No more hesitation hangovers: build calm, decisive confidence

Tara Sirati

Tara is a chartered senior geotechnical engineer working for Jacobs in Cardiff. She has been involved with major Highway Schemes and has experience in other sectors such as rail and water. Tara has been an active member of ICE since University and as the current chair of ICE FIR committee she is passionate about raising awareness on various aspects of diversity such as Neurodiveristy, deaf and colour blindness awareness. She is also vice chair of the ICE Wales Cymru committee.

She extends the same passion to Jacobs where she is part of various networks, aiming to give colleagues in the industry a platform to deepen their awareness and understanding. She is also an active member of Engineers for Overseas Developments, currently working on completing Faith School in Mbale, Uganda.

Helen Morris

Helen aims to redefine self-protection as a route to confidence, calm, and clarity. A mum of two and lifelong entrepreneur with a background in publishing and retail, Helen has experienced imposter syndrome firsthand. She empowers people — especially women — to build confidence and resilience through both physical self-defence and mindset tools like narrative rehearsal and habit stacking. Her mission: to help others create “identity armour” so they can stay true to themselves, even under pressure.

Stuart Kirby

Stuart moves beyond overcomplicated and easily forgotten techniques. Drawing on 40+ years of martial arts and a deep passion for behavioural and neural science, his system blends pressure-tested tactics with habit-stacking to embed instinctive skills that last a lifetime. Stuart teaches people to recognise threats, communicate assertively, and act decisively under pressure — not through repetition alone, but through transformation. His work challenges outdated self-defence norms and equips everyday people to respond with clarity, confidence, and calm — even in chaos.