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.

Charles is Head of Wellbeing Solutions at Aon UK, leading a team of experts who advise employers on people health risk. During his 20+ year career he has worked with many diverse organisations to help them achieve their employee wellbeing aspirations. Drawing on his lived experience of mental health issues, Charles is a strong advocate for the role the workplace can play to protect and enhance mental health and wellbeing. He is a Chartered Manager, a qualified Mental Health First Aider and holds an MSc in Workplace Health and Wellbeing. Charles represents Aon at the Manchester Business School National Forum for Health and Wellbeing at Work and serves on the Board of the mental health charity Dorset Mind.

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.

Paul D. Ashley is a seasoned procurement leader with over 20 years of Industry Experience. Paul is currently Director Strategic Engagement within the Global Procurement group at Bristol- Myers Squibb. In his role, Paul has been responsible for strategic advising on global category strategies, communications, as well a serving as the Chief of Staff for the BMS Chief Procurement Officer.

Diversity and Inclusion has been a passion of Paul throughout his career. Paul serves as PMO Lead of the Diversity and Inclusion Council for the Global Business Operations function at BMS.

His role as a procurement professional, and passion for diversity coalesce with his work advocating for small and diverse businesses within the supply chain of large companies . Because of his leadership in this area, he was named to the Board of Directors of the National LGBT Chamber of Commerce (NGLCC), a national advocacy and policy organization.

Paul holds a BS in Engineering from Northwestern University and a MS in Engineering from The University of Michigan.

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.

Founder of HR FOR HR and The HR FOR HR Club, Claire Baker provides the HR profession with the same support that they provide to others.

Claire supports individuals and teams within the people profession to put their oxygen masks on first, to prevent burnout, increase self awareness and strengthen their resilience, wellbeing and confidence levels to create lifelong change so that they thrive in ALL aspects of their lives.

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.

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.

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.

Glauco Callia is the Global Head of Health and Wellbeing Governance at GSK , during the last 10 years ,he has been working on the development of Health and  Wellbeing strategies, his main focus  has been the  development of HW Programs with emphasis on the enhancement of employees  productivity through  the reduction of corporate stress levels.

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.

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.

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.

Working as a forensic psychologist, for 23 years, in the criminal justice system, Jo’s attention has focused on the concept of resilience, both for individuals and the organisations in which they live and, or, work.

For criminal justice staff, questions about surviving and thriving in roles that often involve exposure to potential trauma led Jo to undertake a PhD in the area. Since completing it in 2004, Jo has worked with a wide variety of organisations and individuals applying research evidence to practice, to enhance psychological well-being.

In 2003, Jo became accredited to deliver The Challenge of Change resilience training; an evidence-based intervention developed by Dr. Derek Roger, Work Skills Centre. Jo is a regular speaker, both nationally & internationally on the subject of individual and organisational resilience & has authored a number of chapters & papers on the subject.

Mellener currently head Diversity, Equity Inclusion and Mental Wellbeing for Northern Trust in India. An Inclusion Strategist, she has a passion for creating cultures where people can bring their passion and whole selves to work. 

Mellener has won several awards for her work in Diversity and Inclusion and has recently been appointed as a global D&I advisory board member for the Future Talent Council. She is often invited to speak at external D&I events and conferences including the 2018 UN Gender focal point meeting in Geneva. She has been on the taskforce for a number of projects led by Community Business Asia. guest faculty member for the Certified Diversity Professional Program in India. She has contributed to research on Diversity and Inclusion.

As a passionate advocate for mental health awareness her mission in life is to work towards creating more mindful and grateful communities at the workplace and beyond.

Cathryn has worked in the media industry for the past 26 years. 20 of those years were spent at Mediacom, initially as a media planner in the direct department looking after the likes of Direct Line, Lombard, Help the Aged, Plan International and PPP Healthcare, across Inserts, press, TV, Direct Mail and Radio. After having 2 children, she returned to Mediacom as Head of DRTV, looking after all the Group M daytime deals. In 2014, she moved to Sky Media as Head of Performance. Here she worked with advertisers that were interested in a more closed loop solution using data to optimise and improve TV linear campaigns.

