Michelle Griffith Robinson OLY

As a former GB Triple jumper and an Olympian for over 15 years, Michelle knows what it takes to ‘Reach the top’. Beyond that, she knows what it’s like to experience life outside elite sport, as a successful businesswoman, wife and mother of three amazing children.

Michelle draws on her own experiences to inspire and encourage others in her work as a Motivational Speaker, Lifestyle coach, Personal trainer, Mentor and Women’s health campaigner.

Michelle works tirelessly as an Ambassador for Women’s Aid, The Menopause Charity, Diabetes UK and is a Patron of the Menopause Mandate and Non-Executive director for Mental Health UK.

In 2022 Michelle was involved in an ‘Abuse is not love’ campaign with Marie Claire, highlighting the red flags in relationships.

In July 2023 Michelle was an ambassador on ‘Every Menopause Matters’ campaign for Holland & Barrett which highlighted the importance of the needs for women of colour in Menopause.

In 2024 Michelle was recognised with the change maker award from Hello Magazine.

In 2025 Michelle was the Life Coach for the successful Boots Online Doctor fitness campaign.

Over the last 20 years, Michelle’s passion for ‘unlocking the potential of her clients’ has seen her successfully work with many celebrities and corporate companies.

She revels in creating a climate of change, to dream big and to achieve beyond your expectations.

Michelle has regularly featured in Hello Magazine around the growing topic of menopause and lifestyle, wellbeing, and spoken on several occasions in Parliament on Diversity and Menopause.

Recently Michelle ran her very own confidence Masterclass at the largest Beauty Event in Europe for women of colour and hosted a campaign with Trinny London all around Ambition ✨

Michelle’s latest accolade was one of 25 women included in the Second Act Power List by Hello Magazine. It is evident to see Michelle’s zest for life and her passion when she delivers her motivational talks on resilience, confidence and life after sport.

Michelle’s brand is all about ‘Empowering women and girls at every stage and every age’.

Leslee Udwin

Filmmaker, Human Rights Advocate and Education Activist

Leslee was voted the New York Times No.2 Most Impactful Woman of 2016 (second to Hillary Clinton), and has been awarded the prestigious Swedish Anna Lindh Human Rights Prize (previously won by Madeleine Albright). In 2019 Leslee was awarded the UN Women for Peace Activist Award at the United Nations, UN Association USA’s Global Citizen of 2019 and the Gandhi Foundation International Peace Award.

A former filmmaker and now campaigner for a system change in education, Leslee is no stranger to successful campaigns.

Her documentary, ‘India’s Daughter’, has been critically acclaimed around the globe, won 32 awards and is recognised as having sparked a global movement to end violence against women and girls.

The searing insights yielded by the 2½ year journey making “India’s Daughter”, led Leslee to found UK-and-US-based Not for Profit global education initiative “Think Equal”, of which she is also the Executive Chair. This early years education programme is currently impacting 720,000+ children annually in 39 countries across 6 continents. Think Equal has been awarded the prestigious World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) Award 2020 and has been selected as one of the HundrED Global Collection 2020 Most Innovative Innovations in K-12 Education.

Partners of Think Equal include UNICEF; UNESCO; and the Yale University Center for Emotional Intelligence.

Leslee is on various high-level think tanks, including the High-Level Advisory Group to deliver UN SDG Mission 4.7 alongside Ban-Ki Moon, Audrey Azoulay (Director-General UNESCO), Fernando Reimers (Havard Head of Education Graduate School), and others.

Will Kennedy, UN Office of Global Partnerships has said of Leslee and her THINK EQUAL organisation:

“Every once in a while, one comes across a non-profit leader and campaign that can actually change the world for the better and at a scale that is required in a generation. The vision, work and traction that Leslee Udwin and the Think Equal  Campaign  is  getting  is  one  of  those  exceptional outliers that everyone everywhere should get behind’.

Anne Stairmand

Anne Stairmand has had an extensive career in education ranging from working  with KS1 to 4, advisory work as a primary and secondary English consultant, to director of a humanities college  in a secondary school, to preparing primary schools for headteachers and advised mentored business with literacy for Retrain and Regain and also worked with the National Literacy Trust on the Literacy for Life project.

Now a children’s author, in lockdown Anne started Refuge In Literacy UK as a CIC, but runs as a charity, to encourage authors and publishing houses to donate copies of their children’s books to families in domestic violence refuges.

Anne also devised reading prompts from birth to 11years old to help parents ask the right sort of questions enabling children to develop higher order questioning and answering. These reading prompts feed into the comprehension strategies teachers are using throughout early years to the end of primary school, thus preparing the children not only for KS2 SATs, but also year 7 in secondary school.

Working with many organisations including the Soroptimists, Refuge In Literacy UK has 9 pilot refuges throughout the country   working in a variety of ways with the reading prompts, with impact and success.

It is the aim of Refuge In Literacy UK to encourage, with help from the Soroptimists, as many refuges throughout the UK to use the reading prompts not only to help children’s reading and higher order thinking skills, but also to help parents develop more confidence and self- esteem thus improving their life chances.