Mental Health in the Workplace speakers

Why organisations work with Toby Makoyawo A current elite athlete competing at the front edge of NCAA Division I sprinting, not a retired professional reflecting on a finished career. The pressure he describes is the pressure he is still operating inside. A European U20 100m title and a Boston University school record at 10.12 seconds give him a specific credibility on the question of preparation, execution, and recovery in events decided by hundredths of a second. Combines elite competition with a full undergraduate degree at Boston University, which lets him speak credibly to early-career and graduate audiences about workload, discipline, and time as a finite resource. A diaspora background, born in Florida to Nigerian parents and raised in West London, that lets him speak naturally on inclusion and identity without the topic feeling bolted on. Biography highlights European U20 Champion, 100m, 2021, in a personal-best 10.25 seconds Boston University 100m and 60m school record holder, fastest sprinter in BU programme history NCAA Division I Second Team All-American British Olympic Trials 200m finalist at age 19 UK National Champion, U20 age category, 2021 Reading for an undergraduate degree at Boston University while competing at NCAA Division I level Biography Most sprint finals are decided in the first thirty metres and a leader’s first thirty seconds of a hard meeting are not that different. The capacity to be composed under public scrutiny is a trained capacity, and Toby Makoyawo trains it for a living. He is the fastest sprinter in Boston University’s history and a European U20 100m champion who is still in the middle of the work, not at the end of it. The substance of his story is preparation rather than highlights. A 10.25 second European junior title in 2021, a 10.12 second school record at the Texas Relays in 2022, and an All-American placing in NCAA Division I sit on top of a daily routine that includes coursework, training cycles, and the management of expectation that any 23-year-old at the front of a sport has to learn quickly. The route through is also distinctive. Born in Florida to Nigerian parents, raised in West London, and recruited into the American collegiate athletics system, he has had to learn how to perform inside three different cultural contexts. The relevance to a corporate audience is direct: graduate intake, early-career talent, and inclusion programmes all benefit from a speaker who can describe identity and high performance as the same conversation, not two separate ones. What he offers a room is not a finished career narrative. It is a current account of how an elite competitor manages the gap between training intent and competition reality, week after week, in a discipline where the margin of error is measured in hundredths of a second. Key speaking topics Performance under public pressure Goal-setting and long-horizon planning Identity, inclusion, and elite performance Discipline and time management Mental health in competitive environments Resilience after setback Ideal for Graduate intake and early-career talent programmes Diversity, inclusion, and belonging audiences inside large employers Sales and high-performance teams operating to public targets Sports, education, and youth-facing organisations Audience outcomes A working sense of how elite athletes prepare for moments measured in hundredths of a second Practical language for goal-setting, time discipline, and recovery from setback A first-person account of identity and high performance as a single conversation, not a parallel one Renewed engagement from younger and early-career audiences who recognise the speaker’s age, register, and trajectory

Why organisations work with Trent Shelton He reaches people that internal messaging and management cannot. A digital following built over more than a decade lets him speak to a workforce in a register company communications rarely achieve. His argument that self-worth drives ownership sits on a published body of work, including “Protect Your Peace” (Hay House, 2023) and “The Greatest You” (HarperCollins Leadership, 2019). He applies a professional athlete’s understanding of preparation and pressure to how ordinary employees show up at work, rather than to elite-performance abstractions. More than a decade running RehabTime, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, means he has operated the message on ownership and standards, not only spoken about it. Biography highlights Former NFL wide receiver: Indianapolis Colts, Washington Redskins, Seattle Seahawks Baylor University, BA Speech Communications, 2007 Founder and president, RehabTime Organization (501(c)(3) nonprofit, established 2011) Author of “Protect Your Peace” (Hay House, 2023), “The Greatest You” (HarperCollins Leadership, 2019), and “Straight Up” Host of “The Trent Shelton Podcast” (launched 2019) Built one of the largest personal-development digital audiences in the United States Biography Most accountability problems inside organisations are not really accountability problems. People