Mental Health & Wellbeing Speakers
Alex Staniforth
Alex Staniforth is an expert in resilience and achieving through adversity.
At just 27, he has already survived the two biggest disasters in Mount Everest history as a teenager. However, his biggest challenges have been much closer to home, suffering with epilepsy, stammering, bullying and mental illness since childhood.
As an inspirational and international speaker, Alex is committed to helping teams and leaders build their resilience to take advantage of adversity and improve their well-being with healthy conversations.
Anna McNuff
Anna McNuff is an adventurer, bestselling author and self-confessed mischief maker. Named by The Guardian as one of the top female adventurers of our time, Condé Nast Traveller included her in a list of the 50 most influential travellers in the world, alongside Sheryl Sandberg and Sir Richard Branson. She is the UK ambassador for Girlguiding and has run, swum and cycled over 20,000 miles across the globe. Anna's high energy talks are life lessons from the road, told with raw honesty, humour and passion.
Charlie Gray
A Londoner, born and bred, Charlie Gray is a 9/11 survivor whose day began pretty much the same as any other day of his 36 years working in New York, however what happened next changed his life and the world forever. Having lost countless friends and colleagues during the tragic events, Charlie has suffered from PTSD and ‘guilt syndrome’. Charlie is now based in the UK and feels his unique knowledge and experience of this day should be shared and spoken about in the hope that something like this never happens again.
Charlie Martin
Charlie is an inspirational and thought provoking speaker with a unique story of resilience. The first transgender professional racing driver in a predominantly male dominated sport, Charlie is a pioneer of transgender and LGBTQ+ inclusivity in sport.
Chris Moon
Having survived being a prisoner of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia and suffering life threatening and life changing injuries, Chris knows how to walk the talk. He has studied human behaviour and worked with psychologists and psychiatrists to develop strategies for resilience and making the best of life. Chris presents uplifting and humorous presentations that share the learnings from his unique experiences.
Chrissie Wolfe
Chrissie is a multi award-winning solicitor, entrepreneur, careers coach and business consultant. She is the founder of Law and Broader, a self-employed freelance consultant to legal businesses and a social media influencer with a following in excess of 80,000. Chrissie is an experienced public speaker, event host, panellist and moderator in the legal and marketing industries and beyond. Chrissie is passionate about education, diversity and inclusion, helping individuals to cultivate a fulfilling career and helping businesses to build an inclusive and engaging culture.
Helen Frewin
A Business Psychologist, Executive Coach and Speaker, Helen believes that people achieve amazing things at their best, thriving, feeling confident and having the necessary skills. Helen delivers keynote, motivational speeches and executive coaching on topics such as Diversity and Inclusion, Leadership, High Performing Teams and Resilience.
Jez Rose
Jez Rose is a professional speaker, award-winning entrepreneur, internationally renowned human behaviourist, communication and mindset expert, author and media personality. Supported by glowing testimonials, his formidable reputation in the conference and incentives industry has been established by his unique ability to explore complicated topics in an accessible way with tremendous clarity, warmth and humour.
Jodie Hill
Jodie Hill, a qualified barrister and solicitor, is the founder of Thrive Law, the first UK law firm that prioritizes wellbeing, diversity, inclusion, and belonging. Jodie has won numerous awards for her innovative approach to law, co-founded The Case Law Portal, and is a law lecturer, a Law Care Champion, and the Chair of This is Me Yorkshire.
Jodie is a passionate advocate for mental health and diversity and inclusion, campaigning for Mental Health First Aiders to be mandatory in all workplaces. She regularly appears on national and regional media as an expert on employment law, mental health, discrimination, and EDI matters.
John Volanthen
John Volanthen’s story is one in a million. In his fascinating uplifting and gripping motivational / keynote speech, John takes his audience on the journey of a lifetime with the story of the Thailand cave rescue mission during the summer of 2018. With heart-pounding anecdotes, he highlights the importance of perseverance, determination, and preparation, and explains why he believes success in life is rarely due to “luck.” John communicates what it was like to be there and the joy he felt when the rescue was all over.
Joze Piranian
Joze Piranian is a lifelong stutterer turned Forbes featured Global TEDx Speaker on Inclusion and Resilience. Joze avoided speaking for more than 25 years out of the fear of being judged for being different. Joze has now delivered hundreds of stand-up comedy and speaking engagements about Inclusion and Resilience at leading corporations around the world including Tesla, Dell and Diageo.
Mark Beaumont
Having cycled around the World twice, Mark now holds this 18,000-mile record in 78 days & 14 hours – achieving the famous ‘Around the World in 80 Days’ for the first time by bicycle. An experienced and hugely engaging keynote and after dinner speaker, Mark’s speeches are incredibly inspirational, often humorous and very memorable.
Nick Elston
Nick Elston is one of the highest-profile and leading Inspirational Speakers on the Lived Experience of Mental Health. Nick believes that in life, we can either let our adversities, our challenges, define us negatively for the rest of our lives…or…we can choose for it to forge something beautiful, something powerful – something that never would have existed without you going through your ‘stuff’ in the first place.
Nick shares his ‘Lived Experience’ through insights, tools, tips and techniques on how to manage Anxiety in Life, in Business – to implement immediately.
Patrick Ball
Patrick is a recovering alcoholic and addict who suffered in silence at home and in the business world. In July 2019, after spending six figures on alcohol and cocaine over a 16-year period, becoming homeless and losing everything, he went into rehab at the Priory Woodbourne in Birmingham.
Upon noticing huge problems in the business world with organisations struggling to cope with the stigma around alcoholism and addiction, Patrick became an inspirational Speaker where he talks about the rollercoaster of his life and discusses his own experiences of mental health issues, hiding addiction and alcohol culture in the corporate world from construction sites to offices.
Penny Mallory
As a troubled, runaway homeless teenager in London, Penny hit rock bottom. Against all odds, she turned her life around and made the impossible possible to become a Champion Rally Driver. Now, as a leading Authority on Mental Toughness, Penny delivers keynotes, webinars, workshops and coaching to help individuals, teams and organisations to develop their confidence, commitment, focus and determination.
Russell Thackeray
Dr Russell Thackeray is an expert at helping organisations to get the best out of their employees. Managing stress and maintaining wellbeing in the workplace are essential to the positive mental health of employees and the smooth running and profitability of an organisation. Russell assists organisations to drive change, to achieve this, in a consistent and sustainable way.