Tab Ahmad is the founder & CEO of EmployAbility. Set up in 2006, EmployAbility advocates on behalf of and supports talented disabled students and graduates to enable them to compete on a level playing field to get the careers they deserve; whilst providing knowledge and expertise to companies to guide them towards becoming more inclusive and valued employers.

EmployAbility partners with Google, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Bloomberg, Amazon, FCA, Bird & Bird, Discovery Channel and many others, to not only provide strategic and practical disability and employment advice, but to run initiatives that generate real and measurable results – EmployAbility is proud to have supported 13,000 disabled students into employment.

Suzanne Alderson is the founder of Parenting Mental Health, a global community and UK charity, that supports over 35,000 parents of young people with mental health issues as they navigate the practical and emotional impacts on themselves, families and lives. She started the community because she couldn’t find the information, support or connection she was desperate for when her 14 year old daughter became depressed and suicidal. 

In 2018, Facebook recognised Suzanne as one of its 100 most meaningful community leaders in the world and in 2020, selected Parenting Mental Health as one of its 16 most meaningful global communities. Suzanne is a consultant to a number of corporate businesses supporting leadership programmes and internal workplace wellbeing strategy, focusing on supporting parents and those affected by family mental health issues. Her book, 'Never Let Go - How to Parent Your Child Through Mental Illness' was published by Penguin in 2020.

Dr. Kshanika Anthony is the Director, Organization Effectiveness, APAC at Medtronic. She takes an inclusive approach to meet business leaders evolving needs, applying her extensive international experience and expertise to apply and lead through the unpredictability, iterative, experimental, and high-risk nature of transformative times. The COVID-19 pandemic has expedited the call to action to make it a priority to genuinely care about employees. During these unprecedented times, Dr. Anthony has looked for ways to simplify the messages and to drive support and care throughout the region. Keeping individual needs at the center, Dr. Anthony has focused on areas of connection, self-care, working through ambiguity, and enabling action to help employees get the support to manage their mental and physical well-being in these uncertain times. Doing so, Dr. Anthony helps Medtronic approach mental health with compassion, honesty, and openness to emerge from COVID-19 as a better company.

Kizzy is a Health, Safety, Fire & Environmental Partner and Solicitor Advocate at Russell Cooke Solicitors who regularly represents clients at court and during the investigation process. She provides strategic advice to corporates and senior individuals – both contentious advice in response to an actual incident, and preventative consultancy advice in relation to corporate policies and procedures to ensure compliance with key UK health & safety legislation. 
Kizzy has a particular interest in managing reputational risk for businesses and the law relating to organisational and individual health and safety duties (including occupational health and mental wellbeing issues) across a number of different industries. 
She has been recognised by The Legal 500 (2021) as a “Next Generation Partner” as well as being voted one of the top 15 health and safety influencers in the UK by around 600,00 global readers of the Safety & Health Practitioner (SHP), the most popular H&S magazine worldwide).

Sue has worked to de-stigmatise mental health for over 25years in the UK, New Zealand, and globally. She set up the Time to Change campaign in England in 2007 that has led to a "sea change" in public attitudes and reductions in discrimination in England but has worked on shifting stigma since joining Mind (the UK’s largest mental health NGO) in 1995.

She co-founded GASA in 2012 to share strategies, tools and facilitate mutual learning to build capacity in many regions and contexts and founded Time to Change Global in 2018 working with partners and people with lived experience in Africa and India.

She now advises Governments, NGOs, funders, and networks of people with lived experience on social change programmes aimed at improving public attitudes, reducing discrimination, and empowering people with lived experience to lead change.

She is an independent consultant currently working on stigma projects in Kenya, the Caribbean, Europe, and Hong Kong and is Mind’s International Mental Health Advisor. She is also a member of the Advisory Board for the Lancet Commission on Stigma and Discrimination in Mental Health (2020-2022).

 She was awarded an OBE for services to mental health in 2016.

Jonny Benjamin MBE and Neil Laybourn give talks and present on the topic of mental health to groups and organizations all around the UK and internationally.

The pair are award-winning mental health campaigners – their journey together began in 2008 when Neil talked Jonny out of taking his own life by jumping from the edge of Waterloo Bridge in London. Jonny had just been diagnosed with schizophrenia and depression and was extremely unwell.

Neil’s interaction saved his life but the two were soon separated when the police intervened and took Jonny away to be sectioned. 6 years later, in 2014, Jonny launched a campaign on Twitter to find and thank the man who had stopped him taking his own life - #FindMike - it became a global news campaign that reached over 300 million people around the world and was successful in reuniting the 2 strangers within a matter of weeks from the campaign being launched.

What followed was an emotional meeting and the beginning of a journey where both men united to campaign around the issues of both mental health and suicide, which is now the biggest killer of men under 45 in the UK.

The story of their journey was made into a TV documentary, The Stranger on the Bridge, which aired on Channel 4 in 2015 and had a meaningful impact on millions of viewers.

The documentary has won a number of awards and is currently being aired internationally.

After a private meeting with Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge in March 2016, the pair were invited by the Royal Foundation to represent the ‘Heads Together’ charity in running for the 2017 London Marathon.

Janna Bilski works on the Investments team at the Ford Foundation, an international philanthropy focused on advancing social justice and reducing inequality. Janna started a mindfulness and meditation program at the Ford Foundation in 2016 which is now part of the organization’s wellness program. She also teaches classes at Kadampa Meditation Center in New York City. Janna is passionate about the practice of mindfulness and meditation and sees these practices as an integral component of long-term social change. She is a strong advocate for advancing mindfulness in schools to help youth learn "inner" tools to navigate the challenges they face and to thrive. Janna completed the Training in Mindfulness Facilitation course at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA. Janna received a B.A. from New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study and completed post-graduate studies at Regent's College School of Psychotherapy and Counseling in London, England.

