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# MAD World Summit, Mental Health and Wellbeing in the Workplace

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- [MAD World 2026 Partners & Exhibitors](https://madworldsummit.com/partners-exhibitors/): The MAD World Summit is made possible by our progressive sponsors and exhibitors. Discover the pioneering organizations driving change in workplace culture and employee health, or learn how your brand can partner with us for 2026.
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- [Gallery](https://madworldsummit.com/gallery/)
- [MAD World Summit 2026](https://madworldsummit.com/): Welcome to the 9th Annual MAD World Summit - the UK’s leading B2B event for workplace culture, employee health, and wellbeing. Join senior decision-makers from HR, Finance, DE&I, and Communications to gain the tools, connections, and confidence to make wellbeing a core business advantage.
- [MAD World 2026 Speakers](https://madworldsummit.com/mad-world-2026-speakers/): Meet the confirmed 2026 MAD World Summit speakers. Explore leading C-suite, HR, and culture pioneers sharing practical workplace wellbeing strategies.
- [MAD World Agenda 2026](https://madworldsummit.com/mad-world-agenda-2026/): Explore the official 2026 MAD World Summit agenda. Discover our core tracks, interactive workshop formats, and key plenary sessions tackling workplace culture, employee health, and wellbeing. Plan your day and get ready to transform your strategy into a tangible business advantage.
- [Discover 2026 Sponsorship & Exhibition Opportunities](https://madworldsummit.com/discover-2026-sponsorship-exhibition-opportunities/)
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- [Executive Steering Group 2026](https://madworldsummit.com/executive-steering-group-2026/): The MAD World Summit is guided by an esteemed Executive Steering Group, comprising senior leaders from across HR, health and safety, business strategy, and mental health advocacy. This group ensures the summit upholds the highest standards of integrity, impact, and excellence in recognizing strategies that benefit employees, organizational culture, and business performance.
- [Mad World Summit](https://madworldsummit.com/home2026/)
- [Deep-Dive Roundtables](https://madworldsummit.com/roundtables-2/): With workforces ageing and retention challenges mounting, now is the time to rethink how organisations engage, support, and retain employees over 50. Join this roundtable to share challenges and explore best practice approaches to harnessing the experience, skills, and potential of this vital segment of the workforce.
- [Leaders’ Club](https://madworldsummit.com/leaders-club/): Join Leaders' Club
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- [MAD World Summit & DE&I Symposium Recordings](https://madworldsummit.com/videos/): Please complete this form to receive access to the audio files.
- [Legal](https://madworldsummit.com/legal/): The MAD Holding company includes entities Make a Difference Media, Make a Difference Awards, MAD World Ltd, The Watercooler Ltd, The Office Event.
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- [If U Care Share](https://madworldsummit.com/if-u-care-share/): If U Care Share aims to save lives, support communities, and prevent suicide.
- [Media Supporters](https://madworldsummit.com/media/): MEDIA CHANNELS THAT SUPPORT MAD WORLD'S MISSION:
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- [Global Ambassadors](https://madworldsummit.com/ambassadors/)
- [Advisory Board](https://madworldsummit.com/advisory-board/)
- [Think Tanks 1 and 2](https://madworldsummit.com/think-tank/): At this year’s MAD World Summit, parallel to the track sessions, we will be running two high-level, closed-door Think Tanks.
- [Workshops](https://madworldsummit.com/workshops/)
- [Full Agenda](https://madworldsummit.com/full-agenda/): Agenda is subject to change.
- [Why Attend](https://madworldsummit.com/why-attend/)
- [Our Story](https://madworldsummit.com/our-story/)
- [About](https://madworldsummit.com/about-2/): In our fast-evolving world, the need to support employee health and wellbeing has never been more critical. It’s not only a human imperative—it’s a strategic one, delivering tangible benefits for both people and organizational performance.
- [Testimonials](https://madworldsummit.com/testimonials/)
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## Speakers
- [Navneet Rai](https://madworldsummit.com/speaker/navneet-rai/)
- [Dr John Briffa](https://madworldsummit.com/speaker/dr-john-briffa/)
- [Gemma Gardner](https://madworldsummit.com/speaker/gemma-gardner/)
- [Helen Beebe](https://madworldsummit.com/speaker/helen-beebe/): Helen Beebe brings a wealth of retail and commercial expertise to her role as UK Managing Director of AJ Products, the Swedish-owned global workplace furniture manufacturer and supplier celebrating its 50th anniversary globally and 25 years in the UK.
- [Mel Islin](https://madworldsummit.com/speaker/mel-islin/): Mel is a specialist in programme and relationship management. She leads the strategic and operational delivery of the Employer Membership Programme at Wellbeing of Women, developing and supporting a dynamic network of organisations committed to improving women’s health in the workplace. With a strong background in project and stakeholder management across sectors, including mental health, disability, women’s health and physical activity, Mel brings a thoughtful, partnership-driven approach that prioritises meaningful impact and long-term collaboration.
- [Louisa Scanlan](https://madworldsummit.com/speaker/louisa-scanlan/)
- [Silvia Analia Echagüe-Wehling](https://madworldsummit.com/speaker/silvia-analia-echague-wehling/)
- [Dr. Dapo Olafimihan](https://madworldsummit.com/speaker/dr-dapo-olafimihan/): Dr. Dapo Olafimihan is a Clinical Psychologist and founder of Latitude Psychology — a practice offering psychological therapy, consultation and organisational training to clients across the UK and internationally. His work draws on evidence-based models with clients to reduce distress, disarm unhelpful patterns and support leaders to reduce barriers that get in the way of their values and goals. He has worked with clients across a range of sectors, including The Financial Times, Architects Benevolent Society and Inside Out Wellbeing, amongst others.
- [Fiona McAslan](https://madworldsummit.com/speaker/fiona-mcaslan/)
- [Nathan Palmer](https://madworldsummit.com/speaker/nathan-palmer/): Nathan is a Registered Occupational Psychologist and works as a Pricipal Consultant at Affinity and supports a range of client projects – bringing together existing evidence and expert opinion to create new tools and more in-depth understanding of workplace wellbeing challenges. Having worked as a senior leader in major national charities, Nathan has considerable experience in developing teams, organisational development and organisational change. Nathan is passionate about supporting people to thrive at work and the key role of leaders in enabling individuals and teams to be successful. Nathan is also currently working towards a professional doctorate in Occupational Psychology. His specialist areas of interest include inclusion, effective management practices, and supportive and safe teams.
- [Kerrie Smith](https://madworldsummit.com/speaker/kerrie-smith/)
- [Louise Wilkinson](https://madworldsummit.com/speaker/louise-wilkinson/): Some people fall into HR. Louise rewrote it, starting with people rather than policies.
