What is Work? - A Festival of Ideas 2018

What Is Work?

A FESTIVAL OF IDEAS 11TH - 17TH OCTOBER 2018 1

TO PARENTS AND OTHER MEMBERS OF THE WIDER CANFORD COMMUNITY You are welcome and indeed encouraged, to attend all events. Please feel free also to ask questions and engage in discussion. There is no need to buy tickets: simply come along to the event.

TO STUDENTS You are expected to attend the events that are allocated to any groups to which you belong. You are extremely welcome to attend further events outside your regular school commitments/timetable.

Day pupils are most welcome and should do their best to attend evening events.

TO CANFORD STAFF You are welcome to all events. If as a teacher you have a class attending a talk, please could you check that all the students are present.

THURSDAY 11TH OCTOBER 7.00pm, Long Gallery Ben Gibbons - Setting Out to Work

FRIDAY 12TH OCTOBER 3.10pm - 4.30pm, Layard Theatre Peter Thomson (OC) - Future Work - Where is it Leading?

7.30pm - 8.30pm, Layard Theatre Sir Anthony Seldon - What is Life? How Can We Preserve It in a World of AI?

SATURDAY 13TH OCTOBER 11.25am - 12.40pm, Layard Theatre Andy Merrifield - The Amateur - The Pleasure of Doing What We Love

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MONDAY 15TH OCTOBER 9.30am - 10.40am, Layard Theatre Leila Singh - Attitude and Authenticity 11.00am - 12.00pm, Layard Theatre Sarah Sparks - How to Look After Your Mental Wellbeing at Work 12.15pm - 12.30pm, Layard Theatre Q and A with Leila and Sarah 5.30pm - 6.30pm, Layard Theatre Ben Chapple (OC) and Alice Chapple - Working Like a Dog: Are We The Only Animals That Work?

7.30pm - 8.30pm, Layard Theatre Ed Smith - What is Work?

TUESDAY 16TH OCTOBER 9.25am - 10.40am, Layard Theatre Peter Taylor (Canford Parent) - Why Work?

11.50am - 1.05pm, Layard Theatre Jamie Bartlett - The People v Tech 5.00pm - 6.00pm, Layard Theatre James Menzies (OC) - Gimme Fried Chicken: How Values and Identity Shape the Work We Do? 7.30pm - 8.30pm, Layard Theatre Professor Minesh Khashu (Canford Parent) - The Most Important Work You Will Ever Do Is ...

WEDNESDAY 17TH OCTOBER 10.05am - 11.15am, Layard Theatre Daisy Buchanan - Time to Pretend: Why We Should All Embrace Imposter Syndrome 1.45pm - 3.05pm, Layard Theatre John Blashford-Snell - Operation Drake 1.45pm - 3.05pm, Assembly Hall Heather Fell - A Life in Sport

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WHAT IS WORK? All of the speakers in the festival line-up are men and women of ideas and, as far as we can tell, they are living their lives in accordance with those ideas, at least as far as is humanly possible. Until quite recently, the future for students at a school like Canford was in most cases quite clearly delineated: you might head into professions like the law, banking, medicine, civil service, accountancy, teaching, or the church. There were occasional rebels and mavericks, but most people knew more or less where they were going.

Things are now changing rapidly and no one seems quite certain what the world of work holds in store for the present generation. How many jobs will be taken over by Artificial Intelligence?

Will most of us do many different jobs in our life time? Will the concept of comfortable retirement with a generous pension cease to be viable? When and if the next recession comes will we weather it as easily as the last one? Will the need to tackle climate change radically alter the way we work?

The answers are unclear, but what we do know is that, while the technology, the language and the currency of work is ever changing, the need to be imaginative, creative and flexible become increasingly important. My hope is that a Festival of Ideas like this will plant a few seeds in people’s minds that may bear fruit later in life.

Of necessity daily life in Canford is regulated and systematic but we need to hold on to the importance of free thinking and this relatively safe space should make that possible.

I hope that these speakers will provide you with a hoard of ideas that will help you to think about the way you might want to spend your working life, and what kind of hopes and values you might bring to the countless challenges and decisions that you face.