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.

Kevin Dedner serves as founder and CEO of Washington-D.C.-based Hurdle, which provides culturally intentional teletherapy to eliminate barriers that make it harder for people of color to get mental health care.

Kevin is deeply connected to Hurdle’s mission, having suffered a period of depression where he found the biggest challenge to effective care was finding the right therapist who could truly understand and connect with his struggles as an African American man. His company equips mental health professionals with the skills needed to effectively address issues of race, ethnicity, class, and culture and exists to ensure people can show up whole, operate with joy, and live with power. Kevin recently penned his first book, The Joy of the Disinherited: Essays on Oppression, Trauma and Black Mental Health. Through honest, captivating, and humane stories of his past and eye-opening research into the effects of racism on mental health, Kevin argues in his book that we must knock down the invisible barriers to mental healthcare.

An award-winning public speaker, Kevin has over 20 years of public health experience. Kevin is a graduate of the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville and has a Master of Public Health from Benedictine University in Illinois.

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.

Specialising in workplace health and wellbeing, Paul has strong expertise delivering end-to-end, data-driven HR and wellbeing strategies in Financial Services, Public Sector and non-for-profit industries.

Chris is the CEO for UK Publishing at Bauer Media managing a wide portfolio of magazine titles including TV Choice, Take a Break, Grazia, Empire and MCN. Prior to joining Bauer in April 2020 Chris spent 12 years at News UK including as Managing Director for The Times and Sunday Times. He is on the board of the PPA, the ABC and INMA, a Fellow of the Marketing Academy and a graduate of the IDM.

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.

Dr Nick Earley is Head of Psychology at Happence and a Clinical Psychologist. He has extensive experience supporting people with common and complex mental health difficulties and helping individuals maintain wellbeing in the workplace. He is also a keen advocate and speaker on topics relating to mental health, resilience and wellbeing, and is particularly interested in public health and corporate wellbeing.

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.

Shaun Ee is People Director at Asia Pacific Breweries (APB) Singapore (Part of the HEINEKEN company), and has been with the company since November 2019. He has more than 18 years of HR experience across various sectors.

At APB Singapore, Shaun provides leadership and oversees the People organization, driving various local and regional talent and culture transformation programmes in support of business objectives.

Shaun graduated from the National University of Singapore Business School, with a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, majoring in Management and Marketing, and was awarded Best HR Leader at the HRM Awards 2018.

Outside of work, Shaun enjoys quality family time as an active father of three children. He enjoys playing and watching soccer, and is avid runner who has completed two marathons.

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.

Philip is Co-Head of the Emerging Market Debt team at BMO Global Asset Management. He joined the firm in 2006, although in the interim he spent four years at First State Investments as a Portfolio Manager. Returning to BMO GAM in 2015, Philip took the role of Co-Head in 2020. A native German speaker, Philip manages Emerging Market Debt portfolios for a variety of institutional clients as well as BMO’s Emerging Market bond mutual fund. Has a Master’s level degree from St Gallen University in Switzerland and is a CFA Charterholder. 

In 2016, Philip sustained life-changing injuries following a Septic Shock at just 34 years old. Now a bilateral amputee, Philip is keen to share his experiences as a disabled employee, the learnings from returning to work and hopes to break down barriers to inclusion in the process.

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.

Dean Francis of The Urban Mindfulness Foundation is a trained Environmental Scientist, Environmental Consultant and Mindfulness-Based EDI Consultant, teacher and trainer. He has run his own business in Environmental Consultancy for over 15 years and received an award for Global Engineering Excellence from Ford Motor Company and commended for the Thames Gateway Business Person of the year award in 2008. Dean has a wealth of understanding related to developing positive working cultures that balance productivity, sustainability, health and wellbeing. Dean has recently completed his MSc in Mindfulness Studies where he created and researched a new preventative mindfulness intervention called Mindfulness Based Inclusion Training (MBIT) specifically designed to dismantle racism and social inequality whilst uplifting a sense of self-worth, agency, purpose, and prosocial activity that radiates from the inside out.

