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Suzy has three decades of experience in the health and wellbeing industry, drawing on her qualifications in yoga and personal training, together with psychology, to empower people with sustainable healthy lifestyle habits. Suzy has a special interest in helping people heal their relationship with ‘self’. She is the author of The Little Book of Self-Care, The Self-Care Revolution, Stand Tall Like a Mountain, Self-care for Tough Times, This Book Will (Help) Make You Happy, And Breathe, Sit to Get Fit, Rest to Reset and Self-care for Winter. How to Be Selfish is hot off the press.

Theresa has become a trusted voice in the world of holistic wellness. As the UK’s “British grande dame of psychic and spiritual studies,” Theresa has also been repeatedly named among the ‘100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People.’ Theresa regularly collaborates with neuroscientists and psychologists and is Head of programming for mindbodyspiritUK festivals and events. Her work and writing aims to bridge the mystical and the scientific, offering grounded insight into the deeper dimensions of human experience.

She organises fundraising events, helps raise the trust’s profile, sets its strategic direction, and interviews and selects volunteers travelling to Darjeeling. Sharan also helps manage the trust’s child sponsorship programme, which enables children from disadvantaged families, and those living in the orphanage, to attend fee-paying school. Alongside this, Sharan volunteers with Breaking Barriers, supporting refugees to build the knowledge and confidence they need to secure stable, fulfilling employment. As an Emplify Founding Fellow, Sharan brings this grounded, hands-on experience of leadership, strategy, and care in action to the programme, living proof of what Empathy-Powered Leadership looks like when good people are given the power, and the platform, to use it well.

Louise founded Spark Sisterhood, a community where girls from care were met with friendship and essential life and employment skills, encouraged to believe in themselves and their futures. Having grown up in care and now fostering children herself, Louise understands the care system from the inside out, giving her a unique 360° understanding. She is a respected and leading voice, and her work is now focused on changing the conversation around fostering and adoption in the UK, challenging the fear-led culture, the lack of collaboration between agencies, and the reliance on legislation to drive change. Instead, she’s advocating for honest dialogue, practical solutions, and a shared commitment to putting children and carers first. At the heart of everything Louise does is a belief in the power of real-life stories. Through the marketing agency, We Are Louise, she helps founders, charities, and mission-led companies connect more deeply with their audiences through branding, content, and campaigns that are built with empathy and purpose. Whether it’s supporting a small charity or reshaping how we talk about foster care, We Are Louise brings clarity, heart and strategy to every project. Louise now works alongside Dr Sally-Anne Tommy, a leading voice in trauma responsiveness. Together they’ve combined their skills and knowledge to create the Nine Colours of the Nervous System, a training programme for anyone who works with children and young people, helping them understand how our nervous systems really work. It’s built to be done once: powerful, practical and easy to understand, giving carers and professionals a lasting shift in how they see and respond to the children in their care. Louise also co-hosts Foster Care Uncovered with Sarah Anderson, a podcast that sits in the top 10% most listened to globally. Together they talk openly about the realities of fostering, from recruitment and culture to the systemic pressures carers face every day, bringing the same honesty to audio that Louise brings to her books.

Katy’s life-long passion for dance knows no bounds! Her dream is to inspire people all over the world, regardless of their age or level of ability, to experience the pure joy and happiness that dance brings.

Starting as a District Nurse, Alison has been in the tissue viability nursing specialism since 1989 and has an MSc in Psychology and Health. Based in Tower Hamlets, Accelerate provides complex wound and lymphoedema services across London and the South East. Starting leg ulcer clinics as a District Nurse and Well Leg clinics, her passion remains the creative use of compression therapy within leg ulcer management and quality of life issues for all patients. She continues to successfully raise the profile of complex wounds and lymphoedema within the long term conditions agenda, alongside raising the issues of patient harm in a healthcare environment that has accepted poor healing and wet legs as the norm. Alison received an MBE for Services to Nursing in 2018. Alison held the position of Chair and Trustee for the Society of Tissue Viability (formerly the Tissue Viability Society / TVS) from 2011-2013. She has a number of publications, is a national and international speaker and launched the Accelerate Treatment Centre as the first Centre of Excellence for complex leg ulcers and lymphoedema care in September 2015.

Brett brings nearly two decades of charity-sector experience, with a consistent focus on culture, leadership development, and staff and volunteer engagement. At Alzheimer’s Society, he led Dementia Friends, a public awareness initiative that reached three million people and inspired practical support for those affected by dementia. His work has been recognised with an HR Distinction Award for employee engagement and a Charity Times HR Team of the Year award, and he is chair and co-founder of Volunteers Count. Throughout his career, Brett has championed the belief that people who feel genuinely valued and involved in an organisation’s purpose will always give more of themselves to it.