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Speaker & Corporate Talks

Transforming Women's Mental Health in the Workplace

Nicola spent 18 years climbing the corporate ladder before debilitating panic attacks forced her to look at her own health very differently. That journey — from struggling in silence at work to becoming a nutritional therapist and functional medicine practitioner — is exactly what makes her a speaker unlike any other.

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Meet Nicola

Most wellbeing speakers talk about mental health. Nicola has lived it, studied it, and built a career helping organisations do something meaningful about it.

After 18 years in high-pressure corporate environments — and her own very real experience of panic attacks at work — she didn't just recover. She retrained. As a nutritional therapist and functional medicine practitioner, Nicola now brings something rare to the stage: the credibility of science, the authority of clinical experience, and the warmth of someone who genuinely gets it.

For over 16 years she has worked with women navigating stress, burnout, anxiety, hormonal change and everything in between — blending evidence-based nutrition, functional medicine and lived experience into talks and programmes that don't just inspire audiences, they change how people feel.

She has spoken for Disney, BNP Paribas, Ogilvy, News UK and many more — and her work regularly features in The Times, The Telegraph and BBC Good Food.

If you want a speaker who leaves your people feeling seen, equipped and genuinely energised — Nicola is that person.

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“Nicola delivered an absolutely outstanding training session for our internal 'Growth Week' on unlocking potential through nutrition. We faced a tight timeline and Nicola not only made the session happen seamlessly but fully understood our organisational needs and incorporated our internal messaging and event theme to ensure it all connected. Nicola has a talent for making complex nutritional science incredibly easy to understand for a non-medical audience, which kept everyone engaged throughout. The results speak for themselves: high volume of questions from the audience (which can usually be a challenge in virtual sessions), minimal drop-off with employees staying until the very end and feedback confirming that this was one of their favourite sessions of the week. "

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The reality facing your organisation now

Women now make up nearly half the UK workforce — and they are the group most affected by workplace mental health challenges.

16.4 million

Working days lost to stress, anxiety and depression in 2023/24 — the leading cause of sickness absence in the UK

25% more likely

Women are 25% more likely than men to experience work-related stress, anxiety and depression — with rates peaking for women aged 25–54

1 in 4

Nearly 1 in 4 working women say they cannot manage the stress they're facing right now

£51 billion

The annual cost of poor mental health to UK employers

x2 more likely

Women are twice as likely as men to take time off for mental health reasons

44%

Of working women say their employer has no plan to protect them from burnout

These numbers are not inevitable. With the right support, organisations can break the cycle, retain talented women, and build genuinely healthier, more resilient teams.

That's exactly what Nicola helps you do.

Organisations I've worked with

ABN Amro | BNP Paribas | Commonwealth War Graves Commission | ESI Media | Funding Circle | Kinetic | News UK | Norton Rose Fulbright | Ogilvy | Paydata | PDC Wellness | Talon Outdoor | The Shard | Together For Children

Ready to bring Nicola to your organisation or event?

Whether you're looking for a keynote speaker for your next conference, or want to bring impactful mental health programmes into your workplace — let's start the conversation.

Nicola typically responds within 48 hours. A speaker kit is available on request.