Conference - 9 June

After a career at the BBC, my life changed when I became a mother. It was such an amazing privilege, yet when it came to work, there was such a lack of support. Passionate about wellbeing, I soon went on to set up ‘Parents Matter’ which helped companies engage with working parents by putting on in-house events & seminars tackling key challenges for new Mum’s and Dad’s. As the years went on, companies soon asked for more initiatives out of the parenting sphere and it was at this stage that it made sense to expand to ‘Employees Matter’, with the vital understanding that all staff need support and engagement, not just parents. With this in mind, we began to run new, innovative workshops focusing on diversity, gender, physical and mental health. In addition, in 2017 I co-founded This Can Happen, an organisation that aims to empower workplace mental wellbeing with global conferences, awards, research, webinars, seminars and bespoke workplace programmes. I am passionate about helping both employers and employees find solutions to create stigma-free, open and considerate environments to work in where people can be open about their mental health.

Emma is currently Global Health and Wellbeing Lead at recently established healthcare company Haleon, after 15 years working at GSK. Emma is experienced in developing and delivering global health and wellbeing programmes on a range of different wellbeing topics to varied employee populations.

Stella has spent over a decade designing and delivering wellbeing strategies and programmes for large, complex, global organisations.

She specialises in building healthy, high-performing cultures by taking a holistic approach to people’s wellbeing - her mission is simple: help people and businesses thrive.

Her work sits at the intersection of sustainable human performance and business outcomes.

Stella is currently Global Head of Wellbeing for a workforce of 30,000 across more than 20 countries.

Rachel Pearce is the UK & Ireland Health & Wellbeing Manager at Unilever, with over 20 years’ experience in organisational psychology, behaviour change, marketing and strategic communications. Her work focuses on how organisations design mental wellbeing support that actually lands—recognising that different roles, environments and life stages require different messages, channels and prompts to act. Rachel brings a practical, marketing led mindset to wellbeing communications, applying behavioural insight, audience segmentation and real world testing to move beyond generic, one size fits all approaches. She has led award winning programmes across factory and office environments, including initiatives that significantly improved engagement with mental health, gender, life-stage health and preventative health support. Rachel also sits on the Mind Leadership Council and GroceryAid Welfare Committee, helping shape inclusive, effective workplace wellbeing across the UK.

Alan has been involved in a range of initiatives aimed at improving financial wellbeing and access to financial advice for individuals and organisations. Before MaPS, Alan’s previous roles have included Senior CSR Manager, Financial Wellbeing at Lloyds Banking Group, where he designed programmes to support customers struggling with financial systems and processes. He has also worked on a capacity and capability-building programme for credit unions to promote financial inclusion across the UK. Alan is a Fellow of the RSA and a qualified executive coach.

Katie is a highly experienced Director with more than 23 years' experience in the financial services industry. She brings a broad and informed perspective, shaped by a long career supporting individuals and organisations to achieve improved financial outcomes across a range of settings and challenges. Katie has a strong commitment to clear communication, high-quality education, and targeted, evidence-based interventions that support people in the workplace. Having seen first-hand the emotional impact that financial stress can have on individuals' lives, Katie is passionate about recognising initiatives that deliver meaningful impact, raise industry standards, and play an integral role in supporting overall wellbeing.

George Hamlyn is a Health & Wellbeing Specialist at Transport for London (TfL), where he applies his background in Occupational Psychology to drive a strategic, organisation‑wide approach to workplace wellbeing.

George’s work focuses on enabling managers and colleagues to better understand, prevent, and respond to mental health challenges, work‑related stress, and trauma experienced in safety‑critical and frontline environments. Through evidence‑based practice and psychologically informed guidance, he supports the development of healthier, more resilient working cultures across the organisation. As part of his role, George leads and supports a network of more than 300 wellbeing and trauma‑focused peer support communities across TfL. This expansive network plays a key role in early intervention, peer‑led support, and fostering psychological safety for a diverse workforce.

George is passionate about empowering people and teams to thrive at work, improving access to support, and embedding wellbeing into the everyday fabric of organisational life.