- [Claire Joseph](https://madworldsummit.com/speaker/claire-joseph/)
- [Peter Cheese](https://madworldsummit.com/speaker/peter-cheese/)
- [Sobia Afridi](https://madworldsummit.com/speaker/sobia-afridi/): Sobia Afridi is a Diversity and Inclusion Specialist at Oxford City Council, where she leads initiatives that promote equity, belonging, and inclusive workplace culture. Working across the organisation, she supports the development and delivery of the Council's equality, diversity, and inclusion priorities, helping to ensure that colleagues from all backgrounds feel valued, respected, and empowered to thrive.
- [Daniel Curtis](https://madworldsummit.com/speaker/daniel-curtis/): Daniel Curtis is a speaker, storyteller and composer exploring identity, creativity and human behaviour.
- [Rosie Ellis](https://madworldsummit.com/speaker/rosie-ellis/): Rosie Ellis is the EMEA and APAC Early Careers Lead at Aon, where she leads the design and evolution of Early Careers development programmes across multiple regions. With over a decade of experience in early careers, Rosie focuses on building scalable, high-impact programmes that align closely with business strategy and future workforce needs. She plays a key role in driving global expansion of Early Careers initiatives, ensuring programmes are consistent, inclusive, and deliver long-term talent growth across markets. Rosie partners closely with senior leaders to shape talent pipelines that support organisational priorities, with a strong focus on development, progression, and unlocking the potential of the next generation.
- [Emily Warren](https://madworldsummit.com/speaker/emily-warren/): Emily Warren is an award-winning HR leader, consultant, speaker, and Founder of Flourisher. With a background spanning technology consulting and HR leadership, she brings a unique blend of commercial pragmatism and human-centred thinking to help organisations create cultures where people thrive and performance is sustainable. Emily speaks and advises on burnout prevention, belonging, workplace culture, and ethical organisational change. Known for her honest and human approach, she helps leaders build workplaces grounded in empathy, connection, and integrity—because when people flourish, businesses thrive.”
- [Ross Reekie](https://madworldsummit.com/speaker/ross-reekie/): Ross Reekie is a meaningful work expert, keynote speaker, and moderator who has spent more than twenty years exploring the intersection of careers, culture, and leadership. As the founder of Rise, Australia’s first consultancy dedicated exclusively to meaningful work, he has interviewed everyone from interns to CEOs to understand how people find purpose, navigate change, and build fulfilling careers. After experiencing burnout while running his consultancy and researching a PhD in meaningful work, Ross embarked on the Fun Jobs Project — a bold experiment that saw him take on roles including opera extra at the Vienna State Opera, ski instructor in the Austrian Alps, and comedian in a quest to rediscover what makes work energising and worthwhile.
- [Helen Payne](https://madworldsummit.com/speaker/helen-payne/): Helen Payne has spent over two decades helping clients to create more people-centric cultures, the last 17.5 years in Aon‘s Human Capital team. 
- [Dr Amrita Sen Mukherjee](https://madworldsummit.com/speaker/dr-amrita-sen-mukherjee/): Dr Amrita Sen Mukherjee is an award-winning TEDx speaker, GP, performance strategist and positive psychology coach, specialising in helping driven professionals and organisations unlock and sustain peak performance.
- [Ruhel Ahmed](https://madworldsummit.com/speaker/ruhel-ahmed/): 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 healthand 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.
- [Dr Monika Misra](https://madworldsummit.com/speaker/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.
- [Angela Steel](https://madworldsummit.com/speaker/angela-steel/): 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.
- [Elizabeth Rimmer](https://madworldsummit.com/speaker/elizabeth-rimmer/): 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.
- [Charlie Newton](https://madworldsummit.com/speaker/charlie-newton/): 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.
- [Claire Farrow](https://madworldsummit.com/speaker/claire-farrow/): Claire has been working in the field of business to business events for 20 years, specialising in the research and development of conference content. In that time she has successfully launched events across a range of topics; working with some of the world's leading publishers, including The New York Times, Centaur, Reed and Emap. Claire is passionate about bringing great content to life and connecting diverse audiences to reach shared goals. She enjoys the flexibility of being freelance and the daily company of Lyla, her black Labrador.
- [Simon Berger](https://madworldsummit.com/speaker/simon-berger/): Simon has been working in the events and exhibitions industry for over 30 years, launching multiple event portfolios in Europe, Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Simon is a serial investor in creative people and technologies over the past 10 years. He continues to both mentor and invest in innovative and disruptive entrepreneurs and lends his support to multiple charitable organisations.
- [Rachel Czernobay](https://madworldsummit.com/speaker/rachel-czernobay/): RachelCzernobayis 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.
- [Gavin Doyle](https://madworldsummit.com/speaker/gavin-doyle/): 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. Gavins 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 LSBs convening and collaboration activities.
- [Karen Sancto](https://madworldsummit.com/speaker/karen-sancto/): Karen Sanctohad various roles as an HR Generalist before joining Microsoft and specialising in Benefits. As EMEA Benefits Consultant, she supports employees across Middle East and Africa, managing suppliers and ensuring the delivery of world class benefits programs.Karenis passionate about supporting the wellbeing of employees and their family members and is committed to the work of the Families employee resource group and promoting the generous range of global benefits supporting employees through major life events (family planning, returning to work, parental leave, parenting children, caring for adult dependents and children with special needs, caring for elderly relatives, and bereavement).Karenalso advocates for women's health and brought menopause support to Microsoft in the UK before supporting a global solution across the whole company.
- [Dr Richard Caddis](https://madworldsummit.com/speaker/dr-richard-caddis/): Bio to follow.
- [Chris Rofe](https://madworldsummit.com/speaker/chris-rofe/): 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.
- [Ellie Vaughan](https://madworldsummit.com/speaker/ellie-vaughan/): Ellie Vaughan is Global Head of Reward at Herbert Smith Freehills, where she has led the firms 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, Alzheimers 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.
- [Juliana Kawenga](https://madworldsummit.com/speaker/juliana-kawenga/): 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.
- [Nicola Jagielski](https://madworldsummit.com/speaker/nicola-jagielski/): 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.
- [Sarah Churchman OBE](https://madworldsummit.com/speaker/sarah-churchman-obe/): Sarah is a senior HR professional with over 25 years experience in diversity, equity and inclusion and is one of the countrys 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 PwCs 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 Communitys (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.
- [Cliff Lee](https://madworldsummit.com/speaker/cliff-lee/): 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. Cliffs 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.
- [David Elliott](https://madworldsummit.com/speaker/david-elliott/): 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.
- [Sanchia Brown](https://madworldsummit.com/speaker/sanchia-brown/): Sanchia Brown is a Culture, Values and Wellbeing Specialist at the Greater London Authority, where she leads on embedding inclusive, people-first strategies that align wellbeing with organisational goals. With over six years experience in health and wellbeing across public sector roles, Sanchia brings a strong foundation in psychological safety, mental health advocacy, and employee engagement.
- [Dr Laura David](https://madworldsummit.com/speaker/dr-laura-david/): 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.
