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Jane Fordham
PRCA Fellow, Head of People at Hanbury Strategy and Founder, Jane Fordham Consulting
Jane Fordham
PRCA Fellow, Head of People at Hanbury Strategy and Founder, Jane Fordham ConsultingJane has a diverse portfolio career as Head of People at Hanbury Strategy, a fast-growth PR and public affairs agency. She combines this with work as a people, culture and inclusion consultant, delivering 1-2-1 coaching through to organisational-level leadership development or culture change programmes. Jane is also a committee member at Women in PR UK. As an independent consultant, she has supported organisations including No.10 Downing Street, the Civil Aviation Authority, Greater Anglian Trains, Live Nation, Centrica and Warner Bros.
Jessica Smyrl RN RM BA MBA FISMA SIIRSM
Lead Trainer and Consultant for YSM SolutionsJessica established YSM Solutions in 2009, with the aim of improving wellbeing and reducing stress within the workplace. She has advised various organisations including businesses, the NHS, universities and charities on how to develop their health and wellbeing programmes.
She was awarded the ISMA Federation International Award in December 2021, in recognition of her positive contribution towards research, development and wellness in the areas of stress, performance and wellness. Jessica has degrees in social science and business management and a Diploma in Stress Management.
She has written two books, Stress Management for Carers and Feel Great: How to Manage Stress and Enjoy Life.
Jonathan Develing
Director of Strategy and Partnerships for Liverpool Heart and Chest NHS Foundation Trust
Jonathan Develing
Director of Strategy and Partnerships for Liverpool Heart and Chest NHS Foundation TrustJonathan started his NHS career in general and psychiatric nursing in 1980, before moving into strategic health management. He has a wealth of experience at both regional and national level in the NHS, having been Regional Director of Operations and Delivery for NHS England (North), Chief Officer at NHS Wirral Clinical Commissioning Group, and more recently Senior Responsible Officer for the Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership Prevention workstream.
Jonathan is passionate about patient care and improving outcomes, and in his new role at Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital, he will be developing evidence-based prevention strategies to tackle areas such as cardiovascular disease, as well as partnerships that will help the adoption and spread of best practice, both regionally and nationally.
Reverend Captain (retired) Katie Watson
Head of Chaplaincy, Newcastle Hospitals TrustKatie joined the army in 1992 at 18 years old, training at the Army Women’s Training Centre, Guildford before training with the Royal Military Police at Chichester. She was subsequently posted to various mainland garrisons, including Bosnia, Croatia and Northern Ireland. She completed her service as the Policing Captain and Company Second in Command at Chichester. On leaving the army, Katie underwent ordination training. She has been with Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust as a Chaplain for 14 years. In 2020 she was appointed as the Head of Chaplaincy for the Newcastle Hospitals Trust. She enjoys ultra-distance trail running. Her partner of 17 years is a GP and they have two children.
Keith Fraser
Chair of the Youth Justice Board for England and Wales and local senior cop (retired)
Keith Fraser
Chair of the Youth Justice Board for England and Wales and local senior cop (retired)Keith was appointed as a member of the Youth Justice Board in January 2018, and the Lord Chancellor appointed him as Chair of the Board in April 2020. He became a Commissioner for the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities in July 2020. In August 2022 he was appointed as chair of Local Partnerships. Prior to this, he was a police officer for 32 years and a senior officer for 14 years. Keith is passionate about children and young people and supports others to get the best out of themselves.
Louise Aston
Wellbeing Campaign Director, Business in the Community, the Prince’s Responsible Business Network
Louise Aston
Wellbeing Campaign Director, Business in the Community, the Prince’s Responsible Business NetworkLouise is an award-winning workplace mental health and wellbeing campaigner, recognised by the Institute of Directors (IoD), the Society of Occupational Medicine (SOM) and the Reward and Employee Benefits Association (REBA). Business in the Community (BITC)’s wellbeing campaign is a national collaboration between business leaders, government and national stakeholders that positions employee mental health as a boardroom issue on a par with physical health. BITC supports and challenges employers to take a proactive, integrated approach to promoting employee wellbeing.
Dr Louise Nash FHEA
Lecturer in Management and Organisation Studies, Essex Business School, University of Essex
Dr Louise Nash FHEA
Lecturer in Management and Organisation Studies, Essex Business School, University of EssexLouise is a lecturer in Management and Organisation Studies at Essex Business School, the University of Essex. Her research focuses on the rhythms and spaces of everyday working life, and the emotional labour involved in feeling included, or otherwise, in the workplace. Recent research has explored the experience of neuro-diverse employees, focusing on the demands they face to conform to workplace expectations and how these can contribute to feelings of marginalisation and anxiety.
Lucy Brazier OBE
CEO, Marcham PublishingLucy is one of the world’s leading authorities on the administrative profession. As CEO of Marcham Publishing, specialist publishers of Executive Support Magazine, Lucy’s passion is for the role of Assistant to be truly recognised as a career and not just a job. Over the last 10 years, she has personally met and spoken to literally thousands of Assistants, and has access to the most forward-thinking, passionate and knowledgeable administrative business leaders in the world. Lucy’s knowledge of the market and what Assistants all over the world are facing on a day-to-day basis are second to none. In 2021 Lucy was awarded an OBE in recognition of her services to office professionals.
Maggie Stevens
ISMAUK Ambassador, Coordinator, ISMAUK ScotlandMaggie is a creative wellbeing consultant and an accredited mindfulness practitioner who has been a member of ISMAUK since 1994, becoming an Ambassador in 2019. She is also the Co-ordinator for ISMAUK Scotland. Maggie also volunteers as a parent support coordinator and continues to be committed to promoting mental health and wellbeing. She says, “There is much to be done in the challenging times in which we live today, and I believe the work that ISMAUK does in the field of stress management and awareness helps to address mental health issues in society ”.
Matthew Perkins
Director of Business Development, Sage GlobalMatthew has over 25 years’ sales and marketing experience in retail and manufacturing and has run his own distribution business. During four years as a Business Link advisor, he worked with companies across many sectors on all aspects of management and development and was also a member of the national PR panel. After Business Link closed, Matthew oversaw implementation of PayPal UK’s SME engagement strategy. He then spent six years as Senior Partnerships Manager at FreeAgent, one of the UK’s ‘big four’ cloud accounting software providers, working on projects large and small. At Sage Global, Matthew heads up the new ‘Accounting as Service’ proposition, at the cutting edge of embedded financial services in the new Fintech-driven world.
He is a qualified business advisor and a mentor for the Government’s Growth Accelerator scheme.
Paul Dorrington
Founder, Phoenix WorksPaul is an award-winning mental health recovery and vocational rehabilitation specialist, workplace wellbeing trainer, coach, NHS lead, and keynote speaker. In his NHS role, he and his teams have helped hundreds of clients to recover and regain a meaningful working life after mental health difficulties. As the owner of Phoenix Works, a training and consultancy company, he takes a proactive, preventive, and personalised approach to mental health and workplace wellbeing.
Phil Sampson
Founder, Sampson HallPhil is a former Royal Marine who founded Sampson Hall Ltd in 2009, bringing hard-won military lessons on strategy, organisation and leadership from the battlefield to business. Sampson Hall are leadership, strategy, business governance and risk specialists, bringing opportunities to business through an organisation's most valuable asset, its people. As a business, they understand strategy and the human dynamics of working environments and offer professional development consultations, coaching, mentoring and training programmes to suit any size of organisation in the public, private and third sectors. Phil is a founding member of the Leaders Club. In 2019 he was diagnosed with prostate cancer.
