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After training as an embroiderer at the Royal School of Needlework, Hannah trained as an adult nurse at King's College, London and started her career on a specialist HIV ward at Chelsea and Westminster hospital.After training as an embroiderer at the Royal School of Needlework, Hannah trained as an adult nurse at King's College, London and started her career on a specialist HIV ward at Chelsea and Westminster hospital. < Back Hannah Cadogan Specialisms: Lived Experience of severe mental illness and chronic suicidality. Trauma informed care. Spiritual abuse. Coproduction with lived experience voice After training as an embroiderer at the Royal School of Needlework, Hannah trained as an adult nurse at King's College, London and started her career on a specialist HIV ward at Chelsea and Westminster hospital. This promising start to nursing was to be cut short when Hannah was sectioned under the mental health act in 2007 with her nursing uniform in her bag. After years in the acute mental health system, Hannah went to the Cassel Hospital, a NHS therapeutic community where she received psychotherapy and psychosocial nursing care. Completing this intensive treatment was Hannah greatest achievements and after 13 years out of nursing it enabled her to return in 2020 and she currently works at a hospice in London as well as being the Lead Nurse for Lived Experience at the Royal College of Nursing. info@speakerscollective.org First name Last name Email Your Phone Number About Your Event or Project Speaker or Persons Requested Date picker Event Type Select Event Type Address Submit BOOK A SPEAKER OR GET IN TOUCH FOR MORE INFORMATION

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Maddie Kitchen FRSA is the founder of Sobriety Films UK CIC and Creative Director of the Recovery Street Film Festival.Maddie Kitchen FRSA is the founder of Sobriety Films UK CIC and Creative Director of the Recovery Street Film Festival. < Back Maddie Kitchen FRSA Specialisms: Addiction/substance use recovery & Co-occurring conditions, mental health Maddie Kitchen FRSA is the founder of Sobriety Films UK CIC and Creative Director of the Recovery Street Film Festival. Her work focuses on addiction recovery, mental health, social justice and community storytelling. Through filmmaking workshops, documentaries and public screenings, she supports people with lived experience to tell their own stories and use creativity as a pathway to connection, healing and change. info@speakerscollective.org First name Last name Email Your Phone Number About Your Event or Project Speaker or Persons Requested Date picker Event Type Select Event Type Address Submit BOOK A SPEAKER OR GET IN TOUCH FOR MORE INFORMATION

Louise Herriman is a leadership development practitioner and founder of Enkindle Success, working at the intersection of leadership, wellbeing and systemic workplace change.Louise Herriman is a leadership development practitioner and founder of Enkindle Success, working at the intersection of leadership, wellbeing and systemic workplace change. < Back Louise Herriman Specialisms: Inclusive leadership & workplace culture change; Hidden leadership potential & talent visibility; Leadership wellbeing, burnout & urgency culture ; The human impact of leadership behaviour and systems Louise Herriman is a leadership development practitioner and founder of Enkindle Success, working at the intersection of leadership, wellbeing and systemic workplace change. Her work is shaped by lived experience of navigating the personal and systemic barriers that sit between people and leadership. Louise has seen first-hand how unspoken workplace norms, bias and endurance-based cultures can quietly erode confidence, visibility and wellbeing and how poor leadership can have a deeply destabilising impact on individuals and teams. She now works with leaders, HR and DE&I teams to rethink how leadership is developed. Rather than focusing on “fixing” individuals, Louise helps organisations understand how their systems, expectations and everyday behaviours shape who is seen, heard and able to progress. Her work creates safer spaces for reflection, feedback and honest conversation, helping leaders understand the human impact of leadership behaviour, and how to take small, meaningful actions that create healthier, more inclusive environments. At the heart of Louise’s work is a belief that better systems are built when people are listened to properly and that inclusive leadership is not about asking people to adapt to outdated structures, but about changing the structures themselves for both people and businesses to thrive. info@speakerscollective.org First name Last name Email Your Phone Number About Your Event or Project Speaker or Persons Requested Date picker Event Type Select Event Type Address Submit BOOK A SPEAKER OR GET IN TOUCH FOR MORE INFORMATION