Mandy Reid is Employee Relations Manager – Colleague Wellbeing at Standard Life. She leads the organisation’s wellbeing strategy and governance, with a strong focus on preventative support and creating sustainable, inclusive wellbeing cultures. Mandy has extensive experience designing, embedding and evolving wellbeing communities, including Wellbeing Champions, Mental Health First Aiders and menopause advocates, ensuring clear roles, safe boundaries and strong alignment to organisational strategy. Her work focuses on bringing wellbeing to life locally through everyday conversations, awareness, signposting and role modelling, while strengthening leadership capability and psychological safety.

Kendall's passion is to ensure wellbeing is seen as a performance strategy not an employee benefit. As a HR Business Partner and Global Wellbeing Programme Manager she partners with leaders and stakeholders throughout the organisation to create and deliver sustainable optimal performance cultures that drive connectedness, engagement and successful commercial outcomes.

With over 15 years' leading in person, on demand and digital programmes that span multiple geographies she understands the complexities of creating a wellbeing framework that is a performance multiplier and is adaptable to meet the needs of the employees and the organisation.

Mark is a sector leader and policy adviser in the field of men and boys’ public policy and delivery. He is the policy director of the new Westminster-based think tank/research organisation (Centre for Policy Research on Men and Boys) which aims to understand and resolve the challenges men and boys face - including health in the workplace. He is also a national lead for International Men's Day in the UK, was a key lead in the creation of the Men's Health Strategy and is the chair of a domestic abuse charity for men. He has an OBE and honorary doctorate for his work in these fields.

Daniel Callaghan is an Employer Brand leader with experience across London Stock Exchange Group, Capital One, and currently Payoneer. He is passionate about equality, equity, empathy and building human-centered workplaces where people and performance thrive. Alongside his professional work, he speaks and writes openly about mental health, sharing his lived experience of clinical depression, ADHD, grief and suicide. He advocates for more honest conversations in the workplace and believes storytelling is one of the most powerful tools we have to create cultures of understanding, safety and belonging. He is also a proud husband and father of two boys.

Leisha is the Health and Wellbeing Lead at Tottenham Hotspur Football Club delivering the mental health and wellbeing strategy for the last three years to employees and players.

She has been in the health and wellbeing industry for over eight years working in universities, football clubs and everything in-between. Leisha is a semi elite endurance runner with a love for nutrition and women's health.

Adam Webster is an Associate Professor of Law and Public Policy at the University of Oxford. In 2021, he resigned from his permanent full-time academic role to focus on parenting his two daughters. While family remains his priority, he now teaches and researches part-time. This shift has profoundly shaped his perspective on both parenting and public policy. Drawing on his experience in legal scholarship and policy reform — as well as the practical realities of family life — Adam explores how systems such as parental leave, workplace norms, and school structures shape the distribution of care within families.

Paris is a Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence in Mental Health at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience at King's College London. He graduated with a first-class BSc (Hons) in Psychology from the University of Wales. He undertook a MSc in Brain Imaging & Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Birmingham, graduating with distinction in 2017. Following that, he worked as an Assistant Psychologist in the Early Intervention in Psychosis service for the Birmingham Children’s Hospital. He undertook a joint funded Priestley University of Birmingham - University of Melbourne PhD at the Institute for Mental Health and the Centre for Human Brain Health. He then worked as Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham leading his site within the NIH-funded PRESCIENT consortium and coordinating with international collaborators from 10 countries and 12 sites to successfully develop novel machine learning solutions for psychosis.

Meg is the Head of Public Affairs & Advocacy at the National Counselling & Psychotherapy Society (NCPS). Prior to joining the Society in early 2015, Meg had a career in IT, and has had a life-long interest in science and tech. Her work at the Society has included the publishing of the first Relational Safeguards for AI Mental Health tools, which have been well-received by many different organisations, including the NHS, and referenced in publications on AI ethics and in third-sector reports. She was also a Witness on the topic of AI at the Commission for the Future of Counselling and Psychotherapy, and campaigns around the importance of the human connection; her interview in Happiful magazine was one of the first articles on the topic of Large Language Models and their place in the therapy room. She’s an advocate for humanity in therapy, and how we can best use tech to make those real connections happen.