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Helen Dodd is a Professor of Child Psychology at the University of Exeter, specializing in children’s mental health, anxiety, and the role of adventurous play in emotional resilience.
Her research explores how risk-taking in play supports well-being and creativity, emphasizing the importance of unstructured, imaginative activities in childhood development.
She is a leading advocate for re-evaluating society’s approach to play, highlighting its critical role in fostering confidence, problem-solving skills, and innovation.
Rishad Tobaccowala is a globally recognized business strategist, author, and keynote speaker, has delivered over 200 keynotes and 80 workshops, consistently rated among the best for his insightful, slide-free presentations on AI, change management, and leadership in transformative times. Previously, he served as Global Strategist and Chief Growth Officer at Publicis Groupe. Named one of BusinessWeek’s top business leaders for innovation and recognized by TIME as a “Marketing Innovator,”
Rishad is also a member of the prestigious Advertising Hall of Fame. He is the author of Restoring the Soul of Business: Staying Human in the Age of Data and Rethinking Work, and his widely read newsletter, The Future Does Not Fit in the Containers of the Past, reaches 30,000 leaders weekly.
Mike Cessario is the founder & CEO of Liquid Death, one of the fastest growing non-alcoholic beverage brands. Liquid Death uses comedy and entertainment to make health and sustainability 50 times more fun. They take the healthiest thing you can drink and package it into infinitely recyclable cans that can actually compete with the fun marketing of unhealthy brands across energy drinks, beer, and junk food. A portion of Liquid Death’s proceeds goes to nonprofits who are helping to fight plastic pollution and bringing clean drinking water to those in need.
Prior to Liquid Death, Mike worked in the agency world as a creative executive at Doner, VaynerMedia, Crispin Porter Bogusky, and Humanaut. His agency work spanned brands including Netflix, Organic Valley, Dominos, Toyota and more.
James is a Founding Partner and CEO of FNDR — building Narratives for founder-led companies, and host of Fast Company’s ‘Most Innovative Companies’ podcast.
For over a decade, James worked alongside Steve Jobs building Apple’s narrative for ground-breaking products such as iPod, iTunes, iPhone, App Store & iPad. He founded and was CEO of Apple’s global agency of record, Media Arts Lab and has since gone on to work with Brian Chesky (Airbnb), Evan Spiegel (Snap) and over 136 transformative founders to date.
Holly Tucker MBE, founder of notonthehighstreet and Holly & Co, is the UK Ambassador to Creative Small Businesses.She believes that following your passion and building a business doing what you love is the key to a happy and fulfilled life.
Through Holly & Co, a creative content company, Holly is working to positively influence this creative movement by redefining what it means to be a ‘small business’, encouraging more women to start their own businesses, as well as empowering our young with the skills to thrive in the new working world they are entering.
Bringing colour and creativity to the business world, Holly seeks to advise and inspire anyone who is dreaming of starting or is already on their business journey through her podcast ‘Conversations of Inspiration’, events, her inspiration and advice hub, and now, Do What You Love, Love What You Do, a Sunday Times Bestseller business book.
Sir Paul Smith is one of Britain’s foremost designers. He is renowned for his creative spirit, which combines tradition and modernity. Famous for its clothing and accessories collections, Paul Smith specialises in an inventive use of traditional craftsmanship and cutting-edge design to create beautifully made, desirable, modern pieces. Paul Smith is loved across the world.
From its origins in one small shop in Nottingham, England, in 1970, Paul Smith has grown into a global business, selling in over seventy countries. Starting with one men’s collection, the business now comprises collections for men, women and children, including, shoes, accessories, fragrance and home furnishings. Throughout its development Paul Smith’s values of curiosity, quality and authenticity have remained constant.
Thomas Heatherwick is one of the UK’s most prolific designers, whose varied work over two decades is characterised by its originality, inventiveness and humanity.
