Category: The Wellbeing Hour

The Wellbeing Hour #17: Workplace Stress – Storms Ahead?

Special Guest: Peter Kelly
Former Head of Psychology at The Health and Safety Executive

Peter Kelly, was Head of Psychology at The Health & Safety Executive and has a proven 24 year track record. He has a deep passion for improving working lives and have people come home safe and healthy from work. In conversation with Peter, we’ll hear about – the development of the 6 Management Standards for […]

Jane Wheeler

The Wellbeing Hour #18: Performance & Mental Health – Staying on The Right Side of The Law

Special Guest: Jane Wheeler

This is a really practical and straight forward conversation with top tips on performance management and mental health.

The Wellbeing Hour #23: Workplace Wellbeing – all we need is ‘Killer Thinking’

Special Guest: Tim Duggan
Award Winning Author, Advisor & Optimist

Tim is a new media entrepreneur and author. He has co-founded several digital media ventures, most notably Junkee Media, one of the leading publishers for Australian millennials that was acquired by the ASX-listed oOh!media in 2016.

The Wellbeing Hour #32: Racing through Life – knowing when to take a break

Special Guest: Sue Sanders
Director of Learning and Development at Motorsport UK

Sue manages the L&D team at Motorsport UK who have responsibility for over 10,000 volunteer marshals, over 3,000 volunteer officials and the Elite Programme with over 100 competitors competing at the top level both nationally and internationally.

The Wellbeing Hour #31: Boardroom Behaviours? Just not good enough

Special Guest: Chas Howes
Presenter on FUBAR Radio & former CFO at SuperDry

When profits turned, Chas left Superdry and after some years, in 2016 was diagnosed with depression. Now he is in a much happier place having made changes to his lifestyle, but he is not better. Instead, Chas lives with depression, rather than suffering from it.

Denis Fischbacher-Smith

The Wellbeing Hour #16: Managing without Preconceptions – Mind, without Ego

Special Guest: Denis Fischbacher-Smith
Research Professor of Risk and Resilience, Glasgow University

Professor Denis Fischbacher-Smith is an expert in looking at situations objectively, from all points of view and without ego getting in the way. He’s Professor of Risk and Resilience and was Deputy Head of the Business School at The University of Glasgow. He was an expert advisor at the Grenfell Tower Fire Inquiry, and has […]

Mile Kean

The Wellbeing Hour #15: I wish I had talked earlier

Special Guest: Miles Kean
Executive Director at Coutts & Co

Miles Kean talks about his mental health struggles, how he turned these round and developed a wellbeing programme that positively impacted thousands of employees in the NatWest Group and beyond.

The Wellbeing Hour #14: Acceptance & Innovation: Thriving not Surviving

Special Guest: Naziyah Mahmood
Earth Intelligence Engineer, Spire Global

“I historically found myself constantly fighting to be accepted into a society that I’m already a part of, and so it became even more important to learn to keep my mind healthy, safe and focussed too.”

Paul Sheerin

The Wellbeing Hour #13: Engineering a Healthy Working Life

Special Guest: Paul Sheerin
CEO of Scottish Engineering

Paul Sheerin is CEO Scottish Engineering. He has previously held senior and international roles with companies such as Polaroid and B&W Diamond Power. Working at the top levels of international companies led to the inevitable pressures and long hours associated with these roles. Hear Paul’s story, what his catalyst was to strive towards a healthy […]

The Wellbeing Hour #12: Wellbeing = Performance

Special Guest: Stephen McAllister
Chair at Lifelink, Samaritans Trustee, NHS Board Member & Senior Advisor at Headtorch

Stephen McAllistair has a wealth of knowledge in applying wellbeing & mental health initiatives in the workplace. He understands how this works and its impact on performance. As a Divisional Commander in Police Scotland he made Wellbeing core to turn round a poor performing division. With a background in psychology and 30 years in the […]

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