Assets for Life

Speakers & Mentors

Ready to unlock your full potential in property, business, and wealth creation?  Our expert speakers and mentors are here to guide you every step of the way. They’re not just theorists – they’re seasoned professionals with real-world experience and a passion for sharing their knowledge.  Get ready to learn from the best, connect with inspiring individuals, and gain the practical tools you need to build a brighter future.

Liam Ryan

Co-founder, Assets for Life

Liam Ryan

Liam J Ryan isn’t your typical entrepreneur – he’s a property wizard, business guru, podcast pro, and best-selling author rolled into one! As the co-founder of Assets For Life, the UK’s leading business and wealth training organisation, Liam’s all about helping regular folks level up their lives through real estate.

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Today, Liam proudly wears multiple hats as a Professional Property Investor, esteemed Property trainer, and sought-after international speaker. So, if you’re ready to dive into the world of property and business with someone who’s been there, done that, and got the t-shirt, Liam’s your guy!

Learn From Liam

The exact framework used by 8,700+ UK investors to launch successful
property businesses – even starting with zero experience and no capital.

Getting your first property deal done is the single hardest step. Most people spend years researching and never take action. This guide gives you the exact 7-step framework we teach at Assets for Life – the same system our graduates use to complete their first deal in as little as 90 days.

Learn From Liam

7 steps to earning from property without buying property. 

Learn the exact system we teach, see real deal packs, and discover how our graduates are building profitable deal packaging businesses with little or no capital. Over 8,700 investors have started their journey with us. Yours could start today.

Phil Elder

Phil Elder

Phil is a solution focused, multiple business entrepreneur, devoted family man and extreme sports enthusiast. His diverse background includes professional expertise in investment, development, training, and real estate.
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Phil’s ability to communicate and support his clients and peers, comes from decades of experience in an impressive range of fields including: motivational and public speaking, finance/brokerage, aesthetics business consultation, accountancy, property investment, property investment training, classic car racing, speed boat racing, and flight instructor.

Learn From Phil

How to turn vacant commercial buildings into high-value residential property.
A beginner’s introduction to one of the UK’s most profitable strategies.

Across the UK, vacant oces, shops, and commercial buildings sit empty while demand for housing keeps rising. Commercial conversion is the strategy of repurposing these underused spaces into residential units, and thanks to Permitted Development Rights, many can be converted without full planning permission. This guide gives you Tanner Hicks’ introduction to the strategy, the framework, and what makes a protable conversion

Learn From Phil

The exact framework used by 8,700+ UK investors to launch successful
property businesses – even starting with zero experience and no capital.

Getting your first property deal done is the single hardest step. Most people spend years researching and never take action. This guide gives you the exact 7-step framework we teach at Assets for Life – the same system our graduates use to complete their first deal in as little as 90 days.

Martin Roberts

Renowned TV Presenter and Property Expert

Martin Roberts

Renowned TV Presenter and Property Expert
Martin Roberts is one of the UK’s most recognised and respected property experts, with a career spanning over 25 years across television, radio and live events. Having spent decades immersed in the property market at every level, Martin brings a depth of real-world knowledge and experience that few in the industry can match.
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Beyond his media career, Martin has become a trusted mentor and educator, working with property investors of all experience levels throughout his career. As a leading expert in the UK real estate industry, Martin provides valuable insights and opinions on current trends and market conditions.

Learn From Martin

The strategy that’s worked for over two decades, from the UK’s favourite property expert

The simplest property strategy remains: buy cheap, renovate efficiently, refinance and rent or sell. The current UK market is challenging, but investors who do their homework, buy well, and add value quickly continue to make healthy profits. This guide gives you Martin Roberts’ proven 3-step approach, with his personal tips from over 20 years at the heart of UK property. 

Stuart & Scarlette Douglas

TV Presenters & Property Flipping Experts

Stuart & Scarlette Douglas

Scarlette and Stuart Douglas are the brother/sister presenting duo taking television by storm. With first-hand experience in property development, the pair are set on sharing their expertise and insight with newcomers and old hands in the housing market. Scarlette and Stuart made their debut as a presenting duo when they took over presenting duties on Phil & Kirstie’s Love It or List It for Channel 4’s Black to Front Day in September 2021, the second-highest viewed program of the day.

