Meet the Women Behind the Wisdom
We’re beyond thrilled to bring together this incredible line-up of inspiring, powerhouse women for Holistic Her. Each speaker brings their own spark, story, and expertise—ready to light up the stage and help you shift your mindset, energy, and business in a way you’ve never experienced before.
This isn’t just another event. It’s a whole new format—where business strategy meets deep self-awareness, and where connection, balance, and bold growth all come together. You’ve never seen anything quite like this… and it wouldn’t be the same without them.
Alexandria Monk
Founder, Holistic Her
Alexandria Monk is a strategic event designer, business mentor, and founder of The Collective. With over 20 years’ experience delivering everything from intimate roundtables to 1,000+ guest award ceremonies and festivals, she specialises in creating events that foster connection, clarity, and community.

Passionate about people-first business and sustainable success, Alexandria is also the creator of Holistic Her — a groundbreaking event supporting women and non-binary entrepreneurs to grow without burnout.
Amy Jones
Intuitive business mentor for soul-led entrepreneurs
Where intuition meets epic business strategy! Amy combines her 25+ years in education, 16+ years as a soul-led entrepreneur, all her years of training as a yoga teacher and a magical ability to talk to the universe for you, into her business mentoring work It’s a unique and killer combo, where intuitive feminine energy meets aligned masculine action.

The host of Prosperous Yogini Podcast, with over 12,000 downloads and counting, a yoga teacher-trainer at Amy-Yoga.com and a business mentor for serviced-based entrepreneurs at Amyjonesmetor.com. One way or another she's here to help you do what lights you up and make money.
Catherine Mead, OBE
Director Lynher dairies Cheese Company
Catherine Mead OBE DL is an award-winning entrepreneur and the Managing Director of Lynher Dairies, home of the iconic Cornish Yarg. With a background in food production, brand building, and sustainable business,

Catherine has built a purpose-driven company that champions local sourcing, environmental stewardship, and rural enterprise. A Deputy Lieutenant of Cornwall and recipient of an OBE for services to cheese exports and farming, she brings decades of experience in values-led leadership.
Claire Marshall
General manager, mount pleAsant eco park
Claire Marshall is the General Manager at Mount Pleasant Eco Park - a venue for live music gigs & theatre shows, conferences, workshops and meeting spaces and is also a licensed wedding venue. The Eco Park is a flexible community venue that also provides high-quality workspace for local businesses, organic growing space for local people and training and education in traditional and sustainable skills. It is also the home of the Tropical Pressure music festival every July. The Eco Park is a living, breathing example of how sustainability can be woven into every aspect of our lives.

Prior to joining the Eco Park team in 2023, Claire was the Director of Carn to Cove, the rural touring scheme for Cornwall for 17 years and is passionate about the transformative power of the arts especially in rural community spaces.
Clare Trice
Founder, Connector, and Champion of Collaboration
We’re so excited to welcome Clare Trice to the Holistic Her speaker line-up!
Clare founded CTCC Solutions Ltd back in 2012 — turning redundancy and reinvention into a thriving business that now supports cash flow, customer relationships, and growth for clients across the UK. But that’s only part of her story.

From flipping houses and raising a blended family, to competing in a world championship at 52, Clare’s journey is one of resilience, reinvention, and knowing when to back yourself — even when it feels terrifying.

She’s also a passionate volunteer with projects like Surf Networking, The Wave Project, FSB, and Careers Hub, helping bridge the gap between business and education through meaningful connections.
Eleanor Whitelegg
Founder of Praeduco Ltd.
Elle is the founder of Praeduco, an executive coaching practice that blends high-performance strategy with holistic wellbeing. With a background as an international athlete and senior brand leader at Reebok and YETI, she brings a unique perspective on resilience and leadership.

Elle’s coaching approach integrates physical health, emotional intelligence, and strategic clarity to help leaders thrive without burnout. She has also led marketing for the UK veterans’ charity Walking With The Wounded, reflecting her commitment to purpose-driven work. At Holistic Her, Elle will share insights on cultivating sustainable success through the Business Athlete Framework.
Emily Wheeler
Strength in feathers
Emily is going to be hosting a Marketing Mindset Workshop and we're really excited about this one!

The Marketing Mindset Workshop will be a retreat-style session for self-employed women to gather in a nourishing space and envision the best marketing content for their heart-led business.

We’ll settle in with some yin yoga, breathwork and visualisations, before sharing and making action plans for our businesses' promotions. Emily will then guide us through practical content creation advice and tips, as well as holding space for our collective ideas - supporting each other in sharing our unique work with the world!

Whatever stage of the self-employed journey you’re at, come and join us to feel renewed confidence in yourself and your message.

Keeley Reading
founder of The Farming Mother CIC
Keeley is a fierce, grounded advocate for families — especially neurodivergent ones — and a voice we need more of in conversations around resilience, leadership and thriving on your own terms. Based on her educational and wellbeing farm in Cornwall, Keeley’s work weaves together nature, nurture, and lived experience to create a space where both children and adults can grow, heal, and learn.

Her session, “Rooted Resilience,” is a powerful reflection on what it means to lead a life that’s honest, sustainable and deeply human.

