Facilitator, Teacher, Speaker, Executive Coach, Researcher and Author

Megan Reitz

Megan Reitz (pronounced RATES) is an associate fellow at Saïd Business School, Oxford University, as well as adjunct professor of Leadership and Dialogue at Ashridge Executive Education, Hult Business School where her research, speaking and executive education programs focus on change, dialogue and mindfulness. She is on the Thinkers50 radar of global business thinkers and has been ranked among HR Magazine‘s Most Influential Thinkers since 2017. In 2021, Reitz was shortlisted for the Thinkers50 Breakthrough Idea Award, which celebrates a eureka moment in management thinking.

Before joining Ashridge, Reitz was a consultant with Deloitte, surfed the dot-com boom with boo.com and worked in strategy consulting for The Kalchas Group, now the strategic arm of Computer Science Corporation. She was educated at Cambridge University and has a PhD from Cranfield School of Management. She is an accredited executive coach with Ashridge and The School of Coaching.

She is mother to two wonderful teenage daughters who test her regularly on her powers of mindfulness and dialogue.

Examples of her work and contact details can be found at www.meganreitz.com and on LinkedIn at linkedin.com/in/meganreitz.

Associate Professor School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science, Griffith University

Drew Rae

Dr Drew Rae is an Associate Professor in the Safety Science Innovation Lab at Griffith University, where he teaches courses on research methods and safety engineering, and manages the lab’s research program. Drew’s own research uses a mix of ethnography, field experiments and theory-building to investigate organisational safety practices. He is particularly interested in understanding the myths, rituals and bad habits that surround the work of managers and safety practitioners, and how this work influences front-line operations. Drew co-hosts the Safety of Work podcast and is on the editorial board of the journal Safety Science.

British Firefighter, Psychologist, and Author

Dr Sabrina Cohen-Hatton

Sabrina Cohen-Hatton is among the few women who have reached the highest levels of the fire service.
Sabrina Cohen-Hatton balances her role as one of the UK’s most senior female firefighters with her position as a Research Fellow at Cardiff University, where she specializes in behavioural neuroscience, particularly in how people make decisions under pressure. She has also been appointed as the National Fire Chiefs Council (NFCC) International Lead and is the author of The Heat of The Moment – A Firefighter’s Stories of Life and Death Decisions.

Sabrina’s journey has been marked by resilience and determination from a young age. At fifteen, she was homeless on the streets of Wales, selling The Big Issue for two years before finding stable accommodation and joining the fire service at eighteen. While working as a firefighter, she pursued her education, earning a degree from the Open University and later a PhD in Psychology from Cardiff University. Sabrina rose through the ranks to become one of the highest-ranking women officers in the fire service, serving in some of the country’s largest fire brigades while continuing her academic research. Her work on decision-making under pressure in emergency services has not only won awards but has also influenced global policy.
As a researcher, Sabrina explores the fundamentals of decision-making, behaviour, and cognition. In her role as a fire officer, she draws on her first-hand experience of how these processes function in real-life, high-stress situations. She studies how the brain interprets information and how events are linked to long-term psychological and social responses.

In her best-selling book, The Heat of The Moment, Sabrina shares her formative experiences and life on the frontline, offering deep insights into the challenges of one of the most dangerous professions. From deciding when to evacuate a building to choosing which of her colleagues should enter a blaze, she provides an honest, human perspective on the highs and lows of firefighting. While these stories are rooted in fire and rescue work, her insights and lessons are applicable to broader aspects of life and business.
In The Gender Bias: The Barriers That Hold Women Back, And How To Break Them, Sabrina examines studies and data to explore why women are judged differently, why it matters, and offers practical solutions for tackling biases and dismantling systemic barriers.

Since 2023, Sabrina has been an ambassador for The Royal Foundation’s Homewards charity. In this role, she collaborates with Prince William on a five-year, locally-led initiative aimed at demonstrating that, together, we can end homelessness.

Consultant Head of News & Digital, The New Statesman

Kate Lamble

Kate Lamble has followed every day of the public inquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire since it began in 2018, reporting on its findings across the BBC, most notably on The Grenfell Tower Inquiry Podcast and her Radio 4 series Grenfell: Building a Disaster.

An award-winning journalist and audio producer, she was previously the Science and Technology Correspondent for BBC Newsnight and has been heard on a wide range of radio programmes including More or Less (Radio 4) and The Climate Question (World Service). She has also produced and presented the Insight podcast for The New Statesman.
Her radio documentaries have received a commendation at the Prix Europa and a Gold at the British Podcast Awards.

Co-Founder and CEO, Navatech Group

Prakash Senghani,

An enthusiastic and award-winning engineer with diverse international experience in innovation, change management and digital construction. Being a founder of an Artificial Intelligence safety management start up and an investor in promising early stage companies, Prakash is able to indulge his passion to learn and grow.

Director of Group Safety, Insurance & Occupational Wellbeing

Crystal Danbury

Crystal has 1 aim; make the world a better place to work.

Crystal believes diversity, empathy, humility and curiosity are vital components to improving the businesses she serves and inspires these values in my teams and organisations.

‘How can we do this better/simpler/less/quicker/with less impact/ethically, do we need to do this at all, have we asked the end user what he/she/they think, what does excellent look like and how can we innovate’ are always questions she drives.

Having started as a safety engineer in the nuclear industry nearly 2 decade ago Crystal loves to demonstrate, without over egging, time with your frontline is priceless and she role models that success is not gender specific.

Crystal runs large teams, manages multimillion pound budgets in FTSE 100 businesses. Her job is to look after and create a safe space for people, manage risk, change culture and overall change the world slowly.

CEO, EcoPortal

Dr. Manuel Seidel

Dr. Manuel Seidel is the Founder and CEO of ecoPortal, a leading privately owned HSE engagement platform globally. With a PhD in Sustainable Manufacturing and a deep background in risk and sustainability strategy, Manuel is driven by a vision to move organisations beyond outdated “tick box” safety.
He developed ecoPortal to empower businesses with intuitive, intelligent systems that drive real behavioural change—boosting performance, reducing risk, and strengthening culture. Under his leadership, ecoPortal has grown to a team of over 100, supporting hundreds of forward-thinking organisations around the world in building safer, smarter workplaces.
Recognised for his contributions to innovation and entrepreneurship, Manuel was named in the University of Auckland’s “40 Under 40” in 2023.