Suzy Beaumont is a former multi award-winning BBC Producer with 18 years’ experience in TV and Radio. Creating nationally recognised features and live programming, she specialises in business, health & wellbeing and lifestyle. 

After changing and overhauling every aspect of her own life, Suzy is now inspiring others to do the same through her organisation Change Your World where she creates a ripple effect of positive change for individuals, organisations, and the environment.

Stress and adversity sent Suzy spiralling downwards after a succession of challenges in life. With the support of life coach and a consistent personal development practice Suzy re-created herself and now helps others to transform their lives and live life better. Through her  life changing events, Change Your Working World training services and her daily online coaching programme - Change Your World Every Day, Suzy and her team of experts are changing lives.

Suzy is an accredited facilitator with the Stress Management Society, the UK’s leading authority on stress management issues, delivering their flagship stress awareness training programme Excelling Under Pressure which is designed to build self-awareness, resilience and develop empowering strategies to deal with stress in themselves and others. Suzy also delivers workplace transformation through her values-based leadership programme, along with her team of experts who can be called upon to deliver training on a wide range of topics.

Suzy is an inspiring, keynote speaker, trailblazer and world changer and has a massive vision to positively change the world using personal development.  "When we work on ourselves, we start to think better, when we think better, we make better choices; when we make better choices, we get better results and that’s when the world around us starts to change”. I’m not saying change is easy, but I’m living proof it’s worth it. 

On September 1st 2015,  Ben Smith embarked  on a challenge of a lifetime which saw him run 401 marathons in 401 consecutive days around the UK,  raising £330,000 for two anti-bullying charities.

His adventure inspired hundreds of thousands around the globe to not only make a difference in their own lives, but in the lives of others.

The 401 Challenge is about showing people that no matter what you go through growing up there can always be a positive outcome if you want there to be.

From anxious recluse to trier, speaker, author and, some days, trainee astronaut, Paula McGuire is the world’s least likely adventurer, with the world’s most inspiring adventure story.

Paula ‘Must Try Harder’ McGuire isn’t exactly your average adventurer. She doesn’t even own a sleeping bag. In fact, Paula spent her early years hiding from life and seeking better places to hide, eventually finding her world shrinking to the confines of her own home without an escape route. Thirty years of crippling social anxiety will do that to a girl.

Adventure became Paula’s personal therapy in 2012 and, ever since, she has terrified herself daily in the name of recovery. So far, it’s working.

Chris leads a rapidly growing communications and fundraising department in Scotland and Northern Ireland, taking up this new role in 2020. The department brings together media, digital and marketing, with fundraising, and the Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival. 

Chris has been at the Mental Health Foundation for ten years, first working in policy, research, and programmes in Scotland, before spending four years developing the Foundation’s workplace mental health and corporate partnerships programmes UK wide. 

Chris’s background is in mental health policy, research, and campaigns – joining the dots and translating mental health concepts for different audiences. Before joining the Foundation, Chris was a programme manager working on policy into practice projects in public mental health. He spent three years providing research into practice support for the European Commission in developing the EU Pact on Mental Health. Prior to that Chris worked for See Me – Scotland’s programme to end stigma and discrimination in mental health.

Chris has a longstanding interest in technology and mental health, particularly in the positive aspects of technology in mental health, and an ongoing interest in workplace mental health and HR. His other areas of interest include mindfulness, trauma, stigma and discrimination, service design and mental health, young people’s mental health, suicide, and self-harm.

In 2011 Chris was selected as a founding member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Young Academy of Scotland. Chris uses his lived experience of mental ill health and recovery to inform his work. Outside work Chris spends his time being a father of two, a documentary photographer, and a cook.

After completing my PhD in organic chemistry, I worked in R&D in the pharmaceutical industry, developing drugs for cardiovascular disease and cancer. Inspired by the placebo effect, and how some people's conditions would improve because they believed a placebo was a real drug, I left the industry to write books and educate people in how they can harness their mind and emotions to improve their mental and physical health.

I'm now author of 11 books, including the Amazon bestseller, The Five Side Effects of Kindness.  I'm also a columnist, The Kindness Tsar for Psychologies Magazine, and have been a featured guest on Channel 4's, Sunday Brunch Live in the UK and CBS Sunday Morning in the USA, as well as on several BBC radio shows and podcasts around the world.

