The PLG on Workplace Wellbeing engages civil society, industry, and health and wellbeing experts to deepen parliamentarians’ understanding of the benefits and challenges associated with health and wellbeing in the workplace. By promoting policies that support mental and physical health, work-life balance, financial wellbeing, and professional fulfilment, the PLG aims to foster healthier work environments and enhance overall business success across the country.
The PLG aims to achieve the following:
- Highlight the challenges businesses face in implementing workplace wellbeing initiatives and identifying avenues for government support.
- Demonstrate the fundamental role of workplace wellbeing in achieving public policy objectives, such as improving mental health, reducing healthcare costs, and enhancing productivity.
- Support the development and implementation of effective wellbeing policies and practices that are accessible to businesses of all sizes.
- Help the UK become a leader in workplace wellbeing, setting an example for other countries to follow.
Leadership
The PLG’s Chair, Gethin Nadin and the Advisory Board will guide the group in raising awareness of workplace wellbeing in Westminster and advise parliamentarians on how policy can be tailored to better support the UK government’s ‘Back to Work’ and ‘Making Work Pay’ plans.
Gethin is an award-winning psychologist. For more than two decades he has been helping some of the world’s largest organisations to improve their employee experience and wellbeing. In 2023 he was named seventh most influential HR thinker globally. In 2024, he was named International Author of the Year by the People and Culture Association as well as HR Thought Leader of the Year and HR Professional of the Year 2024 at the Stevie Awards in New York.
As a frequent writer and speaker on employee experience and employee wellbeing, Gethin has been featured in the Financial Times, The Guardian, Forbes and the Huffington Post as well as all major HR, Reward and Pensions publications. Gethin has been named as one of the world’s top Global Employee Experience Influencers for the last four years running, placed second for HR Personality of the Year 2023 and winner of UK Mental Health Campaigner of the Year 2023. Gethin is also a regular keynote speaker, an ex-Chair of the UK Government-backed Engage for Success Wellbeing Thought Action Group, a Fellow at the RSA, and was a member of the All-Party Parliamentary Committee on the Future of Employability, frequently meeting with and presenting to members of the UK Parliament. In 2024 Gethin was named a Fellow at King’s College Business School, inspiring the next generation of HR and Wellbeing leaders.
Publications
- A World of Good: Lessons From Around the World in Improving the Employee Experience (2018), UK Bestseller
- A Work In Progress: Unlocking Wellbeing to Create More Sustainable and Resilient Organisations (2024), UK Bestseller