Keeley’s approach is refreshingly non-corporate, fiercely compassionate, and rooted in real life — exactly the kind of wisdom Holistic Her is here for. Whether you’re navigating career change, identity shifts, or just trying to find your own version of balance, Keeley’s voice will remind you: you’re not alone, and you’re doing better than you think.
Lizzi Larbalestier
award-winning Blue Health Coach
Lizzi brings a rare blend of science, soul, and deep connection to nature. With a background in transformational leadership and a long-standing love for the sea, her work now focuses on helping purpose-led individuals and organisations reconnect to their natural rhythm through the lens of Blue Health.

Lizzi’s coaching style is both grounded and expansive, drawing from neuroscience, embodied cognition, ancient wisdom and environmental psychology. As her colleague Julie Starke says, Blue Health Coaching is a “go deep or go home” modality — and we’re ready to go there.

This will be a truly unique and soul-nourishing session. Come ready to reconnect to your body, your breath, and the water within and around you.

Lucy Cox
Super-charge teams with a #HumanFirst approach
With a First Class Degree in Business, a background in marketing, and two award-winning businesses under her belt, Lucy is a powerhouse of experience and insight. You might recognise her from BBC Dragons’ Den, but that’s just one part of her story.

She’s also a qualified Positive Intelligence Coach, a long-time business mentor, and a multi-hyphenate woman navigating life as an IVF/adoptive/SEN mum, a professional singer, and a late-diagnosed ADHDer. If anyone knows what it means to juggle big ambitions with real-life complexity — it’s Lucy.

As Lucy says: “Becoming the best version of yourself isn’t just good for your wellbeing — it’s smart business strategy.”
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She combines lived experience with expert training to guide people through the transformative power of cold water exposure, breathwork, and somatic resilience. With a background in performance psychology and wilderness therapy, her approach is both evidence-led and deeply human.
Her sessions explore the edge between fear and focus — showing how deliberate exposure to challenge can expand our capacity for courage, clarity, and calm in life and business. From ice baths to mindset shifts, expect a powerful mix of theory, practice and personal breakthrough.

This is not just about getting cold — it’s about getting clear. Prepare to shift your relationship with stress, and leave with tools you can use long after the water.


Navit Schechter
founder of Conscious & Calm
With 20+ years of experience as a Cognitive Behavioural Therapist, Navit brings a rare combination of clinical expertise, emotional wisdom, and real-world relatability. Her work blends CBT with nervous system regulation and compassion-based practices — supporting parents, leaders, and business owners to navigate stress and show up with clarity and calm.

A practical, powerful exploration of how to regulate your emotions, grow through challenge, and lead with more resilience — even when life (and business) feels like a lot.

Author of How To Be Less Triggered, and expert voice in everything from The Guardian to Good Housekeeping, Navit brings warmth, insight, and serious tools for change.
To be announced shortly!
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This speaker brings a uniquely grounded energy to everything she does — whether she’s advising high-growth businesses or mentoring local founders.

With a background in investment, scaling, and board-level leadership, she knows what it takes to grow a business and stay true to your values. Her session will explore how to stay commercially savvy while honouring your purpose, and how to make strategic decisions that serve both your mission and your wellbeing.

If you’ve ever felt torn between profit and principle, this one’s for you. Come ready for clarity, confidence, and no-fluff advice from someone who’s been there.

Rebecca Loto
be boldy brilliant
Rebecca, fondly known as Bossy Becky, is a straight-talking, high-energy Certified Business Strategist and Mentor who supports ambitious entrepreneurs so they stop drowning in overwhelm and start running their businesses on their terms. With over 20 years of international business experience, she’s built and managed five businesses across Mexico and the UK, including two six-figure ventures. She knows what it is like to juggle it all, and she knows exactly what it takes to turn chaos into clarity.

Becky is on a mission to help busy entrepreneurs be bold and confident. Armed with her signature mix of tough love, practical strategy, and a lot of fun, she’ll challenge you to stop the self-doubt, own your brilliance, and take action. The results are more income, more impact, and you can finally enjoy the freedom you dreamed of.

A passionate connector, adventurer, and property investor, Becky thrives on networking with inspiring people, exploring new places, soaking up as much beach time as possible and loves everything Latino.
Samphire Kirby
Marketer, Musician and Mermaid
Samphire Kirby is the MD of Samphire Marketing+Web, where she helps businesses deliver digital marketing campaigns with real results. Since becoming full-time self-employed in 2017, she’s blended strategy with soul, drawing on experience from agency life, in-house roles, and even running a freediving school.

When she’s not helping clients grow sustainably, Sam volunteers as a Coastguard, plays sax with Go Go Skank, and gets in, on or under the sea at every chance. She’s the former Captain and Coach of the UK Freedive Team and was the first-ever speaker at TEDx Truro.

Come for the tools, stay for the truth. This session is your reminder that building something meaningful doesn’t mean burning yourself out to do it.


Victoria Amran
Founder of The Cornish Food Box Company Ltd.
As the founder of The Cornish Food Box Company, Tor has spent over a decade championing local produce, sustainable supply chains, and community-first business. What started as a passion project has grown into a thriving enterprise — one that supports local farmers and producers while making it easier for people to shop with purpose.

Tor knows what it means to build a values-led business from the ground up — with all the highs, the hard moments, and the clarity that comes from staying close to your "why."

She’ll be joining us on the panel:
“Beyond Profit: Building a Business with Values at Its Heart”

Together, we’ll explore what it really takes to lead with integrity, grow something meaningful, and keep purpose front and centre — even when it’s hard.

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