After many years in the ‘corporate world’ in Retail HR, Jo Dodds started her own home based business in August 2005 publishing a local community magazine in her town. She expanded the business over the following three years to include, at one stage, eight local magazines. She did this mainly through business networking: connecting with local business people, getting to know them and helping them to achieve their business goals (and not necessarily through advertising in her magazines!). After a stint supporting SMEs to improve their online marketing, including focusing on social media in its early days, Jo returned to her HR roots in 2012 working with organisations to maximise their employee engagement with a specialism in using social and digital tools to enable communication and collaboration. She now works with home based coaches and consultants within her online membership programme helping to improve their marketing, productivity and wellbeing, in these days of overwhelm, whether that be physical, mental or digital, using her POWER to Live More 5 Fundamentals of Simplify, Systemise, Share, Self Care and Sustain.

I joined BACP in December 2023 as Director of Professional Standards, Policy and Research. I’m a Chartered Psychologist with almost 30 years’ experience in professional membership and research organisations in the charity sector, primarily supporting mental health. My specific expertise is in strategic leadership and stakeholder engagement to maximise impactful outcomes. Throughout my career, I’ve helped bridge the gap between evidence, policy development and decision making; influencing Government on a variety of issues relating to mental health.

I know the importance of representing our members and the profession, and being responsive to changes in the world in which therapists work. By ensuring high professional standards and providing robust evidence to influence decision making on key Governmental policies, strategic development and best practice, we can work together to deliver the best possible outcomes for our clients and practitioners across the UK.

The psychological health and wellbeing of people in this country is under considerable pressure. I have two teenagers living with anxiety, so I see this every day. Counselling does indeed change lives – but there needs to be greater universality of choice, access and affordability.

Rachel is a multi-award winning Chartered Psychologist and Registered Occupational Psychologist specialising in health and wellbeing at work. Rachel heads up the consultancy and professional development side of Affinity as well as providing overall leadership and strategy for Affinity Health at Work with Jo Yarker. Rachel is also a Reader in Occupational Psychology at Birkbeck University of London. Rachel has worked with senior leadership teams, HR professionals and at all levels of organisations across sectors to conduct organisational research and develop and embed new skills and working practices. Rachel is widely published in the field of health and wellbeing at work in both academic and practice papers and has contributed to national guidance, and evidence-based tools and interventions. In 2023, Rachel was honoured to be ranked 3rd in the HR Most Influential Thinker Awards.

Kadiatu is a care-experienced policy and research practitioner with over a decade of experience across youth justice, care systems, and public sector workforce environments, specialising in mental health, wellbeing, and systems change. ​​​She bridges lived experience participatory research and ethnographic methods to shape policy, organisational practice, and workforce improvement in complex systems.

​She is a CIPD-certified practitioner in People Management & Development. She holds an MA in International Relations and a BSc in Sociology and Social Policy, and is a PhD researcher in Public Policy Research.

Kadiatu co-founded the Children in Care Council (Brent), creating a platform for care-experienced young people to influence local decision-making through structured participation and peer advocacy.​​​

​She has held senior roles within the UK Ministry of Defence, including Strategic Command and the Permanent Joint Headquarters, where she led workforce engagement strategy across international commands, delivering insight through surveys, focus groups, and ethnographic research. During the Afghanistan Relocation and Assistance Programme, she led a 12-person operational team in high-pressure delivery, establishing governance and workflows supporting the Kabul airlift response, work featured in The Guardian (2021).

​Alongside this, Kadiatu has driven workplace wellbeing innovation, developing the first wellbeing newsletter and resource library within her headquarters and later serving as Deputy Health and Wellbeing Champion, contributing to Defence-wide wellbeing strategy and action plans.​​​​

​Her wider policy work includes co-authoring national guidance on inequalities affecting care-experienced young people, including the “Dare to Care” initiative, with elements referenced by the Crown Prosecution Service to reduce the criminalisation of care-experienced children. She has contributed to national policy dialogue through platforms such as the Labour Party Conference youth panel and continues long-term advocacy for care-experienced communities through systems reform and stakeholder engagement.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Dr Wolfgang Seidl is a Workplace Health expert, Board Advisor, and Visiting Professor in Applied Psychology with over 20 years’ experience in consulting and advisory roles across the global healthcare sector. He has supported both start-ups and multinational organisations in developing and implementing data-driven workplace health and well-being strategies.

Wolfgang previously served as a Partner at Marsh/Mercer, was part of the Global Workforce Health Management Leadership Team and founded the International Health & Well-being Network. Before joining Mercer in 2010, he ran global Employee Assistance Programmes, worked in primary and secondary care, and held academic roles.

A Doctor of Medicine with a Master’s degree in Psychiatry, Philosophy & Society, Wolfgang is also a BACP-accredited Psychotherapist and an internationally recognised expert in quality enhancement, clinical outcome measurement, and ROI/VOI in workplace health.

