Charles Steel – Author of The Curious Mind of Elon Musk: 9 Ways He Thinks Differently

Confront the fear, accept that there is an outcome in which you completely fail, and then channel that feeling and try and make sure to do your dullness, to make sure it never happens.

Charles Steel is a British investor, author, and thinker with more than twenty years of experience working with management teams to grow and build businesses. He began his career at Goldman Sachs in London in 1997, later moved into private investing with The Carlyle Group, and went on to launch the European private equity business for Ares Management. His professional journey broadened beyond finance when he served as an adviser to former British prime minister Tony Blair during Blair’s role as Middle East envoy to the Quartet in Jerusalem. After returning to London, Steel became deeply involved in the nonprofit sector, including serving as chair of Save the Children in the United Kingdom. These varied experiences sparked a fascination with purpose and human motivation that ultimately led him to writing. Educated at Cambridge University in history and philosophy, Steel’s approach to understanding people and their ideas is informed by a belief in examining subjects in their own terms and within their broader context. He is the author of The Curious Mind of Elon Musk, an ideas-driven exploration of Elon Musk’s defining qualities that is set for publication in early 2026, and he has plans to write future works on figures such as Albert Camus. Ines Garcia – Founder and CEO of Get Agile & Author of Nature’s Blueprint for Business: Harnessing the Hidden Power of Edges

We’re moving from that competitive advantage to collaborative advantage. We want to go far. We better go together.

Ines Garcia is an organisational coach, author, and sustainability thinker who helps individuals, teams and organisations deliver better value while reducing waste and focusing on meaningful impact. She is the founder and CEO of Get Agile, where she works with clients around the world on Agile practice, circular economy principles, carbon accounting, biomimicry, regenerative design and sustainable value creation. Through her work she encourages businesses to evolve their practices in ways that support communities and the planet as well as financial performance. Ines is the author of Nature’s Blueprint for Business: Harnessing the Hidden Power of Edges, a book that applies lessons from nature’s long history of innovation to organisational resilience and growth. She also offers talks, workshops and coaching programmes that integrate Agile, sustainability and whole-systems thinking to help professionals and organisations thrive in an increasingly complex world. Ines’s approach reflects her belief in designing with purpose and creating positive impact across product, people and planet.