Maya Raichoora
Maya Raichoora is the UK’s leading expert in mental fitness and visualisation, making history as Nike’s first-ever mental fitness trainer. She helps individuals and teams to think, feel, and perform like the top 1% by mastering their mind and performance. As a trusted coach to elite athletes and top...
Sir Gareth Southgate OBE
Sir Gareth Southgate, renowned as the former Head Coach of the England men’s senior team, is a master of leadership and a transformative force in sport and beyond. Taking over the national team in 2016 during one of its most challenging periods, he revived England’s fortunes, achieving back-to-back UEFA...
Po-Shen Loh
Prof. Po-Shen Loh is a mathematician, social entrepreneur, and internationally renowned educator whose work sits at the intersection of mathematics, artificial intelligence, education, and human creativity. A professor of mathematics at Carnegie Mellon University since 2010, he is widely recognised for transforming the way complex problem-solving and critical thinking...
Gary Foote
Gary Foote is the Chief Information Officer at GM Performance Power Units; a start-up company formed by General Motors and TWG Global, tasked with creating a Formula 1 power unit for the Cadillac F1 programme. With a career spanning over two decades in motorsport and technology, with Brawn GP, Mercedes...
Shaun Wright-Phillips
Shaun is a former England international footballer who played for Manchester City, Chelsea, Queens Park Rangers, and USA’s New York Red Bulls and Phoenix Rising FC. Now a full time football pundit for Premier League, Shaun has also worked with the likes of BBC Match Of The Day, Sky...
Helen Sharman
Helen is a pioneer, role model, science communicator and world-class inspirational speaker. She became the first British Astronaut in May 1991, aged 27, when she spent 8 days orbiting the Earth. A selection of testimonials about Helen appears at the end of this biography. A superb speaker, Helen Sharman...
Michael Lopez-Alegría
Michael López-Alegría was born in Madrid, Spain, and immigrated as a young boy with his family to the United States. He has over 40 years of aviation and space experience with the U.S. Navy and NASA in a variety of roles including Naval Aviator, engineering test pilot and program...
Suzie Imber
Suzie Imber achieved international recognition when she won the BBC2 TV series ‘Astronauts: Do You Have What It Takes?’ in which 12 candidates underwent astronaut training with Commander Chris Hadfield. Challenges including taking their own blood, speaking Russian while in a centrifuge at 5G, and carrying out emergency procedures...
Jesper Brodin
Jesper Brodin is the Management Board Member of Ingka Group – IKEA and the former CEO of the company. He left the role in November 2025 and will continue in this capacity until February 2026. His career within IKEA spans over 30 years, and during the last 8 years...
Ed Clancy OBE
Ed Clancy OBE is the most successful Team Pursuit cyclist in history, having won gold with Team GB at three successive Olympics. 2021 marked his sixteenth year as part of Team GB as he competed in his fourth Olympic games in Tokyo. In the London 2012 Olympics, Ed also...
