Military & Veteran Speakers

Our Military & Veteran Speakers are seasoned experts in resilience, leadership, teamwork, and overcoming adversity. They draw on their wealth of experience from active service, sharing powerful and inspiring personal stories of the challenges they faced and how they navigated through them.

Each speaker offers unique insights into the mindset and skills required to thrive in the face of extreme adversity, making their experiences relevant not only to the military but also to businesses and organisations seeking to build stronger teams and leaders.

Here are just a few of the incredible Military & Veteran Speakers we work with!

John Peters

John Peters came to the world’s attention in January 1991, when his bruised and battered face flashed onto television screens around the world as a prisoner of war. It was his disfigured image that became a potent symbol of Saddam Hussein’s ruthless aggression. John is an experienced speaker of international repute to corporates, public sector and charities, with audiences ranging up to 5500!

Mandy Hickson

As one of the first female pilots on her frontline Tornado GR4 squadron, flying multi-million pound fast jets for the Royal Air Force, Mandy has worked in a constantly challenging, yet exhilarating environment. She offers a unique insight into this elite world, supported by anecdotes about her time on the front line.

Colin MacLachlan

Star of Channel Four’s captivating reality TV drama SAS: Who Dares Wins and Channel 5’s ‘Secrets of the SAS’, is an operator with over 25 years of security and risk related experience.
Colin joined the army in 1989 and after 9 years in the Royal Scots passed selection first time aged 23 into 22 SAS. Colin was fortunate enough to have been involved in some of the more high profile and daring missions of the recent period.

Matt Lindley

Airline and ex RAF Royal Squadron Pilot, One of the first openly gay pilots in the RAF. Diversity, Inclusion speaker, specialising in resilience, mental health and inclusive leadership. Matt describes his journey and the impact on his mental health whilst hiding his true self and operating in a macho, intolerant work environment.

Sarah Furness

Sarah’s experiences as a combat operational commander, helicopter pilot, mother and mindfulness coach has led her to develop her own unique Healthy Automatic Behaviours In Threatening Scenarios (H.A.B.I.TS.) Formula – a way to train the mind to be a Jedi master under pressure and accomplish zen like levels of self-belief and inner calm.

Hannah Graf MBE

A strong advocate for equality, Hannah has used her public platform to promote a realistic portrayal of transgender people in the UK, becoming an inspiration to many. She serves as a Patron for the charity Mermaids and as an ambassador for LGBTQ+ Sport in Wales. Her contributions to diversity have earned her numerous accolades, including Cosmopolitan Woman of the Year, an honorary fellowship from Cardiff University, and an MBE in June 2019 for her work on LGBTQ+ policy in the British Army.

Ruth Briant-Jones

Medical Doctor, Wellbeing Coach, ex Royal Air Force Officer, Corporate Trainer and Speaker.
She has had varied, exciting and challenging life experiences to date, working for 12 years as a Royal Air Force Officer, seeing active service in Afghanistan, and lately, being very busy working in A&E during a pandemic.

Matthew Dunn

Matthew is a former elite MI6 intelligence officer and expert in providing creative leadership to inspire people to perform the extraordinary. He spent many years covertly operating as a spy in hostile locations around the world, enacting absurdly complex and highly dangerous operations and recruiting foreign nationals to do the same.

In the shadows, Matthew has carved a renowned and unique niche. He applies his ground-breaking MI6 methodology to inspire and guide individuals and groups to creatively achieve the seemingly impossible.