London Agenda
Tuesday 23rd September 2025
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, One Bartholomew Close Barts Square, London EC1A 7BL
08:00 – 09:00
Registration, Networking, Meeting and Connections
09:00 – 09:10
Welcome and Setting the Scene
Mark Rix
Group Managing Director, Sonas Group, (Wellbeing at Work)
09:10 – 09:50
C-Suite Panel – The Role of Leaders in Championing the Wellbeing Charge
How can support from the board lead to more successful outcomes in the wellbeing strategy? What role does leadership play in informing wellbeing initiatives across the organisation? How do wellbeing strategies deliver high performance and profits
Deepak Ravindran
Co-founder and Non-exec Director, OddBox
Poppy Jaman OBE
Founder and Executive-Vice Chair, MindForward Alliance
Amit A. Sidhpura
Global Strategy Leader, HR & Talent Transformation, IBM
Your Expert Panel Chair:
Isabel Berwick
Working It Editor, The Financial Times
09:50 – 10:15
AI in Wellbeing: Friend or Foe?
You don't have to look far online to find examples of AI gone wrong - chatbots dishing out terrible advice or virtual therapists missing the mark, but amidst the chaos, there’s real potential. With 17 million people in the UK currently struggling with their mental health. AI has the power to change millions of lives... if we get it right. Used well, AI has the potential to: Help people access support earlier through psychoeducation and guided self-help. Reduce the number of therapeutic interventions needed and the cost of treatment. Speed up the journey from first contact to therapist. Provide personalised support throughout someone’s mental health journey. Is this a huge opportunity or a massive risk? How can this be done safely? How can it change our lives? Well, you'll have to come along to find out.
Ryan Hopkins
Global Best-selling Wellbeing Author & Chief Impact Officer, JAAQ
Dr Nina T. Wylonis
Clinical Strategy, Compliance, and Governance, JAAQ
10:15 – 10:40
Morning Networking Break
10:40 – 10:50
National Wellbeing Index - KSA
Dr. Faten Alshammari PMP, C-OKR, ISO QMS, CPHQ
Business Development and Transformation Manager, Tawuniya
10:50 – 11:15
"From Gut-Feeling to Business Case: How a Maturity Model Provides Clarity and Direction for Your Wellbeing Strategy"
Move beyond gut-feelings! This session reveals how a maturity model serves as a new compass for your wellbeing strategy, grounding it in data and business impact. We’ll showcase the Maturity Assessment as a powerful tool to chart a clear path forward. We'll also present proprietary data, benchmarks, and surprising correlations between key levers to help you build a compelling business case for wellbeing.
Rillion Cadlini
Strategic Development Director, Personify Health
11:15 – 11:50
Leadership Panel: Reimagining Wellbeing: From dated perk to Health & Performance Department
Learning lessons from how leading organisations are creating a performance differentiator for their people and wider business through modern wellbeing strategies
Chuxx Onyia
Health + Performance Lead, EMEA, Google
Will Ajayi
Global Head of Wellbeing, Netflix
Will Turner
CEO, GoJoe
Your Expert Panel Chair:
Josh Poole
Global Client Director, Mercer
11.50 - 12.15
The Resilience Advantage
A data-driven approach to improving wellbeing, engagement, and performance. In today’s challenging work environment, stress, absenteeism, and turnover are on the rise — taking its toll on employee wellbeing and organisational performance. In this dynamic 25-minute session, Steve willl explore why resilience is the key to addressing these trends and creating a thriving, high-performing workplace. Learn how organisations can use a data driven approach to drive strategic decisions around wellbeing, leadership development, and workplace culture. This evidence-based approach ensures that interventions are targeted, customised and impactful, and focused on the specific challenges at an individual, team and organisational level.
Steve Howe
Founder, Resilience Builder
12.15 - 13.15
Hosted Leadership Workshops
1 - Personify Health
"Prove It or Lose It! How to Connect Wellbeing to ROI and Business Outcomes." The pressure to prove wellbeing ROI is real. This hands-on workshop provides a no-nonsense guide to measuring impact without advanced skills. We'll show you how to link wellbeing to core business metrics like profitability, accident reduction, and absenteeism using simple statistical methods. You’ll be hand-held through the whole process and leave with a clear idea of how to develop your own analytical approach.
2 - Smart About Health
'How to build a safe and effective Wellbeing Champion Community.' It’s time to move forward from just Mental Health. Wellbeing Champion communities can be critical in driving improved health and wellbeing in organisations, if trained, supported and utilised correctly. Mental Health is just the tip of the ice-berg, so why only train champions in Mental Health? Wellbeing Champions serve a more holistic and realistic purpose, but still need clarification of role, monitoring, supervision and ongoing development. In this round table, Smart About Health will open the floor to discuss: How you can include Wellbeing Champions in your strategy. share a proven formula for success, safety, risk reduction and efficacy. showcase Ocado’s global Wellbeing Champion Programme case study as a benchmark for implementation. We will be joined by Arti Kashyap Aynsley, and members of the Ocado Group team on the round table.
