Active Uprising 2025

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Active Uprising 2025 is returning to the QEII Centre in Westminster on Thursday 6th March 2025.

Active Uprising is our flagship event that exists to inspire and champion our sector and our members with a range of motivational speakers to provoke positive and progressive ideas.

​​​​​​Our annual conference brings together senior business executives, high-level decision makers, operational leads, business and partnership professionals, Government Ministers, and thought leaders to discuss and debate the projected growth of the sector across the rest of the decade.

The theme for 2025 is ‘No Growth without Health: Physical Activity’s Role in National Renewal’, focusing on the growth and development of the sector across the UK. This event will have an emphasis on the crucial role the sector will play in helping drive economic growth supporting a happier and healthier society.

SPEAKERS

Please see below for our incredible speaker roster for Active Uprising 2025.

Mark Shayler

Mark helps big companies think like small ones and small companies think like big ones. He has worked in sustainability for 33 years and works on the creativity and innovation of products, services and business models; and he is a coach and facilitator for businesses and individuals.

His clients include Patagonia, Nike, Samsung, EE, Audi, Bombay Sapphire, Seedlip, Universal Works, Unilever, Mars and many more.

Mark is the author of three books: “Do Disrupt, change the status quo or become it” then “Do Present, how to give a talk and be heard”. Latterly, his third book “You Can’t Make Money from a Dead Plant: The sustainable method for driving profits” was published by Kogan Page in 2023. Over the last 20 years he has been a keynote speaker for events all over the world.

Iain Pringle

Iain Pringle is a loyalty consultant and Managing Partner at New World Loyalty, with 30 years of experience in loyalty marketing.  A key contributor to the creation of Avios for International Airlines Group, Iain has worked with major brands including Shell, British Airways, Virgin Atlantic, Nectar, Tesco and Delta Airlines. His expertise spans strategy, customer insights, and delivering end-to-end loyalty solutions, such as launching a coalition programme in South Africa.  Iain is also a founding partner of Loyalty Wired, a podcast reaching a global audience across 45 countries, sharing insights and best practices in the loyalty industry.

Join loyalty expert Iain Pringle as he shares insights from 30 years of experience in loyalty marketing and behavioural incentives.  Drawing on real-world examples, Iain will explore how incentives can drive meaningful behaviour change, outline key principles of loyalty theory, and reveal lessons rarely found in textbooks—or AI-generated advice! Packed with practical tips for program managers, this session will offer valuable advice on building a compelling business case for loyalty programs. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn, engage, and get your questions answered by a global leader in the loyalty industry.

Laura-Jane Rawlings

Laura-Jane is a passionate campaigner for youth employment and the rights for all young people to access employment and have their voices heard on the issues that affect them.

Laura-Jane is a CEO & Board Member with more than 17+ years’ experience of leading both for profit and non-profit organisations. With personal experience of social inequality and poverty, Laura-Jane founded Youth Employment UK in 2012, believing that there was a need to put young people at the heart of youth employment policy and services on a local and national level. Youth Employment UK is an internationally regarded not-for-profit, social enterprise supporting young people, employers, educators, third sector organisations and policy colleagues.

Recognised as a leading youth employment expert Laura-Jane provides support, insight and expertise to many groups Co-Founder & Chair of the Youth Employment Group, Secretariat and Advisor to the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Youth Employment, a founding Board Member of the Youth Futures Foundation and most recently appointed as a Governor of The Bedford College Group and a Deputy Lieutenant for Northamptonshire.

Laura-Jane has also co-authored a number of reports, and provided content for published works. Reports include: Role of the Family in Social Mobility, Commission on Post 16 Education, Impact of place on youth employment – APPG Report, Making youth employment policy work - APPG Report.

Dr Hussain Al-Zubaidi

Dr Hussain Al-Zubaidi is a lifestyle TV doctor and athlete coach. He is a team GB age group long distance triathlete. Movement, community, and nutrition are three cornerstones of his personal and professional life. He has a varied portfolio career across several sectors. These include being parkrun’s health partnerships lead, Royal College of GPs lifestyle and physical activity lead, Leamington NHS personalised care lead, as well as a SWIM England clinical advisor and a board member for Sport in Mind.

He runs a pioneering NHS based lifestyle clinic and fitness club helping to educate and support patients to eat better, move more and connect with their community. He has a strong focus on health span and social prescribing. He is a well-respected educator delivering numerous talks and lectures to audiences both professional and public including regular TV and radio appearances including over 80 appearances on Channel 4, BBC & ITV.

