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Vanessa Sturman is a leading voice in peak performance, sustainable nutrition, and healthy habits — regularly featured on major outlets including Sky News, BBC Radio, and LBC.
She supports busy leaders, teams, and athletes to reach their full potential by improving cognitive performance, reducing stress and burnout, maintaining a healthy weight, and tackling fatigue — through realistic, enjoyable shifts in food and lifestyle habits. Her approach focuses on small, sustainable changes that create lasting results without restrictive diets.
A passionate food lover, Vanessa helps people improve their health through food they enjoy — including the dishes of their own cultures. Her work is also shaped by her recovery from a teenage binge-eating disorder and her experience as a person of colour raised by an immigrant mother, who taught her the value of budgeting, waste reduction, and food as connection. Combined with her professional background as a Sustainability and Behaviour Change Consultant, these insights inform her practical, inclusive philosophy: build food habits that fuel performance and protect the planet.
Educated at Cambridge University in Social and Biological Anthropology, Vanessa is also a published plant-based recipe developer and respected 1:1 coach. Her clients include Fulham Football Club, Cambridge University, Brooks Macdonald, and Octopus Energy. She is currently a Health Expert for BBC Radio Oxfordshire, and her latest Sky News appearance is available here. Vanessa has been shortlisted for Virtual Speaker of the Year 2025, marking her second award recognition for her engaging, high-impact delivery.
Vanessa delivers keynotes, workshops, and panel sessions on leadership, small habit change, food for mental health and cognitive performance, adaptability under pressure, resilience and culturally diverse food. She also runs energising team cooking sessions, and is regularly booked for Mental Health Awareness events and corporate wellbeing weeks.
Discover how nutrition and healthy habits can supercharge your leadership skills, drive peak performance and reduce risk of burnout.
Learn to avoid the pitfalls of neglecting your health and how it affects your team, your business, and your overall quality of life.
Uncover the simple yet powerful changes you can make within your busy lifestyle to boost your energy, cognitive performance, and decision-making abilities.
Unlock the power of food to improve your mental well-being and sharpen your focus, without the burden of dieting or restriction.
Learn how to make simple nutrition changes that help support cognitive performance and good mental health.
Discover delicious and easy tweaks, and recipes, that can be incorporated into your busy schedule, and fit with your culture and favourite foods.
Explore the connection between personal health, planetary health and business health.
Learn how to make food choices that support your physical health, cognitive performance and support a sustainable future.
Discover delicious, eco-conscious recipes that are kind to your taste buds, the environment and fit with your culture.
Understand the nutritional needs of women during menopause and beyond.
Learn how to support hormone health, gut health, bone health, and overall well-being through food choices.
Discover delicious recipes and food choices that cater to the specific needs of this life stage.
Learn why quick fixes fail and how to break free from the cycle of short-term health fads that can grip people and result in lowered productivity.
Discover how small, consistent food choices can create lasting improvements in energy, focus and performance for your teams and leaders.
Uncover practical, sustainable strategies to build resilience and make healthy living effortless for life.
Vanessa delivered a very insightful and engaging webinar for FFC staff on how small food habits can boost personal energy and environmental sustainability. Her passion and expertise made the session both inspiring and full of actionable takeaways. Highly recommended!
Fantastic speaker at an event full of industry leaders, government and press in attendance. A pleasure to work with and has bags of enthusiasm and passion for nutrition
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