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Andy Buck Author & Illustrator

Andy Buck is a best-selling author, speaker, trainer and coach. Andy started his working life as a teacher and headteacher. His subsequent career has included leading an organisation with over 8,000 employees, working as a senior civil servant and founding three successful start-up businesses. His passion is unlocking potential in others through inspiring and effective leadership. He is also slightly obsessed with geese.Rob Gibbons started out as an importer and wholesaler of silver jewellery and successfully ran a joint retail operation for over 20 years. Now he’s making his mark as International Sales Manager for Innoscent Skincare, combining this with his love for sports management and coaching. His goal is to bring to the table fresh thinking gained from years of travelling and observing different cultures at work.Fergal Roche is one of the leading education entrepreneurs in the UK. Fergal set up and developed The Key, which achieved a 50% market share in a decade and is now regarded as the must-have digital support service for anyone running a school. It has featured in the Sunday Times Fast Track 100 and has won a number of sector awards. Fergal ran three schools, was business development director of a FTSE 100 company, strategy director for a $4bn international privately-held company, and was once-upon-a-time training to be a Jesuit priest. He failed dramatically in at least two of those ventures.Oliver Caviglioli was a special school headteacher for a decade before becoming a trainer and author of several books on visual teaching strategies. The son of an architect, Oliver fuses his home design education with his passion for cognitive science to produce a variety of visuals that communicate insights from research for busy professionals.