- [Dan Robertson](https://madworldsummit.com/speaker/dan-robertson/): 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.
- [Dr Ashwin Mehta](https://madworldsummit.com/speaker/dr-ashwin-mehta/): 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.
- [Simon Blake OBE](https://madworldsummit.com/speaker/simon-blake/): Simon Blake is CEO of the LGBTQ+ charity, Stonewall.
- [Martin Jervis](https://madworldsummit.com/speaker/martin-jervis/): 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.
- [Dr Sabrina Robinson](https://madworldsummit.com/speaker/dr-sabrina-robinson/): Wellbeing Lead, Essex County CouncilIndependent Consultant & Coaching Psychologist in Training, with a focus on Workplace Wellbeing and Women’s Health and Career Transitions
- [Nuz Chagan](https://madworldsummit.com/speaker/nuz-chagan/): Nuz Chagan is Communication and Engagement Manager at PFAS, her role includes Wellbeing, Social Value, Comms and Engagement and is also Co-Founder of Lets Improve Workplace Wellbeing CIC
- [Petra Velzeboer](https://madworldsummit.com/speaker/petra-velzeboer/): Petra Velzeboer is a TEDx speaker, author and business consultant who advises leaders and organisations on building high-performing teams in an age of digital overload, AI disruption and constant change
- [Dan Fulker](https://madworldsummit.com/speaker/dan-fulker/): 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.
- [Matt Wilson](https://madworldsummit.com/speaker/matt-wilson-uk-wellbeing-lead-computacenter/): Bio to follow.

## Sessions
- [Drinks Reception, Exhibition Hall and Peer Networking](https://madworldsummit.com/session/drinks-reception-exhibition-hall-and-peer-networking/): The formal programme ends. The exhibition hall reopens with provider stands, informal conversations and space to follow up on connections made during the day. A colour-coded badge system allows delegates to identify others by role. QR codes on badges enable instant LinkedIn or email connection without exchanging cards. A quiet, low-light room is available for those who need to step away from the noise.
- [From Conversation to Commitment](https://madworldsummit.com/session/from-conversation-to-commitment/): The chair draws together the threads of the day, not as a summary but as a challenge. What has the room decided? What is the one thing that has to change? The closing address names the gap between knowing and doing, and asks directly what each person in the room will do differently in the next working week. High energy, personally challenging, deliberately direct..
- [Even a bunny can make a difference: How to connect your team to the feeling of purpose.](https://madworldsummit.com/session/even-a-bunny-can-make-a-difference-how-to-connect-your-team-to-the-feeling-of-purpose/): Purpose is powerful—but only when people feel connected to it.Ross creates a deep connection to purpose through warmth, humour, and raw emotion. With stories from his time as an Opera Extra (including a stint on stage as a giant rabbit), playful interaction, and thoughtful reflection, Ross shows leaders how to help their teams feel more motivated, fulfilled, and energised—by reconnecting them to the impact of what they do.
- [Getting Line Managers to Actually Role-Model Wellbeing](https://madworldsummit.com/session/getting-line-managers-to-actually-role-model-wellbeing/): Line managers are the most important variable in employee wellbeing and the most common point of failure. This workshop examines why training alone rarely changes manager behaviour, what accountability structures are needed, and how to build genuine psychological safety in teams rather than performing it. Using real scenarios brought by participants, the group practises the conversations that matter and identifies the organisational conditions that make them possible.  Scenario-based workshop. Chatham House rules.
- [Neurodiversity, Inclusion and the Wellbeing Environment](https://madworldsummit.com/session/neurodiversity-inclusion-and-the-wellbeing-environment/): How organisations design physical environments, communication norms and support structures has a disproportionate impact on neurodivergent employees, and often improves things for everyone else too. This workshop examines the direct connections between neurodiversity, psychological safety and mental health outcomes, with practical focus on how wellbeing infrastructure can either welcome or exhaust people who process the world differently. Includes an environment audit tool and communication design frameworks delegates can take back and apply.  Discussion and practical workshop
- [Benefits Design and the Employee Lifecycle: Making Wellbeing the Default](https://madworldsummit.com/session/benefits-design-and-the-employee-lifecycle-making-wellbeing-the-default/): Wellbeing as a standalone programme is structurally weak. This session works through the full employment lifecycle: attraction, onboarding, development conversations, performance processes, transitions and exits, examining where wellbeing and benefits design can be embedded rather than bolted on. Particular focus on how benefits packages can be made genuinely responsive to different employee groups rather than homogenous, and how to identify the highest-leverage gaps between current provision and real employee need. Delegates leave with a prioritised action map.  Facilitated working session. Templates provided.
- [Beyond the Office: Building Wellbeing for Shift Workers, Night Workers and Field Teams](https://madworldsummit.com/session/beyond-the-office-building-wellbeing-for-shift-workers-night-workers-and-field-teams/): Standard wellbeing programmes are built around office hours and desk-based work. This workshop is for practitioners trying to reach the rest of their workforce: shift workers, night workers, those in manufacturing or production environments, field-based and customer-facing staff, and employees working across time zones. In small groups, delegates map the specific barriers in their own organisations and develop targeted approaches that go beyond repurposing office-based content. Includes practical tools for reaching disconnected or hard-to-reach employee groups.  Facilitated working session. Chatham House rules.
- [Early Careers and the Next Generation: What They Actually Need](https://madworldsummit.com/session/early-careers-and-the-next-generation-what-they-actually-need/): Organisations are finding that early-career talent has different expectations, communication norms and mental health challenges than previous cohorts, and that programmes designed for an earlier era are failing them. This workshop examines what sustainable high performance looks like for a generation entering work in an AI-accelerated world, what managers need to do differently, and how to build wellbeing into early careers programme design from the ground up. Includes perspectives on retention, post-programme engagement and the growing value of human skills alongside technical ones.  Discussion and practical design workshop.
- [Burnout: Spotting It, Stopping It, and Building Systems That Do Not Create It](https://madworldsummit.com/session/burnout-spotting-it-stopping-it-and-building-systems-that-do-not-create-it/): This workshop moves away from individual resilience frameworks and into organisational design. Working in small groups, delegates map the conditions in their own organisations that generate burnout risk: workload, role clarity, autonomy, recognition, fairness, community. Using real examples brought by participants, the group develops a practical prevention framework that targets the system rather than the symptom.  Output: a draft intervention map each delegate takes away. Facilitated small-group workshop. Chatham House rules.
- [The Wellbeing Gaps Facing Women at Work](https://madworldsummit.com/session/the-wellbeing-gaps-facing-women-at-work/): Menstrual health, debilitating conditions such as endometriosis and fibroids, fertility and pregnancy challenges, menopause, and gynae cancers: all needs that shape working life for millions of women, and that most organisations still design around rather than for. This roundtable opens up an honest, collaborative conversation about where workplace wellbeing falls short for many women experiencing these issues, and what gets lost when policy is written without their experience in the room. Participants bring their own views, experiences and unresolved questions, and the group works through them together, on the understanding that the room collectively holds more insight than any one voice could. The aim is not consensus, but a clearer, shared picture of what needs to change and where to start.
