Mental Health and Wellbeing in the Workplace Conference 2026

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Overview

Agenda

• 9.30am

  Registration

• 9.50am

  Chair’s Opening Remarks

  Fiona Yensen, Former Head of Wellbeing, Home Office (CONFIRMED)

• 10.00am

  Keynote: Rethinking Workplace Wellbeing

  • Challenging the idea that workplace wellbeing is a standalone issue, and exploring why it is often a symptom of wider organisational health.
  • Examining how leadership capability, culture, psychological safety, workload, clarity and ways of working shape employee mental health and wellbeing.
  • Exploring how organisations can move from reactive wellbeing activity to more proactive, preventative strategies.
  • Considering how wellbeing data can provide insight into employee experience, organisational pressure points and root causes.
  • Sharing practical steps to strengthen manager capability, create healthier working conditions and build more resilient workplace cultures.

  Fiona Yensen, Former Head of Wellbeing, Home Office (CONFIRMED)

• 10.20am

  Keynote: Supporting Staff Wellbeing During Organisational Restructuring

  • Leading structural change in a way that reduces uncertainty and protects trust by being clear about processes and expectations
  • Aligning restructuring decisions with the organisations’ values so people maintain a sense of connection during transitions
  • Engaging staff  through frequent communication that gives them space to express concerns and feel included in transition processes
  • Supporting managers and teams with the guidance they need to stay resilient while navigating change

  Lisa Davidson, Director of People and Culture, Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (CONFIRMED)

  

• 10.40am

  Questions and Answers 

• 11.00am

  Comfort break

• 11.20am

  Keynote: Building Psychological Safety in Line Management

  • Developing psychologically safe management practices to encourage early conversations and prevent escalation into formal disciplinary or grievance procedures
  • Equipping line managers with skills to handle difficult conversations and sensitivity to mental health
  • Supporting employee wellbeing throughout disciplinary and grievance processes

  Ruhel Ahmed, Senior Policy Advisor, Acas (CONFIRMED)

  

• 11.40am

  Keynote: Leading with Lived Experience and Openness in the Workplace

  • Creating an environment where staff feel confident to disclose health and wellbeing challenges
  • Drawing on lived experience to shape leadership approach and inform decision-making
  • Encouraging leaders to have open, visible conversations around wellbeing and inclusion
  • Ensuring leadership is recognised by staff as approachable, present, and engaged on these issues

  Hasan Reza, Strategic Leader in Equity, Diversity & Inclusion, and Interfaith Engagement, Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust (CONFIRMED)

  

• 12.00pm

  Questions and Answers 

• 12.20pm

  Lunch Break

• 1.10pm

  Keynote: Creating Psychologically Safe and Inclusive Workplaces to Support Wellbeing

  • Embedding inclusion into workplace culture to improve wellbeing and employee engagement
  • Creating psychologically safe spaces where staff feel confident to speak openly about mental health and wellbeing challenges
  • Supporting vulnerable employees through inclusive leadership and policy
  • Equipping senior leaders and line managers to support belonging and healthy workplace practice

  Vickie Carroll, Wellbeing Lead and Joy Hume, Head of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, London Borough of Waltham Forest (CONFIRMED)

  

• 1.30pm

  Keynote: Taking Your Workplace Wellbeing Strategy to the Next Level

  • The latest evidence on what truly improves workplace wellbeing
  • How leaders can build strategies that deliver real impact.

  Sarah Cunningham, Chair of the WWM Expert Group on Work Wellbeing, World Wellbeing Movement (CONFIRMED)

  

• 1.50pm

  Questions and Answers

• 2.10pm

  Breakout Networking: Connecting for Mental Health, Wellbeing and Peer Support

  This session invites delegates to engage in structured discussions focused on improving workplace mental health and support wellbeing. Attendees will share strategies for supporting colleagues, inclusive practices in their organisations. The session encourages collaboration and takeaways that can be applied immediately to improve staff wellbeing.

• 2.40pm

  Comfort Break 

• 3.00pm

  Case Study: Creating a Successful Wellbeing Strategy

  • Considering the wellbeing challenges facing your workforce and where support is needed most
  • Engaging leaders and managers in shaping your wellbeing approach
  • Developing initiatives that are aligned with your organisation’s values
  • Measuring success and use feedback to continually improve your wellbeing offer
• 3.20pm

  Case Study: Supporting Bereaved Staff

  • Discussing why a supportive workplace is important when someone has been bereaved, using case study examples.
  • Explaining how bereavement affects different people in different ways
  • Outlining some things that workplace can do to become more supportive, including: Things that individual managers and HR staff can say and do and ways a workplace as a whole can become more prepared, e.g. through flexible bereavement policies, increased understanding and staff training

  Rebecca Patterson, Director of Good Life, Good Death, Good Grief, Scottish Partnership for Palliative Care (CONFIRMED)

  

   

• 3.40pm

  Questions and Answers 

• 4.00pm

  Chair’s Closing Remarks 

  Fiona Yensen, Former Head of Wellbeing, Home Office (CONFIRMED)

• 4.05pm

  Conference Close 

Get in Touch

Speakers

Fiona Yensen

Former Head of Wellbeing

Home Office

Maeve Waite

Work Psychologist and Wellbeing Consultant

Civil Aviation Authority

Ruhel Ahmed

Senior Policy Advisor

Acas

Hasan Reza

Strategic Leader in Equity, Diversity & Inclusion, and Interfaith Engagement

Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust

Vickie Carroll

Wellbeing Lead

London Borough of Waltham

Sarah Cunningham

Chair of the WWM Expert Group on Work Wellbeing

World Wellbeing Movement

Deidre Bowen

Director of National Programmes

Mental Health UK

Rebecca Patterson

Director of Good Life, Good Death, Good Grief

Scottish Partnership for Palliative Care

Testimonials

Why You Should Attend?

✓ High-level keynotes from senior leaders in HR, occupational health and workplace wellbeing

✓ Best-practice case studies in early intervention, burnout prevention, hybrid-working support and inclusive wellbeing design

✓ Extended workshop offering practical training for strengthening organisational wellbeing approaches

✓ Networking with senior colleagues from a range of sectors

✓ CPD (gain 8 hours of CPD points towards your yearly quota).

Who Should Attend?

Pricing Options

Sponsorship

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Virtual vs F2F

Whilst F2F provide better options for networking, there are many distinct advantages of sponsoring our online conferences including:

• Wider geographical reach of delegates and a different audience who prefer online to f2f
• Lower sponsorship package costs
• No travel/accommodation
• Less time out of the office
• No stand materials required (lower costs)
• 1 of only 2 sponsors involved – less competition on the day
• Prime speaking slot in the morning of the conference including Q&A – less distractions and easier for delegates to hear/absorb information
• Receive all delegate data after the conference to follow-up directly with those who attend and don’t attend (small % but still key stakeholders)
• Ongoing exposure via OnDemand access (coming soon)

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