Thursday, 2nd October 2025

8:30am – 5:30pm

Lords Cricket Ground, London, UK

How can we achieve the ‘impossible’?

Have you ever looked at a challenge that is so huge… so daunting… it looks impossible?

Do you see your people getting stumped because the challenge before them seems impossible?

Most of the leaders I encounter will say…

“The targets are getting higher.”

“The challenges are getting tougher.”

“We’re constantly being asked to achieve more, with less.”

It is a trend that seems to be escalating!

So, we thought we’d bring together a hand-picked selection of incredible people who have all conquered seemingly impossible challenges, to share their experience, insights and wisdom.

How do we take on ‘impossible challenges’?

How do we get our own mindset in shape?

How do we engage our people?

How do we enable them to overcome extreme challenges and set-backs?

We’re going to find out!

Be INSPIRED by…

Adam Walker, who is one the few people on Earth to swim the Oceans Seven challenge.

Martine Wright, who lost both her legs following the 7/7 bombings and went on to captain GB Volleyball team at the 2012 Paralympics.

Zara Rutherford, who became the youngest female to fly solo around the world!

John Volanthen, who achieved the impossible when he led the team that rescued 13 members of a football team from a cave in Thailand.

Our “This Is Mental!” special guest panel, who have overcome their own mental blocks and achieved their “impossible” challenges.

Mark Pollock, who has climbed mountains and raced to the South Pole… he’s also blind and paralysed!

and

Be World Class Founder, Simon Hartley.

and many more!

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THE SPEAKERS

Adam Walker – Ocean swimmer

Adam Walker is the first Brit and one of only a handful of people in the world to have completed the Oceans Seven Challenge.

After leaving University in 1999 having achieved a Sports Science degree, Adam pursued a career in Sales, initially working for Coca Cola. Within 12 months he was promoted to a higher position within Nestle and proceeded to work with a number of Blue Chip sales organisations at a senior level.

During this time Adam spent his evenings and weekends as a qualified ASA coach teaching swimming at his local pool, as well as competing with the Southwell Water Polo Team. In 2007 he began training for his first channel swim, the English Channel in support of the Whale and Dolphin Conservation. 7 years and 7 channel swims later Adam Walker has become the 1st British person to complete the Oceans Seven challenge (open water swimmings equivalent to the Seven Summits) and the 5th person in the World, helping to raise £10k so far for the WDC.

Martine Wright, MBE. – 7/7 survivor & Team GB Paralympic captain.

Martine Wright MBE, 7/7’s most injured survivor lost both legs in the Circle line bombing during the 2005 terrorist attacks on the London underground, yet she considers herself a lucky woman with a whole new life of opportunities.

Martine Wright MBE has since rebuilt her life, skydived, learned to fly, become a wife, mother, captain of the British Paralympic Sitting volleyball team, Ambassador, Patron, an inspirational and motivational speaker and much more!

On 6 July 2005 Martine Wright MBE and work friends gathered to watch the announcement of the host city for the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic games. The next morning, having overslept, Martine MBE caught the Circle line and sat just three feet away from suicide bomber Shehzad Tanweer. The worst injured, and consequently last rescued survivor of the 7/7 bombings, Martine MBE was trapped for over an hour having lost 80% of her blood supply as well as both legs above the knees. There followed a painful year of rehabilitation including learning to walk again on prosthetics.

It was the 2012 London Olympics and Paralympics that gave her life new shape and her days meaning. For everybody in Britain, those two days were among the strangest and most shocking in recent history for Martine Wright MBE it provided a springboard for new opportunities and goals and a new life!

Martine shares her story alongside her beliefs, her Power of 7. In these challenging times that we all find ourselves in her story of positivity and resilience is now ever more powerful.

Zara Rutherford – World-record-breaking pilot.

Zara Rutherford is a World-record-breaking pilot, women empowerment and equality activist.

In 2022, Zara Rutherford circumnavigated the globe in a small aircraft and became the youngest woman to fly solo around the world. Her journey lasted 4 months and 26 days.

Zara was born into a family of aviators and was lucky to have great role models in her parents and grandparents. She wants to build on this heritage and with her flight Zara aims to encourage young women to pursue their dreams and reduce the gender gap in aviation as well as in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).

Talking about her journey, Zara has said: “Only 5% of commercial pilots and 15% of computer scientists are women. With my flight I want to show young women that they can be bold, ambitious and make their dreams come true”.

John Volanthen – Cave diver and rescuer.

John Volanthen is a world record-holding British cave diver who has been involved in cave exploration and rescue for more than two decades. He began caving at the age of 14 and has been at the forefront of cave exploration since. In 2018, he played a key role in the Tham Luang Thailand cave rescue and was named one of TIME magazine’s “Heroes of the Year.” The courageous mission was chronicled in the National Geographic documentary The Rescue, as well as the book Thirteen Lessons That Saved Thirteen Lives: The Thai Cave Rescue and the critically acclaimed Hollywood film, Thirteen Lives, in which Volanthen is played by Colin Farrell.

Volanthen has been involved in exploring and mapping caves throughout the world, often with dive partner Rick Stanton. Volanthen and Stanton attended the Tham Luang incident in Thailand, where the duo were able to locate the missing children — something not even special forces were able to do. They then planned and executed their successful rescue, leading the team two-and-a-half kilometers through the flooded caves. A video of Volanthen and Stanton making initial contact with the team has since gone viral globally. Volanthen takes his audiences on an unforgettable journey deep into the Tham Luang caves of Thailand as he shares lessons that are key to performing in high-pressure situations and reveals how those principles can be applied by any organization working toward its goals.

In addition to Tham Luang, John has been involved in a number of other search, rescue, and recovery incidents around the world and has been awarded the George Medal for bravery. He is one of only two people to have been awarded Bronze, Silver and Gold medals by the Royal Humane society for his efforts.

Mark Pollock

Everything Mark Pollock does is about inspiring leaders and their teams to build resilience and collaborate with others so that they achieve more than they thought possible.

Unbroken by blindness in 1998, Mark became an adventure athlete competing in ultra-endurance races across deserts, mountains, and the polar ice caps including being the first blind person to race to the South Pole. He also won silver and bronze medals for rowing at the Commonwealth Games and set up an international motivational speaking business.

In 2010, a fall from a second story window nearly killed him. Mark broke his back and the damage to his spinal cord left him paralysed. Now he is on a new expedition, this time exploring the intersection where humans and technology collide to cure paralysis in our lifetime.

Chairman of Collaborative Cures and founder of the global running series Run in the Dark, Mark was selected by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader, served on the Global Futures Council on Human Enhancement and the Advisory Board of Cybathlon. He is a Wings for Life Ambassador (Europe) and was on the Board of the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation (USA) for a decade.

Author of ‘Making It Happen’, Mark is the subject of the acclaimed documentaries’ Blind Man Walking ’and ‘Unbreakable – The Mark Pollock Story’. He has been awarded honorary doctorates by The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and also from Queens University Belfast. Furthermore, he holds a diploma in Global Leadership and Public Policy for the 21st Century from Harvard University, degrees from Trinity College Dublin and UCD Smurfit Graduate Business School.

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 Motivation is P.E.A.R. Shaped and Stronger Together; How Great Teams Work.

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.