Simon Wheatley

Job title
Consultant

Last book you read?
"Hidden Agendas" by John Pilger

Your heroes include...?
Reinhold Messner. Mahatma Ghandi. Fred Dibnah

Favourite line from a film?
"We want the finest wines available to humanity, we want them here, and we want them now!" - Withnail and I

Your best day at Impact (so far...)?
There’ve been many; waking up in an igloo, bungee jumping out of a cable car, canyonning down French waterfalls, ice climbing in Scotland, beach-partying in Mexico, Thailand, Israel. Every time I pinch myself and say: “I can’t believe I’m getting paid to do this”

Who makes you laugh?
Harry Enfield doing a ‘posh scaffolders’ sketch

Last journey you took?
Driving to work through the Lake District this morning; seeing clouds clinging to Blencathra, mirror image mountain reflections on Grasmere and Rydal Water and a lone, rebel water skier on Windermere

What’s on your desk?
Laptop, tuna sandwich, a pair of blown speakers

Proudest moment at work?
Backstage at a big event in Barcelona, successfully untangling Madonna’s radio mike wire from her diamante thong

How do you deal with stress?
Whacking logs with a splitting axe in the woodshed, excellent therapy

Favourite place?
The woodshed

3 people you’d have dinner with (dead or alive)?
The people who lived in my house 100 years ago