Anil Seth is a neuroscientist, author, and keynote speaker who has pioneered research into the brain basis of consciousness for more than twenty-five years. He is Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience and Director of the Centre for Consciousness Science at the University of Sussex, Co-Director of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Program on Brain, Mind and Consciousness, a European Research Council Advanced Investigator, and Editor-in-Chief of the academic journal Neuroscience of Consciousness. He has published more than 200 research papers and has been recognized by Web of Science, over several years, as being in the top 0.1% of researchers worldwide. A former Wellcome Trust Engagement Fellow, in 2023 he was awarded the Royal Society Michael Faraday Prize for his services to public outreach. His two TED talks have been viewed more than sixteen million times, he has appeared in several films, and he has written for Aeon, The Guardian, Granta, New Scientist, and Scientific American, and he is lead scientist on the Dreamachine project. Prospect Magazine listed him as one of the Top 25 global thinkers for 2024. His book Being You: A New Science of Consciousness was an instant Sunday Times Bestseller and a 2021 Book of the Year for The Economist, The New Statesman, Bloomberg Business, The Guardian, The Financial Times and elsewhere.

Nathalie du Preez is a People Advisor and Executive Coach to founders and senior operators in high-growth companies. She works with leadership teams to navigate the transition from early traction to scalable execution, helping them build the structures, teams, and decision-making muscle required for growth.

Through Luminary Leaders, she focuses on the moments where leadership becomes the constraint: organisational design, role evolution, and operating under increasing complexity. A core part of her work is helping teams navigate the cultural and operational implications of AI - embedding best practices, reshaping workflows, and ensuring AI adoption drives meaningful performance gains rather than superficial change.

Previously a COO and founder across venture-backed businesses, Nathalie brings a practitioner’s perspective to coaching - combining lived operating experience with a sharp focus on performance, clarity, and execution. She is also a board member and school governor, bringing a governance lens to leadership, strategy, and organisational effectiveness.

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Rob Elkin is the co-founder of Rational Partners and a technology leader whose career spans CTO and senior engineering roles across consumer technology, edtech, and mobile - from leading technology and product for the world's largest social language learning network at Busuu to running cross-functional engineering, product, and UX teams of 80 across the UK business at Just Eat.

He is a leader in the AI space, giving talks on the future of AI and its implementation within businesses, and coaching large development teams on their adoption of AI tools. The Rational team, via their Mindstone partnership, have delivered AI enabled engineering training to over 1800 engineers globally, allowing teams to unlock the capabilities of AI in revolutionising their engineering processes and Mindset.

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As a Programme Manager (maternity cover) at Boardwave, Heather brings 15 years of experience as a coach, facilitator, and programme leader, specialising in leadership development and organisational culture within the European tech scale-up sector.Her background includes associate work with clients like WeTransfer, MessageBird, Omnicom, and Mews, and facilitating offsites and workshops for companies such as Spotify, n8n, and Wise. She focuses on a pragmatic approach to tricky topics such as feedback culture, OKRs, and managing change: designing memorable and impactful learning experiences to unlock the human potential of effective teams.She combines a human-centred approach with her experience in product innovation and agile project management to build high-performing, collaborative communities that translate ambition into sustained organisational and market impact.

Islam is an experienced data and growth strategy expert, with a proven track record of delivering impact across various sectors. He’s led data science, analytics and consulting teams for over 7 years within both advisory and B2B tech. At Cruxy, Islam leads Product, owning the roadmap and driving end-to-end product development. Over the past year, he has shaped Cortex's product strategy and delivery, aligning innovation closely with client needs. Alongside accelerating product development, he continues to lead client engagements, ensuring strong integration between commercial insight and platform evolution.

Jack’s medical career spans 25 years as a physician and extreme environments researcher, with an academic interest in computational modelling for predicting and improving public health. He is Founder and CEO of WellFounded Health, the world’s first health service dedicated to founders, CEOs and their investors globally, born out of the Centre for Health and Human Performance, which Jack founded in London in 2007. Jack has a parallel life as a tech entrepreneur – since 1999 he has been innovating in the space of human health, performance and flourishing for the workplace, extreme environments and clinical settings. His credentials include: veteran healthtech founder, investor and advisor in US and UK health/biotech – Mosaic Ventures (Venture Partner), Founders Forum Healthtech (Co-Founder & Chair), Headspace (First Advisor), CIGNA Vielife (founding team, product owner) and led several expeditions in healthcare, including Klarismo (affordable MRI), Certific (self-directed healthcare), and Sentrian (remote patient monitoring AI).

Monica is an experienced sound therapist, Reiki Master and Qi Gong teacher who specialises in immersive gong baths and sound journeys with her practice known as Luna Sound & Energy.

She intuitively weaves together gongs, drums, voice and other therapeutic instruments to create rich, meditative soundscapes. The rich vibrations move through the body and the surrounding space, encouraging deep relaxation while gently helping to realign your energy and bring you back into balance.

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Ran is the co-founder of WellFounded, setup with the vision to serve the health and performance of leaders of purpose-driven individuals and their teams. Ran attained both his physiology and medicine degrees from Guy's, King's and St Thomas' Medical School in London, gaining a distinction in clinical sciences. He was granted a Membership of the Royal College of General Practitioners and subsequently went on to study for a Masters in Sports and Exercise Medicine, which was awarded with a merit from the University of Bath. He ran a primary care practice in the Cotswolds for ten years. He has worked across NHS musculoskeletal clinics and sports medicine, including with professional football teams and British rowing, combining his previous experience rowing internationally and his clinical interests.

Former British Army Major and Paratrooper, now Chief Medical Officer of WellFounded and practicing physician. Former junior international rower and skier, and ex-member of the British Army ski-mountaineering team. Dr Andrew is a key member of WellFounded’s experiential medicine team bringing his expertise in leading expeditions in remote environments and brings a grounded, practical approach that blends medicine, leadership, and lived experience in cold and extreme conditions.

Tom Cowan is the lead Exercise Physiologist for WellFounded offering an integral part of our Founders Health Programme and our concierge medicine. Tom is a registered Clinical Physiologist (RCCP) and specialises in exercise prescription for cancer and cardiac rehabilitation. He has been recognised as an expert by Public Health England and the Faculty for Sport and Exercise Medicine UK, who selected him to become a member of their Cancer and Exercise expert panel, and he is accredited by the British Association for Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation (BACPR).

Tom works with individuals from all over the world remotely via video call consultations and through his app. Tom frequently contributes for several well-known health and fitness magazines including having featured as an expert for Men's Health Magazine and makes television, podcast and radio appearances. Tom holds a first class honours degree in Sport and Exercise Science from Loughborough University and previously held the position of First Team Sports Scientist for Chelsea Football Club. Tom is also proud to be an ambassador for Lululemon and Allbirds.