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DR AMINA AITSI-SELMI MD Ph

What's holding you back? 30 minutes to break through to your dream career and life

Amina built a clinician scientist career in population health advising the UK Government and United Nations before embracing the entrepreneurial path. She is a Transformational Executive and Career Coach; and an Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer in Epidemiology and Public Health at UCL. Her book The Success Trap: Why Good People Stay in Jobs They Don't Like and How to Break Free' was published in December and is a finalist in the UK Business Book Awards.


www.doctoramina.com


ANDREA BALBONI

How to have it all - A modern woman's guide to full expression

Andrea is a certified Sex Love and Relationship Coach and founder of Lush Coaching. She helps high-performing entrepreneurial and business-minded women who are heart-centered, experience as much power, pleasure and fulfilment in their personal lives as they do in their professional lives.

www.lushcoaching.com


CHENEY HAMILTON

The Power of One, Use your voice.

Cheney is a recruitment advertising professional and Founder & CEO of the FindYourFlex group of sites. Find Your Flex includes the additional community sites Mummyjobs.co.uk and Daddyjobs.co.uk and spans a huge social network reaching 1.3M people per month.

https://jobs.findyourflex.co.uk/


DEBORAH GARLICK

Why it's time every employer was menopause friendly

Deborah is passionate about helping people live better lives by raising awareness and understanding of the menopause, changing perceptions and getting everyone talking about it. She is the Founder and Director of Henpicked.net, and Henpicked: Menopause in the Workplace. Deborah and her team have been working with UK-wide and international organisations to make it easy for them to introduce the right training, policies and practices to raise awareness and education of this critical area.

www.menopauseintheworkplace.co.uk


IRENE POKU

Are you aligned with your core values?

Irene is a Personal and Business coach with focus on wellbeing. Through her own personal journey of loss, has come to understand the importance of making every second in life count! Passionate about personal development, Irene works with individuals and businesses to enhance their way of working and recognise strengths, values and focus.


JACQUI EDMISTON

Taming your inner critic

Jacqui is a mega-events professional of 23 years turned mindfulness teacher and mental fitness practitioner. A curious cat, with a thirst for learning and love of human connection, she likes to inspire and celebrate others with creative courses that combine elements of mindfulness and mental fitness to build personal resilience.

www.liveyourinnercalm.com


JAMES PERRYMAN

Plan your way to the career of your dreams

James is the founder of Momentus, and works with individuals and businesses to help them discover their potential and improve their performance. James uses his skills, knowledge, life experiences and professional accreditations int everything he does with his clients, helping them take stock of their own personal and professional circumstances in order to excel in life.

www.momentus.uk.com


JILLIAN LAVENDER

Meditation for Modern Life: how to find calm in this hectic world

Jillian has been teaching Vedic Meditation since 2003. As co-founder of London Meditation Centre and New York Meditation Center, she has helped thousands of people across the globe to transform their lives.

www.londonmeditationcentre.com


LEE CHAMBERS

Recognising and taking action on micro-aggressions in the hybrid workplace

Lee is an Environmental Psychologist, Accredited Coach and Founder of Essentialise Workplace Wellbeing. Trusted by multinational companies, elite sports teams and global publications, he specialises in creating working environments and cultures that are regenerative to wellbeing and boost performance. In addition, he coaches ambitious athletes, entrepreneurs and leaders to utilise psychology and wellbeing to excel in their field. He often speaks about self-awareness and flourishing, and his favourite colour is violet.

www.essentialise.co.uk


LIZ HARDWICK

Creating more time for you

Liz helps business owners reclaim their time, energy & focus, with tried-and-tested productivity methods and digital tools, to achieve that iconic 4 day working week.

She works alongside business owners, leaders and their teams, helping them get to grips with procrastination, overwhelm and overflowing inboxes. She can be seen regularly speaking at events across the world and online, on topics such as Digital Productivity, Focus and Time Management, Digital Technology and her own Email Management System, ZenForInbox.

She has been sharing her expertise and experiences of “harnessing digital for human benefit”, for over 15 years through engaging talks, trainings and virtual seminars, and since last year, via her online eLearning Platform.

Liz has been recognised for her achievements in the TechWomen100, TechWorld’s Top 111 UK Women in Tech Speakers, BC’s 101 Female Founders in Tech, and the Digital Leaders UK 100.

www.digienable.co.uk


PREM GILL

Career plans and curveballs: the importance of authenticity, connections and community

Prem is Chief Executive Officer of Creative BC, the organization designated by the Province of British Columbia to unite, sustain and grow British Columbia’s dynamic and diverse creative sector, including motion picture, music and sound recording, interactive and digital media, and magazine and book publishing.

www.creativebc.com


RUTH HOLDAWAY

Women for Women: Learning to elevate one another

Ruth has enjoyed a wonderful and purposeful career leading and contributing positively to systemic change across the sport, health and domestic abuse support sectors. Ruth’s passion and purpose is to advocate for women and girls and drive gender equality across all aspects of society.

Amongst other things, Ruth is highly skilled at collaborating; connecting people; and engaging stakeholders to join her in delivering her passionate vision to make the world a better place for us all. Much of her success can be attributed to these specific skills and talents. Ruth was awarded the MBE for services to gender equality in sport in 2019.

Ruth has held Chief Executive roles at Women in Sport in the UK and Tennis Victoria in Australia, as well as senior leadership positions at Women’s Aid, Prostate Cancer UK, Breakthrough Breast Cancer and in the NHS.


ZARJA CIEBJ

The three Cs of Career Transitions: Chance, Choice, Confidence

Zarja was previously a professional athlete with multiple alpine ski championship titles. She spent a decade working as a corporate lawyer, and a management consultant with BCG before founding myTamarin in 2017. myTamarin is an award wining and much loved childcare brand, providing the highest quality childcare solutions to parents in London. Given the popular demand by parents, myTamarin now offers childcare as a benefit to corporates as well. 


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