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Gold sponsors

Aon

For employees to be engaged, productive and successful they need to be well.

We align talent, health, wealth and risk strategies to help clients develop and mature their own wellbeing strategies and ambitions.

We deliver valuable programs to progress a client’s wellbeing journey, ensuring support is there in times of need, educating people to thrive in an organisational world, and re-imagining organisations with a sustainable performance lens.

We utilise Aon’s leading client data and predictive analytics to optimise investment decisions relating to people risk for better outcomes.

Aon exists to shape decisions for the better — to protect and enrich the lives of people around the world.

We provide our clients with advice and solutions that give them the clarity and confidence to make better decisions to protect and grow their business.

Aon is in the business of better decisions.

FAIRER Consulting

We are FAIRER Consulting, specialist DE&I consultants and pioneers in the fields of diversity, equity and inclusion. As part of Hays Plc, we are an inclusion management company that supports businesses around the world to expand and diversify their talent pools and to create inclusive work cultures in three key areas: education, leadership and consulting.

We create bespoke solutions for organisations who are ready for meaningful action and change. We challenge the existing status quo by leverage the latest research from the fields of social psychology, neuroscience and behavioural science, and our methodology is always based on the science of human thinking and organisational change.

Our consultants have worked with over 200 businesses around the world to help them establish and implement successful DE&I strategies for long-term impact. Alongside strategy consultancy, we also offer a catalogue of valuable training courses and programmes to help upskill your workforce – from employees to senior leadership – on the value of diversity, inclusion and equity.

Speak to a member of the team at info@fairerconsulting.com  

Onebright

We help organisations and individuals navigate the maze of mental health and wellbeing solutions available to improve their mental health.  We work across the mental health continuum from performance optimisation, early intervention, prevention, and treatment.  

Onebright has been providing clinical excellence in mental health across the UK for 30 years.  It is a pioneer in clinical assessments and treatment for children through to adults, delivering services through more than 3,000 clinicians in 49 languages to more than 55,000 people per year.

We support businesses across the UK to deliver clinical solutions for workplace mental health. We work hard to pinpoint the specifics challenges of an organisation, and then design and implement evidence-based mental health strategies including bespoke insights, clinical services, and a range of training to provide integrated healthcare which helps people.

Our deep understanding of mental health and unrivalled clinical expertise enables us to support your workforce from the first interaction through to recovery. We have a breadth of existing relationships with the UK’s leading service providers of PMI, OH and EAP which gives us a unique ability to deliver consistent care to your employees from whichever channel they reach us.  Our team of experts use data and insights to help businesses make informed decisions, demonstrate ROI, and optimise how they support employee mental health now and in the future.

Thriiver

At Thriiver, we help organisations build neuroinclusive teams. We support employers through the entire employee life cycle covering recruitment, retention, and employee progression. This might include a recruitment audit, provision of our Online Screening Tool, Neurodiversity Awareness Training, Workplace Needs Assessments, provision of Assistive Technology or Workplace Strategy Coaching. We help organisations structure and implement their DE&I strategies, to foster a sense of belonging and psychological safety, so employees can thrive and businesses can prosper. 

Set up in 1997 by our founder Lawrence Howard, who himself is neurodivergent, we draw on 27 years of experience supporting individuals and companies in the workplace.

Talking Talent

For nearly 20 years, Talking Talent has partnered with leading global organizations to drive lasting cultural transformation and systemic change. Our mission is clear: Helping businesses evolve for the better.

Grounded in research, psychology, and deep expertise, our inclusive, coaching-led solutions help organizations achieve their goals and fully realize the benefits of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I).

Our 4 Keystones approach can take your business from where it is today to where it needs to be:

Elevate Underrepresented Talent: Many individuals are held back by systemic barriers, preventing them from thriving. Failing to address this means missing out on the advantages of a truly diverse workforce.

Equip and Empower Leaders: Leaders must confront biases, cultivate empathy, and commit to DE&I. By integrating DE&I into their leadership, they unlock greater productivity, innovation, and well-being.