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John James, Festival Director

THURSDAY 11TH OCTOBER Ben Gibbons Setting Out to Work 7.00PM, LONG GALLERY JUNIOR HERETICS

Ben graduated from his undergraduate studies with a degree in Archaeology and Anthropology at Oxford University in 2017, and from a Masters programme in World Literatures at the same University in 2018. However, the path his career is now taking has developed out of the work he did outside of University during this time, the most important part of which has been the managing and directing of summer camps. He is currently spending two years outside of contracted employment to focus on writing, coding, and management projects in the International Development sector, and he’s really excited to be talking to Junior Heretics about the open future of work in the 21st century.

This event is principally for members of Junior Heretics, an academic discussion group, but anybody else is welcome to attend.

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FRIDAY 12TH OCTOBER Peter Thomson (OC) Future Work: Where is it Leading?

3.10PM - 4.30PM LAYARD THEATRE ALL UPPER AND LOWER SIXTH

Peter was a student at Canford fifty years ago. He then went to Leeds University to study Electrical Engineering and on graduating joined Rank Xerox and continued a career in HR for the next twenty years, ending up as the HR Director for Digital Equipment for Northern Europe.

During his time in the IT industry he experienced the introduction of computers into the workplace and saw the first signs of changing work practices. This stimulated his interest into new ways of working and their impact on organisations and society. He set up the Future Work Forum to study the changes to management and leadership needed in the 21st century.

During his 16 years as Director of the Future Work Forum, Peter became an expert on the changing world of work and provided advice to many businesses struggling to adapt to the Digital Age. Based on this experience he co-authored a book “Future Work” which became a business best seller. He has recently been the editor of a book on Digital Overload.

In his talk Peter will show how the world of work has been evolving and will predict some of the changes still to come. For the last thirty years there have been predictions that technology and social change will revolutionise work. There have been minor changes, making working patterns more flexible and mobile working more common.

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Technology has replaced some routine work and helped to speed up communications but it has yet to replace humans in many roles. With AI and other developments this is about to change. Will the future have work that is more fulfilling or will we all be following routines? As technology platforms connect suppliers to customers, will organisations turn into networks of self-employed individuals? Will there be enough work to go around? The place of work in people’s lives has been evolving with social and economic change. With people remaining fit into their old age what will happen to the idea of retiring from work to a life of leisure?

FRIDAY 12TH OCTOBER Sir Anthony Seldon What is Life?

How Can We Preser ve It in a World of AI? 7.30PM - 8.30PM LAYARD THEATRE ALL UPPER AND LOWER SIXTH

Anthony Seldon is an authority on contemporary British history and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Buckingham. He was formerly Master of Wellington College, one of Britain’s most famous independent schools. He is also author or editor of over 25 books on contemporary history, politics and education.

He is regarded as one of the country’s most high profile commentators on education and appears regularly on television and radio and in the press, and writes for several national newspapers. He is a cofounder of Action for Happiness with Lord Richard Layard and Geoff Mulgan.

His most recent books are Public Schools and the Great War, Beyond Happiness, Cameron At Ten and THE FOURTH EDUCATION REVOLUTION: Will Artificial Intelligence liberate or infantilise humanity? He was knighted in the Queen’s 2014 Birthday Honours list for services to education and modern political history.

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SATURDAY 13TH OCTOBER Andy Merrifield The Amateur – The Pleasure of Doing What We Love 11.25AM - 12.40PM LAYARD THEATRE ALL UPPER AND LOWER SIXTH

Andy Merrifield is an independent scholar and author of eleven books and numerous articles, essays and reviews in The Nation, Harper’s Magazine, New Left Review, Adbusters, Brooklyn Rail, Radical Philosophy and Dissent. His books have been translated into French, German, Turkish, Polish, Russian, Chinese and Korean.

He has spent decades teaching and writing about urbanism, social theory and literature, both inside and outside of a conventional university setting. He has also published three intellectual biographies on Henri Lefebvre, Guy Debord, and John Berger, as well as a popular existential travelogue called The Wisdom of Donkeys.

