As Chief People Officer, EMEA, Helen Matthews was the overarching guardian of the agency’s employee experience, co-designing new ways to find, know, grow and keep talent. She specialises in creating, shaping and delivering world-class employee experiences, ensuring organisations are future-proofed to succeed. With over 20 years of experience across a breadth of different sectors, working with both large-scale businesses and emerging startups, she always encourages challenging the status quo to shape solutions differently. Prior to joining Weber Shandwick, Matthews worked as Chief People Officer and Head of DEI EMEA at Ogilvy UK, where she led the award-winning people strategy, working across the integrated agency to co-design a best-in-class employee experience while designing and implementing the DEI strategy across the EMEA region. As a trained Executive Coach, she has also held roles as an HR Director and has worked in various organisations, including the BBC.

Martin Jervis is Chief Operating Officer and a Board Director at Thrive Mental Wellbeing. He has experience of building successful purpose-driven businesses, working with both for-profit and NFP. He also has a keen interest in clinical and non-clinical governance regimes.

His extensive senior leadership experience and 18 years working with organisations with purpose offers a unique insight. Martin has partnered with organisations in a variety of ways – from Governance and Strategy to fast growth scaling of sales and service delivery, to Leadership and Development, to hands on Consulting – with a current focus on Mental Healthcare.

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 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.

Charlie Newton is an authentic and transformational global leader in Occupational Health who brings an inclusive and progressive approach to Psychosocial Risk and Organisational Wellness. Designing and operationalising world-leading health, risk and compliance strategies across diverse matrixed global operations. She is currently Head of Global Occupational Health with Google. Prior to this, she has held roles at GE and as an academic at Glasgow Caledonian University, where she designed, developed, and delivered post-graduate specialist public health and occupational health education to health and medical professionals using a range of methods and platforms.

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Chris Rofe brings nearly 30 years’ experience in major domestic and international corporate healthcare, spanning insured solutions, trusts, occupational health, employee assistance, primary care, and wellness. At Lockton, he helps organisations design and deliver integrated healthcare strategies that enhance the employee experience while improving business performance.

With deep expertise across the full spectrum of employee benefits — including group risk and flexible benefits — Chris specialises in analysing and evaluating corporate healthcare provision, sickness absence management, and wellbeing strategies. He is passionate about helping employers move away from fragmented services towards coordinated, strategic programmes that improve patient journeys, generate meaningful insight, reduce absence, and deliver measurable savings.

Chris’s track record includes developing optimal funding models, redesigning benefits to meet evolving workforce needs, and overseeing supplier management, tenders, and reviews across both private and public sectors. His approach combines rigorous analysis with a clear focus on practical outcomes: healthier, more supported employees and stronger organisational productivity.

Susan Gee is a highly accomplished occupational health professional with over four decades of experience in both the public and private sectors. Susan trained as a nurse in 1980 and has worked in various roles within the NHS and private health.

Susan is currently the Head of Occupational Health & Wellbeing at Yorkshire Water Services Limited, she previously served as Head of Occupational Health and Safety at Bradford Metropolitan District Council for 16 years. 

Susan has previously supported a wide variety of private and public organisations, developing, and delivering comprehensive workplace programs for early detection and prevention of disease. She is an experienced occupational health professional and has expertise in the development and implementation of strategies, initiatives, and organisational change in occupational health. Susan was also a visiting lecturer at Leeds Beckett University for 20 years where she taught sickness absence management to OH students. 

Susan also has a keen interest in public health issues and how it aligns with workplace health. She is a great supporter of a holistic, person centred approach to supporting worker health. She is a keen researcher, and she enjoys keeping up to date about health-related issues and emerging trends. 

Susan is a sought-after speaker at conferences and has shared her insights on workplace health and wellbeing with diverse audiences in the UK and Europe. Susan has also had numerous articles published and contributed to research and academic publications about workplace health. Her media appearances include speaking on BBC Look North, where she provided an insightful analysis on mental health first aid at work. Susan is passionate about promoting  health in the workplace

Susan has a private Occupational Health practice, and she has supported a wide variety of private and public organisations:

• Schools, motor industry, social housing, independent builders, social care, finance sector, charities, engineering sector, and retail.

As a Senior People Champion at E.ON UK, Matt Grisedale is passionate about fostering an inclusive workplace that values Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DE&I). With a specific focus on men's mental health and overall well-being, I am dedicated to opening up crucial conversations and creating supportive environments where everyone feels empowered to bring their whole selves to work. My work is driven by a commitment to meaningful change and supporting people on their journeys to personal and professional fulfillment.

Dr Laura David is an award winning entrepreneur and founder of Smart About Health. After practicing as a medical doctor, and General practitioner (GP) for over 15 years, she has turned her deep expertise into developing a global business focused on prevention, proactive health and opportunities for workplaces, rather than waiting for people to become unwell.

Since 2018, Smart About Health has grown rapidly to be a trusted partner to multiple global organisations, reaching over a million people through their programmes and trainings.

