At a recent event organised by EventWell, I was asked to speak on the importance of resilience in teams in reaction to the challenges placed upon us all by COVID.  In this context, I chose to highlight the ongoing environmental challenges to mental health by…

Global Women for Wellbeing (GW4W) are a diverse group of dedicated professionals, community leaders, researchers, and entrepreneurs that are connecting to create positive change by empowering more healthy female leadership for a more sustainable world. Our director, Colin Bullen, was honored to be a guest…

APPLYING THE BEHAVIOUR CHANGE MODEL “Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them — that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” – Lao Tzu In the first part of this article, we…

A MODEL FOR BEHAVIOUR CHANGE “At least 50% of change initiatives fail to achieve their intended goal” Why should we tolerate such low success rates in any form of change management? Perhaps we’ve become too tolerant of failure in the space of change, blaming it…

“Is your workplace supporting you on your journey, or fighting back against the changes you’re trying to make?” Take a look at your desk and immediate workspace – what can you change to nudge you towards a better way of behaving? A post-it note? A…

Ignore History & Prepare to Fail. Beginning in Britain in 1760, the first industrial age spread to several countries transforming largely rural, agrarian societies in Europe and America into industrialized, urban ones. Between 1800 and 1900 nineteenth-century capitalists invented a new type of city as…

Why should investment in wellbeing, or any human change programme, be judged any differently to any other capital investment? Calculation of Return on Investment (ROI) is used in almost every business. It’s an essential tool in determining whether a company’s precious capital should be tied…

We previously posited that companies contribute to employee stress and other mental health problems. At the core of the breakdown is that many corporate cultures are an anachronism, developed for a post-war industrial era or built on ‘command and control’ structures.  Recognition that the digital…

You can’t go far on LinkedIn these days without coming across another company working hard on the mental wellbeing of employees and receiving awards for their efforts. Here in the UK, the Dukes and Duchesses of York and Sussex have made mental health one of…