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Online Global Stress & Wellbeing Summit 2025

The Summit will be held on Wednesday 5 November. It exemplifies our 2025 theme, Optimising Employee Wellbeing through Strategic Stress Management.

When employees feel valued, supported, and motivated, organisations thrive. Wellbeing isn’t just something that’s nice-to-have: it’s key to productivity, engagement, and long-term success. Strategic stress management plays a vital role in fostering employee health and resilience, and with important updates to the HSE Management Standards coming later this year, it’s more important than ever to take action.

The ISMA^UK Online Global Stress & Wellbeing Summit explores practical ways of managing stress, supporting first-line managers, and embedding mental health initiatives that make a real difference. Having mental health champions in the workplace is essential in breaking down stigma and fostering a culture of openness. From neuroscience-based strategies to engaging leadership, the Summit sessions will share insights to help businesses and organisations build a healthier, more inclusive workplace where everyone can flourish.

Who Is the Summit For?

The Summit programme is designed for health professionals and anyone interested in reducing stress, including mental health first aiders, counsellors, psychologists, therapists, HR advisers, coaches, trainers, and specialists in organisational change. It is also designed for business leaders and managers in the public, charity, and corporate sectors.

Summit Programme

The programme for the 2025 Summit is now available and you can view it here. There are six sessions, of which three are interactive panel discussions:

Strategic Stress Management: Ethical Leadership and Standards for Thriving Workplace Cultures
Where Stress Management Fits: Driving Inclusivity and Adapting Workplace Culture in an Ever-Changing World
Raising the Flag for Mental Health: Breaking Stigma Down Through Advocacy and Role Models

and three are practical sessions featuring individual presenters:

Turn On, Turn In, Tune Out
Change Your State Through Mantra Music Meditation, Ancient Breath and Power Affirmations
Negative Thinking: Strategies to Reduce Negative Thought Patterns and Foster a Healthier Mindset

Our speakers include Professor Sir Cary Cooper CBE, Dame Carol Black, Rachel Perkins OBE and many other acknowledged experts in their fields. You can view our speakers and their biographies here.

Following a highly successful launch in 2024, the Stress Management Awards are being held again in 2025 and the winners will be announced at the Summit. For more information about the Awards and the 2024 winners go here.

Join us at our Stress Awareness Day Summit, when you can watch experts offer the latest thinking and guidance on six important current topics related to stress, mental health, and wellbeing.

TICKET CATEGORIES	PRICE
Member Individual	£35
Member Corporate	£55
Non-Member Individual	£55
Non-Member Corporate	£75

Viewing Options: As a ticket-holder, you can view all six sessions live on Wednesday 5th November AND you can view them at any later time you choose, until Wednesday 31st December when the event programme will be taken down.

Wellbeing & Resilience at Work Training Programme

“I am delighted to support ISMA^UK and their noble mission to reduce stress, build resilience and improve wellbeing, both in the workplace and in society”