Kirklees Workplace Health & Wellbeing Fair

Now School Director of Executive Education, Nicola provides strategic and academic leadership for the school’s business growth and professional development provision. She gained Chartered Psychologist status after completing a professional doctorate in Health Psychology and has a long track record of supporting wellbeing within organisations across multiple sectors, including financial services, retail, health and education. Her work on sleep management is highly practical yet informed by theories and research about personal resilience and motivation.  

With evidence mounting of the productivity-costs of sleep-deprived workers, there is a strong case for sleep management training at work. Dr Nic Stenberg will present the benefits of good rest and introduce you to research backed strategies to improve sleep. How can employers help?

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Since 2016 He has managed ‘The Great Outdoors’ project for S2R, offering free ecotherapy to all adults in Kirklees, but have you heard of it?

Jason is going to speak about the free services out there that can help your workforce wellbeing.
’The Great Outdoors Project’ from S2R can help your staff improve their wellbeing. Jason will tell us about this and the other services from S2R along with opening the door to other free services delivered by the Voluntary and Community sectors ‘working together Better’ partnership and commissioned by Kirklees Directorate for Commissioning, Public Health and Adult Social Care.

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With 17 years’ experience across public health and specifically workplace wellbeing, Andy explores the importance of why embedding physical activity within the workplace transcends long term business strategy across recruitment, retention and keeping employees well. Practical examples are showcased across some of Andy’s work with the National Centre for Sports and Exercise Medicine, as well as current work streams.

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She is passionate about working with local businesses, sharing knowledge, resources, and case studies with the aim to support working carers in your organisation. Caring has a major impact on an individual's life and it's important that we highlight this and support the individual to maintain good health and well-being. Action is urgently needed for employees to understand and identify as a carer and access support early. Evidence shows that employers can make a big difference and it is good business practices to support their employees. The benefits don't just stop with the employee - find out more about how supporting carers could help your business. 

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Currently Louisa works on a freelance basis developing and delivering workshops on various aspects of mental health, wellbeing and creativity. Her talk today will focus on how the cost-of-living crisis is impacting people's mental health and what services are available to provide practical help and advice.

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Liz is also a volunteer for organisations supporting business growth of the district including Halifax Heritage Tours CIC, the women’s networking group L4N UK and she also organises the annual Christmas Tree Festival for the Halifax Minster.

She is a mother of 3 children, working with her business partner and husband.

Fuelled by personal experience, Liz is equipped with a wealth of knowledge on the topic of menopause. She is passionate about supporting others going through this transition and pro-active at spreading awareness of how menopause impacts women in the workplace, producing events such as the upcoming ‘Menopause Live’. Listening-to-understand paves the way for change and there are many small steps that employers can take to support their valuable team members

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