- [Inclusion, DEI and the Geopolitical Moment: Holding the Line When the Ground Is Shifting](https://madworldsummit.com/session/inclusion-dei-and-the-geopolitical-moment-holding-the-line-when-the-ground-is-shifting/): Opens with a 10-minute case study presenting real data: what happened to psychological safety scores, engagement, and mental health indicators in an organisation that navigated DEI pressure publicly. The fireside then broadens the conversation to examine what employers face more widely: the direct connections between inclusion commitments, psychological safety and employee mental health, how different communities are experiencing the current climate, and what leadership on inclusion looks like when the external environment feels hostile.
- [Building Modern Occupational Health Services: Lessons from the European Patent Office’s Transformation](https://madworldsummit.com/session/building-modern-occupational-health-services-lessons-from-the-european-patent-offices-transformation/): This session examines how the European Patent Office redesigned its Occupational Health and Wellbeing services to create a digitally enabled, trusted and employee-centred operating model. Through a practical case study, it explores the role of governance, AI, digital self-service and integrated HR workflows in delivering more efficient, accessible and sustainable services while safeguarding sensitive health data and supporting a hybrid organisation.​ 
- [Men’s Mental Health: Why Generic Wellbeing Fails Half the Workforce](https://madworldsummit.com/session/mens-mental-health-why-generic-wellbeing-fails-half-the-workforce/): Men remain significantly harder to reach through conventional wellbeing programmes and the gap is widening. This panel is a direct, unvarnished conversation about why that is, what approaches have broken through, and what the workplace can realistically do. Contributors address the cultural and social dynamics that make men reluctant to engage, what peer-led and community-based approaches look like in practice, and the difficult question of how to create safe spaces before a crisis point rather than after.
- [From Risk Assessment to Real Change: Psychosocial Hazards in Practice](https://madworldsummit.com/session/from-risk-assessment-to-real-change-psychosocial-hazards-in-practice/): The regulatory landscape around psychosocial risk is shifting, but most organisations are still treating it as a compliance exercise rather than a genuine lever for culture change. This panel brings together practitioners who have moved beyond tick-box risk assessments to systemic approaches. What does a meaningful psychosocial hazard framework look like from end to end? How do you win management buy-in when the evidence feels abstract? What do measurable outcomes actually look like, and what do you do when the results are disappointing? Contributors bring perspectives from organisations at different stages of the journey.
- [Benefits Design and Financial Wellbeing: What Employers Can Actually Do](https://madworldsummit.com/session/benefits-design-and-financial-wellbeing-what-employers-can-actually-do/): Opens with a 10-minute data-led overview: the statistics on financial stress and mental health, what benefits packages currently look like versus what employees say they need, and what the evidence shows about which interventions work. The fireside then examines what meaningful benefits design looks like in practice: moving beyond generic EAP signposting, connecting financial, physical and mental health support, and what personalised provision actually requires. Delegates leave with a practical framework for auditing their own benefits offer.
- [I Got It Wrong: What It Actually Takes to Change a Culture](https://madworldsummit.com/session/i-got-it-wrong-what-it-actually-takes-to-change-a-culture/): Opens with a 10-minute structured case study: specific initiatives, specific data, specific outcomes both positive and negative. The senior executive then stays on stage for an extended conversation that goes deeper into the decisions behind the data. Not a polished retrospective but a genuine account of what systemic change costs, what breaks along the way, and what the numbers do and do not capture. Delegates receive a one-page takeout of the key data and learning points.
- [Good Mental Health as a Performance Strategy: Reframing the Whole Conversation](https://madworldsummit.com/session/good-mental-health-as-a-performance-strategy-reframing-the-whole-conversation/): The workplace wellbeing conversation is dominated by crisis, deficit and damage limitation. This panel argues for a different starting point: that good mental health is not the absence of illness but an active state that drives better performance, stronger relationships, more creative thinking and more resilient organisations. What does it look like to build for positive mental health rather than simply treating poor mental health? How do leaders normalise talking about mental wellbeing in the same breath as results and culture? And what happens to the data when organisations make that shift?
- [Making the Case: How Do You Get Leadership to Actually Care?](https://madworldsummit.com/session/making-the-case-how-do-you-get-leadership-to-actually-care/): The most consistently cited frustration from wellbeing and HR professionals is the gap between evidence and action at board level. This panel opens with two short data-led case studies from practitioners who have built the business case successfully, then broadens into a frank discussion about what actually works. What data convinced decision-makers? What language landed? What failed completely? Panellists bring a CEO perspective, a wellbeing lead with measurable outcomes to share, and someone prepared to present the data from an initiative that did not deliver.
- [The AI Question: What Is It Doing to Us?](https://madworldsummit.com/session/the-ai-question-what-is-it-doing-to-us/): Beyond the productivity debate lies a harder conversation: what is constant connectivity, algorithmic pressure and AI-mediated work actually doing to human cognition, identity and mental health? This fireside brings together an expert in digital wellbeing and a senior people leader for an honest exchange. Not a pitch for solutions, but a genuine grappling with the problem. The conversation covers hybrid fatigue, notification culture, the erosion of cognitive recovery time, and what digital wellbeing genuinely requires from employers as distinct from individual discipline.
- [Reimagining the Workplace – how smart design and wellbeing strategies can help drive performance](https://madworldsummit.com/session/reimagining-the-workplace-how-smart-design-and-wellbeing-strategies-can-help-drive-performance/): Hybrid working didn't create workplace exclusion, it just made it visible. This conversation looks at what years of distributed work have exposed about offices and systems never really built with everyone in mind. It pushes past a narrow, accessibility-as-compliance view to explore what inclusive design really means: neurodivergent employees, different working styles, different life stages. And it grounds the case in evidence, unpacking what the data actually shows about the link between physical environment and retention, engagement and performance.
- [Taking Stock of Workplace Mental Health](https://madworldsummit.com/session/the-state-of-the-nation-taking-stock-of-workplace-mental-health/): After more than two decades of workplace mental health moving up the organisational agenda, where do we stand today? This keynote offers an honest stocktake of the current landscape, examining where meaningful progress has been made, where the evidence suggests change has stalled, and the challenges that continue to shape the relationship between work and health. Looking beyond the headlines, it reflects on how attitudes have shifted, where organisations have made genuine advances, where significant gaps remain, and what the wider picture tells us about the future of workplace wellbeing, providing a clear, evidence-based assessment of the state of the nation and setting the context for the conversations that follow throughout the day.

## Sponsors
- [The Liminal Space](https://madworldsummit.com/sponsor/the-liminal-space/): The Liminal Space is a proud partner of the 9th Annual MAD World Summit. Profile information and company details are currently being updated. Please check back soon or visit their official website to learn more about their solutions and services.
