Alan’s values are: Excellence, Creation, Adaptability, Kindness, Enjoyment

Alan is widely recognised as a leader of values-driven strategic implementation in the UK and globally who thrives on designing and implementing values-driven concepts and operating models to create sustained positive impact. He has applied this approach over several decades in a variety of settings and contexts (organizational, community (local and global) and individual) and delivered award winning projects in more than thirty countries. Latterly, he is following the advice offered by his grandmother when he was a young boy to follow his nose, with the courage to be guided by intention, values and energy, without the need for a plan.

Alan graduated in Hotel & Catering Administration at Surrey University where he has been a visiting lecturer, was a global train the trainer for the Marriott International Spirit to Serve programme, is a published author of four internationally acclaimed books, is the founder of SERVICEBRAND GLOBAL, Global Values Alliance, the k20 Kindness Without Borders initiative, and Global Poetry Showcase, co-founder of THE 4TH DIMENSION, ValuesJam, and is a director at UK Values Alliance and British Quality Foundation.

Jean-Pierre’s values are: Growth, Harmony, Equality, Collaboration, Helpfulness

Jean-Pierre is Dutch, born in Suriname, with ancestral roots in India, Africa, Asia, and Europe. After earning degrees in engineering and business, he worked for 30 years in multinationals across oil, chemical, and food industries, experiencing diverse cultures in Europe, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean, which deepened his interest in human development and spirituality.

Now working in Hungary as a management consultant, he contributes to Suriname by guest lecturing at ADEKUS University, training leaders, and serving on the board of Wi Tru Sranan, promoting national unity through values. He is also involved with PUM Netherlands, aiding entrepreneurs in developing countries.

His first book, “Transform Your World” (2020), was endorsed by Nobel Peace Laureate Tawakkol Karman,  His second (2024), “The Soul of a Nation,” explores Surinamese society in terms of values.

Kim’s values are: Balance, Learning, Love, Beauty, Spirituality

Kim Polman adjusted throughout her adult life and learned several languages while moving between different seven European countries.  Her consistent focus has been on learning more about spirituality and participating in various cultural activities, especially music.  She co-managed an arts festival across northern England in the run-up to the millennium.  She has organised countless recitals and performed in orchestras wherever she lived, including currently in the Kensington Symphony Orchestra in London. She played and performed in two piano trios for ten years.  She initiated research on expat spouses who have moved multiple times. She also did research on how expats in Geneva interact with the local museums. She ran a community-based website for the expat community in Geneva.  She co-founded a charity dedicated to encouraging braille literacy for visually impaired students in East Africa, and organised dinners-in-the dark in London to raise awareness of blindness.

Throughout her international life, including travelling extensively throughout her adulthood,  she learned that people everywhere are One, and want the same things, love in their lives, safety for their families, good shelter and food, good education, and that caring for each other is critical.  This led her to a passion for the Golden Rule as a basis for fulfilling the United Nations’ 2015 Sustainable Development Goals, and to co-founding an organisation, Reboot the Future, to promote a modern version “Treat others and the planet as wish to be treated.”  For this purpose she co-authored two books:  Imaginal Cells: Visions of Transformation, and Values for a Life Economy.

More recently she bought a farm west of London with the aim of finding the balance between food production and nature restoration, and for creating a sanctuary to share with others, including her three sons and their families.