Working in partnership with our clients, we coach, train, and consult to support leaders and their teams in delivering sustainable human performance. By bringing together some of the latest thinking on leadership and performance with the growing body of research on workplace mental health and well-being, we help humans make the most of themselves and each other.
Healthy leaders deliver healthy performance. Productivity, retention, culture and company branding can all improve with healthy leadership.
Connected teams enable psychological safety and healthy relationships promote and protect both performance and well-being. Relationships deliver results.
Workplace health is a values-based commitment, a competitive advantage, and a strategy for sustainable high performance.
Not sure where to begin? Bring us in for a conversation, to contribute to your leadership development programme, well-being initiative or HR project, or to present to your senior leadership team and wider workforce. We’ll help you measure up…
Providing support and healthy challenge to leaders at all stages – from chief executives and director-level leaders, to first-time line managers. You will receive coaching from an experienced, accredited coach working to the ICF code of ethics.
From half day sessions to five-day programmes, we draw together research from a range of disciplines to stretch your thinking. Working with neuroscience, psychology, leadership concepts, design thinking, and beyond…we craft what we do to help you lead and work better. All of our programmes can be delivered online, face-to-face, or a blend of both formats.
Humantalk is also an instructor member of Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) England. We run half day, one day, and two day courses accredited by MHFA England - a community-interest company leading the way in workplace well-being.
Founder & Co-Director, Ben Evans
Ben Evans (Chartered MCIPD. FLPI.) is the founder and a co-director of Humantalk. With multi-sector experience in leadership and team development, as well as workplace mental health and well-being, Ben has been helping humans make the most of themselves and each other since 2005...
Joining Ben as a company director is John Steel. With over 35 years as a partner at the law firm now known as Blake Morgan, and serving several trusteeships, John has shown untiring dedication to serving the common good. He brings a wealth of insight regarding good governance and strategic leadership.
Ensuring academic rigor in our work and keeping us abreast of the latest relevant research is Dr. Roger Bretherton, Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Lincoln. Roger specialises in positive psychology and leadership character strengths.
Helping us to think bigger whilst staying committed to our values is our advisory team - a generous trio of individuals, experts in their respective fields of learning and development/educational technology, governance and strategy, and entrepreneurialism.
Finally, we have our extended network of consultants and coaches who work with us to continually deliver for our clients.
Humans like to think. Here are some of our recent thoughts…
Bikers don't bounce very well. That's one reason we try to stay on our motorbikes. But in running a consultancy which places an emphasis on the mental health and well-being of leaders and their teams as a driver for performance, helping other humans to bounce well is part of what I do. At the moment, a number of our clients are specifically interested in how to 'bounce back' - eager to make the most of whatever hopeful signs of opportunity/growth/uptick they see before themselves. I'm encouraged by the energy I'm beginning to see in some of the leaders and teams we're working with and it's a joy to work with that energy. I'm also mindful of the weariness behind some people's eyes - humans hopeful about the future but also worn out by the past year and a bit. Humans caught in the experience of feeling exhausted and energised simultaneously. I wonder how you would describe where you find yourself at the moment?
In thinking through with our clients about how to best bounce back in Summer 2021 (and beyond), it got me thinking about this time last year when I was learning to ride a motorbike for the first time. The whole endeavour had been put on hold due to Covid restrictions but when things eased in the Summer of 2020 I got going again and it was all systems go. Having barely sat on a 50cc scooter before, everything about learning to ride 'a proper bike' was very new. I was eager but uncertain, often exhausted by how much there was to learn all at once but also energised about the possibilities unfolding before me. With this experience in mind, here is my Biker's Guide to Bouncing Back, intended as some light-hearted encouragement along with a dose of healthy challenge to help you and your colleagues consider how to best bounce back (whether you're a biker or not)…
“As CEO of a global institute, responsible for standards in workplace learning, I was very impressed with not only the content of the programme, but also the design and structure of it. It was engaging, informative, provocative, and impeccably facilitated by Ben Evans who expertly created an effective online/blended learning environment. My team have been full of praise for the course, and gratitude for the decision to put it on for the whole company. The pace and tone was spot on.”
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