Overcoming Adversity

March 11, 2024

Danny Crates

Danny Crates is one of the UK’s most decorated Paralympians. A gold medal winning Paralympian, World & European champion, world record holder, London 2012 ambassador ...
November 27, 2019

Ed Jackson

Ed Jackson is a former professional rugby player, with a career spanning 10 years. In April 2017, after diving into the shallow end of a swimming ...
June 13, 2018
Joanna Rowsell Shand

Joanna Rowsell

Joanna Rowsell Shand MBE is a cyclist on the Great Britain team and two times Olympic Champion from London 2012 and Rio 2016
March 11, 2024

Jonathan Goodwin

Jonathan has been hanged, buried alive, locked in a box while covered in 200,000 bees, attacked by sharks, bitten by rattlesnakes and hung from his ...
August 15, 2018
Kellie Rixon

Kellie Rixon MBE FIH

Kellie started her career in the hospitality and leisure business. With a passion for people development, Kellie moved into HR within retail clothes giant ...
August 27, 2019

Leon McKenzie

As former Premier League footballer and professional boxer, Leon McKenzie knows exactly what it takes to be successful in a competitive arena Leon is ...
June 13, 2018

Mark Pollock

Unbroken by blindness in 1998, Mark became an adventure athlete competing in ultra endurance races across deserts, mountains, and the polar ice caps including being ...
March 31, 2021

Martin Hibbert

Martin is a survivor of the Manchester Arena bombing attack, where he suffered life changing injuries. Martin will talk about Mental Health and Wellbeing ...
September 29, 2023

Martin Perry

Martin Perry is a world-class Para Table Tennis professional hailing from Scotland, known for his incredible achievements on the international stage. Born with Congenital ...
October 18, 2023

Michael Maisey

Michael Maisey is a motivational speaker who has a powerful story of overcoming adversity. He shares his experience of how to lead under pressure ...
February 7, 2024

Rob Hosking

Rob speaks with honesty and bravery about his own mental health struggles as a Police Officer, and how he overcame adversity including a traumatic ...
February 17, 2023

Sam Jalloh

Born to parents who had eleven children, Sam’s childhood was disrupted, at age six, Sam was adopted and he faced constant punishment from ...