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.

Tom is Director of the National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health, a collaboration between the Royal College of Psychiatrists and University College London. Tom began his career working for the NHS as a manager across a range of mental health settings before becoming a Director of Community Mental Health and Social Care Services in Sheffield. He moved into his current role in 2016, and his achievements include leading the largest ever national improvement collaboratives in mental health and developing policy for community mental health services for NHS England which has led to investment of around £1bn a year. He has a particular interest in equality and working with communities to solve complex problems.

Michael Frohlich is EMEA CEO and Global transformation Lead. He has over 25 years’ experience in the marketing communications industry, leading some of the most famous PR and advertising agencies and clients. He is focused on integrating marketing silos to drive impactful growth for clients and his teams. Having a view of the entire marketing experience has grown his experience in organization design, change management, creative excellence and leadership.

Experienced financial services Chief Executive, with deep expertise in wealth and asset management. Demonstrable international track record in creating and leading wealth and investment businesses including creating and building Quilter Plc into the second largest wealth manager in the UK. An ardent supporter of good mental health across the City and the wider UK Financial services industry.

Monika is Head of Employee Health and Wellbeing at GlaxoSmithKline. She is experienced in setting workplace wellbeing and mental health strategies and leading global teams to operationalise these. She has over a decade of experience in delivering change programs globally at team and individual levels and has more recently in supporting managers to create a positive environment for their people to thrive.

She started her medical career as a General Practitioner and subsequently became a specialist in Occupational Medicine, which she has practiced both in the public and corporate sectors.  She coaches all levels within organisations including executives and is a strong advocate of harnessing the power of mentoring and coaching to enable people to lead more fulfilling lives. She is on the board of the What Works Centre for Wellbeing.

Her interests outside work include practising yoga and mindfulness and supporting the mental health of school aged children.

Emma started out in FMCG before spending a decade leading Sales & Marketing at Eurostar. She set up Glow in 2019 to help organisations define compelling brand propositions then connect them to their culture. Using the knowledge and wisdom she’s gained over the years, Emma also spends a lot of her time helping people navigate their work and life journeys via coaching and mentoring. In 2022 Emma had a near-death experience that completely changed her perspective on life and resulted in her launching a movement encouraging people to #slowthef**kdown.

An experienced senior leader with mental health as her core passion, and 16+yrs marketing and employee engagement experience in some of the UK’s top performing media and brand agencies. Emma is an award-winning wellness specialist with a belief that businesses are responsible for the duty of care of their people. As a mental health first aider, trained in wellness consultancy and strategy, Emma improves the employee experience, recruitment and retention by delivering successful considered wellness plans to over 1000 employees. Emma has appeared on panels and podcasts discussing how employee engagement is changing what wellbeing means. She is the author of insanelynormal.co.uk, an open letters blog on mental health, is studying neuroscience at KCL and lives in Kent with her two children.

Dr Aarti Anhal is a Positive Psychology coach and consultant who helps people and organisations thrive during good times and periods of adversity, crisis and change.

She is the founder of before nine, a consultancy that helps organisations sustain optimal performance through a Positive Working approach that enables employee and employer to flourish. 

Aarti and her team integrate the drivers of wellbeing, resilience and agility into organisational systems, leadership and culture. They employ a unique blend of evidence-based psychology interventions and behavioural techniques with organisational resilience and transformation strategies, bringing out the best in people and enabling organisations to sustain success.

Matt Smith is Head of External Affairs for the charity Betknowmore and has lived experience of gambling and alcoholism with over 8 years in continuous recovery. Matt sits on the senior management team building relationships with stakeholders across the national gambling treatment service and the industry, as well as working across their communications, marketing and policy strategy. Matt's background was in the broadcast media industry where he spent over a decade working in management for radio station talkSPORT heading up major live sports events. During the latter part of his time there was when his gambling became problematic.

Lisa Walker is a peer support worker for Betknowmore UK and runs the New Beginnings programme for women. Lisa is herself in long term recovery, and brings a wealth of lived experience, empathy and authenticity to the work she now does with the charity - supporting those affected by gambling related harm.

My name is Rob O'Brien and I'm a Compulsive Gambler. I've not had a bet today or since 6th January 2007.

Colin works as Lived Experience Manager at the charity GamCare, the leading provider of information, advice and support for anyone affected by gambling harms. Colin uses his both his own experience of gambling harm and recovery, as well as insights and learning from the diverse Lived Experience community he manages to ensure that all of GamCare’s services are informed and shaped by the people they are designed to support. Colin previously had a successful career in the recruitment sector and an in addition to his current role is a Trustee at the Gambling Lived Experience Network (GLEN).

Kathryn oversees This Can Happen's new initiative - Research & Insights, which is helping companies to measure and benchmark the success of their mental health strategies.

