Georgia Elliott-Smith

Managing Director

Element 4

An environmental engineer and Chartered Environmentalist, Georgia started her career at Bovis in 1995 as one of the first Environment Managers in the UK construction industry. Following an expedition to Antarctica, she became a UN Special Junior Envoy for Youth & the Environment.

Now Managing Director of sustainability consultancy Element 4, Georgia is at the vanguard of the healthy buildings movement, creating spaces that improve wellbeing and provide positive environmental impacts for clients including Bank of England, Nike, LandSec, Deloitte, Accenture, UPP and DEFRA.

Georgia is currently leading a legal challenge to the UK government for its failure to regulate pollution from waste incineration and uphold the Paris Agreement.

Nathan Wood

Chair

BESA Health & Wellbeing in Buildings

Nathan Wood – chair of the BESA Health & Wellbeing in Buildings group and managing director of Farmwood M&E

Doug Booker

Chief Executive

National Air Quality Testing Services, University of Lancaster

Doug Booker – chief executive of National Air Quality Testing Services, University of Lancaster.

George Friend

Chair

BESA Ventilation Hygiene group and CEO of Ventilation Surveys and Services Ltd.

George Friend – chair of the BESA Ventilation Hygiene group and CEO of Ventilation Surveys and Services Ltd.

Stephen Haynes

Head of Programme

Mates in Mind

Stephen designs, implements and manages workplace health & wellbeing programmes for employers. He also helps providers build and deliver wellbeing solutions for their employer clients. He has a background of working in-house HR, as external consultant as well as various sales, account management and marketing roles with health & wellbeing providers, including advising start-up businesses.

Bill Hill

Chief Executive

Lighthouse Construction Industry charity

Bill gained over 20 years’ experience holding senior positions in blue chip giants Hewlett‐Packard and Sage PLC. He has a passion for customer service and has a wealth of experience across the major business disciplines of marketing, sales, operations and finance. Bill trained as an accountant and holds diplomas from INSEAD, Cranfield University as well as CIMA qualifications. Most recently Bill qualified as a Mental Health First Aid instructor. He joined the Lighthouse Construction Industry Charity in 2013 and since then has played a major role in significantly growing the profile and significance of its charitable work within the construction community.

The charity now operates a 24/7 Industry Helpline, it has also developed a construction focused Health and Wellbeing APP and plays a central role in Building Mental Health, the construction industry’s key mental health awareness and support programme.

Quote: “There is a big difference between doing things right and doing right things. Developing a strategy to support positive mental health in our industry is the right thing to do! If you look after your people … your people will look after your business.”

Jeannette Jackson

Director

Manchester Stress Institute

Jeannette Jackson is a the Director of the Manchester Stress Institute, experts in staff wellbeing.

She has over 10 years experience working with construction organisations and staff presenting digital and face to face training providing ways of increasing awareness about resilience, mental health and nutrition.

She is a Nutritional Biochemist and a Elite Sports Scientist and works as a leading authority on stress management, worklife balance and nutrition, presenting seminars and workshops for managers, and executive teams.

Rebecca Kilpatrick

Mental Health First Aid trainer

Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) England

Rebecca’s served ten years as a Detective Constable in the Police Force and spent most of her career in the child Protection Safeguarding Unit. Rebecca received two commendations during her ten years for outstanding work convicting sex offenders. Rebecca has actively interviewed children of all age ranges, including young and traumatized children. Rebecca dealt with people suffering all aspects of Mental Health illnesses first hand both as victims and offenders within the community. She has used her extensive knowledge and chosen to help train and educate others to understand more about relevant issues.

Rebecca took a change in career in 2015 and completed a Train the Trainer program with the NSPCC. Rebecca is now accredited by the NSPCC as a Child Protection trainer. She is now a Freelance Trainer and associate of BEN, Lighthouse Charity and Coach Forever ltd, Safeguarding children Training, delivering Mental Health Awareness and Mental Health for Management. She is also a fully qualified instructor for Mental Health First Aid England and delivers two-day Mental Health First Aid courses around the UK. Rebecca is also part of the training team delivering Forensic Interviewing courses to the police and social workers.

Rebecca also works for a communication company and acts as an Intermediary for and on behalf of defendants and witness both in Criminal and Family court. She is a fully qualified Forensic Interviewer of children spending much of her time interviewing young children between the ages of 4-18 regarding matters of abuse.

She founded Kilpatrick Consultancy in 2017 and specializes in designing bespoke training packages for Mental Health & Well-being, Domestic Abuse, Child Protection and Online awareness. These packages have been used by schools, parents, and even the Royal Artillery Barracks British Army, West Mercia Police and Warwickshire Police forces, Allied world Insurance and many more.

Bill Ford

Owner and Founder

Workplace Mental Health Training

Having spent 30+ years working in the Automotive Sector – 15 in Sales, Management and Training. Latterly, 17 successful years in the IT / Dealer Management System (ERP) space. I have seen first-hand and many times over, the negative impact that mental ill health issues can have on both individuals and the organisations for which they work. The contemporary work environment can be highly pressured and target driven, making it particularly prone to exerting pressure on individuals. This can and does create/exacerbate mental ill health issues.