- [LivingWorks](https://madworldsummit.com/sponsor/livingworks/): We're LivingWorks – the world’s leading suicide prevention and intervention training company.
- [Kyan Health](https://madworldsummit.com/sponsor/kyan-health/): Kyan Health is a global workplace mental health and wellbeing provider, combining AI-powered support, professional care, manager training and actionable workforce insights in one integrated platform. Through its digital companion, KAI, and global network of qualified clinicians, Kyan provides employees with personalised, accessible support across the full spectrum of mental health needs. By combining preventative care with clinical expertise and real-time organisational insights, Kyan helps employers improve engagement, strengthen workforce wellbeing and deliver measurable impact across their global populations.
- [Collaborate Business Solutions](https://madworldsummit.com/sponsor/collaborate-business-solutions/): Collaborate Business Solutions is a proud partner of the 9th Annual MAD World Summit. Profile information and company details are currently being updated. Please check back soon or visit their official website to learn more about their solutions and services.
- [Brain in Hand](https://madworldsummit.com/sponsor/brain-in-hand/): Brain in Hand gives employers a workplace neurodivergence support platform for every employee. We combine self-serve digital tools, content and specialist coaching so employees and line managers get practical support in everyday working moments, helping organisations turn neuroinclusion intentions into everyday reality.
- [Culture Minds](https://madworldsummit.com/sponsor/culture-minds/): Culture Minds helps organisations design workplaces where wellbeing, performance and belonging reinforce each other, instead of competing. We partner with CEOs, founders and HR leaders to turn “culture” from a vague aspiration into practical behaviours, rituals and systems that genuinely support mental health and human connection at work. Rooted in psychological safety and compassionate leadership, Culture Minds focuses on:
- [Help to Save](https://madworldsummit.com/sponsor/help-to-save/): Help to Save is a type of savings account. It allows certain people receiving Universal Credit to get a bonus of 50p for every £1 they save over 4 years.
- [Wellbeing of Women](https://madworldsummit.com/sponsor/wellbeing-of-women/): Wellbeing of Women is the only UK charity funding research, education and advocacy across all of women's reproductive and gynaecological health. Our Employer Membership Programme has been developed to support organisations of all sizes improve womens health in the workplace. Employers who take womens health seriously are more likely to increase staff retention and benefit from a more open, inclusive and diverse environment that inspires creativity and innovation.
- [HealthHero](https://madworldsummit.com/sponsor/healthhero/): HealthHero is Europes leading digital-first healthcare provider, serving healthcare institutions and patients across France, Germany, UK, and Ireland. We cover 30 million lives, work with over 3,000 clinicians, and conduct over 4 million consultations annually. HealthHero meets whole health needs, from preventative care to chronic disease management. Simplifying healthcare, improving lives.
- [Pebble Wellbeing](https://madworldsummit.com/sponsor/pebble-wellbeing/): Pebble Wellbeing are the newest but fastest growing EAP provider in the market. Created and designed by Industry experts with over 20 years EAP experience, in collaboration with leading Mental Health Professors at the University of York and a part of the global ExamWorks group who have delivered mental health and psychological therapy services in the UK for over a decade. Pebble Wellbeing can offer an end-to-end mental health pathway with the ability to seamlessly link to occupational health, physiotherapy etc. under one connected solution.
- [PAM Wellness](https://madworldsummit.com/sponsor/pam-wellness/): PAM Wellness is part of PAM Group, which has been supporting organisations across the public, private and charity sectors since 2004 working with clients of all sizes throughout the UK, Ireland and overseas to provide highly effective health and wellbeing interventions. We support workplace wellbeing to proactively reduce absence, minimise stress and boost resilience to help improve productivity and mental health in the workplace. The PAM Wellness service is accredited by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), and PAM Wellness also holds UK EAPA accredited status.
- [Retail Trust](https://madworldsummit.com/sponsor/retail-trust/): From 1832 onwards, the Retail Trust has been caring for and protecting the lives of people working in retail. We believe the health of our colleagues is the foundation they need to flourish in both work and life, creating a more sustainable and successful future for retail.
- [EAPA UK Ltd](https://madworldsummit.com/sponsor/eapa-uk/): EAPA UK Driving Standards and Shaping Wellbeing
- [Lockton](https://madworldsummit.com/sponsor/lockton/): What makes Lockton stand apart is also what makes us better: independence. Lockton's private ownership empowers its 12,600+ Associates doing business in over 140 countries to focus solely on clients' risk, insurance and people needs. With expertise that reaches around the globe, Lockton delivers the deep understanding needed to accomplish remarkable results.
- [Benifex](https://madworldsummit.com/sponsor/benifex/): Benifexs mission is to build remarkable experiences that employees love. Today Benifex supports more than five million employees in over 3,000 organizations across more than 100+ countries.
- [WebMD](https://madworldsummit.com/sponsor/webmd/): In a world where well-being is continually evolving, WebMD Health Services partners with organizations to provide a thoughtful approach to well-being. Our solutions empower organizations to create a well-rounded program that reflects their culture, offering personalized experiences that achieve real results: better health, happiness, and overall well-being. Organizations that truly care about their people trust WebMD Health Services to help build a great workplace culture, reach diverse populations, and inspire well-being in everyone.

