MEET OUR ELEVATING VOICES
We are thrilled to introduce you to our powerhouse speakers, all on a mission to empower women to be bold. See their stories below and just why we're so excited to see them on stage. Check out some of the incredible ways you can get to work with them through their VIP bonus offerings too.
Charley works with female founders who never signed up to run IT but ended up carrying every tech decision alone.
The tool you haven't touched. The AI everyone's talking about. The decision you keep putting off because tech "isn't your thing".
Through CSITEX she takes the tech direction off your plate.
She co-founded rascal Systems 23 years ago, growing it to 50+ people serving every major UK grocer, and still sits on its Board.
Solo or scaling, she cuts through the jargon, helps you skip the expensive lessons, and her AI training shows you how to put AI to work.
Joy Poole is a leadership coach and keynote speaker who helps leaders navigate change and uncertainty with clarity and confidence. She combines storytelling with practical strategies audiences can apply immediately.
Her perspective has been shaped by years of coaching senior leaders and by an extraordinary personal adventure. In 2024 she set off with her husband and son to sail around the world, where uncertainty was not theoretical but a daily reality. The lessons from that journey now inform her work helping leaders think clearly, lead calmly, and perform at their best when certainty disappears.
Kate is a leadership development and change expert, professionally certified coach, speaker and author who has been running her own business, Neon since 2013. Her mission is to change the world of work by creating a movement of leaders who believe in putting humanity at the forefront of how they lead, live and work in service of enhanced wellbeing and better performance. She is the architect of the Deeply Human® leadership model and the author of the book Deeply Human: Why the world of work is broken and how leaders can fix it (due for publication in 2027). She provides leadership development services including team and individual coaching, leadership strategy and consulting to purpose-led leaders, informed by the Deeply Human® model.
Kim is a seasoned leadership coach and facilitator with over three decades of experience building high-performing teams and driving innovation across global organisations, including Symantec and Amazon Web Services. She specializes in helping leaders strengthen confidence, communication, and self-leadership, therefore empowering them to lead authentically and make bold career moves.
Drawing on her corporate leadership background, Kim blends coaching psychology, experiential learning, and practical tools to create lasting change. Her style is sharp, human, refreshingly real, and brings in just enough humour to keep things grounded. more details bel
Lauren is the founder of Cosmicology, where she helps women understand themselves more deeply through astrology, life cycles and Priestess Numerology. Drawing on her background in psychology and psychology alongside ancient wisdom, her work is for women who are tired of following somebody else’s version of success - and are ready to reclaim and express more of who they really are. She helps women recognise the patterns running through their lives, reconnect with the parts of themselves they’ve learned to hide, and become more visible in their work without performing a version of themselves designed to fit in. You don’t need another version of yourself. You need more of yourself.
Louise Tuitt is the founder of Dyslexia Empowered, helping late-diagnosed dyslexic women own their brilliance and strengthen self-trust. With a Bachelor's degree in Psychology, ICF-accredited coaching, and lived experience of a late dyslexia diagnosis,
Louise combines lived experience with evidence-based coaching to help women challenge limiting beliefs, embrace their unique strengths, and redefine what success means on their own terms. Louise is passionate about changing the narrative around
dyslexia from deficit to difference, empowering women to thrive with confidence.
Micha-Rose is a global citizen, dual-qualified lawyer, and Group CEO of an international legal consultancy she co-founded in London in 2012. Practising law since 2005, she built a thriving business in a fiercely competitive industry, advising heads of state and working with clients worldwide. Micha-Rose leads with a majority-female team and strives to help women unlock their innate potential. Driven by values of freedom, kindness and equality, she is passionate about helping people rise, thrive and lead with purpose. Through her charity, Daffodils for Doris, she drives connection-led transformation for women in developing economies through a mentorshop platform.
“True belonging begins within, and becomes powerful when we extend it to others.
Sarah Farmer is an international multi-award-winning executive coach, imposter syndrome specialist, bestselling author of Leader Unleashed and host of the Lead Brightly podcast.
As Founder of Bright & Brilliant Ltd., Sarah helps senior leaders, leadership teams and business owners develop the right level of confidence, emotional intelligence and people skills to lead themselves and others brilliantly.
Blending neuroscience, psychology and practical leadership development, her work helps people challenge the thinking and self-doubt that can hold them back, create lasting behavioural change and take greater control of the future they want to create.
Her mission? A brighter future powered by brilliant leaders.
Siobhan specialises in vibrant, natural branding photography, often outdoors, always full of laughter. A storyteller who is passionate about inspiring women to step in front of the camera with confidence and share their own stories with the world.
Siobhan’s personal story includes extensive travel and a squiggly career, from Aid work in East Africa, to working on racing yachts in Australia, with other things in between. Offices, she discovered, are not for her. She also writes women’s fiction and romantic comedy.
An imperfectionist who loves adventure, comedy, exploring in nature, having deep chats and observing the absurdities of life.
Sue Ellar is a Health Transformation and Food Relationship Expert helping women overcome fatigue, brain fog, painful joints, poor sleep and creeping weight.
After 30 years trapped in the dieting cycle, Sue discovered how modern eating patterns were affecting her body and appetite. By eating in harmony with human biology, her energy returned, inflammation eased and excess weight followed. Now feeling 20 years younger, Sue loves activity and adventure and, for the first time since her teens, is happy with her reflection.
She has helped over 300 clients transform their health and relationship with food through compassionate, lasting behaviour change.
Valerie Jacqueline Ritchie, known as The Crone Goddess®, is an award-winning author, speaker, Midlife Empowerment Coach and 9D Breathwork Facilitator.
Drawing on more than 30 years in education, health and personal development, she guides midlife women to remember who they are through movement, breath and voice. Valerie’s work centres on identity, self-trust and wisdom gained through lived experience.
A former international powerlifter and PSA North West Emerging Speaker of the Year 2025, Valerie describes calmness as her superpower. Her presence creates the safety women need to speak honestly, listen to themselves and know there is more to life than menopause.
Victoria Rennoldson is a Cultural Intelligence and Strategic Communication expert, keynote speaker and author of Become a Global Leader. She is dedicated to helping talented professionals become influential leaders, working with organisations, teams, current and future leaders to develop the leadership, communication and cultural intelligence capabilities needed to grow in complex global environments. Victoria combines practical strategies with real-world insight to help professionals increase their influence, visibility and impact when leading multicultural teams, going for promotion, and when expanding their leadership.
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