Teamwork. Inspirational speeches. Leadership. Mental Health. Legacy. Personal Growth. Awards host. Entertaining after dinner speeches. Storytelling

James Haskell is one of the UK’s most recognisable sports personalities, a 77-cap England international, British & Irish Lion, and former Wasps, Premiership and European Cup winner.

James is a multi-bestselling author whose books span sport, comedy, mindset, performance and fitness, all delivered with his trademark honesty, humour and unfiltered storytelling.

Since retiring from professional rugby in 2019, James has built a hugely successful career as a podcaster, presenter, author, DJ and high-demand public speaker. He is co-host of the smash hit weekly podcast The Good, The Bad & The Rugby, one of the UK’s most popular sports shows with over 120,000 listeners per episode. He has also launched a host of other successful podcasts including What A Flanker, Couple’s Quarantine, Backrow Radio, and the comedy led Amuse Douche, collectively amassing more than 500 episodes and 500+ hours of content.

Inspirational Live and Times. Creativity. Perseverance. Reinvention

The longtime founder, bassist and lyricist for the legendary Black Sabbath with over 80 million records sold, Terence “Geezer” Butler was at the heart of their success. He named the group, provided the bass behind their distinctive sound and wrote the lyrics that resonated so powerfully with fans around the world.

From the inspirational story of his life in one of the biggest rock bands on the planet, to the international hellraising with Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi and Bill Ward, Geezer’s candid reflections on his working-class childhood in war battered Birmingham, his almost-life as an accountant and his fascination with horror, religion and the occult, his story reveals the softer side of the heavy metal legend while holding nothing back. His best selling autobiography, “Into The Void”, is a reminder of the journey of him and the bad to reaching the heights of a global phenomenon

In 2025 Black Sabbath played their final, and now legendary, “Back to the Beginning” concert at Villa Park, raising millions for local charities and Cure Parkinson’s.

Inspirational Life and Times, Triumph over Adversity, Entertaining and Anecdotal Stories, Rags to Riches.

More famous than any drummer has a right to be with 42 years as the heartbeat with Iron Maiden, Nicko has a style as punchy and distinctive as his battered, lived-in face. He enjoyed the rare distinction of being both the jester in the Iron Maiden pack and the ace. As for his off stage personality, “Mr Excess All-Areas,” he once described himself as, and it’s fair to say he wasn’t exaggerating.

Nicko has overcome many adversities in his journey, including recovering form a stroke in 2023. He underwent 10 weeks of intensive therapy and was able to start rehearsals with Iron Maiden just a few months later for their “The Future Past” tour.

With a plethora of anecdotal and entertaining stories, Nicko will inspire and entertain any audience.

Inspirational life and times. From rags to riches. Perseverance. Triumph over adversity

Graham McPherson, better known as Suggs, is a British singer-songwriter, musician, radio personality and actor.

He came to prominence in the late 1970s as the lead singer of the iconic ska band Madness who he still fronts today. Madness had a string of hit singles and chart topping albums making them one of the most successful bands in UK chart history. Collecting multiple awards; including the prestigious Ivor Novello, performing at the London Olympics and Queens Jubilee in 2012, the band have spent almost half a century at the forefront of British Culture. Outside of the band Suggs has released two studio albums hits include “I’m Only Sleeping”, “Camden Town”, “Cecilia” and “Blue Day”.

He’s a patron of Children in Need and has presented several TV shows including Night Fever, Inside Out and Relic Hunters. As an actor Suggs has appeared in shows including Young Ones, Benidorm, The Tall Guy and more. He also hosted radio shows on BBC 6 Music and Virgin Radio.

Inspirational Life and Times, Triumph Over Adversity, Rags to Riches, Mental Awareness, Entrepreneurship, The Leisure Industry

Having grown up in the Southeast of London, practicing his streetwise skills in boxing and football, Tamer showed his versatility from a very young age as an aspiring entrepreneur, turning his hand to sports clubs, restaurants and nightclubs after sustaining an injury boxing.