Darren has worked in the Civil Service for over 20 years. Now working in Civil Service HR in the Cabinet Office, Darren is a Health and Wellbeing consultant, responsible for, amongst other priorities, bereavement and loss.

He recently set up a Men’s Mental Health Support Group ‘Man Down’ and is working hard to establish similar groups across the Civil Service community.

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.

Jo's research interests include the connections between gender, the body, sexuality, identity and organizations, which also explains her longstanding interest in menopause as a workplace issue. She is lead author of the UK government report 'The effects of menopause transition on women's economic participation in the UK' and has been working in this area since January 2016. Jo is also head of the Department of People and Organizations at the OU Business School, a role she enjoys very much.

Morgan Bridges has more than 15-years experience in HR roles supporting global organizations in Benefits, Compensation and Employee Relations. Currently, she Director of Global Benefits and Wellbeing at Expedia Group. Morgan is passionate about fueling enterprise business performance via the integrated People agenda and programs.

Nicole Brown is a Senior Program Manager at Rock Central Detroit a professional services company, based in Detroit, Michigan (United States).  She joined the company with over 8+ years of experience in counseling, training, development, recruiting, team member relations, and retention.  Nicole’s passion for mental health and wellness drove her to create a mental health awareness and educational training for the over 30 companies that Rock Central supports. The development of the training created a fundamental dynamic shift in the culture and conversations of the companies Rock Central supports.

Nicole graduated from Arizona State University with a master’s in counseling, Central Michigan with a master’s in human resource development and a bachelor’s from Oakland University in elementary education.  In her free time, she loves to scrapbook, volunteers at Ronald McDonald House Charities, participates in National Alliance on Mental Illness walks and spends time with her family and friends traveling and trying new restaurants. Even with all of this going on she never loses sight of her personal mission to remove the stigma around mental health and illness in business, family, and the community.

Nicky has presented on various TV programmes over the years ranging from 'Top of the Pops' to 'Newsnight' and 'Panorama'. In 1988 he became the first and longest running  host of the ‘Wheel of Fortune’ and went on to front the iconic BBC1 consumer show 'Watchdog' for 9 years.

Currently, he co-presents  ITV's ground-breaking and BAFTA winning  'Long Lost Family' with Davina McCall and also on ITV, ‘Born Without Trace and ‘Missing in Action’. He has presented thirteen series of the BBC's Sunday morning ethical and religious debate programme ‘The Big Questions’ and both series of the BAFTA nominated ‘Operation Live’ made by The Garden for Channel 5.

Nicky also made a series on adoption for ITV, ‘Wanted: A Family of My Own’. He presented a documentary in ITV's Perspectives strand on one of his passions 'Great American Love Songs' and still on a musical note, in December 2017, he appeared in ITV’s “All Star Musicals” performing ‘Razzle Dazzle’ from Chicago in front of a full house at the London Palladium.  In July last year, Nicky presented Manhunt: The Raoul Moat Story on ITV.

Nicky Campbell has won countless Radio Awards over his 34 years on BBC Network Radio. In 2014 he was inducted into the Radio Academy Hall of Fame. While at Capital Radio and BBC Radio One in the Eighties his colleagues included Kenny Everett, Alan Freeman and John Peel.

He has co-hosted the multi-award winning ‘Five Live Breakfast’ show for 18 years with Victoria Derbyshire, Shelagh Fogarty and now Rachel Burden. He has interviewed every Prime Minister and Chancellor since Margaret Thatcher and covered World Cups and Olympic Games from Australia, Japan, South Korea, China, Germany, South Africa and a Panorama special from New York three days after 9/11.

His voiceover work goes from the hugely popular ‘My Story’ on CBeebies to the hit  Channel 5 show ‘Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords. 

Nicky's charity work is in Conservation and Adoption, campaigning against the Ivory trade and for Elephant welfare. He’s A Patron of ‘Born Free’ and  ‘Adoption UK’. Adopted at 6 weeks old, his adoptive mother was a psychiatric social worker and father a map publisher In 2004 he wrote the acclaimed Blue-Eyed Son, ‘Story of an Adoption’, his account of tracing both his birth parents and finding extended families in Ireland. His most recent book ‘One of the Family’ on how his Dog ‘Maxwell’ has helped him make sense of his life was published earlier this year.

His writing has appeared in many publications including the Daily and Sunday Mirror, Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, Guardian, Spectator, New Statesman and Observer.

Nicky is also a professional songwriter and composer. In 2009 he wrote the brilliantly reviewed swing album "Moonlights Back in Style" for Mark Moraghan on the famous Jazz label Linn Records. His second album, ‘We’re Just Passing Through’, was co-written with the singer, composer and comedian Kate Robbins. In Spring 2017 he wrote and released the single “Sacred Eyes”performed by Logan Wilson, Kit Morgan and the Sacred Eyes String Quartet in support of the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust in Kenya.

Nicky's great loves are his wife, four daughters, dogs Maxwell, Misty and Maisie and his guitar, piano and Ukulele. He was awarded the OBE in the Queen’s 2015 Birthday Honours for services to adoption and fostering.

Since joining Sodexo in 2012 as a Waiter whilst studying at university, Ryan has grown into a respected and progressive human resources leader with accountability for change, employee engagement, wellbeing and people performance. He has academic research interests in organisational effectiveness, psychology and workplace health.

