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.
Writer, Literary Critic, Academic, King's College London
Former Executive Chair, Newsworks & Former CEO, Dentsu Aegis Network UK & Ireland
Former Chairman of Arsenal and the Football Association
Gresham Professor of Law, Gresham College
Head of Life Sciences at Imperial College London
Artist, Freelance
Actor & Writer
Channel 4 News Editor
Former Head of Marketing Communications, BT Group
CMO EMEA, Google
Former Director, Art Fund and Tate Britain
Former Ambassador to Ethiopia and Madagascar
CEO, Learnerbly
Chair, Plan International & Former Vice Chancellor of the University of Aberdeen
Director, Strategy, Arts Council England
CEO, The Health Foundation
President, Association of Personal Injury Lawyers
CEO, Jellyfish Pictures
Master of Churchill College, University of Cambridge
Former Acting Permanent Secretary, Department for International Trade
Chief Compliance Officer, M&G Prudential
Education Director, British Esports Association
Chairman, Prince's Trust International
Broadcaster, Producer, Director and Columnist
CEO, AMV BBDO
Exec Director, Government Skills & Curriculum Unit & Former Director, Cabinet Office, Brexit Readiness Unit
Editor, i newspaper
Board Member, Morgan Stanley, Wise plc & Rathbones, Associate Fellow, The Said Business School, Oxford University
Chief Sustainability & Innovation Officer, HH Global
Chief Operating Officer, PlantLife
Chairman, Financial Reporting Council & Former Chairman, BT Group
Former Joint Interim Managing Director, Barbican Centre
Former CEO, MPA Group, Founder Laffittes Ltd
Interim Programme Director, NHS People Plan
Film and TV Director
Lawyer, Professor and Former Judge, Court of Justice of the European Communities
Honorary Fellow in Computer Science, University of York
Design and Technical Director - Residential, Lendlease Europe
Retail Correspondent, Financial Times & Former Deputy Head of Lex
Children's Heart Surgeon and Academic, Gresham College
Director of Advocacy, Engage Britain
CEO, Ethical Journalism Network & Former Readers' Editor, The Guardian
CEO, Man Group
Global Chief Investment Officer, Fixed Income, Fidelity
Director, Art UK
Former CIO, Executive Director for Technology, Bank of England
Founding Director, Metro Dynamics Ltd
Journalist & Author, Former Editor & Former Chairman, The Wake Up Foundation
Senior Media Analyst and Founder, Enders Analysis
Chief Executive, Met Office
Managing Partner, Seedcamp
Private Capital Correspondent, Financial Times
HM Chief Inspector Education and Training, Estyn
Managing Director, George
TV and Film Director
Former CMO, Direct Line Group
Professor of Business Education, King's College London
Film-maker & Lecturer in Film & Television Production
Former Minister of State for Trade and Export Promotion at the Department for International Trade (DIT)
Chair, WarChild UK & Former CEO, Pearson Plc