Liz is one of the UK’s best-known writers and broadcasters on all aspects of modern family life. 

Her best-selling books about the realities of parenting changed the face of motherhood, and her latest, ‘The Middle Years’, did the same for the teenage years and beyond. 

Her new memoir ‘Coming Clean’ was a No. 1 bestseller in Amazon’s addiction/drug section.  She is the partner of an alcoholic. Coming Clean is a searingly honest memoir of loving an alcoholic - both through the heaviest drinking years and into recovery. She hopes that in sharing this story it might change the way addiction is talked about and understood from both sides, encourage open, trusting and supportive dialogue between addicts and those their addiction affects, and provide some solace and help for those who need it - as she did.

Liz appears frequently on TV and radio, from ITV’s This Morning and GMB to BBC Breakfast, Sky News, Radio 4, LBC, BBC5Live, and others. 

She has written features for The Sunday Times, Guardian, Grazia, Glamour, Marie Claire, Red, Bella, The Daily Mail, Mother and Baby, Junior, Woman, Runner’s World and many others, and wrote the much-loved ‘Three Teens and Baby’ column for The Telegraph in 2018. 

Liz has four children, ranging in age from 22 to two, a degree in Experimental Psychology from Cambridge University, and is a passionate mental health campaigner and an annoyingly competitive 10km and half-marathon runner.

After a year living and writing in Venice, she now lives in Oxford with her partner, Mike, and their daughter, Scout. 

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.

• 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.

Miles joined Civil Service HR, located within the Cabinet Office, in September 2020. Over the past year Miles has worked within CSHR's Health and Wellbeing team on a number of CSHR priorities, including the Civil Services Annual Mental Health and Wellbeing Conference, integrating wellbeing support for smarter working cross-government, and their work concerning bereavement and loss. 

Geralyn Giorgio has spent 24 years at Johnson & Johnson and currently leads Change Management and Communication for the North America Region and Cross Functional Capabilities within Global Services. She is focused on Intelligent Automation and Data Transformation initiatives. Prior to this position, Geralyn was Head of Change Management, Communications & Training for HireUp in Talent Acquisition and held multiple Human Resource Business Partner roles in diverse businesses across J&J. 

In April 2017, Geralyn launched the Mental Health Diplomats, a part of the Alliance for Diverse Abilities employee resource group, for employees living with mental health conditions and caregivers. She is a board member with a mental health non-profit (The Stability Network).

Geralyn holds a BA in Psychology from Rutgers University. She is a Certified Professional Coach and Recovery Coach. She holds coaching certifications from the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (IPEC) and the Addictions Academy.

Mark H. Goldberg serves as the Director of Global Health & Well-Being at Latham & Watkins, one of the world’s “global elite” law firms, overseeing strategy and implementation across the US, Europe, the Middle East and Asia for LiveWell Latham, the firm’s global wellness program. 

Mr. Goldberg has spent 21 years in the multinational legal sector, starting his career as a Latham attorney focusing on commercial litigation and antitrust matters, and later transitioning into a full-time management role running the firm’s internal communications function. In 2009, he was part of a core group that set out to build Latham’s first global wellness initiative, which quickly evolved into its comprehensive health and well-being program. In 2013, Mr. Goldberg assumed full-time management of LiveWell Latham, expanding and focusing the program on resilience and mental health, diabetes prevention and musculoskeletal issues, among other areas. 

A graduate of Cornell University and NYU Law School, Mr. Goldberg has been awarded numerous distinctions related to internal communications, employee relations, and health and wellness programming. He began his career as a high school teacher in Japan, and in his free time works on projects as a first-time playwright and novelist. Mr. Goldberg was also a semi-finalist in the 2013 World Championship of Public Speaking.