She is also a mother of two girls and has a special interest in Women’s Health as a key strategic priority.

Smart About Health has a team of over 200 clinicians, bringing science, clinical expertise and easy application of knowledge and behavioural science to the workplace.

Tracey Lenthall is a commercially-focused HR Director with over 20 years of HR leadership and technical expertise. Tracey began their career as an Occupational Psychologist but transitioned into a generalist HR role to engage in all aspects of people strategy and drive change. Throughout their career, Tracey has held various roles, including advising clients on people strategy in mergers and acquisitions, senior business partnering, and specializing in Reward. They have led a team of 90 HR professionals delivering generalist HR to a demanding business, working closely with an outsource provider.

As the HR Director for the Deals practice, Tracey spearheaded a culture change programme in Health, Wellbeing, and Inclusion. Passionate about advancing agendas, Tracey focuses on empowering leaders to be authentic and supporting societal changes in inclusion and the empowerment of minority groups. They have spoken at numerous CIPD events on topics such as neurodiversity in the workplace.

Currently, Tracey is the HR Director leading Reward, Performance, Benefits, and Health and Wellbeing for PwC, collaborating at the board level and managing intricate stakeholder relationships.

Shriti Pattani OBE is National Clinical Expert in Occupational Health & Wellbeing, NHS England. She is an accredited specialist in Occupational Medicine, holding fellowships of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine and the Royal College of Physicians. She is the immediate past president of the Society of Occupational Medicine. She has led Occupational Health Services as a Clinical Director in the NHS for 25 years and has experience working in the public and private sector. She is the National Clinical Expert in Occupational Health and Wellbeing for NHS England. Shriti is keen to promote the agenda of ‘Work as a Health Outcome’ which includes support for all people of working age with health conditions or disabilities to find suitable work and prevent people falling out of work. She is passionate about teaching and training and has been the Course Director for the Diploma Course in Occupational Medicine for the Royal Society for Public Health since 2010.

Ruhel is a Senior Policy Adviser at Acas, working in the Inclusive Workplaces Policy team. His background includes a mix of health and wellbeing, inclusion and central government policy working. He has worked in the private sector to review and support organisations health
and wellbeing provisions for their employees, and the public sector within central government, to support on national policy reform.
In his current role, Ruhel combines his policy experience with knowledge of wellbeing and inclusion, and am responsible for equity, diversity and inclusion matters within the workplace, with a particular focus currently on mental health and neurodiversity.

After a 15-year corporate career, Angela Steel retrained in nutrition in 2009 and gained an MSc in Organisational Psychology at Birkbeck in 2023. She founded SuperWellness in 2011 and is a strong advocate for the role of business as a force for positive change, with a firm belief that wellbeing is central to this mission. SuperWellness runs regular free events on a range of topics aimed at business leaders and wellbeing teams.

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.

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Lauren Lunniss is a people-focused and empathetic management professional dedicated to enhancing workplace culture by embedding wellbeing into the core of organisational practices. With over 18 years of experience in the health and wellbeing sector, she uses data-driven programmes to engage effectively with all levels of the organisation, ensuring that initiatives are well-received and impactful. Lauren has a strong desire for supporting others, therefore freely shares best practices and her own personal experiences to assist companies in discovering the best ways to support their employees.

Robina McCann is Vice President Health at Anglo American, where she leads global strategies to enhance worker health, wellbeing, as well as asset emergency response and community resilience. With a distinguished career in the extractive industries, she has a proven track record of creating business value through innovative health and wellbeing programmes that improve worker productivity while supporting sustainable business models.

A passionate advocate for mental health and wellbeing, Robina is recognised for leveraging cross-industry innovations and technological advances to foster healthier workforces and operating communities. Her expertise spans sustainability reporting, workplace hazard exposure management, emergency response, return-to-work strategies, drug and alcohol policy, pandemic preparedness, and climate-related health risk management.

Robina brings extensive experience in cross-functional collaboration, providing health collaboration and supportive leadership across HR, sustainability, engineering, projects, and SHE functions. She also plays a key role in aligning health and safety with external stakeholder ESG reporting, reinforcing the value add business bottom line case for health and wellbeing management as a strategic competitive advantage.

Sharron Moffatt is a Mental Health Trainer, Speaker and Cancer Awareness-at-Work Educator on a mission to cut through the stigma and misinformation that still surround these topics —especially in the workplace.

Combining evidence-based expertise with a side of hard-earned wisdom, she delivers learning experiences that are clear, human and genuinely transformative. Her focus is simple: helping people move from awareness into confident action.

Known for her unique ability to connect with any audience, Sharron’s voice has been heard on national stages, across podcasts and on leading media platforms. She proudly serves as an Ambassador for Cancer Support UK and sits on various advisory boards shaping the future of workplace wellbeing.

