Marisa is a globally recognized business strategist and brand-building innovator, known for inspiring teams to take brands to new heights of consumer resonance, cultural relevance, and business performance. A pioneer of digital, social and eCommerce marketing, she has orchestrated blockbuster product launches and enhanced brand and performance marketing, mass, and prestige. She has worked across sectors including Taco Bell and Estee Lauder, both very different to Lowes.

She is also Founder & President of Executive Moms – dedicated to supporting executive mothers in their busy work and family lives.

Marisa’s accolades include: Forbes – CMO Hall of Fame; 1 of 50 top Most Influential CMOs in the World – Business Insider: 1 of top 25 Most Innovative CMOs in the World – Adweek Brand Genius, Industry Dive Marketing Executive of the Year.

Scott has achieved the challenge of being both an astronaut and climbing Everest, the first person to ever achieve this double. He is a veteran of five space shuttle flights and several space walks. As a prolific inventor he is currently the CEO off a technology startup focused on enabling the techniques and technology developed for extreme environments to be used in wider society.

As an explorer and Mountaineer Scott has not only climbed Everest but has widely travelled across Antarctica, descended into a Volcano and regularly advised major expeditions on their healthcare in extreme environments. As an innovator and tech CEO Scott is focused on constantly looking for opportunities to use the technology and practises developed for use in extreme environments into the world of day today medicine and consumer products.

Debbie is Founder of The Mentor Project bringing Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics mentors to schools and the community. The project has helped over 100,000 students to date. She has a PhD, holds a degree in Applied Developmental Psychology with a specialty in redefining what being older looks and feels like. She is a Tedx Speaker, award winning researcher, and one of the experts Thinkers 50 will have significant impact in the future.

Debbie reveals some valuable insights which we can all use to our benefit on getting the best from our different stages of life and career, the different approaches between men and women often seen in leadership and which approaches work best, the importance of everyone having a mentor and how to find a great mentor or be one. This is simply a life plan in a podcast!

Steve became Step Change in Safety Executive Director in July 2019 having spent over 35 years working in the global oil and gas industry with experience in Drilling Operations, Project Management, Business Development, Engineering/Maintenance and Safety Leadership often operating across the world as a trouble-shooter.

After working on a series of North Sea platforms in the early years of his career, Steve was assigned to Piper Alpha. His escape and survival from the platform when it caught fire and blew up on the night of July 6th, 1988, killing 167 of his colleagues, the worst global oil rig disaster, left him with a strong desire to make a positive change to the safety culture across the energy industry, both onshore and offshore.

As well as Chairman and Executive Director of SCS is currently chair of the Piper Alpha charity trust.

Lord Karan Bilimoria is also President of the CBI the UK Industry representative body. Cobra beer is now a Joint Venture with Molson Coors, and Chairman of Molson Coors Cobra India. He started his developing a market in UK not for beer but for a very niche product as you will hear. Why Cobra Beer is special and why it took so long to develop is also revealed.

Outside business he is the Founding Chairman of the UK India Business Council, the youngest University Chancellor in the UK when appointed at West London, one of the first two visiting entrepreneurs at the University of Cambridge; and a founding member of the Prime Minister of India’s Global Advisory Council. In 2006, Karan was appointed the Lord Bilimoria of Chelsea, making him the first ever Zoroastrian Parsi to sit in the House of Lords. In 2008 he was awarded the Pravasi Bharti Samman by the President of India.

He is an honorary fellow of Sidney Sussex College Cambridge and Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Judge Business School, Cambridge University. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Ernst & Young and graduated in law from the University of Cambridge. He is also an alumnus through executive education of the Cranfield School of Management, London Business School and Harvard Business School.

Shurooq is the body responsible for the development of the Emirate of Sharjah, UAE, through inwards investment of $bn to deliver infrastructure, retail and tourist destinations to transform the economy and take Sharjah into the future. He also Founder of Al Mur Investments and Chairman of Qatra Water.

Marwan is frequently quoted as one of UAEs inspiring young leaders with his focus on developing talent, in particular women, and giving opportunity. He is ranked in the top 50 most powerful people in the Arab World and also used to regularly play football for the Shurooq team.

Anita served in the Whitehouse over 20 years for 3 presidents serving as director of White House Personnel under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush then as assistant to President George W. Bush and chief of staff to First Lady Laura Bush from 2005 to 2009.

She co-founded the RAND African First Ladies Initiative and Fellowship program and continues to serve as an advisor to the Laura W Bush Women’s Initiative. She is also a member of the US-Afghan Women’s Council.

Muquadessa was educated in USA and India. She was human resources director of the Municipality of Kabul before serving as a commissioner in the Independent Administrative Reform and Civil Service Commission of Afghanistan and then being appointed as Deputy Commerce and Industry Minister for trade for Afghanistan.

She has also served as deputy head of the Association of Fulbrighters of Afghanistan.

Elizabeth founded Neura Health based on her personal journey with chronic pain, which exposed her to the key challenges of specialist access and care quality that patients face when navigating chronic neurological conditions.

Elizabeth has previously led product development teams at digital health companies such as Maven Clinic and Zocdoc, and holds dual degrees in Computer Science and Philosophy from Stanford University.