miss the standard because, underneath, they do not believe the outcome is worth their full effort. Skill and systems are rarely the real constraint. Self-worth is. Shelton arrived at that argument from an unusual direction. A wide receiver with the Colts, Redskins, and Seahawks, he left the NFL earlier than planned and founded RehabTime in 2011, a nonprofit that took 501(c)(3) status in 2013 and has run for more than a decade. The work forced a practical question: what makes people keep showing up when the external rewards disappear. That question runs through his books. “The Greatest You” (HarperCollins Leadership, 2019) and “Protect Your Peace” (Hay House, 2023) argue that self-worth is the infrastructure of performance rather than a wellbeing add-on. His podcast, launched in 2019, has produced close to 200 episodes for a large international audience. For a corporate audience, the draw is register as much as content. Shelton speaks to ownership and accountability in the language of people who have stopped listening to management, and he reaches employee populations that internal programmes struggle to move. He is now built around a single keynote, “It All Starts With You,” which puts self-worth ahead of the accountability systems most organisations rely on. Key speaking topics Employee wellbeing and burnout Mental health in the workplace Resilience and recovery from setback Self-leadership and personal accountability Mindset and peak performance Motivation and inspiration Ideal for Corporate kick-offs, leadership summits, and company-wide events where the message needs to reach beyond senior leadership Sales conferences and frontline teams where ownership and consistency drive results University convocations and athletic programmes seeking a performance and accountability message CHROs and culture leads running accountability or culture-change initiatives Audience outcomes A direct case for why ownership follows a high personal standard, not a management instruction The distinction between accountability people hold themselves to and pressure applied from above A reframing of self-worth as the thing that keeps performance steady under pressure A setback-and-rebuild narrative from professional sport that lands across every level of seniority

Why organisations work with Troy Deeney He speaks from a verifiable record of collapse and recovery: prison in 2012, back in the Watford team within weeks of release, club captain inside two years, and the side’s all-time leading Premier League scorer by the end of his Watford career. His material on mental health is not theoretical. He has written publicly about counselling, grief and identity in Redemption: My Story, and brings that into the room without the polish that usually sands the substance off. He has run a real campaign, not just commented on one. Where’s My History? involved a YouGov teacher survey, a 50,000-signature petition, a Channel 4 documentary and direct engagement with the Department for Education. He is a working broadcaster, which means the room gets a confident communicator. Sky Sports EFL, TalkSport, BBC Sounds and the Deeney Talks podcast are part of his weekly diet. He works well in fireside and Q&A formats, which suits clients who want a real conversation with a senior audience rather than a scripted keynote. Biography highlights Made 500+ professional appearances and scored 160+ career goals across Watford, Birmingham City and Forest Green Rovers. Captain of Watford for the second half of his career there; club record Premier League scorer; FA Cup finalist and promotion winner. Author of Troy Deeney: Redemption: My Story (Hachette / Octopus), reviewed widely and named “Footie book of the year” by The Sun. Fronted Troy Deeney: Where’s My History? on Channel 4 (2022), a 60-minute documentary on the lack of Black, Asian and minority ethnic content in the UK school curriculum. Pundit on Sky Sports EFL, regular on TalkSport, co-host of BBC Sounds’ Football Firsts with Jermain Defoe, and host of the Deeney Talks podcast. Served as head coach of Forest Green Rovers after a player-coach role, holding a UEFA A coaching licence. Biography Watford were 2-1 down to Leicester in the 2013 Championship play-off semi-final when Troy Deeney scored in the 97th minute to put them in the final. The goal is still played on highlight reels. Eighteen months earlier he had been in HMP Birmingham, serving time for affray, and had assumed his career was finished. That gap, between prison cell and one of the most famous goals in modern English football, is what gives his speaking material weight. Redemption: My Story, published by Hachette in 2021, is his own account of the road between the two: a childhood on one of Europe’s largest council estates, a father who dealt drugs and went in and out of prison, three months inside, counselling, and the discipline of rebuilding. The Sun named it football book of the year. It is unusually candid about mental health, grief and the specific work of recovery. Since retiring from playing, Deeney has built a parallel career as a broadcaster and campaigner. He