ENTERTAINING AND HOSPITALITY MANAGING DIRECTOR, GOODWOOD ESTATE

Andrew is a career hotelier and restaurateur, having managed hotels overseas in Dubai, South Africa and Malaysia as well at iconic UK hotels such as Brown’s Hotel and The Grand, Brighton. Also owned a pub and restaurant company in Brighton for 10 years and won the most sustainable pub in The UK award from The SRA. For the past 6 years has been MD of Entertaining and Hospitality at The Goodwood Estate, overseeing all hospitality businesses and current holder of The Catey Award for most sustainable business in UK hospitality.

Co-publisher, ShortBooks

Aurea Carpenter, co-publisher of Short Books, worked as a writer and editor in various areas of journalism, including features editor of the Sunday Telegraph Magazine, before co-founding Short Books. There she became one of the country’s leading non-fiction editors, working on many of the biggest health titles in the last decade, including Michael Mosley’s Fast 800 series, now an international brand. After selling Short Books to Hachette in 2019, she and Rebecca Nicolson left last year to establish New River, a creative independent publishing house with a focus on mental and physical health, self-development and social science.

CONSULTANT, GOODWOOD

Ben is an award-winning journalist, consultant and speechwriter.  He writes for major newspapers and magazines around the world, specialising in cars, the car industry and the transition to an electric, connected and autonomous future. He covers a wide variety of other topics too: recent assignments include an in-depth feature on the boom in English sparkling wine, and a three-day cycling trip through the Scottish Highlands with Sir Chris Hoy.

He is proud to have been part of the team which organises Goodwood’s annual Nucleus summit since its inception in 2015. Billed as ‘the automotive Davos’, it brings together all those who influence the new mobility –from legislators and the leaders of the established carmakers to the founders of the tech start-ups which seek to disrupt them – in order to advance the cause of sustainable transport.

As a speechwriter and communications consultant, he has worked directly with C-level executives at some of the world’s largest companies.

As a former chief test driver for a car magazine, Ben’s favourite stories include driving a standard Mini to the highest place a car can go, the 18,000ft Khardung La pass in the Himalayas, and testing the Bugatti Chiron, the world’s fastest car, beyond 200mph.

Ben’s work has brought him awards including Journalist of the Year, Feature Writer of the Year, the AA Environment Award and the Bentley International Award.

DIRECTOR, NEW RIVER BOOKS

Catherine Gibbs is a director of New River Books, an independent publishing house founded in 2022 specialising in high-end health, science and lifestyle books, including bestselling The Glucose Goddess Method by Jessie Inchauspé.

Chief of Staff,  Glucose Goddess

Elissa holds a BSc in biology and human genetics from UCL, a post-graduate diploma in cancer research, and a doctorate in veterinary medicine from the University of Edinburgh. She was a veterinary surgeon in London and France for several years and worked in the pharmaceutical industry helping to get drugs to market.

Grant is an experienced, successful business executive and a recently retired CEO, who has driven substantial value creation while demonstrating the positive role business can play with respect to environmental and societal issues.  He has achieved this in multiple roles, over 34 years with Mars Incorporated, ultimately as CEO.  Mars is now well over $45B in annual sales and a world leader in Petcare, Snack Food, and Food.  Mars is also now the world’s premier Veterinary company globally.

He now continues this work on sustainable value creation as Chair of the SMI’s Agribusiness Task Force, on the Board of Marriott International and with a leading Private Equity company.  Over his tenure, he also served on the Board of Directors of the Consumer Goods Forum, co-led their Forest Positive initiative, and was a member of OP2B, & B4IG.  All top-level organizations bringing together the private sector and civil society to promote sustainable development through good business.  Clearly demonstrating you can do well, while doing good.

Across his new roles and their varied responsibilities, He looks to help foster private and public partnerships to create financial and societal value in parallel – as a Chair, Board Member and Operating Partner in Private Equity.  He does this under his belief that “Performance without Purpose is Pointless, and Purpose without Performance is not Possible”.

Awards;
Proud recipient of:  “Humanitarian of the Year Award” for corporate leadership in driving sustainable business practices.  United Nations Day 2022, UN Association of New York.
Honorary Doctor Of the University of Stirling.

tentant farmer, goodwood estate

Harry is a 4th generation tenant farmer on Goodwood Estate with a passion for farming and fitness.

Having had a traditional agricultural education through college and university, he returned home to work alongside his father on the family farm in 2013, following time working for Lord Rothschild at Waddesdon Estate and travelling to Australia.

The family converted to organic farming in 2017, running 240 dairy cows, 250 breeding ewes and growing arable crops to feed back to the animals.

Harry began investigating regenerative farm practices after reading books by Gabe Brown, Joel Salatin and older writings from George Henderson and Newton Turner to try and better understand the soils we manage and how the health of soils has a direct impact on the plants, animals, environment and us.

Harry started at Goodwood  in January 2023 with an aim to improve enterprise efficiencies, staff and animal welfare and land longevity.

executive coach

James is an executive coach who works with individuals, teams and groups to develop their wellbeing and potential. James’s coaching practice is grounded in his values of development, enthusiasm, gratitude, fun and autonomy. James also has experience in consulting, start-ups, investment and family businesses.

James has an MSc in Applied Positive Psychology and Coaching Psychology and is a qualified yoga teacher.

Head of Health and Wellbeing, Goodwood

Jen has over 15 years’ experience managing experience-based wellbeing products and content. Specialising in Holistic Perimenopause health, Sleep Recovery and Stress management.

