Top 100 Influential People

Top 100 Influential People A website to evolve into a centre of excellence. Populated by inspirational people and their stories, passions and beliefs.

Today we're showcasing one of our youngest nominee's from our 2024 round- Daze Aghaji FRSADaze has rightly been describe...
27/08/2024

Today we're showcasing one of our youngest nominee's from our 2024 round- Daze Aghaji FRSA

Daze has rightly been described as “a ball of energy, conviction and warmth”. Aged just 23, she is, among other things, a youth climate justice activist, environmental consultant, speaker and climate consultant working alongside global corporations and governments.

She aims to bridge the gap between art and the environment, fostering a greater sense of connection and responsibility towards the planet.

Daze has worked with many leading charities, institutions and governments to advocate for radical systemic change through youth political engagement, regenerative cultures, social justice and intersectionality.

As Creative Director of Earthrise Studios, she uses various artistic mediums such as visual arts, sculpture and performance to create thought-provoking works that shed light on pressing environmental issues. She also has a research residency at the Phytology Nature Reserve in Bethnal Green.

Known for her high-profile political campaigning, she was the youngest candidate to stand in the European Parliamentary election in 2019 as a Climate and Ecological Emergency Independent candidate.

She has been closely involved with Extinction Rebellion since its formation and was their UK strategist; she was a contributor to Sky TV’s environment series.

In her own words, the only way we can prevent environmental catastrophe is by ‘going back to our roots and falling back in love with our land’.

If you would like to be one of our 2025 honouree's, and join this centre of excellence, nominations are now open. Visit https://top100influentialpeople.com/ to learn more and enter.

We continue to profile our 2024 winners - a centre of excellence, grouping some of the UK's most influential people toge...
12/08/2024

We continue to profile our 2024 winners - a centre of excellence, grouping some of the UK's most influential people together in one place.

Our spotlight falls on Anna Brailsford next. Anna is an entrepreneurial leader in the technology industry who is on a mission to eliminate the diversity gap in technology.
She is the CEO and co-founder of social enterprise Code First Girls. Formed in 2019, it is dedicated to educating women from around the world to become the next generation of software developers, data scientists and technology leaders.
Anna has also been a board member of the Inclusion & Diversity Board of the Institute of Coding from June 2019.
Anna innovated in the annual appraisals area when she co-founded Frisbee, part of Founders Factory. As CEO, she introduced a real-time performance management solution to replace the traditional performance management process.
As a self-employed consultant, between 2016 and 2029, Anna advised consulting companies and investors on commercial strategies.
Between 2014 and 2015, she was commercial director (Europe, Middle East and Africa) of Lynda.com and was involved in developing LinkedIn Learning after the business was acquired by LinkedIn.
Before this roke from 2010 to 2013, she was global account director of TMA World, a management consultancy.
Anna attended University of Edinburgh where she obtained an MA (Hons) in English Literature and History, and an MSc in writing. Additionally, she holds a graduate diploma in Law from BPP Law School.

Nominations for 2025 are now open, to head to our website to find out more and enter - https://top100influentialpeople.com/

The Top 100 Influential People 2025 nominations are now open. We will be profiling our 2024 winners between now and when...
12/08/2024

The Top 100 Influential People 2025 nominations are now open.

We will be profiling our 2024 winners between now and when nominations close on the 31st October, to showcase the calibre of entrant we anticipate year on year.

We begin with this influential man :

Dr Samir Srivastava FRCPsych FRSA

Samir Eur MD, FRCPsyh, LLM, FRSA, is one of the UK’s most prominent and well-respected doctors in the field of forensic psychiatry. He is an NHS Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist working in the Lewisham Forensic Community Mental health service.
As a conscientious doctor, Samir’s endeavours have been exceptional; going ‘above and beyond’ for his patients and their families, advancing policy and practice for mental health, equality and diversity on a regional and national level, contributing to national clinical guidelines, preparing mental health questions for Parliamentary debates, improving mental health understanding for dentists and advancing psychiatry through publications, research and teaching.
As well as being a highly valued medical practitioner, Samir is a multi-award-winning short filmmaker, who has worked tirelessly to raise mental health awareness through a variety of socially conscious themes at film festivals worldwide. His extraordinary efforts have resulted in him winning 55 Best Producer awards for his first film as the producer, Matty Boy, and 617 global awards in 53 countries for three films (Matty Boy, Cinnamon and Take the Chocolate) that cover mental health and promote the prosocial education of children and equality and diversity.

