From a medical family, Sven travelled widely and completed two years in special forces before completing medicine. His passion for sport and flow took him into sports medicine where he discovered the power of deliberate, scientific training to secure both individual and team success.
Sven has worked extensively with professional firms, banks, corporates, government, entrepreneurs, universities, schools and sport. He leads the development of the Resilience Institute’s methodology, research and training and is actively involved in supporting leadership teams around the world to build personal and organizational resilience.

Dawn Metcalfe is the author of 3 books (Managing the Matrix, HardTalk, and The Possibilities Project). Her fourth book focuses on how individuals, teams, and organizations can see sustainable change by using the levers already available in their organizations to build cultures that match and support their objectives. Its launch was postponed by the onset of the crisis but will be out in 2021. Based in Dubai and grounded in Sri Lanka since March 2020, Dawn is the Managing Director of PDSi. They help individuals and teams get even better at what they do at their best.

Dr. Taryn Marie is the former Head of Executive Leadership Development and Talent Strategy at Nike, Global Leadership Development at Cigna, and founded Resilience Leadership, where she serves as the Chief Resilience Officer (CRO), leveraging the empirically-based framework, The Five Practices of Particularly Resilient People, for executive coaching, top-team effectiveness, high potential leadership programs and workshops, and inspirational keynote addresses. Dr. Taryn Marie is a foremost international expert on resilience, in leadership and life. She is the author of “Flourish or Fold: The Five Practices of Particularly Resilient People”, expected to be released in 2021.

Accomplished Senior Executive with strong business leadership in Operations and Strategic Business Transformation across diverse, complex and challenging business environments. Broad UK and International background in Financial Services, leader of leaders, seasoned professional operating from Vision and Strategy all the way to Execution whilst achieving stretching commercial targets and strategic imperatives.

Dr. Ali Fenwick is Professor of Organizational Behavior and Innovation at Hult International Business School and Founder / Chief Scientific Officer at LEAD TCML - Center for Applied Behavioral Science & Technology. Ali’s work lays at the intersection of human performance, behavioral science, and technology. He designs and implements behavioral-based solutions for corporations, educational institutions, digital platform developers, sport teams, government and the military and is a behavioral expert on TV. Ali has worked for various companies such as Unilever, Philips, Mercedes-Benz, Porsche, PWC, LVMH, Bosch, and Novartis. Ali has an MBA from Rotterdam School of Management and a PhD in Organizational Behavior from the Nyenrode Business University in The Netherlands.

Over the past 20 years Andrew has worked in Learning and Organisational Development in Australia, the UK, and South West Pacific. He has experience in advancing people and performance in finance, education, technology, retail, and elite level sport. Helping people perform at their peak is what gets him out of the bed in the morning, sometimes way too early. Andrew works with Cricket Australia, Mercedes Benz, Apple, AIA, BP and many more to develop high performing teams in demanding contexts.

Sunil is a seasoned leadership and human capital researcher and thought leader with over 20 years of experience across large global organizations. In his current role at the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL), he leads thought leadership and new product development. Prior to CCL, Sunil was the head of research at Human Capital Leadership Institute (HCLI), a center set up by the Singapore Government under Singapore Management University (SMU), to develop global generation Asian leaders. He has authored several research studies, including “BOLD 3.0: Future Fluent Board Leadership in Asia”, “Imagining Asia 2030: Future Fluent Asian Leader”, “Architecting Future Fluent Culture: Critical Role of Human Resources (Asia Study)”, “Developing Global Asian Leaders: From Local Stars to Global CXOs”, “CHRO 3.0”, “HR Leadership Stall Points”. In 2015, he co-edited a book titled “Human Capital Insights: Inspiring Practices from Asia, for Asia”. Sunil is an alumnus of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi, India, and Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad, India.

Lasse is a Partner, Chief spirit officer, and founding trustee of Oxford Leadership. He is one
of Oxford Leadership’s most experienced facilitators of the Self Managing Leadership®
program. He has worked internationally with CEO´s and leaders in some of the largest
companies in the world. Lasse draws on his personal and practical experience of leading his
own companies through upturns and downturns over two decades.

Eduardo is the Co-Founder & CEO of Mindset Works, the leading provider of growth mindset development services and programs. Since he co-founded it in 2007 with Carol Dweck, Lisa Blackwell, and others, Mindset Works has supported thousands of schools and businesses in their advancement of learning-oriented cultures and systems. Eduardo is a frequent keynote speaker at leading national and international conferences. His two TEDx talks, The Power of Belief and How to get better at the things you care about have each been viewed by millions.

Lieven Van Linden is a passionate entrepreneur, speaker and leadership lifestyle coach who finds happiness in helping business leaders all over the world in mastering their health and being.

Caterina Kostoula is an executive coach and founder of The Leaderpath. She coaches leaders and teams to maximize their impact and fulfilment. Before The Leaderpath, Caterina was a global business leader at Google. Caterina has coached leaders and teams from Amazon, Booking, Expedia, Google, Ferrero, Improbable, Vodafone, Workable, WPP, and several entrepreneurs. She is an alumni coach for INSEAD business school and writes on Forbes, Thrive Global and Fast Company. Her book “Hold Successful Meetings” will be published by Penguin in April 2021.

Ryan Wolf is the Physical Wellbeing Lead at Gallup. He leads Gallup’s physical health and wellbeing initiatives through strategic partnerships with Gallup’s research team, benefits department, and external medical and wellness partners. He administers “In The Zone,” Gallup’s physical wellbeing program, which provides Gallup associates, spouses, and family members with opportunities to pursue greater wellbeing by participating in health initiatives and educational challenges. He works closely with Gallup fitness center staff who coach and consult Gallup associates for improved and measurable health outcomes.

