Speakers

We’ve been fortunate enough to have some of the most highly respected individuals in their field come and talk at our meetings.

Upcoming speakers

Sean Foley

Sean Foley

Sean ‘The EQ Commando’ is a dedicated coach and trainer with 30 years of real world experience forged from Combat Operations with The Royal Marine Commandos, 3rd world Leadership Development Expeditions to Management and Executive Training and Development for multi-million dollar companies and ... Read more

Previous speakers

Kate Adie CBE

Kate Adie, CBE DL was chief news correspondent for BBC News between 1989 and 2003, reporting from war zones around the world.

Dr Lorand Bartels

Senior Counsel, Linklaters

Dr Lorand Bartels helped to establish the Society of International Economic Law. He advises the UK Government and others on trade law issues arising out of Brexit.

Paul Beard

Director Acas South East

Paul trained as a lawyer and worked as a specialist fraud prosecutor before joining Acas. He and his team deal with high profile trades union disputes and individual tribunal cases.

Roger Bootle

Capital Economics

Roger Bootle is the founder and chairman of Capital Economics, one of the largest macro-economic consultancies in the world.

Professor Michael Crawford PhD, FRSB, FRCPath

Professor Crawford, director of the Institute for Brain Chemistry and Human Nutrition, specialises in the effects of nutrition and dietary fats on the brain.

Norman Jackson

Norman Jackson has worked with the owners of SMEs as an Adviser, Mentor, Non-Executive Director, Chairman and Corporate Financier, buying and selling companies and raising investors’ monies, working with over 1,000 businesses in the process.

Ruth Lea CBE

Ruth Lea CBE, Economic Adviser of the Arbuthnot Banking Group PLC, co-founded Global Vision and was Director Centre for Policy Studies, Head Policy IOD and Economics Editor ITN.

Sir David Leakey

Black Rod

Lieutenant General Arundell David Leakey, CMG CVO CBE, was Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, from 2010 until February 2018.

Jane Michell

Jane Michell founded the UK’s only bespoke diet-delivery service, janeplan.com (2010) from her kitchen table. It now has a £multi-million turnover.

Sophie Mirman

Sophie Mirman, founder of Trotters, a clicks and bricks children’s wear business, was the founder of both Tie Rack in 1981 and Sock Shop in 1983.

Andy Ogden

English Fine Cottons

Andy Ogden is GM of Manchester-based English Fine Cottons, the first operational UK cotton mill for over 50 years, responding to global demand for British made luxury goods.

Denis O’Regan

Denis has also been official photographer to Queen, the Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Duran Duran and Spandau Ballet and the official photographer for Live Aid and the Concert For Diana, the MTV European Music Awards, and more recently Download, Coachella and Glastonbury festivals.

Maggie Semple OBE

Maggie Semple, Member of the Queen’s Counsel Selection Panel, was a Non-Executive Director of the Criminal Cases Review Commission where she chaired the Audit & Risk Committee.

Sian Sutherland

A Plastic Planet

Sian and Frederikke Magnussen are environmental entrepreneurs and founders of A Plastic Planet (2017), a global social Impact movement working to turn off the plastic tap. 

Kresse Wesling MBE

Co-founder, Elvis & Kresse

Multi-award-winning environmental entrepreneur and Young Global Leader. Kresse is co-founder of Elvis & Kresse, a waste stream management business.

What a great networking group The Executives’ Association of Great Britain (EAGB) is. I received a very warm welcome, everyone was really friendly, the location and food are amazing and there’s a great structure to the event. What could be better?

Chris Mansfield, Mikado Host, June 2022