The Top 100 Influential People annual programme was established to shine a spotlight on individuals in the UK who are at...
16/07/2024

The Top 100 Influential People annual programme was established to shine a spotlight on individuals in the UK who are at the very top of their game. We believe our recent rebranding and refreshed visual identity reflects this even more so.

The best news? Top 100 Influential People 2025 is now officially open for entries, with the deadline being the 31st October.

We welcome you to take a look at some of our recent honourees where you will find a handful of the UK’s most successful and influential people, giving you an idea of the calibre of those who enter and why being recognised by this centre of excellence could be of such benefit to your personal profile.

As the awards embark on their third year, and working in association with Awards Intelligence, we continue to uphold the tradition of honouring excellence and look forward to receiving your entries. Please click on the link below if you wish to nominate yourself, or someone else, for the 2025 round.

https://top100influentialpeople.com/enter/

The Top 100 Influential People 2024 nomination deadline is tomorrow. Nominate any individual at the top of their game to...
06/11/2023

The Top 100 Influential People 2024 nomination deadline is tomorrow. Nominate any individual at the top of their game to recognise their exceptional talent.

Our profiling of The Top 100 Influential People 2023 continues with this inspirational man:

Liam Murphy

Liam is the co-founder of Stix Mindfulness which is based on an imaginative invention, and has gone on to win him a UK tech innovation award. This University of Brighton product design graduate came up with an inspired idea that is largely screen-free, and enables children to take control of their mental wellbeing and develop mental resilience by practicing mindfulness techniques in the context of play.

Although Liam designed the tool in response to his own mental health challenges, it is proving popular with children struggling to cope with theirs too.

The Stix Mindfulness device comprises a set of hand-held remotes that provide visual, vibration, and auditory feedback to guide children through fun and interactive wellbeing activities. Studies show that mindfulness training not only improves children's overall mental well-being, but can reduce anxiety, depression and stress after just a few sessions. It can also boost test scores, improve family relationships, and make for better sleep.

It pairs a mobile phone with two hand-held remotes which allow children to engage in screen-free interactive mind-body activities which they then record on the phone via game elements such as stars, badges, and different levels to maintain children's interest.

The Top 100 Influential People is still open for nominations. There's four days left to nominate any individual at the t...
03/11/2023

The Top 100 Influential People is still open for nominations. There's four days left to nominate any individual at the top of their game
to recognise their exceptional talent.

Here is another example of an inspirational 2023 winner:

Amika George MBE

Amika is an activist who organised the successful Free Periods campaign that led to free sanitary products becoming available in schools.

With an Indian heritage and brought up in London, she began campaigning at just 17 years old and by June 2021, aged 21, while studying Indian colonial history at Cambridge, she received an MBE for services to education.

It was after reading a headline on the BBC website: ‘Girls Too Poor to Buy Sanitary Products Missing School’, that she started a petition to Westminster attracting more than 200,000 signatures and set up the not-for-profit Free Periods organisation in 2017.

In collaboration with the Red Box Project, a similar campaigning organisation, Amika led a legal campaign against the UK government, to meet its obligations to ensure equal access to education for all children.

She won a host of accolades for her Free Periods campaign including being named in Time’s Most Influential Teens of 2018 list, the Big Issue Top 100 Changemakers and Teen Vogue’s 21 under 21 list. Others include the Goalkeepers Campaigners award from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

In early 2022, Amika published her first book Make it Happen about how to get into politics from ground level.

🗓️The Top 100 Influential People 2024 nomination deadline has been extended to 07 November 2023. Now is the time to nomi...
31/10/2023

🗓️The Top 100 Influential People 2024 nomination deadline has been extended to 07 November 2023. Now is the time to nominate a friend, family member, business associate or community contact.

Short on time and want to maximise your chances of success? Sister company, Awards Intelligence, can take care of the nomination drafting process for you. Contact [email protected] and we will send you details.

Our profiling of the 2023 winners continues with this inspirational campaigner:

Dr Mya-Rose Craig

Mya-Rose is a British-Bangladeshi ornithologist, blogger and campaigner for equal rights. She is said to be the youngest British person to receive an honorary doctorate in science (a DSc hc from the University of Bristol).

Born in 2002, she has been blogging under the name “Birdgirl” since she was 11 and at 17 she became the youngest person to have seen half of all the birds in the world.

In June 2022, she published her autobiography “Birdgirl” and is currently studying Human, Social and Political Sciences at Cambridge University.

