Thursday, 27th February 2025

18:30 – 21:00

Legends Lounge, Riverside Stadium, Middlesbrough FC.

How do we truly engage our people… hearts and minds?

Join us at The Riverside Stadium, home of Middlesbrough Football Club on 27th February 2025, for an evening dedicated to creating health, happiness, and high-performance in ourselves and our teams. You’ll hear from…

• British & Irish Lion rugby star and A380 captain, Tony Underwood.
• World champion open water swimmer and cardiac health champion, Nick Parkes.
• Elite sport psychology consultant and mental health advocate, Simon Hartley.

As well food, drink and a fantastic opportunity to network with incredible leaders from across the region, Tony, Nick, and Simon will share some of their insights and experiences.

• Caring Unlocks Excellence with Tony Underwood.
• Heart Matters with Nick Parkes.
• World Class Mindset – from the Foundation to the Podium – with Simon Hartley.

As if that wasn’t enough, you’ll also be helping raise money for two amazing charities – CEO Sleepout and The British Heart Foundation.

If that sounds good to you, click the button below to book your ticket!

Who is it for?

This event will be incredibly value to leaders from all walks of life – corporate business, SMEs, education, healthcare, public sector, charity sector, military and sport.

Come and network with 150 leaders from across the North East and Yorkshire who are all passionate about engaging their people… hearts and minds!

Tickets

Join us…

Tickets are just £25.00 (+VAT) per person.

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THE SPEAKERS

Simon Hartley, MSc. – Founder of Be World Class

Simon Hartley is a globally respected sport psychology consultant and performance coach. For almost 30 years, Simon has worked with gold medallists, world record holders, world champions, top five world-ranked professional athletes, Olympians and championship winning teams.

Since 2011, Simon has published twelve books, including Stronger Together; How Great Teams Work and Hire Great People.

During the last 20 years, Simon has also applied the principles of sport psychology to business, education, healthcare, the military and the charity sector. This has included projects with some of the world’s leading corporations and foremost executives. He is also an award winning international professional speaker, delivering keynotes throughout the world.

Tony Underwood – Former British & Irish Lions rugby star and A380 captain. 

Tony Underwood is best known as an England international and British & Irish Lions rugby player. As well as a successful professional club career for Leicester Tigers and Newcastle Falcons, Tony was capped 27 times by England and once by the British & Irish Lions.

Despite his many successes on the rugby field, Tony is remembered by many as the man who failed to stop Jonah Lomu in the World Cup semi-final of 1995, in Johannesburg. It’s a moment that had a profound impact on his life and has shaped his leadership.

Post rugby, Tony turned his focus to aviation. He began his flying career with EasyJet, before moving to Virgin Atlantic and finally Emirates, where he captained the A380 ‘super jumbo’.

Today, Tony helps organisations unlock excellence by fostering cultures that lead through care to inspire exceptional performance.

Tony also recognises that care doesn’t stop within an organisation’s walls. When businesses embrace care as a core value, it extends outward and can create impact on wider society. Aligning internal cultures with external action creates organisations that thrive while making a meaningful difference in the world.

Nick Parkes – Open water swimming world champion and cardiac champion.

Having swum competitively since he was young, Nick Parkes returned to the sport as an open water swimmer in 2010 and discovered he had unlocked a formidable power.

Since then, he has won a host of championships including the Spanish, German, Austrian and UK National Championships (which he has held for 10 years), and has been crowned European and World Champion.

In his words, Nick “died in the water” in 2023, when he suffered a cardiac arrest during the UK Championships in Sheffield.

Alongside his day job as a management consultant, Nick is now a cardiac health champion. He is on a mission to improve the health and wellbeing of communities, and empowering individuals to take proactive steps towards heart health.

As he says, “By focusing on raising awareness about cardiovascular diseases, promoting healthy lifestyles and information for early detection and prevention I am going to make changes to reduce the unacceptable incidents and deaths and improve the overall health of our communities.”