Wolfgang has published extensively on data-driven health management, mental health diagnostics, bio-psycho-social models of care, diversity and health, and new ways of working. He is a regular keynote speaker at international conferences and has produced training films on resilience, empathy, self-care and engagement, and delivers executive-level training for C-suite leaders worldwide.

Moira is a highly respected HR professional and is currently the Chief People Officer of Travers Smith LLP where she sits on the Partnership Board. She has a deep interest in employee engagement, health & wellbeing, talent management and coaching. Moira brings her extensive global HR and L&D expertise to her role and demonstrates passion and professionalism to support partners and other senior leaders in achieving their business goals.

Moira holds a Meyler Campbell executive coaching accreditation, is the deputy chair and trustee of the Mindful Business Charter, and also a fellow of the Society of Leadership Fellows at St George’s House in Windsor Castle.

​​​Dee Roberts-Molloy is a strategic people and organisational development leader with deep expertise in talent strategy, inclusion, learning and culture transformation. She currently serves as Head of HR at Birmingham City Council, where she leads initiatives that align workforce capability with organisational purpose and long-term strategic goals. Dee’s role encompasses strategic talent development, performance optimisation, inclusive culture building, and workforce engagement across complex public sector environments.​

​Dee brings both academic rigour and practical experience to workforce planning and development. She has a track record of embedding inclusive practices into core talent processes, championing psychological safety, and reframing diversity discussions to highlight lived experience and human-centred organisational design. Her leadership reflects a belief in authentic storytelling and human-centric engagement to drive both individual and organisational growth.

​Dee’s professional journey is shaped by her commitment to creating environments where people feel valued, heard and empowered to contribute fully. She is known for her practical approach to organisational change, grounded in direct engagement rather than top-down prescription and for redefining traditional HR and OD practices to better address the needs, skills and behaviours of today’s evolving workforce. Across her career she has worked to ensure that talent strategy and workforce planning are aligned with organisational purpose and that inclusion isn’t an add-on but a lived reality. ​

She is also a volunteer, trustee and founding member of the charity Periods Matter, a volunteer leader for TEDxWolverhampton, a visiting lecturer at the University of Wolverhampton and a national speaker.​

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​​​Dee Roberts-Molloy is a strategic people and organisational development leader with deep expertise in talent strategy, inclusion, learning and culture transformation. She currently serves as Head of HR at Birmingham City Council, where she leads initiatives that align workforce capability with organisational purpose and long-term strategic goals. Dee’s role encompasses strategic talent development, performance optimisation, inclusive culture building, and workforce engagement across complex public sector environments.​

​Dee brings both academic rigour and practical experience to workforce planning and development. She has a track record of embedding inclusive practices into core talent processes, championing psychological safety, and reframing diversity discussions to highlight lived experience and human-centred organisational design. Her leadership reflects a belief in authentic storytelling and human-centric engagement to drive both individual and organisational growth.

​Dee’s professional journey is shaped by her commitment to creating environments where people feel valued, heard and empowered to contribute fully. She is known for her practical approach to organisational change, grounded in direct engagement rather than top-down prescription and for redefining traditional HR and OD practices to better address the needs, skills and behaviours of today’s evolving workforce. Across her career she has worked to ensure that talent strategy and workforce planning are aligned with organisational purpose and that inclusion isn’t an add-on but a lived reality. ​

She is also a volunteer, trustee and founding member of the charity Periods Matter, a volunteer leader for TEDxWolverhampton, a visiting lecturer at the University of Wolverhampton and a national speaker.​

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Moira is a highly respected HR professional and is currently the Chief People Officer of Travers Smith LLP where she sits on the Partnership Board. She has a deep interest in employee engagement, health & wellbeing, talent management and coaching. Moira brings her extensive global HR and L&D expertise to her role and demonstrates passion and professionalism to support partners and other senior leaders in achieving their business goals.

Moira holds a Meyler Campbell executive coaching accreditation, is the deputy chair and trustee of the Mindful Business Charter, and also a fellow of the Society of Leadership Fellows at St George’s House in Windsor Castle.

After many years in the ‘corporate world’ in Retail HR, Jo Dodds started her own home based business in August 2005 publishing a local community magazine in her town. She expanded the business over the following three years to include, at one stage, eight local magazines. She did this mainly through business networking: connecting with local business people, getting to know them and helping them to achieve their business goals (and not necessarily through advertising in her magazines!). After a stint supporting SMEs to improve their online marketing, including focusing on social media in its early days, Jo returned to her HR roots in 2012 working with organisations to maximise their employee engagement with a specialism in using social and digital tools to enable communication and collaboration. She now works with home based coaches and consultants within her online membership programme helping to improve their marketing, productivity and wellbeing, in these days of overwhelm, whether that be physical, mental or digital, using her POWER to Live More 5 Fundamentals of Simplify, Systemise, Share, Self Care and Sustain.