Improve the System: Systemic change is complex and requires long-term dedication. We help businesses address the root causes of inequity within their organizations.

Support Life Meeting Work: As life and work boundaries blur, employees need employers who support them through key life moments, fostering loyalty and balance.

Talking Talent is here to guide that journey.

Walking on Earth (WONE)

Walking on Earth (WONE) is a workplace health platform that measures and regulates employee stress during the working day. 

Blending the latest advances in AI technology and neuroscience, our preventative approach provides legal teams with targeted micro moments of recovery to effectively manage stress. 

Our clinically validated health score uses biometric and self reported measures to create personalised health plans, powered by AI and delivered by world leading experts. Our short sessions and work calendar integration drive our market-leading utilisation rates, and our unique methodology results in 74% of employees reporting a reduction in stress and 90% reporting an increase in productivity. 

We work with a number of clients across legal and professional service industries, such as Quinn Emanuel Trial Lawyers, to break the cycle of chronic stress and supercharge business performance.

Silver sponsors

Carecoins

Carecoins is a mental health platform dedicated to making therapy and support services accessible and affordable. The company offers a unique system where individuals and organisations can purchase coins to access professional mental health services. Founded by individuals with personal experiences of mental health challenges, Carecoins is driven by a passion to provide meaningful, effective support.

The platform is designed to be flexible for businesses, allowing employers to incorporate Carecoins into their employee wellness programmes. This helps companies offer tailored mental health services, which improves employee wellbeing, productivity, and loyalty. Carecoins ensures that therapists are fairly compensated, with immediate payment for their work, fostering a sustainable support system.

By focusing on accessibility, affordability, and fair pay for mental health professionals, Carecoins offers a practical solution for both individuals seeking help and businesses looking to support their workforce.

Mental Health at Work

Our mission is to improve working lives by influencing attitudes and behaviours around workplace mental health.  We have been supporting organisations since 2015 with facilitated workshops, webinars, and digital learning. All programmes are tailored to meet the needs of individual clients, complementing any existing mental health strategy. Last year we worked across 60 countries globally.

OnWellbeing

On Wellbeing is a digital health application created from the success of a national e-learning platform – Aspire.

On Wellbeing is an effective, sustainable and unique mental health app. Built from the foundation of behavioural science it embeds mental health literacy within organisations whilst giving individuals the skills they need to positively enhance their mental health. The focus is on real life application of learning tools and techniques specifically designed to reduce anxiety, enhance mood and increase resilience, coping and self worth. The app includes a designated pillar which houses all of the organisations' existing wellbeing provision increasing awareness and use. The digital app is part of a comprehensive scaffolding package with supportive workshops, webinars and an effective onboarding system to ensure engagement.

Unmind

Unmind is the leading global workplace mental health platform, with offices in London, New York, and Sydney. Founded in 2016, its mission is to help companies create mentally healthy workplaces where employees can flourish. Using the latest in scientific evidence, Unmind offers preventative strategies underpinned by data to create sustainable, higher-performing organisations.

Unmind delivers a ‘whole organisation’ approach to improving wellbeing, through a suite of world-class digital tools, resources, and easy access to experts. The platform is designed to help your whole organisation access insights with a comprehensive view of risk factors affecting workplace mental health, provide the tools to educate your leaders so they can enable and foster a healthy culture, and give every employee and their loved ones access to our evidence-based tools.

Built for modern enterprise needs, Unmind partners with clients like Uber, British Airways, Major League Baseball, Samsung, and Standard Chartered Bank to create mentally healthy workplaces and financially healthy businesses.

Bronze sponsors

HealthHero

HealthHero is a leading digital health provider in Europe, delivering smart solutions to patients. HealthHero services cover 30 million lives and a network of over 4,000 clinicians.

We connect smart technology and gold-standard clinical expertise to make high quality healthcare accessible to millions.

