Chapter One:
Curiosity – Seeing the world differently
The opening chapter explores how new ideas often begin with a shift in perspective, encouraging audiences to look beyond the obvious, question assumptions and find inspiration in everyday life.
The speakers for this chapter include:
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Elaine Hart
How playful everyday objects start brave conversations
Elaine’s talk explores how ordinary objects, viewed through a different lens, can spark curiosity, creativity and connection, helping people express what often goes unsaid.
Elaine is the founder of Chichester-based wellbeing movement POWER, which uses play, creativity and immersive movement experiences to shift how people think about wellbeing and connection. Her career spans roles at HSBC and Rolls-Royce Motor Cars, giving her a strong background in emotional intelligence and human behaviour.
She creates transformative spaces where people feel safe, seen and empowered, blending curiosity and compassion to support personal growth in a more human way.
Dr Anisha Patel
Thinking like a doctor - the clues we ignore
Dr Patel's talk invites audiences to adopt a doctor's mindset by noticing small details, questioning assumptions and making more meaningful decisions in daily life.
An NHS GP specialising in women’s health and a stage 3 bowel cancer survivor, Dr Anisha Patel has used her experience as both a doctor and a patient to shape her mission to improve early diagnosis, challenge stigma and transform how people are heard in healthcare.
Her work extends beyond the clinic. She first appeared on national television through the 'No Butts' campaign on ITV's Lorraine and ITV News in 2021, launched with the late Dame Deborah James. Since then, she has become a familiar voice across Lorraine, BBC, ITV News, Sky TV, Jeremy Vine and TalkTV, as well as podcasts, magazines and print media.
She is also the Amazon bestselling author of Everything You'd Hoped You'd Never Need to Know About Bowel Cancer, which helps demystify symptoms, encourages earlier action, and supports those affected.
James Wright
Disconnect to Reconnect
In a world dominated by screens and constant noise, James Wright examines how stepping away from digital distraction can help us reconnect with creativity, curiosity and the overlooked beauty of everyday life.
James is a multi-award-winning FCCA senior lecturer and Programme Leader of Accountancy & Finance at the University of Chichester. Alongside his academic role, he is a global content creator across YouTube, TikTok and Instagram, with over 20 million views worldwide, supporting learners and professionals in accounting and career development.
Haydn Walden
Do something
What if progress begins with simply refusing to stand still? This talk explores how small, intentional actions can shift the way we move through difficult moments, and how change often begins with the smallest decisions.
Drawing on experiences of adversity and profound personal tragedy that changed the course of his life, Haydn’s story is one of resilience and reinvention. Growing up with dyspraxia, he was often underestimated and told he would struggle to achieve his ambitions. Despite this, he went on to build a career as a professional drummer, before later facing significant health challenges that reshaped his life and required him to rethink how he moved and lived day to day. Through this, he discovered DDP Yoga, which became central to his recovery and reinvention.
Today, as Director of Certification, he trains and mentors instructors around the world, helping others discover the power of resilience, movement and mindset.
His work centres on a simple but powerful belief: while we cannot always choose what happens to us, we can choose how we respond, and that choice can change everything.
Chapter Two:
When life takes an unexpected turn
This chapter explores the moments when life takes an unexpected turn. From recognising early signs that something is shifting to responding when change becomes unavoidable, these talks examine how clarity, communication and resilience shape the way we navigate uncertainty. Together, they reveal how unexpected change can challenge identity, shift perspective and ultimately redefine the direction of our lives.
The speakers for this chapter include:
Tessa Parry-Wingfield
Seeing life clearly
Seeing life clearly explores what disruption can reveal before situations escalate, examining how clarity, blind spots, and communication shape the way we respond to change long before a crisis arrives.
Tessa Parry-Wingfield is the Founder and CEO of a global communications consultancy. With more than 25 years’ experience in broadcast journalism, communications and PR, Tessa is a recognised voice in the media industry, with work featured across The Times, Stylist, BBC Radio 2 and BBC Woman’s Hour.
Chapter Three:
Becoming: Creating who we are
Identity is not fixed. It is shaped by experience, by the stories we inherit, and by the connections we form with others. This chapter explores the relationship between experience, identity and human connection, revealing how the moments we often overlook can influence who we become.
