AgriLeader Forum 2025: Aspire, Advance, Achieve

Below, you can find out more about the event, which was designed to unlock the potential of you and your team to achieve shared success.

Why did people come to the event?

While taking time out of your business might seem like an impossible task, the benefits you can reap from doing so are priceless:

• 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

Tuesday 28 January – Wednesday 29 January 

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

What was the line-up?

Day 1: Tuesday 28 January

• 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

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

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.

Previous events

If you have any questions about this event, or AgriLeader in general, 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.