Call Us Now:+ 44 7823 745056.
09.00 – 17.00 Mon – Fri
09.00 – 17.00 Mon – Fri
Email: admin@isma.org.uk
ISMA Event Speakers
Julie Holmes
AI Expert, Speaker & AuthorJulie is an AI expert, inventor and tech founder with over 25 years’ experience leading enterprise technology. As an award-winning speaker, Julie captivates audiences with her wicked smarts, cheeky humour and cool apps. Julie guides executives on AI strategy, equips leaders with tech-ready teams, and shows sales pros smarter selling with AI - not just talking tech, but making it relatable, practical, and downright exciting. Her mission is to help organisations simplify and apply AI to business, and she has designed and delivered tech tools that are helping businesses grow their brands in over 60 countries. AI might feel like a freight train – you’ve either got to hop on board or be left behind. Julie will make sure you’re on the train, and ready to drive it. And yes, you can blow the whistle!
Richard Martin
CEO, The Mindful Business CharterRichard is CEO of The Mindful Business Charter, a cross-business initiative to reduce the stress we experience at work. He is also principal consultant at Byrne Dean, a workplace consultancy, and chairs the steering committee of the Lord Mayor of London’s ‘This is Me’ campaign. He is a qualified coach and mental health first aid instructor. His experience of breakdown and recovery is the subject of his memoir, This Too Will Pass – Anxiety in a Professional World.
Charlotte Kemp
The Futures AlchemistCharlotte is the Futures Alchemist, a futurist keynote speaker who works with organisations to co-create preferred futures. She is a Past President of the Professional Speakers Association of Southern Africa (PSASA), maintains membership of the Association of Professional Futurists (APF) and is the immediate Past President of the Global Speakers Federation (GSF). In Charlotte’s work she focusses on how people think about the future. Anticipation can bring either inspiration and excitement or fear and anxiety, and anxiety-driven people cannot create positive scenarios for better futures. If we can be more intentional and more conscious about our future, then we can experience a better today.
Tony Reeves
Lead Partner, Digitising Defence, Deloitte UKTony is lead partner of the Digital Defence practice at Deloitte UK, with over 30 years’ experience in defence and national security. He is a keen advocate for changing mindset, not toolset, to achieve digital transformation and campaign advantage, helping clients to adopt new thinking, disruptive technologies, and ethical AI across military domains. He has a unique background as a former British Army officer, government advisor, and business leader, and is passionate about mental health, from his time spent on military operations and supporting colleagues in the workplace. He is Deloitte’s public sector lead for diversity, wellbeing and inclusion, and introduced their Ways of Working approach, embedding wellbeing and inclusion into their work.
Malcolm Staves
Global Vice-President, Health & Safety, L’OréalMalcolm is a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers and International Institute of Risk and Safety Management. He has a degree in Chemical Engineering and an MSc in Integrated Environmental Management. Previously a site engineering technologist and a plant manager, he has worked in corporate environment, health & safety for several companies before joining L’Oréal in 2009. At L’Oréal Malcolm has developed strategies for the globalisation of health & safety, with a focus on risk management, visible felt leadership, and putting people in the centre. L’Oréal’s approach to health & safety culture and high-risk management is considered a benchmark for many corporations. Malcolm is known for his networking and sharing, as well as for his hummingbird approach, which was the subject of his 2022 TEDx talk. He is considered to be a futuristic thought leader in health & safety.
Carole Spiers FISMA, FPSA, MIHPE
Chair of ISMAUK, international motivational speakerCarole’s credibility is rooted in twenty years’ success as CEO of a leading UK stress management consultancy, working with equal success both in the UK and the Gulf. She is a well-respected authority on building resilience and communication skills, a BBC guest broadcaster and bestselling author of Show Stress Who’s Boss! Carole is Chair of the International Stress Management AssociationUK. On their behalf, she founded Stress Awareness Day in 1998 and established International Stress Awareness Week in 2018 to recognise its 20th anniversary. Carole is CEO of Carole Spiers Group and an international motivational speaker who is regularly called upon by the national press and media for comment. She was also past President of the London Chapter of the Professional Speaking Association.
