It is a word that is often reduced to regulation and compliance, to not breaking the rules, or at worst, not getting caught.

But the complex, often chaotic nature of the world does not lend itself to being reduced to a simple rulebook and neither do the global challenges we face – whether climate change, rising inequalities, social, economic and political unrest.

The choices we face are inescapably knotty, messy, entangled, confused and confusing. In this context, acting with integrity cannot be limited to simply knowing which rules to apply. In fact, integrity becomes invaluable precisely when the rulebooks no longer suffice. 

And when we step into the uncharted territory of the new and the emergent, it is then that acting with integrity becomes essential.

Claiming integrity is one thing, translating it into actions, beyond an abstract set of rules, something else entirely

Who is this for?

• Board members shaping strategic direction.
• C-suite executives driving cultural transformation.
• Founders building organisations from the ground up.
• High-potential leaders ready to inherit complex challenges.

But more important than your title is your willingness to engage, to be challenged and to pioneer a new model of leadership.

Dr. Jeremy Chapman is a globally experienced practitioner with a particular interest in responsible business and he advocates a deeper understanding and harnessing of integrity as a way of being; a force for diminishing fear and influencing prosperity.
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Jeremy is a director of Sycamore Alliance Ltd, a wealth manager, and Honestley Ltd, a not for profit, and is the creator of Umbrella Money. He is also a Research Fellow with the UNESCO Futures Literacy Finance Chair at École des Ponts Business School, Paris, and a Futures Fellow at Hawkwood College, Stroud. He was the winner of the SJP Responsible Business of the Year Award 2023.

Jeremy holds a Professional Doctorate degree, DProf by Public Works, awarded by the Business and Law Faculty at Middlesex University, London. 

Dr. Shilan Fuad Hussain is currently a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow in the field of Gender Studies and cultural analysis and a Senior Consultant for gender-related issues in society. She is an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She was previously a Visiting Fellow at the Washington Kurdish Institute (U.S.), and a Doctoral Fellow at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy(Switzerland), where she has published several papers and received tailored training. She holds a Master’s degree from the University of Bologna (Italy) in Middle Eastern Studies and a Ph.D. from the University of Urbino (Italy) in Cultural Analysis. Since gaining her Ph.D., she has continued to publish in academic peer-reviewed journals and has developed a track record in the field of Cultural Analysis, alongside Middle Eastern and Kurdish Studies. 

She is an interdisciplinary academic and works on a variety of topics, among them: cultural representation, production, and practices; gender-based violence and women’s human rights; state policies enhancing female equality; FGM, sexuality, and arranged/forced marriages; the social impacts of masculinity; and multi-identity in the diaspora – which are topics that mirror her published papers. Her current work sits at the intersection of sociology and cultural analysis, and its symbiotic relevance to modern society. She has engaged in comparative cultural research in the Middle East and Europe, with a focus on women and society, hence her research is multi-sited and multi-method

Louise has over 30-years of experience working in a wide range of sectors within different disciplines, including consultancy and learning and development, for large, multi-national organisations and small, niche businesses. This wide breadth of practitioner experience across different cultures has developed a strong, transdisciplinary foundation.

Louise is currently the Academy Director at Consalia Sales Business School, who partner with Middlesex University to deliver two-sales degree apprenticeships and an Executive MSc. Professional Practice in Leading Sales Transformation. Action research and reflective practice are key threads throughout these programmes, which lead to innovation and transformation in the students’ professional practice and develop continuous learning approaches. A member of the Association for Coaching and accredited as an Executive Coach, Louise coaches both executives and young people and facilitates coaching workshops. Her passion is helping people to embrace learning and achieve their potential at any age. 

Louise recently received The Peter Critten Award for Learning Reach and is focused on helping others to find opportunities for innovation and change in their practice and to bring about change through change in themselves.  Louise holds a Professional Doctorate degree, DProf by Public Works, awarded by the Business and Law Faculty at Middlesex University, London.

Dr. Caspar van Helden is an interdisciplinary pioneer in critical education, resilience building, and futures thinking. As director of the European Collaboratorium on Anticipatory Dynamics, he bridges action research with impact design, fostering cross-sector collaborations to drive future-focused transformations.

He holds a PhD in Education Sciences from the University of Michigan, a Master’s in Critical Discourse Analysis from the University of Amsterdam, and a Bachelor’s in Communications from the University of Vienna. He also studied Rhetoric at UC Berkeley and is qualified to design and lead futures literacy labs.

Caspar moves fluidly across diverse environments—from research universities to global corporations, oceans to megacities, and philosophy to concrete impact—creating connections that blend experience design, anticipatory sciences, and systemic change.

An advocate of critical, regenerative, and radical transformation, Caspar focuses on creating impact that strengthens eco-social systems. His shadowboard initiative, which brings together intergenerational teams for futures thinking and doing, highlights his commitment to inclusive, future-driven collaboration.

Dr. Debs Wright is a pioneering voice in reimagining self-leadership for contemporary organisations. With over two decades of senior leadership experience in the Royal Air Force, including commanding the RAF's critical emergency logistics wing and serving as Chief of Staff to the Chief People Officer, she brings unique insights into leading cultural transformation within complex hierarchical structures.

Her doctoral research introduces innovative frameworks for understanding self-leadership, challenging traditional notions that equate it solely with willpower and discipline. Through concepts like 'internal intersectionality,' she demonstrates how deeper self-awareness and appreciation can transform both individual leadership capability and organisational culture. Her work has influenced UK defence policy and practice, particularly in addressing systemic cultural challenges and fostering inclusive leadership environments.

Currently, Debs focuses on developing preventative approaches to organisational challenges through enhanced self-understanding. She advocates for simple yet powerful daily practices that help leaders develop stable minds and integrate all aspects of themselves - including those they find challenging. This work extends beyond individual development to address systemic change, particularly examining how self-leadership can serve as an antidote to generational lag in organisational culture.

