Philip Levinson has over 35 years of experience in the global real estate sector, including 5 years as CEO of 2 SGX listed companies. He is a mentor to CEOs, an occasional commentator on REITs and an Officer in the Royal Australian Naval Reserve.
Tony Llewellyn is a specialist in the behavioural forces that can be used to build amazing teams. He is a qualified chartered surveyor, and also has a Masters degree in Coaching and Behavioural Change. Tony primarily works as an advisor to teams working on major projects where collaboration is recognised as being critical to success.
Prior to starting out as a team specialist, Tony worked on both the client and the consultancy side of many major projects, including a senior management role in a substantial UK construction consultancy, and also as a director of a global engineering business.
His previous book, Performance Coaching for Complex Projects, was published in 2015, and he regularly contributes articles to various publications in the professional press.
Tony lectures frequently, both to students at two London Universities, as well as to individuals and groups undertaking professional development training.
Coral McConnon is the Founder of 8 Innovation and a champion for the power of creativity to deliver smarter, more strategic innovation. Over the last 15 years she has worked with global brands on hundreds of complex front-end innovation challenges, applying the neuroscience of creativity to ignite bigger ideas that land.
By understanding how our brains work when creating new ideas, Coral is a catalyst for teams to escape ‘business as usual’ thinking and play their creative A game. Her MSc, focused on the Neuroscience of Creativity, added depth and rigour to the 8 Innovation framework.
Her approach is influenced by the New Zealand #8 wire mentality, the knack of ingeniously solving problems creatively yet pragmatically that originated in the New Zealand farming industry, just as Coral did.
She regularly posts thinking on smarter innovation on LinkedIn and hosts webinars helping people apply the neuroscience of creativity to real-world innovation.
Michel Masquelier is the former chairman of IMG Media, part of the largest sports management agency and a fortune 500 company.
Masquelier spent 35 years at the heart of the sports industry, working with organizations like the Olympic games, Wimbledon and the Premier League.
His work has brought him into contact with some of the most famous athletes in history, CEOs of blue-chip companies, as well as some of the pioneers of the media industry.
Having graduated with a degree in Law from university in Belgium, he moved to London to work his way up the ladder at IMG from intern to chairman. He built a worldwide team that shook up business of sport, with revolutionary commercial concepts and innovative business models.
One of the most charismatic, influential and respected figures in the industry, he now takes on the role of advisor to governing bodies, media organizations and private equity firms. Michel is still a compulsive networker, but his passion has shift to stimulating education, especially amongst future generations.
In the same spirit of innovation and disruption, he is involved in philanthropic projects, motivational speaking and development of educational programs for young executives. He is married with three children and lives in Switzerland.
Alison Grieve is a sought-after learning professional, working globally across multiple industries at all levels. She focuses on driving results for clients by raising the performance of their people and teams to world class. Her depth of knowledge and skill in the talent and people space is unparalleled. She creates change that really works. Highly qualified, she is a Korn Ferry master associate, an NLP Master Practitioner and is a certified Executive Coach (ICF PCC). She is a founding director at Management Dynamics and a team coach, working with leaders and teams in some of the world’s most successful organizations.
Jenni Miller has extensive experience in the talent and leadership development arena, working with multi-national organizations around the world. She is fascinated by the people and organizations that make a great, lasting impact on the world and is renowned for her unshakable pragmatism and ability to create performance through people and teams. She has a post-graduate diploma in learning and development, is a certified NLP trainer and a certified coach (ICF ACC). She is also a founding director at Management Dynamics. She is a team coach, working with leadership teams in several leading organizations.
Paul Gaskin is a senior global HR leader and stutterer. At 17 he made a life-changing decision not to be defined by his stutter. He stopped all treatments to ‘fix’ him and began his own journey to become so much more than his stutter. Along the way he drew lessons from psychology, neuroscience, sport and business to find tools to help him succeed.
He progressed for 20 years in the Aerospace industry and business consulting before finding his passion in Leadership, Human Resource Management and International working. Most recently he was part of a global leadership team as the Divisional HR Director of a £2bn pa international organisation, employing 35,000 cross 10 countries.
Drawing on his life experiences and learning, Paul has created a unique and practical self-help book to help anyone who stutters to create, live and love the life they really want. One step at a time.
Catherine Erdly is an award-winning small business retail expert, podcast host, speaker and writer, recently named one of the top 100 retail influencers in the world by Rethink Retail. She has over two decades experience in the retail industry, including 17 years managing budgets up to £400 million for some of the largest names in the high street in the UK and USA.
She has worked with hundreds of small and start-up independent businesses and brands to grow their sales, manage their stock and improve their business resilience through consultancy and her membership group, The Resilient Retail Club.
Catherine is a Forbes.com contributor on the subject of starting and scaling a product business, a judge for the Good Retail awards, on the editorial board of Modern Retail, a Small Business Britain small business champion and was awarded the UK’s top sales adviser in 2021 by Enterprise Nation. She has been featured on national radio, television and press to give her insight into retail news and industry trends and hosts the popular The Resilient Retail Game Plan podcast.
Rob Hatch is an author and sought-after coach for business owners and executives. He brings a unique blend of knowledge and background in Human Development and experience as a successful business leader and coach.
He has written a weekly newsletter for over a decade, read by tens of thousands of individuals worldwide.
As a coach, Rob works primarily with business leaders and teams, guiding them through critical transitions in their organization.
He’s the best-selling author of “Attention! The power of simple decisions in a distracted world,” which was named a 2021 Business Book of the Year Short-List Finalist.
Maria Hocking is a life coach, writer, inspirational speaker and motivational trainer. Known as the UK Life Changer, she regularly travels far and wide, enabling her clients to change their lives with her words. She has a huge knowledge within the fields of health, well-being and happiness and she walks her talk. Having been through challenging times herself, she uses her experiences and her learnings to help others.