Jason Stanton

Jason has more than 25 years in the leisure, health, golf and cultural sectors. Having worked in both the private and public sector, Jason joined Mytime Active in 2015, as the Divisional Manager for the company’s golf portfolio and was then appointed as Operations Director in 2016 and finally promoted to Chief Executive in April 2022.

Mytime Active are on a mission to improve the wellbeing of the communities in which they operate, which is also one of their corporate goals. We have developed a process to measure members wellbeing through their Personal Wellbeing Factor, which enables us to measure the wellbeing of our members against local residents, with members currently having an improved PWF of 13%. We have also developed our own Theory of Change, Our Pathway to Improved Wellbeing with programmes centred around Be Active, Eat Well, be Together and Be together, which are our pillars to improved wellbeing. Finally we have also developed our own Wellbeing Hub principle, where we signpost members to our own or partners health inequality programmes, which ultimately drive improved wellbeing.

Jason’s career has enabled him to gain a wealth of experience in operations. Jason specialises in the successful delivery of both social and commercial objectives, strategic development, organisational improvement, the delivery of excellent customer service, developing innovative stakeholder partnerships, establishing best practice, delivering capital investment programmes and developing a highly performing workforce.

Elizabeth Bachrad

Elizabeth is a Population Health Strategist and Head of Programme Strategy at Business for Health, catalysing and facilitating business contributions to reduce health inequalities and increase healthy life expectancy. Bridging academia, government and industry approaches, she advises SMEs globally in human capital management and ESG strategies to promote sustainable health, economic development and community-level impact across the business ecosystem. She also co-founded Sable Advisory Services, advising SMEs in social innovation and impact management, and sits on the Workplace Wellbeing Initiative for the Global Wellness Institute. She is a mission-driven advocate for achieving health, equity and environmental sustainability - The Triple Win.

Oliver Coppard

Born and raised in South Yorkshire, Oliver took office as Mayor in May 2022 on a platform of restoring the pride, purpose and prosperity of South Yorkshire. He was re-elected in May 2024 when the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner was brought under the remit of the South Yorkshire Mayor.

Since graduating from Leeds University, Oliver has worked for a range of organisations including Barnsley Council where he worked on low carbon regeneration projects, in Parliament and the US Congress, South Yorkshire’s Local Enterprise Partnership and the charity BookTrust. He was Chair of the Board at Sheffield Hallam Students’ Union and has worked on a number of high-profile political campaigns, both within the region and abroad.

As Mayor, Oliver is working on delivering his manifesto pledge to fight for a better deal for South Yorkshire. In line with another of his pledges, to improve transport in the region, Oliver has already brought the tram network back under public control.

Tina Woods

Tina Woods is a mission-driven social entrepreneur and system architect bringing diverse stakeholders together in shared endeavours to improve health, working at the cross section of science, technology, investment and policy/government. She is Founder and CEO of Collider Health and works with private, public and third sectors.

She is Founder and CEO of Business for Health, a business-led social venture developing a Business Framework for Health, bringing in ‘Health’ into ‘ESG’ mandates to support long-term sustainable innovation and investment in preventative health and care.

She is the Healthy Longevity Champion for the National Innovation Centre for Ageing, co-leading the Quantum Healthy Longevity Innovation Mission and City of Longevity programme.

She is Executive Director of the International Institute of Longevity, combining her interest in taking the latest science and technology of longevity into the 'next frontier' to understand what really drives human healthspan, resilience and flourishing while protecting the planet.

Tina is the co-founder of Longevity Rave, a collective of entrepreneurs, scientists, DJs and artists that organise raves around the world using the power of music, joy and connection to bring the generations together to dance and celebrate life and humanity.

Tina sits on various advisory groups, including the XPRIZE Global Visioneering Brain Trust, Strategic Advisory Board for the BBSRC Bioscience for an Integrated Understanding of Health, and BSI standards group for AI in health and care. She is also a trustee for the British Society for Research on Ageing.

Tina was director of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Longevity secretariat (2016-2023)

Tina’s book, ‘Live Longer with AI: How artificial intelligence is helping us extend our healthspan and live better too' was published in October 2020.

She studied genetics at Cornell University in the USA and also has an MBA from Bayes Business School in London.

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