Libby is an Independent Occupational Health Practitioner, Workplace Wellbeing Specialist, and trainer in Stress and Mental Health. She qualified as a Registered General Nurse at Nottingham University Hospital in 1991 and now combines her working knowledge of Human Resource and Health and Safety with evidence-based mental health-related training across many business sectors. She is the owner of Mindshift Consultancy, has been Vice Chair for iOH (The Association of Occupational Health and Wellbeing Professionals) since 2023 and is also an associate lecturer at Robert Gordon University. In 2020 she created the first IOSH approved and licensed course for managers on stress and how to perform an individual stress risk assessment.

Libby is passionate about reducing the negative stigmatising attitudes that remain around mental ill-health and a firm believer in workplaces providing a proactive and supportive culture around this subject.

Amanda is a highly experienced trainer, coach, and facilitator specialising in improving workplace productivity through neurodiversity awareness in the workplace courses, mental health awareness courses and manager development. With a proven track record of working with businesses of all sizes, Amanda empowers organizations to create supportive, inclusive environments that enable employees to thrive. Passionate about fostering healthier workplaces, Amanda delivers impactful training programs that equip teams with the tools they need to enhance wellbeing, improve performance, and support diverse talents.

Kate has a wealth of experience covering a wide range of settings including sport, education, the NHS, private businesses, public sector and charitable organisations. She is incredibly passionate about raising awareness of mental health and equipping people with skills to support others. Kate started her career working in the homelessness sector before becoming a Peer Supporter for the NHS using her lived experience of mental health conditions to get alongside others in their recovery. She has spent many years working in schools, colleges and educational settings facilitating workshops, mentoring and programmes around mental health, wellbeing and resilience. Kate has created numerous life skills programmes over the years and has been a qualified Mental Health First Aid instructor since 2014.

Clive Stevenson is a mental health nurse and has been facilitating Mental Health First Aid courses since 2008. He is approved to deliver the entire range of Adult and Youth MHFA programmes and is also an Associate Tutor with the National Centre for Suicide Prevention Education & Training, delivering SFA: Suicide First Aid, the UK’s National Qualification in Suicide Prevention.

He is a member of the MHFA England Expert Reference Group, consulting on the creation and evaluation of MHFA programmes and delivers Continuing Professional Development events, including courses to approve instructors qualified in MHFA England Two Day products to deliver half, one-day and online products and to refresh instructors who may not have delivered for some time.

Clive has led several successful mental health programmes for the Department of Health and whilst working with the organisation supporting healthcare commissioning in London, developed a new model of care for mental health adopted across the capital. He has lectured in healthcare and transformation for the University of Reading and Middlesex University and co-developed a twinned BSc programme in psychology and nursing with the University of Luton.

Clive is also active as an executive coach, professional mentor and keynote/plenary speaker, and is a consultant in individual, organisational and system change with expertise in process, workforce and system redesign, a Motorola University Chicago awarded 6 Sigma Green Belt and significant experience in facilitating Lean programmes, Appreciative Inquiry and Solution Focused Interventions.

He designs and delivers a range of other programmes relating to personal and organisational mental health and wellbeing including Suicide Awareness & Prevention (adults & young people) and the Open University/Nottingham University Personality Disorder Knowledge & Understanding Framework (KUF).

Annie Callingham is a person-centred psychotherapist, specialising in “Walk & Talk Therapy”.

She has worked in a variety of settings, predominantly in the corporate world in a learning and development capacity, within the retail and logistics sector. She has also worked as a Crisis Help Line volunteer for The Richmond Fellowship and as a counsellor for Quetzal.

Movement of the body, and a shift in environment, can help us to think differently about our lives. Other associated benefits for working outside to support mental health include physical exercise, help with feelings of being “stuck”, anxiety or anger; plus the physical space and headspace that being outside provides, is generally mood-enhancing

Walk & Talk therapy can be especially helpful for people who don’t have the opportunity to get out into nature very often, and those who feel as if they thrive better when they do. It’s also good for those who may feel intimidated by eye-contact or claustrophobic in the environment of a one-on-one session in a room.

Walking together side by side also means that the often hugely valuable silences in therapy are much easier to bear for many people, and client led in terms of pace and route.

Annie is able to reduce physical barriers that can deter some clients accessing therapy such as: those experiencing anxiety or low self-confidence, along with offering ADHD and autistic clients the environment that they know works for them.

She believes that we all have a tendency to put others first, but in doing so, we can sometimes neglect our relationship with ourselves. Counselling can show you a kinder, gentler way to treat the most important person in your life, you.

Russ Magnall is an unshakable optimist who believes in a bright future and our ability to build it together. An experienced Police Commander, Russ is fascinated by people and the things they say and do. He’s studied what works, and what doesn’t, for over thirty years. He knows how the best communicators succeed in any situation, no matter how delicate, destructive or dangerous.

Safe and Sound Training is adaptable to suit different audiences and can be delivered for any organisation, team, group or class. The themes remain the same, what changes is the way in which they are presented. The props, stories, and examples used are always appropriate to the audience demographic and risk assessments are conducted to ensure any safeguarding considerations are met. The course is suitable for young people, frontline staff, supervisors, team leaders, middle managers and senior leader teams in all public and private sector organisations.

Safe and Sound Training equips people with their own individual strategy and is jam packed full of knowledge, skills, tips, tools and techniques to maintain strong mental health and build unshakeable personal resilience and be able respond positively to life’s challenges and thrive, inside and outside the workplace. Safe and Sound Training will help you build a workforce equipped to achieve, where productivity and performance soar and stress, anxiety and days lost through psychological sickness drop.

Russ dedicates his life to sharing his skills, experience and knowledge with others.