I'm also the honorary scientific advisor for the charity, 52 Lives.

I'm an advocate for kindness and work passionately to inspire a kinder world.

Be kind is more than just a hashtag.

Gelong Thubten is a Buddhist monk, meditation teacher and author from the UK. Gelong is a title meaning ‘senior monk’. Thubten was educated at Oxford University, and then became an actor, in London and New York. At the age of 21, tremendous amounts of stress led him to join a monastery. He ordained as a Tibetan Buddhist monk in 1993 at Kagyu Samye Ling Tibetan Buddhist Monastery. He has trained there under some of the world's most accomplished teachers of meditation, and has spent six years in intensive meditation retreats, the longest of which was 4 years. 

Thubten specialises in teaching mindfulness meditation internationally, in businesses, hospitals, schools, universities, prisons and addiction counselling centres, and he gives keynote speeches at major events around the world. He has been teaching for over 20 years and is a world pioneer in the mindfulness movement, as he was teaching in these sectors many years before it became popular.

He works with major clients such as: Google, LinkedIn, Deloitte, Lloyds Bank, Deutsche Bank, Siemens, Accenture and Clifford Chance. He has lectured at Facebook’s London offices, Morrisons and McCain head offices, Linklaters and many other global companies. 

Thubten designs and delivers 12-week mindfulness programmes for 4th year medical students at the National University of Ireland. He has also lectured at the Universities of Oxford, Cardiff and Helsinki, as well as for the United Nations.

His work is often featured in the media, and he is well known for bringing mindfulness into the workplace, teaching people how to integrate it into their busy lives. He has done numerous TV, radio and print interviews. 

Thubten lectures in schools and universities, as well as speaking at many large events such as: Wisdom 2.0 Europe, Me-Convention (Mercedes Benz), which was Europe’s first SXSW Festival, LinkedIn’s Talent Connect event in Los Angeles, Fifteen Seconds Festival (Austria and US), WOMAD Festival, Oxford Literary Festival, Gibraltar Literary Festival, Hay Literary Festival and Tech Open Air, Berlin. 

He is an author for Mindvalley, a major online learning platform, and he has spoken for them at large events in Jamaica, Barcelona and Estonia. 

Thubten is Director of Kagyu Samye Dzong Scarborough, Yorkshire. He is a Trustee of ROKPA International, an international humanitarian aid organisation with medical, education and cultural projects in some of the world's poorest regions. He is also a Director of Samye Foundation Wales, a mindfulness and wellbeing charity.

Thubten collaborated with Ruby Wax and Ash Ranpura on the best-selling book “How to be Human”. His own book, “A Monk’s Guide to Happiness” was published in June 2019 by Hodder & Stoughton.

I want all that and more. I want to know that I am the best person for your event. I want to deliver the most powerful and appropriate virtual presentation. 

Over the last 12 months I have made a successful transition into delivering powerful and impactful presentation virtually all over the world. Trained as a coach, I am obsessed with taking people from where they are to where they want to be. I know that the measure of success as a keynote speaker is not just relevance but impact. 

And not just the immediate impact on the day, but the lasting impact of the days, weeks and even years afterwards. It’s all about leaving an imprint and resonating with your entire audience. I pride myself on creating a buzz, with fresh insights and new interactions that your audience can’t wait to try them out for themselves. I want to be a partner with you in making your event the best it can. For that reason, I offer so much more.

Vanessa King is a board member at Action for Happiness and author of Ten Keys to Happier Living.  Vanessa plays an active role, speaking nationally and internationally and translating the latest psychological research into practical action to help individuals, organisations and communities enhance their wellbeing and resilience.

She is one of a small group people globally to have completed a Masters in Applied Positive Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. 

Vanessa combines in-depth knowledge of the science of well-being with her client experience to help people get the most from work and for organisations to get the best from its people. She delivers a range of workshops focused on well-being, resilience and workplace creativity as well as working alongside organisations to design bespoke solutions. Vanessa is the architect of the 10 Keys to Happier Living framework and developed the Doing Well from the Inside Out programme for organisations, leading its successful pilot and roll-out with a global FTSE 100 organisation. She also authored the extensive psychological content on the Action for Happiness website.