HealthHero’s aim is to deliver smarter ways to meet whole health needs. HealthHero reimagines how healthcare is delivered across the “whole health” spectrum – a wide range of needs and conditions and everyday situations – for both mind and body.

Our ambition to transform healthcare is represented in our mission: Simplifying healthcare, improving lives.

HealthHero is certified as a Great Place to Work.

Exhibitors

Aon

For employees to be engaged, productive and successful they need to be well.

We align talent, health, wealth and risk strategies to help clients develop and mature their own wellbeing strategies and ambitions.

We deliver valuable programs to progress a client’s wellbeing journey, ensuring support is there in times of need, educating people to thrive in an organisational world, and re-imagining organisations with a sustainable performance lens.

We utilise Aon’s leading client data and predictive analytics to optimise investment decisions relating to people risk for better outcomes.

Aon exists to shape decisions for the better — to protect and enrich the lives of people around the world.

We provide our clients with advice and solutions that give them the clarity and confidence to make better decisions to protect and grow their business.

Aon is in the business of better decisions.

FAIRER Consulting

We are FAIRER Consulting, specialist DE&I consultants and pioneers in the fields of diversity, equity and inclusion. As part of Hays Plc, we are an inclusion management company that supports businesses around the world to expand and diversify their talent pools and to create inclusive work cultures in three key areas: education, leadership and consulting.

We create bespoke solutions for organisations who are ready for meaningful action and change. We challenge the existing status quo by leverage the latest research from the fields of social psychology, neuroscience and behavioural science, and our methodology is always based on the science of human thinking and organisational change.

Our consultants have worked with over 200 businesses around the world to help them establish and implement successful DE&I strategies for long-term impact. Alongside strategy consultancy, we also offer a catalogue of valuable training courses and programmes to help upskill your workforce – from employees to senior leadership – on the value of diversity, inclusion and equity.

Speak to a member of the team at info@fairerconsulting.com  

Onebright

We help organisations and individuals navigate the maze of mental health and wellbeing solutions available to improve their mental health.  We work across the mental health continuum from performance optimisation, early intervention, prevention, and treatment.  

Onebright has been providing clinical excellence in mental health across the UK for 30 years.  It is a pioneer in clinical assessments and treatment for children through to adults, delivering services through more than 3,000 clinicians in 49 languages to more than 55,000 people per year.

We support businesses across the UK to deliver clinical solutions for workplace mental health. We work hard to pinpoint the specifics challenges of an organisation, and then design and implement evidence-based mental health strategies including bespoke insights, clinical services, and a range of training to provide integrated healthcare which helps people.

Our deep understanding of mental health and unrivalled clinical expertise enables us to support your workforce from the first interaction through to recovery. We have a breadth of existing relationships with the UK’s leading service providers of PMI, OH and EAP which gives us a unique ability to deliver consistent care to your employees from whichever channel they reach us.  Our team of experts use data and insights to help businesses make informed decisions, demonstrate ROI, and optimise how they support employee mental health now and in the future.

Thriiver

At Thriiver, we help organisations build neuroinclusive teams. We support employers through the entire employee life cycle covering recruitment, retention, and employee progression. This might include a recruitment audit, provision of our Online Screening Tool, Neurodiversity Awareness Training, Workplace Needs Assessments, provision of Assistive Technology or Workplace Strategy Coaching. We help organisations structure and implement their DE&I strategies, to foster a sense of belonging and psychological safety, so employees can thrive and businesses can prosper. 

Set up in 1997 by our founder Lawrence Howard, who himself is neurodivergent, we draw on 27 years of experience supporting individuals and companies in the workplace.

Walking on Earth (WONE)

Walking on Earth (WONE) is a workplace health platform that measures and regulates employee stress during the working day. 

Blending the latest advances in AI technology and neuroscience, our preventative approach provides legal teams with targeted micro moments of recovery to effectively manage stress. 

Our clinically validated health score uses biometric and self reported measures to create personalised health plans, powered by AI and delivered by world leading experts. Our short sessions and work calendar integration drive our market-leading utilisation rates, and our unique methodology results in 74% of employees reporting a reduction in stress and 90% reporting an increase in productivity. 