Anato is an engineer and energy policy professional. He has worked for a range of organisations in the UK and internationally, and is currently a Senior Policy Advisor in the Department of Business Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). As a bisexual man, he has been an advocate for LGBTQ+ rights throughout his career. He has worked to build an understanding of the needs of LGBTQ+ people in the workplace, highlighting the benefits to mental health from inclusion and the need for psychological safety for those working in high-risk environments. He has co-chaired a workplace LGBTQ+ network, where he led the growth of the network from a membership of 4 to 100 members. Outside of work, Anato helps foster inclusion of LGBTQ+ people in wider society, and has previously spoken at Bi Pride UK, the London Southbank Alchemy Festival; and has written on faith and sexuality for the Critical Muslim.

Domestic Abuse survivor who is passionate about letting others know that they are not alone and help and support is available. Sharing my journey of recovery, mental health and how others have helped me rebuild my life.

Laura DeCook is the Mental Health Lead at Expedia Group and sits on the Ability Inclusion Movement board. Starting at a grassroots level, Laura connected with the Inclusion and Diversity team and has run many mental health initiatives, including the first global World Mental Health Day and getting 130 Mental Health First Aid responders trained around the globe. Partnering with Champs Consulting in the UK, Laura has facilitated webinars on burnout and stress, along with Managing Your Mental Wealth During Challenging Times.  

After attending USC film school, Laura went on to receive her Master’s in International Studies. After a decade of working at YouTube in the Bay Area and Singapore, Laura uses her lived experience of anxiety and burnout to help others going through similar situations.

Miki’s career has encompassed everything from firmware to application space. Her last eight years have had Security focus as a Security Researcher for Intel, working on Secure Development Lifecycle and as a Product Security Expert for Open Source Software. She is a writer and Public Speaker for technical subjects, and Diversity & Inclusion, and other social topics. Miki serves as a Board member of Portland Women in Tech, Staff of Women Who Code PDX, and Staff member for Diana Initiative. Miki is also civic-minded; she serves as an elected Director for the local Fire District and is a former TrevorChat crisis counselor. In her spare time, she Raises and shows Irish Wolfhounds in the Coast Range of Oregon

Maryam is a queer Muslim activist, writer and speaker. They are passionate about equality, diversity and inclusion. Maryam is an experienced public speaker and workshop facilitator on a range of topics including race, culture, religion, LGBTQ+ communities, community engagement, social justice and activism. 

In their role at Stonewall as Client Account Manager, they support a portfolio of clients with LGBTQ+ workplace inclusion and community-based work using research, best practice and their own knowledge and expertise. Previously, Maryam worked in a students' union focusing on equality, diversity and inclusion and postgraduate student representation.

On any given day they used to be found in the gym or indoor climbing (pre-Covid!). Now they are enjoying trying to master playing the ukulele. With a special blend of cheeky humour, honesty and vulnerability they fight hard for marglinalised people championing dignity, human rights and liberation for all.

Dr. Jessica DiVento is a licensed clinical psychologist who works as a consulting psychologist at Google, co-leading the Employee Mental Health and Wellbeing Team.  As part of this, she serves as YouTube's Chief Mental Health Advisor, where she partners directly with executives and cross-functional stakeholders to improve employee wellbeing at scale.  In addition, she consults as subject-matter expert on YouTube's product and content as it relates to mental health.  Prior to her time at Google, Dr. Jessica worked in Employee Assistance and University Health, where she specialized in young adults, identity-related concerns, anxiety, grief/loss, and adult children of parents with severe mental illness.  In her free time, she enjoys living by the beach in Northern California with her partner and their four children.

Chuck has more than 25 years of experience in the Mental Health and Employee Assistance Program (EAP) fields. His work experience includes, serving as the EAP Manager for 20,000 employees who provided direct support to the troops in Afghanistan, clinical and operational oversight for a call center environment with 31 EAP Consultants for the Military One Source (MOS) product line serving all branches of the military and their families, where he received the Ceridian Star Award for exemplary performance in 2007, and most recently as the EAP Manager of BNY Mellon EAP. With years of corporate, war zone and military experience he has gained a wealth of knowledge, experience and a strong base in resiliency, which he uses to best serve his clients.

Rachel leads Workplace Futures at Lendlease UK, working within the Development team to provide an occupier lens (advocating for the needs of customers). This brings together her passion for creating vibrant neighbourhoods that cultivate health, connection and happy people, with workplaces that enhance culture and performance for organisations. Lendlease take on an expanded definition of workplace, thinking beyond the four walls of an office and out into the neighbourhood and city. 
Rachel has also been leading the workplace stream of The Loneliness Lab – an initiative co-founded by Lendlease to tackle loneliness in our society through the design of the built environment. The Loneliness Lab is made up of over 800 place makers, policy makers and loneliness campaigners taking collective action to make the places we live, work and play connect people and communities better.

Based in Hong Kong, Alisha Fernando is responsible for driving Bloomberg's diversity and inclusion strategy across the Asia Pacific region, with a strong focus on implementation of programs and initiatives supporting Bloomberg's enterprise wide D&I goals, which has won them an award from Human Resources Online for Excellence in Diversity & Inclusion.
She previously spent most of her career at the Australian and New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ), where she served as the firm's Inclusion Program Manager.
Under her leadership, ANZ won the 2017 Business Inclusion award from the Migration Council of Australia for the expanded refugee work placement program. She was also a recipient of a full scholarship to the Victorian Government's 2018 Joan Kirner Young and Emerging Women's Leadership Program.

A student at the University of Essex, mental health ambassador and lived experience media volunteer.
As a teenager, I went through a traumatic experience of mental illness - being diagnosed with ‘Undifferentiated Schizophrenia’ and ‘Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder’. 
However, I now endeavour to speak openly, honestly, and engagingly about that experience and the impact it had on me.
I am currently involved and volunteering with 8 different organisations. 
In my opinion, seeing and hearing from people with lived experience is the best way for people to connect with others and help each other and in my world, young and black people with mental health problems are treated fairly and equally and no longer discriminated against. I aim to make this a reality.