is a Sky Sports EFL pundit, a regular voice on TalkSport, and co-hosts BBC Sounds’ Football Firsts with Jermain Defoe. He fronted Where’s My History?, a Channel 4 documentary on the absence of Black, Asian and minority ethnic content in the national curriculum, supported by a YouGov teacher survey, a public petition and an open letter to the Secretary of State for Education. He spent a season as player-coach and then head coach at Forest Green Rovers in 2023 to 2024. For senior audiences the value is specific. He talks about what actually changed in counselling, how he handled a dressing room, why public failure is survivable, and what the inside of a serious personal reset looks like. The register is plain, unsanitised and grown-up, which is rare in the speaker market for this kind of material. Key speaking topics Resilience and recovery after public failure Self-leadership under pressure Mental health, identity and life after sport Captaincy and leading a dressing room Race, education and social change in the UK Storytelling and authentic communication Ideal for Leadership offsites and senior team away days where a candid personal-story session is more useful than another expert lecture Employee engagement, DEI and mental health programmes that need a credible male voice on vulnerability and recovery Sales kick-offs, customer events and after-dinner formats wanting a sports-world figure with substance, not just anecdotes Sport, media, education and youth-focused organisations working on race, opportunity and curriculum Audience outcomes A clearer view of what recovery from public failure actually requires, beyond motivational language. Practical insight into how a captain holds a dressing room together through pressure, scrutiny and bad results. A more honest framework for talking about mental health with senior male audiences who tend to discount the subject. A specific case study in turning personal experience into an evidenced public campaign, useful for organisations thinking about advocacy and voice.

Why organisations work with Victoria Pendleton A measurable performance record at the top of an objectively scored sport: two Olympic golds, an Olympic silver, and a record-equalling six individual sprint world titles between 2005 and 2012. An unusually candid account of what happens after high performance, including a public testimony on depression and suicidal thoughts that lifts the conversation beyond standard wellness language. Direct experience of the British Cycling marginal-gains environment, useful for leadership teams trying to understand what disciplined, repeatable performance design actually looks like inside an organisation. A second-career proof point in a different sport entirely, racing as an amateur jockey under trainer Paul Nicholls and finishing fifth in the 2016 Foxhunter Chase, which gives her credibility on reinvention rather than on retirement. Biography highlights Olympic sprint gold (Beijing 2008), Olympic keirin gold and sprint silver (London 2012). Nine UCI Track Cycling World Championship titles, including six individual sprint world titles between 2005 and 2012. Appointed MBE in 2009 and CBE in 2013, both for services to cycling. Author of “Between the Lines: My Autobiography”, HarperSport, 2012, co-written with Donald McRae. Trained as an amateur jockey under Paul Nicholls; fifth in the 2016 Foxhunter Chase at the Cheltenham Festival on Pacha Du Polder. 2018 Everest expedition for the British Red Cross with Ben Fogle and Kenton Cool, abandoned at Camp 2 due to hypoxia, later the subject of a published account of post-expedition depression. Biography Track sprint cycling is decided in fractions of a second by athletes whose preparation is measured to the gram, the heart rate, and the watt. Inside that environment, Pendleton won two Olympic gold medals, an Olympic silver, and nine world titles, including six individual sprint world titles in seven years. She is one of the most decorated track cyclists Britain has produced. The performance record is the qualification, not the talk. The talk is what she learned holding her nerve in an Olympic final, and what happened to her psychologically when the structure of elite sport was withdrawn. Her 2012 autobiography “Between the Lines”, co-written with Donald McRae, is unusually direct on the emotional cost of competing at that level. She returned to the public account several years later, describing severe depression and suicidal thoughts following her abandoned 2018 Everest expedition with Ben Fogle. That candour is why corporate audiences book her now. She is not delivering a generic resilience keynote. She is naming what happens to high performers when the supports come off and is willing to discuss it without softening. For leaders managing teams under sustained pressure, or thinking about what comes after a major delivery, that is rare material. She has also rebuilt outside cycling. After retirement she trained as an amateur jockey under Paul Nicholls and rode Pacha Du Polder to fifth place in the 2016 Foxhunter Chase at Cheltenham, having raced