Meet our speakers
Expert voices shaping fitness futures
Discover the driving forces behind Level Up's impactful events. Our speakers, renowned for their expertise and innovation in the fitness industry, bring a wealth of knowledge, experience, and proven strategies. They are mentors, innovators, and leaders, each dedicated to empowering your fitness career.
From ground-breaking methods to business acumen, each speaker adds a unique dimension to the Level Up experience. Their sessions are designed not just to inform, but to inspire action and drive change in both your professional practice and business development.
Dan Richardson
Dan is a performance nutrition expert dedicated to maximising the athletic potential of elite-level athletes. With extensive experience, he collaborates closely with high-level athletes and clubs through his company DRN Nutrition, including teams like Sale Sharks, Warrington Wolves, and England Touch. Dan also works with Leeds United’s Academy, dedicating his efforts to enhancing the health and performance of players across the U9 - U21s playing groups. Moreover, he shares his expertise within the Independent School sector, educating aspiring athletes on the importance of sports nutrition. Dan's approach to nutrition is straightforward yet effective, rooted in evidence-based principles and prioritising whole foods.
Oliver Patrick
Oliver is Physiologist and health assessment expert, focussed on the measurable health and performance outputs of lifestyle. Oliver is co-founder of fitness education business Future Practice, Wellbeing Director of medical business Latus Health, Clinical Director of luxury hotel business, Pillar Wellbeing, and consults directly to organisations globally, including Nike, League Managers Association, PureGym, UK Coaching, The RAF, and more. In his earlier career Oliver formed the largest team of Physiologists and Nutritionists in the UK when head of Physiology at Nuffield Health, before co-founding the worlds most advanced health assessment on London’s Harley Street and the UKs first Lifestyle Medicine Gym in Oxford. Oliver is the host of the Energy Equation Podcast from High Performance, where he uses advanced heart rate variability technology to run personalised stress, sleep, and fitness assessments on well-known
James Griffiths
James Griffiths is a fitness innovator who has redefined the boundaries of exercise with his brand Wild Training, winning the accolade for the UK's best independent gym. James is constantly reimagining the personal training experience and is known for challenging conventional workout methodologies. He's the mentor behind many successful personal trainers and is now working with Your PT to help share his fitness coach education with you.
Keith Smith
Training and education specialist, Keith Smith, enjoyed a 14-year career as a tutor and assessor for YMCAFit before starting his own professional development company in 2010.
Keith will be delivering on how to master lead generation through engagements on the gym floor and will hone in on aspects that make a major difference to a members experience.
Andrew Tyrrell
Andrew started in the health and fitness industry back in 1998 and has over the years developed a phenomenal reputation as a highly successful Personal Trainer. Demonstrating integrity and a thirst for professional development over the year, Andrew has operated in both commercial gyms and for the last 10+ years ran his own PT studio in South Wales.
At Level Up Andrew will be sharing insights into great client retention strategies.
Dr Glenda Rivoallen
Dr Glenda Rivoallan is an inspiring and passionate international speaker, author, coach and consultant known for her expertise in resilience, mindset and wellbeing.
Glenda is the Founder of We Talk Wellbeing and a serial award-winning entrepreneur in the digital health and fitness industries.
She is highly regarded for her leadership and innovation skills in supporting individuals & businesses to thrive.
Emma Hossack
Emma is an executive coach, speaker, consultant and Director of We Talk Wellbeing. With an expertise in sales, Emma brings a wealth of experience to the level up events to support on sales strategy. With years of experience working with adults, children, teens and teams, Emma is passionate about resilience and wellbeing as the foundation to finding true happiness.
She believes that when we focus on our own health & wellbeing, we can be resilient through challenging times and live a contented, successful life.
Keith Small - Your Success
For over 25 years Keith has worked across various sectors including Leisure, Health and Fitness, Hospitality and Financial services helping people and organisations improve their sales process’s and be the best they can be in selling their products, services and importantly themselves.
For the last 12 years Keith has been focusing on coaching and working with people and organisations across the world in person and online helping them to reach and maintain their full potential.
Keith’s passion is to work with people who like to share their knowledge and skills to improve their clients health and wellbeing with Personal Trainers being at the top of that list.
As a coach, Keith helps people to understand what truly motivates them and put action plans together, removing barriers and limiting beliefs to help them get focused and achieve their goals.
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