Nimisha Overton leads the diversity, equity and inclusion strategy for Canon Europe, Middle East, and Africa. Prior to this, she was a driving force to establish a women’s focus group, multi-faith group and a programme celebrating Black History Month in the organisation. This further excelled her passion of DE&I in the workplace. With her genuine desire for DE&I, Nimisha’s experience of delivering change and strategy within Canon and her marketing and business development expertise, she is now the driving force behind the development of an inclusive culture at Canon EMEA. Her overall objective is to create a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace, that reflects the multi-cultural communities Canon operates in. Her aim is to achieve this by creating a work environment where people feel valued and, have a sense enabling them to thrive personally and professionally.

Alex Smith is the Global Lead for Lifestyle, Learning, Earning and Wellbeing Verticals at UNiDAYS, the world’s leading student affinity network. In this role, he drives initiatives that enhance students’ everyday lives, from financial wellbeing to career readiness and holistic health. Most recently, Alex spearheaded a flagship project to address the cost-of-living crisis, successfully putting £1 million back into the pockets of students through a mix of debt repayments, cash support, and flexible earning opportunities. His work reflects a deep commitment to tackling the challenges that shape student wellbeing and creating meaningful impact at scale.

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Jackie is the Head of Benefits and Reward at Travers Smith LLP overseeing all aspects of reward including payroll, pensions, employee benefits and employee wellbeing. Having started her career in graduate recruitment and then working in generalist HR for some years, Jackie has worked specifically in reward for almost 20 years. Jackie has devoted much of her career working within the legal sector for firms such as Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Herbert Smith Freehills and Eversheds before her role at Travers but also has experience of the management consultancy, higher education and engineering sectors. Jackie focuses much of her time on health and wellbeing support,communication and engagement initiatives, building depth and complexity in the reward propositions she develops. Jackie also has a passion for flexible benefits and the impact that technology can have on engagement.

Dr Rachel Lewis is a reader at Birkbeck, University of London and a managing partner at Affinity Health at Work, a consultancy and research organisation specialising in evidence-based wellbeing at work. Founded in 2006, Affinity’s mission is to improve the working lives of all. 

Rachel is a multi-award winning occupational psychologist with over 20 years experience working and researching in wellbeing at work. Widely published in the field of health and wellbeing at work  and having contributed to national guidance, and evidence-based tools and interventions, her  particular passion is around wellbeing strategy development and risk management approaches.

Dan is an employee health and wellbeing professional with over a decade of experience leading employee health and wellbeing strategies for organisations across a variety of industries, including healthcare, financial services, technology, and telecommunications. 

In his current role as Employee Wellbeing Manager at Nuffield Health, Dan has worked to break down the barriers to Occupational Health and improve the way the service is used, to help improve workforce productivity and organisational performance. He has implemented occupational health processes and engaged the workforce to increase the effectiveness and ROI of Occupational Health. He also has experience in shaping reasonable adjustments policies and workplace needs services to better support employees and organisations.

Simon Blake is CEO of the LGBTQ+ charity, Stonewall. Stonewall's puprose is to 'make the world a safe and equal place for LGBTQ+ people to live, work and thrive'. Simon is also deputy Chair of the Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and Chair of the Support After Suicide Partnership.

In 2011 he was awarded an OBE for services to the voluntary sector and young people. He is a keen equestrian eventer and dog lover.

Nuz Chagan is Communication and Engagement Manager at PFAS, her role includes Wellbeing, Social Value, Comms and Engagement and is also Co-Founder of Let’s Improve Workplace Wellbeing CIC

Through years of working within Health and Wellbeing roles both within organisations and as a consultant, Nuz leads on holistic wellbeing strategies that consider communication and engagement as drivers to embedding successful wellbeing initiatives within businesses. Nuz has delivered financial wellbeing strategies for businesses anchoring how it is closely linked to poor mental health.

Outside of Nuz’s day job, she works alongside the Global Wellness Institute – Workplace Wellbeing Initiative as a contributory member looking at upcoming global wellbeing trends and sharing best wellbeing practices as well as sitting on the leadership team for Let’s Improve Workplace Wellbeing CIC.

Martin Jervis is Chief Operating Officer and a Board Director at Thrive Mental Wellbeing. He has experience of building successful purpose-driven businesses, working with both for-profit and NFP. He also has a keen interest in clinical and non-clinical governance regimes.

His extensive senior leadership experience and 18 years working with organisations with purpose offers a unique insight. Martin has partnered with organisations in a variety of ways – from Governance and Strategy to fast growth scaling of sales and service delivery, to Leadership and Development, to hands on Consulting – with a current focus on Mental Healthcare.

As Chief People Officer, EMEA, Helen Matthews was the overarching guardian of the agency’s employee experience, co-designing new ways to find, know, grow and keep talent. She specialises in creating, shaping and delivering world-class employee experiences, ensuring organisations are future-proofed to succeed. With over 20 years of experience across a breadth of different sectors, working with both large-scale businesses and emerging startups, she always encourages challenging the status quo to shape solutions differently. Prior to joining Weber Shandwick, Matthews worked as Chief People Officer and Head of DEI EMEA at Ogilvy UK, where she led the award-winning people strategy, working across the integrated agency to co-design a best-in-class employee experience while designing and implementing the DEI strategy across the EMEA region. As a trained Executive Coach, she has also held roles as an HR Director and has worked in various organisations, including the BBC.

