Phil entered the world of business at the tender age of 14.

With nothing more than a bucket and sponge, he went from single-handedly washing cars on weekends to hiring a fleet of friends working on his behalf, resulting in him earning more than his teachers by the time he was 15.

Soon after, at just 18, Phil was offered the role of Sales Manager at fashion retailer Debenhams – making him the youngest Sales Manager in the company’s history.

His early career went from strength to strength, as he worked with a host of Premier League Football Clubs to help them negotiate sponsorships and licensing agreements, to then being a key part of growing a £240m property business.

But in 2008, after several years of being one of the most in-demand young sales leaders in the UK, Phil decided it was time to dedicate his future to helping others to succeed.

He took everything he learned about selling/sales from his previous roles, and created a one-day workshop, where he trained over 2,500 people in his founding year before eventually licensing his training to the UK, Switzerland, Australia and New Zealand.

But there was a challenge…

As Phil plunged deeper and deeper into the world of training businesses, and worked with more and more organizations to improve their results – he was becoming increasingly uncomfortable with the style of information that the marketplace was glorifying.

Every body is selling something, be it an idea, a product, a service or an outcome. Yet the term “sales” was often about hype. It was celebrating ruthlessness and was all about unethically persuading and influencing people to get what they wanted.

The only thing that ever seemed to matter was the short term results, with no second-thought for the impact on all people involved.

Since then, Phil has made it his life’s work to completely demystify the sales process, and bring both simplicity and integrity to a world that is often full of big egos and even bigger lies.

With this as Phil’s core mission, he has gone on to deliver over 2,000 presentations in 56 countries across five continents, training more than two million people (both sales and non-sales professionals, leaders and experts) to learn how to have more influence, confidence and control when steering their conversations.

Phil’s unique philosophy of using specific word choices to teach his audiences “Exactly What To Say” in order to influence, persuade and drive outcomes, has made Phil one of the most practical and in-demand business speakers on the planet.

Phil currently lives with his wife Charlotte between their homes in New York City and their retreat in the Buckinghamshire countryside, has two beautiful daughters and a rather surprising passion for yoga.

Tanuja has over 20 years of experience in Human Resources with large multi nationals at leadership roles both India and USA. She held strategic and leadership roles with organisations like NTT Data, Bank of America and GE.

Tanuja is extremely passionate about the gender diversity cause. Currently Tanuja runs her company “Beyond Pinks” which focuses on gender issues and challenges at corporates as well as atuniversity level. She works with corporates to build leadership talent pipeline and on employability and sustainability of women at workplace.

Tanuja holds a Master’s degree in Human Resources and an Executive MBA from Cornell University.

Her personal belief in life: Live the day as if it’s your last.

Olivia Fox Cabane has lectured at Stanford, Yale, Harvard, MIT, the Marine Corps War College and the United Nations. As keynote speaker and executive coach to the leadership of Fortune 500 companies, she helps people become more
persuasive, influential, and inspiring. From a base of thorough behavioral science, Cabane extracts the most practical tools for business, applying the latest in global behavioral science to everyday leadership needs to improve her clients'
productivity, effectiveness and efficiency.

In addition to being a columnist for Forbes and The Huffington Post, Cabane is often featured in media such as The New York Times, Bloomberg or BusinessWeek. She has been profiled in The Wall Street Journal as well as NPR’s
Marketplace show. Her course at Berkeley’s Business School was so popular that university staff had to guard the entrance to ensure that only the students admitted to that course gained entrance. Cabane previously served as director
of Innovative Leadership for Stanford's StartX program. Her first book, The Charisma Myth, published by Penguin/Random House, went into second printing before it even launched.

Cabane has both French and American nationalities and is fluent in 4 languages; her books have been translated into 17 languages and she was the youngest person ever to have been appointed Foreign Trade Advisor to the French
Government. Her upcoming book on the mental side of innovation is representative of her ability to take the complexities of psychological factors and transform them into immediately applicable leadership tools for individuals.

Heather Tinsley-Fix is a Senior Advisor at AARP, where she leads the organization’s work on employer engagement and helps drive AARP’s focus on providing workers 50+ with the tools they need to thrive in today’s work environment.  With a background in marketing, innovation, and program management, Heather works with employers and job seekers, external partners, and academics to provide thought leadership on 50+ labor market issues and create practical resources that enable employers to capitalize on the value of experience. 

As the Director of Performance Management for Population Health, Christa Roberts focuses on advancing results and relationships with employers, health systems, health plans and other sponsors. Services are focused on health risk analysis and consultation to introduce advanced programs designed to manage results. Programs may include health navigation and engagement planning, coaching and care management, third party administration of claims or other financial incentives, community provider partnerships and/or on-site clinical services such as pharmacy, primary care and occupational health centers.

She makes an impact on clients by establishing performance management plans that center on population management and health risk. General management also focuses on advanced responsibilities including matrix management crossing multiple technologies, and services and use of consulting to offer clients advanced programs. Advanced programs require management of external partners which might include health system, physician practice, retail and/or other healthcare provider relationships.