Prof Guy Claxton is Emeritus Professor at Winchester University and Visiting Professor of Education at King's College London. He has previously taught and researched at Oxford University, Bristol University and the University of London Institute of Education. An internationally renowned cognitive scientist, Guy's books include Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind; Wise Up: The Challenge of Lifelong Learning and with Bill and others, New Kinds of Smart and The Learning Powered School. Guy's Building Learning Power approach to education is widely used in all kinds of schools across the UK, as well as in Poland, Dubai, Indonesia, India, China, New Zealand, Australia and Argentina. Prof Bill Lucas is Director of the Centre for Real--World Learning at the University of Winchester. An acknowledged thought--leader in education, Bill has been a school leader and the founder of two national educational charities. With Guy Claxton he created the Expansive Education Network for schools who see the goals of education as including much that is central to Educating Ruby. As an author, often with Guy Claxton, he has written more than forty widely translated books which have sold more than half a million copies, including Help your child to succeed, and, for the BBC, Happy Families: how to make one, how to keep one.

Bill is in demand across the world as a researcher, speaker and facilitator.