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.

I'm a 20 year veteran of Project, Programme and Portfolio management, with a particular interest in the management of project risk. I'm also a person who has lived with variable mental health throughout my life and have made it a point to speak out about it, and usualise mental health as something which can be variable for anyone! I am also transgender and have a special interest in the mental health challenges facing members of the LGBTQ+ community.

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.

Helen Hodgkinson is the Chief People Officer at TLT. Helen's background is in Human Resources and she is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and has worked in this area for over 25 years, both in the public and private sectors. Helen’s expertise spans a wide range of people-centric activity including the development and implementation of diversity and inclusion strategies at a range of well-known organisations, including Nationwide, Vodafone, KPMG, The Health Service, Essex County Council and Chair of the Board at White Horse Housing.

Nationally Helen is known for her work in the values and diversity and inclusion areas, particularly championing employment for younger people, progression of women and employment of the older generation. In her time with TLT, Helen has overseen the design and delivery of TLT World – the firm’s radical proposition for longer-term flexible working offering greater flexibility around where, how and when they work and ultimately, a more inclusive way of working.

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).

Xander Hough has dedicated over two decades of his career to understanding the human mind, starting with a degree specialising in social psychology, personality and abnormal psychology. He works as a senior Human Resources practitioner and private leadership coach helping leaders to better understand and harness the power of their employees. He is a global speaker and writer on mental health, sharing not only his scientific knowledge but his raw and honest first hand experience of General Anxiety Disorder, Depression, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Addiction.

Deidra Jenkins is a Senior Vice President and Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer-Americas at Northern Trust. She is responsible for the development, execution and leadership of the regional diversity, equity and inclusion strategy for the Americas and collaboration with the Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer – APAC and EMEA. Her primary areas of focus includes collaboration on people representation, talent acquisition, retention, and development; creating, deploying and managing diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives for employees throughout the Americas region; and ensuring all diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives are directly aligned with the core strategic imperatives of the organization.

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.

Hayly Leung is the General Manager of Group HR Services in Group Human Resources of Jardine Matheson as well as the HR Director of Jardine Pacific.

Hayly provides guidance and support across the Jardine group companies. She plays a key role in developing HR policies and in formulating HR strategies for mergers and divestments. She also drives the transformation of the people agenda in Jardine Pacific.

Prior to joining Jardine Matheson, Hayly was the Group HR Director of Jardine Schindler Group. Before that, Hayly held various VP positions in HR in BT Grou8, one of the world’s leading telecommunications companies, with management responsibilities across Asia Pacific and Europe.

Enoch is the Managing Director of BEARAPY, a B2B social enterprise that builds mentally healthy workplaces in Asia-Pacific through consulting and training services. She works with multinationals, governments, and start-ups to advocate emotional and mental health awareness for resilience, leadership development, and productivity. Enoch is featured and published widely in CNN, Harvard Business Review, Forbes, South China Morning Post, China Radio International, and CGTN. Her latest book, "Stress in the City", shares her personal journey and some fun ways to cope with depression, recommending adults, parents, and organizations on playfulness for better wellbeing. Enoch sits on the Advisory Board of the Movement for Global Mental Health and the ExCo of Global Mental Health Peer Network.

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.

Erla Magnusdottir has 10 years’ experience working in mental health and an MSc in Public Health, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She founded the China branch of BasicNeeds (a global mental health organisation) and then managed this for five years. Erla has conducted research into mental health at Kings College London. She is a special advisor to both a South African disability social enterprise (Shonaquip Social Enterprise) and Bearapy a workplace mental health social enterprise in China.

Kunal Mahajan has been in the investment banking field for 13 years, primarily within the Leveraged Finance industry. He joined SMBC in the Americas in 2017 in their Leveraged Finance Group before moving into the firms Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) team in September 2021 where he is heading up the firms Corporate Social Responsibility efforts in the Americas.  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 in the Americas and now serves as the UNIQUE Global Advisor.

