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Evening of speakers and workshops for PRCA members to learn how to beat stress, improve self-care and build resilience in the workplace. Please arrive at 6:00PM, the presentation will start promptly at 6.30PM.
Event Type: Member Event
Address: Edelman, Southside, 105 Victoria Street, London, SW1E 6QT
Event Overview
Are you feeling a little stressed, overloaded, or simply feeling like you need a break?
You’re not alone. CareerCast annual rankings in 2017 ranked people working in communications on both sides of the fence – news reporters (#6) and PR professionals (#8) – in the top 10 Most Stressful Jobs in the world. Research conducted by PRCA in partnership with PRWeek also revealed 59% of PR and communications practitioners had suffered from mental ill health.
The communications industry is one of the most fast-moving, challenging, dynamic, and exciting to be working in. Mental wellbeing is critical to the health of our people and the sustainability of our industry.
Often, we go through our working day on auto-pilot, reacting to urgent emails that come through and doing our best to meet demanding clients and deadlines. Rarely do we stop to pay attention to what is going on around us.
Mindfulness helps us to see clearly what is going on in our lives. For some, the discovery and experience of knowing how to pause, stop and pay attention can be very freeing. It is important to build positive individual and team mental health to ensure the continued success of our people and our businesses.
Join our workshop, to hear practical tips from leading mental health advocates and industry experts about how you can manage workplace wellbeing, avoid burnout, support yourself, and your teams to have positive mental health and juggle workloads during those crunch points.
Our special guest speakers include:
- Emma Mamo, Head of Workplace Wellbeing, MIND
Emma is Head of Workplace Wellbeing at Mind. Emma joined Mind in 2007 and, since 2010, has led Mind’s campaigning for mentally healthy workplaces - playing a pivotal role in thought leadership to position mental health in the workplace as a key priority for employers and Government.
Emma has led culture change through engagement with employers, health and safety professionals, HR audiences and Government on mental health in the workplace and back-to-work support for people with mental health problems. She also supports networks of employers and stakeholders to share best practice and develop business-to-business peer support. Emma has worked in the disability sector since 2005 and previously worked for Mencap, the learning disability charity.
- Jane Fordham MPRCA, Director of Jane Fordham Consulting, PRCA Trainer
Jane started her own talent consultancy back in April of 2018 following a 15-year career with global comms agency Golin. After joining in 2003, Jane led teams and B2B comms programmes for brands such as Orange, Tetra Pak and Oracle. In 2010 she moved into a leadership role heading up the agency’s talent (HR) and marketing functions. Since that time, has Golin enjoyed significant growth in scale and profile, earning a reputation as a trailblazer of progressive talent programmes, achieving acclaim for work around flexible working, gender and social equality and workplace wellbeing.
Over the last 12 months Jane has contributed to a Government publication providing guidelines for employers seeking to run return to work programmes (getting Mums and Dads back to work after an extended break), appeared on BBC Breakfast TV and Five Live Radio talking about innovative workplace benefits and on BBC Radio 4’s flagship news show The Today Programme discussing unlimited leave.
Pre Golin, Jane spent three years at technology comms specialist Firefly Communications. Following graduation from Loughborough University with a BA Hons in European Business (including a year working in Paris), she had 18 months at RS Consulting working on global research consultancy projects for the technology and telecommunications sectors.
- Dr Kevin Teoh, Lecturer Occupational and Organisational Psychology, Birkbeck University
Dr Kevin Teoh is a Lecturer in Occupational and Organisational Psychology with the Department of Organizational Psychology at Birkbeck University of London. Prior to joining Birkbeck, Kevin held research and teaching positions with the University of Nottingham and the University of Bedfordshire. His primary research interests are around developing healthier workplaces, and the translation of research into practice, policy and public dissemination. Kevin has collaborated extensively with the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work. He has also worked on projects involving the Ministry of Defence and the National Health Service, as well as organisations in the banking, retail and charity sectors. These projects have primarily been around workplace wellbeing, management training, recruitment and retention, and safety.
Kevin is on the Executive Committee of the European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology. He is also the Deputy Editor for the Occupational Health Psychologist, and a reviewer for a number of journals including BMJ Open, Safety Science, and the Journal of Managerial Psychology. Outside of his day job, Kevin runs a scout troop through Hampshire Scouts and tweets at @kevinteohrh.
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George David Hodgson, Mental Health Advocate & Founder, Maison de Choup
George David Hodgson is a fashionpreneur, mental health campaigner and public speaker. In 2014 he founded the award-winning fashion brand 'Maison de Choup' out of his severe anxiety and OCD episode. The brand has been recognised by the likes of Vanity Fair, which referred to Maison de Choup as 'The Fashion Brand with a Mental Health Cause at its Heart'. It also won the British Fashion Startup Award in 2016.
Since launching Maison de Choup, George has gone on to do public speeches and workshops in schools, colleges and universities about how he started his fashion label from such a dark place. He tells the story of his battle with severe Anxiety and OCD, is incredibly honest about his suffering and talks about how everyone should be more open about their mental health, especially young men.
George works with YoungMinds as a Youth Advisor on the Amplified programme giving workshops to professionals and is also a Youth Ambassador for The Shaw Mind Foundation. He has appeared on BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat, Radio 2, Radio 5 Live and Radio 6 Music as well as appearing on BBC News at 6/10pm with Hugh Pym and BBC Breakfast.
Matt Cartmell MPRCA, Deputy Director General, PRCA will also be joining to reveal the latest PRCA Mental Health Toolkit and Michelle Hutton, Managing Director, Global Clients, Edelman UK will moderate the panel Q&A and provide insight from an agency perspective.
Previously Michelle was the COO of Edelman Europe helping to lead the agency’s businesses across this region. She also ran Edelman’s Global Brand Practice – a team across the agency’s international network who partner with the agency’s planners, strategists and creatives. She has helped lead major brand campaigns for some of the agency’s largest relationships including Samsung, KFC, Unilever, Coca-Cola and HP.
She was a PR juror at the 2017 Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity and is President of the 2017 Eurobest Festival. Michelle created Edelman’s Earned Brand Series of IP that is launched each year in Cannes that explores the strength of relationships between consumers and brands. Before relocating to the UK, Michelle ran Edelman’s operations in Australia, as CEO, where she led an international award-winning team. Prior to Edelman, Michelle was the chief executive, Australasia of Hill & Knowlton Strategies and ran the agency’s consumer marketing practice across Asia Pacific. Earlier in her career she worked for independent creative agencies in Australia.
She has a keen interest in supporting female leaders in the creative industry. Michelle leads Edelman’s Global Women in Leadership program in Europe and was previously a Board Director of The Communications Council in Australia serving on its Diversity and Inclusion Committee.
Additional speakers to be announced shortly
Spaces are limited, sign up now to secure your attendance today.
Agenda
- 6:00PM-6:15PM – Networking, drinks and nibbles
- 6:15PM-6:25PM – Welcome remarks
- 6:25PM-7:05PM – Speaker sessions
- 7:05PM-7:35PM – Audience Q&A
- 7:35PM-7:40PM – Closing remarks
- 7:40PM-8:00PM – Networking and drinks
If you have any questions about the event, please contact Neha.Khatwani@prca.org.uk.