## Sessions Speakers Intermediary Posts
- [Sessions Speakers: 5269 – 5907](https://madworldsummit.com/session-speaker/sessions-speakers-5269-5907/)
- [Sessions Speakers: 5772 – 5910](https://madworldsummit.com/session-speaker/sessions-speakers-5772-5910/)
- [Sessions Speakers: 5291 – 5908](https://madworldsummit.com/session-speaker/sessions-speakers-5291-5908/)
- [Sessions Speakers: 5790 – 5791](https://madworldsummit.com/session-speaker/sessions-speakers-5790-5791/)
- [Sessions Speakers: 5772 – 5771](https://madworldsummit.com/session-speaker/sessions-speakers-5772-5771/)
- [Sessions Speakers: 5308 – 5769](https://madworldsummit.com/session-speaker/sessions-speakers-5308-5769/)
- [Sessions Speakers: 5318 – 5102](https://madworldsummit.com/session-speaker/sessions-speakers-5318-5102/)
- [Sessions Speakers: 5317 – 5217](https://madworldsummit.com/session-speaker/sessions-speakers-5317-5217/)
- [Sessions Speakers: 5314 – 5224](https://madworldsummit.com/session-speaker/sessions-speakers-5314-5224/)
- [Sessions Speakers: 5309 – 5214](https://madworldsummit.com/session-speaker/sessions-speakers-5309-5214/)
- [Sessions Speakers: 5309 – 5221](https://madworldsummit.com/session-speaker/sessions-speakers-5309-5221/)
- [Sessions Speakers: 5304 – 1536](https://madworldsummit.com/session-speaker/sessions-speakers-5304-1536/)
- [Sessions Speakers: 5303 – 5305](https://madworldsummit.com/session-speaker/sessions-speakers-5303-5305/)
- [Sessions Speakers: 5291 – 5299](https://madworldsummit.com/session-speaker/sessions-speakers-5291-5299/)
- [Sessions Speakers: 5291 – 5298](https://madworldsummit.com/session-speaker/sessions-speakers-5291-5298/)
- [Sessions Speakers: 5291 – 5296](https://madworldsummit.com/session-speaker/sessions-speakers-5291-5296/)
- [Sessions Speakers: 5290 – 5294](https://madworldsummit.com/session-speaker/sessions-speakers-5290-5294/)
- [Sessions Speakers: 5290 – 5293](https://madworldsummit.com/session-speaker/sessions-speakers-5290-5293/)
- [Sessions Speakers: 5291 – 1507](https://madworldsummit.com/session-speaker/sessions-speakers-5291-1507/)
- [Sessions Speakers: 5269 – 5276](https://madworldsummit.com/session-speaker/sessions-speakers-5269-5276/)
- [Sessions Speakers: 5269 – 5277](https://madworldsummit.com/session-speaker/sessions-speakers-5269-5277/)
- [Sessions Speakers: 5268 – 5279](https://madworldsummit.com/session-speaker/sessions-speakers-5268-5279/)
- [Sessions Speakers: 5268 – 5278](https://madworldsummit.com/session-speaker/sessions-speakers-5268-5278/)
- [Sessions Speakers: 5280 – 5284](https://madworldsummit.com/session-speaker/sessions-speakers-5280-5284/)
- [Sessions Speakers: 5280 – 1502](https://madworldsummit.com/session-speaker/sessions-speakers-5280-1502/)
- [Sessions Speakers: 5281 – 1517](https://madworldsummit.com/session-speaker/sessions-speakers-5281-1517/)
- [Sessions Speakers: 5269 – 1510](https://madworldsummit.com/session-speaker/sessions-speakers-5269-1510/)
- [Sessions Speakers: 5269 – 1523](https://madworldsummit.com/session-speaker/sessions-speakers-5269-1523/)
- [Sessions Speakers: 5269 – 5219](https://madworldsummit.com/session-speaker/sessions-speakers-5269-5219/)
- [Sessions Speakers: 5268 – 1481](https://madworldsummit.com/session-speaker/sessions-speakers-5268-1481/)
- [Sessions Speakers: 5268 – 1506](https://madworldsummit.com/session-speaker/sessions-speakers-5268-1506/)
- [Sessions Speakers: 5268 – 5102](https://madworldsummit.com/session-speaker/sessions-speakers-5268-5102/)
- [Sessions Speakers: 5264 – 1530](https://madworldsummit.com/session-speaker/sessions-speakers-5264-1530/)
- [Sessions Speakers: 5231 – 1485](https://madworldsummit.com/session-speaker/sessions-speakers-5231-1485/)
- [Sessions Speakers: 5101 – 5102](https://madworldsummit.com/session-speaker/sessions-speakers-5101-5102/)

## Resources
- [What Works Wellbeing](https://madworldsummit.com/resource/what-works-wellbeing/): Wellbeing is about people and creating the conditions for us all to thrive. It’s quality of life and prosperity, positive physical and mental health, sustainable thriving communities.
- [Underneath the Lemon Tree: A Memoir of Depression and Recovery – Mark Rice Oxley](https://madworldsummit.com/resource/underneath-the-lemon-tree-a-memoir-of-depression-and-recovery-mark-rice-oxley/): On paper, things looked good for Mark Rice-Oxley: wife, children, fulfilling job. But then, at his 40th birthday party, his whole world crumbled as he succumbed to depression... How many men do you know who have been through periods when their lives haven't seemed right? How badly askew were things for them? Many men suffer from depression yet it is still a subject that is taboo. Men often don't visit the doctor, or they don't want to face up to feelings of weakness and vulnerability. By telling his story, Mark Rice-Oxley hopes it will enable others to tell theirs. In this intensely moving memoir he retraces the months of his utmost despair, revisiting a landscape from which at times he felt he would never escape.
- [Thrive In The City](https://madworldsummit.com/resource/thrive-in-the-city/): Thrive in the City are passionate about creating a safe, creative, inspiring and physical space for workers and residents in the City of London.
- [This is Me](https://madworldsummit.com/resource/this-is-me/): This is me is determined to #endthestigma around mental health in the city. Visibly show your support with the Green Ribbon! The green ribbon has the simple but powerful message of "Together we can #endthestigma" and will be worn by employees across the City and beyond during Mental Health Awareness Week 2018.
- [The Shaw Mind Foundation](https://madworldsummit.com/resource/the-shaw-mind-foundation/): The Shaw Mind Foundation strives to break down the barriers surrounding talking about mental illnesses – and this includes in the workplace.
- [The Private Practice Hub – currently talking to 85,000+ therapists in private practice](https://madworldsummit.com/resource/the-private-practice-hub-currently-talking-to-85000-therapists-in-private-practice/): The Private Practice Hub helps therapists and coaches to start and grow their business. Their website is packed full of useful articles about finance, marketing, business plans, coaching, online therapy, software, professional issues and more. You can find CPD events and training on the events database, read reviews of software for therapists, watch live or pre-recorded webinars and workshops on the PPH TV channel, find therapy rooms to rent, and download free business templates. You can also access special offers from businesses providing services to therapists.
- [The Listening Place](https://madworldsummit.com/resource/the-listening-place/): The world can feel like a very lonely place if you are feeling that life is no longer worth living: not only is it difficult to share those feelings but it can be hard to get the care and support that will make a difference.
- [The Ecology of the Soul – Peace, Power and Personal Growth for Real People in the Real World](https://madworldsummit.com/resource/the-ecology-of-the-soul-peace-power-and-personal-growth-for-real-people-in-the-real-world/): Power Seeds and Magic Minutes: the route to inner space. The Ecology of the Soul: A Manual of Peace, Power and Personal Growth for Real People in the Real World explains the seven powers of our own inner ecosystem – the Ecology of the Soul – and how to revive them to regain our natural, true state of peace, power and well-being. When the Ecology of the Soul is in balance, we live and thrive in this world, and create the new one, with grace, harmony and beauty. Each one of the seven powers – Nature, Creativity, Endurance, Love, Communication, Focus and Connection – generates seven separate meditations, which in turn create ‘Power Seeds’ of thought and mental habit. Plant one a day, and in a ‘Magic Minute’ – 60 powerful seconds of daily, active meditation – you achieve the balance, power and peace of Soul Consciousness. Warm, accessible, even humorous, the book acknowledges that we’re all human and not everyone is able or willing to aim for the highest path of enlightenment. It gives practical methods by which anyone, at whatever level of commitment, can benefit.
