Meet the experts
Let’s raise workplace well-being - together
David Eakins
Founder, Suicide Prevention Speaker, Talk Club Facilitator, Psychotherapy student.
Having spent nearly two decades working for some of the world’s leading advertising agencies, David has transitioned into the well-being space by returning to college to study Psychotherapy and launching Brighton & Hove Talk Club (a mental health charity for men).
He now dedicates himself to educating employees on mental health management and helping organisations foster authentic cultures of understanding & resilience.
Darren Abrahams
Trauma Specialist & Human Hive Co-Founder
Travelling the world and learning from different cultures, Darren experienced the long term effects of trauma on individuals and communities, and how this experience lay at the heart of many of the world’s problems. Upon his return, Darren trained as a body focussed trauma therapist and is now an expert in understanding how the nervous system biologically, psychologically, and socially affects human beings. He now operates his private practice.
Determined to create even greater positive change, Darren co-founded The Human Hive and works with change making people and organisations, globally, to help them share skills, build relationships, and co-create solutions to issues that are important to them, starting from the nervous system out.
Kerry Moor
Psychology Undergraduate:
University of Sussex
Kerry is part of an interdisciplinary team of academics exploring, investigating, and illuminating the power of kindness and its impacts on people and communities.
With the world witnessing an epidemic of mental health issues, learning how to cope with the stresses in life, and how to process our emotions, should be a core part of education. Because education is the biggest component for children to gain all the skills they need for a balanced life. So, life education is what the system needs to provide. But currently, it does not.
After finishing their final year, Kerry is committed to pursue their passion to create a positive impact on the UK education system through the power of kindness - making Kerry’s work absolutely essential for the health and survival of future generations.
David Meikle
Author, Business Relationship Expert.
As a business author and consultant, David Meikle has spent much of the last 15 years helping people improve performance and reduce stress by analyzing and optimising both workplace relationships.
In his latest book, Tuning Up: Perform Better, Stress Less, David introduces a fresh, compelling approach to both internal and external working relationships. At its core is The Meikle Matrix - a simple yet powerful analytical tool designed to assess the balance between responsibility and control in workplace dynamics.
Applicable at all levels, The Meikle Matrix helps individuals and businesses uncover areas for tangible improvement, leading to less stress, greater productivity, and more fulfilling work experiences.
As the great Rory Sutherland put it: “What took me three decades and a series of panic attacks to understand, David’s book will teach you in a few hours.”
Dr David Luke
Associate Professor of Psychology at University of Greenwich
Professor David Luke is a leading psychologist and researcher dedicated to understanding the power of the human mind and its potential for transformation. With a deep interest in consciousness, altered states, and behavioural change, his work explores how shifting from a fixed mindset to a growth mindset can improve well-being, resilience, and performance in high-pressure environments.
Bringing decades of academic research into real-world application, David helps individuals and organisations challenge limiting beliefs. His engaging talks provide science-backed insights on cognitive flexibility, creativity, and the psychology of thriving under pressure - helping professionals in demanding industries develop healthier, more sustainable approaches to work and life.
Kirsty Dobson
Nutritionist, Co-Founder and Therapeutic Director at Clarity&
Kirsty had a varied and diverse career over nearly quarter century in the NHS, from being the polonium-poisoned Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko’s critical care dietitian, to leading a large acute team across two different hospital sites through the pandemic when we had to quickly triple our ICU capacity whilst handling significant staff anxiety and long covid sickness.
Kirsty specialised in the nutritional care of digestive diseases, kidney failure, neurological conditions and the critically ill and having worked my way around the body organs I have concluded those who manage their health and happiness successfully look after the body AND their mind.
Kev Exley
Unherded Founder & Neurodivergence Coach
Kev is a trained and qualified executive coach who specialises in helping professionals entrepreneurs and creative thinkers to thrive with (not despite) their ADHD. By building better habits, these remarkable folks are soon able to navigate their careers, strengthen their relationships and enjoy their lives a little more.
But it’s not what Kev’s always done. A previous twenty-five-year career in advertising saw him rise to board and C-suite-level positions at some of the most respected agencies in London, Manchester, New York and Toronto.
Something he achieved not only by mastering the challenges that come with his own ADHD, but by identifying and leveraging the unique strengths it brings, too.
Today, through the ADHD coaching practice & neurodiversity consultancy, UNHERDED, Kev has had the honour of helping over a hundred people embrace the simple, straightforward strategies that have allowed their real potential to run free.
Catherine Alison
Voice & Communication Coach,
Master The Art Founder
In the fast-paced world of advertising, finding your voice - both literally and figuratively - can be a challenge. Whether you’re just starting out and struggling to make yourself heard in meetings or a senior leader facing the pressure of high-stakes pitches, confident communication is key to success and well-being.
As an experienced agency marketing and business development consultant, professional actor, and advocate for the power of confident communication, Catherine helps individuals manage performance anxiety, build presence, and communicate with clarity and conviction.
With over 25 years of experience in the creative industry, she has seen firsthand how stress and self-doubt can hold people back. Her coaching focuses not just on technique, but also on mindset - helping clients overcome nerves, develop resilience, and step into any room with confidence. Because when you own your voice, you own your space.
Dr James Mannion
Director of Rethinking Education, Podcaster, Associate of Cambridge & UCL, TedX speaker.
James is the Director of Rethinking Education, an organisation dedicated to improving outcomes for young people through implementation science, self-regulated learning and practitioner inquiry. He has a Masters in person-centred education from the University of Sussex, and a PhD in self-regulated learning from the University of Cambridge.
Until recently, James was a Bespoke Programmes Leader at the UCL Centre for Educational Leadership. In this role, he worked with teachers and leaders to promote research-informed approaches to professional development and school improvement. He is an Associate of Oracy Cambridge, a Founding Fellow of the Chartered College of Teaching and a By-Fellow of Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge.
James is also the host of the popular Rethinking Education podcast, now in the top 3% globally. The podcast features long-form conversations with a wide range of guests about how we might reform education to bring about a more harmonious, less hair-raising state of world affairs.
Kassi Slade
The Positive Sleep Coach Founder
Through her 15 year+ agency career spanning strategy, activation, public relations and affairs, and marketing communications, Kassi gained first-hand experience of the pressures and challenges of senior leadership roles and the importance that sleep has on the delivery of optimal performance and wellbeing - both on and off the pitch.
Sleep is our number one superpower. It is single handedly the most important component for our mental, physical and emotional health and, now as a specialist Sleep Coach, Kassi uses her expertise to provide practical and actionable strategies to guide individuals, teams and workforces to long term sleep success.
Through the delivery of her renowned SleepCare Series, Kassi will supercharge your company to success through the optimisation of the health, creativity, efficiency and productivity of your employees via phone consultations and in person support, to on-site sleep surgeries and workshops.
If you’re a professional and want to see your employees and your business thrive, then Kassi's sleep coaching could be the missing piece in your performance puzzle.
Marc C.
Resilience Coach
Coming soon
Rose R.
Suicide prevention trainer
Coming soon