The emPOWER Breakfast 2027 Speakers
The Power Within Us -
From Individual Resilience to Collective Strength
February 10th 2027
Framestore, Arrival 9.45 - Talk Commences 10.15
'The Abundance of Inner Wealth: Jani Guest on Spirituality, Film and a Life Led by Purpose'
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Jani Guest is a pioneering producer and champion of creative talent whose career has helped shape some of the most influential work in advertising and film. From her early years at Propaganda Films, executive producing for the company’s visionary directors including David Fincher and Spike Jonze, to co-founding Independent Films and producing Write the Future—the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity Grand Prix-winning campaign for Nike—her work has consistently set a standard for creative excellence. More recently, she led the production company Creators Inc., continuing to elevate bold and culturally resonant storytelling. Beyond commercial production, she is a BAFTA-winning producer and served as Executive Producer on the Emmy Awards-nominated documentary The Commandant’s Shadow.
Yet Jani’s story extends far beyond her industry achievements.
Raised in an ashram and immersed in Eastern teachings from an early age, her life has long been guided by a deeper search for meaning. That foundation is now coming fully to the fore. As she enters a new chapter, Jani is consciously aligning her creative work with her spiritual heritage, bringing together a world-class production career with purpose-led, philanthropic projects and documentaries.
She is currently working with both Hindu and Tibetan Buddhist monastic communities on a range of projects across print and moving image. She remains focused on supporting Eastern spiritual teachers in spreading their messages of kindness, compassion and inner transformation.
Today, her work resides at the intersection of storytelling and service, championing a more expansive definition of success, one rooted not only in professional achievement, but in the cultivation of inner wealth.
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March 10th 2027
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'Home Truths: Director Daisy May Hudson on Housing, Humanity and the Power of Film'
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Daisy-May Hudson is a BAFTA Breakthrough writer, director and trauma-informed storytelling practitioner.
She began her filmmaking career unconventionally after documenting her and her family’s experience of homelessness while living in a hostel in 2013. Her debut feature documentary, Half Way, was nominated for Best Cinema Documentary at both the BIFAs and the Grierson Awards.
Through this process, Daisy-May experienced first-hand the transformative power of storytelling to turn pain into power. Since then, she has committed her work to telling stories that are raw, honest and rooted in lived experience, ensuring that love and integrity sit at the centre of the process, both on and off screen.
Following the critical acclaim of Half Way, Daisy-May was selected for BAFTA Breakthrough, where she met Parkville Pictures. She went on to write her first scripted feature, Lollipop, with the BBC and BFI. The film explores sisterhood, resilience and our capacity for joy, even during the hardest times.
Lollipop was developed and produced through a deeply collaborative, lived experience-led process, with several members of the all-female cast having personal experience of the themes explored in the film.
During the making of Lollipop, Daisy-May also co-directed her second feature documentary, Holloway, which explores similar themes of power, sisterhood and lived experience within the justice system.
Daisy-May’s work spans fiction, documentary and commercial filmmaking, always with a powerful, narrative-shifting social impact. All three of her feature documentaries have been screened at the Houses of Parliament.
Alongside her filmmaking, Daisy-May is developing a practice and consultancy focused on trauma-informed, lived experience-led and co-creative approaches to storytelling. Her work aims to change the culture of filmmaking by encouraging shared vulnerability, connection and integrity throughout the creative process.
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May 12th 2027
Framestore, Arrival 9.45 - Talk Commences 10.15
'Grief No Longer Ignored: Creating Space for Father’s Stories'
Through honesty and community, Matt and Liam are breaking the silence around baby loss showing that when fathers are given space to grieve, families begin to heal together.
The awarding-winning podcast breaking barriers and supporting bereaved dads across the globe.
From the deepest darkest despair Matt and Liam have managed to find a way of challenging their grief to provide the support that was missing for them during their losses.
Across three seasons of the podcast, the two dads - joined by guests along the way - discuss all of the issues that anyone who experiences baby loss will deal with. From the day it happens to returning to work, from the differences between mums and dads to pregnancy after loss.
These amazing dads have created a toolkit for surviving loss in a practical, humorous, and accessible way.
The podcast was recognised at the British Podcast Awards in 2023, winning the Best Parenting Podcast category and we are thrilled to have them on board not only as guests but also Mentors in the emPOWER Pathway!
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June 9th 2027
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'Designed to Feel: Colette Crespin on Experience, Instinct and Starting Again'
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'Colette Crespin has spent more than 20 years working across advertising, creative representation, wellbeing, experiential production and technology.
She began her career in advertising, working with Draw Pictures and Academy before going on to represent production companies including Red Bee, Partizan, Therapy Films, Nexus and Great Guns.
In 2007, she founded Tangerine, an independent representation agency which later expanded into positioning, PR, business development and events for creative businesses.
Alongside her career, Colette trained extensively in yoga and wellbeing, travelling to Australia and India to study practices including yoga, Ayurvedic medicine, macrobiotic cooking, Reiki, breathwork and movement.
In 2015, she brought those two worlds together with the launch of Wild Wellbeing, creating wellness experiences at festivals including Wilderness and Secret Garden Party before developing programmes for organisations including Forbes and Google.
