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.
CEO, Ethical Journalism Network & Former Readers' Editor, The Guardian
Former CEO, Man Group
Group CTO, Co-op & 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
Former CMO, Direct Line Group
TV and Film Director
HM Chief Inspector Education and Training, Estyn
Managing Director, George
Professor and Vice Dean (Education), King's College London
Film-maker & Lecturer in Film & Television Production
Chair, WarChild UK & Former CEO, Pearson Plc
Chief Executive, Age UK
Chief Financial Officer, Howden Brokin
Director, Momentus Ltd
Chairman, Savills
Director, National Gallery
Permanent Secretary,(DEFRA) Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Deputy CEO, British Film Institute
Barrister (KC), 23 Essex Street
Chief Operating Officer, Connor Broadley Ltd
Chair, 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
Businessman, Philanthropist, Bankers without Boundaries
CEO, Vertu plc
Public Policy Editor, The Financial Times
Professor of Isotope Geochemistry, University of Southampton
Professor of Hepatology Queen Mary University of London and Consultant Hepatologist Barts Health
Former Creative Director and Founder, True North Productions
Former Executive Director & Head of Public Affairs, Cicero Group
Executive Editor, The Economist
Chief Investment Officer of the Cambridge University Endowment Fund
Oscar-nominated Film Director
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
Chair, Cairn Capital
Critic and Journalist
Independent ICS Chair
Founder and Executive Chair, Snoop
Deputy Editor, The Times
CEO, Rare Television
Acting Keeper Design, Architecture and Digital, 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
Director for Cathedral & Church Buildings, Church of England & Former Regional Director, London and South East, Historic England
Commissioning Editor, Little Dot Studios, Former Commissioning Editor of Channel 4, Specialist in Digital Creativity
Senior Adviser, Flint Global, Chair University of Surrey, former senior lawyer
Deputy Director, Creative Policy and Evidence Centre & Former Director, Jerwood Arts