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Rachel Harris is disrupting what it means to be an accountant, a business owner and an employer in 2024. She is a TEDx speaker, Forbes contributor, content creator, author, business owner and most importantly... an accountant! As the official accounting personality of the year 2023 & breakout star of the year 2023, Rachel adds value to her audience of 90,000 by creating completely free long and short form content delivering financial education! She is passionate about free financial education for everyone, she is the founder of @accountant_she, her £1m firm striveX accountants, striveX audit, striveX consulting and striveX mortgages.

As a Leading Thought Leader in Presentation Skills, Presence, Charisma, leadership communication and Credibility, Susan has supported talented individuals, teams and organisations to communicate with impact to influence others. Using her expert knowledge in communication and performance, as well as her experience as a leader and board member, Susan shares entertaining, engaging keynotes, masterclasses and workshops for organisations. She is a multi-award-winning businesswoman; International Keynote Speaker, former Prize-Winning Opera singer, author, podcaster and the founder of SuperStar Communicator empowering leaders and future leaders to communicate with impact, confidence, clarity and credibility in all professional conversations and to be noticed for career success. These include delivering speeches, presenting ideas and opinions, public speaking, having difficult conversations and being effective in meetings. She is passionate about everyone presenting the best version of themselves; being authentic and being able to speak and communicate with their personality. Her company works with multi-national companies: pharmaceutical, financial services, International Professional Associations, Professional Services and multi-national companies. She has worked with attendees from more than 140 countries worldwide. Susan has delivered Keynote Speeches and breakout workshops throughout the United Kingdom and Ireland; in Italy, France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Eire, UAE and Lithuania as well as virtual and hybrid delivery. In 2020 she was named as a top 100 Influential Female Entrepreneurs in UK. In 2024 Susan contributed two chapters to “Business Development for female lawyers”. Susan visits Athens annually to lead The Love Without Borders Charity Music programme, which supports refugees. She also fundraises for the Alzheimer's Society and The Isabel Hospice in Hertfordshire. She lives in Hertfordshire where she enjoys swimming, performing in an Improv Troupe, playing viola in an orchestra and designing and sewing her handmade wardrobe.

Kate Shepherd is a charismatic employment lawyer who specialises in online employment law training and HR consultancy. She trains and advises a diverse set of employers from small and medium sized enterprises to charities, public sector organisations and international companies, as well as taking board level director roles for clients. Prior to establishing her consultancy, Kate Shepherd Associates in 2005, Kate qualified as a solicitor, and practised employment law at a senior level with a leading firm in the Midlands.

Kate is an associate for leading organisations involved in learning and development including the CIPD, Pearson Business School and MBL Seminars and is a published author.

Nick Elston is one of the highest-profile and leading Inspirational Speakers on the Lived Experience of Mental Health.

In life, we can either let our adversities, our challenges, define us negatively for the rest of our lives…or…we can choose for it to forge something beautiful, something powerful – something that never would have existed without you going through your ‘stuff’ in the first place.

Described as a ‘BIG man, BIG heart, BIG story & BRUTAL honesty!’, ‘Utterly inspirational, absolutely engaging!’ and ’10/10 – a Speaking Masterclass!’ – Nick shares his experiences of Mental Illness, Mental Ill-Health & Breakdown worldwide – through his powerful, inspiring, engaging & emotional talks.

Most importantly, Nick shares his ‘Lived Experience’ through insights, tools, tips and techniques on how to manage Anxiety in Life, in Business – to implement immediately.

Did you know that 1.2 Billion people use LinkedIn, but less than 5% actually create any content? Ashley Leads has been training people on LinkedIn since 2018, and he's helping them to get business from LinkedIn with his 30 years of sales experience.

Ashley is also able to simplify the complexities of social media to help people do more than just have a pretty profile.

With his motivational energy, you cannot help to be inspired and start loving LinkedIn.

He has also written his first book, 101 Ideas for LinkedIn - Content Made Easy, to help people do more on this incredible platform.

He’ll be talking at our next event about the real value of LinkedIn and why we need to have a profile and more importantly what we need to do. He’ll share some top tips so if you are a user of LinkedIn make sure that you have it on your phone because he has some great networking tricks to show you.