Jo has been a volunteer with the Engage for Success movement since its launch.  As Partnerships & Strategy Director she sits on the Advisory Board and co-hosts the weekly Engage for Success radio show, interviewing guests from across the engagement world. 

The EFS agenda is absolutely aligned with Jo’s vision ‘to make workplaces better places to be’. As passionate about brands and their power to move people as she is about employee engagement and its vital role in delivering a high performing organisation, Jo put the disciplines together as founder of Woodreed, leveraging the creative and insight led approach of the advertising world to engage employees inside organisations. 

Following Woodreed’s sale and rebrand as 7 Seas, The Culture Consultancy, Jo now sits on the Advisory Board of 7 Seas where she continues to help create cultures that “make workplaces work”, for employees as well as shareholders and stakeholders.

Jo has appeared on stages at home and abroad. She’s talked for senior leadership and in-house teams and chaired numerous industry events as well as being a judge for the international Engage Awards.

Sarah is a senior HR professional with over 25 years’ experience in diversity, equity and inclusion and is one of the country’s leading practitioners in this field. Sarah operated ahead of the curve, pioneering the work that is now seen as essential to the D&I Professional's portfolio. She worked with PwC’s LGBTQ+ network in 2003 to ensure equality in benefits provision for staff with same sex partners. In 2005 she experimented with unconscious bias awareness training developing an award winning product. (She still believes this work is foundational to truly inclusive leadership.) She identified the link between diversity and talent management as an obvious mechanism for target setting in 2011. In 2013 she established an award winning sponsorship programme and, under her leadership, PwC was the fifth private sector organisation in the UK to publish their gender pay gap in 2014 before the regulations came into force. She was instrumental in PwC signing Business in the Community’s (BITC) Race at Work Charter and publishing their ethnicity pay gap since 2017. Sarah led PwC to number one in the Social Mobility Employers Index in 2019 and 2020. In November 2021 she also became the Global Inclusion & Diversity Leader for the PwC Network of more than 300,000 employees. 

Sarah was also responsible for developing the Wellbeing Strategy for PwC UK in 2015, proactively taking steps to deliver a wellbeing promoting working environment. This prioritised mental health to compliment all other aspects of the employee health and wellbeing agenda. Early initiatives such as the Green Light to Talk campaign went on to be adopted widely by other employers and PwC remains one of only a handful of employers to achieve Health Creating Accreditation by the City Mental Health Alliance Thriving at Work assessment.

Sarah was awarded an OBE in the 2018 New Year’s Honours List for services to women in business, equality and diversity. She retired from corporate life at the end of 2023 and her current portfolio comprises consulting, being a Charity Trustee and recently being appointed as a Non-Executive Director to the Board of the RAC Club.  

Stella Gavinho is an accomplished workplace wellbeing leader, currently serving as Group Head of Wellbeing at Entain, a FTSE 100 company and global powerhouse in sports betting, gaming, and interactive entertainment. With over a decade of experience developing and implementing wellbeing strategies in complex, multinational organisations, Stella specialises in embedding wellbeing into company cultures, driving positive outcomes for both employees and the business. Her expertise lies in creating sustainable, high-impact programs that empower organisations to thrive by prioritising the health and wellbeing of their peo

Sabrina Robinson is an accomplished wellbeing strategist and psychologist, boasting over two decades of experience. Her passion lies in leveraging psychological approaches to develop innovative, sustainable, and impactful people strategies, with a particular focus on enhancing workplace wellbeing. In her current role as the Wellbeing Lead at Essex County Council, Sabrina drives the employee wellbeing agenda for one of the largest local authorities in the country. As a member of the council's wider leadership team, she collaborates with various teams and specialisms reshaping the council into an environment where employee wellbeing not only thrives but becomes an integral part of the council’s culture. Sabrina is also a keen mental health advocate, having successfully led a diverse array of mental health services for all age groups. Her commitment extends beyond the workplace, reflecting her passion for championing mental health initiatives that resonate both within work and the broader community. Beyond her role in wellbeing, Sabrina is deeply committed to promoting equality, diversity, and inclusion. Serving as the Co-Chair of the council's Ethnically Diverse Employee Network (EDEN), she actively champions initiatives that foster a more inclusive workplace, ensuring that diverse voices are not only heard but celebrated. 

Tom Kegode is a speaker, coach and transformation partner with deep expertise in workplace innovation, culture and leadership. With over 15 years at Lloyds Banking Group — from early frontline roles to leading future of work and culture strategy in partnership with C-suite leaders — Tom has a strong track record of shaping bold, people-centred change.

Now working across sectors, Tom helps organisations and teams rethink how they work, lead and collaborate in an ever-evolving world. He brings a unique blend of lived transformation experience, insight and storytelling to his work — always with a focus on unlocking creativity, purpose and connection.