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The pair followed this up with a Channel 4 property competition series called ‘George Clarke’s Flipping Fast’, where they hosted the show alongside George. Flipping Fast followed six contestants from across the UK who thought they had the credentials to make the big time as property entrepreneurs, giving them a truly life-changing chance to start their own property business.

Scarlette & Stuart’s own show, Worst House on the Street, another brand-new property format, had huge ratings on Channel 4. The six-part series followed Scarlette and Stuart using their creative expertise to help families transform run-down houses into dream homes, and all without blowing the bank.

Not only did Scarlette and Stuart film two more series of their hit program, but they also filmed a brand new show called Can’t Sell, Must Sell. This six-part series helps homeowners (who can’t sell their homes!) transform them into properties that are desirable and sellable. Can’t Sell, Must Sell was another hit show, with over 1 million

viewers tuning in to watch each episode, making it the highest viewed show on the channel each week.

Learn From Scarlette and Stuart

TV’s Stuart and Scarlette Douglas’ Property Flipping Tips

Property flipping is one of the most exciting and profitable strategies in UK property. Buy the right property, renovate smartly, sell for a profit. Sounds simple? It can be, when you know what to look for and what to avoid. This guide gives you the exact framework used by Stuart and Scarlette Douglas, who between them have flipped hundreds of properties and helped everyday people turn run-down houses into beautiful, profitable home.

Rob Mason

Academy Graduate, Mentor & Serviced Accommodation Expert

Rob Mason

Rob Mason is the Founder and Managing Director of a group of national businesses operating across the UK serviced accommodation and hospitality sector. He began his entrepreneurial journey in 2017 with just a £50 investment and has since built a portfolio of companies with combined revenues exceeding £4 million per year.

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Rob Mason is the Founder and Managing Director of a group of national businesses operating across the UK serviced accommodation and hospitality sector. He began his entrepreneurial journey in 2017 with just a £50 investment and has since built a portfolio of companies with combined revenues exceeding £4 million per year.Rob is the founder of K Suites, a national serviced accommodation management company; Book My Digs, a contractor accommodation agency voted Best Contractor Accommodation Agency in the UK; K Maids, a specialist serviced-accommodation cleaning company operating across 9 UK cities; and UNBOXD., a furnishing and setup company delivering guest-ready interiors for short-term rental properties.With over a decade of experience in hospitality, Rob’s turning point came through a chance introduction to Liam on Facebook, which led to a year-long mentorship with Liam and Jay. During that year, Rob won Mentee of the Month three times and was ultimately awarded the highly coveted Mentee of the Year award—recognition that helped accelerate both his confidence and his growth trajectory. He has since gone one to win Mentor of the Year in recognition of the work he does giving back to the AFL family.Today, Rob is a full-time entrepreneur who travels internationally 15–20 times per year while running and scaling his businesses. A core driver behind everything he has built is lifestyle freedom—being able to design a life that allows him to work flexibly, explore the world, and spend meaningful time with his two children Alfie & Poppy.Looking ahead, Rob remains relentlessly ambitious. Every day is a step closer to his ultimate goal: owning a hotel and casino on the Las Vegas Strip.Rob Mason is the Founder and Managing Director of a group of national businesses operating across the UK serviced accommodation and hospitality sector. He began his entrepreneurial journey in 2017 with just a £50 investment and has since built a portfolio of companies with combined revenues exceeding £4 million per year.

Rob is the founder of K Suites, a national serviced accommodation management company; Book My Digs, a contractor accommodation agency voted Best Contractor Accommodation Agency in the UK; K Maids, a specialist serviced-accommodation cleaning company operating across 9 UK cities; and UNBOXD., a furnishing and setup company delivering guest-ready interiors for short-term rental properties.

With over a decade of experience in hospitality, Rob’s turning point came through a chance introduction to Liam on Facebook, which led to a year-long mentorship with Liam and Jay. During that year, Rob won Mentee of the Month three times and was ultimately awarded the highly coveted Mentee of the Year award—recognition that helped accelerate both his confidence and his growth trajectory. He has since gone one to win Mentor of the Year in recognition of the work he does giving back to the AFL family.

