Frederika Roberts
Wellbeing programmes have become a line item in most organisations, yet engagement scores keep slipping and managers still report rising stress in their teams. The problem is rarely the absence of initiatives. It is the absence of a serious, evidence-based architecture that connects individual flourishing to the way the organisation actually runs.
Frederika Roberts is a positive psychology practitioner and author who helps schools and organisations turn wellbeing from a programme into an operating practice grounded in published research.
Full Profile
Why organisations work with Frederika Roberts
- An applied positive psychology MSc and doctoral research base, rather than the wellness-industry credentialling that dominates this space.
- Author or co-author of five published works on character education and whole-school wellbeing, including titles with Jessica Kingsley Publishers and Sage.
- European Representative for IPPAed, giving access to current global research on positive education before it filters into mainstream practice.
- Working content for both education sectors and workplaces, covering character strengths, psychological safety, and Appreciative Inquiry as a change method.
- Operates in English, Italian, French, and German, which matters for European multi-site organisations and international school groups.
Biography highlights
- MSc in Applied Positive Psychology; doctoral researcher in Education focused on whole-school wellbeing.
- European Representative for IPPAed, the International Positive Psychology Association’s Positive Education division.
- Founder of Educate to Flourish CIC, a social enterprise embedding wellbeing into school communities.
- Co-author, “Character Toolkit for Teachers” (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2018) and “Character Toolkit Strength Cards” (2020).
- Co-editor, “The Big Book of Whole School Wellbeing” (2021); author, “For Flourishing’s Sake” (2020) and “Recipe for Happiness” (2013).
- Member of the Professional Speaking Association and the Global Speakers Federation; iPPL Expert Member.
Biography
Wellbeing has become one of the most over-claimed and under-delivered categories in organisational life. Initiatives proliferate; engagement and mental health indicators rarely move with them. The gap is methodological. Most wellbeing work is built on motivational content rather than on the published research that the field of positive psychology has produced over the last two decades.
Roberts works inside that research base. She holds an MSc in Applied Positive Psychology and is completing doctoral research on whole-school wellbeing using Appreciative Inquiry, a change methodology that focuses organisational attention on what is already working and how to build from it. As European Representative for IPPAed, the International Positive Psychology Association’s Positive Education division, she connects practitioners with current academic findings before they reach the trade press.
Her published output gives organisations a clear sense of how she translates evidence into practice. “Character Toolkit for Teachers” (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2018) and the “Character Toolkit Strength Cards” (2020) provide working tools rather than abstract frameworks. “The Big Book of Whole School Wellbeing” (2021), which she co-edited, sits across the major contributors in the field. “For Flourishing’s Sake” sets out how policy and practice can be redesigned to put flourishing at the centre.
She founded Educate to Flourish CIC to take this work into schools as a social enterprise, and extends the same practice into workplaces, drawing on character strengths, psychological safety, and strengths-based approaches. The work is unusual in the wellbeing market for being explicitly research-grounded and equally credible in front of educators, HR leaders, and policy audiences.
Key speaking topics
- Positive psychology in organisational and educational settings
- Whole-school and whole-organisation wellbeing
- Character education and character strengths
- Appreciative Inquiry as a change method
- Psychological safety and strengths-based culture
- Mental health and flourishing at work
Ideal for
- HR and people leaders responsible for wellbeing strategy beyond surface-level programmes
- School leaders, MAT executives, and university leadership teams
- Conference audiences in education, public sector, and not-for-profit
- Boards or executives in family-owned and values-led organisations rethinking culture
Audience outcomes
- A working understanding of what positive psychology research has actually shown about wellbeing and performance.
- Specific tools from character strengths, Appreciative Inquiry, and strengths-based practice that can be applied immediately.
- A sharper distinction between wellbeing programmes that produce change and those that do not.
- Language and a model for connecting individual flourishing to organisational outcomes.