Theme: What Now?

TEDx Cumbernauld Women is taking place at the Castlecary hotel on the 5th of December between 10am and 5pm. On the theme What Now?
We will hear from 14 speakers, acts and performers across the day and lunch is provided for everyone - attendees, speakers and sponsors alike.

Topics of the talks will vary from child loss and grief to business development via overcoming addiction and changing the law on organ donation. Our events are heart lead and hard hitting - but always inspiring.

Castlecary Hotel
Castlecary Rd
Cumbernauld, North Lanarkshire, G68 0HD
United Kingdom

Alexa Silvaggio

Wellness Entrepreneur

Alexa Silvaggio is a wellness entrepreneur based in Los Angeles. She is a teacher, writer, podcast host, retreat leader and CEO of Ritch Chocolate Rituals, a mindfulness chocolate brand. She encourages you to cultivate a more loving relationship with your body, and self, through all she teaches. She would love to connect with you!

Alexia Chellun

Singer Songwriter

Trust. No plans for the future. Go with the flow. Not exactly catch phrases for today's media savvy and self promoting generation of musical artists, but a way of life for singer songwriter Alexia Chellun. Thirteen albums and three singles into a productive 15 year journey, Alexia has riden the wave of trusting and practising life from a different angle.

Anne McTaggart

Bailie Glasgow City Council

Civil Celebrant, former Member Scottish Parliament - Shadow Minister International Development, Europe and Democracy... It's been a busy first half of life for Anne. What's next in the 2nd half of her life? Trying to beat all that she put into the first half. Anne's married, with 3 children all grown up. Anne always worked many jobs, from age 13 in a hairdressers, started off her own dance school at 18 years old, worked many places, social work, prisons, addictions, colleges, communities before entering into the world of politics and loved every moment of it. Well nearly.

Cece Donnachie

Performer

Cece is a straight talking powerhouse of a woman who will tap into the moment of her life she was most vulnerable: after her cancer diagnosis age 19.

Dani Wallace

Business Coach

Fearless leader of the I Am The Queen Bee Movement and creator of the Fly Anyway Foundation, Dani helps people the world over Show up Wise up and Rise, and is a reminder to anyone who enters her orbit that they too, regardless of their journey can Fly Anyway! Former serial self-saboteur, having grown up on the council estates of Preston, Dani has survived the adversity of domestic violence, homelessness and single parenthood to become a leading voice in empowerment and one of the most exciting motivational speakers to hit the UK stage in a long time!

Elaine Lennon

Singer + Songwriter

NASHVILLE SONGWRITERS’ ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL 2019 ‘One To Watch’ Elaine Lennon won CREATIVE SCOTLAND support for this, her highly-anticipated debut album. Strong and impactful it sets the stage for a musical career that many believe will stand the test of time. After a career in HR, Elaine recently reassessed her ambitions and listened to her love for music. In 18 months, she went from no connections in the music industry to recording with well-respected contemporary musicians.

Elisa Iannacone

Director of Photography & Author

Elisa has worked across six continents as journalist and cinematographer, producing work for outlets such as National Geographic, Newsweek and BBC World. Her traveling art exhibition and book, The Spiral of Containment: Rape's Aftermath, detail her experience as a rape survivor healing trauma through powerful visuals, alongside 24 fellow survivors' stories.

Ella Dove

Journalist & Author

Ella Dove is a magazine journalist, author of novel Five Steps To Happy and trustee of the Limbless Association. In 2016, she lost her right leg below the knee following a freak running accident – tripping over while out for a jog. Since then, she has been on a mission to improve knowledge and awareness of amputation, trauma and disability, through her writing, charity campaigns and speaking events. She also teaches therapeutic writing workshops. Ella is keen to spread the mantra that there is hope after trauma. There is light through the dark. It can – and it will – get better. Follow her on Instagram @ellarosedove or visit her website elladove.com

Lisa Kennedy

Performer

Lisa Kennedy is a dance artist/choreographer and founder of the 1940/50s inspired dance troupe, The Kennedy Cupcakes. In 2019 Lisa established The Braw and The Brave, a podcast about people and their passions. From artists to dancers, world travellers to conservationists. Lisa enjoys writing and in recent years has dabbled in poetry, using Scots to convey her thoughts on topics such as kindness, imposter syndrome and the mother tongue itself! Lisa is ever inquisitive and enjoys encouraging others to share ideas and tap into their creative self.

Lori Lex

Actor + Performer

Lori is a performance artist who specialises in live art comedy and instillation theatre. A graduate from RSAMD where she learned new avenues and pathways to platform performance in a varied art form, she is passionate about drama therapy and has coped with life through dramatic self openness of releasing pain through live performance.

Meera Naran

Road Safety Campaigner

Meera Naran, MBE is an independent road safety campaigner and the mother of Dev Naran who died in a road crash on the M6 in 2018. She has successfully campaigned for the adoption of 18 national policy changes with a commitment from the Department of Transport to spend an extra £5mn on an education campaign. She was awarded an MBE for services to road safety earlier this year. Meera continues her campaign for Safer Drivers on Safer Roads and works in an advisory capacity alongside the Department for Transport, in memory of Dev. Meera also shares her journey through grief and trauma focusing on the importance of self-love and growth through her talks and writing.

Natalie Logan McLean

CEO SISCO

Natalie set up Sisco, a charity whose main objective is to build a bridge between prisoners and society. From peer lead recovery cafés in the Scottish Prison Service to soccer training in the community, Sisco’s model is built on trust, integrity and honesty. Offering multiple pathways to recovery, Sisco’s strategy is specifically designed for individuals caught in the cycle of addiction. Natalie puts the person in ‘whole person approach’ and the ‘informed’ in ‘trauma informed’ in a model that has proven to be so successful it’s now a blueprint to adapt throughout the Scottish Prison Service.

Sharon Black

Coach & Army Reserve Sergeant

Sergeant Sharon Black currently serves with 154 (Scottish) Regiment as a reservist in the British Army for 13 years. Sharon has worked full time in Army Recruitment space for over 10 years . Inclusive Leadership facilitator and Diversity Ally, Sharon is part of the Defence Mindfulness Steering group and is known for introducing phases like meditation to soldiers and for her advocacy of women in leadership roles. Recently left the Army in Scotland Recruitment Team and is now focusing on her new position programme facilitator at CANI Coaching, delivering values based leadership sessions in schools engaging, educating and exciting young disaffected pupils about LIFE .