After growing up at boarding school in Ghana, Akwasi moved to London at 18 to embark on a journey of various interesting jobs. After landing a role at Lloyd’s bank, Akwasi was recognised as one of the banks top consultants before he left to found the Sterling & Law Group in 1997.

Akwasi is the managing director and founder of Sterling & Law Group plc, a financial advisory firm managing just under a billion pounds of client assets.

In addition to his duties as managing director of the group, Akwasi is a fully practising financial adviser working with select clients in the private and corporate sectors.

Akwasi has a passion for fitness and has taken his PTing qualification so he could become a spin instructor as a side hobby.

From cancelling Netflix to creating a multi-million-pound company. Paul was an only child from a loving home based in the North West. He trained as a PE teacher until 2003 when he met my wife to be and then decided at the last moment to join GMP as a Police Officer. After 11yrs in the police, serving as a constable and Sergeant in Salford as part of Uniform and as a detective Paul left to join a family business started by his father an immigrant who had come to the UK in the 70’s. He was always trying to set up new, innovative businesses. Between 2014 - 2018 Paul oversaw a 10x growth in this business and built an amazing life for his family (mum, dad, wife and two children) until in early to mid 2019 disaster struck and the business collapsed leaving them in a perilous personal financial position. This coincided with two major health scares, one where his heart stopped...

Around this time he had met Luke who spent time with him to help to discover his purpose. From this, in Autumn 2019, R2R People was born - a people focused, values driven recruitment business which steadily grew until the pandemic in March 2020 when everything exploded. As the business goes from strength to strength they pivoted into new markets and Paul continues to surround himself with excellent people using previous experience and their knowledge to positively effect people’s lives and navigate R2R People towards an eight figure turnover in year 2. Though Paul still has more challenges ahead, his belief in the process and the vision is at the centre of a massive turnaround in fortune from 2019 to 2021.

To hear how far James has come to when he started to where he is now is truly an inspiring story. How one man had a dream for something greater and was brave enough to take the steps necessary to make it happen. James Sanders is the MD and owner of PSR Group Limited. An award-winning recruitment consultancy specialising in construction and healthcare. Having spent the early part of his career working for others in the recruitment industry, James set up PSR over 15 years ago with an idea to grow and build a business that was best in class. Today, it employs over 120 staff across seven offices and was crowned Business of the Year in 2017. His approach is people first with a continuous thirst for improvement.

Anastasia Jobson is a professional photographer and videographer based in Birmingham, England. Born and raised in Russia, Anastasia has lived and worked in four different countries. Formerly a professional dancer, now she combines her passion for dance and movement with capturing it both in images and film. A fashion lover, she turns her inspiration from Vogue magazines into creative fashion photography and magazine-style business portraits and headshots. Finding it difficult to actually get her first few clients, Anastasia has been able to build on her client base and now works with all different kinds of people around the country.

Tanya and her boyfriend (and business partner Fraser) have always been massively into fitness and having a passion for the gym, so when we all went into lockdown in March 2020, they both struggled with the thought of having to work out at home with the limited equipment they had.

Putting all of their skills on the table, they wanted to create an inclusive brand, focused around empowering women to be the best they can be. They wanted women to stand out, be bold and feeling beautiful whilst working out. And thus Bootybelle was born.

Balancing a full time job, a new business, whilst also studying was tricky for the both of them, but as they said "there no better time to do all this than in lockdown!"

Mark is one of the owners of the multi-award-winning agency Digital 22, the largest HubSpot Diamond agency in the UK.

Digital 22 generates millions of pounds a year in revenue using inbound and video marketing. As well as being named HubSpot Partner of the Year for 2018, they also collected numerous awards including Digital Entrepreneur of the Year, National Entrepreneur of the Year and Red Rose Employer of the Year in 2019.

Mark's passion is to teach how to create 'out of the box' video marketing to exponentially grow companies through more sales and revenue like nothing we've ever seen. A trusted partner to Google, Vidyard, Wistia, Bing and HubSpot, Digital 22 thrives on seeing companies reach their full potential.

Utilising the inbound marketing methodology, a proven framework for digital marketing, Digital 22 has taken established companies to the next level.

Sam Coy took a school from under performing to WINNING school of the year in 2 years... and he was 28 years old!! Sam is the Associate Education Director for East Midlands, Thames Valley and London at Anthem Schools Trust alongside being the Executive Headteacher at Benjamin Adlard Primary School (Gainsborough) and Mount Street Academy (Lincoln). Sam has spoken at educational conferences about making a difference and practical leadership. Sam’s team focused on ‘Making a Difference’ in one of the most deprived wards in England trying to overcome excessive social mobility and high crime rates. His personal mantra is ‘It’s not magic, it’s about caring.

Currently based in London, Connie is a health & beauty blogger who promotes healthy living, body confidence, self love and beauty Inside Out. She has written and released a recipe book, which tells her story and how she finally found a happy relationship with her body and food and also started her own podcast talking to a host of inspirational individuals about everything in life.

Clementine Macliver is a Chartered Accountant, Personal Trainer and Online Coach from Birmingham. She has been an accountant for nearly 7 years now and a part time PT for just over a year. When she is working you will find Clem either in the gym, or out with the girls. Clem is also looking at working within the NHS as a Patient Safety Consultant, she has many different aspirations and wants to achieve every single one of them.

Adriano makes genuine connections and develops a positive relationship with the artists he works with in order to create authentic and powerful music. Working out of his studio 'Revolution nine', he aims to help songwriters with their creative steps forward, adding value to their journey. Based in the UK, Adriano studied a Bachelor of Arts in Creative Musicianship and shortly after graduating set up his project studio where he creates with artists and songwriters as a freelance music producer. Adriano's productions have received radio play from the BBC and Amazing radio, boasting his ability to hook an audience with his production style. His love for production comes from his passion for detail and expression. He's spent the better part of the last seven years honing skills in a way that will help songwriters and artists take their songs from demos to radio ready productions.