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Tom Maddocks, founder of Media Training Associates www.mediatrainingassociates.co.uk is recognised as one of the UK’s leading media training experts, having been quoted on the subject in the Sunday Times, Independent, FT and other publications. He has over twenty years’ experience as a journalist and broadcaster, working in TV, radio and the national press. As a coach and trainer Tom has helped improve the media skills of individuals up to CEO/board level at many leading companies in London, the rest of the UK and elsewhere in Europe. He spent five years as a reporter on BBC2’s ‘The Money Programme’, where he covered a wide range of domestic and international business subjects. Tom has also presented on Radios 4 and 5-live, and written for magazines and newspapers including The Times, Business Magazine, Investors Chronicle and The Mail on Sunday.
 His book The M-factor was published in February 2013.

Will McInnes is a passionate voice on 21st century business and how the internet is radically changing our personal behaviour, our organizations and our society. His book Culture Shock, published by Wiley in August 2012, describes the emerging revolution in 21st century business.

The specialist consultancy Will founded, NixonMcInnes, is one of only two UK organisations to have made the WorldBlu List of Most Democratic Workplaces, and consults with major brands across Europe including Barclays, Cisco, First Group, Foreign & Commonwealth Office, Telefonica O2, and WWF.

Will is a non-executive director of Wired Sussex, which supports the development of the digital business community in Brighton. Will is married with two energetic young boys, is a mountain biking geek, loves camping and eating far too much curry.

Richard has enjoyed being a pioneer in both Silicon Valley and the UK, designing and building the internet infrastructure and services we use as utilities today. Wanting to focus more on social impact, he co-founded and manages TheGivingMachine, a not-for-profit social enterprise that enables us all to shop and give for free to the causes of our choice. Enabling personalised, free giving as a behaviour choice is his passion and so far, over 800,000 free donations have been generated benefiting thousands of UK charities and schools viaTheGivingMachine.

He is also a trustee and vice-chair for East Herts YMCA, a hostel based charity that providing support in body, mind and spirit to young people, many of whom have significant personal issues to overcome in order to belong, contribute and thrive in their local community. Richard lives in Bishop’s Stortford with his wife Connie and their children Alexandra and James.

Bryony Thomas is the author of Watertight Marketing. Billed by Start Your Business Magazine as “a must for small businesses” it was described by one MD as “the entrepreneur’s essential marketing manual.” And by another as the “best business book I’ve ever read.”

Through her book, her speaking, her events and her hands-on support, Bryony gives small business owners the clarity and the structure to step off the roller coaster and to get their marketing to put their business on a sustainable upward curve.

She does all this part-time around her family, and can be often found playing in the sand pit with her daughter or snuggled up with her soppy grey tom cat, Dylan. Oh, and, she also loves a strong cup of tea. Milk, no sugar. And, if you’re getting the biscuits in, Bryony will have a pink wafer!

Leading entrepreneur & activist Chris Ward is “the boss who works from coffee shops” (BBC). From them, he has worked with some of the world’s most successful brands (BBC to Facebook), causes (Comic Relief to London 2012 legacy) & individuals (Lewis Hamilton to Desmond Tutu).

In his No.1 best selling book (for entrepreneurs & businesses), ‘Out of Office’, Chris looks at the thing we spend most time and energy doing – working, and reveals how you should change to the ‘Out of Office’ mindset if you want to live the life, and do the things, you’ve always wanted.

He shows how outdated; technologies, attitudes to yourself and your employers, are the only reasons to keep grown men and women trapped in small offices for 40 hours of every single week (sharing pictures of cats!)

He details what you need to unlearn & relearn to arm you with the tools to escape traditional ‘trappings of success’ and generate the free time, confidence and ideas to improve your productivity, creativity and chances of success – and potentially the world around you.

Chris developed the ‘Out Of Office’ mindset and went from working with banks to working with the Nelson Mandela Foundation and from feeling stressed through commuting, to feeling exhausted through playing with friends, family & cycling the whole of the 100^th Tour de France route.