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.

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.

Laura McLeod has been at GSK for 8 years working on global health programming and strategic initiatives for employees. Specifically she leads on several key areas in mental health programming including EAP, manager training and digital health apps. She has a background in Health Promotions and Public Health.

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 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.

Mike Moss has recently been appointed as Supply Chain Development Director for Tesco plc, following four years as the Operations Director of Tesco’s General Merchandise business. In March 2020, Mike and his wife Natalie lost their son Alexander to an unexpected genetic condition at two days old, only a week before the UK went into lockdown for Covid. Mike and Natalie both found it tough returning to work in the middle of the pandemic but experienced very different levels of support from their respective employers. The support Mike received from his manager, team and people partner was superb and has taught him a lot of lessons about how best to support colleagues through difficult times from bereavements to lockdowns to fertility treatment. More recently Mike has worked with a number of bereaved colleagues at Tesco and has seen first-hand the impact that peer support groups can make. He looks forward to sharing his experiences at the This Can Happen conference.

Puneet Narang is the Managing Director of Diageo Indonesia and a member of the Diageo Asia-Pacific Leadership Team. Puneet is responsible for managing Diageo’s business in Indonesia, including the manufacturing site in Bali.

Prior to joining Diageo, Puneet spent over 25 years spent in senior leadership and management roles in various multinational companies such as Reckitt Benckiser, Mondelez, Pfizer and GSK. Puneet has lived and worked in the UK, Ireland, Australia, India, Turkey & Singapore, before finding his current home in Indonesia. Puneet has successfully managed complex businesses in both developed and emerging markets, driving growth and market share. He has a vast experience in managing large teams and is a big supporter of Inclusion & Diversity. 

Puneet holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, and a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering from Delhi College of Engineering.

Jill is founder and CEO of Juniper Park\TBWA; its design studio, Le Parc; its precision marketing company, Scalpel; and content production company, Bolt Content. She works with a North American roster of leading brands and clients including Nissan, Apple, GoDaddy, CIBC, Capital Group, PepsiCo, GSK, and UNICEF among others.

Jill was named as one of Canada’s Top 3 Power CEOs by WXN 2021 Most Powerful Women, as “Women to Watch” by AdAge US, and as Canada’s "Mad Woman" by Report on Business. Her team has won 2021 Effie Agency of the Year, 35 Effies, including the two Grand Prix, IPA Award, Global Warc Prize, and her creative leads have earned 61 Cannes Lions.  She is on several boards including Effies Canada, Young Presidents Organization (YPO), and is Vice Chair of the Institute of Communications Agencies (ICA), Canada’s agency governing board. 

Prior to founding Juniper Park\TBWA, Jill co-created Kraft Food’s award-winning CRM initiative across North America, in addition to holding numerous brand management and corporate marketing roles.  After Kraft, she joined agency Grip Limited as Partner. Jill is a graduate of Queen’s University School of Business. She is a sub-4 hour marathoner, an avid skier, and proud mother to her swimming-champion daughter, Olivia. 

Leon Outar is a Neuropsychology Practitioner at Happence and a trainee psychologist, PhD researcher, and published author. He has experience with supporting people in exercise and performance, and specialises in body image, health behaviour change, weight-management and psychological wellbeing.

Dr Chloe is a leading UK based Chartered Counselling Psychologist, a published author and an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society with HCPC Registration as a Counselling Psychologist Practitioner. She has a life- long passion for mental health, Her pioneering approach to healing Grief has been recently published in the academic world and Dr Chloe teaches this approach on a number of Doctoral Counselling Psychology Courses.

In September 2016 Dr Chloe was appointed as the Clinical Lead for the Overcoming Grief app, which she authored for the Digital Mental Health experts Minds for Life. This app is now available on the Apple Store.