We work with a number of clients across legal and professional service industries, such as Quinn Emanuel Trial Lawyers, to break the cycle of chronic stress and supercharge business performance.

Carecoins

Carecoins is a mental health platform dedicated to making therapy and support services accessible and affordable. The company offers a unique system where individuals and organisations can purchase coins to access professional mental health services. Founded by individuals with personal experiences of mental health challenges, Carecoins is driven by a passion to provide meaningful, effective support.

The platform is designed to be flexible for businesses, allowing employers to incorporate Carecoins into their employee wellness programmes. This helps companies offer tailored mental health services, which improves employee wellbeing, productivity, and loyalty. Carecoins ensures that therapists are fairly compensated, with immediate payment for their work, fostering a sustainable support system.

By focusing on accessibility, affordability, and fair pay for mental health professionals, Carecoins offers a practical solution for both individuals seeking help and businesses looking to support their workforce.

OnWellbeing

On Wellbeing is a digital health application created from the success of a national e-learning platform – Aspire.

On Wellbeing is an effective, sustainable and unique mental health app. Built from the foundation of behavioural science it embeds mental health literacy within organisations whilst giving individuals the skills they need to positively enhance their mental health. The focus is on real life application of learning tools and techniques specifically designed to reduce anxiety, enhance mood and increase resilience, coping and self worth. The app includes a designated pillar which houses all of the organisations' existing wellbeing provision increasing awareness and use. The digital app is part of a comprehensive scaffolding package with supportive workshops, webinars and an effective onboarding system to ensure engagement.

Unmind

Unmind is the leading global workplace mental health platform, with offices in London, New York, and Sydney. Founded in 2016, its mission is to help companies create mentally healthy workplaces where employees can flourish. Using the latest in scientific evidence, Unmind offers preventative strategies underpinned by data to create sustainable, higher-performing organisations.

Unmind delivers a ‘whole organisation’ approach to improving wellbeing, through a suite of world-class digital tools, resources, and easy access to experts. The platform is designed to help your whole organisation access insights with a comprehensive view of risk factors affecting workplace mental health, provide the tools to educate your leaders so they can enable and foster a healthy culture, and give every employee and their loved ones access to our evidence-based tools.

Built for modern enterprise needs, Unmind partners with clients like Uber, British Airways, Major League Baseball, Samsung, and Standard Chartered Bank to create mentally healthy workplaces and financially healthy businesses.

HealthHero

HealthHero is a leading digital health provider in Europe, delivering smart solutions to patients. HealthHero services cover 30 million lives and a network of over 4,000 clinicians.

We connect smart technology and gold-standard clinical expertise to make high quality healthcare accessible to millions.

HealthHero’s aim is to deliver smarter ways to meet whole health needs. HealthHero reimagines how healthcare is delivered across the “whole health” spectrum – a wide range of needs and conditions and everyday situations – for both mind and body.

Our ambition to transform healthcare is represented in our mission: Simplifying healthcare, improving lives.

HealthHero is certified as a Great Place to Work.

ESSTA
ESSTA facilitates daily live sessions which anyone can join called spaces. Spaces are led by individuals with lived experience and each session focuses on different pain points allowing individuals to join a conversion, learn from others and most importantly feel heard.
There is no cost and HR managers get access to high level data so they know how to best support their staff. (Without anything personal being shared).
Speak to us to sign up your workforce.
Genius Within

About Genius Within CIC:
Genius Within CIC is a social enterprise, established in 2011, driving change for all neurodivergent people, and the organisations that employ them.
We are a leading psychology-based practice, delivering evidence-based solutions for individuals, employers, and professionals.
We believe that by creating more inclusive environments, across all strands of society, from business to the public sector and throughout the Criminal Justice system, everyone can fulfil their potential in employment and within society.

