Diane H. Leonard, GPC, RST, is the founder of the world’s premier Agile consultancy focused exclusively on supporting nonprofits, charities, and NGOs in adopting and practicing Agile ways of working to achieve impact in their communities more quickly, yet at a sustainable pace.
Since founding the company in 2006, Diane and her team have secured more than $177.92 million in competitive grant awards using Agile methodologies, which they now train organizations to use as well. Diane and her team have trained nearly 100,000 individuals in grant writing and nonprofit capacity building, and nearly 7,000 in Agile ways of working in any nonprofit team setting.
The co-host of Agile Driven Impact, a podcast for changemakers, Diane is a highly sought-after keynote speaker and trainer. Diane is a Grant Professional Certified (GPC), Approved Trainer of the Grant Professionals Association, and a Registered Scrum Trainer (RST) through by Scrum, Inc.
With 30 years of experience as a Scotland Yard Detective, including secondment to British Intelligence, Philip Grindell has honed his skills in threat intelligence, risk management, and protective security. He has served as a Counter-Terrorism Security Coordinator for high-profile events, including Royal and Government events, ensuring detailed contingency plans for safety from terrorist attacks.
His expertise in identifying physical, reputational, and psychological threats was put to the test during my time when he was made responsible for the protection of MPs following the fatal attack on Jo Cox.
A Chartered Security professional with a MSc in Security Management, he has become one of the UK’s most trusted leaders and advisors in lone actor, fixated, and workplace threats.
Charlotte Otter is a career communicator, two-time novelist and former journalist. We Need New Leaders is grounded in her experience observing and working with global leadership at the closest quarters, as well as her original research for her MSc in Change Leadership from HEC Paris. It is both a handbook and a manifesto for change at the leadership level.
Virginia Cinquemani is an accredited transformational coach and sustainability trainer with over 20 years of experience in the sustainability field.
She has trained thousands of sustainability professionals throughout her career and focused entirely on soft skills training and coaching since founding her company, Green Gorilla, in 2018.
Through her work coaching and training sustainability professionals and teams, Virginia realized that their most intractable issues are usually due to ineffective communication, and that is now the focus of her training.
Virginia regularly publishes soft skills, influencing, and communication skills content in her newsletter, launched in the spring of 2023, and on LinkedIn, where she has over 7,000 followers.
In 2010 Virginia was co-author of the technical publication Integrating BREEAM throughout the Design Process and, in 2020, she published SustainABLE: How to Find Success as a Sustainability Professional in a Rapidly Changing World.
Ian Pettigrew is a positive psychology coach who firmly believes that hope is a strategy, having witnessed the power of hope in his own life and of those he works with. He coaches leaders around the world, helping them to address the global hope crisis and put hope into action for themselves, their teams and their organizations.
He is a regular speaker at conferences and was named by HR Magazine as one of HR’s Most Influential Thinkers. He is a Gallup-certified strengths coach and a Fellow member of the Association for Coaching.
Ian has very personal experience of the importance of putting hope into action: a motorbike accident on the racetrack resulted in six operations and much pain and effort before he could walk again. Subsequently he broke every bone in his ankle and – whilst recuperating – started training to cycle the height of Everest in a day.
Alice Driscoll is a leadership coach and conflict specialist, author, and co-founder of The Power House, a global leadership development business on a mission to unlock human and organizational potential.
Alice spent 15 years of her career working for creative agencies and tech companies in London, including as Managing Director of pd3 and DF London. She advised clients including Unilever, O2 and Microsoft as well as being a founding member of an exited impact healthtech startup in the carehome industry.
Alice qualified as a professional executive and systemic team coach at Henley Business School, holds an accreditation in mediation and conflict resolution with Regent’s University, and trained in psychoanalytic psychotherapy with the British Psychoanalytic Foundation.
Alice can be found on LinkedIn or at www.thepowerhouse.company.
Louise van Haarst is a sought-after executive coach, courageous communication specialist, author, and co-founder of The Power House, a global leadership development business on a mission to unlock human and organizational potential and to create leaders and teams who can manage conflict well.
A former merger and restructure consultant, Louise spent 20 years driving transformational change in the voluntary and international NGO worlds, often navigating strategic emergencies, complex cultures and thorny performance challenges.
Louise qualified in Executive Coaching & Behaviour Change at Henley Business School and is now resident coach at some of the most dynamic businesses in Europe. She works with individuals and teams at all levels of seniority in a wide range of sectors, including consulting, technology, financial services, fashion and luxury, as well as coaching and mentoring in the start-up and venture capital spaces where rapid growth, volatility and variable management capability can be significant factors.
Louise can be found on LinkedIn or at www.thepowerhouse.company.
Archana Mohan is a dynamic, multilingual Chief Operations and Technology Officer within the finance sector, with a passion for unlocking human potential. Growing up in a multicultural environment, Archana witnessed first-hand how strong leadership could build relationships, bridge cultural divides, and foster collaboration. She brings a unique perspective to her work, drawing on her experiences as both a teacher and a leader to drive innovation.
Archana’s leadership expertise stems from her decade-long experience of teaching students with learning differences. She has adapted and enhanced this knowledge over the past 20 years in the financial services sector, where she has been able to improve collaboration and innovation within her teams. Her insights have been widely recognised, and she is frequently invited to speak at industry conferences and events.
Archana’s academic qualifications include a BA in French Literature from Brown University, an MA in Education from Columbia University, and an MBA in Finance from Yale University.
Lizzie Bentley Bowers is a PCC-level Executive Coach with a Masters in Positive Psychology and Coaching Psychology, who has been coaching leaders and teams for over 15 years, challenging them to unearth what is really going on and support them to see what else is possible and work out how to get there. Keen to make the most useful leadership thinking accessible and applicable to all leaders she is the founder of the leadership hub Towards Leadership, author of the Strengths Stacker journals, host of the Leadership Letters podcast and a regular contributor to Coaching Perspectives magazine.
Alison Lucas is a professionally certified (ICF PCC) Executive Coach with two decades of experience working with leaders across all three sectors, and around the globe. Alison’s first career began with 15 years of commercial leadership experience in FMCG and business consultancy. Alison blends her considerable commercial business background with her coaching and systemic experience to equip leaders to navigate change in their complex and uncertain world.