Dr. Stephanie Palacios is trusted by top ranking universities, international organisations, and tech startups for her expertise in mindfulness, resilience building, values alignment, and stress management. She regularly appears on podcasts and gives keynote speeches to share her own incredible story of healing and resilience after having survived a nearly fatal week-long abduction in 2016.

Dr. Palacios has focused over a decade on how to guide organisations, teams, groups, and individuals to assess key components of their thinking & behaviors and learn to use those components to thrive in and out of the workplace.

Dr. Palacios is an expert trainer & consultant, international keynote speaker and trainer, Harvard-affiliated mindfulness teacher, entrepreneur, mindset coach, tech startup co-founder, and published research scientist.

She holds a doctorate (PsyD) in clinical psychology and received her postdoctorate at Harvard Medical School with a dual specialization in mindfulness and primary care behavioral health integration. Her published research in 2020 focused on entrepreneur mental wellbeing and the effects of a stress management program she developed for Latinx/Hispanic entrepreneurs in the US, which was found to be highly effective.

She has worked as an organizational consultant, change management specialist, workshop developer & facilitator, psychological testing specialist, and a bilingual communtiy counselor.

She previously provided custom workshop programs, group training, and individual therapy at Johns Hopkins University. Before that, she developed and ran workshops and group training in mindfulness, sleep health, peak performance, and stress management at Northwestern University. She received rigorous training in evidence-based treatment for anxiety at a hospital in Chicago, Illinois, USA and worked with a private practice offering bilingual (Spanish-English) psychological testing and therapy in a variety of settings including medical, academic, private sector, and forensics.

Dr. Palacios is passionate about helping others to lead meaningful lives, whatever that looks like for that person. She belives in the power we can harness within ourselves and the growth that can be achieved by increaing our self-understanding, self-compassion, present-moment awareness, intentionality, and making values-driven decisions. Her work uses both a systems and individual focus, and her philosophy suggests the way we move through our day and how we think about our stress inform how we respond and our capacity for change.

Dr. Palacios is tricultural (Colombian-Mexican-American) and quadrilingual, and for all her fellow MBTI enthusiasts out there, she's an ENFP.

She owns a boutique consulting firm that specializes in helping organisations, teams, groups, and individuals to improve their mental wellness through custom group trainings, workshops, organisational consultation, and individual & group coaching.

Post-pandemic wellbeing is a hot topic in the workplace. Movements like the Great Resignation have organisational leaders rethinking how they approach their company culture to help their leaders, teams, and employees not only survive but thrive at work.

Stephanie Palacios Consulting LLC knows that workplace mental wellness is at the core of success. SPC works with organisations to guide leaders, teams and employees to mental wellness by creating custom solutions that help cultivate a healthy and thriving work culture.

SPC brings over a decade of expertise in teaching mindfulness, stress management, resilience building, and values alignment. Services include organisational consulting, group training and coaching, custom workshops, speaking engagements, and individual coaching.

SPC has worked with organisations across the United States, Mexico, Brasil, Australia, and United Kingdom, spanning corporate, private, government, academic, higher education, nonprofit, and community sectors. Schedule a consultation at stephanie@stephaniepalaciosconsulting.com

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.

During a long and successful career spent working in psychiatry for the NHS and in private practice, Dr Stephen Pereira has conducted more than 80,000 consultations, helping thousands of clients overcome a range of mental health issues. 

He has now taken all that hard-won experience and poured it into Happence – an innovative workplace wellbeing start-up headed up by Dr Pereira and a team of experts from the fields of psychology, neuroscience and technology.

Its products and services are already being used by leading banks to help senior leaders and the wider workforce make measurable improvements to their wellbeing and performance.

Dr Pereira champions a preventative approach to mental healthcare. By equipping people with the evidence-based tools, skills and strategies they need to thrive in the face of adversity, he plans to revolutionise workplace wellbeing and make a truly meaningful difference to the mental health of the population.

