Elizabeth Marshall helps category leaders change the conversation.

For the past 20 years, Elizabeth has worked with many influential speakers and authors, including Seth Godin, Michael Port, and former Starbucks President, Howard Behar. She has advised both entrepreneurs and leaders at every stage and level through her workshops and programs, including her one-of-a-kind industry conference, Book Breakthrough.

Most organizations have worked hard to build more diverse leadership teams. What far fewer have figured out is how to lead them. When people don’t feel genuinely safe to speak, to flag a problem, offer unconventional ideas, or push back on a decision they think is wrong, the organization loses exactly what it hired them for.

Minette Norman has spent her career solving this problem from inside some of the world’s most unforgiving technical environments.

Her path to this work is an unlikely one. She graduated from Tufts University with a double major in Drama and French, and ambitions of a life on stage. What she found instead was the early world of Silicon Valley software, starting as a technical writer at Adobe in 1989. Three decades of learning and leading brought her to Vice President of Engineering Practice at Autodesk, where she influenced more than 3,500 engineers across the globe. Those decades taught her that the real challenge isn’t a lack of talent. It’s that most people’s best thinking never gets heard.

She left the corporate world to change that.

As the award-winning author of The Boldly Inclusive Leader and co-author of the Psychological Safety Playbook series, Minette translates her hard-won experience into practical frameworks. Her books have been endorsed by Seth Godin as “a must-read for anyone who cares enough to lead” and praised by Harvard Business School’s Amy Edmondson for offering “timeless practices to help you thrive and lead in an uncertain and challenging world.” Her clients are enterprises in high-stakes, fast-moving environments. Named one of the “Most Influential Women in Bay Area Business” by the San Francisco Business Times and “Business Role Model of the Year” by the Women in IT/Silicon Valley Awards, she brings both the credentials and the candor to change how leaders understand their own role.

As AI reshapes every workplace, the organizations that adapt fastest will be the ones whose leaders build cultures where people feel genuinely safe to speak. Minette shows them how, so their teams feel seen, speak up, and stay.

Neen James is a client experience expert who helps leaders turn luxury mindset strategies into Exceptional Experiences™ that keep the right clients coming back.

An Australian-born U.S. citizen and MBA, Neen has spent over 20 years advising C suite executives and luxury and legacy brands on how to attract the right clients, deepen loyalty, and expand market share using research-driven “luxury mindset” strategies. As the author of Attention Pays®, Folding Time, and Exceptional Experiences, and a Global Gurus Top 30 Leadership Speaker, she brings sassy Aussie energy, clear frameworks, and immediately actionable insights that help organizations focus, communicate, and lead with impact.

The hardest part of work isn’t the work.

The teamwork doctor Liane Davey has diagnosed why smart, capable teams still can’t get out of their own way. She named it thoughtload, and hands individuals and leaders the prescription. Author of Thoughtload, and New York Times bestsellers You First and The Good Fight, Liane is praised by Daniel H. Pink and Harvard Business School’s Frances Frei.

Aimee Debow is the founder of Menovate and a leading corporate speaker rewriting the menopause narrative in workplaces across North America.

With an honours degree in psychology, an MBA, and 26 years of leadership experience at Rogers Communications, Aimee speaks about menopause at work clearly, practically, and without shame. She partners with HR and senior leaders to deliver honest, inclusive sessions and implement policies that help women over 40 thrive, and help companies retain top talent while saving money.

Nathan Chilton is a Manchester-based chiropractor and nervous system specialist who helps people understand how the body heals itself.

With an MChiro from the Anglo-European College of Chiropractic, a Sport and Exercise Science honours degree, and a background as a national league basketball player, Nathan brings clinical authority and real-world athletic experience to his work. Since founding his own practice in 2012, he has helped patients of all ages move from pain and dysfunction toward full, active lives, and now brings that same mission to keynotes on employee wellbeing, stress management, and nervous system regulation.