This Can Happen Awards entries will solely be assessed by our esteemed judges. In the first round judges will vote for their favourites and create a shortlist, and then will come together on a judging day to decide on the winners. We are proud to announce our judging panel for the 2021 awards, consisting of senior leaders with diverse experience and skill sets, championing excellence in workplace mental health.
If you would like to nominate a mental health champion for the jury panel, please send their contact details and bio to awards@thiscanhappenglobal.com.
Judges
Toni Graves
Global Head of Reward and Wellbeing
Allen & Overy LLP
Toni is an experienced HR professional with 20+ years in professional services. She trained as an accountant at PwC, working with global clients across multiple sectors. After 10 years in client facing roles she moved into human resources and went on to shape and drive the firm's reward strategy. As part of the HR leadership team, she was also responsible for employee relations and global projects. She joined A&O in 2016 as Global Head of Reward and also became the firm's first Head of Wellbeing. Throughout her career Toni has worked with senior leaders to create people strategies that drive change and improve performance across many aspects of the people agenda including diversity, resourcing, performance management and wellbeing in the workplace - a topic she is passionate about.
Laura Young
International Wellbeing Manager
BNY Mellon
Laura is the BNY Mellon International Wellbeing Manager.
She joined BNY Mellon in 2017 as EMEA Wellbeing Manager, and became International Wellbeing Manager in 2018. Prior to this, Laura spent 8 years in the Human Capital Management division at a global investment bank.
Having attended Loughborough University, Laura began her career in financial services working in Institutional Marketing roles. In 2005 she took a decision to follow her passion for nutrition, fitness and personal wellbeing by training to be a Personal Trainer. She then pursued a career in corporate fitness, which led her to her role in HR and Wellbeing.
Alex Bishop
Head of Organisational Development & Inclusion
General Dental Council
Alex is the Head of OD & Inclusion for the General Dental Council. With a background in learning & development and employee engagement, Alex is passionate about helping staff thrive in the workplace. Since signing the Time to Change pledge in February 2019, Alex has helped his organisation make significant strides in their commitment to all aspects of employee wellbeing, even being shortlisted for recognition at the 2020 This Can Happen Awards.
Asif Sadiq
Vice President, Diversity and Inclusion
adidas
Asif is Global Head of Diversity & Inclusion at adidas and has a long and rich career in the diversity and inclusion space with senior executive roles at The Telegraph Media Group, EY Financial Services and the City of London Police. He is a board member for the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and a member of the board of advisors for Hedley May.
Asif has been credited with impactful global Diversity, Equity and Inclusion activities and programs across organizations, that have created a strong sense of belonging for all and resulted in truly diverse workplaces. He has been key in building synergies between internal and external D&I efforts.
Dhavani Bishop
Head of Colleague Health, Wellbeing and Experience
Tesco
My interest in human behaviour, passion in nutrition, physical and mental health, alongside my experience in change management have led to my current role. As Head of Colleague Health, Wellbeing & Experience this role has perfectly merged all of my passions, covers a wide scope and is closely linked to my personal values. I am really privileged to be able to serve colleagues better every day doing the things I love
Henrietta Frater
Head of HSE & Wellbeing
The Crown Estate
Henrietta joined The Crown Estate, a diverse business specialist in real estate, in 2016 and leads on Health, Safety, Environment and Wellbeing. She reports into the Chief Operating Officer and has over 14 years’ experience of health and safety management within the construction and property sectors. She takes a strategic view, looking at how HSE can be managed effectively and identifying risk management opportunities to enhance The Crown Estate’s approach. Henrietta has a passion for wellbeing and mental health and has worked to design and deliver new wellbeing strategies for the business.
Vinay Kapoor
Global Chief Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Officer
FactSet
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Leader & Strategist leveraging a unique global perspective and proven ability to formulate data-driven D&I solutions that strengthen the infrastructure of high-profile organizations from an HR, work culture, brand, and employee relations standpoint.
Lisa Manning
HR Reward Manager - Benefits & Wellbeing
BGL Group
Lisa is passionate in leading the charge to break down the stigma associated to those struggling with their Mental Health. Having worked in HR for 20 years in various different roles, she is now responsible for leading the Benefits, Wellbeing and Mental Health agenda across the BGL Group. BGL has a strong Wellbeing strategy and is continually looking at ways in which to support their colleagues, by focusing on three key areas, Emotional, Physical and Financial Wellbeing, ensuring colleagues personal wellbeing is at the forefront of the agenda. Being a Mental Health First Aider herself, and leading a MHFA community across BGL, a key focus is ensuring all colleagues have somewhere they can go for support and someone they can talk to when they need it in respect of their personal wellbeing.