Tamer became an actor and starred in modern British classics, The Football Factory, Layer Cake and his eye-opening and laugh-out-loud lead as, want-to-do-good gangster, Charlie, in Nick Love’s cult movie, The Business, and such epic TV shows as Game of Thrones.

He is now one of the owners of the Soho sanctum hotel collaborating with DJ Paul Okenfold, creating an amazing space for the independent British film and TV industry and the music industry with a school of music.

A rags to riches story and a larger-than-life character, Tamer has been through the school of hard knocks making his way to the top in both acting and business. Tamer brings his ever charming Southeast London swagger to an event.

Tamer is also a philanthropist who has helped raise money for people in need and organized a fundraiser to help people affected by an earthquake in Turkey. He worked with volunteers to gather supplies and send them to the most affected areas.

During Covid 19, Tamer created ‘Mask our Heroes”, where he was funding PPE supplies and giving to all emergency and key workers throughout the country. He was called “The Robin Hood of PPE”.

Life and times. Inspiration. Creativity. Overcoming adversity. Teamwork. Lessons from Life

Dee Snider is of course best known as the lead singer of glam metal band Twisted Sister and has been considered as one of the greatest front men of all time. Dee shares his compelling, funny, and at times touching stories and experiences. Believing that everybody is capable of becoming a “rock star” in their own life, Dee proves it by showing how his life lessons perfectly translate to help any career.

The writer of the cult horror movie Strangeland, Dee has a multitude of different experiences from currently being President of Defiant Artists making action, thriller and horror movies to voicing video game characters appearing alongside well-known personalities like Arnold Schwarzenegger, Gordon Ramsey and SpongeBob SquarePants!

One of the most famous appearances however was in front of the US Senate, debating the accusations of Tipper Gore, who said that his music and heavy metal in general incited violence and therefore should be banned and censored. Dee Snider not only defended his band and the livelihood he treasured but also the work of hundreds of other musicians. Thanks to Dee Snider heavy metal was not banned but simply given a content warning stamp placed across album covers. The warning stamps that ultimately pushed heavy metal record sales through the roof!

Dee was one of a trio of himself, Franz Zappa and John Denver at these hearings.

Leadership, Teamwork, Mental Health, Diversity, Resilience, Peak Performance, Sustained Success

Karen is the lead female analyst and pundit for men’s and women’s football on Sky Sports and ITV. When it comes to tournament football, Karen also leads the coverage for both the men’s and women’s FIFA World Cups and UEFA Euro competitions on ITV, most recently the Euros 2024.

Karen is now a global ambassador for Pepsi, alongside some of the biggest names in football. In between brand work and leading TV coverage, this Summer was the second year Karen was asked to play in Soccer Aid for UNICEF, at Chelsea’s home ground, Stamford Bridge.

In the Autumn of 2022, Karen was announced as the newly appointed Chair of the Future of Women’s Football Review for the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, looking into ways the Government can nurture and expand the game in the UK. The report received widespread praise when it was released last Summer, along with a TV series for ITV called ‘Leaders of the Pack’, which saw Karen, take on the role of host and in conversation with key players who were playing in the 2022 FIFA Women’s World Cup, in Australia.

Karen is a newly appointed board member at UEFA, where as a governing body, UEFA look to secure the sustainability and future of both men’s and women’s football.

With 144 caps Karen Carney is England’s third-most capped player having made her international debut in 2005 at 17. Domestically, she played for Arsenal, Birmingham City, Chicago Red Stars and retired in 2019 as captain of Chelsea, under Emma Hayes. Karen was part of the historic Arsenal side that in 2007, won the unprecedented quadruple and represented Team GB in the 2012, London Olympics.

She was awarded an MBE in the 2017 New Year’s Honours List for her services to football which was followed in 2021 with an induction into the National Football Museum Hall of Fame, where judges voted unanimously to include her “in recognition of her outstanding football career, her involvement in advancing women’s football and her overall contribution to the game on and off the field”. In 2024 she was also awarded an OBE after continuing her amazing work.

