Jesse Woodman - Learning Design Manager, Harrods
Working with Hazel was a delight. Her consultative approach and challenge during scoping gave me confidence in our choice of guest speaker. Hazel’s workshop on The Science of Wellbeing exceeded expectations, leaving a profound impact on every participant. The session was not only informative and practical, but also inspiring. Not a day has passed since without someone excitedly telling me they’ve bought one of Hazel’s book recommendations or used one of her tactics - and seen a positive difference in their wellbeing. If you’re looking for an external expert who can combine insights that work with joyful delivery, then I highly recommend you collaborate with Hazel.
Steve Peralta - Co-founder and Chief Content Officer, Unmind
As a company who wants to put mental health back into people's hands, Hazel's positive, proactive approach aligns perfectly with what we're about at Unmind. The learning and development content she has created for us is grounded in evidence, but more importantly, is presented in such a way that it feels like you're being guided through the process by a good friend. I look forward to collaborating with Hazel for years to come, knowing that she is driven by an authentic desire to help people live better lives.
Nick Perchard - Head of Community, Premier League
Hazel has been supporting our mental health and wellbeing work over the last 6 months. As well as playing a pivotal role in the creation of our Premier League Wellbeing Stars social action project, Hazel also presented to our Club Advisory Group as part of our strategy development for the next three years. Wellbeing is an important area of work for the Premier League and Hazel’s expertise and insights have been hugely valuable.
Carol Fletcher -
BT Senior Manager, Academic and Research Partnerships
Hazel presented a really engaging session at our recent Tommy Flowers Institute conference looking at Healthy Longevity and also sat on a very interactive panel session. Hazel’s presentation looking at how can Technology enhance our mental health as we age, was very well received. In a clear, uncomplicated way, Hazel provided us with thoughts and ideas on how current technology Apps can help with wellbeing models. We look forward to working with Hazel on various projects in the future.
Stephen Flurrie - Head of Learning and Development, East of England CO-OP
The ‘Time to Thrive’ session that Hazel delivered to our senior management team has been a great success. People loved the style of delivery and really connected with Hazel throughout the day. The content was people focussed at the same time as showing the commercial benefit of improving peoples mental health. We are looking forward to working with Hazel in the future.
Karen Davies - Academic and Pastoral Principle, Royal Ballet School
Hazel’s session at Inset was enjoyable, insightful and relevant on both a personal and professional level: it has already inspired several new initiates to support the students. Colleagues have been discussing what we learnt with enormous enthusiasm and we are now very much looking forward to working on the next steps with her.
Martin Addison - CEO, Video Arts
As subject matter expert on our Mental Health Essentials series, Hazel applied her experience and research on Mental Health in the workplace, to ensure the learning points in the films and courses we created were both credible and comprehensive. She became an integral member of the production team and we look forward to working on future projects with her.
Kelly O’Neill - Head of Wellbeing, Simply Business
Having come across some of Hazel's work on the Unmind wellbeing platform we thought she would be an amazing speaker at our Simply Business Wellfest - our annual employee Wellbeing event.
I wasn't quite sure what would benefit our employees so it was helpful spending time with Hazel to talk through what would be meaningful and useful. In the end, Hazel delivered two excellent talks for us, one on Children's Mental Health for parents, the other - topically for us in our virtual covid affected world - was all about how to 'Keep Connected'
Hazel's delivery was excellent, engaging with the audience quickly with her warm style. The content was relevant and interesting with key takeaways for our participants and the visuals were fun, relevant and kept our attention. The feedback post event has been really positive and we look forward to working with Hazel again in the future.
Sue Sparks - HR Business Partner, Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
Hazel presented a fascinating session at our CIPD Branch event on The Science of Wellbeing. She was an excellent, highly knowledgeable speaker who kept the audience engaged throughout. I would thoroughly recommend her talks as she has a very easy way of explaining the subject.
Roland Martin - Headmaster, Freemen’s City of London School
Thank you, Hazel, first for the inspirational conferences that I have been privileged to see you lead on a number of occasions now at The Society of Heads and other contexts; I always come away from them with ideas, energy and impetus. Thank you too for the amazing work you have done with Sophie as a guide and mentor, shaping the direction of travel for an approach to wellbeing at Freemen’s. You make such a difference!
Mark O'Hagan - Director of People, Community Dental Services
The Leadership Team enjoyed working with Hazel as she quickly helped people feel comfortable. Her down to earth style, positivity, practical ideas and lots of opportunity for interaction was really useful for our session on building a high performing team culture. Hazel encouraged us to design the session in advance and we appreciated this approach tailored to our needs.
Helen Pike - Master - Magdalen College School
Hazel works with us in a variety of ways: helping shape whole-school pastoral vision with regard to building sustainable wellbeing; supporting, training and supervising senior pastoral colleagues in their roles, and advising parents on issues relating to child development. She is thoughtful, incisive and ‘gets’ our culture and what we are trying to achieve.
Naomi Lockwood - Head of Organisational Development, NAPP
Dr Harrison worked in partnership with us to design and deliver a fantastic session at our annual company meeting, about resourcefulness. Hazel worked with us to understand our needs, and asked thoughtful questions to really get alongside what we were hoping to achieve. Her facilitation style is inclusive, well paced and flexible which suited our diverse workforce. I strongly recommend Hazel for development inputs relating to wellbeing generally and resilience and resourcefulness specifically.
Becky Bridson - HR Business Partner, Fremantle
Working with Hazel is an absolute pleasure. She is incredibly passionate and knowledgeable about her work and research, and she brings it to life in a very engaging and inspiring way. Our employees have really benefitted from attending her workshops and training, and we loo,k forward to working with her much more in the future
Mary Graham - Director, Yellobelly
Listening to Hazel present is like watching a TED talk but with the chance to ask questions.