Vikki Tatnell
HR Specialist
Magnox
Vikki is the Mental Health and Wellbeing Lead for Magnox. She was instrumental in implementing the Thriving at Work standards, introducing a network of over 100 Mental Health First Aiders and raising the awareness of the topic of wellbeing. Vikki's career started in Learning &Development and she has over 30 years of HR experience covering a wide range of HR disciplines. Vikki's passion for Diversity and Inclusion ensures Magnox is a place where people are respected, included and can perform at their best.
Sarah Allen
EMEA Indirect Tax Compliance Manager
Electrocomponents PLC
I am a Mental Health Ambassador for Electrocomponents. I run the employee led network Lifeworks which focuses on Mental, Financial and Physical Wellbeing. As someone living with mental health conditions I work to make sure that everyone can bring their true self to work everyday. I am passionate about talking about Mental Health to break down barriers so that no one feels alone
Priscilla Baffour
Global Head of Diversity & Inclusion
Financial Times
With a wealth of experience in helping to increase diversity in media, Priscilla is responsible for driving the FT’s Global Diversity & Inclusion strategy. Prior to joining the FT she oversaw ITN’s diversity and inclusion strategy and pioneered their work around the Gender and Ethnicity Pay Gap. Before that Priscilla spent five years at Channel 4 where she spearheaded 4talent and won the Deputy Prime Minister’s Excellence Award for playing a pioneering role in tackling social mobility. Priscilla was also part of the team responsible for implementing Channel 4’s 360 Diversity Charter. Over the last 14 years she has led several diversity initiatives with media companies including BBC, ITV, Media Trust, News International and many more.
Daryoush Moezzi
Regional Sales Director
Salesforce
Daryoush is a Regional Sales Director at Salesforce. He has been with Salesforce since 2013 in several positions across sales & business development. Originally from Canada, Daryoush moved to London in 2018 to pursue a new opportunity.
As a leader, Daryoush believes in a people-first approach and prioritizing his team's health & well-being.
Fiona McAslan
Wellbeing Lead
NatWest Group
Fiona is the Wellbeing Lead for NatWest Group. She is responsible setting the longer term wellbeing strategy for over 60,000 people globally as well as the day to day delivery of the bank’s wellbeing plan and response to COVID-19 . Fiona’s career includes over 20 years of varied HR experience across a number of Financial Services organisations covering most HR disciplines. Fiona’s passion lies in helping people bring the best of themselves to work by actively promoting a positive wellbeing culture across all four of the pillars of wellbeing.
Gemma Porter
Global Wellbeing Manager
Oliver Wyman
As Global Wellbeing Manager, Gemma leads Oliver Wyman’s workplace Mental Health & Wellbeing strategy, working closely with Board Level Sponsors and colleagues across the business. Gemma is passionate about removing the stigmas associated with mental health, and one of the ways Gemma talks about this is vulnerability, and being able to share how you are feeling. Gemma is open about her personal experiences, and is keen for friends, family and colleagues to know they are not alone. Gemma is currently training to be a crisis volunteer for SHOUT, a mental health crisis messenger service, to support others. She also has two children and a flexible work schedule that enables her to pursue her personal and professional goals.
Dasos Kirtsides
Head of Healthcare
Shawbrook Bank Ltd
Dasos joined Shawbrook Bank in 2018, bringing with him over 25 years’ experience in Corporate & Commercial Banking, 16 of these dedicated to the Healthcare sector. During this time,
Dasos held various senior roles at Santander and Allied Irish Bank and in 2007, he helped Santander establish a healthcare team that created a mixed portfolio of over 800 healthcare operators with combined facilities of over £3billion.
Dasos took on a leadership role at Shawbrook where he has further grown the specialist team and relaunched the healthcare proposition to include a broader range of financing facilities, all with an underlying focus on patient outcomes. The team continues to help more healthcare professionals deliver outstanding and bespoke service to their patients, service users and residents.
