Our 2024 Speakers
Tiffany St James
UK digital industry changemaker
Tiffany St James is an award-winning digital strategist and founder of consultancy, Transmute. She helps large, complex businesses navigate digital transformation through psychology, strategy, emerging technology and education.
She has been recognised as one of 25 women who have changed British Digital Industry in the last 25 years.
As a keynote speaker and digital industry educator, Tiffany has made a career from understanding, using and translating emerging technology to help clients and next gen talent.
Pascal Matthias
Associate VP - EDI and social justice, senior teaching fellow in fashion marketing and management
Pascal vigorously seeks to reimagine and restructure frameworks and metrics that have historically perpetuated bias and lack of Awareness and Accountability through lack of recruitment, lack of progression, non-inclusive workplace cultures and unsatisfactory strategic planning.
Pascal is a strong advocate for Inclusive language and transformational and cultural understanding of how language can simultaneously act as a limitation and liberation in the EDI space.
Emily Monsell-Holden
Feminist, optimist, non mother, social change maker
Emily is a Winchester resident, sister, wild swimmer, brand consultant, forager, friend, actor, wife, home-owner, food lover, wine lover, daughter, fermenter, book reader, cat person, doodler, aunty, walker, chatterbox, thinker, mentor, mentee, Swiss citizen, podcast host, apprentice darner, traveller, story-teller, fan of brass bands, cousin, neighbour. But she is not a mother. That’s what her talk is about.
Jennie Maizels
Award winning illustrator and pop-up book creator
Jennie has invented a wellbeing ‘tool’ called The Maizels Method.
Her methods are currently the subject of a major research project at University of Winchester, exploring the benefits of creating artwork well beyond your perceived ability, and the empowerment and euphoria that brings.
Mark Drury
Founder and Director of Spudworks
Mark works at the intersection of art, architecture and placemaking, creating multi award-winning building and youth projects.Mark is passionate about creating opportunities for people to engage with art, architecture, design and the environment, producing new work as a catalyst for exploration, debate and public understanding. The well-being of local communities is firmly embedded in and underpins all the work that Mark undertakes. This in turn drives the ownership and sustainability of projects.
Winchester Ukrainian Cultural Association
Performing live!
Formed in September 2023, a non profit organisation with support from Winchester City Council and Partners Community, the association gives support and provides voices to members of the Ukrainian community in the district. Its purpose is to showcase everything that is great about Ukrainian culture and bringing people together– there are 500 Ukrainian people in the district.
Holly Budge
Adventurer, Everest summiteer and the first woman to skydive Everest
Holly is an advocate for building mental toughness and has been described as “down-to-earth, funny and incredibly inspiring” by HRH Prince Edward.
Holly is the founder of UK Charity, ‘How Many Elephants’ and World Female Ranger Week. Her impactful work has been celebrated worldwide, including by Sir David Attenborough. She was recently listed in the Top 100 Women in Social Enterprise and is a UN Women UK Delegate.
Richard
Cheetham MBE
Senior Fellow in Sports Coaching and ‘Play Advocate’
Richard is a nationally and internationally recognised award winning coach educator with a special interest in highlighting the importance of play as integral to enhancing any learning environment with both children and adults. He is an advocate of encouraging the use of play in both teaching and coaching and shows the impact it can have not only for learning but for creating connections with others and supporting well-being. It is the rediscovering of play which is at the heart of his presentation.
Richard A Werner
Professor of economics and founder of Hampshire Community Bank
Richard is a graduate from the London School of Economics and holds a doctorate in economics from the University of Oxford. He has held senior position in finance across the global, with a key focus on Japan and Asia.
Richard is involved with establishing Hampshire Community Bank - The first not-for-profit community bank that works for Hampshire that serves the local community and works with SMEs and councils to deliver sustainable economic growth.
Lesley Collier
Occupational Therapist with a passion for all things sensory
Lesley initially started working as an Occupational Therapist for individuals with cognitive impairment. Whilst working with these individuals she became aware of the impact of sensory processing on mood and behaviour. Her research in this field has led to international training and workshops for therapists, carers and families supporting sensory processing for people with cognitive impairment. Lesley is now a Professor of Occupational Therapy at the University of Winchester.
James Poore
Architectural lighting designer and lighting expert
James is the founder and CCO of JPLD having dedicated his career to lighting and he has been working in the field of architectural lighting design for over 20 years. James is an expert on light, having given talks and written articles for various journals and publications and is a member and council member for the Society of Light and Lighting and Chartered Institute of Building Services Engineers as well as the Institute of Lighting Professionals, where he sits on the education & architectural committees.
Maddy Thomson
Consultant nurse in palliative medicine and clinical lead for end of life care
Maddy is a passionate advocate for outstanding care a the end of life. A consultant nurse in palliative medicine and the clinical lead for end of life care here in Winchester for Hampshire Hospitals Foundation Trust, she has spent much of the last 5 years fundraising and raising awareness for an adult hospice in Winchester. The hospice has now cared for over 1000 inpatients and many more in the community, with more service developments to come. She has visited Ghana to teach, support clinics and explore end of life care and is a visiting lecturer at the University of Winchester.