Chris Atkinson is passionate about executive team development and coaching business leaders to achieve their full potential. He is a former vice president of Microsoft, where he re-invigorated their Asia Pacific Headquarters. Chris’s biggest contribution to the success of his teams, which spanned more than a decade, was his decision to become a coach to his leaders. Chris helped each team build trust, crystalise growth opportunities, achieve goal clarity and implement the disciplines of great execution required to achieve their success. In 2013 Chris moved back to Guernsey and is now an executive team development consultant and business coach. One of Chris’s long-standing clients, the IT software company FSP, is the UK’s #1 Great Place to Work in the Medium Organisation category and over the last 5 years has been the recipient of many of the UK’s Best Workplaces™ Awards run by the Great Place To Work® Institute.

Dr Simon Haslam has over 20 years experience as a consultant and workshop facilitator. He leads the strategy faculty for the Institute of Directors and teaches strategy at different international locations, working with directors and senior leaders from a range of organisations. Simon co-owns the market and social research firm FMR Research Ltd, whose work has been cited in Westminster and Scottish Parliaments. He is also a voluntary non-executive director with a community transport charity and a board member/trustee of the Social Research Association. He is a Visiting Fellow at ‘triple accredited’ Durham University Business School, where he leads the Strategic Management module on the Global MBA programme and contributes to programmes on change management. He is a double-finalist in the CMI/Institute of Consulting UK ‘Consultant of the Year’ awards (runner-up in 2011) and was nominated to represent the UK in the 2012 Constantinus International (International Council of Management Consulting Institutes) awards. In 2013 he was elected to the UK Institute of Consulting, Advisory Committee. His clients include award winning public, private and third sector organisations, notably a 2008 Queens Award winner, for whom Simon was lead consultant on its strategic review and mentor to one of its executive directors, and a 2008 UK National Training Award winner, for whom Simon designed and delivered Strategic Decision Making director development.

Steve Giles is a chartered accountant with over 25 years’ experience of advising directors and managers on business issues concerning governance, risk and compliance. Whilst at Deloitte, he worked on a number of high-profile assignments including managing the Polly Peck investigation. After leaving Deloitte, Steve has set up and run two companies and has worked in many countries to achieve successful outcomes for his clients with a variety of business issues, including weak board performance, poor risk management, cultural issues, corporate fraud and reputational damage. He specialises in working with directors and senior executives to improve performance. Steve speaks extensively around the world on corporate governance, risk management, economic crime and business ethics. His engagements include chairing and speaking at international conferences; lecturing for professional bodies such as the ACCA and ICAEW; facilitating regular corporate governance workshops at the London Stock Exchange; and running hundreds of training courses over the last 15 years. Steve became a course leader with the IoD in 2016. Steve is much in-demand because of his expertise and his engaging delivery style. He always ensures that his material combines the latest theory and best-practice techniques with practical tips and advice. Steve holds an MA from Christ Church, Oxford, has been a guest lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire and is a published author, his first book being “Managing Fraud Risk” and his most recent one being “The Business Ethics Twin-Track” published by John Wiley & Sons in 2015