Sports, leisure, & health | Speakers for Schools

Topic: Sports, leisure, & health

  • Sir Geoffrey Owen

    Sir Geoffrey Owen was born on April 16, 1934. He was educated at Rugby School and Balliol College, Oxford, where he studied classics. After two years’ national service in the Royal Air Force, he joined the Financial Times as a feature writer in 1958. He held several posts on that paper, including those of Industrial […]

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  • Dr Crystal Oldman

    Dr Crystal Oldman CBE joined the QNI in November 2012 as Chief Executive. Crystal worked in the NHS for 18 years, the majority of which was in the field of community nursing, working with some of the most deprived communities in west London. She has a passion for learning, teaching and research to support best […]

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  • Kate Ogborn

    Prior to setting up Fly, Kate was Head of Television at Revolution Films. She co-produced Tony Grisoni’s adaptation of David Peace’s crime novels, The Red Riding Trilogy, and Samantha Morton’s directorial debut, The Unloved, which won a Bafta for Best Single Drama in 2010. At Fly Kate has produced Randall Wright’s documentary Hockney; Pia Borg […]

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  • Allison Ogden-Newton OBE

    Allison joined Keep Britain Tidy as Chief Executive in 2015. She appears regularly in national and local media, on TV and radio and at conferences and events, to discuss a breadth of issues, from fly-tipping to green spaces. Allison is an experienced charity professional and social entrepreneur, having worked as Chief Executive at World Child […]

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  • Liz O’Riordan

    I was a 40-year old Consultant breast surgeon and triathlete who was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2015. It came back locally in 2018. The side effects of my cancer treatment meant that I had to retire as a surgeon. During my time off work I wrote an award winning blog about my experiences of […]

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  • Rebecca O’Brien

    Rebecca O’Brien began her film life working at the Edinburgh Film Festival. After a short stint in theatre admin she took a one week film production course and fell headlong into production. She worked on early Channel Four films and dramas, including “My Beautiful Laundrette” (as Location Manager) and the Michael Rosen inspired multi-cultural kids’ […]

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  • Trish O’Connor

    Trish joined Sutton as the Managing Director of the London office in 2015. Sutton is a cultural communications company promoting creativity across the globe, with offices in London, New York and Hong Kong. Previously she worked at Southbank Centre, where she was Head of Press for nine years, relaunching the Royal Festival Hall following a […]

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  • John Neal

    John is a performance psychologist who works with the leaders and their teams to achieve remarkable results under intense pressure. He is an exercise physiologist, performance psychologist and Professor of Practice in Sport Business performance at Ashridge Executive Education, Hult International Business School He works across three industries, sports, business and the military. In the […]

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  • Steve Nash

    Steve Nash joined the motor industry on graduating in 1977 and has held a variety of roles on both the manufacturer and retail sides of the business. A large part of his career has been spent with BMW UK, having worked for the organisation from 1986 up to the end of 2012, with the last […]

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  • Sebastian Munden

    Our General Manager Sebastian Munden joined Unilever in 1990 as a marketing trainee at Lever Brothers in the UK after completing his MA in English Language and Literature at Oxford University. After several brand management and customer team positions in Home and Personal Care, he was appointed category director for Laundry UK. Sebastian then went […]

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