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.
Adrian Kelly is a qualified solicitor, lecturer, and lifelong learner. He researches and writes on performance, sustainable success and well-being.
His objective is to shine a light on the great success stories that sometimes go under the radar, and bring the learnings from these to a wider audience. He wants to share a new way of understanding success by highlighting the key principles that underpin sustained success – principles anchored in ancient wisdom and on the building blocks of life itself. He believes that sustained success is within easy reach for everybody open to the journey.
His writing draws on research, the many interviews he has conducted and on his own life experience. His goal is to help people find the meaning and fulfilment that true success can provide.
Simon Jackson is a business performance coach and mentor with over 30 years’ experience in sales and leadership. Known for his practical, results-driven approach, he helps sales leaders unlock their potential, inspire their teams, and create sustainable success through coaching, training, and mentorship.
Emily Hutchinson is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist, an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society and a registered Practitioner Psychologist. In 2004, she was featured as one of Britain’s 10 leading Occupational Psychologists by the Independent on Sunday.
Since 2006 she has had her own business and works in long-term partnerships with a number of technical organzsations, providing thought leadership and practical interventions. She was one of the early adopters of the Positive Psychology and strengths approach and has been applying that approach with organizations for many years. She was shortlisted as Champion of the Year for Women in Nuclear 2019, for founding the Corporate Women’s Coaching Club (based on a strengths approach).
Emily is an Associate Lecturer with the University of the West of England, and is working with Oxford Brookes University to support the development of an innovative and forward-looking undergraduate programme in the Business Psychology arena
She is also Associate Editor (books) for The Psychologist, the monthly magazine for Psychologists. She has had several book reviews and articles published.
Caroline Brown is a Chartered Mechanical Engineer who worked for Atkins since 1997, where her career evolved from an engineer, to a project manager and business head before becoming responsible for leading transformational change and developing culture. She has successfully implemented new approaches to engaging employees, and more recently to improving wellbeing. She’s also a trained business coach, a Mental Health First Aider and an independent non-executive director for HorseHeard (a registered charity working with horses to promote positive emotional health and resilience outcomes for children, young people and adults in need).
Alicia Eaton is a well-established Harley Street therapist who specialises in children’s emotional wellbeing. Her unique blend of psychology and practical parenting advice makes her the number one choice for parents seeking help for their children’s problems. From anxiety, fears and phobias to thumb-sucking, nail-biting, bedwetting and sleep problems, Alicia helps parents steer their children on the right path.
Originally a Montessori teacher, Alicia ran her own school for five years, then went on to train at The Anna Freud Centre. She followed this up by qualifying as a Psychotherapist and Hypnotherapist as well as going on to train in NLP with Paul McKenna and assisting him with his seminars for over 7 years.
Louise Lloyd is a mindset and wellbeing coach. Through speaking engagements, coaching, and The Inspired Zone Podcast, she helps people to hack stress, limits, and lifestyles. Louise is on a mission to stop stress and fear getting in the way of people realising their potential.
From CEOs and business owners to coders, scientists and PAs, her practical and effective approach helps people to overcome the challenges they face. She leads sessions for global senior leadership programmes, helping leaders to maintain presence and focus amidst pressure.
Having ridden for Great Britain during her career as a professional event rider, Louise knows what it takes to handle pressure and to navigate life’s inevitable ups and downs, and her background in teaching yoga, meditation and breath practices informs her understanding of the simple and transformational tools that she shares today.
She has helped thousands of people to overcome fear, anxiety and limiting mindsets, enabling them to take back control of their life and go for their dreams.
For more than 25 years, storytelling has been at the core of everything Rob Wozny has accomplished as an intrepid senior journalist, creative content strategist, and proven business communicator.
Leveraging his passion and experience for storytelling, Rob works with organizations to understand their goals and align them business storytelling ideas, personalized to attract and engage the people that matter most to them.
As a sought-after instructor, speaker, and author, Rob shares storytelling opportunities and challenges with organizations, drawing on decades of experience serving senior leaders and entrepreneurs across a variety of industries.
However, the most rewarding and ever-evolving narrative for Rob is the story of his family, with his partner Lisa of 25 years, and their two daughters. Some of their favourite chapters have been ‘written’ from outdoor and travelling activities with many more on the horizon.
Author location: Winnipeg, MB, R2H 3G9, Canada
Felicity Cowie is a media relations coach who empowers early-stage businesses to work with journalists to gain competitive advantage. Having been pitched at least 100,000 story ideas in 15 years as a journalist, she knows what breaks through and why, and her mission is to help new businesses collaborate effectively with newsrooms to make an impact from the start!
As a journalist, she worked as a producer on the BBC’s main news planning desk (for all its national and world news outlets) and was an editor of its investigative documentary series Panorama. She pioneered ‘user generated content’ across BBC News, especially on 7/7, and won two Royal Television Society Awards for her teamwork.
As a media relations consultant and trainer for some of the world’s leading organisations (including the NHS, UCAS, and Virgin), she successfully pitched, and coached others to pitch, stories resulting in 1000s of pieces of media coverage.
Alice Jennings loves solving problems! From her time in the lab during her PhD research and then in a corporate environment as a management consultant and process improvement expert, Alice has always looked for ways to make things work better, quicker and smarter.
As a qualified ‘coder’ she is able to understand the technology on a deep level while her easy and friendly manner enable her to explain complex systems in a way that is easy to understand. She is passionate about enabling small businesses to use technology and systems to help them punch above their weight.
Alice’s mission is to help business owners make informed choices in the systems and tools they use by giving them the information they need to confidently take their business to the next level and resist being bamboozled by people selling the next big idea.
Since starting her own small business she has worked with over 200 business owners through webinars, workshops and one to one consultancy; sharing simple tips that enable better working as well as helping implement more complex systems to support growth and reduce stress.