Facilitating wellbeing through better awareness, relationships, engagement and meaning is her passion. Jana’s multidisciplinary background in organisational and intercultural communication, positive psychology, coaching, and mindfulness have fashioned her expertise in developing and delivering evidence-based, culturally applicable programmes in numerous organisational contexts. As a positive psychology practitioner, she is an advocate of a strengths-based approach in guiding individuals, teams and organisations to develop positive behaviours that cultivate resilient and flourishing organisations.

Andrew Tarvin is a speaker / trainer / author / coach who teaches people and organizations how to use humor to be more effective while having fun.

He has delivered 100+ speaking and training sessions for over 10,000 people at more than 100 organizations, including Procter & Gamble, GE, General Assembly, and The Ohio State University.

He “drops knowledge” on a number of topics including humor in the workplace, inspirational leadership, communicating confidently, team-building, creative problem-solving, enhanced productivity and strategic disengagement.

Through his company, he is working to help people find success by tapping into their natural personality, leveraging their sense of humor and learning ways to enjoy their work more.

Antonia Hock is the Global Head of The Ritz-Carlton Leadership Center and has extensive experience leading high impact business units and driving transformation in customer experience, high performance culture and employee engagement.
Her passion for highly differentiated customer experiences grounded in employee excellence has created exceptional brand loyalty across segments and industries.

Accomplished Senior Executive with extensive global experience in leading strategy, business transformation, M&A and digital product innovation enabling industry leading growth in public listed technology & financial services companies.

Experienced Management Consultant and Chief Operating Officer with a demonstrated history of working in professional services firms. Skilled in Business Planning, IT Strategy, Management, Business Intelligence, and Business Process Re-engineering. Strong Strategy and operations professional with a FCA focused in Business Transformation and Governance.

Dinesh is the Founder of Apptizer Inc. and Chairman of hSenid Group of companies. Dinesh has over 30 years of experience in the IT, and related technology industries. He is a serial entrepreneur having founded more than 6 companies over the last 3 decades. Dinesh sets the vision and strategy for new business ventures for hSenid. He is also responsible for coaching and developing the management team, and setting direction for the company International Expansions.

An accomplished globally experienced management and technology executive, leader, and strategist with 20+ years of hands-on experience and international exposure in distributed/offshore software development operations. A proven leader, leveraging technical, operations management, human resources and interpersonal skills to manage large-scale software development operations.

Pradeep Uluwaduge counts over fifteen years of experience in the field of Human Resource Management and Human Resource Development, Legal, Corporate Affairs both in Sri Lanka and overseas. He has performed as the Group HR Manager at DPMC Financial Services, International HR and Corporate Affairs Manager at MindChamps Singapore, as the Head of HR at Kanuhura Resort Maldives and Head of HR and Administration at Commercial Leasing and Finance Plc. Pradeep has completed his bachelors of Laws degree with an honours pass at the Faculty of Law University of Colombo and completed his Master in Laws degree also from the same University. He holds a diploma in HRM from UK and is an attorney at law and a notary public and a registered company secretary. He is a life member of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka and an Associate Member of the prestigious Singapore Academy of Law and a professional member of the Singapore Human Resource Institute.

In his present position Pradeep performs as the Group Chief HR Officer of LOLC overlooking HR functions of the entire Group. Apart from that he is a member of the Group’s Remuneration Committee, Integrated Risk Management Committee and the sustainability Committee.

He was awarded as the Best under 40 Business Leader in year 2016 by the Alumni Association of the Post Graduate Institute of Management (PIM) and was nominated as a Council Member of the National Chamber of Commerce for year 2017.

CE and DX Strategist. Practitioner. Key note speaker. 3 decades of experience & expertise within the Mobile/Telco Industry. Working with Dialog Axiata since 1997. Member of the Group Senior Management Committee, Director - Dialog Business Services, Sponsor - Lean Six Sigma Practice, Digital CEx Transformation Lead, Chairperson - CX Experience Excellence Group Leadership Committee of Dialog, Chairperson - Digital CEx Expert Working Group, Axiata

Only Certified Customer Experience Professional (CCXP) in Sri Lanka, AX50 - Ambient Experience Leader 2020, CX Leader of the Year 2019 & CXPA Global CX Impact Award Winner 2015

Vice Chairperson/Board Member & Founder Member of SLASSCOM - the country's IT/Knowledge Services Chamber - initiated SLASSCOM Quality forum, Techkidz & Women Technopreneurs forum, Founder member & board member of WCDSL - Womens Chamber for Digital Sri Lanka, Founder VP of SLISM - Sri Lanka Institute of Service Management & Founder Member CPM - Institute of Certified Professional Managers.

Visiting Lecturer at the University of Colombo School of Computing ( UCSC), Mentor and Keynote Speaker/Presenter/ Panelist and Juror at Global CE/DX/Telco Forums/Conferences & Awards. Past Advisory Board Member of CX Networks, IQPC, UK

Mr. Lasantha Dasanayaka is the Vice President - Group Human Resources, at the National Development Bank (NDB) PLC in Sri Lanka and is a member of the Banks Senior Leadership team.
Lasantha has over 22 years of work experience in various corporate sectors such as the Aviation Industry, IT/BPM Industry, Manufacturing sector and the Financial Services Industries, where he has held progressive HR leadership positions in both local and multinational corporates.
He has had his early professional education at the Chartered Institute of Personnel Management (CIPM) Sri Lanka and is a Certified Human Resources Manager and Fellow of the Cambridge Association of Managers (UK). He also holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration (UNEM). Apart from being a HR professional, he is also a Licensed Flight Operations Officer (ICAO) and was a General Council Member of the IT / BPM Industry Chamber SLASSCOM and is currently a Steering Committee Member of the Employers’ Federation of Ceylon’s (EFC’s) Network on Disability.