He is a regular speaker at scholarly, literary and political events on and off-campus. Over the years, he has led a somewhat nomadic existence, residing in the UK, the US, France and Brazil. He has tried to live, think and write, as one of his heroes James Joyce once said, “in the broadest way immarginable.”

“Andy Merrifield is a wizard and a poet and an inspiration” – Kalle Lasn, Editor, Adbusters ww.andymerrifield.org/writing/

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MONDAY 15TH OCTOBER Leila Singh and Sarah Sparks Setting Out for Success Two prominent life trainers in interactive sessions with Sixth Formers for Whole Day Enterprises

Leila Singh Attitude and Authenticity 9.30AM - 10.40AM LAYARD THEATRE Leila has a wealth of experience in bringing out the best in others. She inspires driven, motivated, high achievers to experience their infinite potential and limitless possibilities through exponential growth.

Her career of nearly 25 years initially as a qualified accountant and latterly a successful sales executive, coupled with her significant investment in her personal development journey; qualifying as an accredited Master Coach (IIC&M), graduate of Anthony Robbins Mastery and Business Mastery University, a Member and Mentor of the Professional Speakers Academy, and a Master Practitioner of NLP and Hypnotherapy (ABNLP & ABH), enables Leila to focus on going beyond surface level coaching, drilling down to get to the root cause of any limitations, obstacles, challenges and limiting beliefs, ensuring that her clients experience real and lasting transformation.

Leila, The Authentic Leadership Coach™, is the creator of the system the ‘Ultimate Success Blueprint™’ and has shared her philosophies, learnings and system in her award winning book, “Success Redefined – How to leverage your natural talents to become limitless!” She

hosts regular webinars, writes inspiring articles, and is invited to speak at events to share her powerful and thought-provoking philosophies.

Leila says, “We spend a significant part of our life working.Wouldn’t it be great to reflect on your journey and career in years to come, and realise that you have stepped outside your boundaries, your perceived limitations, and achieved more than you ever imagined?

I am dedicated to bringing out the best in you, taking you out of your comfort zone, in turn enhancing your influence, performance, results, and ultimately your personal and professional growth! Empowering you to be the best version of you!”

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MONDAY 15TH OCTOBER Sarah Sparks How to Look After Your Mental Wellbeing at Work 11.00AM - 12.00PM LAYARD THEATRE 12.15PM - 12.30PM: Q and A with Leila and Sarah

Sarah Sparks is an award winning public speaker, executive coach, author and trainer who works with senior leaders in the corporate world; sharing the latest thinking and research into stress and burnout prevention and strategies on how to get to a place of thriving. Her sessions are full of powerful ‘how to strategies’ that help people be more successful and improve all areas of their relationships, wealth, health and well-being.

Prior to founding ‘Choose to Thrive’, Sarah’s career was in finance and she worked as an Executive Director at Goldman Sachs. Since suffering burn-out in her late 30’s she’s focused her career on helping others create the building blocks to prosper, grow and flourish at work and in life. She works in groups and one-to-one with Managing Directors, board members and senior leaders, to inspire and get results, helping people to be more successful, manage their own stress and not pass it on to others.

Sarah is a ‘thought provocateur’, enabling her clients to have a different relationship to stress and stay away from distress. “Stress is a global health epidemic” according to the World Health Organisation but Sarah believes that there is a lot you can do to prevent yourself being part of that statistic.

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She contributes regularly to people features in the FT ignites, was featured in You! Magazine in December 2015, and the Talking Project on BBC Radio 4. She co-authored a book called ‘Notes To My Younger Self ’ - published in March ’18 and already an Amazon best seller.

Recently Sarah was a guest speaker at Citi Group, talking about ‘Thriving at Work’, to an audience of over 1,000. 94% said that they would immediately implement what they learnt from that session into their role.

MONDAY 15TH OCTOBER Ben Chapple (OC) and Alice Chapple Working Like a Dog: Are We The Only Animals That Work?