Tom is known for creating the conditions for people to thrive — whether through leadership facilitation, strategic design, or hosting high-impact conversations. His style is human, energetic and grounded in real-world change.

Rebekah Heaven has a range of international experience for corporates as diverse as engineering, financial services, airline and outsourcing. Her background in risk, technology and organisational development is a perfect mix to build the strategy for helping Standard Chartered’s 80,000 global employees get ready for the future of work. As a unique fully hybrid organisation, Rebekah and her team are building sustainable high performance through utilising all the benefits of flexible working. Prior to her current role as Global Head of Future of Work & Advocacy Strategy, she was leading the culture agenda for several years, focused on transforming the bank so it could accelerate its growth. A passionate coach, Rebekah often uses the power of coaching to help leaders and complex teams through periods of major growth and transformational change.

Tom Kegode is a speaker, coach and transformation partner with deep expertise in workplace innovation, culture and leadership. With over 15 years at Lloyds Banking Group — from early frontline roles to leading future of work and culture strategy in partnership with C-suite leaders — Tom has a strong track record of shaping bold, people-centred change.

Now working across sectors, Tom helps organisations and teams rethink how they work, lead and collaborate in an ever-evolving world. He brings a unique blend of lived transformation experience, insight and storytelling to his work — always with a focus on unlocking creativity, purpose and connection.

Tom is known for creating the conditions for people to thrive — whether through leadership facilitation, strategic design, or hosting high-impact conversations. His style is human, energetic and grounded in real-world change.

As the Group Head of Organisational Development at Rightmove, Mark Abraham is responsible for identifying, designing, and delivering high-quality people development and performance strategies that drive impact and culture. He has over 10 years of experience in leading talent and development initiatives at a group and global level in the financial services and technology sectors.

He has a proven track record of working with senior stakeholders to ensure buy-in and return on investment on the products he crafts, such as talent acceleration, performance management and leadership development programs. He also truly believes that product development can be high quality as well as fun and experiential. That’s what makes it memorable!

Mark is a big reader, enjoys leading on new and emerging areas of people development and is passionate about seeing potential realised. Amongst other things he likes to run, enjoy a good bottle of wine and enjoy spending time with good friends and his family.

Dr Rachel Lewis is a reader at Birkbeck, University of London and a managing partner at Affinity Health at Work, a consultancy and research organisation specialising in evidence-based wellbeing at work. Founded in 2006, Affinity’s mission is to improve the working lives of all. 

Rachel is a multi-award winning occupational psychologist with over 20 years experience working and researching in wellbeing at work. Widely published in the field of health and wellbeing at work  and having contributed to national guidance, and evidence-based tools and interventions, her  particular passion is around wellbeing strategy development and risk management approaches.

Robina McCann is Vice President Health at Anglo American, where she leads global strategies to enhance worker health, wellbeing, as well as asset emergency response and community resilience. With a distinguished career in the extractive industries, she has a proven track record of creating business value through innovative health and wellbeing programmes that improve worker productivity while supporting sustainable business models.

A passionate advocate for mental health and wellbeing, Robina is recognised for leveraging cross-industry innovations and technological advances to foster healthier workforces and operating communities. Her expertise spans sustainability reporting, workplace hazard exposure management, emergency response, return-to-work strategies, drug and alcohol policy, pandemic preparedness, and climate-related health risk management.

Robina brings extensive experience in cross-functional collaboration, providing health collaboration and supportive leadership across HR, sustainability, engineering, projects, and SHE functions. She also plays a key role in aligning health and safety with external stakeholder ESG reporting, reinforcing the value add business bottom line case for health and wellbeing management as a strategic competitive advantage.

Dr Ashwin Mehta is the founder and director of Mehtadology, a strategic consultancy firm for the AI revolution, a thought leader, Management Consultant and a learning technology leader. He has worked for over 14 years at a senior level across transport, consulting, medical and the pharmaceutical sectors. Ashwin holds an MBA and PhD in learning technology adoption and his experience includes innovation strategy, data science, machine learning and artificial intelligence.

Tolu has led large scale national ID&E programmes across the charity sector, UK construction industry, higher education, retail and most recently tech. In 2020, Tolu joined AWS to lead ID&E programmes across EMEA and made Amazon history by launching the first ever Autism at Work Programme.

She served as a Global ID&E Customer Engagement Leader where she collaborated with AWS customers through community impact partnerships, collaborative events, and executive engagements. Tolu then moved to Diageo where she was the Global Head of Inclusion & Diversity, partnering with senior stakeholders across multiple markets, geographies, and business functions to deliver an exciting and progressive I&D ambition for Diageo colleagues, customers, and consumers worldwide. Tolu is now CEO & Founder of The Inclusive Experience Group - a full service people, culture and inclusion consultancy sitting at the intersection of people transformation, business enablement, and commercial impact. Here she has a particular interest in both the potential and pitfalls of AI and how this can be used to improve equity in workplace culture, employee health and wellbeing.

