The Risk Communication Series - Episode 2 - Wellbeing

Heather Beach is founder and CEO of the Healthy Work Company, delivering tailored wellbeing programmes to businesses across the world. With more than 30 years’ experience at senior level in Health & Safety, HR and employee management, Heather is setting and achieving wellbeing targets for maximum employee happiness and retention. 

Healthy Work Company is a thriving business which boasts a stellar list of over 200 blue chip clients including Carlsberg, Seadrill, CBRE, ITV, Mace, Eurostar, Luton Airport and The Telegraph. 

Heather is the author of a handbook for managers I'm a boss, not a shrink: a practical guide to manager wellbeing conversions. In this she analyses the changing world of workplace wellbeing and offers practical advice on how to tackle situations with employees that best support their physical and emotional wellbeing.

As a single mum to Rosie, Heather tries very hard to practice what she preaches when it comes to wellbeing – and isn’t perfect!

Jonathan is Executive Director, Safety Quality & Risk for leading FM Company EMCOR UK. Responsible for the development of strategy and practical application of these disciplines for the organisation. In 2021 he led the organisation to the global first certification to ISO 45003 and was awarded the Sir George Earle Trophy by RoSPA in 2024. A Fellow of the Institute of Leadership and of IIRSM, he is a recipient of the IIRSM Presidents Commendation for contribution to risk and wellbeing. Jonathan has Masters degrees in Organisational Behaviour Change and in Health Research and Level 7 Diploma in Strategic Safety Leadership. Jonathan is a Board Trustee for the Society of Occupational Medicine and the British Safety Council and is Chair of the MIND Mental Health at Work Leadership Council.

Karen J. Hewitt is Director of Leaderlike Ltd. and has spent the last twelve years creating leadership movements for health and safety, both within large organisations and outside of them.  Combining transformational leadership with change communications, she breathes new life into traditional health, safety and wellbeing thinking and believes that transformational health and safety starts with leading, and communicating, in away that breaks with the status quo. Her second book “People Power – Transform your Business in the Era of Safety and Wellbeing,” published in 2021, has won several awards and been an Amazon no. 1 bestseller multiple times.  Most recently, she demonstrates what ‘communicating differently’ on health and safety looks like, in her 2023 TEDx talk, entitled ‘The Two Questions That Could Save Your Life