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In 2013, former England Cricket captain – Andrew Strauss – and two leading sport psychologists – Mark Bawden and Pete Lindsay – came together with asimple mission: to take lessons from high- performance sport and mould them into practical and scalable solutions.
Having taken the England cricket team to number one in the world, Andrew now shares his knowledge and experience of leading and building teams on the world stage to help others achieve success in even the most challenging environments.
Mark Agnew and his teammates made history when they kayaked the Northwest Passage. He shares the tale of his adventure with actionable lessons to create a more resilient, happier and more productive workforce.
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Mark Agnew is a resilience and teamwork specialist. He is a World First Record setting adventurer & European Adventurer of The Year 2023. His talk is packed with polar bears and ice bergs, and actionable lessons to help you thrive in adversity.
Dr. Khairunnisa Mohamedali has over 10 years’ experience in organisational culture, innovation and human-centred design. In this session, she will reveal the neuroscience behind why traditional learning approaches no longer work and how you can adapt your L&D design to create long-lasting behavioural change.
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As Chief Innovation Officer at The Smarty Train, Dr Khairunnisa Mohamedali specialises in organisational culture, innovation, and human-centred design.She advises on future-ready development strategies and designs high-performance people programmes, whether graduate, mid-level or senior, for someof the biggest (and smallest) organisations in the world.
Khairunnisa is a published author, a thought leader on the subject of learning and development, was awarded Woman of the Future, and frequentlypresents on the topic of innovation in the world of work.
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Joe has spent his career building global scale-ups in people and organisational development roles. He has worked across 4 continents training, managing and consulting with a deep interest in how performance is affected by identity, culture, system, processes and its people. In his 15+ years in L&D and OD roles, Joe developed to Head of L&D and then Director at a global company. He ran a consultancy before joining Learn Amp as a founding team member. He established its Sales, Solutions, Customer Success and Implementation functions now operating as Chief Commercial Officer and Lead Solutions Architect.
In today’s modern world there is a gap between where you are and the impact that you want to create. Often people’s best ideas go to the ideas graveyard. Ideas that win, are those that are best communicated.
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Richard Newman is an award-winning expert in Leadership Communication, Storytelling and Influence, working in advanced communication since 1995. Richard specialises in showing leaders how to speak with greater impact and influence. He is regularly featured on BBC London Radio and is the author of the best selling book ‘You were Born to Speak’ and the recently launched ‘Lift Your Impact’. Richard’s clients include CEOs, Vice-Presidents and leadership teams across many industries, including Virgin, Expedia, EE, AXA, Microsoft and 3M. Richard founded Body Talk in 2000 and began working with a well-known Formula 1 team. His team at Body Talk have now worked with over 160,000clients from 46 countries around the world. Recently they helped one client win over £1.2 Billion in new business by improving the way they communicate.
15-20% of humans are ‘Neurodivergent’ which means most companies will have a neurodivergent workforce. People with neurodivergent conditions like autism, ADHD and dyslexia require simple workplace accommodation to better enable them to thrive professionally.
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Alex Partridge is one of the pioneers of social media content. At age 21, he founded UNILAD and LADBible, two of the most popular social news and entertainment internet company in the world with an astonishing following of 100 million people.
After an ADHD diagnosis in 2023, Alex is now a passionate speaker on the topic of Neurodiversity.
We are constantly being told that productivity in the UK is not high enough. What do organisations have to do to improve the performance of their people?
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Judy has been involved in Learning and Development her whole career. She worked at the University of London, later became a facilitator with Dale Carnegie Training and then created and ran her own business, You Unlimited. In 2008 she became one of the founders of Clarity4D Limited, and has been instrumental in building the company to its present international status. She is passionate about building relationships between people at work, home and in the community. She feels developing self-awareness and confidence will help young people (our future leaders), and was a governor of a Further Education College for many years.
No leadership type exists. Anyone can learn to lead well. No Bullsh*t Leadership is a powerful guide on how to do it, regardless of job title or experience.
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Chris is a change agent and author, widely recognised as an innovative and inspirational leader. After more than a decade in CEO positions, including GlobalCEO of Havas Creative Group and UK CEO of Grey (part of WPP), he has a proven track record of leading transformational change.
His first book, No Bullsh*t Leadership has been in the best-seller lists since publication in 2019 and was named UK Business Book of the Year in March 2020. Chris is a regular commentator in press and broadcast media including the BBC, Financial Times and Sky. Chris’s second book No Bullsh*t Change, is published in June 2023 through Profile Books.