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.

Gian started his career at Deutsche Bank and PwC and witnessed first-hand some of the Inclusion and Wellbeing issues that need to be tackled in the corporate world. In 2015, an unexpected family tragedy changed Gian’s life forever. Whilst working in the city, Gian found out his father had been murdered on a business trip in India. 
His experiences and inner resilience sparked his passion for prioritising wellbeing and inclusion in the workplace. Gian is the founder of TLC Lions and The Unwind Experience and is passionate about igniting emotion in the workplace, encouraging others to share and be themselves at work. 
TLC Lions has reached over 57 countries, 30,000 individuals and Gian's work has been featured in global media including Business Insider and BBC Documentaries about his work.

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.

Laura Robinson leads the Early Careers HR team at Allen & Overy LLP, a leading international law firm. Laura practised as an employment lawyer before joining the HR team at A&O, where she supports trainees, and the business, to best support those starting out in their legal career.  Laura embraces the firm’s view that we have a responsibility to look at what we can do to ensure our people are fit and healthy – mentally and physically – and have a real chance of achieving their potential. Laura has been involved in key initiatives to enhance the mental health and wellbeing of those who are in their early career (and others) to normalise mental health conversations and champion workplace practices that support positive mental health.

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.

Simon Voss is the Head of Finance for Colgate-Palmolive's Northern Europe Hub based in Guildford, UK, where he leads the finance organisation responsible for UK, Ireland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland. He relocated with his Partner to London in June of this year.

Originally joining Colgate-Palmolive New Zealand in 2001, Simon has a global career at Colgate with over twenty years experience working in Colgate businesses across Europe, Asia and South Pacific. Prior to his current role he has held finance leadership positions in Germany, Switzerland, Australia, Japan and Hong Kong.

Simon has an extensive background in financial and strategic planning and commercial finance.
With a strong commercial acumen and focus on enhancing finance and commercial capabilities, Simon is known for developing strong finance leaders and teams, championing continuous improvement and partnering with other leaders to deliver profitable growth.

Prior to joining Colgate, Simon spent three years at PwC as an account and accounting information systems consultant.

Simon holds a Bachelor of Business Studies in Accounting and Information Systems from Massey University, New Zealand and a Post Graduate Diploma in Chartered Accounting from Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand.

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.

Laura is one of the UK’s leading experts on managing mental wellbeing in a digital age and a thought-leader on protecting work-life balance in our always-on digital culture.
She co-founded Shine Offline in 2015 with the aim of helping businesses to understand the importance of supporting staff to have healthy and sustainable relationships with their work and personal digital technology. Shine Offline clients to date include O2, PwC, the UK Parliament, Pinsent Masons, The Crown Prosecution Service, Pret a Manger, 3M and National Grid.

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.

Nick joined Barratt Developments in January 2021 as Group HR Director. In a multi-sector HR career spanning over 25 years, Nick has held senior HR positions in housebuilding, retail, energy and financial services. 

He is a Chartered Fellow of the CIPD and has a degree in German and Russian.

Nick is married with two children and lives in Bishop’s Stortford.  Originally from Manchester, he is a lifelong City fan and season ticket holder. 

Shaping business strategies, driving financial performance, mentoring, and developing talents were activities Weng Hong was passionately involved in the last 27 years. 
He strongly believes that people should be at the center of every business strategy. Creating a mentally healthy environment for employees to thrive in is a vital step toward establishing a thriving organisation.

In his current role as Executive Director of City Mental Health Alliance Singapore, Weng Hong works closely with businesses to facilitate change and embed good mental health practices within workplaces in a sustainable and measurable way. Weng Hong is also a member of Project Green Ribbon's Board of Advisors, a Fellow of Singapore Centre for Social Enterprise, and a member of APAC FP&A Advisory Council of Association for Financial Professionals.

Prior to these roles, he also served on the boards of both listed and privately held companies.