5.30PM - 6.30PM LAYARD THEATRE UPPER AND LOWER SIXTH – BIOLOGY, ECONOMICS, BUSINESS STUDIES Ben Chapple and Alice Chapple are coming together to take a look at work from the human and the animal perspective. Do animals work in the same sense that we work? Do we work to follow an instinct, to make money, to improve the world or simply because it’s what everybody else does? Do animals in any sense help each other by sharing tasks? Is it essentially the family bond that drives us to work?

Ben Chapple was a student at Canford, in Monteacute House, from 2007-2012. He went on to study Natural Sciences at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, specialising in Zoology and graduating in 2015. In September 2018 he completed a research Masters, during which he studied the hunting behaviour of African wild dogs at the Institute of Zoology in London. He has travelled to some of the world’s most exciting wild places, and is particularly interested in how the study of animal behaviour can be used to inform wildlife conservation.

the livelihoods of poor farmers in the supply chain, and a Trustee of the Shell Foundation, financing innovative and sustainable solutions in energy and transport for the poor in Africa and South Asia. She is Chair of Investor Watch, a not-for-profit organisation established to drive more sustainable investment practices, and an advisor to the UK’s Department for International Development. She is an advisor to the Future Fit Foundation which works with businesses to help them operate within environmental limits, and is a Governor of the Walcot Foundation.

Alice Chapple is an economist and a specialist in impact investment and international development.

Her career has focused on identifying how companies and investors can have a meaningful positive impact on poverty and the environment, while also being commercially viable. Through her company, Impact Value, she currently works with several funds and companies to help them articulate, measure and maximise their impact. Alice is a member of the Advisory Board of Sainsbury’s Foundation, supporting

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MONDAY 15TH OCTOBER Ed Smith What is Work?

7.30PM - 8.30PM LAYARD THEATRE ALL UPPER AND ALL LOWER SIXTH, ALL SHELLS

Ed will give his take on the festival’s title, What is Work?

He will draw from his experience as a professional sportsman, a writer, a media man and now England Cricket’s National Selector. He has already made a big impact in the cricket world with his strong decisions, so expect straight talking and perhaps a little controversy.

He will cover some of the key concerns we have about work: the tragedy of busyness, the constant distractions, the meaning of creativity, what we are trying to achieve, acquiescence and apathy, productivity, coping with bureaucracy, protecting time and space and, above all making the most of ourselves and our opportunities.

Ed Smith is National Selector for England Cricket.

He Co-Founded the Institute of Sports Humanities, which launches in autumn 2019. He is the author of four books, including What Sport Tells Us About Life (Penguin). Ed played cricket for Kent, England and Middlesex where he was captain for two seasons - a period that included Middlesex’s first major trophy for 15 years. Having retired when he broke his ankle aged 30, Ed became a lead writer for The Times. In 2012, he became a contributing writer for the New Statesman and then also a columnist for the Sunday Times. Ed has written and presented programmes for BBC 1, Radio 3 and Radio 4. He joined BBC Test Match Special in 2011.

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TUESDAY 16TH OCTOBER Peter Taylor (Canford Parent) Why Work?

9.25AM - 10.40AM LAYARD THEATRE ALL FIFTH FORM EXCEPT THOSE ON WW1 TRENCHES TRIP UPPER AND LOWER SIXTH ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS STUDIES

Peter is co-founder of Duke Street, a leading private equity firm established in the 1990s. Over the past twenty years he has specialised in acquiring and developing leading consumer brands such as Wagamama and Simple. He will attempt to answer the apparently simple question, ‘Why work?’.

Key motivations for work tend to change during the course of our lives: are we driven by excitement, camaraderie, freedom, money, curiosity, moral purpose, confidence, discipline, family, location, convenience or an ever-changing mixture of these? What causes mistaken choices, and how to recover from mistakes?

How do employers seek to attract and retain the best people? What personal motivations are they appealing to? In tackling these questions he will draw on his wide experience of work in accounting, private equity, tourist attractions, restaurants and professional sport.