The speakers for this chapter include:
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Freya Ward
What if your potential wasn’t graded?
Freya's talk challenges traditional ideas of ability and success, asking what we miss when we define people by narrow measures of achievement rather than what they're capable of becoming. She asks, ‘What might change if potential were recognised more broadly?’
A Chichester-based marketing leader and Associate Managing Director at Headley Media, Freya is a recognised industry voice, regularly delivering keynote presentations, speaking on expert panels, and contributing to conversations on marketing, technology, and artificial intelligence. Alongside her professional work, she recently achieved a First in Artificial Intelligence from Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.
Her interest in potential extends beyond business. Through her own experiences and observations, she has become fascinated by the gap between how people are measured and how they develop, grow, and ultimately realise their potential.
Nick Jaye
We are not broken, we are different
Nick Jaye will give a clear and honest talk about the labels that shape how we see ourselves and how others see us. His talk questions the assumptions that influence who gets to belong, dream and define their future, and invites audiences to see difference as strength. It asks what becomes possible when we stop trying to fit expectations and start understanding who we are on our own terms.
Nick’s path has been anything but conventional. After leaving school at 15 with no qualifications, he spent four decades working in estate agency and property before, in his late fifties, choosing to follow a lifelong ambition to become a chef. He retrained at WhitePepper Chef Academy in Dorset and went on to work in high-end kitchens, including Steven Edwards’ Etch, following Edwards’ win on MasterChef: The Professionals in 2013. Today, Nick works as a private chef, known professionally as ‘Bald Chef Nick’. He is an author, presenter, collaborator, and recipe developer, bringing together his culinary skills and lived experience to challenge assumptions about identity, potential, and success.
Dr James Lyon
The truths hiding in the smallest things
James’ talk explores what happens when an experience stays with us long after we think it should have faded. Through a deeply personal story, he invites us to reconsider the stories we tell ourselves about our lives and to ask whether those lingering feelings might reveal a significance we missed the first time around.
His talk suggests that the things we overlook may be the most human things of all, quietly reconnecting us both to one another and to parts of ourselves we may have lost sight of.
James is a GP and educator in the British Army. He is Defence GP Training Programme Director and a lecturer in the Academic Department of Military General Practice. He is fascinated by how we make sense of ourselves and the world around us, and by the things that quietly shape who we become. He was awarded an MBE in the King’s Birthday Honours List 2025 for work on Organisational Culture at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.
Chapter Four:
Courage that moves: turning insight into action
Awareness without action changes nothing. Real courage is what we choose to do next.
Where earlier chapters explored perspective, interruption and identity, Chapter Four moves outward, from responsibility to action, and from action to impact that crosses boundaries. This chapter examines the moment where insight becomes movement, and where individual choices ripple outward to shape communities, relationships and lives.
The speakers for this chapter include:
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Nick Winton
The power of one
Nick Winton explores how ordinary people can create extraordinary impact, and how having the courage to act, even without permission, authority or certainty, can change lives.
Nick reflects on what it means to step forward when something needs to be done, and how individual choices can shape the futures of others in profound and unexpected ways.
His talk asks a simple but urgent question: What becomes possible when one person decides to act?
Nick’s career has been defined by resilience, reinvention and leading through uncertainty. After pioneering a new technology and selling part of his business, he was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumour, which was a turning point that reshaped his understanding of risk, purpose and possibility. Following surgery, he earned an MBA from Imperial College Business School with honours, proving both recovery and determination.
He went on to build a successful career as an Interim CEO, guiding organisations in London and New York through complex turnarounds and high-pressure transitions. He later moved into governance and the arts, advising boards and serving as a trustee for Norden Farm Centre for the Arts. Today, he is an international speaker and storyteller, engaging audiences of all sizes with insights on leadership, resilience and the courage to act.
Geethanjali Seenu
Redefining presence
Geethanjali explores how love, care and responsibility can reach beyond distance, circumstance and expectation. Her talk challenges traditional ideas of what it means to be present for the people we care about. She invites audiences to rethink how connection is sustained when life pulls us in different directions.
Her talk asks us to reconsider what presence really means.
