ABOUT US

Throughout my career both as a Meditation Guide and Wellness Educator and during my years in senior and project management, the recurring theme has been that employee wellbeing is often overlooked - both by teams and leaders.

Back in the 90s and early 2000s, when I started working first in local authority, before moving into in PR and journalism, taking the compulsory 20-minute break was seen as a luxury - many a lunchtime, it didn’t happen! Most days, we ate at our desks, (drinking copious amounts of coffee or that caffeine drink that I won’t name - claimed to give you wings after drink it), pushing through, so we could get more done and that culture hasn’t changed half as much as it desperately needs to.

I’ve worked in and with organisations across multiple sectors, including construction, care and health, as well as local government and in large corporate environments. Across all of them, these themes and poor habits followed - wellbeing was never treated as part of the organisational strategy.

As a manager, staff wellbeing was always my priority - providing a space to rest (a bit like the school medical room but for adults -  I used to love my mini-retreats there), later starts and earlier finishes when needed - without the need to make that time up and regularly asking my team how they were feeling, throughout their day.

Originally a portable wellness space - I brought The Pause Pod to workplaces and events to give people somewhere to pause and reset. It’s since evolved into something much more. Drawing on my creativity, management experience and wellbeing expertise, I now help businesses and leaders embed wellbeing into their culture as an essential part of how they work, lead and thrive in the workplace.