Sean Fletcher is a broadcaster and mental health campaigner. His journalism includes the BBC Panorama investigation, Kids in Crisis, which asked whether the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services are fit for purpose. Since his son was diagnosed with OCD he has worked passionately to improve the help given to families when a young person is struggling with mental illness. He also presents Countryfile and ITV's Good Morning Britain.

Daniel is a mental health and wellbeing consultant, psychotherapist, public speaker, writer, and the author of The Four Thoughts That F*ck You Up . . . And How To Fix Them, published by Penguin Random House. He works in private practice and in private healthcare and has worked in occupational health and for the NHS. He is the founder of wellbeing consultancy, How To Be, and lectures on college courses. He regularly speaks at various events, presenting on all aspects of mental health and wellbeing and has accidentally turned his dog into a semi-famous therapy animal. He is a Mental Health First Aid England trained mental health first aider.

After twenty years in the corporate environment - twelve as a partner in a prestigious law firm - Karina developed a passion about bringing mindfulness to lawyers and professionals. The NextMind program - an 8-week mindfulness programme co-developed by Karina and Awaris - has received accolades, being awarded the #1 Most Innovative Program in Law 2019 by Poland’s leading newspaper, Rzeczpospolita, and highly recommended in 2019 FT Innovative Lawyers Report and Awards for Europe, Innovation in the business of law: Managing and developing talent. 

Karina's mission is to nurture a working culture where high performance is based on compassionate leadership, authenticity, appreciation, honesty, openness and respect.

• Susan is Head of OH & Wellbeing at Yorkshire Water and previously worked at Bradford Metropolitan District Council. An experienced occupational health professional, she has an outstanding record of achievement created through the development and implementation of robust strategies, initiatives and organisational change in occupational health. She was previously a visiting lecturer in sickness absence management at Leeds Becket University and has a BSc(Hons) in Occupational Health, an MA in Health Care Law and an MSc in Leadership and Change in Health and Social Care.

Iman Gibson is a health educator, wellness evangelist and meditation teacher with 10+ years of experience inspiring and enabling people to be mindful, reclaim their minds, bodies, and spirits and to eat whats right for them. Iman designs immersive experiences, often utilizing art, that engage the senses to promote self and community care. She currently serves as the global Director of Wellbeing for Visa. Re:Fresh, her album of meditations, guided over music, is streaming on Spotify, Apple Music and all major platforms. Her project with yoga teacher Tori Lund, Antiracism Meditation was featured in Mindful Magazine, Yoga Journal, Insight Timer and Well and Good.

Jamie is the Content Manager at This Can Happen. His role includes uncovering relevant themes to cover within each year’s content, alongside identifying and recruiting speakers to share their personal experience across these topics. 

Jamie’s expertise sits within strategy, research and insights, and writing. Before working at This Can Happen, Jamie worked across consumer and corporate clients such as Unilever, GSK, Dove, Lynx, Lipton and Hunter.

Anita Guru has worked in Learning and Development for over 15 years across sectors such as charity, government, FMCG and Professional Services. Anita has also recently taken on responsibility for Wellbeing at her current place of work, BDO LLP. She has been on a personal journey with mental illness where she was diagnosed with C-PTSD in 2017 after an initial in patient stay at a mental health care facility. She has since been raising awareness around mental health in an attempt to break the stigma in the workplace, and through other external platforms. Through her journey, Anita has written poetry which documents her experiences and this year qualified as a transformational life coach.

Passionate urbanist, strategist and systems changer seeking to bring forward an equitable and thriving future of living (in and out of cities) for people and planet.

At just 21, Emily is a graduate from the University of Chicago, a management consultant at a top global firm, a UN-recognised artist, and a champion of mental health in high-functioning communities. She is the author of “Everything I Leave Behind For You”, her book sharing the raw and vulnerable experiences of her struggles with mental disorders and mental hospitals. Emily grew up in the Silicon Valley of California among Asian-American communities that did not address mental health, and with a history of depression, anxiety, eating disorders, and personality disorders, she is starting conversations within high-achieving communities about how to normalise mental health awareness.

Emma Holden was appointed as Global Head of Human Resources for Schroders plc in November 2014. In this role she is responsible for the global HR teams around the firm and is a member of the Group Management Committee, ensuring that the firm's long-term focus and client-centric culture are reflected in its people strategy.
Prior to joining Schroders, Emma was IR director for Corus Group where she held various roles in corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions. She qualified as a chartered accountant with PwC in 1998.

Matt is the owner of Simpila Mental Health, a Mental Health First Aid Instructor, Mental Health and Wellbeing Consultant, Podcast Host and Samaritan Volunteer. Matt has over 25 years’ experience working for global corporate businesses in a wide range of senior and executive Leadership roles, working across markets in Europe, Middle East, Africa and the USA. He has a great appreciation and respect for all cultures and all humans.
In 2016 he created Simpila following his own personal mental health challenges, with the mission to help provide greater awareness and support to the conversation of mental health.
In October 2019 Matt delivered a TEDx talk around being a #24HourHuman. In November 2020 he launched his Podcast Channel – Matt Holman Talks Mental Health dedicated to bringing the stories of guests mental health journey’s into the public light.

Oliver Hopkinson is the founder or advertising agency Bind, investing circa £1.2M per month and employing 10 members of staff. Since founding Bind in 2008, Bind has won a number of awards including 'Best Small Digital Agency' - (Prolific North Awards 2019), 'Best Use Of Data' & 'Grand Prix Winner' - (the Drum Awards 2020), 'Best Use Of Digital' - (CIM Awards 2021), 'Best Team Culture' - (Company Culture Awards 2021).

