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Online Global Stress & Wellbeing Summit 2025
Wednesday 5th November 2025 | Live & Online
Join us at ISMAUK’s flagship event, where we explore this year’s powerful theme:
Optimising Employee Wellbeing through Strategic Stress Management
As the world of work evolves, so too must our approach to stress and wellbeing. When people feel supported, motivated, and valued, organisations thrive. This summit brings together leading voices, practical insights, and real-world strategies for creating healthier, more inclusive workplaces.
Why Attend?
Wellbeing is not a luxury — it’s a strategic necessity. With new updates to the HSE Management Standards on the horizon and increased focus on sustainable workplace cultures, there’s never been a more important time to act.
Whether you're an HR leader, coach, health professional, or senior manager, the Summit will give you tools to:
- Strengthen leadership and resilience
- Empower mental health champions
- Embed inclusive and ethical wellbeing practices
- Break stigma and foster open conversations
Who Should Attend?
The Summit is designed for:
- HR and wellbeing leaders
- Mental health first aiders and practitioners
- Coaches, trainers, psychologists, and therapists
- Business leaders across corporate, public, and charity sectors
- Anyone passionate about reducing stress and improving mental health
2025 Summit Programme
The programme includes six insightful sessions — three expert-led presentations and three interactive panel discussions.
- Strategic Stress Management: Ethical Leadership for Thriving Cultures
- Where Stress Management Fits: Inclusivity in an Evolving Workplace
- Mantra Music Meditation & Ancient Breathwork
- Raising the Flag for Mental Health: Breaking Stigma with Role Models
- Negative Thinking: Strategies to Reframe Your Mindset
- Stress Management Awards 2025
Celebrate this year’s winners and runners-up — live on screen.
Tickets and Viewing
| TICKET CATEGORIES | PRICE |
|---|---|
| Member Individual | £35 |
| Member Corporate | £55 |
| Non-Member Individual | £55 |
| Non-Member Corporate | £75 |
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Meet the Speakers
ISMA Event Speakers
Dr Lynda Shaw
Author, Professional Speaker, MentorLynda is an experienced entrepreneur, having owned three businesses. She holds a doctorate in cognitive neuroscience, specialising in the unconscious processing of emotion and behavioural change. She is an author, professional speaker, and mentor who works with senior leaders and their teams to communicate ideas. This enables better business relationships, funding and investment opportunities, spreading their genius to the outside world, something we badly need. Lynda is Past President of the Professional Speaking Association UK&I and is the founder of Brain & Behaviour Ltd, the Neuroscience Professional Development Programme and the Consciousness Academy - designed to debate the huge conundrum of consciousness. She is also an adventure traveller and is always informative, fun and extremely practical.
Nick Pahl
CEO, Society of Occupational MedicineNick is CEO of the Society of Occupational Medicine (SOM), the largest and oldest nationally recognised professional organisation for occupational health. SOM advances knowledge through its Journal of Occupational Medicine. It advocates to policy makers the value of occupational health via its Patrons: Lord Blunkett, Dame Carol Black, Lord Popat, and Sir Norman Lamb. Nick has held senior posts in the NHS, Hospice UK and MSI. He has completed a Windsor Leadership Trust and ACEVO next-generation CEO training, a diploma in management, a degree in Economics and an MSc in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He was Trustee of Global Health Partnerships (THET) and the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health and is currently Trustee of the British Geriatric Society. Nick is Chair of ROSPA’s National Occupational Health and Safety Committee. He is an honorary member of the Faculty of Public Health and judges for both the CIPD and MemCom workplace health awards.
Paul Devoy
Chief Executive, Investors in PeoplePaul is Chief Executive of Investors in People (IIP), a community interest company, following the 2016 buyout from the government, led by Paul. IIP's purpose is to Make Work Better, working with organisations employing over a million people to provide diagnostic tools, advice, support and assessment against internationally recognised Frameworks. IIP’s network of 150 skilled and experienced consultants work with organisations in 70 countries, but predominantly in the UK.