Today, Rob is a full-time entrepreneur who travels internationally 15–20 times per year while running and scaling his businesses. A core driver behind everything he has built is lifestyle freedom—being able to design a life that allows him to work flexibly, explore the world, and spend meaningful time with his too children Alfie & Poppy.

Looking ahead, Rob remains relentlessly ambitious. Every day is a step closer to his ultimate goal: owning a hotel and casino on the Las Vegas Strip.

Learn From Rob

Higher returns. Lifestyle freedom. No property purchase required.

Serviced accommodation can deliver returns well above traditional buy-to-let, and the rent-to-rent model means you can start without the capital to buy. For many investors, it’s the fastest route to replacing their income and designing a life on their own terms.

Tanner Hicks

Property Development Expert

Tanner Hicks

Tanner is a qualified Civil Engineer MEng (Hons) and has been involved with property from the age of 18, when he took on the refurbishment of a flat in Lymington, Hampshire. We’ll let him explain the bit when he put a nail through a water pipe… Having learned very quickly not to do that again, he has since developed a 7-figure property portfolio.
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He has extensive experience in property and a creative eye for how to maximise value. In charge of all investment decisions, he also leads all our training and mentorship programs.Previously, Tanner worked as a Lender’s Advisor and Project Manager for two large Engineering Consultancies in London. He has worked on major international projects such as Skopje International Airport, King Abdullah Economic City, London Olympic Park and London Heathrow Airport. A keen sportsman, Tanner has completed the London Marathon, several triathlons and is always keeping active with golf, cycling and running. He is very family-oriented and takes every opportunity to spend time with his wife and daughter.

Learn From Tanner

7 steps to your first development project.

Property development is one of the most powerful ways to build real wealth, and it’s far more accessible than most people think. A single well-executed project can generate more profit than years of buy-to-let income. This guide walks you through the core steps every developer follows, shows you what a realistic small project looks like, and answers the question we hear most often from people just getting started. 

Learn From Tanner

How to turn vacant commercial buildings into high-value residential property.
A beginner’s introduction to one of the UK’s most profitable strategies.

Across the UK, vacant oces, shops, and commercial buildings sit empty while demand for housing keeps rising. Commercial conversion is the strategy of repurposing these underused spaces into residential units, and thanks to Permitted Development Rights, many can be converted without full planning permission. This guide gives you Tanner Hicks’ introduction to the strategy, the framework, and what makes a protable conversion

Neil & Jacqui Dobson

Academy Graduates and Mentors 

Neil & Jacqui Dobson

Before making the decision to focus on property, Neil and Jacqui ran their successful vintage tea room business in Colchester town centre for 5 years. Prior to that, Neil was a company director at a Saab and Seat dealership, and Jacqui worked for the prestige car manufacturer, Porsche.

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After investing in professional property education, the couple made the decision to focus on property full-time, sold the tearoom business and went full throttle in 2019.

They have built a varied portfolio using different strategies, BRRR, BRRSA, Flips and commercial developments and continue to grow their property business.

Together, they form a dynamic team that covers all bases. They bring an element of fun into everything they do, whilst maintaining professionalism and attention to detail.

Learn From Neil and Jacqui

How to recycle your cash and build a property portfolio that grows itself.

BRRR is one of the most powerful strategies in property because it lets you recycle the same pot of money again and again. Buy an undervalued property, refurbish it to add value, rent it out for cash flow, then refinance to pull your original investment back out, ready to do it all again. This guide gives you Neil & Jacqui Dobson’s introduction to BRRR and how they built a diverse portfolio from scratch.

Nick Staab

Sales & Public Speaking Expert

Nick Staab

Nick has quickly established himself as a mentor and coach in his own right, which has been captured in his debut Amazon published book “Selling is Serving”.  Nick currently mentor’s businesses and individuals alike to achieve greater things using his personal success blueprint. This to date has seen Nick record sales of over £10,000,000 personally and over £100,000,000 collectively with his business clients.

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