Mentally Healthy Leaders Thoughtify Ltd
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- Health & Fitness
Welcome to Mentally Healthy Leaders. A Platinum Award winning podcast. In this podcast series, I’ll be chatting to senior executives, special forces soldiers, entrepreneurs, world record holders, and other inspirational leaders. Many of which have experienced their own struggle with mental health issues. Our guests are happy to share their story in the hope that it will help others to talk, and encourage business leaders to create more mentally healthy workplaces. Tom Fox. Podcast host, & MD of Thoughtify Ltd www.thoughtify.co.uk
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Kate Davies CBE - National Director at NHS England
Kate is the national director for healthcare services across England for Armed Forces serving personnel, veterans and their families; Sexual Assault Referral Centres (SARCs); and prisons, immigration removal centres and secure children’s homes and training centres.
Her national role is to assure high quality, consistent and sustained services with a strong focus on health inequalities and outcomes for patients and their families.
Kate was awarded an OBE in 2009, for services for disadvantaged communities. In 2018, she was awarded a CBE for her work to improve services for some of the most vulnerable groups and an Honorary Doctor of Staffordshire University in recognition of her commitment to health and social equality. -
Tim Munden - CLO & Head of Global Wellbeing at Unilever
Today’s guest is one of the leading voices in Mental Health support in the workplace.
Tim Munden, the Global Chief Learning officer at Unilever, has created programmes which aim to inspire people worldwide to look after their health and wellbeing.
But it was when he first started developing these programmes, that he realised he had his own demons to tackle.
From being injured out of an Army Career before it even started, to having a near death car crash that brought him years of harrowing nightmares, and the driving forces in his own career that have helped and hindered him over the years, he’s here to discuss them all. -
Simon Blake OBE - CEO of Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) England
Our guest today is Simon Blake OBE. CEO of Mental Health First Aid England.
Mental Health First Aid England has one aim - to improve the mental health of the nation. The organisation wants to see 1 in 10 of the population trained in mental health first aid, and for all of us to start considering mental health as being on a par with our physical health.
As a gay man who came out during the HIV epidemic, Simon understands the importance of supporting mental health through every stage of life and work.
Tragically, when his brother died suddenly five years ago from heart failure he also saw first hand how more needed to be done to support those suffering with grief & loss. -
Kerry Daynes - Forensic Psychologist, Expert Witness, TV Personality, & Author
We may think of them as police profilers who get deep within the psyche of serial killers and sex abusers, but Kerry Daynes says her profession as a Forensic Psychologist is much more than that.
She’s worked with some of the most serious offenders in our society, but she’s also worked with some of the most vulnerable.
At times she’s also been on the receiving end of abusive behaviour which has affected her own mental health and taught her lessons about how we are shaped by our experiences.
Author, Consultant Forensic Psychologist, and TV personality Kerry Daynes is todays guest. -
Mark Hodgson - CBO at Cervest
Today’s guest was a Senior Global Director at both Microsoft and Google, but after suffering a severe breakdown he left the corporate world to find personal fulfillment at a Start-Up.
Mark Hodgson says his life collapsed around him four years ago, but he now recognises the warning signs were there for years.
At his new company - Cervest, he is combining lifelong passions with professional experience and driving the Mental Health Agenda forward to support his colleagues. -
Paul Spanner - PwC Consultant & Former Commando Officer
Today’s guest is Paul Spanner.
Paul is a former Senior Officer in the Royal Marines, who was medically discharged after a cycling accident in which he suffered a fractured skull, broken back and neck among other injuries. He died twice at the side of the road. For most of us a crash of that scale may keep us off a bike forever, but Paul went on to join the GB Paralympic Cycling programme, and compete at a World Championship.
After the accident he spent several years with his mental health teetering close to the brink of a breakdown, struggling with his identity and on a path of self destruction. He threw himself into his new job at the Home Office and in the corridors of Number Ten, but it was once he found his current role at PwC that he got a grip of his demons.
Paul is now a Professional Services Consultant at PwC and is one of the firm’s Champions on Mental Health Wellbeing.