Paul was previously a director at the UK Commission for Employment and Skills, where he led development and implementation of strategic programmes to create sustainable skills solutions. He also worked in the Scottish Prison Service for four years on change management programmes. Paul is a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and a Companion of the Chartered Management Institute.
Paul Dorrington
Founder, Phoenix WorksPaul Dorrington 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, preventative, and personalised approach to mental health and workplace wellbeing.
Peter J. Kelly MSc BSc MBP
Director and Founder, Being RealPeter is best known for his role with the UK Health & Safety Executive where, as senior psychologist for 24 years, he was a constant in encouraging employers to consider the role of work in promoting positive worker mental health outcomes. He is the founder and director of Being Real Workplace Mental Health Solutions and mental health advisor to the charity Mates in Mind.
Peter’s decorated career includes working on the 2004 UK stress management standard (the first of its kind in the world) and being technical committee member on the ISO 45003 standard (the first internationally agreed standard for psychological health and safety at work). He is a passionate advocate for workers’ mental health and a recognised subject matter expert for mental health at work.
Prash Kotecha
Corporate Wellbeing, Resilience & Leadership Expert. Success Mentor, Speaker. CEO, Stress To Success
Prash Kotecha
Corporate Wellbeing, Resilience & Leadership Expert. Success Mentor, Speaker. CEO, Stress To SuccessPrash is an international Wellbeing, Resilience and Conscious Leadership Consultant, Speaker, and CEO of Stress To Success. He brings 25+ years’ corporate experience, having worked with HSBC, Lloyds Banking Group, WeWork, and many other smaller businesses, reaching many tens of thousands of people globally through his events, retreats and podcasts.
Together with his longstanding corporate and business background, Prash’s significant experience in the fields of wellbeing, emotional intelligence and peak performance has resulted in a unique style of coaching, training and consulting, that blends unconventional wisdom with real-world pragmatism.
Rachel Perkins OBE
BA, MPhil (Clinical Psychology), PhDWith a background in clinical psychology, Rachel has worked with NHS mental health services as a clinician, director, and consultant/trainer for 45 years. She established the first UK evidence-based supported employment programme to help people with serious mental health challenges to gain and sustain employment. In 2008/9 she was invited to lead an independent review to Government about improving employment support for people with a mental health condition, and in 2010 she was awarded an OBE for services to mental health and voted ‘Mind Champion of the Year’. Rachel is a Senior Consultant to ImROC, a Consultant to IPS Grow and a Non-Executive Director of The Health Employment Partnerships.
Sarah McIntosh
CEO, Mental Health First AidSarah McIntosh is the Chief Executive of Mental Health First Aid England. She is passionate about driving social change to create mentally healthy workplaces where people, communities and businesses thrive.
With her background in HR, Sarah found a drive for diversity and wellbeing when developing the experiences of customers, members, and employees. From mutuals and social enterprises, to co-operatives and charities, social purpose has been central to her career.
Sarah is a Non-Executive Director at Social Enterprise UK and a Companion of the Chartered Institute of Management.
Simon Hawtrey-Woore
Outdoor Executive CoachSimon is an Outdoor Executive Coach and leads his life with a deep curiosity about people and experiences, a passion for open collaboration, a desire to keep things simple, and a love of the outdoors. Simon has a strong belief in the combination of powerful questioning and inspiring natural spaces to open up fresh perspectives and help create insights and clarity. He has 25 years’ marketing experience and has been a coach for 18 years. When Simon isn’t guiding clients through their challenges and opportunities, he is outdoors, leading groups up mountains, running, cycling, or fishing.
Shelley Bridgman
Speaker, Transformational Coach and AuthorShelley is a speaker, transformational coach and author. She has also been a media commentator, specialising in psychotherapy, psychology and coaching, with appearances on BBC Television, Sky News, Channels 4 and 5, as well on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour and Midweek and The Jeremy Vine Show on BBC Radio 2. She has also featured in Psychologies and Therapy Today magazines.
As a speaker, Shelley’s principal topics include transformational change, diversity thinking and ‘you don’t have to walk alone’.
Shelley’s TEDX talk, ‘Dare to Be You’, has been described as ‘Brilliant, brave and sensational!’
