD, Sally’s consumer insight skills, and Deirdre’s experience in manufacturing and marketing—helped them bridge R&D and business functions. At P&G, Suzanne and Deirdre created the “Technical Product Story” framework, now used globally as a springboard for product communication. Since 2012 at Untapped Innovation, they continue to optimize tools for breakthrough innovation. They are also co-founders of STEM Untapped, a non-profit connecting underrepresented students with STEM mentors. Regular speakers and award winners, they’ve been featured in The Independent, Investing.com, and Business Insider.
Deirdre Walters brings a uniquely cross-functional R&D perspective to product development. With over 15 years at P&G across R&D, Marketing, and Manufacturing, she understands how to turn technical potential into tangible market-ready success. A Chemistry graduate with a CIM Marketing Diploma, she co-founded Untapped Innovation. She also co-created the influential ‘Technical Product Story’ framework and champions inclusive innovation as a STEM charity co-founder and angel investor.
Suzanne, Sally, and Deirdre are founding partners of Untapped Innovation, a global consulting and training agency helping R&D teams at companies like PepsiCo, P&G, Unilever, and Reckitt develop breakthrough products and tell product stories.
The trio met at Procter & Gamble, where they built deep expertise in user psychology, product insight, and commercial strategy. Their diverse backgrounds—Suzanne’s scientific PhD, Sally’s consumer insight skills, and Deirdre’s experience in manufacturing and marketing—helped them bridge R&D and business functions. At P&G, Suzanne and Deirdre created the “Technical Product Story” framework, now used globally as a springboard for product communication. Since 2012 at Untapped Innovation, they continue to optimize tools for breakthrough innovation. They are also co-founders of STEM Untapped, a non-profit connecting underrepresented students with STEM mentors. Regular speakers and award winners, they’ve been featured in The Independent, Investing.com, and Business Insider.
Amanda Sokell is a process and productivity expert who helps companies thrive. She’s also a popular speaker, author, entrepreneur, creative, polymath and educationalist; lover of learning, chocolate, dancing and difference.
In a 25-year career spanning public relations, software development, coaching, mentoring and training, Amanda has helped transform the productivity culture of organizations from global pharmaceuticals to family-run microbusinesses.
Susie Robinson is a strategic consultant delivering HR solutions designed to deliver breakthrough performance. Through her 30-year corporate career culminating in HR leadership with DHL for 30 countries in EMEA, with global talent management responsibility for 60 countries, she has worked closely with top experts in the HR/OD field. She has a reputation for leading large-scale successful transformation and world-class HR functions, and her passion is for developing the potential of others through her expertise in talent management and leadership development.
Sarah Kuipers initially trained in osteopathy and homeopathy, before focusing on hypnotherapy and life coaching. For over 20 years she helped clients master stress, set clear boundaries and balance their lives. However, the combined pressures of work and bringing up three boys as a single mother eventually led to burnout, which inspired her to carry out a Masters Research study on stress in health professionals. This highlighted how stress is frequently amplified by childhood patterns that make it hard to value and care for yourself, traits that she recognized in herself and many of her clients.
As the founder of YourHealth2, Sarah has lectured and facilitated numerous workshops on self-care, assertiveness, and burnout prevention, and courses on stress management and personal development for medical students. The Thriving Giver brings together everything Sarah has learnt from her own transformational journey, her work with clients and her Masters Research study.
Lyn Bromley has been the managing director of First Impressions Training Ltd since September 2010.
She is an experienced people manager, trainer and consultant. Her wide-ranging corporate background spans finance, training, consultancy and project management. She held senior leadership positions and has worked with clients from a whole host of industries, from financial services to law, and from SMEs to blue-chip organisations.
Donna Whitbrook is an experienced corporate consultant and people developer. Her extensive corporate background spans finance, training, consultancy, performance improvement, governance and strategy.
She has held senior management positions in banking and finance and board-level positions in the public and third sectors.
Lyn and Donna have a real belief in the work they promote. They are passionate about developing leaders and helping businesses to transform the performance of their individuals and teams, enabling them to reflect their organisation’s brand vision and values and deliver world-class service to their valued clients.
Karen Skidmore has achieved what most coaches and consultants feel is impossible; to create a profitable, flexible and fun business which enables her to run an international coaching and consulting business around her family, health and wellbeing.
Karen resigned from her corporate career in 2004 to start up on her own on the same day her eldest daughter started school and never looked back. Over the past 14 years, she has created a variety of scalable income streams and run her business on a number of different coaching business models, including a hugely successful membership site, created and sold dozens of different online courses and group programmes, with prices ranging from £30 to £15,000.
Her mission is to give every small business owner a plan and a process to grow their business, without burning out along the way.
Louise Wiles and Evelyn Simpson are the creators of the Thriving Abroad programmes, Relocation Ready and Thrive designed to support expatriates as they navigate the transition experience and create expat lives they love.
Louise and Evelyn’s expatriate experience totals over 40 years. They have relocated as employees, expat partners and parents. Using their experience as expats, coaches, personal development professionals and trainers their mission is to support and empower international assignees and their partners to proactively create lives abroad which align with corporate/organisational objectives.
Louise and Evelyn began working together in 2012 when they researched the experience of over 300 expat partners located around the world. The resulting “Career Choice and the Accompanying Partner Surrvey Report”, was nominated for an Expatriate Mobility Management Award (EMMA) in 2012 by the Forum for Expatriate Management. Their work has been published in the International HR Advisor, Expat Focus, Expatica, Expat Careers and on their own blog at ThrivingAbroad.com. They have presented on Global Mobility topics at conferences around the world.
Louise Wiles and Evelyn Simpson are the creators of the Thriving Abroad programmes, Relocation Ready and Thrive designed to support expatriates as they navigate the transition experience and create expat lives they love.
Louise and Evelyn’s expatriate experience totals over 40 years. They have relocated as employees, expat partners and parents. Using their experience as expats, coaches, personal development professionals and trainers their mission is to support and empower international assignees and their partners to proactively create lives abroad which align with corporate/organisational objectives.
Louise and Evelyn began working together in 2012 when they researched the experience of over 300 expat partners located around the world. The resulting “Career Choice and the Accompanying Partner Surrvey Report”, was nominated for an Expatriate Mobility Management Award (EMMA) in 2012 by the Forum for Expatriate Management. Their work has been published in the International HR Advisor, Expat Focus, Expatica, Expat Careers and on their own blog at ThrivingAbroad.com. They have presented on Global Mobility topics at conferences around the world.
Grant Muller is a Certified High Performance Coach™ and real estate agent on a mission to help high achievers who have tried every tool and tactic to sell more, achieve more, and find more fulfillment, but aren’t quite making the progress they desire.
Grant knows what it takes to sell, and sell well, and it all starts with a heart-centered approach. He volunteers on the board of One Colorado to ensure all of us have a seat at the table. When he’s not coaching or working in real estate, you can find Grant competing with his horse and enjoying downtime with his husband and Pomeranians.
To contact Grant for speaking, coaching, and media inquiries, please visit http://www.grantmuller.com