Responsible for revenues across multple wellness channels including membership subscriptions, events, corporate assets and retreats. Managing a heads of department team that oversee an extensive network of internal and external stakeholders.

We curate exceptional health and wellbeing retreats, with expertise at the heart. We focus on science backed holistic wellbeing, promoting innovation in the wellbeing industry such as Gut Health, Biohacking, resilience recovery, sleep-hygiene, stress and psychology led programmes. Our focus is preventative health which is highly tailored and curated to ensure the individuals results are met.

radio presenter

Justin Webb presents the Today Programme on BBC Radio Four and the Americast podcast.

He was educated at Friends’ School Sidcot and the London School of Economics.   He joined the BBC in 1984.   He is married with three children.   His memoir of the 1970s The Gift of a Radio was published in paperback last year.

Lady Helen Taylor has an interest in all things health and wellness related and passionate advocate of complimentary healing through community, nutrition and movement.

Helen is a yoga/qigong practitioner and teacher in training, mother of 4, finding peace in nature, friends, art and music.

Karen Spencer is a social entrepreneur who founded Whole Child International in 2004, an international charity that works systemically to improve the quality of childcare in a variety of settings in the developing world. For the past 19 years, she has led an international team to improve systems of care, advocate and influence policy, and conduct related research.

Since moving to the UK full time in 2019, she has led Althorp’s efforts to improve the farming as well as a Parkland Restoration project.  Althorp now has all 4500 acres of in hand farmland in organic conversion and are working with globally recognized farming expert Nicole Masters to support capacity building for better farming practices in the UK.

In 2015, Lady Spencer was elected an Ashoka Fellow for identifying and filling a gap in care for orphans and vulnerable children. In 2016, she was made a Fellow at the University of Northampton in the UK. In 2017, People Magazine named her one of “25 Women Changing the World.” She sits on the Board of the Center for Global Development and the Governing Council of Catalyst 2030.

executive chef, Goodwood estate

Mike first joined Goodwood in 2015 as head chef of Goodwood house. Previously working at Chewton Glen & Rhinefield House in the New Forest.  Overseeing the Goodwood chef’s academy developing and training Goodwood’s next generation of chefs as well as working with local schools & colleges championing the importance of using both organic and local ingredients.

Publisher, co-founder New River

Rebecca Nicolson is Co-founder of independent publishing house New River Books. She formerly worked for newspapers including the Observer, The Times, The Telegraph, and the Daily Mail. She was latterly deputy editor of the Independent on Sunday, before co-founding Short Books, which published multiple bestsellers and established a reputation for having the highest hit rate of any small publisher in the UK. It was sold to Hachette in 2019.

OPerations Manager, Goodwood Health Programmes, Goodwood Estate

With 10 years’ experience in the Fitness and health industry, working as a Personal trainer and group fitness class instructor specialising in Zumba and Aqua Fitness. Now working in operations management with the health and wellbeing team to deliver exceptional wellbeing retreats.

Chartered Psychologist, Coach and Supervisor

Sam works with individuals, leaders and teams to unlock their performance at work and in life. Her research has led to a process that integrates mindset, movement, recovery strategies and nutrition to enable people to sustain high performance under pressure. Supporting people to consume colourful, largely plant based whole foods, Sam regularly witnesses a transformation in performance, outlook and general wellbeing.  

Clinical Nutritionist, Physical & Mental Health Coach, Author

Stephanie Moore is a gut health expert, celebrity nutritionist, author and Programme Lead on the Goodwood Gut Health programme. She began her career in the integrated health world in 1991 in the pursuit of discovering what creates vibrant health and wellbeing, and in turn has experience in an impressive breadth of training and specialities.

After training in numerous physical therapy disciplines, Stephanie became a teacher of massage and anatomy and also trained as a personal fitness trainer. Stephanie has also had experience in the corporate world, establishing a corporate stress management company providing on-site massage and stress management seminars at work.

Stephanie has worked in the natural health field for over 30 years as a self-employed natural health therapist, clinical nutritionist, author and health coach. With a Bachelor of Science degree in Nutritional Medicine and a Masters degree in Counselling and Psychotherapy, plus a long history as a multi-disciplinary physical therapist and fitness coach, she combines all skill sets to help people with many kinds of health issues, both physical and psychological with a prevention-first focus.

Stephanie conducts one-to-one nutritional therapy clinics in Surrey and Online offering a comprehensive assessment of her patients’ health issues to then provide detailed, personalised health protocols. With specialist interest in digestive health and the effect of the gut microbiome on metabolic, hormonal and mental health conditions, she works with numerous GPs supporting treatment plans for challenging cases with eating disorders, metabolic chronic disease and cancer, both pre, during and post treatment.

Stephanie contributes to various health publications; is often featured in the media as a health expert and is on the Advisory Board of the SATCC cancer charity. Stephanie published her first book in 2017 called ‘Why Eating Less & Exercising More Makes You Fat!’, which explains why conventional weight loss advice fails and what to do instead to achieve permanent health and weight loss goals. She has also co-authored a book on Super-Foods with doctor of biochemistry and health campaigner, Dr James DiNicolantonio.

Her latest book, ‘Eat Your Brain Happy’, explores nutritional neuroscience and focuses on the critical role of gut health, food, sleep, exercise and other factors known to directly influence the health of the brain.

President of Singleton and East Dean Women’s Institute, Chef and self professed biophile

Zoe has spent her entire career in working in the food and beverage industry; with the last 4 years working on and understanding the huge importance of organic farms. An unwavering passion for simple but delicious ingredients is integral to Zoe’s philosophy and this leads the values and ethos of the catering, retreat and concierge business she is launching.