- [The 888 Collective](https://madworldsummit.com/resource/the-888-collective/): The 888 Collective is a social enterprise focused on creating work opportunities for people with mental health issues. Supporting those who want to get back into the work environment by delivering a series of Personal Development and Mental Health Awareness courses and workshops. Providing work opportunities through 88L8’s, bespoke dining experiences, all staffed by The 888 Collective members. Developing an A.I. driven app that guides and supports the user along their journey leading them through an online version of the course and culminating in connecting them to potential employers.
- [Society Of Occupational Medicine](https://madworldsummit.com/resource/society-of-occupational-medicine/): Suggested steps to take when commissioning an occupational health service.
- [Minds@Work](https://madworldsummit.com/resource/mindswork/): Minds@Work aims to break the stigma of depression and anxiety in the working world. We want to create mentally and emotionally healthy and human workplaces where individuals can flourish and organisations prosper.
- [Mind](https://madworldsummit.com/resource/mind/): Whether you're an employee worried about your own or a colleague's mental health, a company looking for a charity partner, or an HR professional interested in improving mental wellbeing in your organisation - we're here to help.
- [Mental Health First Aid](https://madworldsummit.com/resource/mental-health-first-aid/): We're on a mission to train one in ten of the population in England in Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) skills – because we all have mental health.
- [Made It Thru the Rain – Beverley Jones](https://madworldsummit.com/resource/made-it-thru-the-rain-beverley-jones/): In this inspirational book of one woman's journey through depression, Beverley Jones leads you along her personal road to recovery and beyond, courageously demonstrating how an ordinary life can become extraordinary and how experience can indeed be the greatest gift. Each chapter starts with a poem and ends with a quote which depicates the feelings of the author at the time.
- [Jiggsy](https://madworldsummit.com/resource/jiggsy/): At Jiggsy our aim is to engage, explore and challenge mental health and wellbeing issues, that affect your daily life.
- [IoD](https://madworldsummit.com/resource/iod/): The IoD has created this mental health hub to help business leaders promote and nurture good mental health in the workplace — and to help them spot the signs of mental health problems and know how to help. Our hub is packed full of helpful advice, best practice and useful resources, as well as shared experiences from business leaders as to how they look after their own mental health and that of their employees.
- [I Am 1 in 4](https://madworldsummit.com/resource/i-am-1-in-4/): Get your FREE daily mental health planner.
- [Counselling Directory](https://madworldsummit.com/resource/counselling-directory/): Counselling Directory was set up by a team who know how difficult it can be to find support. Through our own experiences of mental health issues, we have learnt how important having relevant information is and how the right support can help transform lives. Our team is passionate about counselling and we want to promote the huge benefits talk therapy can have.
- [City Mental Health Alliance](https://madworldsummit.com/resource/city-mental-health-alliance-3/): Everyone has mental health in the same way as everyone has physical health. The focus is therefore on supporting all City workers to achieve our full potential, for ourselves, our families, our communities and the businesses for whom we work, throughout our working lives.
- [Bupa](https://madworldsummit.com/resource/bupa/): Case studies from the corporate world — putting mental health and wellbeing into action.
- [BITC](https://madworldsummit.com/resource/bitc/): Business is waking up to the scale of poor mental health in the workplace, but there is still a long way to go.  Our second National Employee Mental Wellbeing Survey in partnership with YouGov, part of a three-year collaborative project with business and five national partners, reveals that although there has been progress against our three calls to action and recommendations in the 2016 report, too many men and women with mental health issues are suffering in silence in work, unable to seek help from colleagues or managers.  Fears of prejudice and exclusion are limiting employee's ability to achieve their full potential.
- [Mad World Green Paper](https://madworldsummit.com/resource/mad-world-green-paper-2/): The Real Value of Wellbeing - A CEO guide to unlocking wellness as an asset class
- [Mad World Green Paper](https://madworldsummit.com/resource/mad-world-green-paper/): Leader Workstyle that Stimulates Positive Psychological Health and Safety at Work
- [Mind Share Partners](https://madworldsummit.com/resource/mind-share-partners/): A Guide To Support Employee Mental Health During The Coronavirus Pandemic
- [City Mental Health Alliance](https://madworldsummit.com/resource/city-mental-health-alliance-2/): Supporting the mental health of furloughed workers during the coronavirus outbreak
- [City Mental Health Alliance](https://madworldsummit.com/resource/city-mental-health-alliance/): Supporting colleagues to stay mentally healthy in unusual working conditions

## Testimonials
- [BEP DHALIWAL](https://madworldsummit.com/testimonial/bep-dhaliwal/): "Being part of the inaugural Mad World conference 2018 was liberating, inspiring and left me with such a sense of wonder. The event was jam packed with great sessions built on credibility, raw honesty and compassion and I walked away with some great connections, access to some great ideas and a strong sense of people uniting to make a difference and create a kinder, more considerate world."
- [GEOFF MCDONALD](https://madworldsummit.com/testimonial/geoff-mcdonald/): "Mad World presented the perfect platform to drive forward fresh thinking and a positive narrative around mental health in the workplace. It achieved this in no uncertain terms. The energy and sense of purpose were palpable. A fantastic launch event that has laid firm foundations for real progress and collaboration, as we move forward together and harness the power of business on this vital topic. Delegates left feeling inspired and equipped to begin the conversations that will have a positive impact on mental wellbeing in their workplaces"
- [LYNN TURNER](https://madworldsummit.com/testimonial/lynn-turner/): "Thanks for an insightful, thought-provoking and inspiring day. There’s SO much to do and achieve but it was great to be in the company of so many like-minded professionals that will hopefully take away a mission to develop strategies, open minds and change cultures to tackle mental health in the workplace. My personal take-away was seeing that there is a positive change coming - the next generation will tackle these things as standard in future business."
- [FRANCESCA STAINER](https://madworldsummit.com/testimonial/francesca-stainer/): "MadWorld Forum did not disappoint. A huge attendance of a multitude of industries all with a common interest of wellbeing at work. "
- [MARK FRANCIS](https://madworldsummit.com/testimonial/mark-francis/): "Mad World showed me that organisational wellness is a measurable critical success factor not an HR intervention; game changing initiative and conference."
- [KENDELLE TEKSTAR](https://madworldsummit.com/testimonial/kendelle-tekstar/): "Mad World Forum captured the intersection between business excellence and mental health expertise in a powerful way"
- [KATE COOK](https://madworldsummit.com/testimonial/kate-cook/): "A great forum for exploring Mental Health in the workplace, in all its depth and complexities - full of inspiring people and solutions. Not to be missed!"
- [DEBBIE KLEINER GAINES](https://madworldsummit.com/testimonial/debbie-kleiner-gaines/): "Mad World is a relevant event for anyone responsible for workplace wellbeing planning in any size business. The speakers are credible, relevant and knowledgeable. The opportunity to be part of a roundtable discussion on a topic of particular interest is invaluable to help deepen understanding of this topic."