With 20 years’ experience in benefits (of which the most recent 8 have been within HR), Caroline and her team oversee the pension and benefits for Marsh McLennan’s 13,500 UK & Ireland colleagues.

Jo Kane is Strategic Partner Sales Director at Capita, working exclusively within the Private Sector alongside key technology partners including Salesforce, AWS and Mission Labs on large, complex digital transformation deals.  Jo joined Capita in Jan 2020 as Divisional Marketing Director for Technology Solutions, from PwC where she was Business Leader in the Emerging Technologies & Innovation business.

With a sales & marketing career spanning over 23 years delivering for some of the world’s largest brands across technology, professional services and retail sectors, Jo has worked closely with the likes of Microsoft, Oracle, Diageo & Mars.  She has also held roles at Saatchi & Saatchi, EA Games and established her own marketing & design agency with a client list including AXA, Twinings and Microsoft.

A Mental Health advocate, Jo is open about her own journey with depression and is passionate about changing the way Mental Health challenges are not only supported in the workplace, but how those living with them are able to positively thrive.

Liz Karter MBE is a leading UK therapist in gambling addiction. With over 21 years in practice she has helped hundreds of people achieve a lasting and rewarding recovery from addiction to gambling. Her online therapy practice now enables her offer treatment to people worldwide. Author of three books on gambling addiction in women, Liz makes frequent TV and radio appearances as consultant therapist. In The Queen's Birthday Honours 2021 Liz was both delighted and humbled to received an MBE for Services to Gambling Addiction in Women.

Adam heads up the Remedies Business and Financial Analysis group at the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). His team brings a commercial perspective to the CMA's analysis and takes the lead on developing and overseeing interventions to make markets work better for consumers and small businesses. Adam is passionate about mental health, drawing on his lived experiences, and is proud to be the CMA's senior mental health champion.

Jason leads KPMG's Total Rewards team (Compensation, Performance Development, Benefits, Wellbeing, and Partner Services) as they design and operate the firm’s portfolio of behavioural incentives, steward the firm's rewards spend, and shape significant portions of the workforce value proposition.

Jim Lawrence is a partner with Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP, a leading global law firm with 1,400 lawyers in North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. He has vast experience as a commercial litigator and trial lawyer handling a wide range of disputes arising in the U.S. and abroad. Jim serves as co-leader of the firm's Higher Education team, Global Wellbeing Advisory Board, and LGBTQ Allies Committee. Jim is passionate about destigmatizing mental health challenges in the legal industry as a result of his own experience with substance abuse disorder. In addition to his professional accomplishments, he is an active member of a number of public interest organizations including the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art Board of Trustees. Before joining BCLP, Jim was an executive with Atlantic Records in New York City.

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.

Dr Michelle Lim is the inaugural Chairperson and Chief Scientific Advisor for Ending Loneliness Together, a national Australia network made up of universities and industry partners. 

Dr Lim is the chief investigator of the Australian Loneliness Report (2018) and the Young Australian Loneliness Survey (2019). Her work informs the Australian government, not-for-profit, and corporate sector. Her findings notes that one in four Australians aged 12 to 89 report problematic levels of loneliness. She led the launch of pivotal, Ending Loneliness Together White Paper.

Sadie Lincoln is the co-founder and CEO of barre3, a fitness company focused on teaching people to be balanced in body and empowered from within. Starting in 2008 with the flagship studio in Portland, Oregon, barre3 has grown to include more than 175 franchise studios powered by female entrepreneurs, plus an online-workout streaming-subscriber base in 98+ countries. What started as a workout has blossomed into a full-blown movement made up of millions of people focused on body positivity, being empowered, and redefining what success in fitness means.

Justine Lutterodt is the Managing Director of the Centre for Synchronous Leadership (CSL) - a think tank, consultancy and membership organisation that has been researching, activating and supporting corporate changemakers since 2010. Justine specialises in C-suite coaching, leadership training, keynote speaking engagements and cutting-edge thought leadership. Outside of CSL, Justine serves as NED for the Chartered Institute of Taxation's Nominations Committee and Chair of Judging for the Diversity Legal Awards. She has been named as one of Brummell Magazine’s 30 Influential Female Industry Changemakers and listed as one of Britain’s most Influential Black Entrepreneurs by BE Mogul. Additionally, her project work on ethnicity and leadership has won multiple awards.

Katie Lynch is the Founder and CEO of Apiary Life. 
Apiary helps companies minimise the financial impact of employee personal life crisis (divorce, bereavement, serious illness) in the workplace. They do this by ensuring that top talent is guided and robustly supported through challenging life transitions. Apiary’s consultants (all with legal professional backgrounds), step into the individual’s shoes to carry out the complex and time consuming administrative and logistical tasks, whilst also providing case management, personal assistance/concierge services and emotional support. By providing this critical support, Apiary reduces corporate risk, increases employee productivity, reduces absenteeism and unnecessary attrition, and boosts corporate loyalty, goodwill, and engagement. Prior to founding Apiary, Katie practised as a family lawer at the prestigious firm of Payne Hicks Beach in London. Katie currently resides and works in New York City.

Kunal Mahajan has been in the investment banking field for 13 years within the Leveraged Finance industry. He joined SMBC in the Americas in 2017 in their Leveraged Finance Group and is also part of their ESG team. As a lifelong person with a stuttering disability, Kunal’s stutter impacted his mental health substantially until he obtained acceptance of his stutter in July 2017. Kunal founded SMBC’s Mental Health, Neurodiversity, and Disabilities Enterprise Resource Group called UNIQUE in June 2019. He Co-Chairs this employee resource group and helps to lead many activities through UNIQUE along with the support of SMBC management and SMBC employees from all over the Americas and Latin America.