Petra Velzeboer is a renowned mental health expert, TEDx speaker, and CEO of the mental health consultancy PVL. She is the author of Begin with You and the upcoming book Digital Wellbeing: Recharge Your Focus and Reboot Your Life. Her mission is to help organisations create mentally healthy cultures that thrive in a world of fast paced change.

Arti Kashyap-Aynsley is a strategic business leader with over 15 years of experience spanning professional services, technology, and organisational transformation. A Chartered Accountant by training, she began her career in audit and consulting at PwC and Deloitte, where she advised Fortune 500 clients on finance, operations, and large-scale transformation. Over time, Arti evolved into a people-focused strategist—blending commercial acumen with deep expertise in inclusion, wellbeing, and purpose-led leadership. Known for her ability to navigate complexity, influence at board level, and drive cross-functional impact, she has held senior roles across Europe and North America. Today, she operates at the intersection of strategy, people, and performance—advising executive teams and shaping enterprise-wide agendas that unlock growth and resilience.

Dan Robertson is Global Managing Director of FAIRER Consulting. Dan is widely regarded as a global expert on workplace diversity and inclusive leadership. He began his career in race equality and inclusion management, working across public policy and private sector strategy. Over the last 15 years, Dan has spent his time supporting global business leaders to transform their ideas into meaningful action, with a focus on inclusion as a strategic management issue, bias mitigation and inclusive leadership. He has worked extensively across Europe, Asia, the Middle East and North America.

Jo has been a volunteer with the Engage for Success movement since its launch.  As Partnerships & Strategy Director she sits on the Advisory Board and co-hosts the weekly Engage for Success radio show, interviewing guests from across the engagement world. 

The EFS agenda is absolutely aligned with Jo’s vision ‘to make workplaces better places to be’. As passionate about brands and their power to move people as she is about employee engagement and its vital role in delivering a high performing organisation, Jo put the disciplines together as founder of Woodreed, leveraging the creative and insight led approach of the advertising world to engage employees inside organisations. 

Following Woodreed’s sale and rebrand as 7 Seas, The Culture Consultancy, Jo now sits on the Advisory Board of 7 Seas where she continues to help create cultures that “make workplaces work”, for employees as well as shareholders and stakeholders.

Jo has appeared on stages at home and abroad. She’s talked for senior leadership and in-house teams and chaired numerous industry events as well as being a judge for the international Engage Awards.

He brings over two decades of transformative leadership experience across Education, Health, Housing, and Policing, with a career dedicated to improving lives through education, skills development, and meaningful employment. His contribution to leadership has been recognised through his Fellowship of the Society of Leadership Fellows at St George’s House, Windsor Castle, and as a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Educators.

Marc has a proven track record of delivering large-scale cultural change and organisational reform with regulatory environments. He has established two Ofsted-registered apprenticeship academies within large, complex organisations, creating new opportunities for people to access high-quality training and employment pathways.

He has a proven track record of delivering programmes at pace and scale, developing sustainable solutions that measurably enhance both organisational performance and employee wellbeing. Currently directing the Metropolitan Police Leadership Academy — a pioneering initiative within the UK’s largest police force, accounting for 25% of national policing. The Academy delivers over 500,000 hours of continuous leadership development annually, equipping 10,000 leaders at all levels to meet the evolving complex demands of modern policing while strengthening organisational performance and wellbeing.

As Chief People Officer, EMEA, Helen Matthews was the overarching guardian of the agency’s employee experience, co-designing new ways to find, know, grow and keep talent. She specialises in creating, shaping and delivering world-class employee experiences, ensuring organisations are future-proofed to succeed. With over 20 years of experience across a breadth of different sectors, working with both large-scale businesses and emerging startups, she always encourages challenging the status quo to shape solutions differently. Prior to joining Weber Shandwick, Matthews worked as Chief People Officer and Head of DEI EMEA at Ogilvy UK, where she led the award-winning people strategy, working across the integrated agency to co-design a best-in-class employee experience while designing and implementing the DEI strategy across the EMEA region. As a trained Executive Coach, she has also held roles as an HR Director and has worked in various organisations, including the BBC.

Always looking for ways to do things differently and better in the world of reward, Jane Vivier is an freelance consultant working across a variety of sectors and company sizes. From an early career highlight of introducing the UK's biggest employee benefits scheme to more recent triumphs including pay framework redesigns and recognition revolutions she brings together the need to be human with a data driven approach. A career that spans two decades means Jane has seen and been part of a huge change in the way companies use pay and benefits and uses this experience to provide an innovative and often unique approach in getting the best return on reward spend. Bringing together strong commercial strategies and a first-class operational hands-on approach she makes reward fun, sustainable and easy to understa

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Jamie Broadley as Group Head of Health & Wellbeing with Serco Group helps individuals, teams and organisations become their best selves, by combining learning from his experiences in performance sport, healthcare, corporate organisations and the literature into accessible and actionable strategies and tactics. He has a background in psychology and was previously Staff Wellbeing Lead across two NHS Foundation Trusts in Derbyshire. He worked within these roles for five years before joining Serco as Group Head of Health and Wellbeing, where he has helped them achieve Tier 1 CCLA mental health benchmark ranking along with the ISO45003 certification.

