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D   D: £3K - £5K   Laura Hearn is a BBC journalist and TV News producer, and regularly speaks about her experience of recovery from mental ill health, and how she learnt to heal from an eating disorder.
E   E: < £3K   Being young and blind has not hindered business lady extraordinaire, Liz Jackson, achieving great success with her company Great Guns Marketing.
D   D: £3K - £5K   Liz Johnson is a former Team GB Paralympic gold medallist with a charismatic personality and a truly inspiring story to boot. Since she retired from the swimming team, Liz has become a prominent speaker on the corporate circuit and is co-founder of The Ability People, an employment agency  staffed exclusively by people with impairments.
C   C: £5K - £10K   Lord Chris Holmes, one of Britain’s greatest Paralympic swimmers, has won nine gold, five silver and two bronze medals across four Games, and served as Director of Paralympic Integration at London 2012.
E   E: < £3K   Maajid Nawaz is a prominent counter-extremism consultant and a regular writer, debater and public commentator.
D   D: £3K - £5K   The face of international women’s rugby.
D   D: £3K - £5K   Following the amputation of his left leg, competitive swimmer Marc Woods got back in the pool and went on to win a raft of Paralympic, World and Euro Championships medals.
C   C: £5K - £10K   Mental health expert Mark Henick helps audiences better understand subjects around mental illness and suicide.
D   D: £3K - £5K   Martine Wright lost both legs in the 7/7 London bombings, yet she considers herself lucky. She was honoured with the BBC Helen Rollason Award Sports Personality of the Year 2012 award.
D   D: £3K - £5K   Martyn Dawes, founder of Coffee Nation and entrepreneur was always destined to do things his own way. As a keynote speaker he is inspirational and charismatic.
B   B: £10K - £15K   As the first non-Japanese head of the century-old camera manufacturer Olympus, Michael Woodford’s unearthing of significant financial irregularities led to the termination of his post, and to an international scandal.
C   C: £5K - £10K   A gifted and motivated speaker, Michel Chikwanine has experienced civil war, political upheaval & poverty having been forced to leave his home country at the age of 11 as a refugee.
E   E: < £3K   Blinded by a firework at a young age, Mike has enjoyed unimaginable sporting success and ultimately received an OBE for services to disabled sport.
E   E: < £3K   Milly Pickles is a successful digital creator and has come a long way in the four years since an accident that completely changed her life.
D   D: £3K - £5K   Mohsin Zaidi is a criminal barrister, an advocate for LGBT rights, BAME representation and social mobility and is on the board of Stonewall. His memoir, 'A Dutiful Boy', has been named a Guardian, GQ and New Statesman Book of the Year.
D   D: £3K - £5K   Natalia Cohen was part of the first all-female team to row unsupported across the Pacific Ocean.


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