Darren Thomas

Darren Thomas


Ex military, dad of 4 amazing children, and a campaigner for mental health and well-being. PTSD – Depression – Anxiety. Sharing my experiences to help others. Oh, and he is also the guy who has got everyone including celebrities doing 25 press ups for 30 days on social media to raise awareness for PTSD, anxiety, depression and male suicide.

Please find my just giving page here. To raise money for Cwm Taff Mind so that individuals can receive up to 8 free talking therapy sessions.


Spencer Waldron

Spencer Waldron


Spencer has spent most of the past 10 years helping leaders and organisations have more effective meetings through better presenting, storytelling and video communications.


Fran O'Hara

Fran O'Hara


Fran O’Hara is Founder & Creative Director of Scarlet Design – a strategic thinking, design, training and visual facilitation consultancy based in Cardiff.

4 years with Disney in Hong Kong and Los Angeles disrupted Fran’s career path as a design manager and opened up a world of strategic story-telling. 20+ years on, Fran and the team help their clients tell their stories using visual methodology – from hand-drawn to digital, and from small to giant scale. With organisations such as Welsh Government, Public Health Wales, Cardiff University, NRW, Powys THB, Dwr Cymru, GWR, Barclays, Birdseye and Vodafone.

She’s also passionate about teaching people how to create and use visuals. Armed with postgraduate qualifications in teaching and coaching and 100s of pens, Fran actively creates opportunities to grow awareness, confidence and skills in visual storytelling. Fran trains individuals, teams and groups online and in face-to-face workshops, offering customised and themed courses.

Visit www.ScarletDesign.com to see our work and training courses.


@s1f Ch0udry

@s1f Ch0udry


Asif Choudry is a Sales & Marketing Director with resource, an award winning creative marketing and print provider. He is a CIM Fellow and Chartered Marketer.  He is the founder of #CommsHero @CommsHero the award winning conference that is a community celebrating the heroics comms people perform every day. Although a big fan of social media, he’s not afraid to use tried and tested comms channels like meeting IRL (In Real Life), speaking on the phone and handwriting a letter or three.