A move to California took her career further into large-scale experiential production, working on projects for brands including Salesforce, Macy’s, eBay, Google, Facebook and Apple. She later spent three years with Burning Man, working across experiences, community and its digital evolution during the pandemic, before joining Meta as an Executive Producer and senior leader.
But behind the career is a much more personal story.
Colette is a survivor of domestic abuse and a solo mother of three children, two of whom have complex neurodivergent needs. After spending several years in California, she navigated the process of rebuilding her life and eventually relocating her family back to the UK.
Those experiences have increasingly shaped her interest in how women recover from abusive or toxic relationships, rebuild their sense of self and create a life beyond what has happened to them.
Today, Colette is a VP at experiential agency emc3, where her work focuses on strategy, human behaviour and experience. Alongside this, she continues to explore the intersection of creativity, wellbeing, coaching and personal transformation.
Her story is one of reinvention, motherhood, survival and the complicated reality of building a career while carrying significant responsibility at home held together, as she puts it, by faith, humour, grit and an enormous love for her children.'
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July 14th 2027
Framestore, Arrival 9.45 - Talk Commences 10.15
'The Talent We’re Missing: Christina Brooks on Recruitment, Parent Carers and Rethinking Potential'
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Christina Brooks is the founder and CEO of Ruebik, a leading talent attraction agency. Racial and gender discrimination shape Brooks’ perspective of access to opportunities. From a young schoolgirl in Gloucester, to the successful social impact driven entrepreneur she is today.
Her mission at Ruebik is to impart her knowledge and lived experiences to help better the lives of the underrepresented, encompassing gender, ethnicity, and disability. Brooks has over 20 years’ experience in the talent attraction field, including Global Executive Talent Lead at Rolls Royce. She is adept in cultural and racial impacts on business, along with boardroom and executive leadership roles.
Her passion is further reflected in her personal endeavours. She is a trustee for an alternative provision school in Tottenham, a trustee for a pioneering Social Communications Centre for Autism, a mentor to incarcerated youth, and advisor to many black-owned social start-ups.
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September 8/15th 2027
Framestore, Arrival 9.45 - Talk Commences 10.15
'Making Space: Hayley Power on Creativity, Compassion and the Work That Shapes Culture'
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Hayley Power is an award-winning Creative Director with more than 23 years' experience creating work for some of the world's best-known brands. She's spent almost half her career at Leo Burnett, and for the past few years has taken on a Creative Director role. Alongside this role, she leads the agency's Diversity, Equity & Inclusion initiatives and is passionate about creating workplaces where everyone feels they belong. Hayley has championed initiatives that open doors for under-represented talent and helps shape more representative, impactful creative work.
Alongside her career, Hayley has navigated profound personal challenges that have fundamentally shaped the leader, creative and person she is today, proving the depth that can come when leadership is informed as much by personal experiences as professional ones. In this conversation, she reflects on grief, resilience, identity and finding a way to move forward after unimaginable loss.
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October 13th 2027
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'Built With Integrity: Jamie Gamache on Craft, Fatherhood and the Legacy We Leave Behind'
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Lowkey Films co-founder Jamie Gamache has spent the last decade building one of the UK’s most distinctive independent production companies, bridging the worlds of advertising, music, and feature film. Since launching Lowkey with Connor O’Hara, Jamie has helped grow the company from grassroots festival shorts into an internationally recognised creative studio producing culturally driven campaigns, music content, and original film projects.
Lowkey has delivered work for global brands including Toyota, Adidas, Mastercard, and Ted Baker, alongside collaborations with artists such as Dua Lipa, Dave, Stormzy, David Guetta, and Mabel. His work is rooted in authentic storytelling, community, and building productions that create both cultural and commercial impact.
Jamie also led Lowkey through its B Corp certification process, making the company the first, and currently only feature film production company in the world to become a certified B Corp. The certification reflects Lowkey’s long-term commitment to ethical production, sustainability, and creating a people-first business within the screen industries.
Alongside commercial work, Jamie continues to develop an ambitious feature film slate. His first feature, Kindling (2023), produced with Mark Foligno (The Kings Speech), premiered internationally at the Shanghai International Film Festival, becoming the first British film in six years to compete at the festival. He produced Salvable, starring Toby Kebbell and Shia LaBeouf which was released by Lionsgate last year and he is currently in post on Arctic Skies, a sci-fi thriller starring Morfydd Clark.
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November 10th 2027
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'The Frequency of Success: Sara Jones on Building a Unicorn from Faith and Flow'
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Sara Jones is the visionary founder and CEO of Centre of Excellence, one of the UK’s fastest-growing ed-tech companies and a global leader in transformational online education. With over 2 million students across 150 countries and more than 1,000 courses spanning wellness, personal growth, and professional development, her mission is nothing short of extraordinary: to positively impact the lives of one billion people worldwide.
Recently recognised with the Goldman Sachs Award for The Company Most Likely to Become a Unicorn and named among Bright Pearl’s Top Ten Fastest Growing e-Commerce Businesses in the UK, Centre of Excellence continues to expand at remarkable speed.
Before becoming a CEO, Sara spent 18 years as a therapist, coach, and trainer in holistic health, experience that now infuses her leadership with authenticity, compassion, and a deep belief in the power of alignment. From a single mother to the helm of a soon-to-be billion-pound enterprise, Sara’s story is one of faith, flow, and fearless vision...proof that when purpose and energy align, anything is possible!
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December 2027
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