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.
Head of Business & Commercial, Tanfield Chambers
Layout Artist on Peppa Pig, at Karrot Animation
MD, Brompton Bicycles Ltd
Communications Expert & Speaker
Head of Client Development, UK Markets Corporate Solutions, JLL
President Murray Edwards College Cambridge University
Consultant in Emergency Medicine and Senior Strategic Advisor Scottish Government
Former Manager, Chesterfield Football Club
Senior Advisor, Gleacher Shacklock
Strategist, Author, Mental Health Campaigner
Politics Journalist and Presenter, BBC Scotland
Controller, BBC 3
Royal Correspondent, BBC
Emerging Technology, Strategy and Governance Adviser and charity founder
Circuit Judge, Snaresbrook Crown Court
Independent Adviser in Data Analytics Strategies, Allianz
Scientist (academic and industrial) and author
Founder & Non-Executive Director at Four Eyes Insight Ltd
Liberal Democrat Spokesperson for Foreign Affairs & Brexit, Chief Whip, MP for Orkney & Shetland
Franchise Director Audi, Inchcape
Managing Director, Archipelo
Director of Research and Influencing, Alzheimer’s Society
Film & TV Agent, Northbank Talent Management
Director of Provider Development NHS England and Improvement
Transformation Lead, NHS England and Improvement
AG Leventis Professor of Greek Culture
Director, Clore Leadership
Co-Founder & Vice Chairman, Blockchain
Chair of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, Board member of the Co-Op, Trustee of the Radcliffe Foundation
Former Managing Director, Freelands Foundation
Founder, RCJ Media Ltd
Chief Executive, World Book Day
CEO, The Chadlington Consultancy Ltd
Advisor to FTSE 100 CEOs, Manchester Square Partners
Barrister, 39 Essex Chambers
Managing Director, Legend Times
President, The Mathematical Association & Visiting Professor, Loughborough University Mathematical Sciences Department
Partner, Simons Muirhead & Burton
Managing Director, Communications, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
Director of Learning and National Programmes, Victoria & Albert Museum
Founder, Feelunique
Chair, Spire Healthcare & Former Chairman, Barclays UK and Chairman, Debenhams
Head of Partnerships and Community, Tik Tok
Associate National Clinical Director for Children and Young People's Mental Health, NHS England
Editor, The Red Box - The Times
Visiting Professor in the History of Film and Media
Professor of Language and Knowledge Technologies, University of Sheffield
MP & Former Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Senior Group Advisor, Good Governance Group
Director of Audiences, Southbank Centre & Former Director of Marketing and Communication, English National Ballet
Author of "How To Go To Work" & Non-Excec, Community Clothing
Executive Director for Banking, Payments and Innovation, Bank of England
Managing Director, Two Rivers Media
Chief Executive at Royal Thames Yacht Club, Former CEO, Newsworks
Former CEO, Ordnance Survey & Non-executive Director, Anite
Portfolio Chairman & Director
Transdisciplinary Researcher, Communicator, and Lecturer (Plymouth University)
Director – WRES Implementation in NHS England, and deputy president of the RCN
Chief Executive, Music Managers Forum
Professor of Toxicology, Aston University