It's Tough at the Top 2024 - Speakers

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Sarah Vibert

CEO, NCVO

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Sarah joined NCVO in January 2020 as director of membership and engagement before becoming chief executive. She's held a number of leadership roles in the voluntary sector, most recently as chief executive of the umbrella charity The Neurological Alliance.

Sarah also spent time in senior management roles at Epilepsy Society and In Kind Direct, as well as previously working for (then) HRH the Prince of Wales. She started her career in local government management, including working for the Mayor of London.

Sarah is a trustee at Trussell Trust. She also volunteers as a coach at her sons’ rugby club and for the Parent Teacher Association at her son's school. Sarah has previously been a trustee of National Voices and The Brain and Spine Foundation.

Debra Allcock Tyler

CEO, DSC

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Debra has worked in the charitable and voluntary sector for nearly 40 years with brief forays into the private sector. Amongst numerous other roles, she is Co-Chair of the Soldiering on Awards. She is a Trustee of In Kind Direct, one of the Prince's Foundation Charities, a governor of the Berkshire NHS Community Foundation Trust, a Commissioner on the Local News Commission of the Public Interest News Foundation, and just recently stood down as trustee of the Berkshire Community Foundation. She is also an Africa Advocacy Foundation Ambassador for women and girls at risk of or affected by Female Genital Mutilation (FGM).

Debra has served as a trustee of several charities including being the co-founder of the Small Charities Coalition and was its first Chair. She served on the Charity Commission's SORP committee for over 7 years and was the Vice-Chair of Governors of Whiteknights primary school for 6 years.

She is a renowned public speaker with many years' experience of training and coaching and is an internationally published author of several books on management and leadership including It's Tough at the Top; The Pleasure and the Pain; It's Murder in Management and It's a Battle on the Board. Debra has a regular monthly column in Third Sector magazine and has appeared on Radio 4's The Moral Maze.

Mike Findlay-Agnew

Managing Director, Rising Fox and CEO, International Network of Street Papers

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Mike Findlay-Agnew is a third sector leader, coach, writer and trainer. He is CEO of the International Network of Street Papers (INSP), a UK based charity that represents all printed newspapers and magazines sold globally in support of tackling homelessness and poverty, including the Big Issue UK.

His background is in senior communications roles in the charity, higher education, and health sectors. Through his coaching and training work, Mike is passionate strategies third sector leaders and CEOs can use to enhance their health and wellbeing

Matt Hyde OBE

Chief Executive, Lloyds Bank Foundation

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Matt Hyde is Chief Executive of the Lloyds Bank Foundation, one of the UK’s largest corporate foundations, funded by the profits of the Lloyds Banking Group. It partners with small, local charities and communities working towards a more just and compassionate society.

Until September 2024 Matt was Chief Executive of the Scouts, the UK’s largest youth movement, where he led the organisation during a period of record membership growth, particularly in areas of deprivation, and oversaw the development of a new age range, called Squirrels, opening up Scouts for four and five year olds.

Formerly Chief Executive of the National Union of Students (NUS), he’s undertaken a number of leadership roles in the charity sector.
Matt is co-Founder of The Big Help Out, an initiative to dramatically increase volunteering numbers across the UK, where 7.2m took part in 2023 and similar numbers participated in 2024. He is Vice-Chair of Comic Relief, a Patron of UNLOCK (the charity for people with convictions) and was previously Vice-Chair of the National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO).

Matt was awarded an OBE in the 2020 New Year Honours List, an Honorary Fellowship from Queen Mary University of London in 2012 and an Honorary Degree from the University of Hertfordshire in 2023.