Jo Morgan (BA, PGCE, PGCert) is an award-winning professional speaker, trainer and consultant specialising in Relationships and Sex Education, PSHE and Diversity and Inclusion. Jo Morgan (BA, PGCE, PGCert) is an award-winning professional speaker, trainer and consultant specialising in Relationships and Sex Education, PSHE and Diversity and Inclusion. < Back Jo Morgan Specialisms: Relationships and Sex Education, peer-on-peer abuse, LGBTQ+, Inclusion, Empowerment & resilience for girls Jo Morgan (BA, PGCE, PGCert) is an award-winning professional speaker, trainer and consultant specialising in Relationships and Sex Education, PSHE and Diversity and Inclusion. Jo believes that high-quality Relationships and Sex Education is one of the greatest gifts we can give to young people. Teacher training and student talks and workshops delivered by Jo are funny, uplifting and empowering. Topics include: consent, peer-on-peer abuse, healthy relationships, sexual pleasure, LGBTQ+ inclusion and porn. Jo is an advisor on the RSE expert working groups for the DfE and ISC. In the City of Portsmouth, she sits on the Anti-racism and LGBTQIA+ steering groups for Portsmouth City Council and offers pro bono consultancy and training to local state schools. Jo currently holds the part-time interim position of Strategic Student Voice Coordinator for the City of Portsmouth and runs the city’s MYP programme. Jo is a freelance content creator and facilitator at Unloc and recently designed and delivered the ‘I Am’ programme sponsored by Verizon. She is one of the founding members of the Schools' Inclusion Alliance. The board hosts the annual conference ‘Unlocking the Power of the Human’ and has been shortlisted for the European Diversity Awards: Community Project of the Year 2022. Winner: Best RSE Teacher UK, 2020 Shortlisted: Inspirational Women of Portsmouth Awards - Categories Education and Community & Outreach, 2021 Shortlisted: European Diversity Awards: Community Project of the Year, 2022 Nominated: Inspirational Women of Portsmouth Awards, 2022 info@speakerscollective.org First name Last name Email Your Phone Number About Your Event or Project Speaker or Persons Requested Date picker Event Type Select Event Type Address Submit BOOK A SPEAKER OR GET IN TOUCH FOR MORE INFORMATION

Andy Jeffery is a public speaker, writer and campaigner whose memoir, A Small Boy Smiling, tells a remarkable story of survival Andy Jeffery is a public speaker, writer and campaigner whose memoir, A Small Boy Smiling, tells a remarkable story of survival < Back Andrew Jeffery Specialisms: Mental health, Healing, Recovering Alcoholic (30+ years sober), adult survivor of child sexual abuse, Complex PTSD diagnosis, experienced meditator, personal mentor, facilitator for both personal and group empowerment, spirituality, Andy Jeffery is a public speaker, writer and campaigner whose memoir, A Small Boy Smiling, tells a remarkable story of survival and how he has overcome the trauma, guilt and shame of childhood sexual abuse, teenage alcoholism, and complex post-traumatic stress disorder. When he was eight years old, he was targeted by a group of predatory paedophiles who subjected him to over 2 years of horrific sexual abuse. A Small Boy Smiling was published under the pseudonym Matt Carey. Since the book was published in 2018, Andy has been busy with public talks for the NSPCC and other national charities. He was the subject on BBC Radio 4’s The Untold (which attracted over 1.1 million listeners) and has spoken openly about his experiences of both trauma and healing on BBC Radio 2’s Jeremy Vine show, BBC 5 Live’s Stephen Nolan show, and many other media interviews. Andy is a regular keynote speaker at trauma related conferences in the U.K. and (through zoom) internationally. In January 2019, he was honoured to be Pledge Speaker at the White Hat Ball, a major fundraiser for the U.K. charity Childline, which raised almost £250,000 on the night. He has since met with Childline volunteers to share his experiences, and is very grateful for the opportunity to acknowledge the vitally important work that they do. In 2019, he was invited to take part in a groundbreaking report and documentary, Numbing the Pain, produced by One in Four (a specialist charity supporting survivors of CSA and trauma), and was approached by the Centre of Expertise for CSA to offer an expert, independent review of their excellent report, Piloting the CSA Practice Leads Programme in Adult Substance Misuse Services, published in the summer of 2020. He has continued in his role as a consultant with the Centre of Expertise for CSA ever since. Most recently Andy was interviewed on the popular mental health podcast The School of Rock Bottom by his friend Oliver Mason. Alongside his public talks, he co-hosts, with his trauma therapist Sarah Paton Briggs, a 1-day CPD foundation course (designed around the voice of the adult survivor) which equips counsellors, psychotherapists, psychologists and other mental health professionals with skills for working therapeutically with adult survivors of CSA. Andy has contributed numerous articles on trauma and healing which have been published on the Survivors UK, National Association of Adult Survivors of Child Abuse (NAASCA), Federation of Drug & Alcohol Professionals, and other trauma related blogs and websites. He has also helped facilitate a number of groups offering informal, voluntary support to fellow CSA survivors in the West Country and London areas. Away from his campaigning work, Andy has worked in the world of entertainment for over twenty-five years, as a theatre manager, organiser of several international festivals, and of large-scale community-based cultural projects supporting children and young people. info@speakerscollective.org First name Last name Email Your Phone Number About Your Event or Project Speaker or Persons Requested Date picker Event Type Select Event Type Address Submit BOOK A SPEAKER OR GET IN TOUCH FOR MORE INFORMATION

Karen Liebenguth teaches the art of compassion in the workplace.Karen Liebenguth teaches the art of compassion in the workplace. < Back Karen Liebenguth Specialisms: How to practice kindness and compassion in the workplace & the art of compassionate leadership Karen Liebenguth teaches the art of compassion in the workplace. She does this through in-house training for teams, one-on-one coaching with leaders, an ethical leadership programme, monthly group meditation sessions, facilitating conflict resolution, and co-leading retreats. Karen recognises the benefit of being outdoors, and encourages clients to take their sessions in city parks and further afield, wherever possible. She frequently speaks on the topic of the value of kindness and compassion in the workplace and on how to create caring communities in organisations through compassionate leadership. Mindfulness, meditation and nature are an integral part of her life. Karen is originally from Germany, however London has been her home for the past twenty five years. info@speakerscollective.org First name Last name Email Your Phone Number About Your Event or Project Speaker or Persons Requested Date picker Event Type Select Event Type Address Submit BOOK A SPEAKER OR GET IN TOUCH FOR MORE INFORMATION