3 - GoJoe
Feeling like your wellbeing offer is a mix of disconnected tools and tick-box initiatives? You’re not alone. In this interactive session, we’ll bring people together to talk about a challenge we all face: how to make workplace health support actually work. From step trackers to EAPs, many wellbeing services are underused, siloed or don’t speak to each other, leaving teams disengaged, overwhelmed, or unsupported.Join us to share experiences and explore how the new GoJoe and Bupa partnership is tackling this problem head-on. We’ll introduce a new model that connects everyday engagement, preventative health and reactive care, and show how this joined-up approach can improve access, insights, and ultimately performance. Whether you're a small team or a global business, this is your chance to rethink what health at work can (and should) look like; and leave you with ideas you can apply across the team.
4 - Thrive
"The Dark Side Of Resilience" - In this session we will: Explore whether resilience is always helpful - or if, in some cases, it does more harm than good by encouraging bravado, silence, or unrealistic expectations. Hear the real story of a long-serving detective whose experience shattered his self-image and challenged a culture that equates emotion with weakness. Learn practical, evidence-based ways organisations can shift from glorifying endurance to fostering psychological safety, flexibility, and peer support. Delivered by: Martin Jervis Chief Operating Officer, Thrive Mental Wellbeing & Dr. Andres Fonseca MSC MRCPSYCH FRSA, Thrive Mental Wellbeing
5 - Onebright
Upstreaming mental health strategies that actually work: smarter solutions, measurable impact and real ROI. Employee wellbeing is central to business success. Does your current mental health support through traditional EAPs and wellbeing Apps, offer satisfactory business outcomes? At Onebright we understand how difficult it can be for employers to provide personalised, individual mental health care for your whole business. During this session, led by Onebright – a leader in evidence based mental healthcare, we will make it easy to understand how you can build your own personalised mental health tool kit and plan, through real life data case studies, practical advice and solutions. We will show you how to create and implement smarter, scalable and data-led mental health strategies that create healthier workplaces and deliver measurable business returns. We will challenge the gap in your current mental health provision, understand why your current strategy may not be working and explore how employers working with Onebright align mental health services with business goals – from reducing absenteeism and presenteeism to boosting positive workplace cultures, productivity and retention. Shamira Graham will be hosting the workshop
6 - Mental Health First Aid England
'Why managers matter' - Supporting mental health at work. Exploring the strategic role of leaders in enabling managers to confidently and consistently support mental health in the workplace. Understand why managers are critical to mental health at work. Identify the culture, capability, and confidence challenges managers face. Take away practical ways to empower and support managers through strategy, policy and culture. Learn new ideas, improvements and implementations you can take back to your own organisation
7 - Erasys
"Signals in the Silence: Unlocking Employee Wellbeing Through Science & Human Computer Interaction" - Experience how WhiteMatter, a breakthrough human-computer interaction application, is transforming workplace wellbeing. In this interactive session, discover how it monitors subtle patterns in user-computer interaction to deliver real-time, Neuro science-backed feedback—helping employees reduce stress, clear mental fog, and perform at their best. No wearables, no surveys—just intelligent, passive sensing that empowers individuals and gives leaders actionable insights through the Employer Dashboard and return on their employees "mental wellbeing" investment. Walk away with a smarter, data-driven approach to building healthier, high-performing teams.
8 - Epassi UK Zest
One size doesn’t fit all: How to build an inclusive wellbeing strategy that drives success, engagement, and ROI. Learn why a ‘one size fits-all’ approach fails - Discover how cultural, demographic, lifestyle, and individual differences shape wellbeing needs, and why personalisation and choice is the key to true inclusivity. Design a wellbeing strategy that delivers ROI - Explore practical ways to align wellbeing initiatives with business goals, improve engagement, retention, and overall performance. Walk away with actionable tools - Gain insights, tools and skills to build flexible and inclusive wellbeing programs that resonate across diverse employee groups and avoids tokenism or 'wellbeing washing'.
9 - Vitrue Health
"The Rising Cost of Doing Nothing." Why Physical Wellbeing Is Climbing the Priority List. Discover how pre-clinical support and smarter pathways can cut costs and speed up care. Learn why tackling MSK health needs a culture shift, not just another benefit. See how data-driven prevention boosts performance and reduces claims, absence, and attrition.