Yvonne Harley
Group Head of Communications
NCC Group
Yvonne trained as a mental health first aider back in 2018 and has been a carer to her husband for over 20 years following an accident, which affected both his physical and mental health. She’s long since hoped for the kind of environments we have today where mental health first aid networks are as common as first aid networks. The catalyst of the pandemic and the progressive leadership and HR team at NCC Group saw this becoming a reality, along with people manager awareness training across their global workforce. NCC Group joined This Can Happen Friends programme in 2020 as part of their continued Sustainability programme, which Yvonne is Executive sponsor of.
Richard Chapman-Harris
Client Diversity and Inclusion Partner
Bloomberg
Richard is an award winning Diversity and Inclusion specialist. He is a Client Diversity Partner for Bloomberg where he works closely with the business to deliver on D&I. Richard previously created and led the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and Corporate Social Responsibility strategies for global engineering consultancy Mott MacDonald. He has supported the inclusion journeys of several organisations including the British Army, Transport Police, Goldman Sachs, Linklaters, the Royal Navy, and Transport for London and has served as an assessor for the Times Top 50 Employers for Women. Richard is an advocate for mental health and wellbeing and is always happy to share his own journey to help others.
Dr Shaun Davis
Global Director, Compliance & Sustainability
Royal Mail
One of a relatively small number of Chartered Directors and a Fellow of The Institute of Directors Shaun has a wide portfolio of responsibilities across the Royal Mail Group; his responsibilities include safety, health, wellbeing and sustainability. He is also a Chartered Fellow of The Institution of Occupational Safety and Health, a Chartered Fellow of The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, a Fellow of The International Institute of Risk and Safety Management and a Fellow of The International Compliance Association.
Abi East
Director
Effectus People Solutions
With over 25 years in international Human Resources and management consultancy, Abi has addressed a wide variety of business and people challenges across many industries and sectors. Abi has a keen interest in mental health and wellbeing and always strives to keep these topics front of mind with her clients.
Jonny Jacobs
Finance Director, EMEA
Starbucks
Jonny is an award-winning Finance professional who feels passionately about the role of mental fitness in the workplace. As a kid growing up facing life's tough realities, Jonny's powerful story became a catalyst to champion the importance of mental wellbeing.
Prior to his current position as a Finance Director at Starbucks, Jonny was Strategy Director at pladis, the global snacking business bringing together brands including McVitie's. As the Executive Board Sponsor for Mental Health, he led the Employee Mental Health & Wellbeing initiative, which led to the national "Let's Talk" partnership between McVitie's and mental health charity, Mind.
Jonny is an advocate across many forums, a Trustee of the Mental Health Foundation, and a Goalkeeper for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Dawn Moore
Group People Director
J Murphy & Sons Ltd
Dawn joined J Murphy and Sons Ltd (Murphy) in January 2020 as Group Director of People, overseeing the People strategy and activities for all of Murphy operations across the UK, Ireland and Canada. Dawn has received numerous awards over the last 5 years for her work on culture change, wellbeing and diversity and inclusion. In 2019, Dawn was voted HR Director of the Year (EMEA) by the global HR professional body HRO Today.
Dawn is regularly asked to speak at events and contribute to professional publications to share her expertise and experiences and is known for her practical approach. She is also an experienced non executive director, having held roles in the public, private and third sectors.
Dr Ellie Cannon
Doctor, Author and Broadcaster
NHS
Dr Ellie is one of a new generation of doctors where communication skills are paramount. She has the medical knowledge but also the vibrant personality and vitality to relate to her patients and audiences.
Ellie describes her speciality as people and is as comfortable talking to new mums with their babies as she is dealing with the sex lives of teenagers. Having such a broad family health practice as a GP, allows her to speak with authority on issues across all aspects of health and the NHS.
Dr Ellie is familiar as the GP for the Mail on Sunday where she writes her weekly health pages that also appear on Mailonline. Ellie has become a familiar and trusted voice, appearing regularly on programmes such as This Morning, Sky News, Channel 5 News, Jeremy Vine on Channel 5, BBC Newsnight and ITV London. She has also conducted regular phone ins for stations such as BBC Radio 5 Live, providing health and hygiene advice for listeners.
Ellie’s expertise across all health and medicine is particularly current as a result of her regular NHS practice and involvement with the movement to empower patients about making informed choices.
