A Meeting of Minds Paraplanning

Speakers

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  Victoria Humphries

  Business resilience trainer

  Victoria Humphries is a polar adventurer, three times Guinness World Record holder, mountain climber, marathon runner, author, Bath based businesswoman and a ‘normal’ person. She prides herself on being just your average woman who happens to believe that Anything is Possible if you put your mind to it. Life is full of challenges and we always have a choice – step forward or run away, be overcome by the enormity of it or be brave and step into it. What’s the worst that can happen? Just give it a go! Victoria was a member of the first all-women's expedition to the North Pole and since then has embarked on various adventures and challenges. When not accepting challenges and generally being a little bit bonkers she has spent 25 years working in the education sector as a teacher, governor, Managing Director, consultant and trainer. She continues to work in education and also works with businesses and schools running resilience workshops; encouraging staff and students to use their lived experiences to build their ‘resilience toolbox’.

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  Valerie van Mulukom

  Cognitive scientist

  Dr Valerie van Mulukom is an Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science at Coventry University, and research affiliate of the Centre for the Study of Social Cohesion at the University of Oxford. She holds a doctoral degree in Cognitive Neuroscience from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and has held positions at the University of Oxford and Aarhus University. Her research focuses on the cognitive science of imagination, belief, and social bonding, examining how cognitive flexibility supports our imaginative abilities, how culture and cognition combine to give rise to beliefs, and how extraordinary experiences invoke social bonding, among other strands of research. Dr van Mulukom has published widely in internationally recognised academic journals including Science Advances, Social Science & Medicine, Scientific Reports, and Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. Additionally, her popular science work has been featured in i newspaper, Newsweek, Business Insider, World Economic Forum, BBC Future, and the Daily Mail, and she is a regular guest on radio programmes and podcasts, including BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Radio Oxford, and the BBC World News radio programme CrowdScience. As a Chartered Member of the British Psychological Society, Dr van Mulukom is committed to advancing our understanding of the cognitive processes that underpin human behaviour.

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  Joseph Little

  Global Chief Strategist, HSBC Global Asset Management (UK) Limited

  Joseph Little is Chief Global Strategist for HSBC Asset Management and head of the Global Investment Strategy team in HSBC Asset Management based in London. He has been working in the financial industry since 2003. Joseph is responsible for leading our work on macroeconomic and multi-asset research and for developing the ‘house view’. Previously, Joseph was the Chief Strategist for Strategic Asset Allocation and a portfolio manager for HSBC’s absolute return global macro fund, working on tactical asset allocation. Prior to joining HSBC in 2001, he worked as a global economist for J.P. Morgan Cazenove. Joseph holds an MSc in Economics from Warwick University (UK) and is a CFA.