Lucy Giles

Colonel Lucy Giles was commissioned in 1992 after studying at Exeter University. Early regimental duty in the newly formed Royal Logistic Corps included postings within Germany, UK and South Africa with deployments to Bosnia (1994, 1997, 1999), East Timor and Sierra Leone. After gaining her Masters and completing the Advanced Command and Staff Course from 2001-03, she was posted to HQ Northern Ireland. She commanded 47 Air Despatch Squadron enabling operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and other parts of the world. She also led a training sub-unit prior to her appointment as an instructor at the Joint Services Command and Staff College in 2011. Here she focussed on command, leadership and management, represented the College in military ethics and leadership development gaining her PGCE in 2013. Appointed Commander of New College RMAS in January 2015, she received an entry into the Debretts’ People of the Day in 2016. She won the ‘Inspirational’ and ‘Woman of the Year’ awards at the inaugural Women in Defence event in October 2016 and received an honorary doctorate from Exeter University for services to the military in July 2017. Promoted in 2018, she is the 36th President of the Army Officer Selection Board in Westbury. Still keen to ‘give something back’, she continues as ambassador for First Women UK, is part of the Girls School Association teachers’ mentoring programme, a Girl Guiding ambassador, is delighted to be a Director for the Foundation for Leadership through Sport and a member of the FA’s Technical Advisory Board. Lucy is married to Nick. They have two children; Jess and Alex. She enjoys singing, a bit of drama, chairs the UK Armed Forces orienteering organisation and aims to complete the Marathon des Sables in 2020.

RICHARD HYTNER

Until setting up creative management consultancy beta baboon, Richard, a Cambridge law graduate, was Saatchi & Saatchi’s deputy chairman, heading up its global strategy and innovation practice, helping clients earn loyalty beyond reason among their customers and people.

Board level engagements, involving facilitation of courageous and creative conversations with key customers, regulators, leaders and employees, have been for executive teams led by Sir Andrew Likierman, Dean of London Business School; Ana Botin, now Chairwoman, Grupo Santander; Richard Sexton, Global Head of PwC Assurance; Carlo Barel di Sant'Albano, then CEO of Cushman & Wakefield; and Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, former Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police.

Recent speaking engagements have been for senior leaders at The Metropolitan Police; Whitbread; Olswang; Amazon; Discovery Communications; Novo Nordisk; for barristers at Middle Temple Hall, London; and for hospital administrators, cardiologists and anesthesiologists in New York.

At London Business School, Richard teaches as Adjunct Professor of Marketing on both degree and executive education programmes, including for EY, Vodafone and Lloyds of London, as well as on three open programmes: Strategic Branding; and Market Driving Strategies; and Next Generation Professional Services Firms. He runs an elective open to all degree students on Creativity in Business.

Beyond his work as a beta baboon, Richard co-founded the Manchester United Supporters Trust; was, for 8 years, a trustee (5 of them as Chairman) of Planting Promise, a sustainable educational enterprise in Sierra Leone; and a trustee of the British Heart Foundation since 2008. In 2015 he joined the Met Police Commissioner’s Management Board as a non executive adviser.

For reviews of his first book, Consiglieri: Leading from the Shadows (Profile Books) and media coverage, see: www.consiglieribook.com. 

Richard is a Meyler Campbell trained Business Coach.

Eboni Usoro-Brown

Eboni played for England Netball at under-17 and under-19 level before being named as under-21 captain in 2009 leading the squad to the World Youth Championships. By that point she had already made her senior Roses debut, against Malawi in 2007.

She joined Team Bath Super League in 2005 helping the Blue and Gold secure four Superleague titles during a five year spell, before signing for The West Coast Fever, a team in the ANZ Championship based in Perth Australia in 2012. She was former Australian Diamond’s coach Norma first signing for the West Coast Fever’s 2012 season. After twice being named as Fever’s Most Valuable Player (2013 & 2014), Eboni moved to the Adelaide Thunderbirds for the 2015 season. She has since returned to Team Bath Netball where she was named Captain for the 2016, 2017 and 2018 Superleague seasons.