Sara is the Content Manager at Stories of Asia. She believes in the power of storytelling to build your personal brand and leverage opportunities in your career. With a background in content creation for the media, she is passionate about crafting stories of everyday people as much as she is about helping them tell their stories in a way that unlocks opportunities.

Sara has hosted corporate events, moderated panels, and facilitated workshops with regards to storytelling, workplace matters, and more. She has also worked with clients such as Under Armour, Diageo, Great Eastern, and DesignThinkers Academy, to help tell their company stories via articles, videos, and social media campaigns.

Alison Martin-Campbell chairs a 40+ employee network at professional services firm EY.  Alison set up the network in response to the challenges she faced, particularly menopause and ageing in the workplace. Alison's focus is to support colleagues with the challenges they may face in middle age and help them lead the best lives they can. Alison has been featured in the Financial Times and HR Magazine talking about her menopause experiences and the support she has received, and also contributed to 'Still Hot', a book where women speak very frankly about their menopause experiences.

Helen Matthews is an industry-leading agent of change, specialising in creating, shaping and delivering world-class management of people. She has over 20 years of experience, collaborating with businesses and C-suite teams to design and enact new ways of working, future-proofing some of the world’s best known organisations across sectors to cater to the talent of today and tomorrow. 

Helen is a passionate advocate for not just attracting diverse talent, but providing an environment of true inclusivity which allows all voices to thrive with a sense of belonging. 

Author of our annual DE&I strategy, Helen also holds the position of DE&I lead across the EMEA region. 

Helen is the overarching guardian of the agency’s employee experience, co-designing new ways to attract, retain and grow talent. In 2019, Helen launched the industry’s first Menopause Policy, leading to a more open conversation on an issue affecting 50% of the population.

Steve is a Director of EIDA, and a Consultant and Non-Executive Director specialising in Operations, People and Apprenticeships. In his career, he has worked in several sectors including Finance, Training and Automotive. An experienced HR Director, as well as his role with EIDA, he is Chair of Good Morning Service, a charity supporting the elderly and isolated based in Glasgow.

Detective Chief Superintendent Tara McGovern is the current Head of Recruitment and Career Development in the Metropolitan Police Service.  Tara joined the Met in September 2015 having spent her previous career in Hampshire Constabulary.  She has worked mostly within crime investigation including homicide, kidnap, serious organised crime and modern slavery.  In 2018 Tara set up and is the current Chair of the Network of Women in the MPS, the first womens network for officers and staff to provide support for progression, wellbeing and balancing home and work.

In January 2019 Tara was diagnosed with breast cancer and whilst having her treatment worked with ITV’s Lorraine program to launch the Change and Check campaign and BreastMates support group to raise awareness of breast cancer and provide support for those impacted.  This campaign was initially launched in London but is now running across policing in the UK and Northern Ireland in over 40 police forces.  BreastMates provides support to those in policing going through treatment but also post treatment, supporting women back into the workplace and ensuring there is sufficient interventions to support their physical, mental and emotional wellbeing.  With the challenges many face post breast cancer treatment, Tara is passionate about raising awareness, ensuring there is sufficient support available in the workplace and giving those impacted access to information and resources to help their ongoing recovery.

In 2020 Tara was recognised by Lloyds Bank Women of the Future in its list of 50 “Kind Leaders” and has been awarded the British Association of Women in Policing most inspirational leader 2021.  

In her spare time Tara enjoys keeping fit and travel.

Andrew McNeill is an international author and leadership consultant. Andrew published ‘Organisational Mindfulness - a how to guide’ in 2019, based on his experience of introducing transformational approaches to teams.
Following a law degree, Andrew worked in senior leadership for 20 years predominantly in project and programme leadership. Prior to establishing Lines of Sight, Andrew was a Director in the UK Civil Service.
Andrew now works with a wide range of organisations specialising in helping their teams and leaders' improve their performance and their wellbeing.

Dr. Stephanie Palacios guides organisations, companies, and startups to optimise mental health, wellbeing & productivity in the face of stress, conflict, trauma recovery, and change. She coaches entrepreneurs, leaders, and high achievers on how to develop a resilient mindset and use their strengths to thrive. 

Dr. Palacios is a speaker, edu-trainer, mindfulness teacher, coach, consultant, author, published research scientist, & survivor and thriver. Her specialties include stress management, diversity, mindfulness, resilience, and empowerment. She is a 2020-2021 postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School with a dual specialisation in mindfulness and primary care behavioral health integration. 

Dr. Palacios is a first-generation Latina-American clinical psychologist who shares how her Colombian-Mexican-American identities shaped her journey into becoming a clinical psychologist and diversity advocate. 

She also shares her story of resilience after surviving a nearly fatal abduction in 2016, and how her own path of healing brought her back full circle to empower others and advocate for meaningful change from the unique perspective of clinician and survivor. 

Her work uses both a systems and individual focus because she believes each holds the power & responsibility to inform, represent, and elevate the other. Her philosophy suggests that the way we move through our day and how we think about our stress inform how we respond and our capacity for change. 

Her published research in 2020 focused on a stress management program she developed for Latinx entrepreneurs that significantly decreased daily stress levels in those who took her workshop. 

When she is not working with entrepreneurs, leaders, and their organizations and teams, Dr. Palacios is a frequent podcast interviewee and conference speaker and covers issues related to mental health and thriving. 

Eileen Park Robertson is the founder of Anecdotia, a production agency focused exclusively on racial, social, and climate justice storytelling. Most recently, she ran communications at the Office of the Mayor of Portland as Director of Communications, after more than a decade working as a reporter in the United States, South Korea, and around the world. 

