Sky Andrew has been involved in some of the toughest negotiations over the years in relation to the transfer of his clients. Most notably moving Sol Campbell from Spurs to Arsenal and in the process becoming the first Premier League player to earn £100,000 per week.

He will be sharing his stories on this as well as providing advice on negotiation.

Sky Andrew, is a English former Olympian who won 3 gold medals at the 1989 Commonwealth Table Tennis Championships and was the first Black British sports agent.

He represented Great Britain at the 1988 Seoul Olympics in the doubles event with Des Douglas and won 3 Commonwealth Table Tennis Championship gold medals in 1989 .Andrew retired from competitive table tennis after the 1994 European Championships.

Sports agent

While training at Lilleshall Hall in his youth, Andrew met young footballer Sol Campbell, with whom he struck up a friendship.

After retiring from table tennis, Andrew wanted to get into show business, but ended up becoming an agent, representing acting clients including Martine McCutcheon.

In the mid-1990s at Campbell's suggestion, he became the first licensed Black British football agent, engineering Campbell's move from Tottenham Hotspur to Arsenal. Andrew has since represented Jermaine Pennant, David Ginola, Frank Bruno, Jay Bothroyd and Jermain Defoe. He now also represents Ghanaian goalkeeper Adam Kwasarey, England U21 striker Marvin Sordell, and cyclist Alex Dowsett. His TV and film clients include Nathalie Emmanuel, Sarah-Jane Mee, and Natalie Sawyer.

John Amaechi will share his amazing journey so far. He is a psychologist and executive coach while prior to this he was playing in the NBA.

John’s journey to becoming an elite-athlete almost defies belief: at the age of 17, when he first picked up a basketball, John was considered ‘too late to the game’ and ‘not athletic enough’ to have any chance of success in domestic sport, much less overseas. Six short years later he became a ‘starter’ in the National Basketball Association (NBA).

John Amaechi has a portfolio career as an organisational consultant and high-performance executive coach. He is a New York Times best-selling author and social entrepreneur working in both the US and Europe. He works with high-profile individuals and businesses as a high-performance-coach and mentor dealing with various challenges including improving interpersonal communications, leadership, personal and team motivation as well as helping to set out the pathway for his clients to become their very best.

Lord Michael Hastings will be on the Success Talks stage providing us with an insight into his journey so far.

Lord Hastings is KPMG’s Global Head of Citizenship. He was previously the BBC’s first Head of Corporate Social Responsibility having been the BBC’s Head of Public Affairs. Lord Hastings is a non-executive Director of British Telecom and a Trustee of the Vodafone Group Foundation. He represents KPMG International on the Global Corporate Citizenship Committee of the World Economic Forum and is a Board Director of the Global Reporting Initiative.

In 2009 he became a Member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Council on Diversity and Talent. In 2010 served on the ‘Global Agenda Council on the Next Generation’ and in 2011 became a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on the Role of Business 2011. In 2012 he accepted the invitation to become Vice Chairman of the WEF Agenda Council – the Future of Civil Society.

Michael is Chairman of Millennium Promise UK and a member of the global Millennium Promise Board. He also represents KPMG on BiTC's International Leadership Board (Business in the Community).

In 2010 he was a leading advisor to the Chatham House enquiry into the Future Role of the UK in Foreign Affairs. Michael sits on the Council of the Overseas Development Institute in the UK and the Centre for Global Development in the USA. In 2011 he became a Vice President of UNICEF.

In January 2003, Michael was awarded a CBE in recognition of his services to crime reduction, including 15 years as Chairman of Crime Concern and 21 as a Trustee. He served on the Commission for Racial Equality for nine years as a Commissioner. He is listed as one of the 100 most influential black people in Britain in the Powerlist.

In 2005, Michael was awarded the honour of an independent peerage to the House of Lords by Her Majesty The Queen. In the same year he also received the UNICEF award from the then UK Chancellor for his ‘outstanding contribution to understanding and effecting solutions for Africa’s children’. Michael is President of ZANE - a development aid agency focused on Zimbabwe.

Kenneth Tharp will be taking his place on the Success Talks stage to share his journey so far

As Chief Executive of The Place  since 2007, Kenneth Thar p has responsibility for overall leadership, strategy and management of the organisation, as well as lead responsibility for relationships with key funders, including Arts Council England . He also acts as the public face of the organisation, as a spokesperson and ambassador for The Place’s work. He is often invited as to present as a keynote speaker in a variety of contexts from schools to leadership courses and industry related events.

Kenneth trained at The Place’s London Contemporary Dance School . His 25-year performing career included  London Contemporary Dance Theatre (1981-1994) Arc Dance Company (1994-2005) and Nigel Charnock Company . He has worked extensively as a choreographer, teacher and director, including at The Royal Ballet School  and National Youth Dance Company . He was Dancer in Residence at Queens’ College Cambridge from 1998-2006 and was Visiting Professor at the University of Lincoln (2009-2012). He was co-director of  Artyfartyarts , a multi-disciplinary arts group and has choreographed over 45 dances. He served on the Board of the Royal Opera House  from 2002–2010.

He is a Patron of Akademi  and sits on the Cultural Learning Alliance Steering Group  and on the Advisory Council of the Creative Industries Federation . He was a finalist in the inaugural Black British Business Awards (2014), is named in six successive Powerlists  of Britain’s most influential people of African and African Caribbean heritage, and appears in Who's Who . In 2003 he was made an OBE  in recognition of his services to dance.

Kenneth was the BBC Young Dancer 2015  Category Finalist Judge across all categories in the inaugural year of the competition. In July 2015 Kenneth taught for the twelfth successive year on the Royal Ballet Summer School at White Lodge (Lower School), Richmond.