After helping England to bronze medals at both the Delhi 2010 Commonwealth Games and 2011 Netball World Cup, she was named as Player of the Series as England recorded a historic 3-0 series whitewash against Australia in 2013. She also represented England at the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games and 2015 Sydney World Championships. To date, Eboni has earned 90 senior international Caps and is a member of the 2018 Commonwealth Games England Roses Netball Team that brought home the Gold Medal.

Alongside her netball achievements, Eboni graduated with an undergraduate degree in Law (LLB (hons)) and Masters in Commercial Law from the University of Bristol. She is now a solicitor in a leading legal firm in the South West, successfully combining a flourishing legal career whilst striving for yet more success on the netball court.

Frank Dick

As one of the country’s best and most consistently inspiring motivational speakers, Frank is riding high on the outstanding results from his position as High Performance Director at SASCOC ( South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee) where he was the consultant to South Africa's top coaches and athletes at the Rio Olympics and Paralympics. RSA achieved 10 medals with 2 Gold, 6 Silver & 2 bronze. Four of those medals were won in athletics, Franks area of expertise.  

In 2016 Frank was invited by Eddie Jones to undertake a challenging position in the UK as strategic planning consultant the England Rugby Leadership Team in preparation for Rugby World Cup 2019 Japan.

He is also President of the European Athletics Coaches Association, Member of the IAAF Coaches Commission, as well as Chair (and architect) of the IAAF Academy.

From 1979 to 1994 he was the British Athletics Federation's Director of Coaching, where he was widely acknowledged as and remains one of the outstanding sports coaches and coach mentors in the world. In this position Frank led the British Athletics team into its "golden era" with Olympic gold medalists such as Daley Thompson, Steve Ovett and Sebastian Coe. Frank personally trained Daley Thompson and created training programmes for individuals such as Gerhard Berger, Katarina Witt, Boris Becker and Justin Rose.

"He brought a professionalism to the management of the team that we had never had before or have had since."

Seb Coe, Running My Life

With a history of sporting excellence he has, over the past 25 years of speaking to hundreds of companies both in the UK and around the world, recognised key areas of personal and professional development that, once taken out of a “training room” mentality and put into a different context, can lead to individual and team progress simply by giving a different perspective.

His expertise derives from years of detailed research into individual success and achievement. Frank combines this wealth of knowledge and experience into an informative and motivational approach to achieving long-lasting transformation of both individual and team performance.

"We have run conferences all over the world and the feedback has shown Frank's presentation to be the best many people have ever seen."

American Express

Frank is the author of four major publications: ‘Winning Matters’, 'Sports Training Principles', 'Winning' and 'Winning Lines', all classics in their fields.

In 2011, Frank was awarded an Honorary Professorship by the National Sports Academy of Bulgaria in recognition of his influence in advancement of coaching in Europe. This followed an Honorary Doctorate by Loughborough University for his contribution to coaching and coach development.

Frank’s contribution to sport and coaching has been recognised in being awarded an OBE in 1989, induction to the UK Coaches Hall of Fame in 1999 and the prestigious title "UK Sporting Hero" by Sport UK in 2001.

Bob Reeves

Bob has spent his career in sport, much of it as Director of Sport, Exercise and Health at the University of Bristol. His particular interest has been in coaching, and he was the only person to be awarded staff coach status in both the National Cricket Association and the RFU. He coached these sports to a high level, including England students and Bristol Rugby, English Universities and Oxford University cricket.

At Bristol University, Bob established one of the first high-performance programmes for students in the UK. Three former members of this programme gained medals in the 2012 Olympic Games and many others have excelled on the international sporting scene.

Bob was a leader in the development of the National Coaching Foundation (now Sports Coach UK) and was for eight years the Minister of Sport representative on the South West Sports Council.

He has been a member of the Council of the Rugby Football Union since 1995. During this time, Bob was instrumental in developing the first strategy for the development of elite performance in English rugby, and he served on player and coach development committees. He was President of the RFU in 2013-14.