Rachel Clarkson

Why organisations work with Rachel Clarkson

• She is a Health and Care Professions Council registered dietitian, not a nutritionist or wellness coach, which puts her workplace content inside the standard of evidence that clinical and benefits leaders can stand behind.
• Her nutrigenomics specialism, built through King’s College London training and a clinical partnership with Nutrigenomix at the University of Toronto, lets her translate gene-nutrient interaction into practical eating guidance for non-clinical audiences.
• The Eat The DNA Way framework gives corporate audiences a structured way to think about personalised nutrition, rather than the rotating list of trends that wellbeing programmes usually offer.
• Media credibility is established in outlets benefits and comms teams already trust, including BBC Future, The Guardian, Vogue and Healthista, which makes internal positioning of her sessions straightforward.
• She speaks as a clinician who runs a Harley Street practice, so audience questions on weight management, gut health, hormones and energy land with practical, individual-level answers rather than generic talking points.

Biography highlights

• Founder of The DNA Dietitian, a Harley Street consultancy focused on nutrigenomics and personalised nutrition.
• MSc Nutritional Science and Postgraduate Diploma in Dietetics, King’s College London.
• Former Clinical Dietitian at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Trust, with rotational training across the Royal Marsden, Imperial College Healthcare and St Thomas’s.
• Guest Lecturer on the MSc programme at St Mary’s University, London.
• Clinical partner of Nutrigenomix, the genetic testing company founded at the University of Toronto.
• Featured in BBC Future, The Guardian, Vogue, Tatler, Cosmopolitan, Grazia, Women’s Health and Men’s Health.

Biography

Corporate wellbeing spend has risen for a decade, and most workforces still feel tired, distracted and unsure what to eat. The gap is not awareness. It is specificity. Generic nutrition advice cannot account for how different people actually metabolise caffeine, respond to saturated fat, or tolerate carbohydrate, which is why so much wellbeing content fails to translate into behaviour change.

That is the gap nutrigenomics closes, and it is the territory Rachel Clarkson works in. Trained as a dietitian at King’s College London and clinically grounded through NHS rotations at Chelsea and Westminster, the Royal Marsden, Imperial College Healthcare and St Thomas’s, she now runs The DNA Dietitian from Harley Street. Her clinical partnership with Nutrigenomix, the testing company founded at the University of Toronto, sits behind a method she calls Eat The DNA Way.

She holds a guest lecturing position at St Mary’s University, London, where she teaches nutrigenomics on the MSc programme, and she contributes to literature in the field. The combination, regulated clinical credentials plus a specialism most general nutrition speakers do not have, is what makes her credible to a board-level audience asking whether wellbeing budget can be made to do real work.

In rooms of HR, benefits and people leaders, she translates a complex science into practical guidance her audience can act on the same week, with the same evidential standard she applies in clinic. That is rare in the workplace wellbeing market, and it is the basis on which her work has been picked up across BBC Future, The Guardian, Vogue and Healthista.

Key speaking topics

• Personalised nutrition and nutrigenomics
• Corporate wellbeing programme design
• Workplace energy, focus and cognitive performance
• Weight management and cardiometabolic health
• Gut health, IBS and digestion
• Hormonal health across the working life
• Longevity and healthspan in the workforce

Ideal for

• CHROs, heads of people and benefits leaders reviewing their wellbeing strategy
• Internal health, safety and wellbeing committees commissioning content for staff
• Professional services and finance firms with high-performance cultures and energy management questions
• Women’s networks and ERGs running hormonal health, menopause or energy programming

Audience outcomes

• A working understanding of how nutrigenomics differs from generic nutrition advice and where it can usefully apply at work
• Specific, evidence-based answers to the questions employees most often ask about weight, energy, gut health and hormones
• A clinical frame of reference for assessing wellbeing vendors and content offered to the workforce
• Personal next steps each attendee can apply to their own eating pattern within the week