Emma is the Global Inclusion Leader for Deloitte and leads the delivery of the organisation’s global inclusion strategy. Emma’s work in this role includes a focus on Respect & Inclusion; gender balance; LGBT+ inclusion and mental health. She is also proud recipient of Women in the City, Woman of Achievement Award (2015), Women in Finance, Ambassador of the Year award (June 2018) and in 2021 was awarded Honorary Membership by the Institute of Chartered Accountants for England and Wales for her work championing diversity and inclusion of women.

Becky's personal experience of early menopause, infertility, miscarriage, multiple IVF cycles and then egg donation have led her to become a fertility writer, speaker, campaigner and patient advocate as ‘DefiningMum’. She is the Founder of Paths to Parenthub, a virtual support platform for those needing to use donor conception to build their family and host of The Redefining Parenthood Podcast. Her personal experience, combined with 12 years as a HR professional, has led her to Co-Found Fertility Matters at Work, a Community Interest Company on a mission to raise awareness and educate about the need for better support for those undergoing fertility struggles and loss in the workplace. Through her experiences she's found a passion in helping others on a difficult path to parenthood and is a true believer in the power of storytelling when it comes to breaking down taboos. Becky is passionate about opening up conversations and changing the support available for fertility in the workplace, helping them to become fertility friendly.

Executive Director for People at Selfridges, Maria is a human resource executive with an unwavering commitment to transforming organisations from the inside out. With responsibility for developing and leading Selfridges people strategies, Maria oversees organisational culture from D, E & I, recruitment, talent, organisational change, reward, and HR Systems. Maria’s career history has been widespread across the retail sector, starting out as HR Advisor for Boots, holding HR roles within renowned companies such as B&Q and BidFood UK, before joining Selfridges HR team in 2012 and becoming Executive Director, People in 2020. Within this time, Maria has honed her passion for supporting people in becoming their best selves, particularly women and those from underrepresented groups. During her decade at Selfridges, Maria has championed inclusivity and diversity within the workplace and made long-lasting positive change by listening to the things that matter to team members and creating a culture where everyone is welcome.

Hannah works in full time finance at News UK, looking after their large scale finance transformation programme and managing a team of 20 people. Hannah has been married for 10 years and alongside her husband has faced 8 years of dealing with infertility - including 14 miscarriages, multiple failed IUI and IVF rounds, and a life threatening ruptured ectopic pregnancy. Hannah remains childless and is passionate about raising awareness of the toll infertility can have on our wellbeing, both outside of and within the workplace. Hannah hopes that by sharing her experiences, she can help workplaces understand how they can become more supportive and inclusive of people going through infertility, fertility treatments and baby loss, as well as long term childlessness.

Shaun is a male fertility advocate and coach. Having been diagnosed as infertile in 2018, he experienced not only the heartache attributed to this, but the shame and secrecy attached to being a man who cannot produce sperm. Shaun found himself navigating this trauma alone, with no support networks in place for men at the time. This impacted every aspect of his life, including work, as he dealt with the stress of undergoing fertility treatment in silence - too ashamed to tell his supervisors what he was going through. Shaun now shares his story (@Knackered_Knackers) to provide that voice that he so desperately needed. This has evolved to in-person support group meetings, and an online forum for men who need that connection when faced with fertility struggles. To further expand the service and support he can provide, Shaun is also now studying to become an accredited Transformational Coach.

Arif Jiwany is a highly experienced GP & Occupational Health Physician who has worked in both the NHS as well as several different industry sectors.

Having worked at GSK for 16 years, in September 2021, he became Global Head of Occupational Health & Wellbeing for the GSK Consumer Healthcare business which separated from GSK in mid-2022 & is now called Haleon PLC.

Since starting his new role, Arif’s main remit has been to oversee the separation of previous H&W programmes/services & build a new global team/function from scratch; this is set up as a small ‘centre of excellence’. The focus for the new Haleon health organisation is to drive the future H&W strategy, improve delivery of health programmes, raise levels of governance & ensure that H&W initiatives are strongly linked to the emerging new organisational culture.

James works as Senior Marketing Officer for Hertfordshire Mind Network, a mental health charity. He is a published author of a book called 'Befriending My Brain' - a memoir about his experiences with psychosis and schizoaffective disorder. James is very passionate about getting his mental illnesses more coverage and awareness in the workplace and reducing the stigma. He has also made appearances on many podcasts, as well as blogs, articles, radio and television.

Sam is Co-founder & CEO of Otta. Otta is a startup building the better way to find a job in tech, used by over 1 million people worldwide. Someone saves a job on Otta every 2 seconds. He has raised $25m of venture capital for Otta from leading investors including Tiger Global and LocalGlobe. Otta is currently trialling a 9-day fortnight, giving all staff Friday off every other week, to lead the way in developing work/life harmony and wellbeing.