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TUESDAY 16TH OCTOBER Jamie Bartlett The People v Tech 11.50AM - 1.05PM LAYARD THEATRE UPPER SIXTH: BUS ST. (LIP) ECONOMICS (NHJ/RGJ) ECONOMICS (JPST/NHJ) COMPUTER SCIENCE (SJCR) GEOGRAPHY (PDAR, JRO) POLITICS (LLC) LOWER SIXTH: GEOGRAPHY (JI), HISTORY (LMS). ALL OTHERS WELCOME IF NOT IN LESSONS.

Jamie Bartlett is the Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media at the think-tank Demos, where he has become one of the UK’s leading thinkers on politics and technology.

He is also author of The People Vs Tech (2018) about the relationship between technology and democracy, Radicals (2017) about political outsiders and best-selling The Dark Net (2014) about internet subcultures, which has been translated into 13 languages. Jamie also co-authored #intelligence with Sir David Omand, which explores the use of internet intelligence by the security services and the police. His Ted Talk about how dark net technology is changing the nature of cybercrime has been viewed almost 3 million times.

His areas of expertise range from social media monitoring and analytics (including in elections) internet culture and ‘the dark net’, crypto-currencies, surveillance technology, machine learning, automated sentiment analysis, big data, cyber privacy and law, and social media research ethics. He is also a technology blogger for the Spectator and regularly writes about how the internet is changing politics and society,

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including for The Sunday Times, the Guardian, Foreign Policy, and The Telegraph.

He recently presented a major BBC2 documentary series ‘The Secrets of Silicon Valley’ about technology disruption to economies and politics.

TUESDAY 16TH OCTOBER James Menzies (OC) Gimme Fried Chicken: How Values and Identity Shape the Work We Do 5.00PM - 6.00PM LAYARD THEATRE ALL FOURTH FORM AND ALL SHELLS. ALL OTHERS WELCOME.

After finishing Canford and following a gap year, James completed a degree in Theology at Durham. This was followed by an MA (also in Theology) as part of his training to be a priest. He was ordained in 2010 to serve in a former mining community in Sunderland, before returning to Dorset to take up the role of Team Vicar on Portland. Since January 2018 he has also been a firefighter in the Dorset and Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service. He is married with two young children, and he enjoys film, music, history, friends and travel.

James will reflect on his experience in various roles, inviting us to consider how we might respond to questions about our identity and work. For example, how does our upbringing and the culture and values of those around us influence our career and life choices?

How does his sense of identity and purpose in life affect his work? How do we determine what success or failure mean in the context of work?

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TUESDAY 16TH OCTOBER Professor Minesh Khashu (Canford Parent) The Most Impor tant Work You Will Ever Do Is ...

7.30PM - 8.30PM LAYARD THEATRE HERETICS SOCIETY (ALL OTHERS, INCLUDING PARENTS, VERY WELCOME)

Prof Khashu will explore 3 ideas in relation to work with the audience.

“Since we will together ‘play’ with these ideas and learn from each other, it is not really work and hence ideally done with a voluntary audience!

The key skill in life is to learn to learn” Prof. Minesh Khashu is a Consultant Neonatologist & Professor of Perinatal Health in Dorset. He is an influential global clinical leader re-imagining healthcare with a focus on system wide transformation, continuous quality improvement and patient centred care. Prof. Khashu is well known to lead with vision and compassion. He is a highly regarded mentor and clinical teacher. Prof. Khashu’s interests beyond neonatal/ perinatal health include large scale change, social movements to generate health as well as metaphysics, spirituality and poetry. He is a motivational and keynote speaker, but above all describes himself as a student of life!

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WEDNESDAY 17TH OCTOBER Daisy Buchanan Time to Pretend: Why We Should All Embrace Imposter Syndrome 10.05AM - 11.15AM LAYARD THEATRE ALL UPPER SIXTH AND ALL LOWER SIXTH. ALL OTHERS WELCOME IF NOT IN LESSONS.

Daisy Buchanan is an award winning journalist and the author of the critically acclaimed book How To Be A Grown Up. She’s a regular contributor to TV and radio, frequently appearing on Woman’s Hour, Good Morning Britain and This Morning. Daisy writes for a wide range of publications including The Guardian, The Telegraph, Grazia, Marie Claire and The Pool. She’s given a TEDx talk, How To Survive A Quarter Life Crisis and was Grazia’s in house agony aunt, writing the popular Dear Daisy column.

