Agenda

Registration, networking, and exhibition

Opening remarks

• Holistic Health World Series Founder and Event Director, Stefan Mullan

Opening keynote presentation

Reserved

Panel discussion: Advancing whole person care in mainstream healthcare

How do we move beyond symptom-based treatment and embed emotional, mental, and relational wellbeing into clinical systems? This session explores integrated care models that treat people, not just problems.

• Integrate whole-person principles into care pathways and health policy
• Examine how trauma, culture, and emotional context shape patient outcomes
• Hear from practitioners driving change across physical and mental health

Keynote presentation

Reserved

Panel discussion: Embedding wellbeing into your business model - not your branding

Wellbeing isn’t a side project. It’s a strategic lens for how we build, lead, and grow. Hear how people leaders are integrating health, culture, and sustainability into the core of how their organisations function.

• Align wellbeing with your operating model, not just perks
• Measure outcomes that matter: retention, trust, long-term resilience
• Shift from burnout-driven cycles to cultures that sustain

Featuring:

• DHL Director, Global Health and Wellbeing, Dana Citron

Coffee, networking, and exhibition

Panel discussion: Nutrition, trauma, and metabolic collapse: Can science catch up with culture?

Our food systems are breaking our bodies. But the solutions require more than willpower. This session explores how trauma, lifestyle, stress, and ultra-processed diets intersect - and what it would take to build systems that support real metabolic health.

Keynote presentation

Reserved

Lunch

Presentation: The sober truth: Alcohol, wellbeing, and the case for a post-alcohol society

What happens when we stop pretending alcohol is harmless? This provocative session explores alcohol's real impact on mental health, productivity, and chronic disease - and why its cultural grip might finally be weakening.

• Alcohol Explained Author, William Porter

Panel discussion: Profit or people? Reimagining business in an age of extraction, burnout and cultural decay

Our economies are built on systems that reward exploitation - of people, attention, ecosystems, and time. The relentless pursuit of growth has left us with burnout epidemics, fractured communities, and a culture where everything - from food to friendship to spirituality - is monetised and optimised. But a quiet shift is underway. Regenerative, human-first business models are challenging the status quo - prioritising purpose over profit, relationships over reach, and long-term vitality over short-term gain.

This urgent conversation will explore what it takes to move beyond extraction - in organisations, policies, and mindsets - and how wellbeing leaders can catalyse a cultural reset from within.

• Understand how extractive models shape work, health, and society - and how to spot them in disguise
   
• Discover real-world examples of regenerative systems, from circular design to slow-growth business models
   
• Learn why people-first organisations outperform extractive ones in trust, retention, and long-term resilience

Featuring:

• COOK Co-Chair, James Perry

Presentation: Recovery-ready leadership: reducing risk, cutting hidden costs, and strengthening wellbeing

Addiction is often misunderstood, reduced to “willpower” or treated as a private issue. In reality, it is a chronic health condition that affects the brain, behaviour and, crucially, the workplace. Dr Georges Petitjean will unpack the evidence, highlight how substance use and addiction show up at work, and explain the scale of the issue in today’s workforce. Attendees will leave with a clear understanding of why silence creates risk and cost, and why breaking the taboo is now a wellbeing and business imperative.

• NHS Drugs and Alcohol Treatment Services Medical Lead and Clinical Director, Dr. Georges Petitjean

Panel discussion: Beyond stigma: building workplaces that confront addiction
 

Too often, addiction is treated as a private failing rather than an organisational challenge. This panel explores how forward-thinking people leaders can tackle addiction head-on, using evidence-based strategies to replace stigma with support.

• Understand how addiction rewires the brain and why outdated narratives about “willpower” miss the point.
• Learn how to surface hidden issues and create workplaces where people can seek help without fear.
• Leave with concrete steps to protect your teams, reduce risk, and drive healthier organisational cultures.

Featuring:

• Society of Occupational Medicine President and King’s College London Professor of Defence Mental Health, Neil Greenberg
• Moderator: NHS Drugs and Alcohol Treatment Services Medical Lead and Clinical Director, Dr. Georges Petitjean

Closing remarks and networking coffee