It was the experience of seeing these negative effects that inspired me to qualify to become a Mental Health First Aid Trainer. MHFA England are the sole organisation permitted to provide Mental Health First Aid Instructor Training licensed by Mental Health First Aid International, the global community that has trained over 2.6 million people. My previous extensive experience of presenting to large, diverse and occasionally challenging groups gives me an ideal platform to ensure I can engage with and involve the audience. Ensuring that each and every delegate gets the most out of the time that they and their employers are investing.

I am passionately committed to improving the culture of the working environment and thus benefiting staff, their employers and their customers. I aim to make working environments a more compassionate and humane place for employees to spend their working lives. Besides the obvious health benefits, there is an irrefutable business case for doing this. Please feel free to explore our website where you will find a wealth of further information.

Rebecca King

Head of Learning and Development

Curtins

Rebecca King has more than 10 years’ experience in learning and organisational development in public and private organisations. As Head of Learning and Development for Curtins Engineering Consultancy, Rebecca is responsible for the professional development, content and qualifications for Apprentices, Graduates and Management across all technical and non-technical roles. Rebecca leads on the direction and delivery of Curtins vision for L&D and the wider associated People Strategy.

She has developed the Curtins Academy Graduate Development Scheme, STEP Ahead Management Programme, oversees all professional development and strategizes on initiatives to support the businesses Mental Health and Wellbeing approach across their 14 UK offices.

Rebecca has a Master’s Degree in Business Administration and is a Chartered Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (MCIPD), whilst currently holding a Mental Health First Aider qualification.

James Woodcock

Corporate Fundraising Manager

Samaritans

James Woodcock has led on a number of corporate partnerships with organisations across the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland at Samaritans for over seven years. He supports organisations to promote workplace wellbeing with programmes such as Wellbeing in the Workplace and works closely with organisations in the construction sector.

Graeme Fox

Head of Technical

BESA Group

Graeme Fox is a chartered engineer with over 30 years’ experience of building services engineering. He ran his own refrigeration and air conditioning contracting business for more than 25 years specialising in air conditioning design, installation and troubleshooting.

He is a former President of AREA – the European association of refrigeration, air conditioning and heat pump contractors – and previously served as a member of the BESA Council. He is also currently a Director of ACRIB and of the Institute of Refrigeration.

Within the BESA Group of companies, Graeme was the Head of REFCOM and more recently was appointed BESA’s Head of Technical.

Jason Alexandre

 Network Rail Training Officer

Samaritans

Jason Alexandre is a Network Rail Training Officer at Samaritans and his team has trained over 20,000 people in the rail industry, giving them the skills and confidence to recognise and engage with a person who may be suicidal.

Samaritans has worked with Network Rail and the rail community (British transport Police, Train Operating companies,) since 2010 with the aim of preventing rail suicides and supporting those affected by them. Jason trains rail personnel on how to support those in need as well as how to support colleagues after a traumatic incident. Spotting those at risk and taking action to support them continues to be our most effective of preventing suicide on the railways.

Mates in Mind is a registered UK charity raising awareness, addressing the stigma of poor mental health and promoting positive mental wellbeing across workplaces. We help to make sense of available options and support employers to address mental health within their workplace. Mates in Mind works across industries, focusing on construction, as well as related sectors including transport, logistics, manufacturing and others. Together we can be the change needed to improve workplace mental health.

Be a mate. Be the change.

https://www.matesinmind.org/

Every Mind Matters is here to help you manage and maintain your mental health, as good mental health makes such a difference. It helps us to relax more, achieve more and enjoy our lives more.

https://www.nhs.uk/oneyou/every-mind-matters/your-mind-plan-quiz/?WT.tsrc=Search&WT.mc_id=Brand&gclid=Cj0KCQiAiNnuBRD3ARIsAM8Kmlu3QG1187DAGBQg6nbYzcGoyPuGECu6h2OVwGgOc_GzZE7l-edjqfMaArRREALw_wcB

FIS is the representative body for the £10 billion finishes and interiors sector in the UK. The FIS has 500 members drawn from contractors, manufacturers and distributers of ceilings, facades, partitions, plastering, drywall and specialist interior fit-out and refurbishment businesses.

FIS exists to support its members, improve safety, minimise risk, enhance productivity and drive innovation in the sector. As well as specialist publications, technical support and expert helplines, FIS is a dynamic network that brings the sector together through a range of events, awards and specialist working groups, all aimed at sharing best practice, setting standards and advising Government, that help its members to improve performance and win work. FIS has a dedicated skills and training team which works with a number of Approved Training Providers to attract new people to the sector and deliver a fully qualified and competent workforce.

FIS is dedicated to collaboration in construction and a proud member of BuildUK, the Construction Products Association and the Passive Fire Protection Forum.

www.thefis.org 

The Construction Industry Council (CIC) is the representative forum for the professional bodies, research organisations and specialist business associations in the construction industry. Established in 1988 with just five founder members, CIC now occupies a key role within the UK construction industry providing a single voice for professionals in all sectors of the built environment through its collective membership of 500,000 individual professionals and more than 25,000 firms of construction consultants. The breadth and depth of its membership means that CIC is the only single body able to speak with authority on the diverse issues connected with construction without being constrained by the self-interest of any particular sector of the industry.

www.cic.org.uk 

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