The Resilient Workforce: From Cutting-Edge Research to HR Strategy

The Resilient Workforce: From Cutting-Edge Research to HR Strategy

Join us to hear from leading experts from King's College London to explore the latest research, digital interventions, and HR perspectives on resilience and retention in today’s workplace.

🎙 Speaker:
Dr. Colette Hirsch, Professor of Cognitive Clinical Psychology, King's College London

Having gained a thorough training in cognitive-experimental research on anxiety during her PhD in Cambridge, Professor Colette Hirsch focused on developing her cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) skills as part of her DClincPsy at King’s College London and CBT training at The Beck Institute for Cognitive Therapy and Research, USA.

Professor Hirsch worked as a clinical psychologist in local and national CBT services, before returning to King's to focus on clinical anxiety research during her fellowship. She is now a Professor of Cognitive Clinical Psychology and Consultant Clinical Psychologist leading the Generalised Anxiety Disorder Service at the Centre for Anxiety Disorders and Trauma, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.

Professor Hirsch's clinical work is integral to her translational research, helping her develop models of emotional disorders and transdiagnostic processes, inspiring new clinical research ideas, which in turn lead to clinical innovation and translation.

Her research focuses on cognitive processes that maintain anxiety, depression and distress, both within clinical and sub-clinical populations, as well as at the interface between physical and mental health. She also conducts research to understand key mechanisms that maintain resilience. Her translational research has led to new interventions to prevent and treat emotional disorders and distress, via adaptations to face to face CBT, as well as via novel digital therapies. She is Deputy Lead for the Digital Therapies Theme at NIHR Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre.

🎙 Speaker:

Mariana Bolívar, Programme Lead, MQ Mental Health Research

Mariana has 9 years of experience working at the intersection of health, development, and international cooperation, with expertise in North-South, South-South, multilateral, and public-private partnership modalities.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Mariana co-led MASUNO, a pilot project in Colombia that addressed mental health inequalities and information overload using customer service technology and virtual volunteers. MASUNO reached 53,000 people and established collaborations with 17 organisations. The project was recognised by COVID Innovations, the Inter-American Development Bank, and OPENIDEO.

Moderator:
Ediane Monteggia, Partner at 3B Impact

Ediane has 23 years of experience working with public and private sector organisations on social and environmental impact strategy and operational excellence. She has extensive consulting experience, through her roles at 3B Impact, KPMG and Coram-i, and she has also held global in-house roles based in the UK and Brazil.

She has a special interest in innovation, most recently creating and managing a Research Impact Accelerator with MQ Mental Health Research, and working with universities on how they can ensure their work leads to real-world impact.