competitively for less than a year. Reinvention here is a documented sporting result, not a slogan. Key speaking topics Elite performance and marginal gains Composure under high-stakes pressure Recovery and identity after peak achievement Mental health and depression in high-performing populations Reinvention across careers Goal setting in objectively measured environments Team dynamics inside elite sport Ideal for Leadership conferences and executive offsites focused on performance under pressure Organisations with sales, trading, or delivery teams operating to short-cycle measured outcomes HR and wellbeing leads commissioning serious mental health content rather than wellness theatre Programmes for senior leaders navigating a major transition or post-success identity shift Audience outcomes A first-hand account of the preparation discipline behind two Olympic gold medals and what it costs A clearer view of how composure is engineered, not summoned, in the moments that decide a result A serious frame for thinking about post-peak recovery, including the version that goes badly An honest reference point for leaders who are sceptical of wellness language but recognise the underlying problem

Why organisations work with Will Young His book To Be a Gay Man provides a specific, argued analysis of how internalised shame develops and compounds; giving organisations something more useful than personal testimony: a framework for understanding why policy alone doesn’t change culture As the first Patron of Shout, the UK’s 24/7 crisis text service, he carries the kind of sustained, institutional commitment to mental health that distinguishes an advocate from a performer talking about their own story His JP Morgan Blue Monday Fireside Chat appearance demonstrates he operates credibly in formal corporate environments, not only in entertainment or charity contexts He is one of very few speakers who can hold the intersection of LGBTQ+ experience, clinical mental health literacy, and mass public recognition in a single conversation, without any of the three undermining the others The Sunday Times bestseller status on two consecutive books signals consistent public authority, not a single media moment Biography highlights Winner of the inaugural series of Pop Idol (2002); debut single the second best-selling UK single of the 21st century; four UK #1 albums; two Brit Awards Sunday Times bestselling author: To Be a Gay Man (Penguin/Ebury Press) and Be Yourself and Happier: The A–Z of Wellbeing Olivier Award-nominated actor; stage credits include Cabaret and Strictly Ballroom; screen credits include Mrs Henderson Presents First Patron of Shout, the UK’s 24/7 mental health text crisis support service Honorary degree, University of Exeter (2023); originally studied Politics at Exeter Corporate speaker engagements include JP Morgan Blue Monday Fireside Chats; Leeds International Festival of Ideas Biography Gay shame is not a niche subject. It describes a mechanism, internalised identity conflict producing low self-worth and destructive behaviour, that shapes the working lives of LGBTQ+ employees long after any formal discrimination has ended. Will Young’s To Be a Gay Man, published by Penguin in 2020 and a Sunday Times bestseller, is the most visible attempt by a British public figure to articulate that mechanism in terms that are both personal and intellectually serious. Young won the first series of Pop Idol in 2002 and built one of the most durable careers in British pop, with four UK number one albums, two Brit Awards, and a debut single that remains the second best-selling UK single of the 21st century. That public history matters to organisations not as decoration but as context: Young spent two decades navigating visibility, media scrutiny, and identity in an industry that rarely handled any of those things well. His second book, Be Yourself and Happier: The A–Z of Wellbeing, extended his work beyond LGBTQ+ experience into broader mental health and personal development. As the first Patron of Shout – the UK’s 24/7 text crisis support service – and a speaker at JP Morgan’s Blue Monday Fireside Chats, he has moved steadily from public profile to institutional engagement. The Olivier Award nomination for Cabaret and an honorary degree from the University of Exeter complete a picture of someone who has built genuine plural credibility – in entertainment, publishing, mental health, and now corporate settings – rather than recycling a single story across formats. Key speaking topics Gay shame and internalised identity Mental health and psychological safety at work LGBTQ+ inclusion beyond policy Authenticity and belonging in organisational culture Public visibility and personal resilience Wellbeing and self-acceptance Media, representation, and cultural change Ideal for CHROs and People Directors leading LGBTQ+ inclusion or mental health strategy DEI leads and LGBTQ+ employee network events seeking substance beyond lived-experience storytelling Leadership and culture conferences where psychological safety and authentic belonging are on the agenda Organisations marking awareness moments (Mental Health Awareness Week, Pride, Blue Monday) who want credibility over celebrity Audience outcomes A working understanding of how internalised shame operates, and why policy change without cultural work leaves the core problem intact Language for discussing gay shame and identity conflict that is grounded, specific, and usable in organisational contexts A more nuanced picture of what LGBTQ+ inclusion looks like in practice, beyond representation metrics Reflection on the relationship between personal authenticity and professional performance Awareness of the practical mental health resources and frameworks Young has developed through his books and Wellbeing Lab platform