Always looking for ways to do things differently and better in the world of reward, Jane Vivier is an freelance consultant working across a variety of sectors and company sizes. From an early career highlight of introducing the UK's biggest employee benefits scheme to more recent triumphs including pay framework redesigns and recognition revolutions she brings together the need to be human with a data driven approach. A career that spans two decades means Jane has seen and been part of a huge change in the way companies use pay and benefits and uses this experience to provide an innovative and often unique approach in getting the best return on reward spend. Bringing together strong commercial strategies and a first-class operational hands-on approach she makes reward fun, sustainable and easy to understa

Gethin Nadin MBPsS, FRSA, RSPH, is an influential bestselling HR author, multi-award-winning psychologist and Chief Innovation Officer at Benifex, one of the world’s leading providers of employee experience technology. Gethin has spent more than two decades supporting global employers with their wellbeing challenges and is frequently quoted in industry press and mainstream media. Gethin is also influencing the next generation of HR leaders as a Fellow at King’s College Business School. As Chair of the Policy Liaison Group on Workplace Wellbeing, Gethin is supported by the Group’s Advisory Board, guiding the PLG’s policy agenda and providing expert insight and opinion to advise parliamentarians on how policy can be tailored to meet a range of workplace challenges.

David is a business leader, specialising in EAP and Mental Health solutions for over 22 years having worked with many of the leading providers of Mental Health solutions operating in the UK and globally. David has over 10 years’ experience as a Board Member of EAPA (Employee Assistance Professionals Association) and won their Emeritus Award for services to the EAP industry in 2022.

Nicola Jagielski is a seasoned mental health professional and Clinical Director at PAM Wellness, where she leads the development and delivery of Employee Assistance Programmes and Psychological Services across the UK. With over two decades of experience in counselling, trauma support, and clinical leadership, Nicola is a passionate advocate for early intervention and value EAPs have on thousands of people on a daily basis.

Her journey into mental health began with a deep-rooted desire to help others navigate crisis and adversity. Today, she brings that same empathy and drive to her work supporting organisations and employees dealing with the complex challenges today. Nicola has worked closely with employers to create psychologically safe environments that foster resilience, understanding, and recovery.

Juliana is the Head of EAP in the UK for HealthHero. She began her career in the EAP sector as a Telephone Counsellor. A qualified psychotherapist for 13 years and with over 20 years’ experience in mental health services, Juliana brings extensive clinical expertise alongside her leadership experience. She is passionate about advancing digital services to ensure accessible, high-quality emotional wellbeing support for individuals and organisations alike.

Cliff is a health and wellbeing specialist, with over ten years’ experience in both the development of specialist employee wellbeing services and the implementation of highly effective employee wellbeing strategies across a range of sectors, including retail and social care.   As director of wellbeing services at the Retail Trust, Cliff is an advocate of improving the mental health of employees and reducing the harm that it can present. Cliff’s in-depth knowledge of the retail sector in particular has been developed after spending over 15 years working in both store and field based positions within Dixons and Iceland.

One of the UK’s most respected voices in employee mental health and wellbeing, and with over 25 years’ experience, Karl has advised organisations including the BBC, Great Ormond Street Hospital and The Royal Household. As Chair of the Employee Assistance Professionals Association (EAPA UK) and Founder of the Wellbeing Consortium, he has helped shape national wellbeing policy, contributed to government panels on suicide prevention, and led campaigns to widen tax exemptions for mental health support.

But beyond credentials, Karl’s work is grounded in a genuine commitment to people. He believes wellbeing should be proactive, not just reactive, and that when employers get it right, lives change.

Ellie Vaughan is Global Head of Reward at Herbert Smith Freehills, where she has led the firm’s reward strategy since 2019. With more than 20 years’ experience spanning professional services, legal, health, and charity sectors, she brings deep expertise in developing innovative reward, recognition, and benefits frameworks. Before her current role, Ellie held senior reward positions at DLA Piper, Alzheimer’s Society, and Cancer Research UK, where she began her career in learning and development. Passionate about aligning reward with culture and employee experience, Ellie is committed to creating inclusive, engaging workplaces where people can thrive.

Always looking for ways to do things differently and better in the world of reward, Jane Vivier is an freelance consultant working across a variety of sectors and company sizes. From an early career highlight of introducing the UK's biggest employee benefits scheme to more recent triumphs including pay framework redesigns and recognition revolutions she brings together the need to be human with a data driven approach. A career that spans two decades means Jane has seen and been part of a huge change in the way companies use pay and benefits and uses this experience to provide an innovative and often unique approach in getting the best return on reward spend. Bringing together strong commercial strategies and a first-class operational hands-on approach she makes reward fun, sustainable and easy to understa

As Chief People Officer, EMEA, Helen Matthews was the overarching guardian of the agency’s employee experience, co-designing new ways to find, know, grow and keep talent. She specialises in creating, shaping and delivering world-class employee experiences, ensuring organisations are future-proofed to succeed. With over 20 years of experience across a breadth of different sectors, working with both large-scale businesses and emerging startups, she always encourages challenging the status quo to shape solutions differently. Prior to joining Weber Shandwick, Matthews worked as Chief People Officer and Head of DEI EMEA at Ogilvy UK, where she led the award-winning people strategy, working across the integrated agency to co-design a best-in-class employee experience while designing and implementing the DEI strategy across the EMEA region. As a trained Executive Coach, she has also held roles as an HR Director and has worked in various organisations, including the BBC.