Her new book, The Sisterhood, a memoir about the fierce, funny, feminist side of growing up as the eldest of six girls, will be published by Headline in March 2019. You can find her on Instagram @thedaisybee.

“Who might I pretend to be, if I wasn’t so frightened of being found out? And how much fun would I have?”

What is imposter syndrome, and why does it still plague ambitious men and women in 2018? Daisy Buchanan considers what’s at the root of our fear of being found out, and explores how to subvert self doubt and embrace the idea that the world will take us at our own estimation.

When anxiety and mental health issues are rising, social media is having a great impact on our personal and professional lives, and the pressure to be perfect is at an all time high, this talk will look at how to survive and thrive in a working world where we’re expected to define ourselves by our successes.

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WEDNESDAY 17TH OCTOBER John Blashford-Snell Operation Drake 1.45PM - 3.05PM LAYARD THEATRE ALL UPPER SIXTH ALL LOWER SIXTH EXCEPT SPORTS SCHOLARS REGISTER WITH THE TEACHER WHO WOULD NORMALLY BE TAKING YOUR CLASS – IF ON STUDY PERIOD REGISTER WITH IW

Colonel John Blashford-Snell is one of the world’s most renowned and highly respected explorers. JBS supports and works with numerous charities working with underprivileged youth in the UK, as well as undertaking countless community aid projects in remote parts of the world.

In 1969, following the success of the Blue Nile Expedition, JBS and his colleagues formed the Scientific Exploration Society (SES), their aim being “to foster and encourage scientific exploration worldwide”. The SES became the parent body for many worldwide ventures. With the encouragement and Patronage of HRH The Prince of Wales, the SES mounted the circumnavigations, Operations Drake and Raleigh.

Inspired by the spirit of Sir Frances Drake’s voyage 400 years ago, JBS poured his energy into raising funds and selecting a team to run Operation Drake. From 1978 to 1980 projects were organised for 400 young people from 27 nations working with scientists and servicemen in 16 countries. Operations were run from the Eye of the Wind, a 150-ton British brigantine which circumnavigated the world providing a floating base and laboratory for their scientific work. As a result of the success of this venture, The Fairbridge Drake Society, (now part of the Prince’s Trust) was formed to help disadvantaged young people and subsequently, at the request of the Government and many organisations, a much larger global youth programme was organised. In 1984 JBS launched Operation Raleigh and by 1992 over 10,000 young men and

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women from 50 nations had taken part in challenges and worthwhile global expeditions, returning home as true young pioneers intent on putting something back into their own communities.

John will tell the story of the first of the great global youth expeditions. At the suggestion of HRH The Prince of Wales, a new type of enterprise took young explorers of many nations into the far corners of the earth to face challenges and dangers that turn boys into men and girls into women - and give the older staff some grey hairs in the process! Using an airship and a splendid sailing vessel, it attracted thousands of applications. Strongly supported by the American and British media, ABC, Survival Anglia TV and especially Capital Radio on London.

WEDNESDAY 17TH OCTOBER Heather Fell A Life In Spor t 1.45PM - 3.05PM ASSEMBLY HALL ALL SHELLS FOURTHS AND FIFTH, SIXTH FORM SPORTS SCHOLARS AND PE A LEVEL STUDENTS REGISTER WITH THE TEACHER WHO WOULD NORMALLY BE TAKING YOUR CLASS – IF ON STUDY PERIOD REGISTER WITH IW

Heather is a former British modern pentathlete turned triathlete who won a Silver Medal in the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.

In January 2014 Heather announced her retirement to pursue a career in media. She took up ironman triathlon and came second in the 30-34 women’s category at the 2017 Standard Bank African Championship, qualifying for Kona in her first ironman distance race. She subsequently finished 36th in her age category at the 2017 Ironman World Championship. As of late 2017 Heather has been co-presenting content on the Global Triathlon Network YouTube channel. In 2018 Heather became European Sprint Triathlon Champion in the 35-39 women’s age category at the 2018 European Championships in Glasgow.

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