Why organisations work with YuJin Wong He treats mental fitness as a performance discipline with measurable inputs, not a wellness theme, which gives HR and operational leaders something they can run beyond awareness days. His R.O.C.K formula, trademarked and built out across the book Mental Rockstar, gives audiences a named structure to take into Monday morning rather than a motivational hit that fades by the weekend. He is the first speaker in Asia to hold the Certified Speaking Professional designation from Asia Professional Speakers Singapore, a credential held by fewer than 5% of professional speakers worldwide. His material is built from a corporate insider lens. As a former lawyer and investment banker, he speaks to the specific pressure profile of finance, professional services, and high-output commercial environments rather than to a general wellness audience. He brings an Asia-anchored perspective on mental fitness, which matters for regional headquarters, APAC workforces, and global firms whose employee mental health programmes have so far been designed in the US or UK. Biography highlights First speaker in Asia to earn the Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) designation from Asia Professional Speakers Singapore. Author of Mental Rockstar: How to build mental toughness, face your fears, embrace change and unleash greatness (2020), built on the trademarked R.O.C.K formula. Certified by the International Sports Science Association and the Mental Toughness Research Institute (USA). Hosts the Mental Toughness for Business segment on MONEY FM 89.3, Singapore’s business radio. Former lawyer and investment banker with more than fifteen years working with corporate audiences on resilience, stress, and peak performance. Named recipient of Asia’s Innovation Leadership Award (2022), Asia’s Best Brands Award (2018), and the Global Brands Awards (2017). Biography Employee mental health has become an executive line item without becoming an executive capability. Most large employers now report a wellbeing programme, an EAP contract, and a calendar of awareness moments. Engagement scores, attrition, and presenteeism keep telling a different story. YuJin Wong works at exactly that gap. His material treats mental fitness the way operational leaders already treat physical fitness or safety, as a set of trainable behaviours with measurable inputs, not a campaign about awareness. The trademarked R.O.C.K formula, set out across his 2020 book Mental Rockstar, gives organisations a named structure to teach, repeat, and reinforce inside teams. His credibility with commercial audiences comes from inside the room rather than outside it. Before mental fitness work, he was a corporate lawyer and then an investment banker, before a personal collapse pushed him to rebuild around resilience and peak performance training. That history is why his material reads to finance, professional services, and sales leaders as a description of their environment, not an external commentary on it. The institutional signal is clear. He was the first speaker in Asia to earn the Certified Speaking Professional designation from Asia Professional Speakers Singapore, a credential held by fewer than 5% of professional speakers globally. He holds further certifications from the International Sports Science Association and the Mental Toughness Research Institute in the United States, and hosts the Mental Toughness for Business segment on MONEY FM 89.3, Singapore’s business radio station. Key speaking topics Mental fitness as an organisational capability Resilience and stress mastery for commercial environments Peak performance under sustained pressure Burnout prevention in high-output workforces Confidence and self-leadership for senior individual contributors Mental toughness for sales and revenue teams Ideal for CHROs and heads of wellbeing redesigning mental health programmes beyond awareness campaigns Sales leadership and revenue teams operating under sustained quota pressure APAC regional leadership and global firms briefing mental fitness work for Asian workforces Professional services and financial services firms managing burnout risk inside high-output teams Audience outcomes A working understanding of mental fitness as a trainable capability rather than a mood or trait The R.O.C.K formula as a shared vocabulary for teams to use after the session A specific read on the stress and burnout signals that precede performance loss Practical behaviours for sustaining output under pressure without normalising overwork Confidence that mental health work can be taken back into the organisation as a leadership task, not a clinical referral