She has appeared on prime-time Channel 4 series Health Freaks and Doctor in Your House as well as specials for ITV Tonight on breast cancer and work-place stress. In 2017 she channeled her inner-geek appearing in a Celebrity Eggheads team of TV doctors – winning her round!
Ellie’s latest book, Is Your Job Making You Ill? was published in January 2018 and focuses on mental health issues at work. Her first book ‘Keep Calm, The New Mum's Manual’ for new parents, was released in 2014.
Ellie is a confident public speaker and presents regularly at conferences and corporates on a range of topics and has appeared alongside HRH the Duke of Cambridge at the inaugural mental health at work conference, This Can Happen.
She works extensively with brands across consumer health products and beyond, on health related PR activities and campaigns such as radio days and briefings.
Ellie is a charity ambassador for Meningitis Now and is a GP/celebrity ambassador for Pancreatic Cancer Action and the Eve Appeal. Ellie regularly works on campaigns for Public Health England including Change for Life, One You and Be Clear on Cancer. In October 2018 she travelled to the Democratic Republic of Congo with Save the Children to film an awareness campaign on pneumonia.
Dr Ellie read medicine at Cambridge University and has worked in the same NHS GP practice for over a decade, on London’s world-renowned Abbey Road.
Aggie Mutuma
Managing Director
Mahogany Inclusion Partners
Aggie is the CEO and lead consulting director of Mahogany Inclusion Partners.
Aggie is an experienced and passionate Inclusion Specialist, HR Leader and Executive Coach with a keen passion for supporting organisations as they build cultures where everyone can thrive. She works with C-Suite leaders, HR directors, Inclusion leaders and their teams to explore mindsets, compassionately challenge beliefs and create psychologically safe spaces for reflection, behaviour change and inclusive cultures.
Aggie is a sought-after inclusion specialist who has been engaged by the CIPD and other organisations to write, advise and speak on inclusion matters. In addition, Aggie is an inclusion and people awards judge, supporting the ‘Business Culture Awards’ and the CIPD People Management awards.
Sarah Boddey
Chief Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Officer, EMEA & APAC
Northern Trust
Sarah joined Northern Trust in 2016 and is responsible for the strategy and implementation of a wide variety of D&I programmes and initiatives. Before joining Northern Trust, Sarah headed up D&I teams at AIG and Barclays Wealth and prior to that held a variety of HR roles at Morgan Stanley and Simmons & Simmons LLP.
Sarah holds a BA in International Management and Business Administration with German from the University of Reading. Additionally she holds an MSc in Human Resource Management and an MBA from the Open University. She is a Fellow of the CIPD (Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development) and is bilingual English/German. Sarah is also a Magistrate, serving on the East London bench.
Sarah is a qualified Mental Health First Aid instructor.
Ben Idle
Managing Director
Deutsche Bank
Ben Idle is the COO of the Corporate and Investment Banking Operations Department at Deutsche Bank. Ben has worked in Financial Services for 25 years in London, NY and Singapore. Ben has an MBA and is proud to be a Mental Health First Aider
Monika Misra
Head of Health and Wellbeing, EMEA
GlaxoSmithKline
Dr Monika Misra, Head of Employee Health and Wellbeing, EMEA. GlaxoSmithKline.
Monika started her career as a General Practitioner. She is also a specialist in Occupational Medicine which she has practiced both in the NHS and in the corporate sector.
She has experience in setting workplace wellbeing strategies and leading teams to operationalize these. She has created global workplace mental health strategies and has experience in delivering resilience programs at a team and individual level. More recently she has been involved in creating the global manager mental health training program. She is also an internal coach.
Katie Legg
Director - Strategy and Partnerships
Mental Health UK
Katie has been working with organisations to help them grow and provide excellent customer service. Since joining Mental Health UK in 2017 Katie has been focussing specifically on engaging workplaces with mental health both through advising on organisation-wide strategies and charitable and awareness campaigns for employees and customers to engage with directly. Partners have included Lloyds Banking Group, PureGym and ISG.
Tim Ackroyd
Senior Talent Manager - Mental Health
Deloitte
Tim leads the design and delivery of Deloitte Global's mental health strategy. A Global Senior Talent Manager with over 15 years of experience in enabling behaviour change in organizations, Tim has a keen interest in evidence based well-being, mental health and employee engagement.