Beth Kerr - Group Director of Wellbeing, Cognita Ltd
Working with Hazel is a complete joy! She listens carefully to what you would like to achieve out of her sessions, then takes time to consider what would be the most helpful approach for you and your colleagues, and then works with you patiently and flexibly to get it just right. Her knowledge and understanding of the relationship between science and wellbeing for staff, students and families is so impressive, but what really stands out is the way she makes it accessible, relevant and helpful to those audiences. She is genuinely also one of the nicest people you could ever wish to work with.
Vanessa Grimward - Principal, El Limonar International School, Murcia
As part of the ELIS Cognita commitment to investing in professional wellbeing, we booked Dr Hazel Harrison to speak to the teaching staff of our two schools about enhancing positive relationships both with ourselves and each other. Hazel worked very closely with us in the run up to the session to ensure that the content was well suited and tailored to our context. The presentation and workshop session was excellent with engaging delivery backed up by clear scientific findings. Hazel ensured that the content was accessible and thoughtful for all. A great deal was packed into two hours, but there was also plenty of room for personal reflection. A plethora of resources and links were also shared to enable our staff to continue the reflective process.
Dr Linda Maynard - Consultant Nurse Children’s Palliative Care, East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices
Hazel came into EACH to help us think about how we might improve our strategy for Staff Wellbeing. Hazel’s creative ideas and inspirational approach provided the platform we were looking for. The EACH Strategic Leadership Team found Hazel to be professional, articulate, thought provoking and easy to work with. Her project report captured the uniqueness of our organisation and gave us many constructive ideas to take forward.
Kevin Magill - Deputy Head, Reading Blue Coat School
Hazel attended our school on a crisp January day to deliver her signature ‘Positive Schools’ training to 160 staff (teaching and non-teaching). Having had several discussions with Hazel before her arrival about the content and format for the training, I had every confidence that it would work. It’s an understatement to say that it worked – I have never had so much positive feedback from colleagues during and after a training day. Hazel is incredibly engaging and she speaks to teachers with brilliant insight, humour and the greatest respect. In fact, Hazel is a wonderful teacher and I cannot recommend her highly enough for any schools thinking about engaging their community in both staff and pupil wellbeing.
Catherine Arslan -
Deputy Head, St Anthony’s School For Boys
Dr Hazel Harrison ran a bespoke session for our staff on returning to work after lockdown, entitled The Critical Critter. I included the whole staff body admin/ caretakers and teaching staff. Hazel’s warm and reassuring webinar gave us all useful food for thought and practical tools to takeaway. Many staff have thanked me for organising this.
Noel Neeson - Headmaster, The Blue Coat School (Birmingham)
From the outset, Dr Harrison was eager to understand the core values of The Blue Coat School in order to provide real context to the messages that she was imparting to our parent body on the five pillars of wellbeing. In this way, Dr Harrison was able to engage with parents on a personal level to provide an insightful, thought-provoking and uplifting parent lecture.
Bill Watkin - Chief Executive,
Sixth Form Colleges Association
The feedback from delegates was overwhelming – lots of very positive comments about how relevant, interesting and practically helpful it was – and this is entirely down to your hard work and kindness in sharing your expertise, insights and information in such a helpful and engaging way.
Ian Picken - FRSA Director, IPEN
Hazel led a presentation at our recent Wellbeing in Education Conference in London. The presentation was very well attended and the feedback from all I spoke to was overwhelmingly positive. Hazel is incredibly knowledgeable about the subject of the brain and how children can be positively influenced to think and behave in a way that affects their own and other’s wellbeing. However, it is perhaps her relaxed presentation technique and her ability to engage with the audience that made her talk so compelling. Thank you Hazel.
James Hodgson -Headmaster, Bedford School
Hazel’s talk, attended by parents and teachers, was nothing short of inspirational and extremely helpful to anyone involved in bringing up teenage boys. Using all of her own experience, combined with her professional expertise, she was able to empathise with her audience as well as provide objective, research-led guidance. The number of parents who stayed behind afterwards to ask questions was testament to her excellence. A must for any parent of teenage boys.
Clive Rickart - General Secretary, The Society of Heads
Thank you so much for making such a wonderful contribution to the Society of Heads Conference. Your presentation was truly outstanding and the way you engaged with the theme of the conference and interacted with the delegates was exceptional.
Jane Daly - Assistant Head (Pastoral), Bishops Stortford College
Hazel's presentation 'Just stop and breathe' has inspired a large proportion of our staff to sign up to an 8 week mindfulness course with a view to later teaching mindfulness to pupils. Her style is a perfect balance of neuroscience and everyday examples which helped all of us to understand both the theory and practical application of mindfulness in real life situations. She is thoroughly engaging and everyone felt very comfortable taking part. Her aim was to make us at least 'curious' and she went above and beyond that. Staff have been talking about it all week! Thank you once again.
Ruth Sadler - HR Director, West Suffolk College
Hazel’s delivery of Emotional Resilience training and Emotional Refuelling workshops to our employees was invaluable and exceptionally well received. She manages to combine absolute credibility with a thoroughly engaging and relatable approach and addresses complex topics such as mental health with sensitivity and humour. The messages resonated with, and inspired, our attendees and Hazel will most certainly be back at WSC in future by popular demand!
Karen Webb - Learning and Development Manager, Birketts
Excellent session on stress. Informative, interactive and engaging. I would recommend Hazel highly as an expert who can deliver very relevant and dynamic sessions using research, clinical studies and the power of storytelling.
Gordon Simpson - Director, Howes Percival
Hazel delivered a really engaging and informative session on Wellbeing at Work for our Business Breakfast. The topic prompted plenty of group discussion and excellent feedback from our guests. I have recommended Hazel as a speaker to other contacts since.