We are delighted to announce that we will be holding a very exciting event on 25 June 2024 in collaboration with Developing Future Winners. Developing Future Winners offers a once-a-year programme that culminates in a one day event, designed to bridge the gap between education and the workplace.

This will be its fifth year, and follows highly successful events around the country. We are delighted Developing Future Winners has selected St George’s and hope you can note this date in your diaries and register your interest for tickets, which will be on sale in the New Year.

The event will be hosted by Developing Future Winners founder, Anna Coulson, a National Leader in Education and Executive Head Teacher, and Jamie Peacock MBE, England Rugby League player, Motivational Speaker and Leadership mentor. They will skilfully help present three sessions, focusing on motivation, resilience and drive, as well as mental and physical wellbeing so that participants leave with the tools to adopt a holistic approach to personal development.

Developing Future Winners aims to empower individuals to maintain a healthy balance in their lives. And in addition to our hosts, on 25 June next year, we will hear from Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson and Daley Thompson CBE who will share inspirational insights from their remarkable careers throughout the day.

As we prepare for the event, the programme will include significant involvement from St George’s in its execution. This is because it’s tailored specially to provide soon-to-be school leavers with a greater understanding of the business environment they are likely to enter. The Developing Future Winners team will collaborate with the students and Leadership Team at St George’s to customise the day-long event, catering to the students and other attendees. This hands-on experience allows the students to actively participate and drive the entire event process from the concept to the final performance.

Hosts

Anna Coulson - National Leader in Education, Executive Head teacher of The Froebelian School and founder of Developing Future Winners. 

In a teaching career spanning over two decades, Anna progressed quickly from teaching to increasingly senior roles. Holding positions including, key stage one leader, Deputy Headteacher, Head of School and Director of a large Teaching Alliance. Anna's expertise includes delivery of school improvement, curriculum design and innovation, strategic operational change and all aspects of teaching and learning. 

Jamie Peacock MBE - England Rugby League player, Motivational Speaker and Leadership mentor. 

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Jamie had an illustrious career spanning 19 seasons and encompassing over 550 professional games. He proudly represented his Country in 49 international matches and was captain for an impressive eight years.

At the end of his career in 2015 he had become the most decorated player of the modern Super League era winning a total of nine Grand Finals, four World Cup Challenge’s; as well as being selected in the Super League Dream team 11 times and voted the World’s Best forward twice. Now a motivational speaker, author of “No white Flag” and founder of "Be A Champion Health and Wellbeing".

Panel

Baroness Grey-Thompson

Tanni’s career started at the Junior National Games for Wales in 1984. Where she competed in the 100m and wheelchair basketball.

Her international career took off in 1988 with her first Paralympics in Seoul where she won a bronze medal in the 400m. In 1992 she claimed victory in the London Wheelchair Marathon, the first of six wins over her career and then went on to the Barcelona Paralympics, where she won four gold medals in the 100m, 200m, 400m and 800 metres and a silver in the 4x100m relay. It was at Barcelona that Tanni became the first women to break the 60 second barrier for 400m. Her final Paralympic Games as an athlete was Athens 2004, where she won gold in the 100m and 400m taking her medal tally to 11 golds.

Her total Paralympic Medal tally is 11 gold, 4 silvers and 1 bronze and added to that 5 gold, 4 silver and 3 bronze medals at World Championships. During the course of her highly successful career, Tanni broke a total of 30 World Records on the track.

Tanni has continued to be involved in sport and physical activity.  She is a Board Member of the London Marathon, the Sportsaid Foundation, the Duke of Edinburgh Awards and Join In. Additionally, has served as a Board Member for several organisations including Transport for London, the London Legacy Development Corporation and the London 2017 Organising Committee.

In 2010 Tanni became an Independent Crossbench Peer in the House of Lords, taking the title Baroness Grey-Thompson of Eaglescliffe.  As an active working peer Tanni uses her wealth of experience and knowledge contributing to debates in the House, across a diverse range of issues including Disability Rights, Welfare Reform, and notable Sport.

Daley Thompson CBE

Daley Thompson dominated the decathlon for nearly a decade, with four world records, two Olympic gold medals, three Commonwealth titles, and wins in the World and European Championships, and is often considered the greatest decathlete the world has ever seen.

His first Olympic Gold was at the 1980 Moscow Games. Four years later, he returned to defend his title in Los Angeles as part of his legendary rivalry with the German athlete Jurgen Hingsen. After possibly the greatest decathlon ever Daley came out on top and equalled his rivals World record, a record unbeaten for nine years. When the new scoring tables were introduced, Thompson became the sole record holder once more.

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Daley is a natural showman. But behind the cheeky grin was a will of iron and unbreakable self-belief. He and Hingsen may have traded world records but in the events that mattered, it was always Daley who emerged victorious. Between 1979 and 1987, he went undefeated in all competitions.