As the daughter of Korean immigrants who overcame poverty, domestic violence, and racialized trauma, Eileen is proud to be an ambassador and advocate for racial justice, standing in solidarity with all marginalized communities, fighting for, educating, and calling for systemic change in culture, media, and government. 

An award-winning woman in leadership and a member of Northern Trust’s Management Group, Teresa is responsible for leading Northern Trust’s business and regulatory affairs across EMEA.

During her close to 40-year career at Northern Trust, Teresa has been based in London, Singapore and Chicago, bringing a unique, global perspective to her leadership.

Teresa has held multiple senior leadership roles across the business. From London, she led the build-out of Northern Trust’s global custody offering and, for five years in Singapore, oversaw the rapid and extensive expansion of the corporation’s presence across Asia Pacific.

Prior to her current role in London, she was most recently chief operating officer for Northern Trust’s Corporate & Institutional Services (C&IS) business. Here she held global responsibility for Northern Trust’s institutional business capabilities, technology and operating model, and was instrumental in developing the multi-year agenda for the asset servicing technology strategy, with digital transformation as a key priority.

Northern Trust is committed to supporting a diverse and inclusive workforce, and as leader of the EMEA region, Teresa is an advocate for opportunity and driver for change, implementing and advancing policies, processes and guidelines designed to focus the agenda on diversity, equity and inclusion.

Teresa holds an MB.A from the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business and a bachelors degree from Marquette University. She has been named in Financial News’ prestigious list of top 100 Women in Finance five times. In addition to a number of board positions for various Northern Trust entities, she is a member of the Clearstream Group Advisory Board. Teresa is executive sponsor for Northern Trust’s Asian Leadership business resource council, and mentors men and women across the industry.

Chris Parsons has been with Herbert Smith Freehills for 36 years and Chairman of the India Practice for the last 16 years. He thinks of India as his second home. 

Chris' other passion is Mental Health and Well-being. Having suffered from serious mental health issues himself, he is very aware of the stigma that surrounds the topic. His aim is to reduce this stigma so that mental ill-health is treated exactly the same as physical ill-health.
Chris is also a Trustee of MQ Mental Health (the leading mental health research charity in the UK). Its vision is to build a world where mental illness is understood, effectively treated and ultimately prevented.

Sarah was formerly a senior tax manager with 25 years experience at EY LLP. Being profoundly deaf since birth, she set up an employee network for people working at EY with disabilities/impairments called Ability EY which had over 500 members. Sarah has considerable experience in mentoring and raising disability awareness for corporates in striving to make a better and more inclusive working world

Rebecca Piggott is a HR Advisor and Mental Health Lead at BCS Consulting. Dedicated to making a difference in the workplace, she uses her lived experience and passion for mental health to raise awareness and drive forward the mental health agenda.

Tj Power is a young man, who is incredibly passionate about innovating the way in which we communicate and understand mental health. 

Tj developed ‘The Tj Power Journey’, a holistic mental health program that guides individuals towards behavioural alterations that can have a profound influence on the experience they have in their minds. This journey explores the modern world, mindfulness, navigating emotion, self-talk, validation, movement, nature, sleep, gut health, and technology.

Tj has provided successful workshops for the likes of Coca-Cola, nChain (Technology), Oxford University, Toronto University, Cancer Service Partnership, Pizza Hut Digital Ventures, HR organisations and many more.

Paul drives wellbeing growth with client companies, charities and public sector organisations globally and in the UK. Paul is an active networker and professional contributor on specialist areas of mental health and physical health. He improves the quality of the mental health industry via his board role on the UK Employee Assistance Programme Association.Paul drives wellbeing growth with client companies, charities and public sector organisations globally and in the UK. Paul is an active networker and professional contributor on specialist areas of mental health and physical health. He improves the quality of the mental health industry via his board role on the UK Employee Assistance Programme Association.

Sabrina a Psychologist is Wellbeing Lead at Essex County Council (ECC), working within their Organisation Development and People & Service Transformation function focussing on driving the wellbeing agenda for their 7,250 employees. Sabrina’s role is to build their employee wellbeing strategy, action plan and infrastructure, focussing on four pillars of wellbeing; mental, physical, social & financial. In 2020 ECC launched their workforce Wellbeing Strategy 2020 – 2025 with a focus on having a positive impact on the council’s wellbeing culture, being prevention focussed, personal wellbeing, improved standards, collaboration & impact and having positive and well-equipped leadership and management. Sabrina is passionate about using psychological approaches to develop sustainable wellbeing initiatives in the workplace. Sabrina’s belief is that for organisations to thrive they must first support their greatest asset – their employees.

Jody Rudd Wilson is an expat Canadian living and working in London, UK with her husband, 3 kids & rescue mutt. 

Over the past 20 years Jody has held revenue-generating leadership positions in several countries throughout the energy sector. She brings digital transformation expertise, a hunting skillset and a global network to Hitachi Energy's UK Renewables & Generation team.

Jody holds a Bachelors of Kinesiology (BKin) and a Global Energy MBA (GEMBA) from the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. She enjoys travel for work or play, artistic expression and anything in the water, especially stand-up paddle boarding. Jody is bipolar and an advocate for living a full life in unison with your mental health condition.

Hannah Saad is Head of Early Talent Recruitment at Accenture, a leading Technology Consulting company. She believes recruiting and nurturing diverse new talent is vital to the future success of businesses, and is passionate about developing innovative early careers programmes and utilising cutting edge technology to level inequalities in the professional landscape. In her work with early careers she has been involved in key initiatives to improve the well-being of students taking their first step into the working world, understanding the important role employers play in helping employees thrive throughout this transition. As part of their ongoing commitment to this topic, Accenture partnered with Cibyl, the student research company, on their report ‘University: The best time of our lives?’ looking at the mental health of university students and how universities and employers can address this.

