Loneliness Matters: Exploring the Impact on Mental Wellness in Remote Work

I am the Wellbeing Lead for colleagues at Bruntwood and I have worked in the Bruntwood people team for 9 years. I support colleague wellbeing across the group, from our benefits and policies to our working environment, and all other colleague experience touchpoints in between.

I am passionate about enabling colleagues to live their best lives, both inside and outside of work. I am a champion of D&I and psychological safety and I believe that everybody should be their authentic self at work.

Alastair is the Founder of EZHR, a HR subscription solution for SMEs that wants to lower barrier of entry to really good advice.

Prior to that he spent 15 years’ working in house for various Blue Chip FMCG and manufacturing businesses along with a number of global BPO organisations. His work was across various areas of specialism including employee relations, organisational change, development, TUPE, and business sale.

Additionally, he hosts The Alternative Business Review. A podcast for early-stage founders that offers an alternative take on what it’s really like founding and growing a business.

I am Jenny, the volunteer manager with The Chatty Café Scheme. The scheme was created in 2017 to encourage people to talk more – we believe simply having a chat can brighten someone’s day. We run 3 services, one on line, one face to face and one by telephone – all aimed at reducing loneliness and social isolation.

After a diverse career, including time in corporate finance, elite sports and the third sector, alongside scaling a videogame business, he has brought his knowledge and lived experience together to support companies in creating equitable culture, psychologically safe spaces and effective wellbeing strategies.

This has been borne from his own lived experience, which has included mental health challenges, time as a stay at home Dad, and learning to walk again in 2014 after illness.

He can often be found speaking about gender equity, employee experience and male allyship, and is the current Great British Entrepreneur of the Year for Service Industries.

Over 15 years, Jon has co-founded a series of successful startups with business partner Phil
Simmonds, using his expertise in behavioural science. Jon has achieved success time and time again with a simple understanding: by paying close attention to the way people work, we can react to the latest societal changes. At Diskette, he is using this understanding to develop software solutions that change things for the better. Their latest product, Leafyard, uses behavioural science to motivate people to take control of their mental health; it is now being used by companies across the globe to help improve employee wellbeing