Kerry Tottingham is a Chartered Management Institute certified coach and mentor. She is the founder of Brilliant Thing, a coaching and design-thinking practice which works with charities, public sector teams and companies with social aims in order to navigate change, avoid burnout and build better organisations.

Prior to establishing Brilliant Thing in 2021, Kerry’s background lay in Arts co-ordination in her early career. This included working for the FUSE Crafters organisation and delivering creative projects to schools in the Bolton and Bury areas of Lancashire.

Al Tepper is a marketing specialist and founder of TepFu, a business which helps directors, partners and founders overcome their biggest marketing challenges.After starting out in publishing,

Al soon moved across into a marketing role which kickstarted a stellar career in the industry. Occupying senior marketing roles in businesses including Caspian Publishing, Natural Collection, Future of Sourcing and CODE Websites, Al’s work has seen him collaborate with numerous big brands such as KPMG, Capgemini, Accenture, IBM and the Guardian.

Rod Turner is the founder of the Income Through Property Group (ITP Group), a property development and investment business that helps achieve strong return on investments through property.

Rod is a business leader with a proven track record of starting and growing businesses and operating in senior roles. The establishment of ITP Group came in 2015, with Rod continuing to own the business today.

Robert Craven is an experienced executive coach and a keynote speaker on growing digital agencies. He is the founder of GYDA [Grow Your Digital Agency], a consultancy that helps digital agency leaders grow their businesses.

Robert has worked in marketing and growth strategy for many years, with his work having been widely published and implemented by thousands of businesses. His advice has helped major companies including BlackBerry, Barclays, Nando’s, AirBus, Google Partners and more.

Daniel Kirby is the founder and CEO of The Tech Dept, a plug-in tech team for impact-led start-ups headquartered in Sheffield, South Yorkshire.

Kirby is the host of ‘Honey, I blew up the business’ a podcast series expoloring the highs and lows of business running. Outside of his business activities, Daniel is actively involved in charity fundraising. In March 2022, he completed the infamous Marathon des Sables in southern Morocco – known as the toughest foot race in the world – raising £14,000 for children’s charity KidsOut.

Claire Dimpfl is the owner and head of Tadpoles Nursery School in Chelsea, west London. Dimpfl founded Tadpoles Nursery School back in 1976, after having spent three years as a teacher.

Today, Tadpoles Nursery welcomes teams from Estonia, China, Singapore and Sweden among other countries to learn about best practice in Early Years. All Dimpfl’s experience in early years’ education has helped create a unique learning provision for children aged between two years and five years.

Chris Burt is an experienced strategy advisor, digital and cyber consultant and risk thought-leader.

He is the principal at City of London-based boutique governance consultancy, Halex Consulting, and co-founder of the Risk Coalition, a not-for-profit, risk management think tank that aims to improve the effectiveness of risk management practice within UK plc. aving co-founded the Risk Coalition, Chris chairs its Risk Committee Chairs’ Forum and Risk Officers’ Sustainability Forum.

Nella Pang is a chartered surveyor, commercial property advisor and managing director of Omega RE, a business which provides property solutions to landlords and tenants and helps with all aspects of commercial acquisition and disposal across the south of England.

Nella leads the business in helping businesses navigate the complexities of commercial real estate, so they can achieve their business objectives through their real estate decisions.

Nina Alag Suri is an entrepreneur and engineer. She is the CEO and co-founder of X0PA AI, an AI powered SAAS platform that helps enable smart hiring by using data to match candidates to job descriptions.

Nina has a demonstrated history of working in senior positions. Even before starting her own business, she worked in managerial positions for ICIM and IIS Infotech before founding NASTRAC Group Ltd, the holding entity for X0PA AI.

Max MacGillivray is an award-winning expert speaker, MC and facilitator in the international agri-business and fresh food sectors.

He is the founder of Beanstalk Global, a media enterprise for the international fresh food industry, and Redfox – which specialises in executive recruitment for leading clients in the fresh foods/fresh produce, agri-business and retail sectors on a UK and international basis.