Professor Damian Hughes is an international speaker and bestselling author who combines his practical and academic background within sport, organisational development and change psychology, to help organisations and teams to create a high performing culture.

He is the author of eight best-selling business books, including Liquid Thinking, Liquid Leadership, How to Change Absolutely Anything, How to Think Like Sir Alex Ferguson, The Five STEPS to a Winning Mindset and High Performance. These have been translated into ten languages. He has also been nominated for the 2007 William Hill Sports book of the year award for Peerless, his biography of boxing great Sugar Ray Robinson. In 2009, he co-authored a critically acclaimed biography of boxing legend, Thomas Hearns in Hitman: the Thomas Hearns Story. In 2013, his latest biography, Marvelous Marvin Hagler became the UK’s best selling sports biography.

Damian was appointed as a Professor of Organisational Psychology and Change for Manchester Metropolitan University in September 2010.

He is the co-host of The High…

Kirsty Mac is an executive coach, speaker, facilitator and conference host. Her specialities include leadership development, communications, customer experience and coaching. Kirsty works with top entrepreneurs and executives to help them to new levels of performance and success.

Prior to working in the area of learning development, Kirsty was in senior roles within the retail & sales environment (with Marks & Spencer, Mattel and Masterfoods), finishing off her “proper jobs’ with Head of Learning and Development at Heineken.

Kirsty has spoken on leadership, mindset, communications, customer experience and coaching around the world, speaking at executive leadership conferences in America, Australia, UK and Europe. She has developed, designed and delivered leaderships programmes for Ford, HSBC, First Direct, Santander, Barclays, Heineken, Technip and M&S Money; her creative edge in delivery and design creates a powerful experience in her programmes and speaker sessions.

Her love of business – (the commercials, brand execution and customer experience) marries with her talent in designing bespoke solutions for clients and…