Speakers
Dr Lia Ali
NHS England
Profile to follow.
Professor Dame Carol Black GBE
Professor Dame Carol Black GBE is currently the Government’s independent advisor on drug misuse. She is also Chair of the British Library, the Centre for Ageing Better, and Think Ahead, the Government’s fast-stream training programme for Mental Health Social Workers. She is a member of RAND Europe’s Council of Advisers and Commonwealth Secretary- General’s Special Envoy on Ageing Well. In 2019, she completed a seven-year term as Principal of Newnham College in Cambridge University, where she was a Deputy Vice-Chancellor. She is a past President of the Royal College of Physicians of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges past Chair of the Nuffield Trust for Health Policy and a previous trustee of the National Portrait Gallery.
James Dybell
Siemens AG
James Dybell is International Occupational Health and Safety Manager with Siemens AG. He has been with Siemens since 2011 and during this time has been responsible for leading the organisation to achieve and maintain excellent EHS standards through effective strategy design, identifying areas of improvement and fostering a culture of collaboration. Prior to joining Siemens, James was Health and Safety Manager with Total.
Hayley Farrell
Arcadis
Hayley Farrell is the Global Health, Safety, Wellbeing Director at Arcadis, co-leading the Global Health, Safety, and Wellbeing (HSW) function to protect the physical and psychological safety of employees by fostering a culture of care. An award-winning wellbeing practitioner, Hayley develops and delivers Arcadis’ global health, safety and wellbeing strategy.
Notably, Hayley was the first practitioner globally to achieve certification for the adoption and implementation of ISO 45003: Occupational Health and Safety Management – Psychological Health and Safety at Work. This groundbreaking certification highlights her expertise and leadership in advancing wellbeing within the workplace.
Hayley holds a CIPD Level 7 Postgraduate Diploma in Personnel and Development, a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) in Human Resources, and certifications as a Level 3 Personal Trainer and internal auditor. She is also a Member of the International Institute of Risk & Safety Management (IIRSM). Passionate about improving quality of life, Hayley is committed to helping individuals and organizations thrive together.
Dr Monika Misra
Monika is a specialist in Occupational Medicine, which she has practiced within the public and corporate sectors, including the pharmaceutical, consumer packaged goods and animal care services industries.
Her experience includes setting global workplace wellbeing and mental health strategies and leading occupational health and wellbeing teams to operationalize these.
She is passionate about supporting leaders to enhance their workplace culture and thereby the employee experience, to create a positive environment for their people to thrive. She has her own business, coaching executives and their teams to maximise their performance, through enhancing their health and energy, in order to lead more fulfilling lives, both within and outside of work.
Her book, ‘Healthy High Performance’, available from February 2025, addresses how leaders and organizations can achieve sustainable high-performance, through proven practical and tangible actions that prioritise holistic wellbeing.
Outside of work she enjoys practising Pilates, yoga and mindfulness and supporting the mental health of school aged children. She lives in London with her husband and two boys.
Dr Richard Peters
Profile to follow.
Karla Smith
Ogilvy
Profile to follow.
Legal Forum Speakers
Charles Alberts
Clifford Chance
Charles is Global Head of Wellbeing and Employee Experience at Clifford Chance, a leading international law firm, where as a member of the Global HR Leadership he focuses on delivering industry leading employee experiences and protecting & enhancing the wellbeing of employees in all locations. He is a member of the Alliance Manchester Business School’s National Forum for Health and Wellbeing at Work and volunteers as a Board Trustee of the mental health charity Dorset Mind. He is a Chartered Manager (CMI), a Mental Health First Aider (MHFA England) and holds an MSc in Workplace Health and Wellbeing from the University of Nottingham.
Gavin Doyle
Legal Services Board
Gavin is currently the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Policy Lead at the Legal Services Board (LSB), the oversight regulator for legal services in England and Wales. Gavin’s role at the LSB involves shaping and delivering regulatory policy interventions to encourage diversity in the legal profession, both through formal statutory tools and the LSB’s convening and collaboration activities.
Before joining the LSB, Gavin led and contributed to various policy activities designed to support professional standards, EDI, culture and careers in the voluntary and higher education sectors.
Gavin holds a PhD from Trinity College Dublin, where he examined the intersections of sexuality, gender and ethnicity in 20th-century queer Irish-American literature and culture.
Richard Martin
The Mindful Business Charter
Richard is the CEO of the Mindful Business Charter, a cross business initiative to reduce the stress we experience at work and which is a key cause of workplace mental illness. He is also a principal consultant at workplace consultancy Byrne Dean and chairs the steering committee of the Lord Mayor of London’s This is Me campaign which uses story telling to break down the stigma associated with mental illness. He is a qualified coach and mental health first aider. His first career was in law, a successful progress as an employment lawyer to the highest levels of leadership before mental breakdown in 2011 left him in hospital for a month and unable to work for two years. His experience of breakdown and recovery is the subject of his memoir, This Too Will Pass – Anxiety in a professional world, published in 2018. He is a father of three grown up children and splits his time between London and rural France.
Chloe Muir
Pinsent Masons
Chloe Muir joined Pinsent Masons in March 2025 as the Director of Talent and Diversity, Equity & Inclusion. Chloe is responsible for Pinsent Masons global recruitment, talent management and DEI strategies supporting the advancement of the firm’s initiatives.
Chloe is an experienced HR and Talent professional with 15 years’ experience and has a passion for prioritising diversity and inclusion across the employee lifecycle.
Rachel Pears
RPC
Profile to follow.
Elizabeth Rimmer
LawCare
LawCare is the mental health charity for the legal sector across the UK, offering free, confidential emotional support, peer support, and information to people working and training in law. LawCare also advocates for better working practices in law to support mental health, and actively leads cultural transformation through education, training, and research.
Elizabeth has been managing and developing charities in the mental health sector for over 20 years. She joined LawCare in 2014. Elizabeth started her working life as a solicitor specialising in clinical negligence, practicing at Leigh Day. Elizabeth is Co Chair of the Helplines Partnership (national body for support and advice helplines) and a member of the International Bar Association’s Professional Wellbeing Commission and chairs the Commission’s regulatory and ethics workstream group.
Lucinda Soon
Lucinda Soon is a solicitor of England and Wales and an organisational psychologist. Her work focuses on applying empirical methods and evidence from psychology to evaluate and promote ethical practice and wellbeing in the legal sector. Having practised in-house and in private practice over the past two decades, advising lawyers, law firms, and regulators on ethical standards and professional responsibility, Lucinda now works as an academic and independent advisor, working with legal sector organisations and policymakers on a research and consultancy basis. Lucinda is also a trustee for LawCare, Co-Chair for the International Bar Association (IBA) Professional Wellbeing Commission, and an officer of the IBA Academic and Professional Development Committee.