Employee wellbeing and mental health are no longer a side initiative; it’s a boardroom conversation. Leaders like you are under pressure to move beyond surface fixes and design wellbeing strategies that truly support people and performance.
This mental health and wellbeing and blog provides you with the insights, knowledge, and strategic suggestions to achieve just that.
From addressing HR burnout, to rethinking mental health training for managers, to embedding resilience and emotional intelligence at every level here you’ll find fresh perspectives to create a thriving and engaged workforce.
Created based on 25 years of HR Leadership, Mental Health and Wellbeing Expertise
The link between high performance and self-awareness. If you’ve ever attended one of my employee wellbeing webinars, you might have noticed the bookcase behind me. It’s lined with over a decade’s worth of journals, each one filled with thoughts, breakthroughs, and the sometimes-cringeworthy evidence of my evolving self-awareness. Like many people,
Leadership development training is often seen as the solution to creating confident, capable, and impactful leaders. For leaders, however, these programmes often fail to address the deeper issues driving burnout, self-doubt, and limiting beliefs. When I worked in HR, I saw thousands of pounds poured into these programmes, with very
We’re seeing a lot of conversation right now about the impact of the workplace on the mental health of HR professionals. But I come at this from a very different perspective. My view is shaped by two decades of work, over a decade as an HR professional across major brands,
Working in Human Resources isn’t just about policies and procedures. It’s about navigating the most challenging, unexpected and emotionally demanding situations an organisation can throw at you, and it’s one of the reasons why HR is a high burnout profession. From disciplinary hearings involving pigeons to tragedy and trauma, HR
As an HR Leader, you’ve done the traditional resilience training.You have invested in mental health awareness sessions.You’ve watched stress management webinars. So why do you still feel you’re carrying the weight of the organisation on your shoulders and experiencing HR Burnout? So let me say it clearly:You don’t need more resilience training.You
Why Emotional Resilience is Crucial for HR teams When I first began to deliver training, one of the first programmes I created was emotional resilience training for HR teams. The reason for this was twofold. I’d worked closely with several forward-thinking HR leaders who had heard me talking about everything I was