As a coach, she works with organisations to build futures literacy through enhanced self-awareness, helping leaders anticipate and prevent challenges rather than merely responding to them. Her approach aligns individual integrity with organisational purpose, fostering responsible business practices that create lasting positive impact.

Bodhi Aldridge guides impactful leaders worldwide on their quest to true freedom. He is on a mission to lead those entangled in life's complexities toward genuine connection and profound impact. His core philosophy asserts that "everyone has magnificence within them - it just has to be remembered."

His journey as a father, a grandfather, a lawyer, a coach and a facilitator has taken him across the world diving deep into traditional teachings and contemporary leadership development so that he could find his own magnificence and bring those teachings to other leaders.

Bodhi creates a safe space for his clients to be authentic, share their deepest challenges, get to the heart of what really matters and then create a pathway that makes them richer leaders, entrepreneurs and wealth creators. His insights and methodologies have empowered executives and leaders from some of the world’s leading companies, including Tesla, Google and Amazon.

Pedro is an educator, theatre-maker, and futures literacy practitioner whose work bridges performance, pedagogy, and futures thinking. With over 20 years’ experience in higher education, he has held senior academic roles at Middlesex University and Buckinghamshire New University, helping shape programmes that centre creativity, inclusivity, and critical inquiry. His pedagogical approach is deeply informed by his commitment to diversity, decolonisation, and experiential learning. He has developed and led curriculum initiatives across undergraduate and postgraduate levels, chaired national working groups on equity in theatre education, and mentored doctoral researchers. He currently teaches at Oxford Brookes University and is completing a Transdisciplinary Doctorate (DProf) by Public Works, reflecting his commitment to socially engaged, practice-led research.

Internationally recognised for his work in futures literacy, Pedro has designed and facilitated workshops for institutions including UNESCO and the UN High-Level Committee on Programmes Foresight Network, exploring how performance can act as a tool for change and collective imagination, helping communities imagine and rehearse better futures. His creative and scholarly output spans chapters in edited collections, peer-reviewed articles, plays, and training manuals on ‘Performance for Futures’. Multilingual and transdisciplinary by nature, Pedro is also a founding member and director of the Associação Brasileira de Futuristas and an active contributor to global futures and education networks.

David (Dave) is an experienced, pragmatic and creative practitioner with a cross-disciplinary background in engineering, media production and leadership education. This positions him as a transdisciplinary practitioner and action researcher with a particular focus on professional development and organisational change through practice-based inquiry. He came into academia from a career in international media and the deployment of emerging technologies in training and education around the world, with extensive experience in Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, India and Hong Kong.

He holds a PhD from the Centre for Action Research in Professional Practice at the University of Bath awarded for a thesis entitled “When becoming professional means becoming myself: towards integrity and presence in practice.”

As a member of the leadership team involved in the development and delivery of Doctoral Research in Transdisciplinary Practice at Middlesex University, Dave currently works alongside senior level practitioners engaged in rigorous and immersive inquiry into their professional practice with the intention of making a real difference in their organisation, community or field of practice.

Joanna whose work critiques colonial legacies in traditional accounting systems and reimagines equitable frameworks rooted in Indigenous worldviews and social enterprise praxis. Her research bridges critical accounting theory, impact measurement, and decolonial methodologies, with a focus on uplifting Indigenous communities as agents of sustainable economic transformation.

She recently completed her Ph.D. with Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP) with a dissertation titled “Impact Measurement in Social Enterprises: Rationales & Current Practices in an Australian Context,” which interrogates the tensions in mainstream accounting systems with alternative notions of value—a theme she extends to her ongoing work with Indigenous epistemologies. 

As a lecturer with 20 years’ experience at UK and Australian institutions, she has designed and taught courses in social/environmental accounting, critical research methods, and decolonial approaches to business. Her pedagogy emphasises participant-centred learning, challenging business students to confront colonial biases in accounting standards and explore impact-led ways of thinking.

Joanna’s work is predominantly around measurement of social and environmental impact. Her research informs her current consulting projects, where she guides charities, social enterprises, and corporations in quantifying and embedding social-environmental impact into governance, reporting, and strategic decision-making. By reframing sustainability metrics as core business drivers—not mere compliance—she aims to help organisations align profit with purpose. 

Franco Bogliolo is a Future Thinker, C-level coach, Enterprise Architect, and Business Designer committed to driving organizational transformation through innovation. With over a decade of applied business research in transdisciplinary paradigms for innovation, knowledge, and business transformation, Franco has pioneered cognitive approaches that ignite focused imagination and foster creativity in response to growing complexity.

At the heart of Franco Bogliolo’s work is Techno-Poetic Intelligence, a groundbreaking concept he created and developed to complement advances in AI by enhancing individuals’ creative capabilities and enabling the development of innovative solutions. To bring this vision to life, Franco has developed two signature methodologies: Agile Chirals™, a transdisciplinary framework designed to stimulate focused imagination and amplify creative potential in collaborative environments, and Exergy™, a methodology for implementing and managing innovative enterprise ecosystems infused with Techno-Poetic Intelligence, designed for large-scale organizations.

Both methodologies align seamlessly with the S.T.E.A.M. approach (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math), contributing to economic, social, and environmental progress. They also advance the Knowledge Economy and support the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Franco is the author of The Day the Moon Gave Birth to a Poet (2025), a novel dedicated to the Knowledge Economy. Through a poetic and philosophical narrative, the book introduces Techno-Poetic Intelligence and explores the intersection of science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics, offering innovative pathways for integrating knowledge as a catalyst for building a better, more inclusive, ethical, and sustainable world.