Sally Helgesen is an internationally acclaimed speaker and consultant who specialises in helping women achieve their potential in the workplace. She has delivered leadership programmes to companies including Microsoft, IBM, the World Bank and Pfizer. A contributing editor to strategy+business magazine, Helgesen is the author of six bestselling books including the classic bestseller The Female Advantage, as well as The Web of Inclusion, which was named by the Wall Street Journal as one of the greatest leadership books of all time.

Dr Marshall Goldsmith is widely recognised as the world's most influential leadership expert, renowned for his uncanny ability to help CEOs achieve lasting changes in behaviour. He has been named as one of the world's fifteen greatest business thinkers by The Times, described as one of America's 'Fifty Great Leaders' by Bloomberg Businessweek, and twice won 'World's Most Influential Leadership Thinker' at the Forbes Thinkers50 Awards. His 2008 book What Got You Here Won't Get You There was an international bestseller and remains the market-leading book on professional development.