When she was 13 years old, she became aware of the lack of diversity in conservation circles and has become a passionate advocate for the rights of visible minority ethnic (VME) children and teenagers. She created the non-profit organisation Black2Nature to run nature camps for black and minority ethnic children and called on white-led organisations in the nature conservation and environmental sectors to wake up the needs of urban ethnic minorities. She has also called on them to change their management structures to embrace Equality Diversity and Inclusion.

She was awarded an honorary doctorate by Bristol University in 2020 for setting up Black2Nature and for her advocacy for equal rights. She has made numerous appearances on BBC and ITV and contributed to Chris Packham’s A People’s Manifesto for Wildlife.

The Top 100 Influential People 2024 is open for entries. Nominate friends, business contacts and family members here. Th...
24/10/2023

The Top 100 Influential People 2024 is open for entries. Nominate friends, business contacts and family members here. The deadline is 31 October 2023.

Our profiling of the 2023 winners continues with another truly inspirational man:

Professor Kamlesh Khunti CBE

Kamlesh has made a significant improvement to the lives of people living with type 2 diabetes, and to the health of people from ethnic minorities.

He has been responsible for major advances in the management of both type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular diseases, having published more than 1,000 academic papers which help to build an evidence base to improve clinical practice.

As co-Director of the Leicester Diabetes Clinic (LDC), he has established an international centre of excellence in diabetes research in the city. The Centre now has more than 170 people carrying out studies designed to improve the lives of people with diabetes and is recognised across the world for its leading research, education and innovation.

Kamlesh played a major role in improving the health of ethnic minority communities and was one of the first to spot the disproportional impact of COVID-19 on people from those minorities. He led a body of research throughout the pandemic, becoming a member of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE), and Chair of the SAGE Ethnic Sub-panel. Quite an achievement for a boy who grew up in a crowded council house in Leicester and was told he would not make anything of himself.

He was awarded the CBE in the 2022 New Year’s Honours List.

✨Making the Top 100 Influential People 2024 will give you a vital boost and help to keep your messages front of mind. No...
16/10/2023

✨Making the Top 100 Influential People 2024 will give you a vital boost and help to keep your messages front of mind. Nominate now. The deadline is 31 October 2023.

Our profiling of The Top 100 Influential People 2023 continues with this amazing woman:

Juliet Barratt

Juliet turned her passion for health and fitness into a global sports nutrition business. She launched Gr***de in 2010 and it is widely regarded as one of the world’s most exciting sports nutrition/weight management brands. The name came from her first product which was so effective a friend described it as explosive.

The business has been listed in the Sunday Times Fast Track 100 for the last five years and was a regional winner and national finalist of GBEA Entrepreneur of the Year in 2018. She also won the 2015 International Brand of the Year and European Diet & Weight Management Product of the Year three years running.

Juliet now sells products to over 100 countries and has a huge following ranging from professional athletes, fitness enthusiasts and military personnel. The range includes bars and shakes and has recently introduced a vegan bar as well as a healthy, protein-based alternative to traditional chocolate spreads.

She sold Gr***de in March 2021 to Mondelez for £200 million.

She is a non-executive director for several brands, including LoveRaw and Booch and Brew.

Juliet started her career in education and now spends a lot of her spare time mentoring young entrepreneurs and assisting them with start-ups.

📆The Top 100 Influential People 2024 is open for entries until the 31st October. Now is the time to nominate friends, bu...
12/10/2023

📆The Top 100 Influential People 2024 is open for entries until the 31st October. Now is the time to nominate friends, business contacts and family.

Our profiling of The Top 100 Influential People 2023 continues with this inspirational man:

Professor Jonathan Waxman

Jonathan is the founder and president of what is now Prostate Cancer UK. In 1996, he established The Prostate Cancer Charity, the first United Kingdom national organisation promoting research and patient support for prostate cancer.

The organisation has since merged with Prostate Action, becoming Prostate Cancer UK, the biggest organisation of its kind in the UK. The charity lobbies for change for prostate cancer patients, funds research and provides a national and regional patient support and information service. In 2021, the charity funded a study investigating why black men are twice as likely as other men to develop prostate cancer.

Jonathan has been the Flow Foundation Professor of Oncology at Imperial College London since 2011. He established a clinical and laboratory research programme there, leading a laboratory research team tasked with understanding the mechanisms underlying the growth of prostate cancer. He continued to carry out clinical duties.

Jonathan helped establish the All-party Parliamentary Group on Cancer, the organisation behind the Britain Against Cancer movement.

He has published around 400 research papers and book chapters, and 16 books on cancer. He has also written a medical law book, a novel and a book of short stories entitled The Elephant in the Room, published in October 2011.

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