Emily is a 25-year-old currently working as an Assistant Producer on ITV's This Morning. 

In 2012, Emily was diagnosed with anorexia nervosa (and depression) which she battled for six long years. Through professional help, inpatient treatment and unfaltering support from family and friends, Emily is now healthy, happy and anorexia-free. 

Since recovering from her eating disorder, Emily has realised the importance of being open about her experience and struggles – both in her personal life and at work. She now advocates for honest conversations and breaking down mental health stigmas, and has set up an Instagram page to help do this (mentaltalk_withem). During the last 12 months, Emily and her mother have also mentored young girls and their families who are suffering the devastating effects of an eating disorder.

Zoe is one of the founders of This Can Happen. She is also the founder of Employees Matter, the largest provider of employee engagement seminars and webinars in the UK.

Diana is a corporate veteran who transitioned into the startup world with the ultimate goal to help startups thrive to achieve their vision.

At present, she is the Head of China at a nonprofit organization - She Loves Tech, with her passion for empowering female entrepreneurs and impact investing, this is where she dedicates her time to help close the funding gap for women. Diana is also an angel investor, with a recent focus in the African startup ecosystem and a keen interest in emerging markets. Previously, she was the Program Manager at SOSV, Chinaccelerator where she designs accelerator curriculums, runs the residential program whilst working closely with a very diverse vertical of startups helping them to accelerate and implement the fundamentals of their company growth.

She has always been a firm believer in having healthy workplace wellness will help to create a resilient and happier working environment. Her goal is to create mini impacts in shifting the mindset about mental health and wellbeing in Asia.

Sam's interest in the mental health space began after she lost her father in 2012. She was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder in 2019, which has driven her passion for mental wellness. Sam draws on her experience to inspire others, encouraging openness and compassion through her accessible style of storytelling.

Claire Walsh is a Chartered Member of IOSH and Member of the Institute of Risk & Safety Management, Associate Member of the Institute of Leadership & Management, and Associate Member of the Association of Occupational Health Practitioners.  She has been a Health and Safety Practitioner for over 20 years, working in diverse fields such as heavy and light engineering, local authority, the 3^rd sector, and a UK wide organisation delivering investment, construction and maintenance services. 

Claire is the Health, Wellbeing and Injury Prevention Manager for BAE Systems plc, covering the UK & Rest of World businesses, with an employee population of 55 000, where she has responsibility for developing world class health and wellbeing strategies. 

In her previous role in the Naval Ships section of the business, Claire rolled out a #breakthestigma plan, to both raise awareness of and address the causes of poor mental health at work.  She led the first Quality of Working Life assessment for all employees in the business, based on the HSE’s Management Standards, but also incorporating wellbeing, resilience and team performance.  

Amanda is a forward thinking, dynamic and trusted Reward & Wellbeing leader working in one of the fastest growing and most recognisable fitness apparel and accessories brands in the world which, as you can imagine, is an extremely fast paced and continually evolving environment.

Since leaving the military in 2014 Rachel has worked as a Business Support Manager within the Change Team; supporting various projects and change delivery initiatives within business. She is also the Co-Lead for Wellness activities within the London team.

Rebecca is a Licenced Clinical Social Worker with over 15 years of experience in the mental health field. She currently serves as the Mental Health Clinical Lead in Google Benefits. She supports the mental health of Googlers and their families by advising on global mental health strategy and programming, ensuring solutions and interventions are clinically sound. Prior to joining Google in 2019, she served as Clinical Director at a national EAP, and spent 12 years in leadership and clinical roles supporting student mental health at New York University. Rebecca has specializations in college and corporate mental health, psychiatric emergency, suicide prevention and response, sexual misconduct prevention and response, and helping individuals and organizations through crisis.

Gabby is an experienced wellbeing expert with a proven track record of achieving early adoption of innovative wellbeing solutions, as quoted in Forbes. She is currently leading Wellbeing at Experian UK&I, responsible for defining, delivering, and measuring their wellbeing offering to develop a comprehensive strategy for the future.

Barbara Wilson is the founder and Director of Working With Cancer. Until she left corporate life in September 2012 she worked as a senior HR Director at a variety of UK and international companies. 
Following her experience of breast cancer, in 2014, Barbara launched Working With Cancer as a Social Enterprise providing coaching, training and consultancy services to anyone affected by cancer to manage work, return to work or find work during after a diagnosis of cancer. The Company’s associates are all cancer survivors or have been profoundly affected by cancer. 
Working With Cancer is currently a contributor to the European Transforming Breast Cancer Together Initiative, a member of the ABC Global Alliance, a supporter of ECO and collaborates on projects with the ECPC. Barbara regularly speaks at European, national and local cancer conferences and events about the issues connected with and challenges of managing cancer in the workplace.

Theresa has over 30 years’ experience working in Financial Services & FMCG sectors across both Business and HR roles. Most recently she has led the People Insights agenda at Santander and her current role as Employee Experience Lead fulfils her passion for creating peak moments that matter for employees which enable them to thrive at work. She leads the programme of support for Menopause at Santander and is a passionate advocate for building greater menopause awareness and support in Society and the workplace.

An award winning founder including a successful start-up exit in 2019. An Imperial trained cancer research scientist and holding a Master’s in Public Health from Imperial university. A passion to innovate and disrupt in the care industry, came from being a young carer for 12 years, which led to winning industry recognised awards for Vida, and be featured on the Forbes 30 under 30 list in 2018, for healthcare and science. Awarded "health tech pioneer" in Europe for 2018 and multiple accolades and awards ranging from Glamour magazine, cosmopolitan, the FT, Business Insider, and featured on the front cover of courier magazine as a start- up to watch in 2018. Recently cofounded I am Arla, a platform for women who have experienced abuse and trauma.