Be Bold! The Lecture Series for brave thinking

Matthew Syed is an author and highly acclaimed speaker about mindset and high performance with titles including; Bounce, Black Box Thinking, Rebel Ideas, The Greatest, and his celebrated children’s books, What Do You Think?, You Are Awesome and Dare To Be You.   

To find out more about Matthew’s work, visit: www.matthewsyed.co.uk  

Tomiwa Owolade is a journalist and author, focusing on identity, religion, culture and current affairs for a wide variety of publications. Tomiwa has written for The Times, the New Statesman and The Observer and his first book This is Not America, was published in June 2023.  

Tomiwa discussed with us ideas of exploring race in the UK through a British perspective. 

Hannah is an award-winning journalist and author of Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock's Gender Service for Children. Hannah is Associate Editor at the New Statesman and worked as Senior Journalist and Investigations Producer on BBC's Newsnight. 

Hannah's talk explored the intricacies of gender identity. 

Tim is a prize-winning economist. He has taught at various UK universities, was a senior civil servant and worked on the National Funding Formula for schools, the furlough scheme, and the creation of the Longitudinal Education Outcomes dataset. 

Tim discussed the economic challenges facing tomorrow's graduates.  

Jonathan Simons is one of the UK’s leading political commentators and works as a partner and Director of Education at Public First, which helps organisations navigate and understand government policy.  

Jonathan discussed: Is democracy dead in the UK (and the US) and does anyone care? 

David is a journalist, commentator, and author with over two decades of experience in tackling issues of equality and discrimination. After working at the Financial Times for 12 years, he co-founded Prospect magazine in 1995. In December 2011, he was appointed Director of Demos, a London-based think tank, and in 2017, he became Head of the Demography, Immigration, and Integration Unit at Policy Exchange. In this role, he has played a leading part in key policy debates on race, co-authoring the influential report Bittersweet Success, which explores the experiences of ethnic minorities in elite professions.

Chloe is a bestselling author, global speaker, futurist, researcher, and consultant. Her primary area of expertise is young people – Generation Z and Generation Alpha. She has interviewed over 20,000 young people globally and utilises that expertise into helping schools, brands, companies, governments, and institutions understand and prepare for the present and future. All Chloe's work is underwritten by serious quantitative and qualitative research and data and unparalleled knowledge, using a coveted and highly successful approach and methodology – one that has won her rave reviews.

To find out more about Chloe’s work, click HERE.