- [NICK PAHL](https://madworldsummit.com/testimonial/nick-pahl-2/): "Congratulations on a great event – amazing job! It clearly helped to get many companies to understand the issue. We would be happy to be involved next year"
- [AMY MCKEOWN](https://madworldsummit.com/testimonial/amy-mckeown/): "Sir Vince Cable's insight was the end of a fantastic day of speakers, ideas, discussion and honesty. Well done to the whole team for putting on such a great event. Looking forward to next year"
- [EMILY WHEELER](https://madworldsummit.com/testimonial/emily-wheeler/): "A huge congratulations and thank you for the inaugural Mad World event. I have taken so much away, from how to keep improving things here through to making some great new connections"
- [NAOMI SEARLE](https://madworldsummit.com/testimonial/naomi-searle/): "Congratulations on a great conference! I have had great feedback from the team on the stand and exhibition area"
- [PETRA VELZEBOER](https://madworldsummit.com/testimonial/petra-velzeboer/): "Proud to be a part of Mad World. Amazing being around so many change makers in one place."
- [NICK TAYLOR](https://madworldsummit.com/testimonial/nick-taylor/): "I wanted to drop you guys a quick note to say a HUGE thank you for putting on such an amazing event. We were all blown away by it!"
- [NATALIE RICHARDSON](https://madworldsummit.com/testimonial/natalie-richardson/): "A brilliant and inspiring day today – so much energy and passion in the rooms…"
- [LAURA PEARCE](https://madworldsummit.com/testimonial/laura-pearce/): "I took away lots and lots of really useful information and insight and the little touches were fabulous"
- [NICI HARRISON](https://madworldsummit.com/testimonial/nici-harrison/): "Thank you for such a fantastic event yesterday"
- [JONATHAN GAWTHROP](https://madworldsummit.com/testimonial/jonathan-gawthrop/): "Frankly I am speechless at the positive responses from my Executive here at EMCOR UK, we’ve really started something special. From a corporate and a personal perspective I very much want to continue my close association with you and all at MW as it proceeds"
- [BECS BESLEE](https://madworldsummit.com/testimonial/becs-beslee/): "I would love to stay in touch and be involved in future initiatives. Such a wonderful group of forward-thinking people"
- [DAME CAROL BLACK DBE](https://madworldsummit.com/testimonial/dame-carol-black-dbe/): "Congratulations! From what I saw and heard the event was a great success. It had a real buzz, and I was delighted to be part of it"
- [SHAUN DAVIS](https://madworldsummit.com/testimonial/shaun-davis/): "WOW!"
- [BECKY THOSEBY](https://madworldsummit.com/testimonial/becky-thoseby/): "I have never spoken at an event that’s had such high energy"
- [SHARMILA KUPFUWA](https://madworldsummit.com/testimonial/sharmila-kupfuwa/): "Amazing collaboration of people from different areas of businesses"
- [JANE POUND](https://madworldsummit.com/testimonial/jane-pound/): "Brilliant day at Mad World yesterday ahead of World Mental Health day. Lots of inspiration…"
- [KAI HAAS](https://madworldsummit.com/testimonial/kai-haas/): "Really glad and humbled to have been part of this extraordinary event on mental health, Mad World Forum in London October 9,2018"
- [CAROLINE BROWN](https://madworldsummit.com/testimonial/caroline-brown/): "Congratulations on such a successful 1st summit. I hope you are feeling very proud of what you achieved (and the many lives that you’ll improve/save as a result)"
- [KIM SWIFT](https://madworldsummit.com/testimonial/kim-swift/): "What a fantastic event! I had a great wander round. It seemed to be a roaring success and all the speakers that I saw were exceptional"
- [MEGAN GREY](https://madworldsummit.com/testimonial/megan-grey/): "I attended the Mad World Summit 2019 and found it hugely valuable"
- [NICK PAHL](https://madworldsummit.com/testimonial/nick-pahl/): "Congratulations on a great day. I particularly enjoyed the Think Tank session"
- [SHEILA CHAMPION-SMEETH](https://madworldsummit.com/testimonial/sheila-champion-smeeth/): "Thank you for organising an amazing conference which is helping change lives for many people around the world"
- [JON SIMONS](https://madworldsummit.com/testimonial/jon-simons/): "I found the day to be of great value and spending time with such positive influencers gave me some really good insights"
- [JULIAN HITCH](https://madworldsummit.com/testimonial/julian-hitch/): "Congratulations on such a successful MAD World conference. It was genuinely one of, if not the best conference I've been part of"
- [DR KAI HAAS](https://madworldsummit.com/testimonial/dr-kai-haas/): "I think the energy level this year was even higher than last time. Always glad to participate, share and discuss"
- [YULIA O’MAHONEY](https://madworldsummit.com/testimonial/yulia-omahoney/): "Thanks so much for an amazing event really thought provoking"
- [MARCUS HUNT](https://madworldsummit.com/testimonial/marcus-hunt/): "Always a pleasure to support and to see so many new faces at the event"
- [MEGAN KILLE](https://madworldsummit.com/testimonial/megan-kille/): "You really did a fantastic job of pulling all these industry experts, speakers and delegates together, which is no mean feat"
- [AMANDA LAMBERT](https://madworldsummit.com/testimonial/amanda-lambert/): "I really enjoyed the whole event, My team told me it's the best wellbeing event and they didn't over sell it. Thank you so much for the opportunity to take part"

## Partners
- [Working Well](https://madworldsummit.com/partner/working-well/): Co-founded by workplace wellbeing experts Matt Smeed and Aletheia Conway-Hughes, the Working Well Community was born from a shared passion for creating healthier, happier, and more productive work environments. Following the success of their 2021 virtual conference, Matt and Aletheia joined forces to build a dedicated space designed to supercharge careers in workplace wellbeing and shape a new generation of leaders.
- [Mindful Business Charter](https://madworldsummit.com/partner/mindful-business-charter/): The Mindful Business Charter is a cross business community of employer organisations focussed on removing the unnecessary stress in the ways we work so we can work more healthily and more effectively. With roots in the legal profession, it is based around a charter which provides a permissive framework, a common language and the permission to talk about what we need and don’t need to do our jobs with the minimum possible stress. Founded by the in house legal team at Barclays and two of their panel law firms, Pinsent Masons and Addleshaw Goddard, it now has over 130 members around the world. It is based on the simple idea that while raising awareness of mental health and providing supports for those who are struggling are important, the most effective workplace strategy around mental health is to address the workplace causes of mental distress.
- [obo](https://madworldsummit.com/partner/obo/): As passionate advocates of healthy workplaces for the body and mind, obo focus on creating holistic workplace experiences. We fully support our clients in considering not only the immediate needs of their business, but also the long term needs of their staff
- [Engage for Success](https://madworldsummit.com/partner/engage-for-success/): Engage for Success is a dynamic, voluntary movement promoting employee engagement as a better way to work that benefits individual employees, teams, and whole organisations.
- [Law Care](https://madworldsummit.com/partner/law-care/)