Dr Megan Rossi

Why organisations work with Megan Rossi

• A working academic at King’s College London, not a wellness commentator. Her recommendations are drawn from a research programme she actively leads, with over £3 million in funding and 50 plus peer-reviewed papers behind her.
• The Diversity Diet framework gives audiences a single behavioural target with named scientific provenance. Thirty different plants per week, tracked simply, anchored in microbiome research.
• A commercially proven communicator. Four Sunday Times bestsellers across UK, US, Australia and European markets, plus a consumer audience of roughly half a million followers, mean the messaging works on non-expert audiences.
• Connects gut health to the workplace metrics leaders already care about: focus, fatigue, mental health, immunity, IBS-related absence. Few speakers in this space hold both the clinical and the research credentials to do this credibly.

Biography highlights

• Research Fellow, King’s College London, since 2015, leading studies on prebiotics, probiotics, the low FODMAP diet, plant-based diversity and food additives.
• PhD in gut health from the University of Queensland, awarded the Dean’s Award for outstanding research.
• Author of four Sunday Times bestsellers, including Eat Yourself Healthy, Eat More, Live Well and How To Eat More Plants, published by Penguin.
• Founder of The Gut Health Clinic (London and Manchester), the consumer brand The Gut Health Doctor, the food brand Bio&Me, and the supplement range SMART STRAINS.
• 2017 BMJ Open Gastroenterology prize; British Nutrition Foundation Drummond Pump Priming Award presented by HRH The Princess Royal; 2020 Young Australian Achiever of the Year in the UK.
• Regular contributor to The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph and Stylist, with recurring appearances on ITV’s This Morning.

Biography

Sickness absence linked to digestive complaints, fatigue and low mood is one of the most expensive line items in any large workforce, yet most organisations treat each cause in isolation. The science of the gut-brain axis points to a shared biological root, and the corporate wellbeing market has been slow to catch up with what microbiome research now shows.

That is the gap Megan Rossi works in. Since 2015 she has been a Research Fellow at King’s College London, leading studies on prebiotics, probiotics, the low FODMAP diet and dietary fibre. She has secured more than £3 million in research funding and published over 50 peer-reviewed papers, alongside a PhD in gut health from the University of Queensland that was awarded the Dean’s Award for outstanding research.

The translation work matters as much as the research. Through four Sunday Times bestselling books published by Penguin, a clinic in London and Manchester, and consumer brands Bio&Me and SMART STRAINS, Rossi has built a public platform that takes microbiome evidence into everyday food choices. The signature idea is the Diversity Diet: 30 different plants per week, with named scientific provenance from the American Gut Project.

For employer audiences the value is specific. Energy, sleep quality, mental health, IBS-related absence and immune resilience are all areas where current microbiome research has direct, behavioural implications, and where Rossi can speak from her own clinical and academic work rather than a secondary summary of the field.

Key speaking topics

• Gut-brain axis and workplace mental health
• Microbiome science and the Diversity Diet
• Nutrition, energy and cognitive performance
• IBS, bloating and digestive conditions at work
• Evidence-based workplace wellbeing programmes
• Prebiotics, probiotics and nutrition myths

Ideal for

• CHROs and heads of wellbeing redesigning health benefits beyond gym subsidies and EAPs
• Healthcare, pharma and consumer health audiences seeking a credible microbiome voice
• Employer audiences in financial services, professional services and tech where cognitive performance and stress-related absence are commercial issues
• Customer-facing health and FMCG brands building science-led product or marketing positioning

Audience outcomes

• A clear, evidence-grounded picture of how gut health affects mood, focus and immune function in working populations.
• The Diversity Diet as a single, trackable behaviour change individuals can begin the next day.
• A working separation between microbiome science and the supplement and wellness marketing built around it.
• Practical guidance on managing IBS, bloating and digestive issues that often go unspoken in workplace health conversations.