Energy Issues. Sustainability. Renewable Energy. Innovation.

Luiz Barroso is the CEO of PSR Energy Consulting and Analytics. He was the head of the Brazilian Energy Planning Agency and a visitor in the International Energy Agency. He has over 20 years of experience in power-gas systems planning, economics, operation, risk management, and market design in about 30 countries in the Americas, Europe and Asia. Luiz has recently become clean energy advisor to President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil

Luiz Barroso has 24 years of experience in the energy industry covering areas where energy planning, policy, pricing, energy transition, new technologies and decision marking overlap. He has provided consulting services for private and public investors, lenders, governments, regulators in about 30 countries on a wide variety of topics in the electricity and gas markets (financing, market design, modelling, forecasting, risk assessment, investment analysis)

Since January 2019 he chairs PSR Energy Consulting and Analytics – a BTG Pactual bank owned firm – and is a partner of BTG Pactual, the largest investment bank in Latin America.

Psychopaths. Persuasive Communication. High Performance. Social and Workplace Influence. Transformative Innovation. Perseverance.

Professor Kevin Dutton has spent the better part of the past twenty years at the Universities of both Oxford and Cambridge as a research psychologist, bestselling author, and elite performance consultant. His principal research interests are persuasion and social influence, the psychopathic personality, and elite cognition.

As a writer and professor of psychology, as well as an adventurer and consultant within both the public and private sectors, Dr Kev is a ‘mind magician’, effortlessly and expertly helping people to maximise their potential. Typically, his clients come from a wide range of fields including business, senior corporate management, the military, and elite sport.

He is also the co-host of the podcast PSYCHO SCHIZO ESPRESSO with the lead singer of Iron Maiden, Bruce Dickinson.

Dr Kev’s first book, FLIPNOSIS – THE ART OF SPLIT-SECOND PERSUASION, documents his quest – from the political genius of Winston Churchill to the malign influence of some of the world’s top con artists – for the psychological ‘DNA’ of persuasion. In the book, he developed the famous SPICE model of social influence – Simplicity, Perceived self-interest, Incongruity, Confidence and Empathy – which form the key ingredients of ‘extreme persuasion’, a brand of influence that has proven of considerable interest to various branches of military intelligence. In Dr Kev’s own words, this militant strain of persuasion “doesn’t just turn the tables. It kicks ‘em over.”

His second book, THE WISDOM OF PSYCHOPATHS – LESSONS IN LIFE FROM SAINTS, SPIES & SERIAL KILLERS, is an international best-seller and a cult classic. With this book, Dr Kev made psychological history by becoming the first person to systematically argue that psychopathic personality traits aren’t necessarily bad but can, dialled up in the right contexts, in the right combinations, at the right levels, and with the right intentions be good not only for the individual who possesses them but also for society as a whole.

In a follow-up book, THE GOOD PSYCHOPATH’S GUIDE TO SUCCESS, Dr Kev, together with former SAS sergeant and bestselling author, Andy McNab, further developed the concept of the “Good Psychopath” to describe those individuals – like Special Forces soldiers, top surgeons, and elite sportspeople – who are able to harness their inner ruthlessness, fearlessness and focus for the good of society rather than to its detriment.

In the summer of 2024, Kevin is leading his South North Adventure team, comprising former GB rower Stephen Feeney, and the “Warrior Monk” and SAS legend, Krish Thapa, to complete a 1500-mile rowing and cycling mission…and a historic first.

The challenge will be covered by Good Morning Britain, BBC Breakfast, and Sky TV.

“Dutton is a Special Forces style psychologist. Daring. Original. No nonsense. All action.”

“Kevin was Salon North’s closing speaker, and what a speaker! He looks perfectly harmless in his cords and rock band hair, but, don’t believe it, he is in fact an arch manipulator of minds, which as a world famous academic in the field of social influence is all in a day’s work.”