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?