Our team 200+ Occupational Psychologists, workplace coaches and HR experts, understand what works, not only because 68% identify as neurodivergent and 87% as disabled and/or neurodivergent, but also from decades of research, data, and experience with clients. This means that we can deliver balanced, co-produced services combining lived experience with professional expertise. We offer consultancy, training, coaching, eLearning, assessments and the Genius Finder Pro (strengths-based assessment tool designed to support employees by exploring common work-related strengths and struggles).

Help to Save

Help to Save is a UK Government backed saving scheme aimed at encouraging a savings habit for people on lower incomes.

The scheme is designed to support working people on tax credits and Universal Credit to build their savings. They can save between £1 and £50 every calendar month and accounts last for four years from the date they open the account.

After two years, they will get a 50% tax-free bonus on their savings. And if they continue saving they could get another 50% tax-free bonus after four years. This means they could receive tax-free bonuses worth up to £1,200, to spend how they like.

Our aim is to promote and raise awareness of the benefits of the scheme to delegates, outlining the opportunity the Help to Save scheme offers with regards to providing Financial Inclusion / Wellbeing for their employees and customers.

Find out more here.

LawCare

LawCare is the mental health charity for the legal sector, offering free, confidential emotional support, peer support, and information to people working in law in the UK, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man. LawCare also advocates for improvements in mental health practices within legal workplaces, and actively leads cultural transformation through education, training, and research.

LawCare offers a safe and confidential space to talk, without judgement, whether you’re just having a bad day, or you are facing something more longer lasting. All LawCare’s helpline volunteers and staff have experience in the legal sector and understand the particular pressures that you may face. If you need support, call LawCare on 0800 279 6888, email support@lawcare.org.uk, or visit www.lawcare.org.uk to use the live online chat. LawCare’s website also has lots of information (articles, stories, videos and podcasts) on mental health and wellbeing.

MindView by Matchware
Every individual has unique ways of processing, visualising, and organising information. Recognising and embracing our varied approaches to work and problem-solving is essential. That’s why we’ve recently added a cutting-edge software tool to our toolkit, one that is designed to amplify each of our strengths and support our individual preferences. We’re proud to introduce MindView.
MindView is an assistive mind mapping tool that transforms the way we visualise and handle complex information. While it's beneficial for everyone, those with neurodivergence, such as Dyslexia, Autism or ADHD will find its features especially supportive. Yet, it's designed to enhance productivity and clarity for all members of your team.
mojo by Brand Experiences

Brand Experiences are committed to supporting organisations and their people to be happy and productive at work.

We will be showcasing our flagship product mojo, the employee motivation platform which drives productivity, boosts wellbeing and builds resilience. It identifies what is needed at an individual, team and organisational level to develop and maintain a happy and productive workforce.

Mojo reveals the intrinsic motivations of each employee and how well these motivations are being satisfied so that managers can use this insight and mojo's reward strategies to optimise the motivation and performance of their teams. It encourages open dialogue between employees and their managers, creating safe spaces to explore opportunities to improve.

Mojo helps organisations get the best out of their people, by helping their people get the most out of their work. It unlocks lost productivity and improves the workplace experience for an organisations’ most important asset—their people.

Start your ‘work happier’ journey by visiting our stand - and claiming your free mojo motivational profile!

Night Workers

Unique Support for Night Workers 

Tired? Sleep deprivation costs the UK economy a staggering £50bn per year in lost productivity, worker attrition and accidents. And for the more than 8.7 million people who work at night, it poses a significant challenge to their physical and mental wellbeing.

Night Club is an award-winning programme, designed to mitigate the serious impacts of night work on physical and mental health. We bring sleep experts into the workplace to help workers and employers create a better and healthier experience of working at night.

We have supported over 10,000 workers in over 30 companies across a wide range of industries, including NHS Trusts, transport, retail, utilities and logistics. 

Find out about our solution, our impact and what this could mean for your organisation: night-club.org

Personify Health, formally Virgin Pulse

At Personify Health, formally Virgin Pulse, we believe that only simplified, personalised, and connected health & wellbeing solutions can engage and empower people to be their healthiest.  

