AgriLeader Forum 2025: Aspire, Advance, Achieve

Show your team how much you value their contributions by bringing the leaders in your business to the 2025 Forum, which is designed to unlock their potential and achieve shared success.

What to expect at the AgriLeader Forum

• Inspiring talks from renowned speakers
• Networking with fellow farmers sharing your passion
• A perfect mix of challenge and motivation to help you advance
• Essential tools to drive your business forward
• Time to reflect and strategise for the future, setting you up to achieve success

When and where

12:00pm Tuesday 28 January – 1:00pm Wednesday 29 January 

Hosted by NatWest at:
NatWest Bishopsgate Conference Centre
London
EC2M 4AA

What's the line-up?

Day 1: Tuesday 28 January

12:00pm Registration and lunch

• Positive habits: With Kat Thorne, founder of The Morning Game Changer.
• Seizing the opportunity: Panel Q&A with Ian Burrow, Matt Dobbs and Sarah Bell
• Group discussions

Day 2: Wednesday 29 January

9:00am Conference start

• Enabling extraordinary: With Anna Mosley, a high-performance coach and founder of Eighty.
• Group discussions
• Leading people: With Kat Thorne and Anna Mosley

12:45pm Lunch and depart

Meet the speakers

Kat Thorne – Positive habits: Small daily, changes to make big differences

Kat, an international keynote speaker and consultant, inspires audiences with her story of overcoming workaholism and burnout with one small habit change. 
 
She helps leaders, organisations and individuals create small positive habits that boost wellbeing, resilience and performance.

Anna Mosley – Enabling extraordinary

Anna is a multi-award-winning speaker and high-performance coach. With an extensive background in corporate leadership and vast experience in the world of mental health, Anna – a master in neuro-linguistic programming – bridges the gap between mental fitness and high performance.

Gemma Krasucka – Bring people with you: High performance vs high fulfilment

Gemma is the head of learning and development at Leicester City Football Club.

With a strong background in performance coaching, people development and cultural change, her purpose is to help individuals and teams unlock their full potential. Gemma's career spans more than 20 years and has been committed to guiding others to reach their professional goals.

Ian Burrow – Panellist

Ian Burrow has over 40 years’ experience at NatWest, with 16 years as Head of Agriculture and Renewable Energy.

In 2014, during a break from the bank, he established a successful renewable energy company within a large corporate agricultural business.

Matt Dobbs – Panellist

Matt is the founder and CEO of the livestock-monitoring Agri-Tech business Agsenze. He is also Chair of the MWI Clinical Advisory Board, Digital Practice Lead for Stonehaven Consultancy, and founder/Chair of the digital businesses FarmLaw.co.uk, HeckinGood and VetYou.

Sarah Bell – Panellist

Sarah farms with her husband and parents in Rutland; they have a mixed farming operation spanning cereals, beef and sheep.

Sarah has also developed three fully accessible holiday cottages on the farm since returning to the business in 2017.

Accommodation and travel

You will need to book and pay for your own accommodation. There are several hotels near to the venue including:

• Point A London Liverpool Street, 13–15 Folgate Street, E1 6BX
• Travelodge London Liverpool Street, 1 Harrow Place, E1 7DB
• hub by Premier Inn, London Spitalfields, 86 Brick Lane, E1 6RL
• Ibis London City, 5 Commercial Street, E1 6BF

We will be hosting our evening meal at Tower Suites by Blue Orchid, 100 Minories, London EC3N 1JY. A discounted room rate is available for accommodation at this hotel. Please follow the instructions below to take advantage of this offer. This hotel is a 14-minute walk from the NatWest Conference Centre.

By train: The closest train station is London Liverpool Street.

By car: There are several car parks nearby, including an NCP at Finsbury Square which is a 12-minute walk away.

All delegates are responsible for their own parking and travel arrangements.

Previous events

If you’re not sure if this event is for you or if you have any questions, please get in touch with one of the team.

If you're new to AgriLeader and haven’t been to one of our events before, check out this recap video from the 2024 event for a taste of what’s to come.