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Emily Campbell is a British weightlifter, the most successful British weightlifter of modern times and greatest British female of all time. She is a Commonwealth and four-time European champion, and a double World and Olympic medallist.
In 2021, competing in the +87 kg category, Campbell became both European champion, and the first British woman to win an Olympic medal in the sport, with silver at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. In 2022 she retained her European title, won the Gold medal at her home Commonwealth Games in a new Commonwealth Games record, and upgraded her 2021 World Championships bronze medal to a silver in Bogota.
In 2023, Campbell confirmed a hat-trick of three successive European titles, before in 2024 recreating her 2021 success, winning her fourth consecutive European title and her second Olympic medal, a bronze in the +81 kg category at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.

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.

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.

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.

The Rt Hon Stuart Andrew MP was appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, and Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Equalities) for the Equality Hub on 27 October 2022.

He was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport between 20 September 2022 and 27 October 2022, and Minister of State at the Ministry of Justice between 8 July 2022 and 7 September 2022.

He was Minister of State (Minister for Housing) in the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities from 8 February 2022 to 6 July 2022.

He was Treasurer of HM Household (Deputy Chief Whip) from 13 February 2020 to 8 February 2022.

He was Vice Chamberlain of HM Household (Government Whip) from 28 July 2019 to 13 February 2020. He was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Minister for Defence Procurement at the Ministry of Defence from July 2018 to July 2019.

He was an Assistant Government Whip from 15 June 2017 to 19 July 2018 and Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Wales Office from 9 January 2018 to 19 July 2018.

With 18 years experience in the health & fitness industry, Jules started her career at Front of House before moving into a Sales & Marketing Exec position within operations. Julie then went onto manage Front of House and Customer Service before joining TRP/Fitronics as a Customer Engagement Coach. Jules joined Active Insight (formerly Leisure-net Solutions) as Business Development Director in 2022 and is passionate about utilising data to develop the customer experience leading to increased physical activity for infants through to active ageing. Staying close to the member experience – Jules still teaches Zumba and Spin!