Geethanjali is an experienced programme leader with more than 26 years of experience in fast-moving technology environments, where she has led large teams, managed complex projects, and helped organisations deliver change with clarity and care. Known for her calm, practical approach, she has guided major programmes from planning through to delivery, coordinating multiple teams, managing risks, improving processes and supporting people through change. Throughout her career, she has focused on helping people work better together, creating environments where teams can grow, adapt and succeed.
Chapter Five:
Everyday Creation
What we notice, what we learn, and ultimately what we become all show up in the way we create our everyday lives.
This final chapter demonstrates how creativity is not only found in big ideas or bold reinventions, but in the small, intentional choices that shape how we live, connect and make sense of the world.
The speakers for this chapter include:
Momtaz Begum-Hossain
Is colour the cure?
Is colour the cure? This talk explores how the way we see and respond to colour could shape our wellbeing, perspective, and sense of meaning in everyday life.
Colour is Momtaz’s superpower. As an award-winning journalist, certified Colour Therapist and creator of Hello Hue®, she has developed a modern philosophy of chromatic wellbeing that helps people use colour to lift their mood and support their mental health. Her bestselling book Hello Rainbow brought this joyful approach to life, and her forthcoming journal, Colour Therapy, continues her mission to make colour a tool for everyday happiness.
Her work spans journalism, broadcasting, brand consulting and live events, from Tate Modern to Camp Wildfire, and her podcast - Hello Colour - explores the emotional power of colour through conversations with vibrant, creative guests. Her expertise has been featured internationally across PBS, BBC, ITV, The Guardian, Cosmopolitan, Elle and more.
Sarah Jouault
Who decides life must slow down?
Who decides life must slow down? Sarah Joulet challenges the assumptions we accept about age, limits, and what we’re still capable of becoming. Through a life shaped by resilience and unexpected turns, she asks whether the boundaries we live by are real or simply inherited stories.
Sarah Jouault’s life has been shaped by upheaval, resilience, and an instinctive refusal to accept the limits placed on her. She grew up navigating instability and displacement, later facing violence, illness, and the kind of setbacks that would have stopped most people in their tracks. Instead, each chapter pushed her toward reinvention, with new skills learned from scratch, new challenges taken on long after the age when society tells us to “slow down,” and a growing belief that capability doesn’t fade with time, it expands when tested.
Over the past two decades, Sarah has quietly built a life defined by service and determination, raising more than £170,000 for ill and terminally ill children through events, community efforts, and personal challenges she never expected to take on. With warmth and understated strength, she invites audiences to reconsider the assumptions they hold about age, identity, and what they’re still capable of becoming.
Souvid “JIJO” Datta
The cost of a perfect story
As AI makes images, voices and stories increasingly frictionless, Souvid “JIJO” Datta asks a simple question: what do we lose when everything becomes perfect?
Working at the frontier between media and deep-tech, he argues that the small human imperfections we are tempted to remove are the ones most worth keeping.
His talk explores how seamlessness can strip away the texture, vulnerability and humanity that make stories meaningful, and why protecting imperfection may be one of the most important creative choices of our time.
Souvid "JIJO" Datta is a film director, writer and Creative Director at Fifty Years, a deep-tech venture firm based across London and San Francisco. His storytelling explores humanism, systems of power and contemporary culture, with broadcast, film and editorial work for BBC, Channel 4, National Geographic and Amazon Prime, produced across more than sixty countries. He is a Cannes Young Director Award winner, an IMDb New Filmmaker, and a TV Collective Breakthrough Leader.
Jordon Cox
The secret to standing out
DO YOU SEE HOW THIS STANDS OUT? It might feel scary to stray from the crowd, but in a world of 8 billion people, it’s often the key to getting ahead in life. This talk explores how creative thinking, originality and embracing what makes us different can open doors, spark connections, and create opportunities others miss.
Jordon Cox is widely known as TV’s Coupon King and the UK’s best deals and bargains expert.
At age 15, he started using supermarket coupons to save money on his mum's shopping bill, including getting a £600 shop for just 4p.
Now, more than a decade later, through TV and social media, he highlights the tips and hacks to save you money and get a good deal.