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.

Sam Jardine, Partner, Fieldfisher LLP

Sam is a husband, a father, an avid reader and writer, and loves learning languages.

Sam is a partner in Fieldfisher’s Technology and Data team. His practice spans a wide range of commercial and technology-focused agreements, and he acts for several household name clients.

For several years Sam has been an advocate for better mental health and wellbeing within the legal profession. Sam has presented to audiences in the UK and abroad, given keynote speeches and spoken on panels, as well as having written several articles for the legal press. Sam received the Editor's Choice Award at the British Legal Awards for his work in this field. Sam is also a champion for LawCare.

Henry Nelson-Case is a lawyer and content creator whose work sits at the intersection of law, workplace wellbeing and digital storytelling. With a strong presence online and in person, Henry uses his platforms to explore and challenge corporate norms that negatively impact mental health, particularly within high-pressure professional environments.

Henry built a career spanning both private practice and in-house counsel roles. These experiences gave him first-hand insight into the cultural issues that can undermine wellbeing in the workplace. Rather than staying silent, he began using social media to share observations with a blend of humour and clarity that struck a chord with professionals navigating similar pressures. His candid and often sharp reflections on work-life balance, leadership behaviour and generational perspectives have made him a distinctive voice in the legal and corporate space.

Henry has delivered talks at leading institutions including Oxford and Cambridge universities, appeared on BBC World News, and spoken at conferences and within organisations across the UK. His TEDx talk explored the effects of toxic masculinity on men’s mental health, adding to his broader mission of normalising open conversations around emotional wellbeing.

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.

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.

Sally Hulston has specialised in employment law for over 20 years. She currently lives in Cheshire and is Head of the Manchester office. She likes to think that she is down-to-earth and approachable and that her advice is always straight forward and practical. Her aim is to help clients get to where they want to get to with minimum legal risk, taking into account wider business issues and not just the law.

A large part of Sally's role involves managing client relationships, which she enjoys very much, but she is still a hands-on lawyer and assists with both day-to-day employment issues and the more complex and/or sensitive ones.

Alongside her advisory work, Sally enjoys providing bespoke training and contributing to the press. She is also one of the founding members of their In-House Employment Lawyers' Community (IHELC).

She sits on the Firm's EIR ExCo, the Wellbeing Committee, the DE&I Gender Group and is the Firm's Partner sponsor for the Mindful Business Charter.

Her clients include household name brands across a variety of sectors (notably transport, retail, finance and media / entertainment) as well as local businesses based in the North of England.

With over 20 years’ experience in the employee benefits market, Claire now leads Health and Wellbeing at Lockton – a company that makes a real, measurable difference for employees and businesses alike. She works closely with her clients to shape benefits and wellbeing programmes that are proactive, inclusive, and backed by data.

Rachel Pears (She/Her) is RPC's Associate Director – Responsible Business & Employment Counsel. She is responsible for driving RPC's portfolio of environment, DEIB, charity, pro bono and health & wellbeing programmes, drawing on her knowledge of ESG strategy and structure, equality law expertise as well as her personal experience as a sandwich carer.

Rachel is a passionate mental health champion and spearheaded RPC being one of the first law firms to offer a clinical psychology benefit free to its people. During Rachel's tenure, RPC also signed the Mindful Business Charter in 2019, was the first law firm to implement R;pple suicide prevention software on its systems and has enabled more than 40 people to become mental health first aiders.

In 2024, RPC won Responsible Business of the Year at the Women & Diversity in Law Awards and Rachel was named a 'Champion of the Year' Finalist at the Next 100 Years Inspirational Women's Awards. This year, RPC won the Lexis Nexis Award for Wellbeing for its array of initiatives designed to support its people and their mental health.

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.

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.

Rachel Czernobay is Head of Health & Wellbeing at international law firm CMS, where she has been driving initiatives to support employee health, engagement, and performance since July 2020. With more than two decades of experience at CMS, Rachel brings deep organisational knowledge and a proven track record in shaping a culture of wellbeing that is inclusive, proactive, and aligned with business priorities.

She first joined CMS in 1999 as Health & Safety Manager, where she was instrumental in embedding a strong safety culture and ensuring compliance across a fast-growing, complex legal practice. Over her 26-year career with the firm, Rachel has steadily expanded her remit, reflecting both her expertise and the increasing recognition of wellbeing as a strategic driver of business success.

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.

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.