Category: The Wellbeing Hour

The Wellbeing Hour #30: Are you in the right place? Principles of performance

Special Guest: Kate Goodger, PhD C.Psychol
Head of Human Innovation and Performance at Laing O’Rourke

Kate Goodger is one of the most experienced performance psychologists in Olympic sport in the UK having worked with Team GB athletes and medallists at seven Olympic Games.

Professor Rory O'Connor

The Wellbeing Hour #29: When it is Darkest

Special Guest: Rory O’Connor
Professor of Health Psychology at the University of Glasgow and President of the International Association for Suicide Prevention

Rory leads the Suicidal Behaviour Research Lab at Glasgow, one of the leading suicide/self-harm research groups internationally. He has published extensively in the field of suicide and self-harm.

The Wellbeing Hour #28: Creating Safe Spaces = Success

Special Guest: Julie Nerney
Transformation Leader, NED of the UK Supreme Court & Serial Entrepreneur

Julie was a serial entrepreneur, starting, running and selling 14 business in the UK and overseas. She then had a successful interim career as a business transformation expert, spanning private, public and not for profit sectors.

The Wellbeing Hour #26: Emotional Flak Jacket: Tales of a Journalist

Special Guest: Hannah Storm
Journalist, Award winning Author, Founder & Co-Director of Headlines Network

Hannah co-authored the first study into moral injury and the media for the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism with Professor Anthony Feinstein and has written extensively at the intersection of gender, mental health, physical and online safety.

The Wellbeing Hour #25: Boosting wellness: how a side hustle can enhance your life

Special Guest: Rupa Mooker
Director of People & Development MacRoberts LLP

Since graduating from the University of Glasgow in 2000 with a Bachelor of Laws (LLB Hons), Rupa has been passionate about equity, diversity, inclusion, and wellbeing within the Scottish legal profession.

The Wellbeing Hour #24: Breaking through the ‘God-complex’

Special Guest: Rob Williams
Head of Talent at VetPartners

Rob qualified as a vet from University College Dublin in 2001 and worked as a small animal vet in the UK from graduation until July 2018. He undertook a wide variety of roles including a small animal internship at Glasgow Vet School, a surgery residency in a private referral practice and a clinical director role at Minster Vets in York.

Lutfur Ali

The Wellbeing Hour #22: Words, Words, Words – How Inclusive Language Delivers Business Goals

Special Guest: Lutfur Ali
Senior Policy Advisor Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Transformation CIPD

With a career spanning over three decades in the public, private and third sector, Lutfur has championed the delivery of social justice, equality, diversity, inclusion (EDI) and sustainability in organisations enabling them to become more inclusive, greener, resilient and employers of first choice.

Jackie Vaz

The Wellbeing Hour #21: Financial Wellbeing … the Elephant in the Room?

Special Guest: Jackie Vaz

Financial education has evolved into helping employers embed financial well-being and financial resilience amongst their workforce, through benefits, support and education.

The Wellbeing Hour #20: Diversity – The Business Case Backfires

Special Guest: Oriane Georgeac
Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour at Yale School of Management

Professor Oriane Georgeac is interested in how people respond to organisations’ messages about diversity. Her research offers insights into how organisations’ efforts to support diversity may prevent them from advancing toward their diversity goals.

Sunita Wazir

The Wellbeing Hour #19: Building a Supportive Culture Across 148,000 Staff … & Looking After Yourself

Special Guest: Sunita Wazir
Senior Manager Global Wellbeing at Unilever

Sunita Wazir will be sharing her experience of Mental Health and Wellbeing in a large organisation – where do you even begin?

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