We champion health & wellbeing as a business priority, not a box to check.  

With a system that simplifies, not obscures. 

We’re defying expectations simply by putting your people at the centre of every interaction.  

Giving you exactly what you need, and more, to create an energising culture of health.  

Because health is personal.

Smart About Health

Smart About Health is a team of hundreds of specialist doctors and psychologists delivering bespoke health and wellbeing strategy, training and programmes to global companies. 

Backed by science and evidence, grounded in human-centred approaches, we work in partnership to create a proactive and responsive solution, which blends health, wellbeing and DEI.

Smart About Health is a trusted partner to organisations such as Booking.com, Ocado, Simmons & Simmons, and multiple other law firms and global corporates. Our diverse team of specialists, deep expertise and credibility has enabled us to be trailblazers in the health and wellbeing space.

At Smart About Health equitable Mental Health, Physical Health, and Personal Health are front and centre. Our Programmes,  Wellbeing Champion Training, Manager Training and E-learning, and Leadership Programmes, Policy writing and guidance, as well as Wellbeing Strategy Consulting, allow us to make a big impact.

 

Texthelp

At Texthelp, we believe everyone deserves to understand and be understood. Our products help people at work achieve more by making it easier to understand and communicate in a digital environment. We help create inclusive workplaces where employees can feel able to bring their whole selves to work.

Our inclusive software, Read&Write for Work, allows us to instantly support an entire workforce of diverse individuals. Its powerful set of reading and writing tools help neurodiverse and multilingual teams thrive. Our digital inclusion software, ReachDeck, supports organisations to communicate simply, clearly and accessibly for all.

The Positive Planner

At The Positive Planner, our mission is to inspire and empower individuals to prioritise their mental health and wellbeing. We offer a range of beautifully designed planners, journals, and stationery products that are both practical and uplifting, aimed at promoting daily positivity, encouraging self-care, and nurturing gratitude. Our products are crafted in a language that’s accessible to everyone, whether they’re new to the concepts of self-care and mindfulness or already familiar with them.

We also create bespoke Self Care Packages that can be delivered directly to your employees' homes. These thoughtfully curated gift boxes are filled with meaningful items that complement our journals, offering recipients a positive and supportive experience that encourages them to make time for their wellbeing.

Our Positive Planner products make the perfect gift for company employees and clients, showing that you care about their wellbeing. By choosing our planners and journals, you're giving someone the chance to step away from the digital world and focus on their mental health in a mindful and positive space—something that’s increasingly important as screen time continues to rise.

Our products are versatile and can be used individually or within a team setting, providing an ideal starting point for deeper conversations around employee wellbeing.

Working Well Community

Working Well Community: A Hub for Workplace Wellbeing Leaders

The Working Well Community is a dedicated space for workplace wellbeing leaders to connect, learn, and transform the health of working populations. Through our online platform and virtual academy, we provide training, certification, and collaborative opportunities to elevate careers and promote best practices. By aligning with MAD World events, we aim to collaborate with as many diverse voices and perspectives as possible, driving meaningful progress in the mission to support employee wellbeing.

Learn more about the community below and join us in our podcast booth at the MAD World Festival this October.  www.workingwell.community @workingwellcommunit
Workplace Ear Care

We are Workplace Ear Care, and are committed to raising the profile of ear care, and its importance to overall health and wellbeing.

We’re normalising hearing health in all workplaces, across all industries, from offices to factories. There is no hesitation to get an eye test or a dental check, so why should ear health be overlooked?

We provide convenient on-site ear health reviews and hearing tests, only ever performed by experienced and qualified Audiologists. Our focus is on preventative care and employee wellbeing. We empower employees to understand their hearing and take proactive steps towards retaining optimal ear health, combined with expert advice.

 For businesses, integrating ear care into an employee wellbeing package translates to a happier, healthier workforce with improved communication, reduced stress, and ultimately, increased productivity and success.