Our speakers are leaders at the top of their industry, influencing and shaping their sector or society.
We connect speakers and their prestigious networks to state school students across the UK, through ‘Inspiration’ (school talks) and our ‘Experience‘ programme (Insight Days, Work Experience).
Our network is 1,700 strong and growing. See who’s already taking part below.
Permanent Secretary,(DEFRA) Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Deputy CEO, British Film Institute
Barrister (KC), 23 Essex Street
Chief Experience Officer, Former Chief Digital & Marketing Officer, Virgin Atlantic
Chief Operating Officer, Connor Broadley Ltd
Chair, abrdn (formerly Standard Life Aberdeen)
Author and Journalist with The Sunday Times
Clinical Chair, NHS England Int Medicine, Consultant Renal Physician and Clinical Cochair Internal Medicine, Royal Derby Hospital
Director, Jamie Fobert Architects
Businessman, Philanthropist, Bankers without Boundaries
CEO, Vertu plc
Professor of Isotope Geochemistry, University of Southampton
Public Policy Editor, The Financial Times
Professor of Hepatology Queen Mary University of London and Consultant Hepatologist Barts Health
Former Creative Director and Founder, True North Productions
Defence Editor & Commentator, Evening Standard
Former Executive Director & Head of Public Affairs, Cicero Group
Chief Investment Officer of the Cambridge University Endowment Fund
Executive Editor, The Economist
Former Secretary of State for Culture, Media, and Sport, UK Government
Oscar-nominated Film Director
Chair, NHS Kent and Medway
Executive Editor of Opinion; The Guardian
Vice-President, Government and Regulatory Affairs, NBCUniversal International
Engineer & retired Academic, Loughborough University
Chairman, Freud Communications
Director, Atom Events
Producer & Director, Red Nose Day
Head of UK Equity Research, Waverton Investment Managers
Critic and Journalist
TV producer, radio and podcast presenter and producer
Chair of NHS North East London
Founder and Executive Chair, Snoop
Editor, The Times
CEO, Rare Television
Senior Curator of Design and Digital at Victoria and Albert Museum
CEO, Severn Trent
Publishing Director, Fig Tree, Penguin Random & House Former Publishing Director, 4th Estate, Harper Collins
Artistic Director, Design Manchester and Creative Director, Images&Co
Former CEO of Porsche & BMW, serial entrepreneur