Contributors

Founder

Born in North London and based between London and Ibiza, Sadiq Gillani is a senior travel industry advisor, executive coach, and board director.

He holds the MBA from Harvard Business School and MA from Cambridge, and has held senior roles at Emirates (Transformation Director) and Lufthansa (Chief Strategy Officer).

He serves as Senior Advisor at Attestor Capital, Chairman of the Advisory Board of Condor Airlines, board member of eTraveli, a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Future Council for Travel, and Trustee of Stonewall.

He is also an executive coach drawing on the work of Carl Jung and used to be a lecturer in Management at Stanford. His talk on the Art of Disciplined Opportunism at Stanford has been watched by over 1m people. 

Speaker

Leo Varadkar is an Irish politician and qualified GP who served twice as Taoiseach (Prime Minister) of Ireland — first from 2017 to 2020 and again from 2022 until his resignation in March 2024. Leader of the Fine Gael party and the first openly gay head of government in Ireland, he studied medicine at Trinity College Dublin and built a political career spanning ministerial roles in Transport, Health, and Social Protection. Since leaving office he has taken on advisory and academic roles, including as a Global Advisor at Penta Group and a fellow at Harvard Kennedy School.

Speaker

Chip Conley is a hospitality entrepreneur, NYT bestselling author, and founder of the Modern Elder Academy — the world's first midlife wisdom school, with campuses in Baja California and New Mexico. He built Joie de Vivre Hospitality into the second-largest boutique hotel brand in the US before joining Airbnb at 52 as Head of Global Hospitality & Strategy and mentor to CEO Brian Chesky. He is the author of several books including Wisdom@Work and Learning to Love Midlife, and has delivered three TED Talks on leadership, meaning, and the value of experience.

Speaker

Jeff Pfeffer is the Thomas D. Dee II Professor of Organizational Behavior at Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he has taught since 1979.

He is the author of 16 books on power, influence, and career advancement, including Power: Why Some People Have It and Others Don't, and 7 Rules of Power. He is in the Thinkers 50 Hall of Fame and has been recognised as one of the most influential thinkers in management globally.

Speaker

Tommaso Barba is a neuroscientist and PhD candidate at the Centre for Psychedelic Research at Imperial College London, where he works under Professor David Nutt. His research focuses on how psychedelics affect consciousness, sexual wellbeing, and intimate relationships, including the landmark study comparing psilocybin versus SSRIs on sexual functioning in depressed patients. He has co-authored over ten publications in journals including The Lancet's eClinicalMedicine and Scientific Reports, and his work has been covered by Forbes, Rolling Stone, and Men's Health.

Joey Bothwell is a Los Angeles-based medicine guide and somatic specialist with nearly a decade of experience in the healing arts. A former actress and professional dancer, she found her path in somatic addiction recovery work in Venice, CA, and has since built a practice spanning Reiki, breathwork, mycology, and psychedelic integration. She works as a presence coach and medicine guide, helping clients access authentic freedom through body-based practices and guided medicine journeys

TRI Fitness

Josh & Ruben are the co-owners of F45 Training Manchester, one of the UK's standout functional fitness studios. They opened their studio just before the pandemic — adapting quickly and building a fiercely loyal community around the ethos of "team training, life changing." They are widely recognised for their work in community building through the lens of fitness and shared identity.

Facilitator

Andrew Rowe is a Frequency Shifter and Inner Child Healer who helps high performers reconnect with their highest expression of self by identifying and healing the limiting beliefs and survival patterns that keep them stuck. After working as a professional actor in London, Andrew’s own healing journey began following a deeply challenging experience at university, which led him to question everything he believed about himself and ultimately set him on a journey to remember his own light. During this process, he discovered his ability to read and sense other people’s energy.

Musician

Jurgis is living proof that music can do far more than entertain. A Transformational Troubadour,  and Community Catalyst, he works at the intersection of music, organizational culture, leadership development, and community building. For more than two decades, his work has explored how sound, story, and collective experience can unite people, shape identity, and transform how groups relate, collaborate, and perform. With a mixed Colombian–Lithuanian heritage, Jurgis moves fluently between artistic, civic, corporate, and cultural worlds. His background includes leading award-winning bands, participating in Eurovision, hosting television shows, designing political and educational frameworks, serving in board and diplomatic roles, consulting for the EU, and leading environmental and community initiatives.

Facilitator

Simon Morris is a somatic psychotherapist, bodyworker, sound practitioner, recovery coach and retreat facilitator with more than 25 years of professional experience. His work brings together body-based therapy, psychotherapy, sound, breath, movement, nervous-system education and recovery principles to support people in reconnecting with themselves.

Simon’s approach is grounded in the belief that meaningful change is not only something we think about - it is something we can learn to experience through the body. His work creates space for greater safety, awareness, regulation and connection, while meeting each person with compassion, curiosity and respect.

Facilitator

Jason King is a Tantra teacher, certified Sexological Bodyworker and somatic sex educator based in Berlin and Amsterdam.

He is passionate about helping people expand their sense of what’s possible in the fields of sexuality and intimacy, so that our hearts and spirits may flourish. 

He works with individuals and groups to manifest powerfully healing embodied experiences, expand our consciousness, and embrace our erotic oneness. Jason identifies as a gay and queer man, and has a passion for building queer community and brotherhood.

Facilitator

Meet Tori Famuyiwa, also known as NigerianBuddah a multidisciplinary wholistic lifestyle guide, heart opener, and catalyst for personal evolution. Through meditation, breathwork, yoga, primal movement, energy healing, sound therapy, and ancestral wisdom, he creates heart-centered spaces for healing, embodiment, and self-discovery. Having shared transformative experiences across Miami, Ibiza, Turkey, Costa Rica, Mexico, Portugal, Kenya, Italy, Morocco, and Nicaragua, Tori’s work is rooted in empowerment, empathy, and mindful, heart-led living.

His intention is to open hearts, guide profound journeys of self-discovery, and create positive global impact through heart-centric practices and mindfulness.

Musician

Antolín is a Uruguayan-Dutch poet and singer-songwriter—extravagant, psychedelic, and otherworldly. He carries an ancestral voice that transport us into other realms. Through his guitar, he moves energy, filling spaces with magnetic magic. Shaped by a life of travel, he grew under the influence of his father, the renowned poet José Carbajal “El Sabalero.” From this lineage, he inherited a profound connection to words, music, and storytelling. For Antolín, creation is a sacred act. He follows no formula, creating his own poetic and musical language—blending genres, rhythms, and emotion into something entirely his own. A journey of love, nature, poetry, hidden codes.