Defying conventional classifications, Thomas founded his studio in 1994 to bring together architecture, urban planning, product design and interiors into a single creative workspace. Working across multiple scales, locations and typologies, Heatherwick Studio has developed into a team of 200 makers and inventors with no signature style. Lead by human experience rather than any fixed dogma, the studio creates emotionally compelling places and objects with the smallest possible climate shadow.
From their base in London, the studio team is currently working on over 30 projects in ten countries, including Toranomon-Azabudai, a six-hectare mixed-use development in the centre of Tokyo, the new headquarters for Google in London (in collaboration with Bjarke Ingels Group) and Airo, an electric car that cleans the air as it drives.
The studio has also recently completed Bay View, Google’s first ground-up campus and Little Island, a park and performance space on the Hudson River in New York as well as the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in Cape Town; and Coal Drops Yard, a major new retail district in King’s Cross, London. Thomas’ forthcoming book, Humanise, will be published by Penguin in 2023.
Anya Hindmarch founded her business in London in 1987 and it has since grown into a global brand. Today, it is as known for its luxury, organisation-obsessed accessories as it is for its groundbreaking work in sustainability and its playful experiential retail concepts.
Creativity, modern craftsmanship and personalisation sit at the heart of everything Anya Hindmarch does. The brand pioneered the modern obsession with personalisation starting in 2001 with the launch of a bag featuring customers’ photographs. Be A Bag was revived and re-imagined in 2021 – a time when cherishing special moments felt more important than ever. At the Bespoke store in London, customers can have drawings or messages in their own handwriting embossed by in-store craftsmen. From adding initials to a weekend bag to an embroidered monogram on a clutch, countless pieces can be personalised. All of this is part of an ongoing commitment to reconnect the craftsman and the customer: each bespoke piece is – as Anya says – about ‘having your name on something, rather than mine’.
A passionate advocate of British design and arts, Anya is an Emeritus trustee of both the Royal Academy of Arts and the Design Museum and a trustee of The Tate and The Royal Marsden. In 2017, Anya Hindmarch was awarded a CBE in recognition for her contribution to the British fashion industry and has received several notable industry awards including a British Fashion Award. In 2021, Anya published her first book, If In Doubt Wash Your Hair.
Greg Hoffman is a global brand leader, former NIKE Chief Marketing Officer, and founder and principal of the brand advisory group Modern Arena.
For over 27 years, Greg held marketing, design, and innovation leadership roles at NIKE, including time as the brand’s CMO. In his most recent role as NIKE’s Vice President of Global Brand Innovation, he led teams tasked with envisioning the future of storytelling and consumer experiences for the brand.
Greg oversaw NIKE’s brand communications and experiences as NIKE was solidifying its position as one of the preeminent brand storytellers of the modern era and the leading innovator in digital and physical brand experiences. Through his leadership, Nike drove themes of equality, sustainability, and empowerment through sport in some of its most significant brand communications. That work was, in part, driven by his role on the Advisory Board of the NIKE Black Employee Network and as a member of the NIKE Foundation Board of Directors.
His role in the rise of marketing and design through that period was recognized in 2015 when Fast Company named him one of the Most Creative People in Business. He’s also been recognized for his transformative leadership in the industry through the Business Insider’s 50 Most Innovative CMOs and AdAge’s Power Players annual lists.
In 2022, Greg brings all of his brand experience to the world through his new book Emotion by Design: Creative Leadership Lessons From a Life at Nike.
Michael is the co-founder and co-Executive Chairman of Calm, the leading digital health brand for mental fitness, meditation, and sleep. Calm has grown to over 100 million downloads, was the Apple 2017 app of the year, and is the world’s first mental health unicorn.
Long fascinated by neuroscience, flow states and mental fitness, he is passionate about spreading meditation as a simple but valuable skill around the world.
Prior to Calm, Michael was the founder of Mind Candy, along with Firebox.com, Ping Pong Fight Club, and Berwickstock music festival. In 2014 he was awarded an OBE for services to the Creative Industries. You can read more here.
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