The Rt Revd and Rt Hon Dame Sarah Mullally DBE, Bishop of London
Bishop Sarah was installed as the 133rd Bishop of London at St Paul’s Cathedral in May 2018. She sits in the House of Lords as one of the Lords Spirituals, and is a member of the Privy Council.
Bishop Sarah studied first at South Bank University for her BSc followed by a MSc and then at Heythrop College, University of London where she got her MA. She was awarded Honorary Doctorates of Science from Bournemouth University (2004), University of Wolverhampton (2004) and University of Hertfordshire (2005), and was made a Dame Commander of the British Empire in 2005 for her contribution to nursing and midwifery.
She is a late ordinand who before ordination was Chief Nursing Officer in the Department of Health, England. She trained for the ministry at the South East Institute for Theological Education and served her first curacy at Battersea Fields from 2001 to 2006 and from 2006 to 2012 she was Team Rector at Sutton, both in the Diocese of Southwark. From 2012 to 2015 she was Canon Residentiary and Canon Treasurer at Salisbury Cathedral before her consecration in 2015 as the Suffragan Bishop of Crediton in the Diocese of Exeter.
In 2019, Bishop Sarah succeeded the former Bishop of London, The Rt Revd and Rt Hon Lord Chartres, as Dean of Her Majesty’s Chapels Royal.
Christian van Stolk, executive vice president, RAND Europe.
Christian has worked extensively on health and wellbeing in the workplace. His work in the past has focused on improving the health and wellbeing of staff in the National Health Service in the UK, maintaining and gaining employment for those with common mental health conditions, building an evidence base for health interventions in workplace settings, and looking at the relationship between productivity and health and wellbeing outcomes.
Christian has advised large private sector employers, the UK government, European institutions, OECD and World Bank over the years. He currently manages RAND’s work on the Britain’s Healthiest Workplace competition with Vitality Health and Asia’s Healthiest Workplace competitions with AIA.
He sits on several expert panels for the UK government including those on occupational health, mental health and employee health and wellbeing in the NHS. He holds a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics and Political Science and fellowships at the Royal Society of Medicine and Royal Society of the Arts.
Meg Mathews, founder MegsMenopause.com
In 2016, Meg turned fifty and began to experience the first symptoms of the menopause. She was shocked at the lack of support and understanding shown to women during this time in their lives and made it her mission to break the stigma around the menopause.
MegsMenopause.com was officially launched on October 18th 2017 and is an open source of information and advice dedicated to empowering women through an honest and frank discussion of all things menopause.
An icon of the nineties Brit Pop scene, Meg Mathews is a former music industry PR, events planner and designer turned entrepreneur and advocate for the menopause. She is an online columnist for Red magazine and was named by the publication as one of their Top 20 Career Shifters in 2017. In November 2018, Meg was awarded the Inspiring Public Figure of the Year award by the Inspirational Leadership Trust.
Her overall goal is to educate the general public more about the menopause as it is a greatly underrepresented subject. Meg has been invited to conduct talks at organisations such as Foreign & Commonwealth Office, BBC headquarters, John Lewis and Partners, Stella Live by the Independent and Superdrug on how to deal with menopause in the workplace. She appears regularly on the media and has also been featured in many publications.
Pip Lawrence, wellbeing director, Wellbeing People.
Pip is an award-winning wellbeing coach, personal trainer and more recently, Wellbeing Director for Wellbeing People. In 2014, after 8 years in the health and fitness industry, Pip co-founded DayOne Wellness and created the Recalibrate Wellbeing® Programme. This signature 12-week programme teaches busy people the skill of achieving optimal wellbeing by upgrading simple lifestyle habits which lead to sustainable transformations.
In 2019, Pip merged her business, DayOne Wellness, with Wellbeing People with a vision to redefine the currently unregulated Wellbeing Industry. Now united, Wellbeing People are on a path to globally scaling their sustainable 3-step wellbeing system into businesses, schools and public health initiatives. Outside of Pip’s professional life you’ll generally find her either in her campervan, travelling, skiing or creating memories with her friends and family.
Jo Locker, Senior Tobacco Control Manager, Public Health England
Jo Locker is Senior Tobacco Control Manager at Public Health England (PHE). This involves supporting the development and delivery of the national tobacco programme, with a particular focus supporting stop smoking treatment interventions and increasing the number of women having smokefree pregnancy . She has been involved with issues related to tobacco control and smoking cessation for more than 15 years including providing stop smoking interventions, training and supporting the implementation of policy at the national, regional and local level.