Before the Big Moment: Are You Ready to Lead?

Dr. Bryan Hughes is the founder of Clear Day Strategies and creator of the Culture Recovery Framework. He is an organisational-culture specialist focused on toxic-leadership recovery, employee retention, leadership behaviour change and high-trust, high-accountability cultures. He is also a bestselling author, doctoral researcher, independent board director and 2026 TEDx speaker.

Melissa Franklin is a business strategist, executive coach and organizational leader who helps leaders turn ambitious ideas into practical, sustainable systems. As founder of Structure Innovations and S.I. Education, her work spans business strategy, operational development, leadership, education and partnership building. She specializes in helping organizations strengthen the structure behind their growth so they are prepared not only to identify opportunity, but to execute when it arrives.

Shaje Ganny is President and Co-Founder of the Swiss AI Academy Association, a Geneva-based nonprofit for AI literacy and responsible AI education, and author of the Amazon best seller AI Won't Bite. He is the creator of the Bionic Context Protocol, a framework for preserving human capability as AI becomes more capable and more embedded, launched at Davos 2026, and he co-chairs the IEEE education subcommittee working on international standards for education. His message to the private and public sector is the same: deploying AI and delivering business value are two different jobs, literacy is where value starts, and the things AI does not have, judgment, ethics and emotional intelligence, are becoming the scarcest assets at work. He has spent the past 20 years leading digital transformation and bringing AI to life at Procter & Gamble, teaches the master's course "AI for Leaders" at FHNW, is a TEDx speaker, and advises government ministries as well as company CIOs on AI policy.

Cati Brinker works with ambitious leaders whose lives and leadership have become overly dependent on their personal output. Her approach combines executive coaching, nervous system regulation, and operational design to help clients discern what is actually theirs to carry, make clearer decisions, build stronger boundaries, and create the internal and operational structure required to sustain their ambition without self-sacrifice.

Gill Martin is an executive coach, supervisor, and OD practitioner. She brings systemic insight and practical, human-centred support to help leaders and teams build trust, strengthen collaboration and navigate key transitions.

Akbar Sultan is a certified executive coach and former Chief People Officer who partners with leaders to build clarity, self-regulation, adaptive intelligence and visible impact under pressure. He also supports women leaders navigating male-dominated environments and helps organizations build cultures rooted in servant leadership, accountability and trust.