Why organisations work with Zara Janjua She brings broadcast-grade interviewing into corporate rooms, drawing on more than 500 live hours of television and national news across BBC, ITV and STV. She is the host NatWest chose for its Women in Business podcast, its skills development series, and its internal What’s The Chat? podcast, which makes her a credible anchor for organisations building long-running internal communications platforms, not one-off events. She has chaired the Financial Alliance for Women Summit and the EBRD Conference on Skills Development in Central Asia, and has led onstage conversations with Karren Brady and Steven Bartlett, so she is trusted to handle senior figures and senior delegates at international level. She is an appointed member of NatWest’s Ethnicity Advisory Council, which gives her a working view of how a major institution actually moves on inclusion, not just how it speaks about it. She speaks on portfolio careers and reinvention as someone who has actually built one, from national news to comedy, television writing and documentary film, which reaches audiences facing their own career uncertainty in a way a career theorist cannot. Biography highlights BAFTA, NTA and RTS award-winning broadcaster; presents on BBC Radio Scotland and has fronted national news, daytime and comedy across BBC, ITV and STV. Delivered a keynote to an audience of around 16,000 in Melbourne for Rotary International. Led onstage conversations with Karren Brady and Steven Bartlett at the Women in Business and Tech Expo. Reporter for the New York Times Climate Hub at COP26, interviewing John Kerry and Al Gore. Host of NatWest’s Women in Business podcast and its internal What’s The Chat? podcast, and a member of its Ethnicity Advisory Council. Highly Commended finalist, Women of the Future Awards, sponsored by Oxford University and the Financial Times. Biography One career rarely runs from national news to stand-up comedy, television writing, and documentary film. Zara Janjua’s has, and each strand carries recognition: a BAFTA, NTA and RTS across her television work, a place in the BBC Comedy Writersroom won from more than four thousand applicants, and a Technical Award for her first documentary. That range is what makes her effective on a corporate stage. She interviews senior leaders without flattening them and holds a panel to its actual argument, drawing on more than 500 live hours of television and national news. She reported for the New York Times Climate Hub at COP26, securing interviews with John Kerry and Al Gore, and now presents on BBC Radio Scotland. NatWest shows how that translates inside an organisation. Janjua hosts the bank’s Women in Business podcast and its internal What’s The Chat? podcast, and sits on its Ethnicity Advisory Council. On larger stages she has led onstage conversations with Karren Brady and Steven Bartlett at the Women in Business and Tech Expo, and delivered a keynote to an audience of around 16,000 in Melbourne for Rotary International. Her keynote work has moved with her. The recurring subject is now the shape of a modern working life: portfolio careers, reinvention, resilience, and aligning work with purpose. The Women of the Future Awards, sponsored by Oxford University and the Financial Times, named her a Highly Commended finalist for building exactly that. The documentaries she produces in Nepal, Tanzania, and Guatemala for charitable partners are its clearest expression, and the reason a Rotary International president has publicly credited her fundraising impact. Key speaking topics Event hosting and moderation Panel chairing and interviewing Portfolio and multi-hyphen careers Career reinvention and resilience Future of work and careers Diversity, equity and inclusion Mental health in the workplace Storytelling and business communication Ideal for CHROs, internal communications leads and DEI directors anchoring long-running internal channels. Boards, summit organisers and awards committees commissioning a host for inclusion, women in business or skills conferences. Talent and early-careers leaders programming events on career reinvention, portfolio working and retention. Financial services, professional services and public-sector organisations briefing a moderator on senior international panels. Audience outcomes A panel or summit that lands its argument rather than drifting between speakers. An internal communications moment that employees actually listen to, anchored by a broadcaster they recognise as credible. Senior speakers drawn out on substance, not left to recite prepared lines. Sensitive subject matter on inclusion, mental health or women’s progression handled with editorial care. Audiences leave rethinking what a viable career can look like, prompted by someone who built one across news, comedy and film.