10 - Modern Health
Modern Health Mental Health and Managers: Building Supportive, Resilient Teams Managers plays a critical role in shaping workplace well-being. This session equips leaders with the tools to recognize early signs of mental health challenges, foster environments of psychological safety, and engage in meaningful conversations with their teams. Participants will also learn how to guide employees toward appropriate resources and support. Walk away with practical strategies to lead with empathy, reduce stigma, and strengthen both individual and team resilience. Hosted by: Anjuli Amin, PhD Licensed Clinical Psychologist
11 - Steps
'Building Resilience in Leaders: Practical tools to reframe unhelpful thought patterns.' Do you ever feel like stress is becoming harder to manage? Especially when, as a leader, you’re required to support your organisation and your people to stay well, to perform and to thrive, in an increasingly pressured world of work. In today’s unpredictable world, the ability to stay resilient and look after our own mental wellbeing has never been more important. This interactive session focuses on building personal resilience and self-care strategies. Using a mix of discussion, drama-based scenarios, and practical exercises grounded in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), you’ll come away with practical strategies to support your wellbeing going forward and enable you to support your organisation, teams and colleagues more effectively.
12 - Bodyism
Connection in a Digital World: In an age where most of our interactions are through screens, the need for real, human connection has never been greater. This immersive Bodyism workshop brings together movement, mindset, nutrition, recovery and (most importantly) connection, to show why in person experiences are essential to building resilient and high-performing teams. Led by Bodyism’s Corporate Nutritionist, Breathwork Coach and General Manager, you’ll experience a guided breathwork session designed to re-energise and reset, followed by a thought-provoking panel exploring why community is the true foundation of wellbeing at work. Expect practical insights into how live classes, shared events and embodied practices can transform culture, boost engagement and foster genuine belonging in a corporate environment. Step away from the digital noise and join us for a session that will remind you what it feels like to breathe, connect and thrive - together.
13:15 – 14:00
Networking Lunch
14:00 – 14:15
Audience Energiser - Breathwork to Reawaken Your Mind
Shake off the lunchtime slump and return refreshed. In this energising breathwork session, Bodyism will guide you through simple, powerful techniques to boost focus, lift your spirits and re-ignite your energy - ready to take on the afternoon with clarity and momentum.
Bodyism
14:15 – 14:55
Leadership Panel: People Centricity: Wellbeing, Sustainability and ESG
Kathy A. Seabrook
CEO and Founder, Global Solutions, Inc. & Co-Chair, People Sustainability Project, Capitals Coalition
Ruairi Connor
Risk Director, Ball Corporation, EMEA
Mark McBride-Wright MBE
CEO, EqualEngineers
Kelly Nicoll
President IOSH and Head, EHS, Doncaster Culture and Leisure Trust
Crystal Danbury
Director of Group Safety, Insurance and Occupational Wellbeing. Sainsbury's
Your Expert Panel Chair:
Malcolm Staves
Global VP, Health & Safety, L’Oreal
14:55 – 15:35
Leadership Panel: Beyond the Backlash - Wellbeing for Different Employee Groups
How do employers ensure their wellbeing efforts are meeting the needs of differing employee groups and identities? What means are available to better accommodate those of us who are not neurotypical? What are some examples that show why wellbeing needs to be addressed from an equity standpoint? What should be done about culture from the perspective of inter-generational workers?
Annisha Taylor
Head of Equality, Diversity & Inclusion, Ofcom
Marcia Williams
Equity & Inclusion Director, Channel 4
Helen Ouseley
Global Head of Culture & Community, Freshfields
Your Expert Panel Chair:
Dr. Nick Taylor
CEO, Unmind
15:35 – 15:55
Networking Break
15:55 – 16:20
A Fireside Chat:
Menopause Awareness and the Importance of Educating Leaders
Rebekah Brown
Founder & Head of Research, MPOWDER
Kacy Fleming
CEO & Founder,The Fuchsia Tent
Mark Rix
Group Managing Director, Sonas Group, (Wellbeing At Work)
16:20 – 16:45
Building the Neuroinclusive Workplace
How can organizations recognize the opportunity that integrating neurodivergent professionals can bring to an entire organization? Creating a neuroinclusive organization that includes individuals who are and who are not diagnosed with developmental conditions that fall within the neurodiversity spectrum. What are the drivers supporting advancement of neurodiverse professionals in the current marketplace and why they matter to their organization and industry? What are the leadership and teaming styles that can help enable neuroinclusion?
Dr Nancy Doyle
Co-Founder, Centre for Neurodiversity at Work, University of London
16:45 - 16:50
Closing Remarks
Mark Rix
Group Managing Director, Sonas Group, Wellbeing at Work
16:50 – 17:30