Hi, I'm Nicky, the loving, no BS life coach who loves to talk about all things Mind & Emotional Management.Hi, I'm Nicky, the loving, no BS life coach who loves to talk about all things Mind & Emotional Management. < Back Nicky Bevan Specialisms: Mind and Emotional Management and Resilience Hi, I'm Nicky, the loving, no BS life coach who loves to talk about all things Mind and Emotional Management. It's a skill that we're not taught but we all get to learn and I'd love to guide you through the process. Having worked with teams and individuals now for over 4 years, I'm a passionate presenter, keynote speaker, workshopper and an experienced 1:1 Life Coach. info@speakerscollective.org First name Last name Email Your Phone Number About Your Event or Project Speaker or Persons Requested Date picker Event Type Select Event Type Address Submit BOOK A SPEAKER OR GET IN TOUCH FOR MORE INFORMATION

Ruben Carol is a leading expert in disability equity, access, and inclusion, helping organisations remove barriers and build truly inclusive workplaces. Ruben Carol is a leading expert in disability equity, access, and inclusion, helping organisations remove barriers and build truly inclusive workplaces. < Back Ruben Carol Specialisms: Navigating Disability and how to create a work environment where people feel safe to share and ask for adjustments Ruben Carol is a leading expert in disability equity, access, and inclusion, helping organisations remove barriers and build truly inclusive workplaces. He has worked with organisations such as Transport for London, C2C Rail, Portsmouth University, and Uber. As a wheelchair user and amputee following a motorcycle accident and a stroke survivor, Ruben brings personal insight into the everyday barriers disabled people face. His engaging and interactive style ensures participants gain practical, actionable strategies for fostering accessibility and inclusion. Ruben is a columnist, actor, and public speaker, offering a unique and thought-provoking approach to disability equity and brings his knowledge and style bring the session to life. info@speakerscollective.org First name Last name Email Your Phone Number About Your Event or Project Speaker or Persons Requested Date picker Event Type Select Event Type Address Submit BOOK A SPEAKER OR GET IN TOUCH FOR MORE INFORMATION

Laura Spence is a dedicated and dynamic midwife with over a decade of experience. Laura Spence is a dedicated and dynamic midwife with over a decade of experience. < Back Laura Spence Specialisms: Womens Health, Perinatal Mental Health, Neurodiversity, Midwifery, Birth Trauma, Sexual and Reproductive Health Laura Spence is a dedicated and dynamic midwife with over a decade of experience. Her outstanding commitment to women's health and neurodiversity advocacy has earned her a spot on the shortlist for the prestigious Nursing Times Midwife of the Year Award 2024. Her advocacy for neurodiversity in women's health is deeply personal, stemming from her own journey with autism and ADHD. Laura's diagnosis of ADHD later in life has driven her to leverage her unique perspective to champion the voices of neurodivergent women in the healthcare industry. With a rich background in women's health—spanning sexual and reproductive health, birth trauma, and parental mental health—Laura is on the brink of completing her master's degree in Perinatal Mental Health. Her groundbreaking thesis focuses on the postnatal experiences of women with ADHD, underscoring her commitment to enhancing healthcare for neurodivergent populations. As a proud podcaster, Laura hosts two influential podcasts: She Thrives ADHD and Another Podcast. In these podcasts, she empowers listeners by sharing lived experiences and insights that resonate with many. Her dedication to this medium is recognised in her nomination for the Women in Podcasting Global Award 2024. An accomplished author and illustrator, Laura's first children’s book, The Adventures of Granny Whistle Nose: Fly Little Bird, was published in June 2024 and aims to inspire young readers. Beyond her creative pursuits, she is the founder and managing director of NeuroNatal Academy C.I.C, an innovative educational platform designed to equip professionals with the knowledge they need at the intersection of perinatal health and neurodivergence. Laura is dedicated to building communities. She has founded local and online support groups for neurodivergent women, student midwives, and midwives. These initiatives have created close-knit communities that inspire and empower late-diagnosed individuals every day. She is actively co-creating resources to support neurodivergent healthcare professionals and students, with the goal of improving career retention during this critical time for the profession. Laura exemplifies an unwavering commitment to inclusivity and empowerment through her extensive contributions to perinatal mental health. Her allyship and advocacy for marginalised communities underscores her dedication to making a meaningful impact in the lives of those she serves. Laura Spence goes above and beyond the role of a midwife. She tirelessly works to uplift and inspire others in the pursuit of enhanced healthcare and social justice for all women, serving as a beacon of hope and change. info@speakerscollective.org First name Last name Email Your Phone Number About Your Event or Project Speaker or Persons Requested Date picker Event Type Select Event Type Address Submit BOOK A SPEAKER OR GET IN TOUCH FOR MORE INFORMATION