Why organisations work with Zoe Fragou She brings a clinical psychologist’s diagnostic discipline into corporate culture work, which most coaches and consultants in this space cannot. Her doctoral research at EU Business School Geneva is specifically on corporate culture psychometrics, giving organisations a measurement frame rather than a values poster. She actively trains public health leaders for the WHO Regional Office for Europe, including in Kazakhstan and Ukraine, so her leadership content is tested in the hardest operating conditions, not only corporate ones. Her work covers burnout, psychological safety, feedback culture and inclusion as connected mechanisms inside the same system, rather than as separate wellness initiatives. Recognised externally as a credible coaching authority, ranked No. 7 globally on Thinkers360 for coaching and named Best Career Coach at the 2021 Global Coaching Conference. Biography highlights Organisational psychologist with a clinical psychology licence and an MSc in Human Resources Management from Athens University of Economics and Business. Doctoral candidate at EU Business School Geneva, researching the psychometrics of corporate culture. Trainer for the WHO Regional Office for Europe on the Public Health Leadership course since September 2023. Ranked No. 7 Global Thought Leader on Coaching by Thinkers360; featured on the Top 50 Coaching rankings for 2024 and 2025. Voted Best Career Coach at the Global Coaching Conference 2021; named Top 15 Coaches in Athens 2023. Founder of Fragoulous Minds, an Athens-based consulting collective working with private and corporate clients globally; mentor with Women On Top, 100mentors and Lean In. Biography Most wellbeing programmes are designed to manage symptoms. They sit alongside the operating model that produced the burnout in the first place. The work of changing the underlying culture sits with people who rarely have a clinical lens to see what is actually happening inside teams under pressure. Zoe Fragou occupies that gap. She is a licensed clinical psychologist who works at the organisational level, holding an MSc in Human Resources Management from Athens University of Economics and Business and pursuing a doctorate at EU Business School Geneva on the psychometrics of corporate culture. Her practice covers culture transformation, executive coaching, feedback culture and psychological safety for private and corporate clients across Europe, Asia and Africa. Since 2023 she has trained public health leaders for the WHO Regional Office for Europe on its Public Health Leadership course, working with cohorts from countries including Kazakhstan and Ukraine. That work places her leadership material in genuinely fragile operating environments, not only in well-resourced corporates, and informs how she frames resilience, decision-making and team dynamics for senior audiences. External recognition reflects the same focus. Thinkers360 ranks her at No. 7 globally on Coaching and lists her on its 2024 and 2025 Top 50 Coaching rosters. She was voted Best Career Coach at the 2021 Global Coaching Conference and named among the Top 15 Coaches in Athens in 2023. Through Fragoulous Minds, the practice she founded, she leads culture and leadership engagements for organisations that want to treat burnout and engagement as a system problem rather than a perks problem. Key speaking topics Corporate culture transformation Burnout and psychological safety at work Feedback culture and growth mindset Leadership development under pressure Diversity, equity and inclusion Mental health in the workplace Women’s leadership Executive coaching and personal development Ideal for CHROs and Chief People Officers rebuilding culture after restructure or rapid growth Boards and executive teams accountable for engagement, attrition and wellbeing metrics Public sector and global health leaders operating in high-pressure or fragile contexts Senior leadership groups in regulated, professional services or post-merger organisations Audience outcomes A clinical reading of how burnout actually develops inside teams, and which organisational levers shift it A working definition of feedback culture that connects to growth mindset rather than performance management ritual A more honest frame for DEI work, anchored in psychological mechanisms of bias and belonging Language for senior leaders to talk about psychological safety without slipping into wellness platitudes A clear view of where wellbeing programmes stop working and culture redesign has to start